The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-02-09

sorry for the balances, but that for
that Department the estimates could
not be cut down. It was due to the
Secretary of the interior to sayFthat
while he said it was impossible to cut
down the force in his Department, he
could curtau theexpenditures outside,
id the hospital for instance, and the.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and in the
Woman, - Lying in Hospital. Taught
err. At the same time, when the
Secretary of the Interior couldsnot
cut down the estimate for bis Depart
ment' there was a sipGls tafeaa there
b. aus it had aFffepfiations from
year to year moreS thAsf i could use
and without sayingA word about that
surplus, it was askfng $248, Ono more
and saying positively TO the Commit
tee that it could not curtail N pen
ny.
MI. Dawes went on to relate like
experiences in the Treasu ry Depart
ment, and said: 4 wen away from
the Treasury Department discourage
ed / took counsel of influential gen.
tlemen in the party with this book Of
estimates under my arm, which has
been my constant companion for six
weeks; and I was advised. to 20 to the
President myself, and'F laid these ess
Inmates and these balances before
.him'-after Il short pause and a tome
of sadnesss2,z..Tf dosffoot know that L
accomplished anything: Edo not:
know but tibet he has NOR confidence
in my colleague Bdtlerf than in my.
self. 1t may be that he will take my
colleague into his bosom and warm
him into new life: ELaughter. III
know not how that may be, ;nor can 1
calculate what viii be the consequences
of that resuscitation daughter. but i
fain would believe that the President
believes me to be, his friend, and were
| to state the simple truth of. what
passed between myself and MIN, so
true TO himself, it would be q better
vindication of him and of me than
anything that can be said. He talk
ed of, economy. He said that his, in
huence should be exerted to to bring
down these estimates. He said that
he had made a personal examination OF
the estimates for the War Depart
ment; he knew-the necessities OF that
department better than others, and he
thought the estimates for that depart
ment were cut down as low a, 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 70 the Secretary, who had
not been a month in his seat, aud
whose second oficial act, read from
the Clerks desk here yesterday, is a
letter to my colleague in aid of his as
sault on the Committee ON Appropria-
tons in its efforts to reduce the ex-
penditures, and therefore, sir, / ex-
amined into all the departments com.
mitted to my cFarg:, and ] say that
every n of them was examined by
other members Of the Committee in
the same way. And now. was it
worth while for US, with that knowl
edge, to try and induce the representa-
tives OF the people to cut down the
expenditures? The work belongs
here. Many of them were the result
of laws enacted here, and here was
the place to ando them.-Many OF
them were addressed to our dfscrei
ton. and here was the place &c con.
slider AID to act on that discretion.
Many of them result from abases Of
long standing There re-to-day tive
hundred, officers. OF the army oil: duty
more than: are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
meraries. Can any one tell me what
the annual draft on the treasury, for
these salaries isl Take the pay Of a
midway in rank as an aver
age, and multiply tnat by five thou,
sand, and you will find that .!thereis
paid annually to these Snpernusperary
officers e1;250s0D0 ass; salary .sNb~l
body st the. other end Of the avenue isl
responsible for tfiat.+We aresresponsi-
bic for it, and .Isubmit &hethen, we
h6fd7aP these expendisE
lures before our. eyes,.so .th 1t we msg
Theses are bat misunderstanding IL US
through the administrator of, the
past. but We are responsible unless we
apply the pruning knife aud cut Off
these expenditures.
i submit, Mr.sChairman, that here
where 1 stood WAS the rlaces and that
il a eminentyiPFePef that the Com
on appropriations should do
what 1T could to Arouse a sentimentin
The House of Representatives in favor
} uniting in every effort Of any of the
or any OF the executive
officers to cut down these expenditures.
| say that ], have maintained the three
propositions with which / set out a
time ago In these remarks, that
would show that it was n fitting &C.
;asion for me to make that speech Il;
hat the speech was true as / made it,
md thai it was proper that ! should
make it ; and, sir, in general Terms, i
lesire to state that in this work the
felt and feels. to ,sayfthatit
rad no hostility to any branch OF. .thei
and did not in ny regard
lesire to or suppose that it was max
ng war on any branch Of the govern
nent, but with an earnest desire; and
. full belief that it would have
III suitable aid froiL others, the Com.
proposes to go an, and If it
be sustained in this House, to
instead OF an upward tendency +
n the, public expenditures, a down
ward tendency, and q further reduc.
from what was appropriated last
,eat, so that the country may under2
tand that inasmueh as in this Con-