Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-25
menced uDdersthe Opposition administration


OF Mr.. Fillmore"
"Under." or during the administration of
Mr.. FILLMORE But by whom was it COM
Denced, Mr.. Jones? Was it commenced up
on Mr.. FMLMoRE's recommendation, or upon
the estimates submitted to Congress by his
heads of departments? Let the record speak.
The estimates for the service of the year 1853
submitted to Congress at the session OF
1872. by the Wing Secretary ''under" the
FILLMORE administration, amounted to S42,-
s92.299, and at that session, that Congress,
with a Democratic majority of Jfftyone in the
House of Representatives and fourteen in the
Senate, appropriated and authorized the ex-
penditure of S53. $3.50 579-thus making the
appropriations for the year 1853 exceed the
Wing estimates for that year by ten millions
four hundred and sixty-five thousand five
hundred and seventy-nine dollars
That is the way, candid Mr. JONES, in which
''the gradual, annual increase in the public
expenditures, which has gone up from $40,-
293, Os6 OF, in the year 1872, to 81, $780,
lI9 20, in the year 1878, commenced under
the Opposition administration of Mr. FILL
MORE. "Underi' What gross fallacy
lies covered up in that one word, as here
used
Page Is. During the next fiscal year
ending June 80, 1858, the expenditures Tex
elusive of payments on account of the public
debt were 1880 335 IS. being an increase
over the expenditures of the preceding year
Of SO, 677 ,249 &c."
This is the year we have just been speak
ing of, and the increase of the expenditures
in which we have just accounted for, by
taking the saddle from the wrong horse upon
which Mr.. JONES placed it, and putting it on
the right one. where we venture to predict, he
will hereafter let it stay
Page Is. "The expenditures for the next
year ending June 30th, 1854, were S5l no.
ASH 3S, being an increase of expenditures
over the last preceding year OF 81 ,14O, 1880"
Here again the expenditures authorized by
the same Democratic Congress-the 32nd.
with Democratic majority of fourteen in
the Senate and fifty-one in the House
largely exceeded the Wing estimates. For
the service of this year, ending June 3Oth,
1854, the Wing Secretary "under' the adj
mnistration of Mr.. FILLMORE, at the session
of 1928, had submitted estimates which
amounted to S42.216.4S4 O6, exclusive of
payments on account of the public debt. The
actual expenditures during that year, 1854,
exclusive of payments on account of the
public debt, as Mr.. JONES himself shows,
were $5I1l0457 IS thus exceeding,
through means of Democratic appropriations,
the Wing estimates under the preceding Wing
administration, by S8,893, 973 80!
Page IS. For the year ending June 30th,
1855, the expenditures were S56,3l2, 697 Y,
an increase over the expenditures of the year
before of S5,20l, $40 81.
This increase Of $5,20l, 640.34 over the ex-
penditures of the preceding year, was the re-
suit of the appropriations made at the session
of 1854, by the Democratic Congress, which
came into office with President PIERCE. In
that Congress the Democrats had majority
of eighty.fow in the House of Representative,
and fourteen in the Senate. A Democratic
administration had been installed into office
on the 4th of March, 1853 They had every
thing their own way; a Democratic admins
tration to furnish estimates, and a Congress
overwhelmingly Democratic in both Houses.
to make the appropriations They had come
into power upon the most solemn pledges to
stop what they had denounced in the Presi-
Dental canvass of 1852, as the extravagances
of the FILLMORE administration, and to re-
duce the rate of expenditures under that ad
ministration, which they told the people was
much too high. Those pledges they falsifed
at the first session of Congress after their ac-
cession to office, 10y increasing the expendi
lures, as Mr.. JONES shows, S5,20l $40 "a over
those Of the preceding year-the aggregate
of their first years appropriations being. as
Mr.. JoNss shows, 5,312.64O 34-just Sl6,-
Ol9,554 80 more than were the expenditures
under the Wing administration for the year
1872, in the very year in which Mr.. BUoH-
ANAN wrote his Wheatland letter, declaimiug
against extravaganza, and advising the Dem
ocratic leaders to in.cribe on their banners,
as an issue in the Presidential canvass, IA
rigid economy in the public expenditures"
But to proceed with Mr.. JoNEss letters:
Page Is. The expenditures for the next
fi-cal year ending June 30th, 1856 were $780,,
1872 $50 45, being an increase over the last
preceding year of S4,O20,73S 45.'
This Increase also was the result of Demo
cratic estimates and Democratic appropria-
tons. The Thirty Fourth Congress, with a
Republican majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives, had indeed convened at Washing
ton, in December, 1855; but the appropria-
tiOns, as Mr.. JONES we'll knows, for the ex-
penditures of that fiscal year, ending June
Both, 1856, were made at the session of 1854
5 by the previous Congress, which, as we
have above stated, was overwhelmingly Dem
ocratic in both DEMONSTRATING a majority of
S4 in the House of Representatives and IA in
the Senate.
Here, then, are the results Of four success
i've years of Democratic sway in both Houses
of Congress-an Increase in the public expen-
ditures from $40 .0S6 OF in 1872 TO
SCI. 1872 $50 IS in 1856. What has Mr..
JONES to say to that? Why. rs to the first
two of these four years of increase in the pub
lie expenditures, be says that the appropria-
tions were made "uader the Opposition adj
ministraton Of Mr.. FILLMORE" But we have
shown that the appropriations for the expen-
ditures of those two years were made By a
Congress, with decided ID, moeratic majorities
in both Houees, and that they e1eee1ed the es-
Inmates submitted ''under" the FILLMORE ad-
ministratioG by more than ten millions OF dol
lars for the first of the two years, and by
more than eight miitions for the seond year !!
In regard to the S5,204. $40 "a in the year
1915, over the expenditures Of the preced-
ing year, and OF the increase Of 81 o20,7Ss 10
10 the year 1866 over the year lsj4-5--
what has be To say to that? The apnpropri-