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OBIOIMAI POETRY.
For the Bedford (iaiette
To n.v Father.
In childhood, dear father. Iw thoe
In the beauty and bloom of life,
Full able to straggle with care
And triumph in every strife.
Thou wert healthful and stalwart aal strong.
No sorrow upon thy brow,
Xot wrinkled. and bowed in thy form
Dear lather, as thou s&em st cow
And then, "arid the trials of life.
Thou ever wert tender to me,
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Has fallen upon thy head
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Riddlesburg. Dec 7, 1859- 3d- J- R
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES!
now tiKAXT IXOAOMIZES!
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Ivh Millions ilore Per Annua*
than that of Andrew
JabaiM.
Speech of lion. Henry I.- Dswe*. Bodi
es! ItepreM-ntalhe in t oiurew from
Mas.aehwetla, Delivered
Jan. IS. ISTO.
The Hou-e having under considera
tion the bill H. R. No. 480 i for the
transfer of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard to League Island —
Mr. Dawes said —I propose to show
that nothing can be done toward re
moving this yard at all until an expen
diture of more than a million dollais
is made ; and therefore that this bil\
which my friend (Mr. O'Niel said,
with so much nairefe, the other day,
did not contain a dollar of appropria
tion, is but the fir-t reading of a biii
for the appropriation of more than a
million of dollars. My friend said that
the Committee on Naval affairs, who
are clothed by this House with the du
ty of considering all matters pertain
ing to the navy, will have don? their
duty when they have got this bill !
through; and then as a division of ta!>or,
the locai representatives from the city
of Philadelphia, he thought very like
ly, might ask for a small appropria
tion, as if part of the duties which
pertained to the Naval Committee
were to be surrendered by that com
mittee to the representatives from
Philadelphia. But this led to an in- ■
inquiry. I ascertained from the Na
vy Department that while my friend
was making his statement to the
House, jwinted in rose colors, on that
very day the Bureau of Dock and
yardsin theNavalDepartment were ma
king out an estimate for League Island
of £soO,<X#>. This hits not yet come
here, although Admiral Porter thought
it had ; this has not yet reached here
and will not until this bill is disposed
of. But I state to the hou-e that there
is prepared an estimate for League Is
land of SBOO,OOO to follow this bill.—
This is perfectly plain from the report
of the Secretary himself, from which I
take these extracts:
This (removal) the Department has
been and is anxious to accomplish; but
it needs an appropriation for tbe pre
paration of the new yard, and without
this it cannot move. * * * *
The annual expenses for this yard are,
for these reasons and thoe before giv
en, much increased; and it is not doub
ted that the savings from this source
and from the expenses now incurred of
maintaining two establishments with
the money which can be realized from
the judicious sale of the laud now occu
pied in the heart of the city, will go
very far toward repaying the expenses
of establishing the yard at League Is
land. I trust therefore, that authority,
if it be necessary, be given to the De
partment to transfer the working yard
of the Philadelphia station to League
Island as rapidly as is consistent
with the interests of the -erviee, and
to dispose of the present yard as por
tions of it shall be vacated, and that an
adequate appropriation will be made
for the work necessary to be done be
fore any part of the present yard can
be sold.
"Before any part of it can be sold
for the very apparent reason that be
fore you can .-ell that yard and move
the buildings and machinery from it
to any other place, you must have a
place to stand upon; not under water,
but raised from nine to ten feet by
bringing the earth from the banks of
the river on the Jersey side, or some
where else, and lifting it up. There
fore, sir, while 1 do admit that
the time will come when the van! has
to be removed, I was correct the other
day in the assertion I made that this
bill involved the expenditure of mil
lions of dollars, and should not be pas
sed through under the previous ques
tion. And now let me ask whether it
is wise, and whether it is best to make
this appropriation? Let us not do
anything inconsistent with our duty in
regard to the public expenditure on
the plea that this bill does not provide
for the expenditure of money. I do
not intend that the House or any mem
ber of it who casts hi:- vote for this bill
shall escape from voting with the
knowledge that such a vote implies al
so the voting for &■*>(),OtW and for a pla
cing of sd,o<X>,ooo)besides at the absolute
disposal of the Secretary of the Navy.
