The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-27

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coal, he showed that instead Of coal for the
Navy costing Slj,O00 a year, estimates for
coal Tor the two years, 1868 and 1859
amounted to 81 $4,000. AS to this Treasure
/ DepaFtuaenf he IsrOcaeded ~ gbctr- 41,,sJt
the estimates was caused by the legislation
OF Congress, "a ordering the erection of
public works, such as the New York and
/ Boston Post Offices, DC, which made a
difference against last year, of over So 000 :
90. His colleague had not seen it to pay
his respects particularly to the State De-
pariment, perhaps because the difference
was only S32 000; but that Department. lIke q
all the rest, could stand the true test Of
economy IN expenditures The expeudi-
ttent. was sgf6cl less thah' thsiagt Year of
Jonson,s Administration. AS 10 the In
terror Department.. he thou ght ho could
account for the Sl2,0S0, 600 OF excess OF the
estlmate' The explanation WAC TO be
found In the fsct that now for the
dlfeetly troin tae Patent Oii,e. fs f5.
stead Of being paid out OF the Fatent
OInce 1und, and that the Land Ohice re-
CURED So .0y0 additional for land surveys
owing % the immense eLaIgratioii. and
thai there was difference OF SII 600 900 for
penslens, owing 10 the uneXpended bal
anee OF last year. Bat his colleague had
omitted to mention the extravagant ESTE
mates Tor Congress. in which there was an
excess OF estimates OF 81 $4,000. he as
sufed the House he had gone over them
with considerable care and with entire &C.
GufaCy. lie Ssttua ated the eEpeudftuires az
tiae second year of Gen. Grants admins
tFation, compared ii with the appropria-
lions Tor the first year, and endeaVored to
reply, item BY item. TO the general charges
made Dy his colleague. He undertook to
st4eH tA9E me amounts rot properly
chargeab bic 10 the excess or thel e9ben.
dlture in General Grants admin1stra-
ton were Is, o,9o3,9O0 less than the amounts
OF the apparent estimates or dedOctfng
S49, 900 9li, which Is charged 40 excess thiS
year, over sl3.O99,c0O reailg less than the
appropriations OF last year. 1t would thus
be seen that, instead OF this Admipistra.
ton calling FOR more than II had last year
TO carry on tine Government, it asked for
SUM which was in fact over sl0, ,O00, 600 less
shan that OF iaet year, or 30,l6OUOO less
than Andy Johnson estimated, showing
that the professions Of economy which
Grant put forward ia his message, and
which every one of his Secretaries recOm-
mended and embraced in their reports
were not, as the chain imam of the Commit
tee on appropriations had sIaUed, false
pTofesslo sloIls, aud not Intended to be carried
out; In fact, thsce explanations OF the
book OF estimates which he now gave. and
for the accuracy of the details of which ne
was sure he could Youch, should have been
given BY his colleague, as chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, SO That the
Erue poSitlon of the Government might
haYe been 4ully understood by the coun-
Try. He should not have played the part
of Ham in lea ging uncovered the nsked-
ness which he supposed he saw, and should
not have left him (Butlerl the roe al To-
seph and Stem, except that there was no
naKedness TO cover. His colleague stood
in relation to he government as the
aaneel1or of Excnequer. W hoover heard
Of the chancellor or Exchf quer present.
Ing his Budget on the floor OF Parliament
and not explaining single. item OF his
Budget, except said estimates were extrav-
agant and corrupt2 His colleague should
have remem bered thai he was part and
an important part Of this administration,
Rnd that IL anything seemed TO be wrong
itwas his duty TO the admins stration and
to ms party 70 have sought most carefully
lor an explanation He was informed lie
had not done SO, except in one or two in-
stances Of the Departments That lbs
polle9Sqes statement was incorrect and
calculated 10 make a false i'm preston upon
The country, was evident from the fact mat
he mad before him the official Report of
The secretary OF the Treasury, in which he
estimated the expenditures at g2aI. 900 900
only, which his colleague, with the report
before him. put IL at before counting that
the Secretary OF the Treasury, who IS esti-
mating onlcer OF the Government, had
estimated the expenditures for the coming
year at S33l, ,CO0,OyO, or s4l, 10000 more than
ne knew, or ought to have known was tbe
estimate of the administration, and Vet
his colleague, with all that knoWledga
had sent abroad ia at unjust, incorrect and
TO be club in the hands of the enemies OF
the Government with which to assa IA n ~
Was 1t wonderful thatthe DeinocraLlc side
OF tie House should Bubscrlbe for lJO 900
copies OF his speech ss the BEST cam FIssisn
doeunent they could find for their use 2
Why did not his colleague, IL he wished 10
convict the administration of extravo.
