| Show cor dor of the NT T Y times government ZA T T E RS 1 f SHOWING now MR COBB CO BB xin KIN kovs KOWS O Ts HOW TO REACH THE PUBLIC SHOWING ALSO HOW V WELL ELL HE KNOWS now how NOT TO sno SHO snow show W IT THE CHARGE demonstrated THAT THAN IS authorised authorized TO BU BE EXPENDED THE FISCAL YEAR AND appropriated OR PERMITTED TO BE SPENT BY CONGRESS AT ITS LATE SES session washington wednesday july 21 1 1858 5 mr cobb secretary of the treasury is not a brilliant financier blit bill he is a good political ican and ina has a good deal of natural acuteness and ga sagacity ga city he displayed gooT goo d sense bense and knowledge of men in selecting the new york times forhia for his lale exposition in regard to the appropriations he knew very well that the large circulation odthe the time and its deserved deser ved vea character for forlai fairness ruess and correctness in in the statement ot facts would ensure 11 n his defense a degree of public attention arid and confidence which it would never receive if corn munica ted through the salaried mouthpieces mouth pieces of ofa the party the Secie secle tar statement of the made through your able and vigilant v igi igl ant democratic correspondent Q 1 was well ibb khi ide ade up and was of course lri lif instantly republished by the union the central administration organ and will thierl thence e be transferred to all the ier ler lesser derl deri organs But however skillfully prepared it would have entirely failed foiled of is its elect as an electioneer electioneering ing g document had it not been first published in the times As the exhibit is clearly Cf afi ficia cial clai irwill repay a close examination 1 T noticed som some i e weeks since tile the very great perfection toi to which 1 mr der cobb had carried carriea the art of bf how not to show it his last appeal to to th the public through brought I 1 the tile times is isu isa a most extraordinary specimen of his ins proficiency in this new ev department part parr ment ai i political economy he ad admits ailts the appropriations atthe lit ithe late session for the tile service service of the pres present nt fiscal year to have been beed 1 I will now in a few lines iines that there is nothing I 1 whatever in in this statement to contradict or di disprove prove provo the allegation in the speeches besof of senator wilson mr sherman and mr crittenden that the thia contemplated expenditure during this fiscal year yeav by authority of a democratic con coh congress ress tess is one hundred millions of dollars III in the first p pla lace c 6 vie we have mr cobbs own ass assurance annu annuals all ail report dec 1857 paged page 5 should have of existing permanent and ind indefinite ampro ions lons with which to begin bb n the fiscal li gaily gaizy eally year ear to get at I 1 lie the aggregate amou abou amount at of appropriations available ble bie for tile ille I 1 he use of the present 3 year ear we must add this item iter nto nio to the which are admitted to have been provided at the late tale session thi swill R will gideus 1 I omit a fi fraction action of ca cenis cents appearing in the official defense hopi g I 1 do dont 11 ili ill intrude trude ute I 1 wiil will again call attention to 10 the b appropriated p for post office ervice arvice pr vice e swells the tiie aggregate aggie ute ate of authorized bl democratic expenditure for one year one hundred million sand seven hundred bundre dand and eighty five thousand three hundred bun ban d red and ani ant bilty dollars dollar I 1 repeal iiii iii ill e sum in figures to wit 10 and I 1 request your foreman to garnish tins this lins amount sith etith as many exclamation marl mari maros marks s as his case will ufford afford i I 1 professing g again the pain with xv which ieli I 1 detect these theme lit little alien adious nelous from the strict path of financial ri I 1 respectfully direct the attention of I 1 j to these minor points to wit wil wilthy Why did lie neglect to include ill ili his agare eafe late of tended intended it disbursements the sum surn of about for the payment of in le reston on of Treasury notes iotes he admits that the interest athe old debt and the lel iel new bpck k loans will wiil require but a assigns s nothing 6 for ilia treasury notes I 1 does lie he not intend to pay at all As a respectable debt citizen I 1 hope the omission i is not a pre premonitory moult ory symptom of repudiation there is another I 1 little ittle matter of appropriated for the support of three regiments of volunteers volun leers leere they have not been called out yet so far as the public know but there stands the appropriation during four tour years it hael been the policy of tile the democratic administrations to cultivate wars with indians Alor mons and freestate free state men alen in kansas kansa s and besides owing yet un I 1 for an old war a speck has arisen arisen on the tile horizon of the west overhanging oregon coign which in these times limes may be considered good for fipp fic bic bip millions of dollars cherp thel thelis thedis thenis is lle tle the tie propriety of omitting the following the line of defence adopted by mr dir cobb and keeping I 1 in n view the inveteracy cf of his in millions lyions 1 deficiency and arid bringing up the suppressed l how