The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-01-28
REPORTS or THE DEPART
MENTS.
THE TREASURY IMPORT.

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MENTS.
THE TREASURY REPORT.
The Secretary Of the Treasury in his
report does not doubt that the receipts
.ot the treasury for the present and next
fiscal years viii be fully equal to the
estimates, il the appropriations made
at the present session do not exceed
the amount contained in the estimates.
II is believed that they can be met with
the ordinary and extraordinary receipts
already provided BY law. The estima-
ted balance that will be in the treasury
on the Both June next is only SO, $50 8
600, and leaves no margin for addi-
tional appropriations. If, therefore,
the appropriations should exceed the es-H
Inmates, Or Congress should determine
to provide within this period for the
payment Of any portion Of the public
debt, it will become necessary TO make
q provision for such contingencies.
lie additional demands are created
on the Treasury BY Legislation in the
present Congress, provision must be
made to meet them BY such an increase
Of tariff duties as may be required for
that purpose. In such an event, he
respectfully refers Congress to his last
report as containing the views Of the
Department on that subject.
As no provision has been made for
the permanent redemption Of any por-
ton Of the twenty millions Of Treasury
notes, and as the authority for issuing.
them expires on the 30th Of June next, it
it will be necessary for Congress to
extend the law for that purpose for
another period. '5.7S
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES REPORT.
The Postmaster General gives an in
teresting account Of the affairs of the
Department. He advocates various re Z
forms,and trusts that CongresswilI eth
er give ltsexpress sanction to the specific
contracts for carrying the mails between
Portland and Newt Orleans, by voting
the necessary appropriation, or else that
lit will indicate Tor the Department such
| a course Of administration as shall war
rant it in closing some Of the proposals
which have been received, and which are
now held under adyisement. He urges
action, so as to secure suitable Post Of
ficers for New York and Philadelphia.
lie recommends the repeal Of the
clause OF the act Of $50, which declares
that in forwarding the mails to fore ign
countries. the preference shall be given
to an American over q foreign steamship
when departing from the same port for
| the same destination within three days
/ Of each other. Dispatch is the highest
lelement in the mission Of this Depart
ment; and hence that legislation
4 which provides for retarding instead Of
accelerating the mails, may be safely
4 pronounced at least extraordinary in its
!, character. ..5 !. r. .sf.ss=55. .: !. i
I. The Post Office Department, according
to the theory Of its organization, should
be self.sustaining, and because Of the
peculiar character of its functions should
not be charge on the common treasury.
! The Postmaster General advocates thu
abolition Of the ranking privilege ant
the substitution. of prepay ment by stamps
when It's abuses would fall where theJ
, belong, on the government officials BY
whom they were perpetrated. <s
THE NAVAL REPORT. ID:
The Secretary Of the Navy, speaking
Of the successful termination OF the Par
D aguay expeditions says, that the cost 9
{ maintaining the seven purchased vessels
commission was much greater than tina
Of maintaining a single steam frigate an
2 that their acquisition has enabled the de
: Epartment to adopt more efficient measure
for the suppression of the African slave
trade. ~ : r. sz.z....: 49,.
Since the commencement Of the pres
s ent Administration twenty steam vessel
!. have been added to the Navy He re
news the Recommendation TO still turtle
g increase the Navy, and instead Of per
g petuating old vessels or expanding mi
It lions in constructing few larger ship:
IL is earnestly re commended toprosecut
with vigor the line of policy which ha
been adopted by Congress and add
w much larger number of steamship
"a which can be maintained at comparative
ly small cost. He says that 1t IS
source Of extreme regret and mortihet
: ton that we now at times are obliged
ID sit by passively and see, in some iorelg
:, countries, American citizens imprisoned
:! plundered and murdered, because II
Z; Executive has not the means to prote
IN them He urges an increase in the Ma