gance, or give IL the faithful wounds OF a
triend, be governed by its expenditures
bureau officers, and which they ware di-
rected 20 make hy the law OF Congress.
way did ne take the estimates of thee
Bureau officers to be 1891 900, 900, when he
had an official statement that the whole
expenses would not exceed yer year s2gI,-
00,0009 The expenditure after al wagontv
d test of economy, but he did most sIif-
cerely further complain of, and what his
party had right TO complain Of or his
colleague, was that, standing IN the place
he did, he had given q false I'M preston in
the country; that the pledges OF economy
with Whtcn the Administration came IN
We're not carried out in fact, and were not
10 ne carried out by IL. He had thus given
an advantage TO bis ei4efnies, TO their en-
emtes and 10 the enemies OF the Govern
Iaent, by which to wrest power from fhe
Hands or those who had brought
the country through the war. and
sought or would permit It's destruction by
war, What private griefs he mad that
made him do IL, alas 1 Know not. for lie
highest confidence IN his Integrity, phev
had-shOuld he have to speak Of the past
the highest conf dence In hia accuracy and
Judgment He fButlerl he'd been endeav.
oring, IN his own mind, TO account for his
colleagues action In the matter, and had
his caleague was eonhtitutionaliy con
sarYab1Ve, and was radical only because of
his location. His colleague disIfked 10
take any step forward. Like the elephant
ia passing. over the bridge, he started bacr
and refused TO trust the blanks but nm /
IKE the elephant, after he had tried the
he did not pass over ID. me
same conservative tendency hsd bound
down his colleague. Throughout hls
whole career he had watched him with
Interest, Day by day he had seen him.
during the crisis and struggle of the last
ten years, held down by conservatism, as
by bonds of Wtthes, When the Tnirteefith
Amendment was pending before The House
20 enancipaie four millions OF bondmen,
ms colleagues conservatism held him
from raising his voice in It's behalf altho'
~ passed Congress by o single vote, and
the Fourteenth Amendment was passed
to secure freSdom and loyalty, the results
OF the war was before Congress, His coli
leagues voice was silent. No word to help
either OF these great ne asures OF freedom,
and Isadtca usm had passed his lips when
the civil Rights Bill was pending IN the
powerful advocacy when the Fifteenth
Amendment needed every true man
to the resoua- His col eague was not
heard when the reconstructIon acts were
before COnges5, and which had come to be
from his colleague in behalf OF the strug-
Cling Republicans Of the Southern States,
and the only utterance upon these topics
his colleague did make, was against the
passage of the, Mississippi bill On the last
days OF the last session, and his argument
then had fanlished the eIoqueut geutIe-
N an from Indiana. VOORHEES,. the thesis
for the best speech against Georgia at this
session was true, except in the latter case.
His colleagues name had always appear
ed on roll call, but it was Massach usetts
that had voted, and not his COLLEAGUE.
His colleagues voice was now potential,
resounding all over the land, but against
the Republican Administration. and not
for 1t, although the Republican parry had
given the very position which h "a enabled
that voice TO be so terrible in its denunci-
alton and uninViting MISREPRESENTATION
The Speaker of the House would rernepl-
Der that when organizing Committees last
session, and when II might have been sun
posed a member Of foFmer Committe.
on Appropriations would have been re-
leeteo as CHAIRMAN of the CommitLse on
APPROXIMATIONS Of the DFegant Houea fho
friends q the Incoming administration
very foTeibly pressed upon the Speakers
notloe MS colleague for that position,
was safe man. steady. ooing M q trior,d