And now I ask the gentleman wheth
er it is best to take the course proposed
in this bill? This is a new public
work ; it is not a public work already
begun and carried so far that it would
be impossible to stop without sacrifice,
it is not Commenced as yet. Is there
an absolute, pressing, overwhelming
necessity now of undertaking this
work at this time, or is the Treasury
of the United States in possession of
such superabundant funds that we can
undertake it at this time? It becomes
the representatives of thepeople to an
swer both these questions; and if I
have your patience I propose, Mr.
Speaker, as well as I may be able to dis
charge my duty in answering both
these questions. Sir, it is a time of
peace; there is no preying neces
sity for the enlargement of the na
w cards. The navy yards of the
country were sufficient for the war.
At any rate, the war uasa success with
the navy yards at their present capaci
ty and power. There is no occasion,
therefore, in this time of peace for
building up new navy yards in this
country. And there is behind
this a question which 1 have no
time to di-cuss at present, but
which ought to be settled before we
launch upon the expenditure of money
either for new yards or for the enlarge
ment of old yards; and that is wbeth
it is best for us to maintain this vast
expenditure on navy yards at ail. The
British navy for some reason or other,
depends upon private yards. Ninety
per cent., lam told, of all the work
done upon the British navy is done in
private yards. Admiral Porter says,
in evidence which I have before me,
given by him before a committee of this
House,that we spents4Bo,ooo,ooo for our
navy yards during the war, and that
we have nothing at all to show for it
now, that we have no navy as the re
sult of the money so spent on our
yards; and he suggests the building of
a merchant marine, semi-warlike
steamers asa substitute for all our navy
and he tells you that he would advise
the building of every one of them in
private yards, because they can be
built cheaper than in public yards.
The vessel that sunk the Merrimacand
saved Philadelphia and New York and
Boston from destruction was built in a
private yard by a private individual,
and in ninety days. I say Ido not en
ter into that question now ; but it is a
question that ought to be settled be
fore we expend this money. But I
do desire to call your attention to
what the Secretary has estimated and
proposes to expend upon other yards
in addition to what he proposes to
spend on the Philadelphia navy yard.
Mr. Myers—l wish to ask the gen
tleman a question before he passes from
this subject. I desire to know wheth
er I am to understand the chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations
that it is his opinion, or the opinion of
Admiral Porter, that our navy during
the war effected nothing toward crush
ing the rebellion ?
Mr. Dawes—l do not know what the
gentlemen understands. I neither
said so myself, nor did I say that Ad
miral Porter said so.
Mr. Meyers—You said thes4Bo,ooo,ooo
expended for the navy during the war
were useless.
Mr. Dawes —I said that Admiral Por
ter stated that *480,000,000 had been ex
pended for the navy during the war,
and we had absolutely nothing to show
for it to-day.
Mr. Dickey—Will my colleague on
the Committee on Appropriations
yield to me for a question ?
Mr. Dawes—My friend will excuse
me; I cannot yield to him. I under
stand that he represents on this occa
sion the State of Pennsylvania, and
not ihe Committee on Appropriation-.
But I was going on to say that in addi
tion to that *8(X,OJ0 the Secretary of
the Navy propose-* besides to expend
iu the navy yard at Portsmouth. New
Hampshire, $577,856, against $50,000
expended last year; at the navy yard
at Boston, 1747.341, against SIOO,OOO
la-t yei.r; at the navy yard at New
York, $333,511, against SIOO,OOO la.-t
year: at the navy yard at Philadelph
ia, $111,985, against $35,000 last year;
at the navy yard at Washington, $561,-
775, against $50,000 last year; at the
navy yard at Norfolk, $358,313, against
$30,000 last year; at the navy yard at
Mare Island, $93,423, against $30,000.
. He thus proposes to expend ujKtri navy
yards, besides this $300,000. a total of
■53,507,394, against $151,000 ia-t year.
Mr. Scofield—Does the gentlemen re
fer to the estimates for last year or to
the appropriation *?
