The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
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would believe that the President be-
lfeves fne to be his friend, and were
to state the simple truth of what Z
passed, between myself and him, SO
true 70; Himself, it would be better
rindicgtien of him, and Of me than
anything that can be said. He talked
of, economy, He, said that his influ-
ence should be exerted to bring down
these estimates; He, said that he had,
made a personal examination of the !,
estimates for the. War Department:
he knew the. necessities of that de-
parhncnt better than others, and he
thought the estimates for that depart
ment, were cut down as low as they
could, be. After that statement from
a man whose polar star in the admin
istration of affairs is. economy, did
not think it, worth while to- appeal
from him to the Secretary, who had
not,s been a month in his seat, and
whose second official act, read from
the GIerk,sSdesk here yesterday, is a.
letter to my colleague in aid OF his as-y
sault on the Committee ON Appropri-
ations in its. efforts to reduce the exr
penditures, and therefore, sir, il eex-9
anlined into all the departments COM
mitted to- mytcharge, and i say that
every ono of them was examined by
other members, of the Committee in
the same wavadl And now; ;i.was ita
worth Yhile,fori us, with. that knowl- q
edge totrx and induce the irepresen-
tativeslef the people to cut down thei
expenditures2 z Ii The sworklf belongs
here2 Many of them were the result
of laws ienacted1 here, and here was
the place to undo them.--Many of
them were addigssedto our discretion
and here was the place to- consider
and ito acton that discretion Many
/ Of them resaltlIffbm abuses of long
standing. sThete9are to-day fiVe'hun-
/ dred foficersfof the farmyfoff4 duty
more Hithaname ecessary-supernu-
1nerariesl 0 aCanEaBy oneitelli me what
the animal idraft on the otrersury for
4 these salaries is Fake the pay, of a
major as midway in rank as an aver.
1 ace See sa5Tnldd1lni and multiply that by five thou
sand, and you will find that there is
paid annually to these supernumerary
| ~ @[aa @[naarS S5o mn az saa,Iarv Nobodv
al ftfb{i(otb fb{ei (otberrl errleafd end of the ayen1ufe is re-
sTndjip s;ib}Ie for that I'VE are responsii-
hi, foar! 2! if f?sffntdfa and submit whether We we
onaa5bf 9a5b f9 no ttitto ttoo bnId mn these expendi-
tsee 5 1bSafme 1bSaafomre onr on!Ie,lesiso eves so that we NAV
see tliT " bSap bere we is.t c.iit Them down. These
@e ! bii II 6sfa1ncees coming coming to 5q rs through
ba9 b9adAni ;s ta2fiiso5 of the past but we
a7e 79T SsealsinomnasibbIe sali gmaibbI nnIess we apply the
n1r.unEynligg ms knife and cut off these ex-
nenn1d3 nn1d3iafhrpess adi q 2iIt57-'i' 3 81 s'iiI9
1 hIIttalb Submit, mniitiMr Mr. Chairman, that here
! where. stood was the place, and that
it was 81 efnnineanltfy hi proper that the Com
/ mittee on Appfopriatfons should do
4 what it could to arouse a sentiment
] in HE House Of Repres entatiyes in fa--
vor mS Of uniting I'M every effort of any
Of the Departments, or any of the
executive officers Ste to cut down these
ex,xlpSesnndituIree9ss.a ,xlSsndit res / say that have main
] tanned the three PROPOSITIONS with
4 which t set out out a long time ago in
these remarks, nln that " ou.d show that
i it ~ was s. a fitting occasion for me to
! make that speech that the speech was
! true aas1I as / made it: and, sir, in general
terms srns desire htttii ttot state that i'm this
I wEoorkk 70 kks1ttbba 1tbe Commftee felt and feels TO
saw 'ftbatD that # If had no no hostility to any
branch hhsd Of the government, and did
not 9TH il ail,'1 any regard desire, to or sup
! pose that it was making war on any
! branch ofltAe esoyernment, but with
/ an, earnest desire; and with a, full be-
efthat it would, have all suitable aid
C:t. -.,.o.o,
I - - = a,,d ;f;t conl5 ba rsustained
in this House to make instead of an
upward tendency to- the public ex-
/ penditures,ea a downward tendency,
lo,l q. f,,,tbar ,a3,,of; f,.an ruhot