Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-04-29
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.

Correspondence of the Baltimore Sum-
WAsHINGToN, April %.
The Proposed Ne,c Constitutional Conuenton IN hdnSaS-
Another Implication for Admission as State
The people of Kansas, by an inconsiderabe number
OF votes and In fact by the vote OF small minority OF
the whole number of legal votes in the Territory author
lied the call of convention to form State Consttu-
ton. Not more than in five OF the voters took the
trouble to 60 to the polls that momentous question
The people, being longer subject to the influence OF
the anti-slavery agitators, were far from being very
DESTROYS of taking upon themselves the burden OIL
supporting a State Government. census of
the population ordered at the late session Of Con-
gress and there not much doubt that the Territory
will into the Union State at the next session,
and probably with constitution prohibiting slavery-I
There was the least ground for the superstition
that the Territory was adapted to the employment OF
slaveabor and WILL long, be found that it is not
adapted TO any other kind of labor. Excepting the
margins of water courses the Territory barren and ut
terly incapable of supporting population, white or
black, free or slave The gold fever which arose
in the western part Of the Territory last fall has attract
ed population to that point from States in the vicinity
but Tor Which temporary event could hardly be expect
ed that the Territory would contain sufficient popua
ton to entitle it to admission under the English BILL
Neither Kansas Nebraska any of the territory BE-
yound towards the Rocky Mountains out of which is
expected to half dozen States will be fit to
be admitted into the Union on footing with the great
States of New 7 Ork and Virginia The whole terri
tory mentioned will never, taken as WHOLE be worth
as much Berks county, in Pennsy vania. 1t is time
for the Senate to consider this NATTER and assign limit
to the introduction of mob of rotten borough States
Ion.
From the Virginia Index
Charges of Extravaganza against the Democratic
Party--The ''Nev Capitol - and the Costly Fur
nture Observation-Disclosures Hair Brushes,
&C., &c.
The Opposition expect to make considerable capital
in this out of their charge of extravaganza
against the Democratic party They assert general
astounding amount
under Democratic rule in these latter days, but when
called tor specifications, they very slow to
swer There is one subject however, in connection
with the expenditures upon which they delight to dwell
and that is the extension of the National Capitol and
the furnishing of the same The cost of the building of
the capitol and of the furniture which has been
placed in it, is absolutely shocking to the republican
sensibes Of the editors and orators of the Opposition
Upon the subject of looking glasses hairbrushes, &c.
they are particularly eloquent in their denunciaon. 1t
so happens that in this instance in others
in connection with the national expenditures to which
referred few days SINCE the assailans wounded
" by the rebound of their bals,' IL mode Ben
Hardns adversary. That this is the case, the fair and
impartial reader must necessarily admit when he is put
in possession of the following facts
Willard Fillmore the model President of the OPP
position inaugurated the Capitol Extension" and
thus created the necessity for all the subsequent eXpen
dures, including looking glasses and other furniture
In this same connection we may remark that Mr. Fill
city of Washington with water, the cost Of which is
enormous. Nor is this all. Mr. A Fl. II. Stuart,
Secretary of the Interior, under the model President
recommended the building of houses for the residences
OF all the members Of the Cabinet The adoption of this
recommendation would have involved expenditure of
at least million of dollars. And yet the friends OF Mr.
Fillmore and his Secretary of the Interior,
speak and write, without bushng, of extravagant Dem
Ocratlc expenditures upon the public buildings!
AS combs, hairbrushes ct cetera, figure conspcu-
D tho of
will state that according to information each of the
Committee Rooms is furnished with hair-brush and
comb whether by law, or in accordance with a long
standing CUSTOM we are not able to say. Concerning
the pen-knves, scissors, etc. about which much has
been sald will remark that, under the present law,
each member is entitled to $40 worth of stationery for
the long session. and $25 for the short and he takes
that stationery out of anything that is in the Office fur
nshed by the Clerk Of the House through the Postmas
ter, who is the salesman Sometimes the whole is
sumed in stationery, and then, if not So if any surplus
shall be left he takes that surplus out Of whatever he
may choose to select an money. If the same law was
in existence while Mr.. Goggin a member we take
it for granted that he regularly drew the amount to
which he was entitled under it, AS that estimable aud
honorable gentleman did not refuse to receive 1924 for
contesting seat to which he was not legally entitled it
is hardly to be presumed that he had any constitutional
or conscientious serupes about the receipt of $40 per
term, to which he waS legally entitled Yet, he ought
to have Indignantly refused it, if there be any
The Contingent Fund of the House and Senate is es
tmated by thc clerks of the two bodies-and we may
remark, paSSe1t that Dickens, who is now and has
been for many years, clerk Of the Senate, is VMg-
Culom, the predecessor of the present Clerk of the
House, was and is bitter foe to the Democracy. AL
that the Committees of Finance in the two Houses car
do is to ascertain as nearly possible the accuracy
their calculations and then make appropriations accord
ingly. The estimates for the Committee Of Ways and
Means furnished by the Secretary OF the Treasury
and the estimates for the Contingent Fund necessary ol
each House furnished by its clerk. is impossible
for the Committee of Ways and Means to tell whether
every appropriation is right advisable. They can
only make such examination as the opportunities
will allow. There committees on expenditure in
each department of the government whose business it is
to ascertain whether the money appropriated is proper
y applied, and whether the number Of offices and amount
of expenditures be reduced and to report thereon
Yet these committees do not meet to perform their du
ties, nor have they met for years They did not meet
in Mr. Goggins time, and there is evidence to show
that he ever attempted to call them together.
We think the Opposition have far to lose thar
gain by agtang the subject of the eXtravagant expen
ditures of the Federal Government. We know they
must suffer from it, if all the facts of the are pre-
sented.
Ex-EMPERoR SoLoQUE-A late Jamaica letter says
"The redoubtable SOulouque, who has honored us by
making this island his home is held in great venerator
by the negros here with whom it is unpardonabt
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