The Van Buren press., 1870-02-15
rAWa.hington correspondent says

EE~ A Washington correspondent says
that the effect of the recent speech in
Congress Of Mr.. Dawes, Republican, OF
Massachusetts, has boon to estrange the
President from him, and adds;
II is not great speech its author did
not intend it to be such. 1t is an extern
pore and unstudied effort in opposition
to the League Island bill, in the course
of which the speaker tells some plain
truths about the extravaganza OF his par
" which his party didn's like. This Il
the main point in the speech. Had II
come from Democratic member no at
tention would have been paid to it com
ing from Massachusetts member, who
contested with Mr.. Blaine, the Speaker
Of the House, it is regarded as Important
He shows that after all the denunciations
of extravaganza against Andrew John
sons administration, and all the prcten
tious claims of economy made for Gene
raj Grants, the estimates for appropria'
tions for public work for 1870, amount
to S24 ,625, l73, against actual appropria-
tions OF only s5,493,000 last year !. that
the total estimates fer expenditures for
government the last year of Johnson's
administration were 1903, ,0G0. 900, while
the estimates for the next year, under the
present administration, are S33l, ,097, Ia
an increase of SIS, S,097 Ill; that. as Con
gress reduced Johnson's estimates $780,
100000, the actua! increase is nearly
S49, 900, 600; that the Navy Department,
in time of peace, asks for 81, ,607 1894 for
Navy Yards alone, against only S4al .0o0
last year; and that the total appropria-
tions asked for by the Navy Department
amount to S2s,44l, ,76l, against Sl5,956,
600 last year. He odds the remarkable
statement that Admiral Porter testified
before a committee of the House that We
expended during the war $3.50, 900, ,00O
on and in our Navy Yards, and had moth
ing to show for it now. These facts show
how the large surplus which Mr.. Bout.
well insists on having in he Treasury en-
courages extravaganza and proGigacy and
furnish powerful reason for allowing
that surplus to remain in the pockets OF
the people.
On the 26th January, Butler attempted
a reply to Mr.. Dawes He was supplied
with his figures by the departments, and
his speech stretches eleven columns OF
the Globe in length. The greater portion
Of II was Il personal attack on Mr.. Dawes
charging MIN with an attempt TO furnish
the Democratic party with capital to di-
vide the Republican party and weaken
the administration. He also charged
him with misrcpresenting the estimates
for the appropriations asked by the I'D
ministration, though 1t appeared that
Buffers own figures made the excess OF
this over the last administration some
800, 900, 900, being 10000, 600 less than
the excess claimed by Dawes. In tht
course OF his speech, Butler said that th.
members of the administration (meanine
the President and Cabnct) felt that MIR
Dawes speech was blow struck at them
in the interests fpoliticafopponents
Dawes made brief reply, and said at d
future day he should answer all portions
Of Buffers speech, except its PERSONAL
ties, and that he should adhere to the
truth of his charges Of e,and
maintain the feasibility OF the policy OF
economy he had stated heretofore. Dur
ing Dawes speech the entire Democratic
side went over into the Republican eide
Of the House and filled the aislcs and va
cant chairs The ISSUE Of extravaganza,
thus made up. promises to widen in the
Republican ranks. Mr.. Dawes, however,
carried his first point by securing the dc
feat Of the bill to establish new Navy
Yard at League Island.