The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-28
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Dawes then proceeded, with the book of
estimates In his hands, to refer TO item
after item of Inc estimates OF the various
Departments and to show that his origi-
nal statement in regard 10 the excess q 4
estimates over the appropriations or last
year were IN every respect correct. Pass
1 SHOULD rejoice Rs much as any
man at any Development going 20
show how much the people OF this
country have been relieved OF the burden
Of taxation BY the reduction OF expendl-
ture, since Andrew Johnson left the Presi-
Dental Chair but the question that L was
INVESTIGATING and the IDquiry that 1 was
putting to the country was, whether, as
between This year aod next, the tendency
and feel II a duty for me TO contribute
what was in my power. II 1 thought
I said that the tendency was up-
ward, to induce those who are re-
sponsible IN these Halls in the Adj
m1nIsIratiOn OF the Government, to 50
manage public affairs that the tendency
should be downward, not upward. Nov,
sir, figures may be piled on figures noun
tain high TO show the difference between
a. Johnson's administration Ia tnat re-
gard, and the nfst year ef our ad-
ministratiOn, but they do not rest
upon my shoulders. BToadsides may
be fired from that point of view, but tie
for there IS nothing ia all that said that
had any reference Whatever TO estimates
OF A. Johnson's administrations Of appro-
priations, and expenditures In his Admin
istration. We have been told that the es-
Inmates for last year were made by Asr
JOnnson'S Administration In q spirit OF
hostility to the incoming Administration,
not for what Mr.. Johnson would carry on
the Administration for, but what General
Grant should carry tt on for. The state
ment that the COmmittce on ApprOprio-
ttons reduced the estimates twenty mil
lion d0llafs 10 embarfass the Gov
ernment, he declared to be absurd.
The truth about that statement is, that
nobody ever heard of IL until yesterday,
aud II anything is a test as TO whether the
tendency 10 HXnHnn1tnrR il inward
downward 4 q the Departments, IL will be
found IN two items ;for salaries ~ c0ntin.
gent expenditures, and ask the Commit
lee to listen, and say whether the salaries
and contingent expenses as asked for in
this book OF estimates, are upward or
downward az compared with the expenses
OF the present year. The excess OF esti-
mates over the appropriations for the
present year for salaries and contingert
menb S3S, $50, Executive Department proper
S940, ,000 Treasury Department S259 Oy0,
Department OF the Interior, f8S, 1853, De-
partfnent of War $3.50 less, Navy De-
partment S58670, Agricultural Depart
ment $3.50, Post OGlee Department
$50. 500; total excess of estimates for sala-
ries and contingent expenses for those
departments, over the appropriations for
this year are S52S, ,4G6. Take another Illus
ington, and imagine how many officers of
the navy, independent o. civil officers, IL
requires to take care or 1t. Here Mr.
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 salaries was S42,bS9, Be-
side these the salaries of the several off,
GERS who helped them to take care Of the
Navy Yard, amounted to S5S,9i6, making
the grand total of salaries for the Navy
Yard OF Washington, COL 83j. He sug-
gested whether SIS, 900 or ti0 0J0 worth of
property distributed in private yard,
wou.d not be more effective for the pur-
poses Of economy. Speaking OF admirals'
achts, he asserted they cost each OF them
$1,000 day. If this ~ 200 day were taken
81 nd n snd for EuhgiEft UaaTnonfffa m
rines of the country, IL would lend to en-
courage trade, and enterprise, and com
meree, 13stead Of being a mere waste and
useless nunmery- referring TO the sug-
gestions made yesterday by Butler. that
he, Dawes could have gone TO the Depart
ments TO inquire into any supposed error,
he was compelled to say just what had
transpired, and the country would judge
from II whether he had been unfair or un-
inst When the estimates were nut in the
hands of the Committee on AppropriA-
tions. Depertm ents We're allotted among
nine members OF the Committed, and he
would say here that the Democratic nneIn-
bers OF the Committee were as faithful as
any of them in the discharge OF that duty.
lG was due to the Secretary of the inte-
riOr to say that while he said It was inn
possible 70 cut down the force in his De-
partment, he could curtail the ezpendi-
tlres outside in the Hospital for the In
sane, IN the Deaf and Dumb Asy lum, and
In the Noman's Lyiug-In Hospital.
Secretary could not cut down the estimate
for his Department, there was single Bu-
rsau there that had accumulated Sis6,0QJ
surplus, because 1t had had appropriations
fTOIn ear TO year more than IL could use;
ard without saying word about that sur
ing positively TO the Committee that IL
cOuia not curtail one penny.
Dawes then went on TO relate a like
and said: 1 went always from the Treas
ury Department discouraged L took oOuu-
sci OF influential gentlemen In the party,
with this book of estimates under my arm,
which has been my constant comp 4nion
for six weeks; and was advised To go TO
the President mytelf, and / laid these estl-
e short pause, and tone OF sadness, do
not know that accomplished anything;
do not know put he mas more cOnddsnce
In my colleague than IN myself; 10 may
be that he will take my colleague into
his bosom aud warm him into new life.
De, nor can L calculate what will be
the consequences of that resuscitatton,
lLaughterl But tain would beiieYe that
the President believes me TO be his friend
and were 10 state simply the truth of
what passed between myself and bim-so
like him, SO true to himseIf-tt would be
a better YlndicatiOn of him and Of me Than
anything can be said. he talked Of econ
only. He said that his influence should be
exercised TO bring these estimates. he
said that he had made personal exam
ination Of the estimates for the War De-
paFtment. He knew the necessities Of
that Department better than others aud
he thought the estimates for that Depart
ment were cut down as low as they could
polar star of administration Of affairs is
economy,I L did not think it worth while
TO appeal FROM him to the Secretary, who
had not been a month in his scat, and
whose second official act. read from tho
Clerks desk here yesterday, is a letter to
my colleague in aid OF his assault on the
Committee on Appropriations In its
efforts to reduce the expenditures, and
thor efore, sir, examined into ali the de-
paItments committed to my charge, and
say that every one of them was examined
by the other members of the Committee
in the same way, and now, was il worth
while for US, with that knowledge, 10 trv
and induce the representatives OF the
people To cut down the expenditures? The
Work belongs here. Many OF them We're
the result of laws enacted here, and here
was the place to undo them. Many of
them were addressed to our diScre-
ton, and here placed for us TO consider
and 10 act on that discretion. Many OF
them result from abuses of long standing
There are to-day 500 OH .srs OF the army,
on duty more than are necessary-super-
nuInernries. Can any one tell me what is
the annual draft on the Treasury for their
salaries. Take the pay OF a major, as mid
way in rank, and as an average, and null
iipIy that by fve hundred, and you viii
find tnat there IS paid annually to these
body at the other end is responsible for
that. We are responsible for It, and 1
submit whether we ought to hold up these
expenditures before us that we may see
where we may cut them. These are but
siDle unless we apply the pruning-kn
and cut oil these expenditures. l SUBJ
MY, MT aai Cnalrh an, an, that mere IS
eminently proper that the Committee on
Appropriations should do what 1t could
to arouse a sentiment in the House of Rep
resentattVes in favor of economy ia tie
Departments. 1 say that 1 have main
tained the three propositions, not a long
time ago, in these remarks-that [ won d
show hat IL was fitting occasion for me
to make that speech. That speech was
true as made 1t, and that il was proper
that l should make it.
Logan, from the Committee on Military
Affairs, reported q bill TO reduce the num-
Der OF officers in the army, which was
made the special order Of Wednesday
Hanks f,1trod,cad n bitt ~ ,v,a,,a 80