Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-07-20
Government Expenditures.

The Register notices but does not admit our =.
rections of its pamphlet "What it Costs ~
Governed" We have exposed the gross misst.'
ments in that pamphlet, and We have done 50 g
official sources; and all the reply the Register ,.r
is, tour pamphlet is right, and of coursn ~"
Standard is scrong" This is mere assertion
amounts to nothing. u"
But the Register quotes from and epdorv..
article in the Washington Constitutions from viii.
appears that the total expenditures for the isc,,
ending on the sOth June, 1858, were $66, 3o6 ese
The Register, then, has put forth this as tbe ;"
sum of expenditures for 1853 Let this f,o.
borne in mind. This admission is in the pso;'
of July IS. Whenever any of the oppos;..
assert that the expenditures for 1858 were s;ns.
millions, or ninety millions, or one hundred MILF.
for some of them will assert any thing-ius. tI
up this admission of the Register and read i
them. And then take up the Registers pam,b,,
entitled "What it Costs to be Governed" and W.,
from that that Mr.. Syme there says the expenl;ns
for 1868 were $50, s56, 727, more than seven m,n,
more than he now admits they were And ve W.
Syme says tour pamphlet is right, and of Conn.,,
the Standard is prong." 1t is the Register flint:
wrong, and we have proved it wrong from its o.s
columns.
Again, it is frequently asserted by "the o,n,i
ton" that the appropriations for the present w.,
are eighty or ninety millions. This is utterly y,
true The Register has copied from and acce,t,
as true the statement of the Constitution as to Isl
and we now quote from the same paper the ann,
priations for 1852 The Register cannot denr 4
authority, for it has already recognized it and
hold that as an honest newspaper it is bound tos
the appropriations for 1859 before its readers W
it do SO? We presume not. The "oppositm
cause would suffer by the publication in that nan,
of the truth on the subject, and the Register vii
therefore, be silent as to 1859. We copy as tODo,
from the Washington Union (Which preceded a
C0nstitution,) of March 16, 1859:
EXPENDITURES OF THE Fiscal YEAR 1s59-G-
The following list of the appropriations of the l
session of Congress has been prepared in acccr,hr.
with law by the proper officer, and may be reld
upon as accurate. The "indefnite" appropriatm,
authorized by the acts scheduled under that heal
and by all acts of private nature, will not, iii
supposed, amount to more than million or mHm
and half; and it may safely be affirmed that TN
total appropriations of the expired session Go nd
reach forty-three millions Had the post-ofice MI
passed, the gross appropriations for the year ISL
and 1860, exclusive of the postal revenues, wouI
not have exceeded fifty-two millions of dollars
The estimates of the administration for the servi,
of the year we're for about fifty-two millions, an
thus has Congress for once Appropriated its apme
priations to the demands of the administration wi
annex the schedule alluded to:
appropriations I'd session 35M Conqres,
No. g. Support Military Academy, s 179,5SS o.
g. Providing for lighting streets
across the Mall, ......... 4,4OO q
-. Expenses ofinvestgating COM
mittees House Of Represen-
tatives, ........... 10000 d.
25. Regular Indian, ...... 49,, 36S 4,
%. Consular and diplomatic, -. 1,O47,745 d
20. Naval, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1882, l63 81
80. To carry out treaty stipula-
tons with certain Indian
tribes, and for other pur-
poses, .....:............ 962, 1895 s.
49, Legislative, executive, and
judicial, ............... 6,94O,7sG 8
81 Lighthouse, ............. SO, 507 u
3d. SunGry civil, ............. 3,169,00S q
&c. Army, Notifications, arsenals,
roads, and other public
works, .:............... 15,2s9,s45 !.
40. Expenses investigating CON-
mittees House of Represen-
tatives>. ............. 10000 q
Al. Pension, ................. $4,000
41,123sO4 !.
Indefinite
16. An.act to provide for the payment Of ID
claims of the State of Maine for expels]
incurred by that State in organizing a rel
ment of volunteers for the Mexican wal
%. An act to amend an act entitled an act al
thorizing repayment for land erroneous
sold by the United States.
a. An act giving the assent of Congress TOT
law of the Missouri legislature for d
application Of the reserved two per clI