Mr. Dawes—l am speaking of the
appropriations.
Mr. Bandall— Will the gentlemen al
low me to ask him a question?
Mr. Dawes—l will answer any ques
! tioas if it can lie understood that my
! time shall be extended.
Mr. Randall—l hope that will be
understood.
The Speaker—The gentleman has
half an hour remaining.
Mr. Randall—l wish to ask the gen
tleman one question.
Mr. Dawes—ls it understood that it
wiil come out of my time?
The Speaker—The chair so regards
it.
Mr. Dawes—Then the gentleman
from Pennsylvania will excuse me. I
maybe pardoned, as a friend of this
Secretary and of this administration,
in what I may feel compelled to say In
reference to either his estimates or the
the estimates of the whole administra
tion, when I say that the estimates of
this Secretary m reference to these ex
penditures do not inspire me with en
tire confidence. I know he speaks of
eeomomy and the saving of money,
but, sir, the great point upon which I
find that he has expended bis energies
is upon the promise he holds CP* to
the House that he will save $3,000,000
upon the article of coal alone, the
whole estimate for which for the last
two years was less than sl4o,<*>o fi
year I Sir, that is an achievement of
mathematics that finds its parallel only
ia the attempt to save $5,0rK),006.by a*
bolishing the franking privilege, when
ait the paper bought by this govern
ment and thirty letters a day to ever)
member sent through the mails at reg
ular postage would pay less than five
hundred thousand dollars. I hope to
seethe franking privilege abolished,
but on no such absurd pretense as that
it will save $5,000,000. 1 really think
that if the mathematicians who put
these figures in the heads of these Sec
retaries could be brought to light and
set to work the public debt would
be paid before the expiration of this
administration! Laughter." These
are "mint annia and cumin," but the
"weightier matter" is the contrast in
the footing of this Secretary—s2B,44l,-
761.37, estimated for this year, against
$15,956,606 appropriated last year.—
Now, sir, this is a public work ; it is a
new public work. There is no necessi
ty, no pressing necessity of commenc
ing it to-day. Does this load of esti
mates justify us in supj>orttng this
proposition ? Why, sir, this book cf
estimates contains estimates for appro
priations for public works of $24,625,-
173.65, against appropriations for the
same objects last veap- of $5,493,900 !
Sir, the admiuistraiLui of Andrew
Johnson surrendered to the allegation
that it had been profligate in expendi
tures. The people tried it uj>on that
charge and found it guilty, and took
from it the sceptre of power, and put
it in our hands upon our professions of
economy in the administration of the
public service. And the people intend
to hold us to our profession and prom
ise. What is the first evidence we
have put forth to he country of our
disposition to carry out our pledges ?
I hold in my hand the book of esti
mates for the fir-t year of this admin
istration. And while I know the un
gracious position I occupy, I propose
to speak plainly, but to speak truly, to
my party friends on this side of the
House. 1 know that while "faithful
are the wounds of a friend," there is
not much ease remainiug to the friend
who inflicts them. Now, sir, what did
Andrew Johnson, in the last year of
his administration estimate that he
would carry on this government for?
