The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-04-10

pN'plt Ilb Nt HOl ,)It-Pul, llltt tCDHO'
my il not to be secured merely by re-
ducing the approp opriatiOn of the public
money In these bills. OUTLAWS which
are dependent upon the amount of mon
.ey appropriated may be reduced in this
manner Where the expenditure is en-
tirclY dependent upon the appropria-
tion you may limit aud curb your out
lay by cutting down appropriations,
but you will not curtail and curb your
outlay by simply failing to appropriate
money in cases like the present, where,
under the law, the outlay will be incur
red at all events. If you have fifty or
sixty thousand men, rank and file, in
your military service, and in your APP
preparation bill vote smaller sum
than that which is necessary to supply
and pay them, you have done nothing
for economy; YOU have not reduced the
outlay; but you have practiced decep-
ton either upon yourselves or upon the
people. While upon the face of your
bill yor show but Il limited appropria-
ton of money to the particular object,
you know, or you may know, that the
amount actually expended will greatly
exceed that that ii is merely Il QuCs-
ton of time; that what is not voted in
March will be voted in December or at
some other date hereafter
tinns ,ri fn r,"nt tho,n in ,hng,irit7 iit7r -,
whirb Won air oriinariiv noodt ,.nmr =, i,r
nnhIir Tyn,mnnsihiIiti"i a.. q r,n,,I,o!,. ",i W
tha nnnot thon, froni.i 'i.Ii'."rt ~,
up nothing; disguise nothing. propose
to you Il mode of reducing the cXpcn-
diturCs of the Army by saying to the
Commander-n-C Chief of the Army and
Ist nr NTnv thn whoIn uI,mIcr nr NOR.
sons il, t%SS n,ilit"r,, lor,imn i,l" .hail r rmit
nvrnrI thirtv thni,.ond y X" Lnyc @
L,o, tnI,i ioSSo tint t'n ,,,,,I,,. ',',, ,,
nntnInynI in tbS .outhn,n GtHt"s j. '' rnt
vnr, ISrTo ri,rht ~, fn, tLnn.",,J ,,n..
hons - II n,3,, Ln lass tban that 'N'
Ne hovonG inrnrmntinn thot uuon tho
wcsterm hnnrirrN, Inron hodv nt troons
yrill hn .o,,,irad W. L,,., ,n,,oti,tdJ
viii Irdiin triho. Who ,,,crn Nv sI"ItiIn. s'tiII' ~
and rantinnoIIv Tho ro4ns or thn nv1
nn,,.n n,,an f'wr bo1n InGion ,vars
thrrn ,ro ra,lrcnd ht orr railr"ad in,.
nrovcmrnts. which rive fanilit,cs for
tronsnnrtntion, and rGducn loronIv thai
it"m i If nmtlov, TO- Mtn whirh rnfnTcnco s h"s
hrrn mnIr in tbis dnhato No do nnt
nnoi tr0nns on thn Pacific coast. ot
irost ,vr nrnl no rnnsid"rahIn HIn,hnr
,hrrr
Now. instead of merely tolIiiug about
refnrm instc,d of nrnfnssinr io he do.
vntnd tn rrfnrm. lnt rs hv tIc odontinn
nC an onnndmnnt likn tRis spcI,rn rn.
form and .rrurr if ornin,f nil accidents.
If i nv imnrc.sinn That So LARGO a force
os thiriv thou.ond i. NOT nrcr searv. that
in nIl nrnhnhilitv nm army of twnniv IN
twnntr.iivn th6usond mon will meet
any rnuIIiro,urnt Of the nublic service o.
nortotior Ruf .ir / nm nGntnnt I,
toi," Tho linit whirh have named
womb cl,or,rn Inon thn prnsidnnt th,
s:nrrntorv ~ War and fhe General n
thr ArInv n duty which they can casil,
and couycrirntIy perform.
But gentlemen may say, eve do no
know what will hapncn; there may b.
renewed insurTcction somewhere Il new
Indian war or several Indian wars may
preak out; and to make an absolute
limit of this sort may be found incon
Nenicnt after aWhilc.h Mr. President
this Congress will be in session long al
ter thi, reform takes effect if the amend
mcnt We adopted We will doubtles
be here until the middle of the sum
mer, until the approach of fall. II
fact, we may have some members a
mong us desirous, as they were las
year, to sit in permanent session. |
any unexpected emergency should artist
Congress will have no difficulty in auth
orizing an increase of force. The inter
val between the present long session
and the next one will be, at all events
very short, a few weeks merely. Ther,
can, therefore, be no argument baseC
upon the possibility of some great an'
now unexpected emergency during th'
present year
Sir, if you can by an amendment o
this sort strike of twenty-five or thirty
million dollars from the public outlay
yIn. ,.ni, ',,.ifI IL. ..nn,otbir,r ,,hirh thn,