The New York herald., 1870-03-12
New York. ana OF Charles Pitcher, for th6 Nanl
faoaure of brooms Several bills were also favoraby
reported and passed for extension OF patentA
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED AND ADOPTED


reported and passed for extension OF patentA
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED AND ADOPTED.
Ry Mr.. SCHEsCK, (rep) OF Ohio-Directi ng the
Secretary OF the Treasury and the Comm ssloner OF
Internal Revenue to communicate their views ana
opinions Ia reserence TO the expediency ana advxa-
Ing IN the collection OF duties on foreign imports
and the collection OF the internal revenue tax, ah
allowance OF moietcs or shares 0f penalties lines,
foreitures or recoveres 70 oicers or 70 ipsorners
BY Mt. ScHUMAKER tdenh oi y. Y.-Requesting
the Commttee on Ways ana Means is to inquire INTO
law repeal tue provision IN section nineteen Of
the act OF March 1867, which provides that no SUIT
f0r the purpose OF restraining the assessment or col
lection oI taxes shall be maintained in any court.
CONSIDERATION OF THE pEFIciENoY BILL
At hapast one the House went into Committee
OF the Wh01e AFR. Wheeler In the chair. and was
addressed BY MI. MCCARTHY rep.l OF N r., on the
s ns ss aS S as
commttee proceeded to the consideration OF the
G e G "a an ,as
Tor the present fiscal year including the following
Repsars OF the Custom Houses At Caro- H.,
!lsooo; Mobile, Ala.,, $4,000; Portland, Me-
$780, ssnaassy oSc S. PAUL.
Ainn... $4,000; Madison. Wis.,. $40, ,oo0 For
court loss e. Portland Me- e Naw ,S
branch mint at San, Francisco, 100000. For .
marine hospital q Portland. No. 10000. For an an
west centre stairs OF the Treasury building at wash
ington, ST. 800. For balconies for Custom house
tom House, $i2,Oo0. For furniture for the Court
House ut Des Mones, Iowa. Sl2 900. For furniture
Sr Ea, tine Inc C0Ss hos I .sassa ar III
binding, $l05,0o0. For lIhograpning and enRross'
ing for Congress, $4,000 Reconstruction expenses
Mr.. BECK, ,dem.) OF KY, member OF the Commit.
tee on Appropriations. addressed the committee at
length upon the general subject Of the expenditures
OF the government, IN the course Of which he
quoted from Mr.. Dawes New Hampshire speech. In
which he said be told by the President TO assure
the people OF New Hampshire that the exhibit made
by hlm OF the successful collection aud economical
expenditures oI money during me present year was
an earnest one and y pledge OF what it should be
each year to come. the Presidents words being,
'rell the people OF New Hampshire that during my
administration there shall be no ascending scale 0l
public expenditures, but whenever ana wherever
the closest scrutiny shall disclose the possibility Of
cutting OIL o DO lar 1t shall be dOne.o
Mr.. Cox made remark about the gentleman from
Massachusetts blowing hot and cold saying one
thing IN the House ana different thing In New
Mr.. DAWES submitted that either he himself did
not know Wnat he SAID IA New Hampshire or the
gentleman (Mr. Cox did not know 1t; Tor he had re-
affirmed IN New Hampshire every word he had ut
tered IN the House. lie now realnrmed every word
he had said IN New Hampshire. In no word that ne
had uttered in the House had he ever said that the
present administration was more extravagant than
the administration OF Andrew Johnson lie knew that
it had been attempted in two hours speech re-
ferring To Mr. Buffers speech to make him say that
put nowhere had he done SO. He was ready to stand
by all ne had said In either OF his speeches on that
subject. lhe gentleman from New York tMr. Cox
wanted TO know how ne could say one
thing here ana another III New Hampshire
What had he SAID IN New HampshlreY
He mad SAID that the estimate for the nexS fiscal
year made by the bureaus when they came to be
aggregated, were too much aarmingly 100 much.
Those were the words he mad used aud that he mad
taken the liberty or telling those responsible for
them that they were 100 much. lie sub bntted that
his friend IRON New York could find no syllable or
what he had uttered out OF the House III that regard
different from wnat he had uttered IN 1t, The n.y.
ures which he had used In New Hampshire were the
figures covering the actual expenditures between
the itb OF March, 1863 and ABOUT the middle OF Feb
ruary, ls70 and those figures which his colleague
Oh the committee mt. Beck) mad used just now COW
yet to come. HIS colleagues figures We're made up
TO two items-the item OF appropriations Tor these
expenditures and the estimated item or how much
money out OF the unexpended balances might be
added to the appropriations lie had stated correctly
the sum total OF these Two items, but they covered
different period from that covered by his (Mr.
Dawes figures, ana, therefore, he could not be
ralgned on them for what be had SAID. Nobody
could tell until after July what would be the sum
1870. He himself, had taken the figures between
March and March. he was as sorry as the gentle
man from Kentucky tMr. Becky Tor the figures
bodied in the pamphlet from which he had quoted.
He was not here to-day, any more than he had been
month ago, to palllaie or 10 cover up nYthng but
the idea oil how much would be necessary to be
pended out OF the unappropriated balances was
mere estimate not an actual TACT and was an esti
mate made by the same bureaus tnat he had had
occasion to arraign here month ago. On such
principle tnat they would keep their nold
al the money appropriated Tor them lnst as
long as they could. IL was the bureaus
that were responsible, and more than half
OF the heads OF bureaus had been inherited by
this administration from Its predecessors. He agreed
with the assertion OF the gentleman from Kentucky
as TO the honesty OF The present Secretary OF the
treasury; but until that officer could diyest himself
OF, and throw of the embarrassments that
rounded him from the machinery and those that con-
trOlied 1t that had come down to nlm frum progate
Administrations and pronlgatc policies In the past
neither the Secretary OF the Treasury any other
person whom the administration could cali to It's
service. however honest, or however clear headed,
could demonstrate to the country that the affairs
were administered ON economic principles.
After iurtner discussion the committee then rose
and the House, atina-past four O'Clock, adjourned
until tomorrow, when no business Us TO oe done,
but general debate only.
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