He estimated that he would carry it
on for $303,000,000, and we cu; down
the appropriations $20,000,000 be-low
his estimate. But his own estimate of
the cost of carrying on the govern
ment, which the peopleat the polls de
clared to be profligate and unreasona
ble, was $393,000,000. Now, sir, what
does our own administration estimate
that it will carry on the government
for the next year? The sum estimated
for is $331,097,174.62, an increase over
the la-t estimate of theadministration
of Andrew Johnson for 1869-70 of $28,-
097,174.62. But we cut down his esti
mate- $20,000,000, so that the exact dif
ference between this book of estimates
for the present administration and the
appropriations made the last year of
Andrew Johnson's administration is
$49,662,537.01. it is due to the Post
Office Department to -ay that there is
an error of $7,000,000 in the footing,
which reduces the amount to some 42,-
090,-'iW. But behind and not entering
into th>-se estimates is the little sugar
pium of s>oo,ooo that my friend from
Pennsylvania Mr. Scofield proposes to
prepare the way for the local represent
atives from Philadelphia to advocate
here for League Island. Back of it,
too, is the Bay of Samana and the Is
land of St. Thomas, at $7,500,009 in
gold. And back of it, too, is what ev
ery one who has heretofore been in this
House knows as the millions of
dollars that will come back on these
appropriation hills from the other end
of the Capitol. All these items are to
be added to the figures I have given.—
Sir, here and here alone, upon this
floor, are the pledges of the republi
can party to be redeemed. We can
have no aid from the other end of the
avenue, we can have no aid from the
other end of the capitol. It is here
and here alone that the pledges are to
be redeemed. And they shall be re
deemed in this House. Here is a pub-
lie work which is proposed to be com
menced anew, not partly finished,
hut a new work not required by pub
lic necessity, not required by the exi
gence-- of any department of this gov
ernment. Now, when we are consid
ering that question, I put it to the rep
resentatives of the people here wheth
er we will inaugurate new public
works upon the broad estimate of $?4,-
000,000? It is here In the matter of
public works that we can cut down
these estimates. I complain of the oth
er end of the avenue, that with all its
professions of economy—
Mr. Stiles—Mr. Speaker
Mr. Dawes—l cannot yield now.
Mr. Stiles —I desire
The Speaker—The gentleman from
Massachusetts Mr. Dawes decline- to
yield, and it is not in order to inter
rupt him.
Mr. Dawes—l have a right to com
plain of the other end of the avenue,
that with all its professions of econo
my and reduction of unnecessary force
ia the departments, with all the her
alding by telegraph and otherwise of
i;- purpose of reduction, there is not
one of these departments that does not
estimate to-day, in the book I have
before me, for an increase of expendi
ture over the appropriations of last
year, save only one, and that Is the
poor, unpopular Attorney General. I
hope it is not because of this remark
able trait in his character that it iseon
tempiated at the other end of the Capi
tol to relieve him from further public
service and to drive hiui into private
life. There is no reason why we
should refuse to consider questions of
this kind when we are commencing
public works. I know the importance
of many of our public works. I do
not profess to speak at this time for
anybody but myself; but I do not be
; lieve that the Committee on Appro
priations contemplate or desire, by
any means, general warfare upon
public works. They recognise the
necessity, of completing those already
begun, the necessity, it may lie, of be
ginning others; but in considering
questions as to beginning public works
they propose to ask this House to
stand by them in scrutinizing to the
| utmost farthing the proposed expendi
ture. Why, sir, there is the post office
in New York city, which the architect
of the public buildings says will cost
us $4,000,000; and the superintendent
of its construction says that the
granite to be used in building it will
cost $1,500,000. No man can tell what
the post office in Boston will cost.—
Are we going on with such expendi
tures at that? Are we going to ex
pend upon League Island $3,000,000 of
value in the old navy yard, together
with SBOO,OOO of a new appropriation,
when that work em just as well as not
wait five years? I see no reason for
these vast outlays at the present tirn
in that direction, unless it be the reas
on kindly stated to me and hinted to
members of this House in a paragraph
in a Philadelphia paper, a paragraph
intimating that the republican party
will make a mistake in treating Phil
adelphia so badly as to refuse the pas
sage of this measure. I understand
what that means. Perhaps that was
the reason why my amiable friend on
the other side of the House from the
first district of Philadelphia Mr. Ran
dal, i chimed in fur once in the grand
quartette of the Philadelphia members
while their colleague from the Erie
district t Mr. Soofield) led the music
aid kept time behind them. The
gentleman from the First district of
Pennsylvania under.-tands what spend
ing $3,000,000 for the benefit of any
party means, and I suppose that is the
reason he came to the aid of his col
leagues of the Second, the Third, and
the Fourth districts in the grand music
with which we were entertained the
other day in support of this prepara
tory bill "laughter which my friend
from the Committee on Naval Affairs
offered. Two thing-, Mr. Speaker,
seem to be desired by this administra
tion. At the other end of the avenue
they are bent upon paying the public
debt: in this House we are constantly
crying out for a relief of the people
from taxation and the burdens of that j
debt. I apprehend that neither of
these objects can be accomplished
without that other thing, which seems
to have been overlooked on both sides
—a reduction of expenditures. How
do they propose at the other end of
the avenue to pay the public debt un
less they reduce these expenditures?
