New-York tribune., 1872-10-15

best as my colleague seems to think Certainly 1t is not
wrong for the President and his Cabinet like other peo
pie, TO seek few days recreation and rest On aD0r
whether upon the seaside or elsewhere But Ior tno
practice which has obtained OF leaving the WhOie una
many months each year there r. apology Our inter-
ests are too vast, our people too numerous, our co
mcrce too extended, debt too large, our system OF
collection and disbursement, amounting aeVoiaatiy
SsO9OOOOOo annually, too liable TO abuse ana
ana our laws and our intercourse, loroism ismritv sto
nestle, too intimately connected win our % &
biity, and welfare 20 warrant sueh 1 ,t n
neglect on the part OF those the people hvess W." & so G
high trusts Let me give the record OF aOeenee rum 'no
seat of Government flom Spring TO ran III lob; loi;;,
st Geo = 7g days
Secretary W. W. Belsnsp. goo"
Seoreiary Columbus Dclsao'''''"''''''''''' 20 gais
Secretary o. NJ llt dhy%
Secretary Hamilton Fish ,'''.''''''''''''' SSgNs
Pcsimaster.Geaera. A. }. Ceswei. 20 days
Then the present year. the day after the Adjournment
of Congress the nth day Of june you may nave seen
the Geographic reports from Washington 70 lne press
OF the country something like this No Cabinet meet
ing to-day owing to tho absence Of the President The
President, accompanied by Mrs Grant MI Dent pather
of Mrs Grant, young Jesse Dent Grant sOn OF he fies-
ident and Baine Dent (sOn OF Judge Dent), lett tins
morning on the o'clock train for Long Branch. Gen.
Porter private secretary Of the President Lett for Long
Branch several days ago TO prepare the Presidents cot
tage for his reception. Secretary Boutwell, mas gone 10
his home at GrOtOn, Mass and Secretary FISH lei5 tle
CITY last evening his home the Hudson. Secretary
Beknap will not return until after the examna-
tion at West Point. Secretary DelanO who has Just
returned from two months tour in the West now In
the CITY, and Attorney General Williams, who has been
away Tor iOur weeks past IN oregon Is e1pecJeu 70 I
Washington In all the Present do not know.
but submit llat tho people nave aIlBhJ 70 Clooc
attention With the nattentOn and irreguaiity incl
dent 10 such frequent and long continued absence is u
any wonder that great abuses creep lut0 almost every
department Of the Government, ana qeidlcaOs great
and small, occur from time TO time How mueh money
the people have lost by fraud and dttaicatl0n cannot
say The amount involved is not in all cases known Dut
so far ascerained It reached the sum OF JSi2 In
the different departments some time ago MY colleague
may all this, but cannot, ana do not DeheVe
the people will.
FINANCIAL MssTATEMEETs.
L. tlta NJ NV poll
last have the 33d and 9lh pages of his pamph-
let where he leaves the field of personal warfare, to dis
cuss the financial achievements Of the present Admins
traon The first statement that arrests the attention Is
that during Andrew Johnsou's Administration the
whole reduction Of tho pubic deDt was Sl3655CO IN
the face of record evidence within the reach Oh all, II is
strange that any intelligent person should have made
this statement In word then let me confront my col
league with statement found in the report Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury, December 1868, foows
and seven months $63Ol3 125 paid depts which
actually due at the close of the war and Tor Doun
ties, Which, like the pay OF the army were part OF the
expenses OF the war. Adding the amount thus
paid to the debt as exhibited by the DOORS OF the
Treasury on the Isl day OF April ooS II appears aS te
debt OF the United states at that time was s299 O3 60
and that the actual reduction since has been
and but for the advances TO the Facnc LSs ana Jne
amount paid for ALASKA, would have been S596505O o.
