Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-20

tons and submitted to Congress, were as
follows
Estimated expenditures
for the usual and
binary wants of the
Government, S33 ,343,2l9
Estimated expenditures
required by our new
territories. and the full
filment of our Ohliga-
tons connected there
with, S9.549 ,0S0--vz:
Survey of the Mexican
boundary line $4,000
Survey of the WestCOast, $50 900
Dry Dock, California, 100000
Mileage and per diem for
Senators and Repre-
sentatives from Cali
fOrnia Il New Mexico, 26400
Territorial governments
of Utah and \. Mexico, 81 400
Judicial Expenses, 1900
| Commission for settling
Land Titles in Cali
fornia, $4,000
| Survey of Public Lands
in California, 239,075
! Pensions under the Acts
of 1913, 1920
| Expense of Post Office
Department. 638,25O
Excess of expenditure
of War Departmental
the maintenance of
troops in the new ter
ritories, 4,556,7O9
! Interest on so much of
the debt contracted in
| consequence of and
during the War, 2,s2O,242 9549. $50
Total, S42, S92, 299
The expenditures under the Taylor and
| Fillmore administration, thus extraordinarily
enlarged by the payment of upwards of thirteen
millions of dollars under treaty obligations
contracted by the Polk admnistraton-by
the wants of the new territories acquired I'M
der that administratiCn-and in fulflment of
obligations consequent on the acquisition OF
those territories, to the amount of eight or
ten million OF dollars per annum--the expen-
diturcs OF the Taylor and Fillmore administra-
ton, we say, thus extraordinarily enlarged by
the acts of the preceding war administration,
are held up to public view by Gov. Harris
as the expenditures of merely peace " adj
ministration. and, as SUCH are invidiously
compared by him with the expenditures under
that very war administration, which had left
a large portion of those very expenditures as
a legacy to be paid by the so called peace
administration of Taylor and Fillmore!
Most candid, ingenious and magnanimOus
Governor
We will now proceed to test, by official
documentary authority, the accuracy of Gov.
Harris defiant statement, that the administra-
ton Of Mr.. Polk cost the government on an
average, $4,000 less, per annum, than the
administration of Gen. Taylor and Mr.. Fill
more.
BY statement contained in the report OF
the Secretary of the Treasury, December. 1850,
it appears that, including the expenses of col
Letting the revenue from customs, public
lands. duties returned drawbacks, debe ltures.
bounties, &C., none of which had appeared in
the expenditures theretofore exhibited prior
to the 30th of June, 1919, las all these items
were, previous to that date, deducted from the
revenue before the latter was paid into the
treasury, leaving only the net receipts to figure
in the annual Treasury statements,) the total
aggregate of expenditures for the years end
ing the 30th of June, 1916, 1917 and 1913,
(being the three first fiscal years of Mr.. Folks
administrations was, S137, IS9 666
Add expenditures for lS49. the
last year of Mr. Folks admin
istration, - 4l,l7SlTs
Total aggregate, sl7s,367 ,s44
Total aggregate of expenditures
during the Taylor and Fill
more administration, les, 499, 1897
Excess of expenditures during
MrPolk's administration over
those OF the Taylor and Fill
more administration, Sl2,S7s, 467
The foregoing statement in the Treasury
Report of 1880, of the expenditures, Including
certain expenses therein named, for the fiscal
years ending june, 1876, AZ As, contains the
only data now accessible to us for instituting
any fair comparison between the expenditures
of the Polk and the Taylor and Fillmore adj
ministratiOns-
That official statement must be invalidated
By Gov Harris before he can relieve himsel
OF the commission Of an error in calculation
exceeding ia amount twelve millions OF dol
. lars!
| We impeaeh directly the correctness Of Gov
Harriss defiant statemeni,t that Mr. Folks ad
! ministratioa expended iss than the admins
. trations of Gen. Taylor and Mr. Fillmore, ant
{ we call upon him TO make Il good, or with
draw il.
Hs-wendell, IS we have already shown
gave the Washington Ui,oa 10 Bowman ans
r received frum the President the Exseaiiv,
printing IN payment, except S20,0 anna
ally. which VAS 10 be divided between th