How do we propose to relieve the peo
ple and the industries, the enterprise,
the capital of this land from the bur
den of taxation under which they are
groaning except it be by reducing the _
public expenditures?
I tell my friend from Maine Mr.
Peter- , who has emancipated him
self front care about the pennies and
ha- gone in a vain search for a dollar
without any cents in it upon which he
proposes to economize, that the pen
nies taken in the form of taxation
from the spike-, the cordage, the sails
and the rigging of the shipping of
Maine are what make the commerce
of the country- decline. I teli my
friend of the Committee of Ways and
Means that the industries of the land,
which are flocking to, their door,
groaning under the burdens of taxa- 5
tion, complain that the expenditures
of this nation are unjustifiable and
without proper regard to economy, or
to the necessities of the case. I call
upon the members of this House to
stand by the Committee on Appro- ,
priatious in the pledge which is given
this day to the country that they will
cut down these estimates of the depart
ment- below the figure at which they
were fixed by Andrew Johnson's ad
ministration, which the people, for
that among other reasons, deprived of
political power. In order to do this
member- must foergo any private in
terests, any imaginary political gains
by the expenditure of public money
in particular localities. They must
rise above such considerations, and
look to the general result upon the
public welfare. Under such a policy
the thousand busy fingers of indu ry
will wake with new life, entorpri-e
I wiil take courage and burst the iron
bands by which it is now bound, and
this country will advance in prosperi
ty and development. Public works
will goon of themselves; private en
terprise will push them forward. The
nation in year-that are to come will
build navy yards at League Island and
at New London, and if that -booid
appear to be wise policy wiil amplify
• others, at Boston, at Portsmouth and
all over the country. But to day the
policy is a reduction of expenditures,
that thereby at thi- end of the avenue
the people may be relieved from the
burdens of taxation and that at the
other end of the avenue the public
i 4
j debt may be paid. .Sir, it is from this
view of the ease, believing this to be
a test question, that I shall be com
pelled to move to lay this bill upon
the table, and to call the yeas and
nays, so that the people may know
who will stand up in this House and
, oppose this attempt to curtail the
expenditures ofthe government. I
do not, however, propose to do it
until my friend shall have an
opportunity to debate his bill as
I fully as he desires; but then, sir, with
the declaration that this is but to pre
pare the way for an appropriation, al
ready estimated for, of $300,060 to be*
; gin a public work which the necessi-
I teis of the service do not require, I
shall ask the yeas and nays on the mo
j tion to lay on the fable.
It is stated, in eonnecction with Mr.
Delano's modified instructions to reve
nue officers in regard to the produce bro
kers'tax and farmers who will sell their
owu crops, that a resolution will be in
troduced shortly in Con gross, with a
view to obtain a more satisfactory con
struction of the law. Comtnisiouer
Delano has already ordered that the
law shall be constructed with the ut
most liberality, giving farmers the
beuefit of all doubts respecting liabili
ty.
VOL. 65.-—WHOLE N0.3,&3.
m-MOROCft.
A mocking bird—A bird that can
sing and won't.
How much does a fool weigh gener
ally? A simple-ton.
Why is the world like a piano ?
'Cause it is full of sharps and flats.
Summer complaints—hot vreather
and dull business.
A schoolmaster "struck He" the oth
er day—a juven-ile.
The fittest dower for a widow—A
wi-dower.
Why is laziness like money? be
cause the more a man has of it the
more he wants.
The original meaning of ehignon is
cabbage. Heads of cabbage—oh la
dies !
John Martin, the Irish patriot, advo
cates the settlement of Irish country -
men on the lands of the West.
Why is a washerwoman the most
cruel person in the world ? Because
she daily wrings men's bosoms.
Why did William Tell shudder when
he shot the apple from his son's head ?