Mr. Boutwell, joins as witness to the iaet mat the
actual debt OF the nation wac reduced ny hat Aanls
tTation to the extent Of S025665O 90 in little over
three years This is fully explained In speech of his in
the House of Representatives near the close OF MT john
sons term and TO be found in Ie congressional G06e
taken, say the least Further on he invites eompar-
understand how this comparison be made TO answer
purpose designed by his argument, ana therefore, an
all disappointed that tine gross sum OF net eXpe-
ditures during those years are conveniently omitted
Permit me to supply the omission: ..,.
il is7 see Faaaoe Rspcr ls7s5s9l %
. With these figures wthln reach ne proceeds TO say:
81 80 for each In o7 population S8555o3
is glaTing. The truth is making every claimed redue-
tiOn for peace basis, we have per capita expenditure
in 1871 OF y &C. while in 1860, after making like reduc
tons, 1t DID not exceed 81 % for each person once
20 SO " III 1850 they are not given but 1t Is left TO
be inferred about the same amount was expended while
in 1871 he gives the expenditures az SI29Ogoi - N0H
what is the facti According to the Secretary OF the
Treasury (see Financial Report OF lo mo true eXpen-
ending June 80 1871 S0SOO 95, and 81 II VIII be seen
that with regular army IOfoe IN lSog Oh iol4 men, men,
IL cost about Sl2JO each soldier ana ia lol WIN IcrCo
hardly 10000 more, IL cost over $1,000 each solder nor
is this all He says Win new states anu tcr.IorGo,
with 100000 more population, win new courts %c the
whole OF cost IN 1911 over 1860 was S252Oo 70
OF cost with an increase OF 70 per cent Vi
Now ask OF what use are the records ana reports from
iher facts utterly perverted or wholly Stunned The
difference between S0OOl0O62 50 IN 1860 ana slo5oJ-
every item which properly be used in The com
paTson the ratio Of difference IS not materially changed
increase OF population per cent during the last
decade when by the simple rules Of addition anu sub
KU-KLUx LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT ACTS.
one thing more, and have done with my colleagues
long and labored effort On the s5th page he attempts
TO answer the charge of tendency to centralisIn now
so manifest In the subordinaton Of tho civil to the mill
tary authority and in the proposed federal interference
with the elective franchise and the freedom Of person
under the protection of the habeas corpus. He says the
law referring to the Enforcement act here spoken Of IS
question We say, you made long and strenuous Efforts
and attempted scheme OF Isgsaon as 1anserGns &c G IN
its possible consequences 70 peIsOnal S a Hs
hostile to the genius of the Constitution Itself Allow
me to review this matter, and then II you have not
already made up your minds, you can readily
determine which is right aud which is wrong. Will
originally passed and which the friends Of the President
in session Of Congress- made persistent effort
vass: "Unawfu combinations 10 prevent any class OF
citizens from the exercise OF their equal rights under the
Constitution when TOO powerful to be queied by State
authority Or when for any cause the State rails 10 que
them and protect the rights SoaS OF tG f1Sn b thS
state of rebellion against the Government OF
OF f0 such n'' febellion and within tie limits Of the
district which shall be under the sway thereof,
such limits to be prescribed by proelamaton it shall be
judgment the public safety shall requret TO suspend
puch Ee6eIiion NAV be overthrown" This is the
Attn section Of the act which expired by Limitation with
the late session of CONGRESS. Although in period OF
profound peace the President and his Senatorial sup
porers sought extension OF this power
Senator Scott introduced bill to extend ana continue
IL i'm force in February last IL not difficult to carry
II through the Senate for the Senatorial managers were
poWerful and defiant; but amount or effort ana no
appance of power could avail to overcome the hrnness
OF the House OF Representatives.
Analogous to this was the bill introduced by Senator
Kellogg of louisiana miscaed an act TO enforce the
rghts of citizens OF the United States 10 Vote Among
other provisions this bill authorized the appointment OF
an indefinite number of deputy marshals and clothed
with authority to take into CUSTODY WIN OF WIN
ou process any person who shall commit or attempt OF
offer 10 commit any OF the oenses prohibited by
this ac In other words, each deputy marshal was 10
he made little mperator, with power TO lock up q
voter unit! after the polls should be closed.
The "acts or Onenses prohibited" which authOr-
ized the marshals to arrest without process
and 10 hold in custody without limit TO time, de-