The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-06-03

The country MAS somo time ago informed. /
on what seemed 20 be reliable authority. /" |
that the Expenditures OF the Governments |
were fully three millions Of dollars per dAy. !
A great deal Of astonisnent and some apprs- |
heusion Was felt ~ the statement People |
were justly puxzietraEd alarmed at the idea
OF tue nation plugging iuto debt as the rate
OF oac Thousand million of dollars per wear
IL now appesKs tIssf he average expenditures
OF the W. nent have not been one mil.
lion Mars per day. The New York
Comfnercial Advertiser saws OF a speech
made on TUESDAY. by Mr. Dawes. OF Mas
sachusetts "He showed. an authority which
Is entirely trustworthy. that the whole ex
pense- OF the present Administration, for
1 period of fourteen months aud eighteen dave
amounted 20 only SAL OUO 900 wAich sss
| three milleas Tess than one MILLION per das
on fke apoaF The entire Indebtedness
including the seventy millions bequeathed
by the last Administration. was Sal .7s6, li5.
Oh the 22d OF this month" The speech OF
Mr.. Dawes was Ia reply 10 VOORHEES, OF In.
diana. Who made out that our National debt
would soon amount 10 SIX thousand million
dollars.
Mr.. Dawes said
The expenditures of all the departments
OF the Government, outside of the war and
navy, since the Administration came into
power are as follows: For the Interior De-
partment. Indians. and pensions To the 22nd
of May, S3,6el, SEQ civil list, fos eign in
,ercourse. and miscellaneous. S2i .635 ,Oio.
making total OF nearly SIS ,361 600. The
expenditures OF the War Department during
that time amounted TO S374 l72 600, and the
Navy during the same time $i2 O55 600. or
a total Of SAT-. pr 900. The average daily
expenditures ia the War Department have
been Ss9l .295, aud those OF the Navy
800. e52-making the average in both De
: partments $685.. III. No requisitious are
, unpaid. excepting OF few lh)uslnd dollars
tor iliegality or disloyalty. The payments
last Thursday were only $o64 7l7 vet the
= day after, when the paymasters came in. the
E expenditures were 81 600 900 but on Sat.
1 urday only $500 600. SO the expenditures
Of the government up to the 22nd of Ma,
in round numbers, were For the militar,
1914 900 900 Navy. Si2 600 900 all othe
n expenditures, S25 900 0O0-a total of $i4l
- 100000 From the 4th Of March. 1861. ill
the 22nd Of Nav the public debt. including
= 40 900 600 old dept. bequeathed by Buc
4 han, amounted ia the aggregate, on Frila'
q last. To $751; .796,ll5 Mr. Dawes run
!, parallel between the expenditures under th
" former Administration aud the present. show
d ing, as to the civil list. this Administrator
i has been far more honest and economlca
,e than that.
The expenditures Of the Government hay
," been greater IN the past than they will be /
II the future. Vast sums OF money have bee
a. laid cut in ships and arms. The creation q
N the enormous artillery force which IS nov :
effective an arm OF our military Department
involved lavish outlays Of money. Oh
as coast expeditions have cost US extravaganza
n Arms have been procured at great cost.
!, fact we were not prepared ior war. N
'U have been obliged TO make UP Tor OF
IN yant OF preparation We have no
nv mslc our permanent investments ia vi
-, material, and the current expenditures "
~ be diminished. The estimate that the vi
ar was costing us three millions per day, WI
ELF made just az the time that hundreds of We
sells were chartered for the transportation
McClelans army from Alexandria to ia
-. trsss Monroe and while an immense fleet
-. steamers were conveying Gen. Grants arr
- ND the Tennessee river. The great cost
these vessels of course swelled the aggI
gate daily expenditure greatly. but yet
pa three million estimate was much too lar
ur even for that time-fiacianati Commerci