Because it was an arrow escape.
"Ah.' Pat," said a discontented hod
carrier, "don't take up this mode of
life. It has too many ups and downs
in it."
A landlady in Boston, it is said,
make- her biscuits so light, that the
lodgers can see to go to bed by them.
Saves kerosene.
"I do declare Sal, you look pretty e
nough to eat." "Well, John, ain't I
eating as fast as I can ?" replied Sal,
with her moath full.
A wholesale house in this city ad
vertises ; "Wanted—women to sell on
Cornrui—ion. And this is Boston!
Cool.
A despondent editor remarks that
if the country grows much worse he
shall publish notices of births under
the head of "disasters."
Wanted—A cover for bare suspicion
a vail for the face of nature, buttons
for breaches of privilege, binding for a
volume of smoke, eeinent for broken
engagements.
A little girl excited by the brilliant
display of her aunt's gold plugged front
teeth, exclaimed: "Oh, Aunt Mary,
how I do wish I had cop[>er-toed teeth
like you."
A little boy having broken his rock
ing horse the day it was bought, his
mamma began to scold, whenhesilen
ced her by inquiring: "what is the
good of a hoss till it's broked.
Resolutions have been offered in the
Kansas Legislature asking Senators
Ross and Pomeroy and Representa
tive Clarke to resign, for their action
in the impeachment trial of Es-Presi
dent Johnson.
"Figures will not lie," Is an old, and
med to be a well credited saying. But
the introduction of hoops, crinoline,
hips, bustles, false calves and breast
works, has played the dickens with
the proverb.
That was a freak of the carpenter
who ran through the streets with his
hands about three feet asunder, held up
before him, begging the passers-bv Dot
to disturb him, "as he had got the
measure of a door way with him.''
An individual at the races was stag
gering about the course with more liq
uor than he could, carry: "Hallo,
what's the matter?" criedaehap whom
the inebriated man had run against.—
Why—hie—why, the fact is—hie—a
lot of my friends have been betting on
the race to-day, and got me to hold
the stakes."
John Randolph was one day, while
p.mtlng with the asthma, looking out
of his window, and was almost deafen
ed by the uoise of a bawling fellow
who was selling oysters. "The extrav
agant rascal" said Randolph, 'he has
wasted in two seconds as much breath
as would have served me for a month.'
A lady thought it would look inter
esting to faint away at a party, when
one of the company began bathing
her temples and head with vinegar up
on which she suddenly started up and
exclaimed :
"For heaven's sake, put nothing on
that will change the colorof my hair."
"Fanny, don't you think Mr. Bold
is a handsome man?"
"Oh, no! I can't endure his looks,
he is homely enough. '
"Well, he's fortunate, at all events,
for an old aunt has just died, and left
him twenty thousand dollars."
"Indeed! is it true? Weil now,
since I come to recollect, there is a cer
tain noble air about him ; and he has a
fine eye—that can't be denied ?"
"Did you ever see one of these here
hoop-snakes?" asked Mr. Furguson.—
"Me and rnv hired man was down
there in the home lot, by the side of
the road, and we see something rolling
down the hill, and says I, 'I guess that
isone of them hoop-snakes coming a
long.' My hired man. he was afeerd.
and elitn up a tree, but I took my hoe
in ray hand, and went out and stood
side of a tree in the road, and as be
came along I stuck out ray hoe handle,
and he hit it a slap, and he made a
noise just like a pistol? and sir, it
waru't mor'n a minit afor that are hoe
handle was swelled upas big as mv
leg!"
'•Excuse me for troubling you," said
a gentleman one day to a noted philan
thropist, 'but there is in your neighbor
hood a poor woman in the hist extremi
ty of misery. If she has not the necessa
ry sum to pay her rent to-day, she will
be turned into the street. The sum
needed is twenty dollars.* The philan
thropist took the requisite sum from
his pocket, and asked his visitor the
poor woman's address. "You ran give
it to ir.e," lie replied, taking the money
and putting it in his pocket. "I am the
landlord Here is the receipt for rent.
How joyful she will be wheu you give
it to her