abt to sho shiow ita it policy and recalling the ten lems f have adverted to I 1 am u nwe unable 1 to see how the opposition can calt loans arid and appio appropriations 1 p r lations of the last session under which one arid and fifteen millions nil lions of dollars mry may be expended without subjecting mr cob odthe on the president to 6 the pains and penalties afim i chi ment pent I 1 A prom from the cincinnati gazette washington july 24 if any doubt ever exited as to the extent of tiie ilie appropriations made at the last s session assion it is now completely removed by the official document which is about to to be i issued sued and which is prepared under the direction of the clerk oftie it house ube of representatives Represent aives alves in compliance with the act zipp EIpp approved roved july 4 iho ag that document is yet in the bands bonds of the printer but the proof sheets are before me and it will be ready for delivery in a few days this document doeu doru ment covers seventy six closely printed pages exhibiting every appropriation in detail so to that there can ba be no possible mistake in regard to the be items of expenditure the recapitulation in which these appropriations are classified linder linger particular heads lieada is dot riot yet completed comp but the general aggregate has been ascertained and arid is stated at 81 40 let it ba be remembered distinctly y ahee thesa a ar are aro only the specific I 1 from which the permanent standing are excluded there is no reliable mode of ascertaining the probable proba blea blei amount of these indefinite appropriations 0 bech beci because usa use they are mostly made of ipri vate ate claims kilow ollow allowances ances and ext extras rasto rasta to be settled at the treasury there thare is one ione iem item lem extending a pension act which it is estimated will cost nearly a million abear a year the other items will be apt to foot up at least a million more of the permanent appropriations the interest on the public debt is most conspicuous which is now about a year in rou round ad numbers therefore the appropriation account for the year stands as follows i 1 I 1 specific fid appropriations sr 40 appropriation for tor interest on j public debt 00 indefinite appropriations for pension act private claims clalia sj allowances etcy etc esti estl mated i ST 00 40 balance of appropriations a applicable to pre sent bent fiscal i 3 air ear a if stated in treasure re port porty w i 35 p i TI otal total years appropriations ell all 7 the le c clerk fe r bof of the house is s required require dito dita io publish thie tnie these appropriations in irr the he papers hereso that the ther will furnish evidence in fhi its Hs 0 W to io refute the thi fale tale re representations presen lations tat ions lons and scandalous an dalous perversions which have gained currency through that naper the public now has the opportunity unity p af pf peeking peeing s ea adrig how ilow wilfully and how bow shamefully too the adm presses have labored to create false impressions in regard to he the expenditures gild and to discover the extent of that glaring extra y trance ance and ana corruption cheref here which have spread their moral taint faint over the whole cau country such are i i tile the fruits of democratic misrule in in lil III which hiel hicl P power 0 w r and patronage and money have been ap plied to maintain main maln tain fain and arid perpetuate a despotism the roost most galling and degrading under which any an Y POP people le have ever liv lived ed tile the despotism of a rec reck k less party bent on crushing out every vestige 0 of popular rights and liberty our whole social fabric i is s undermined and the ibe foundation sapped by the system of plunder which became inaugurated here under democratic rule state governments municipal governments and corporations ha have to a greater gr or less extent been robbed that prodigal knaves e s might inight flourish and revel millions upon millions have been ab the regular nominees of democratic conventions w who h 0 were thus hoisted into position and given facilities to speculate I 1 c ohio has had her ber share of experience in this respect and at no inconsiderable cost and this system has grown up 11 from want of proper accountability from the infusion of loose morals and from tile the corrupting influence notoriously directed upon legislation at it washington the whole standard of cafice has bas rauen fallen nv fully and patronage is instituted no lol loneer longer for the public good but to td affect personal objects entirely this example lias has spread like an till epidemic during the last five fire or six years until teiei anere is is il a general conviction that unless the cancer ger ie be cut out tile the government cannot survive tt no longer exists in purity corruption has invaded the tha high places of tr trust and the whole I 1 tendency pd c is downward these various influenced influence a c combine al ulue blue and conspire together and hence bence it is ta that lat lot th the fhe appropriations I 1 now assume such appalling ili lit I 1 g prop proportions options ort ions lons in five years they have in crea rea r ed at the ratio ralio of expenditures for the new york corporation which have exceeded all pre |
