The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-01-29
TuE NATIONAL EXPENDITURE


/ AHf D8NeD h0uIEAsEA bAAG NAAiAtAlhtlg ~
reply % the speech u Mr Butler ye.Eef'
day, undertaking u prove his own speech,
| which had beeu AFTSyed yesterday, Was
made 90 a hitting occAsiOn that the
speech WA IrIls, and TINT il WA proper
be should tlAks T. lie had been charged
1 with haVinK with his eyes open PrOs'iEu.
lte,I BIZ SElriSl postum ~ the heDeIie q
the DemOcrnIlC party, and " The sScrlncu
oE his own credit But Il would have
been more 70 bis taste could he lAve VT!
tue speech U IL peace before the bar ol
1 FREE and candid critics, y which sTeTy-
hing tllat Was saIl on this fOOE must W.
tImSteIy cone 50 lang ~ criticism on
| Ia sueech had been cOldued u what vas
contained IN tie speech ttself, Il had not
teen his intention even " trouble the
House OE those who read IL proceedings
with anything IN regard 10 il; but when
tlIs5 motives that actu8ted hIn IN H.
delivery were deliberately impuSned IN
tllo hO6r Of the House, there WA no 81
tentative but u ask Us Indulgence " the
extent which be had indicated, AMI there
fore hc would proceed directly and with
out further preface W Inquire what &c
ca5j0n he bSd - make tllat Specch.
That speech was delivered upun bill.
Involving great public work, in.
VOlVlng Immediately, ~ he thought, and
ultimately certainly, the expenditure OF y
large sum Of the public money. lie had
been charged with the duty, In company
with eight other members Of tho House,
Of taking care Of the public expenditures,
and Il had l,,cn the opinion Of that Com
mittee that That was u proper occasion,
through one Of IL members. 10 express u
| the uOtilA the HeaaUnS IL Objection "
the bill, and Il hal fallen to his lot 70 give
utIerAncC to those TeaSOAs, lie hId been
made tho SPOKESMAN Of the Committee on
| Appropriations, and ~ such bad made u
speech that was the occasion for the Spcech
Of hIs colleague, and 10 submitted 10 ulo
Judgment Of the House whether II was
propeF occasion for Il II had seemed ~
plain = path Of duty 70 him that it had
never occurred 10 him that anybody would
ever intimate that he had seized an lin.
nrOncr occasion for submitting the re-
marks which he did. But far more I'M.
DOrtant than that was the other inquiry,
whether what he said upon that occasion
was true, and lie stood to-day, aGler more
than week since III delivery To submit
to the Judgment Of his peers that not only
was II u fit season for the delivery Of the
speech, hut that whit he uttered was In all
essential md important particulars the
truth.
Mr.. Dawes then proceeded, with the
lOOk estimates In HIS hands, 10 refer TO
item amer item Of the estimates Of the va
riOlls departments, and u show that his
original statcmcntin regard 10 the excess
Of estimates for appropriations for the
last wear were In every respect correct.
Passing on from tho figures, he said: !
should rejoice IA mitch aS nny man ut any
development going tOshGw how much the
people Of this country have been relieved
Of the burden OFlaxNtiOn by the reduction
Of expenditures since Andrew johnson
len the Presidential chair; hut the ques.
II0n that WIN Investigating, and the In.
Ouiry that was putting Ia the country,
was whether as between this year and
next year the tendency Of expenditures
WAS upward or downward, and feel 1t q
duty for me to contribute what was in my
power, III though saw that tendency
was upward, to induce those who are res
ponaihle in these halls in the 0dmlnistrI-
lion Of the government 10 50 manage pub.
lie affairs that the tendency should bc
downward, not upward.
Now, air, figures may be piled upon
figures, "OSsa upon PellOn, mountains
high, to show the difference between Ad.
drew Johnson's administration in that re.
gard and the llnst year Of our adminiSlrA.
ton, but they do not rest upOnmy should
crS BroAdsilCs may be fired from that
point II VlGW, but the missiles will fall
harmless ut my feet, for there Is nothing
In all that said TINT had any reference
whatever 10 tho estimates Of Andrew
JOhnSorl's administration Or the NpprOpri
atiOnS and expenditures IN his admtnIstra
ton. We have been told that the csli-
mates for lust year were made by MIR.
JnhnsOn's administration in spirit OF
hostility to the incoming administration.
not what Mr.. johnson would carry on lhc
administration for, but what Gen. Grant
would cary Il on for; and that In suCh'a iit
Of economy the estimates were cttt.tleTR
10 rs u CrnhNETaSs the incoming admins.
trnllOn, and that was said by one who was
himsclra party in Committee TN ApprO
batiOns further to CmhNrrAss this admins
lFatiOn by cutting down these estimates
81. OOO,0OO. Laughter. Tho truth
about that statement that nobody ever
hcarl Of II until yesterday, II anything
IL II test III to whether the tendency oEGX-
pCnditure il upward or downward In the
departments, 1t will hC found in tho two
items for salaries and contingent cXpendi.
lures, and Nsk the Committee to listen
and say whether the salaries and con.
tingcnt expenses ~ asked for IN this book
Of estimates are upward or downward
~ compared with the expenses for
the present YEAR The excess Of e..
innate over appropriations for the pres
cnt year for salaries and contingent eX'
pOnSls art ~ follows; State Department,
&;tS, $50 Executive Department, proper,
$ilAO 900 Treasury Department, $685.
ono Department Of the Interior, $SSysGS
Department Of War, $6,450 less Navy
Department, $5G,GIO; Agricultural De
parlmcnt, $G4,BSO; pOSl0illCC Depart
mcnt, $3O,SO0. The total excess OF cSti.
mates for salaries and contingent cxpcn.
Sl,S for those departments, over npprOpri'
atoms Of this year arc $59S, 46S
Take another illustration. Take the
navy vNUl At Washington, anil imagine
how many officers Of the navy, indGpcn'
dent Of civil officers, Il requires to take
care ofit, Here MIR, Dawes read a list OF
the officers employed in the Washington
Navy Yard, stating that the number WAS
twenty, and that the amount Of their sal
aries was $49,0S0. Besides these, the sal
aries or the civil officers who helped them
to take care of the navy yard amounted to
&I9Q46, making a grand total Of salaries
for the navy yard At Washington Of $9l,'
G35. lie suggested whether $1,000, or
$4,000 properly distributed in a private
ward would not bC more elective for the
purnnN,S Of the navy. Speaking Of the