The national Republican., 1868-12-23

WHehtngtCn. u. "
The work or the House Committee
ON ApproprIations-A Slight Mis- |
take-What f. TO Decrease she Cost |
of the Govcrumcm. while Incrcas.
ing its Revenue - , noKsly-The
Power In the Cover. Grentcr 4
than the Law-what :. gosts the
National Treasury, &c, &c.
DECEMBER %, 1865.
To TUE RzrcHLr~AH I learn that II is the |
purpose Of the House Committee on Appro- |
priatlons to cut down the estimates for the |
next fiscal year to $3.50, 900 IL possible. |
They now stand at so, 100000. The Presi- |
dent, by-the-by, in his recent message stated
that they amounted to the same aggregate as
those OF last year. which was t3fO ooo, 900.
Tho committee named above, to accomplish
its purpose pruieutly and intelligentiy, must
labor enormously, going over In detail the
probable cost OF everything for which II Is pro-
posed that the Government shall pay money
In the hscal year In which these enormous ap.
proptiahons are to be expended. No other
committee OF the House has upon Its shoulders
so much responsibility, nor so much actual
hard work upon its hands. think II will sue
ceed in showing how the public service eau
be carried on for the year in question, for t53,-
100000 less than tho sum named by the ex.
ecutlve branch Of the Government. The vigor,
directness and spirit OF economy which Gen.
Grant will instil into every branch of the
Government's business, will make dollar go,
In such matters, much farther than 1t has gone
for = year or two past. The public servants
will work with more industry, zeal and integ.
rity under him than OF late. Otherwise they
will "walk Spanish"
As an organizer aud systematizer he is
without a superior, and will surely speedily
bring order and System out of the chaos OF inf.
deity to trusts, special fsvors for political
services OF worse than questionable eharac.
ter, and downright dishonesty, which makes
the Government of the United States cost the
Taxpayers twice what It should. cost them.
The taxes as levied, II faithfully collected,
should yield the Treasury possibly twenty
i've per centun more than are secured by the
tax collectors; while through infdelity to the
public trusts, much that is collected fails to
reach the national Treasury. Mr. Van wyek's
recent report shows at glance how and VIII
1t is that these things are SO. The public OH
Ger who steals, or for a "considerstton" per
mits others to steal from the Govern ment
twhen he is appointed and paid to detect, ex
pose, and punish those particular thieves,) 4
surely "pardoned" after conviction. Thi
pardoning is not an exceptional thing. 1t 1
the general rule of the current Executiv
"policy" OF the Government, and is at the bo,
tom of quite one half the sbortive yield of tn
taxes OF the times. Thus it is also the pa
rent of more than half the corruption OF th
tImes in public affairs. Scouadrels seek ofic,
In which the collection OF taxes is involved
with the fore-knowledge-the conviction IL
advhnce-that II detected In fraud and pccu.
lation, an executive pardon may be calculated
upon to shield them from the laws ven
geancc. Is 1t wonderful, therefore, thai
Washington city Ia periodically overrut
with notor!ousy corrupt men from a distance
seeking the opportunities to plunder incident
to the vacancy of revenue oti.esl 1t is MOI
cxtravagant to write that the Treasury lose
half a hundred millions year through tn,
appointment of corrupt men to revenue col
lecting trusts of all grades and deseripti Iona
while no class in society, - whose prosperit
society Itself has the slightest interest,
kn"-..sh - 49, r-Nas"ruis lose III
fraudulent whisky maker, the fraudulent In
porter, and Others OF the same ilk, are thos
and those only who derive profit from the al
pointment OF corrupt revenue officers, an
their almost iuvariable pardon when deteoto
and convicted OF crimes that actually lnIur
the public Interest under the Circumstance
more than any other possible offences agains
the laws and public morals. Grant will surel,
put stop to this state OF thIngs. Every ma
reasonably suspected Of inadelity to his trus
viii be removed from office, and any man who
succeeds any one OF them who may be detectet
In following the bad example OF the tlmea, will
suffer to the full extent of the law. The publ
may rest assured that the so-cailed vindictiv,
ness of Stanton's administration of the Wa
Departments affairs (Which saved the nation
life In Its most trying tlme) will be meted ou
to every dishonest revenue collector, in what
ever position under the Government he ma
be, when Grant is President. In three month
after Grants Inauguration tho world wi
realize this fact, and la three months aftG
that the fact itself will have suppresse
more than half the attempts to defraud tn
Treasury. II to be found out is to insure put
ishment to all parties, official and unofncis
to such frauds, and If those charged with theI
detection and exposure are far more diligcn
and faithful than before, we will soon surely
have an honest naturalization OF govern
mental affairs.
without additional taxation the nationa
revenue bids fair to be increased possibly dft,
millions of dollars, and the expenseI OF col
Letting II to be decreased twenty-five millions
by avoidance "of settlements,n - abolIshment O
ahundred modes OF getting money out of tn
Treasury under pretense of trying to &c
money into 1t and by ceasing to pay for sery
ices in the collection of the revenues, kc, no
really rendered. These are not extravagant nI
ures. They but tell the difference botwee
the probable receipts and expenditures OF tn
Government worked by men who stand 4
fear OF the law, on the one hand, and by me
who work 1t as place out of which to dig al
the profit for themselves they can, lawful
ly or unlawfully, honestly or dishonesty; b.
men who realize and thoroughly appTecla at
the fact that there exists at this time powel
in the Government for thsir protection II
wrong-doIng far higher than the law OF tn
land, and far more sure OF execution az occca
sion demands-the pArdoning power.
RELATIONS or THE UNITED STATES An
THE HAYTIEN REPUBLIc.-Thc following
from the Department Of state, Is lust now In
tercBtIng:
49, DEPARTMENT or SfATE,l
=, -, "AiHISGTOS, December 10, 1885 I
Msssrs' Wm y BrOtra 4 Co., No. COchiies ST y
heiU York.
tEsrLENEN Your teleSraphlc note of yea
terdhy was received. You submit the foliow W
Ing Inquiry ~
"Will the United States Government prn
tect American vessels bound to ports in Inv
held by the rebels there from seizure or dctsn
tion by the Haytien Governmentin
IL is my duty to inform you that the Unite
States are at peace with the republic of Hayt