New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

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deception the country whether intentional OF nos t
was In overlooking the fact that the estima heS
BALANCES the balance for the Navy then being ssOo0o
and that for the Quartermasters Department Vi tno
sIa ysnStaHtiay every dollar available for the future
would have to be Appropriated from to 80, tno mai
great and determining fact which answeIea ms n
upon the Republican parry hs concealed Sma IT, Had he been
seduced by the fact that his predecessor or, M
Of 9 RaG Se c%neRgpeRded balances got reputation
for economy and was patted on inc oaGk AZ mai ms, col
league would sacrifice the interests and success OF hi
party TO his sefaggrandizement I'D hls o
Mr. BUTLER here read letter to himself rom seGre-
tary boutwell, giving the unexpended balances OF june
1868, as follows: ......
War Department 800 so2Ciyn service.... sl2'Hes
Nayy pe IS PeB,eo De- Toa..... slJ6E64'9
Dart paTtnent............ ao27g8
| Resumlng his argument he said that Andrew John'
sons Secretaries, in 1863, should have made ther Sst
mates i'm view OF those balances while Gen Grants sec.
etaries in 1909 made their estimates without any view
of such balances the Treasury those balances po,h6
substantially expended. AS to the War Department te
for the year ending June 80 1862 were 6OC
and il TO that were added the old debts paid Woud
bring It to sSOOOOOOo The army expenses LOT tne
ending June 80 1870 the first year OF Gen Grant, were
sAOOOOOO The reduction In the army re- t r
the last year OF Mr. Johnsons TO inc nrst Xep w.
Grants Administration was ana te S tted
reduction the next year was s6ll94o ana nc usoe
that that reduction would still go on AS 10 tue
Office Department, his colleague Khe" tnat neatyy
Wby omit stating that IL his statement was not inc III
gonious plea Of adversary OF the Administration en-
The WhoIe amount asked for by the Postonce Depart
ment instead Of being as are IN 9 Of
the Committee Appropriations before nc de i ,h
tack upon an Administration OF when ne st9ou III tno
Mace ~ leader in the House. have ascertaned such
erfori But the error had been dlsGoVeIGa az .q &
the 18th OF December, ana DIS coeasue hau ee
Rnfefne in this connection to the proposed abolition
Of The Frankng Privilege expressed his desire to sec
it abolished because inpedment and nuisance
but he wished to see it abolished Tor o STI ~
certain newspapers about the Franking Priyiiege; he
wanted every the mails loaded down
WITH In many instances, deetefous sheets, sPiShpB
| ali over the land When THE NEwY YORK TRIBUNE paid
at the same rate by weight, for the circulation OF JUS
tbe abolition of the Frankng Privilege would be nigh at
hand But while all newspapers within the county were
little odesty on the part OF editors in demanding the
abolition of the Franking Privilege Tor oher peoP.o;
As the Navy Department, ana hls eOl9aSues sneeT
a the attempted economy In coal he showed that instead
g" coal for the Navy costing $4,000 year. the estimates
for coal for sss and 900 amounted s3SoOOO AS to
| the Treasury Department, he proceeded u SNOW
that tho excess in the estimates was caused caused
ing the erection OF Pubic mn. WORKS n sIeI mods
difference against last year OF over SOOOOOO lis COZ.
league had fit to pay his respects particularly 70
was only $1,000 but that Department, like all the rest
could stand the true test o, economy ha, OVERWHELMINGLY
$4,000 less than in the last year oi MI JohnSo sA
As to the Interior Department, he thought he could
account for Sl2 100000 OF the excess of estimates Inc
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first time, appropriations were made directly TOT tle
Patent Ohice, instead of being paid out Of the Patent
tional for land surveys owing the immense mmgra-
tom and that there difference OF slooOOoo Tor
P Teaf But G"i MS Colleague had omitted
ton the extravagant estimates for Congress IN when
| there was an excess of estimates or sl,621OVo.
lie the House that he had gone over thGn win
emaed the eSpendure OF the second year Gen
Grants Administration, compared IL WIN the approp
tons for the year. and endeayored TO reply item by
item 10 the general charges made by his colleague lie
undertook show that the amounts not properly charge
able the OF expenditure in Gen Grants Ada,
israon s59s99OoO less than the amounts Oh the
apparent estimates, or dedpcng si'O1Oo w eS oo
charged as the excess TINS year oner Sty''''i t
really Zee" .hT" tns bo seen HAT instead
OF this Administration calling for more than u had last
year to carry the Government u asked Tor ana re-
commended an appropriation Of sum which was In fact
100000 less than that OF last year or S5yOOO
less than Andrew Johnsons estimate saOw.S nat me
his message and which every OF his secretaries re-
Commended and enforced in their reports,
fae professions and not Intended to be carried out III
These explanations OF the book OF estimates, which he
gave, and for the Of the details OF which
his colleague Chairman OF the Committee on Appro.
paos so that the t1us pGSTI 9i Ie m
should not have played the part OF Ham, In leaving nm
covered the nakedness which he supposed no saw and
should have left him (Butle the role OF Japhet and
shem except that there was no nakedness TO cover lis
colleague stood in relation 70 the Government as Chan
cellor OF the Exchequer Who heard OF the Cham
celor Of the Exchequer presenting his budget on the
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item OF tho budget, except to say that
thei estimates were extrayagant, and corrupt
part and an important part, OF this AdmhlstLa.
ton and that anything seemed 10 DC %TUhg wns ms
to have sought carefully for an explanation He was
informed he had not done So except in one or TWO
| instances OF departments.
That his colleagues statement incorrect, and cal
cnated m make false IMPRESSION upon the country,
was evident from the fact that be had before him the
ocia report OF the Secretary OF the Treasury IN which
he estimated the expenditures at s2lOOOOO only while
his colleague with that report before him, put before
the country that the Secretary OF the treasury VINO Is
the expenditures the ensuing year at 100000 or
| <4l,OOOOOO more than he knew, or ought to
And yet his colleague with all that knowledg had sent
abroad that unjust incorrect and most unhappy state
the country to be club IN the hands OF the enc
mics OF the Government with which to assault IT, was
IL wonderful that the Democratic side OF the House should
subscribe for 10000 copies OF his speech as the pest cam
pagl document they could lind FOR their usei why ala
not colleague II he wished to convict the Admnstra-
ton OF or to give it the faithful wounds
OF friend" be governed by It's expenditures instead otDy
We're directed TO make by a law of Congressi Why did
he take the estimates Of these Bureau officers TO be
S O0O when had In the official report OF the Secre
tary OF the Treasury the statement that the whole
penses would not exceed for the year s29lOOOO Ex-
| pendture, after all, the only test OF economy.
But what he CButer) did most sincerely complain OF,
and what the Republican party had right to complain
Of in his colleague, that, standing In the place he
did he had given false impression 10 the country that
S we're e EARNED out IN ac and Were ot be-
carried out by 1t. Ho had thus given an advantage to
his enemies TO their enemies and 10 the enemies OF the
Government by which TO wres from the hands OF
those who had carried the country through the war; and
place the hands OF those who sought would
permit its destruction by the What private gries
| he had that made him do 1t, alas, know not, for
highest confidence his integrity They had-shoud he
have to speak Of 1t in the pasthe highest confidence
in his accuracy and In his Judgment He Butler) had
been endeayoring In his mind to account for his
colleagues action In the matter and had to the
conclusion that the explanation OF it was that his col
league consttutonay conservative and radical
only because 81 his Sc"G ms colleague dssed to
| the bridge he started back, and refused to trust