Weekly national intelligencer., 1864-03-10

encies must ha 20 beanust we'll kGOwB 10 he Soere
tary OF War IN The beginning Of h- sssrn that cetary
before tho Stnata aud ttxigL the Senstsallrs
this House, wihout auy espetes~ whatever helus spb
United TO this House aid rrks addtoaalapproprlt"
Of over ninety eight ui uhke lp hcrucy the
appropriations for ths fiscal year ending June 30 1864
Why, sir the whole expenses of this Government in
the year 1916, during the last war with Great Britain
that contest which this then comparatively feeble nation
carried on with the greatest Power upon earthwere
but $4Si4 495 The Of the army for that war
were, in 1913, $19662 0l3 in 1914, $50 $50 SO6 in
1885, $l4794 294 and yet the deficiency asked for by
the Secretary Of War for single year amounts to four
and FIVE times the cost of any one year OF the war
Of 1912
The whole appropriations Of this Government in lS47
49, the years of the Mexican but little over
sixty millions per annum. The actual expenses OF the
War Department were in 1S47, $35776,495; in lo4o
1927 1893 374 And that which not upon our own
SOIL but costly in the transfer Of troops from our own
country to foreign country; that war in which our
troops landing at Vera Cruz passed through the terra
calenfs the hot region of Mexico, to its mountains TO
Churubusco aud Chapultepec to the Gareta Of Mex
co that glorious in which we BUNDLED Mexico and
brought the Mexicans to terms, cost this Go
verpmept but $35776495 the highest sum in the year
1847 and yet here deficiency bill Of over ninety
eight millions for the War Department alone for year
or sixty three millions beyond what the war with
Mexico cost year.
There is something wrong in all this; there must be
something wrong and hence the House should not aban
don its functions but should look into these expenditures
and when how, and where this money has been APP
proprated and where these of money have
paid why they called for and what they to effect
Sir if these disbursements for the War Department to
for three four or five years longer it will be beyond
the power of this country of any other country the
face of the earth to endure them.
The Secretary Of War in his estimates for the fiscal year
ending june 30 1864, (see Treasury Report, page 30
asked for and had appropriated $5S54795ll The Sec
retary of the Treasury when he submitted that report to
Cong ress felt in his mind that 1856 1881 was
ample and enough for all the expenditures of the War
Department for the fiscal year ending June 80 1864 and
hapca
by the Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of
War himself And yet here in February and March WE
propose to add to this already appropriated sum OF
1856 adefciency in this bill Of $95 500 900 What
calculations all these? Can thus carry war,
provide the and means for carrying on war;
More than that Recall little of the past history of
legislation during this session At early period of
the session. before the Christmas hlydays there went
through this House, twenty minutes by the clock de-
fciency of 800 000, 900 for bountssa million minute
uncaed by the Secretary of War; by tho Secretary
OF the Treasury in his estimate made some quiet 70
marks that occasion. called the attention of the
other side o the House to the subject, but found that
my remarks not pleasant to the other side and
rerained from discussing the subject length leaving the
responsibility with those TO whom it belonged.
In few days after the Christmas holydays the Score
tary of War called upon TO change that bounty appro
prstion Of $4,000 600 and in very few minutes, OPP
posed only by honorable gentleman from Ohio on the
other side, there went quietly through bill tor bounss
which said then had in it 00000,000. Now. undsr
the continuance Of the bounty system to April that bill
has in it at least 1924 900 900 To be added to the estimate
of the Secretary of War. Take not my word for it.
quote from the chairman of the Military Committee in the
senate: @
syppoee that have since the 18th of October paid
a5d agreed for these bounes from ninety to bun
drsd million dollars II must be ninety millions for
have paid bounes think for very near three hundred
thousand men.
suppose the payment of these bouniies is extended
and raising men at the rate we are now raising
them that shall rsise during the coming month
where from sixty eighty thousand paying portion
Of them $4Oo and another portion $500.
Which, counting seventy thousand at the average
of $3.50 pc man. will make $24 100000; that il You
take the actual expenditures and appropriations of the
Department, put upon paper recorded in the
Treasury report at 1856 4795Il add 60 that 95 500 900
deficiency and $120,000,000 for bounty there will have
been appropriated for the War Department Of this Cow
ernment alone for the fiscal year ending 30h June 1864
the gigantic sum Of 81 l03, ,979 511.
Mr.. KELLOGG, of Michigan, suggested that only about
one.fourth of the moneys expended in bountes will be
expended this year.
Mr.. BROOKS. More than that But, nevertheless
it is the sum Of money appropriated that speaking
Of-the appropriations OF Congress for the fiscal year
ending june 80 1864 The money that s saved the
better but all these bountes 10 be paid in time
or other.
hold in my hand record Of the expenses of the Bri-
sh army from 1910 TO 1916 in each yearhose terrible
years of struggle in which the little island Of Great Britain
and the lesser isle Of ireland coping against the
gigantic power of Napoleon, who had taken the French
armies IN triumph from the sands Of Egypt to the
of Moscow-thst little island which subsdzing all
the other Powers of Europe to fght her battles against
that mighty Napoleon The expenditures of the British
army in the year 1910 $S4 and in 1876
the closing of the battle OF Waterloo they were
$171 OBS 600 The aggregate expenditures for the
years from 1910 to 1916 inclusive were 1906 730 600
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