New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Book-PubIishing Extravaganza.
90 Om Wellington Correspondent.

| From OIu Warrington Correspondent
| WASHINGTON, March 3 1854.
II is estimated By the Secretary of the Treas
ury upon data furnished by chiefs OF departments and
bureaus who instinctvey understate their wants thai
the national debt viii amount the let day " July
1865 to 81 23l, e35 100. There is not member o
either House Of Congress who does not know
that back Of this lies in ambush sgains
the realized wealth and possible industry o
the nation q war-caiIn debt in large part now due
in large part growing under the hoo Of our cavalry and
the shoes Of our nfantTy-whose convergent shadows
from Missouri Arkansas Texas Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia Florida, South Carolina Tennessee
Kentucky Indiana, Ohio North Carolina, Virginia,
MARYLAND the District Of Columbia and Penhs,h anis
fall upon the Federal Treasury and wrsp win anxiety
the fhoughtfu men in pubic life who measure the pers
OF bankrnptcy who know the curses Of taxation. and
see the corruptons that dst upon administration ana
law making from claims against Government inns
war-claim debt IN without Limits. IL can
have no limits It's metes ond bounds are mans greed
and his capacity for perjury In whole or In part thiE
debt has got TO be paid Portions OF 1t are as tacredy
binding upon the Government as amy one Of The debt
certificates issued for arms or commssoIy stores pur
chased in Now-Eork City, rs binding as tho Five
Twenty bonds given for money lent. TO repudiate
these portions would be 10 unsettc the faith Of the ma
ton in public Justice, and to give shock ~ the sense
Of right and OF the obligations OF contracts AID the 81
credness Of property from which the civilization OF the
United States could not hope t. recover in genera
tioD To acknowledge and TO pay those portions would
be 70 throw open the doors OF the Treasury wide
enough to Admit tho wedge OF column Of claimants
which year after year and for fifty years. would get
driven In deeper and deeper til the very hinges Of
sistance would be burst OF and tho national
aud the national credit bs exposed to the clutch Of
mob. Certainly 1t would seem that in view Of the
countrys Indebtedness of the inevitable and growing
expenses of the war and Of tho uncertainty o. It's dura
ton, every Member Of Congress would hang on TO the
public money and the public credit with an
economy that literally pincbed But, elas this
honorable and dutifui' Parsimony is a viz
tue that fear eau never take root, either through
the carpeted bricks the marble walls or the iron ce
ings % this gded bal-mOnument. in every way cor.
Tupiive Of vulgar taste and prO6igae gastefnnoss
Look down. now, from this gallery LOOK at this
attempt TO get 60000 additional copies Of the Agri
cultural Report printed for distribution by members Of
Congress 70 their constituents Those books will cost
s55Co0 and Ls man who IL urging the waste OF that
immense amount OF money Knows perfectly well that
moi ole cent Of the should be diverted from the
Gnd the war debt Morrill, Of Vermont rises
anxi0usly 10 DIVE plug into this opening loak. He
while the publication and distribution 81 these books is
affective TO the Treasury and untimely during war
they arc really ineffective FOR the education OF the
farmers Of The nation and insufficient to accomplish The
purpcse intended between the Congressman AID bis
constituents. Mr.. Speaker" says he, III ipeRty
;t0asdnd copies were printed for my use in my
district, the number would not begin TO satisfy or
supply my people" What commentary on
the legislation which has been ia the habit for years
Of annually printing two hundred thousand copies OF
this Agricultural Report for the Of the House alone
But IN vain thou Vermont economist You cant
drive that plug into that hole. There Is one Of the
boro and sinew" chaps bawng at you under this gall
leTy, and he will beat you IN fifteen minutes.
"Sprised Mr. SpeokU-r that he FARMUR-
oneffew FARMurs In this hon'hle body-shoudn't
ardntly fayur furnishing bone and sinew country with
hr Notion. In my pnion S-i-r.-infmd-tion con.
corning mother earth 'cerniDg products earth--sery
lee prosperity country"
More Is superfouS get here IL comes. from gentle
man OF Hebrew aspect and Democratic surroundings
VINO looks as II he could inventory everything oarih
N he property except an agricultural constituency.
IL Is The agricultural population Of the county the
Doho ana srew Of the land, that Insist having this
reirI we - their servants, cannot resist the Just
demand -ighhu demands Of the husbandmen filters
Of the s'oiiesin daily bread sweat Of their bro-ws
put Seca INTO The ground, and make two lados
grass grow wher. one grew before. have everything
hey wait shape Inform! alton from the St Lawrence 10
the Hlo de ho-rte --uost useful, mos. modest most
worthy class In tho eomma APPROXIMATIONS upon
That Z the word. vermapter Won ARE bent.n, Thu
Rouse will order the sixty thousand copies "in a
lify.'
Now my couptrymen, these your Representatives last
year with the help Of the Senate ESQ 0CO
Tor printing and binding. lii. De Frees the Govern.
ment printer Of the hOneettst aud economical
OF men, swemped by the work cast upon him from
the Departments. That enormous sun disappeared In
no time lie had to rush to Congress, Immediately
lis assembling for deficiency appropriation OF $3.50 900
10 square up his last years expenses Of his gigantic
establishment And since the blu was reported from
The Ways and Means Committee 10 give him this
money, more stts.sDeiss aaYs bssR fsRnd, and H9ge
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