The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-09-08

But an honest and patriotic people
are at loss to understand how it can
be right for the President to receive
gifts of great value from persons on
,Whom he confers, Office = and a wrong
seme thing. Why The latter should
be expelled willie the former is not
impeachedl + oI arG tglp 1
THE PRESIDENTS GABINEg ga
: In vain do the people demand
!" What becomes of our taxes ?n Have
they the right TO know or, have they
lost all their rights? The fConstitu-
ton declares that 4a9regular state
ment and account of the receipts. and
expenditures of all public money shall
be made from time to time" And a
law of Congress enforces this require
meHt9 of the Constitution But dur
ing the past six years no such regular
statement of expenditures has been
made. It is true that statement is
made, butsit is fraud and cheat, in
tended toideceiEe, but mot to inform
thepeople what becomes Of theirr tax
es. One item of expenditure is given
followed by half a dozen &C., SC,
&C., &C., &C., &C.. but what the ct ce-
teraS stand for no one knows An et
ceterG may mean anything. ,ss -
/. Article /, section 9, of The Constitu-
ition among othei. things, provides
"No money shall be drawn from the
Treasury except by appropriations
made by law, But it is, "a notorious
fact-a fact charged on the floor of the
House, and never denied-that each
of President Grants Cabinet officers,
asIweil as each Chief ofa Bureau,
keeps q carriage and horses, coachman
and footman, all paid for with, the
peoples taxes, and without the author
sity ofslawx9 Iszku Il n ,<4a) :;
liza Cabinet officer cam illegally
take money from the treasury to buy
and keep up a carriage and horses, and
pay the wages of a eoaehmah and fol-
lowers, where is the limit at'which he
is, to stop? etinelG MOI 5g5dr j.
ar THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. "A
"No money shall be. drawn from
the treasury except by appropriations
made by law IsEi sHsi 13ss li
The ,reasonlfor. this provision of the
Constitution is evident. for. if f,without
the authority of law the President OF
a Cabinet officer can take from tile
treasury one thousand dollars, why
not one hundred, thousand OF one
hundred millions, to be used as the
President, or his tss Minister, may
ichoose?l l viii give. few examples
In the departments there are four
grades, oficlerks-athe fourth receive
eighteen hundred, the. third sixteen
hundred, the second fourteen hundred,
and the first twelve, hundred dollars,
and none but CHEF clerks are allowed
ajlafger sum. !, In naeonsequence of an
anonymous, letter received, by me- on
the T7th of January last. i offered a
resolution, which passed the House,
embracing five intefrosa calling
upon Mr.. Boutwell, for certain ginfof-
,mation, and on The 22d of February
it was replied to. by Executive .Docu-
mefft No. 1SS, which I hold in my
hand. odt % .llg1s z.A 9sft
i; The third question alled ON Mr..
Boutwell, for, + q statement embracing
the names of the clerks, now in the De-
partment other than Chief clerks, who
receive more tnan eighteen hundred
dollars salary And l will, read
from page 6 of Secretary Boutwsll's
answer, as follows: io . ''s "
91ts "A list Of the clerks and their
names now (Januaryrl7 lS70, sreceiv-
ing more than at the rate of Sl,S00
per annum, other than chief clerks OF
the bureaus Of the Treasury Depart
Dent." And here follows The names
tof1fiffy- nine clerks who receive lille
gal salaries, varying in amounts from
two thousand to; five, thousand dol
lars and the Secretary does not 'deign
to apologize fofiori excuse this palpable
violation of law, and she continues to
pay Just such salaries as he chooses
and to whom he chooses, and. then
coolly certifies that he does so.
Intact, myTfriends, tits impossible
for either you or, me toftsl what is the
condition of the Government from
the estimates or reports of the. heads
ofsthe departments. Thus, in his let
ter of June Lathe Secretary of the
Treasury admits that he is paying, out
of funds in the Treasury more than
sixteen hundred persons for whom nc
appropriations was made according to
law and that many more than are sta
ted, in his estimate of expenditures
sent to Congress-that is, instead OF
Sixteen hundred clerks in the Treas
nry Department. as shown in the esti-
mate ofithe Secretary, there are more
than three theRsand:q and this ufact
was dragged into the, Light by the res
olution to which | have already re-
ferred. 2ss9a tsA 4sSl''f,--,1 1'Sb-
II am thus particular, my friends, in
calling your, attention to; this matter,
that you may be on your guard
against false statements that are being
made as tothe reduction Of taxes and
payments on, the public debt d-9llig
Time will not permit, lRe to, ,,gl
Through this document page by page
but will call yoiiia attention to al
item or two moro! III Heregont the third
page, it appears that q the economical
gentlemen. WHO have administered the
Treasury Department paid to Adam:
Express Company, nom june 80
1865 to june 80, 1869, the enormous
sumiof $76,397, mainly for carrying
packages, of blank forms upon which
notes and bonds, were to, be executed
| the whole Of Which could have beer
1sSOH6 UlulI dt OuS-Luu
1fdredth part the costgd .1igd & bna
AgailL on page 2, disappears that
| sineeI 1862 the Government has paid
! 81, ,f6E, 600 for printing notes ant
4 bohdsr Foul! million dollars 7 Ny
friends, that is q greater amount thai
1.-the annaaljexpenditupes nofi the Fed
ieral G9Yerhlment, Including army
navy. and civil list during nine. years
of the history. Of the Federal Union
F. And in this conn eetioH, let me asl
why have not the, National, Banks
been required to pay for the paper
fengraVing and printing of tReii. owl
lnotes, instead ofsyou being taxed TO
Iithat purpose? .tiiYBsI ta b3nsggRi
), THREE HUNDRED AND lEoRTn INTERNAL
horn RFYREVifa pEEFEAiplLEHfERs ipltLltEf j obi
L., When ! tell you that there has beel
Three hundred and forty defaulter
4 among the Collectors of Internal Rev
4 enue, youloek surprised and ask on,
!, another 80 Why have wenot heen toll
this before :" For the, simple reason
my friends, because the facts have beel
I concealed, and had to be dug out
ion the q ST ,fiaV of March last If IVA