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

to some $4,000. 900 per annunl, under the
administration of Mr.. FILLxoRE. for the fiscal
years ending June 3Oth, 1851 and 1852, The
Hon. G. w. JONES, ON the l4th of February,
1851, in his place in the House of Represen-
tatives denounced as "enormous and extrav-
agant." The Wing party" he said, twas
true to its instincts, extravaganza and pro-
figacy in squandering the public money"
| Thirty-eight or thirty mine millions OF dollars
per annum, exclusive of payments on ac-
count of the public debt and the Mexican In
dcmnityi What an illustration of Wing ex-
| travagance?
1.-The conviction too, "forced itself upon
him that without the cordial and in good
faith cooperation of the Executive Branch OF
the Government, Congress could do but little
or nothing in correcting abuses. or in limi-
ting and decreasing the public expenditures
The evil and the remedy, he seemed to
think. lay wholly with the Executive. I'm
less there was change in public men and affairs,
and a return to something like economy in
the expenditure of the public money, we
would he said, "ere long. find ourselves
like England, burdened with an irredeemable
public debt"
The great public want. and the only posi-
BILE remedy for the evils of the day, was a
Democratic Executive, who, true to the lin
stincts" of his party, rigid economy in the
public expenditures and stern integrity in
the employment of the public money, would
cordially and in good faith cooperate with
Congress in correcting abuses and limiting
and decreasing the expenditures of the Gov
ernment. Without Democratic Executive,
even Democratic Congress could do little
| or nothing towards accomplishing these need
| full results? So thought, and said, Mr.. JONES,
in February, 1851.
Well within two years, Democratic ad-
ministration superseded the then existing
Wing administration. And now, after six
years of Democratic administration. Mr.. JONES
again holds forth on the subject of the pub
lie expenditures, in its party relations. Hear
him at the commencement of his letter:
'In the year 1867, during the Mexican
war, the expenditures Exclusive of payments
on account of the public debit went up to
The sum of $50 ,8OI $50 81. 1.-THE Treasury
| Report for that year shows it 10 have been
| SIS. 929, 095 381 In 1880, after the close
of the war the expenditures were reduced to
| S37 Jos, $50 o. 1.-THE Treasury report for
that year shows it to have been S35, SIS, S02
PSI The next year they went up tc S44,-
O49 949 48. 1.-THE Treasury Report for that
year says $43,7S7. 89258] The next year
down again TO $40, 3S9,954 sc. 1.-THE Urea
sury Report for that year says $39, 1872, $50
GIL Again in the next year, 1923, mir.
| Fillmores last year, up to the sum of $44,-
| 078,l56 35. 1.-THE Treasury Report for that
| year says S43524,252 S2.l And since that
there has been constant regular increase Of -four TO
siL millions year, until the expenditures of
the United States have reached the enormous
amount OF from seUenty:fue TO eighty millions of
dollars each year. How has this been effec-
| ted, and who are responsible for il? My Opin-
ion is, that both parties and all parties, to
some extent, are responsible for it; and GER
tainly the majority of the Opposition cannot
relieve themselves and their party from their
full share of the responsibility, &C."
JONES writes in 1859, upon his denunciations
| in 1851 Of what he termed the 'extravagance
and profiigacy" of the then existing Wing
administration, as exhibited in an expend-
ture of something over forty millions of dol
| lars per annum, including the burdens en-
tailed upon it by the Mexican war and the ac-
QUESTION of extensive territories?
Then, he laid the blame of the enormous
expenditures, as he styled them, entirely upon
the Wing administration Congress could do
little or nothing, he then said, in the way OF
correcting abuses and limiting and decreas-
ing the expenditures, unless with a cordial
and bona Jfde cooperation of the Executive
branch of the Government. which he charg-
ed was wholly wanting at that time. Now,
he is obliged to confess that erer since the so
called extravagant and profiigate Wing Adj
| ministratiOn was turned out and Democra-
tic Administration substituted for it, in March
| 1853 there has been a constant, regular in
crease of expenditures of from four to six
millions year. until from something over
forty millions, they have reached the enor-
nous amount of from seventy-five to eighty
millions; and yet he has no denunciations
against the Democratic Administrations un-
der whose rule the enormous" increase has
taken place! He nOtC says that both parties
and all parties are responsible for it, to some
extent, and the object of his letter is to Law
the burden of the blame upon the party
which has been out of power
The following simple statement of the state
of parties, in connection with the Executive
and Legislative Departments of the Govern
ment for the last ten years, will suffice to
show with whom the responsibility rests:
THIRTY FIRST CoNGREss-from March Alb.
ls49. to March 4tt 1851.
Fresident-Taylor, succeeded by Fillmore.
Sendte Democrats, 81; Wings, "a; Free
Sellers. 2. Democratic majority. 8.
House of Representatives. Democrats. ll2:
Wings, los; Free-Soilers, l3. 1.-THE Demo
Gratis elected their speaker and had maioritios
of all the committees. Mr.. Fillmore never
had, as supporters OF his administration, a
majority in that Housed
THrRTY-SkCoND CoNGREss-from March 4th,
1851, to March 4th. 1858.
President Fillmore
Senate 3s; Wings %; Free
Soiler>. 2. Democratic majority, IA
House Of Representatives. Democrats, l42;
Wings. 81. Democratic majority, 81.
THRTY-THIRD CoNGREss-from March 4th,
1853, to March 4th, 1855.
President-Pierce.
Senate -Democrats, SO; Wings, 20; Free
Sellers, 2. Democratic majority. IA.
House Of Representatives. l59;
Wings, IL; Free-SOilers, 4. Democratic ma.
jority. 81.
THIRrY-FouRTH CoNGREss-from March
4th. 1855, to March 4th, 1857.
President Pierce.
Senate Democrats. Sc; Republicans. Is;
Wing aud American, 6. Democratic majority,
Is.
House Of Representatives, Republicans, los;
Democrats So; Americans. 43. AFTER a
long and excited election for Speaker, the
Republican candidate was elected by a
plurality vote OF l03 against his Democratic
competitor. who rrceiYth loo yoIcs1