- ' Patent Office, and the whole nernher tut clerks was eixteen;the salary and coMpensation of the Smeary and all his clerks and messengers, amounted to $27,750. The whole number of clerks now employed In the State Department and the Patent Office is forty. The ;mint wearies and compensation amount to $56,51$ I I ! The Patent office, in 1328, Was managed by • '•a Superintendent, with a !Wary of $1,500 and two clerks and a messenger, whose joint compensatiorawas.s3,7oo. it is now tinder the charge one of the refortsers, the title of .3eperintendent'ls exchanged for that of :Com misetorere and with the change of titles comes f r om $1,500 to s3,ooot 'the change of salary, The number of clerks is increased from two to twenty-four, and the compensation from SI 800 t 0521,000, and not content with one mewenger, and his eel salary of $4OO, they provide a salary of $3lO for a messenger, and tbon give him an assistant, to whom is also paid $l5 per month. The Secretary of the Treasury, in the' year 1828, employed eight clerk; and two meseen• gene His salary and the compensation of the clerks and Messengers; amounted to $18,600. The present Secretary of that Department (and he was taken from the body of relhrtners who made proclaniatioh from the Senate cham ber,) employe fifteen clerks and two messen gers. Ills salary and their compensation a• mount to $27,100 ! ! A similar result will bo found in comparing the present with the for mer state of the several eubdivlsions of the Treasury Department. But, by way of in economy, econoy. end tlesplet' in the Tree- Bury Department the committee proposed to simplify the forms of business,and to te-organ lee its subordinate branches, so as to dis pense with one fourth, it not one thied, of the officers in the Treasury.' Nov. sir no reor ganization ol the Department has yet been at tempted. Instead of reducing, they have in creased the number of officers, and the forms of business; under the new mode of simplify ing have become so complicated, that the gen tleman from New York,(Mr. Canbreleng.)now chair:nen of the committee of ways and means declared hare, during the last special session, that, after fifteen rears' expenence.as a mem ber of this Ileum, he found it difficult 'to understand these Treaenry accounts, and_ the manner ir, which the Secretary's annual re port on the finance is stated. Next, as to the War Department. In 1823, • the Secretary of. War employed a chief clern besides seventeen clerks and two messengers. His salary and their compensation amounted to $28,630. The business of Indian affairs was then managed by hire also. In 1833 the Secretary of that Department employs, inclu iive of the Indian bierinesseabon t clerks .40 besi des messengers. The joint sal ides and com pensation of the whole amount to $63,810. In 1328, we hear trotter, of a Commanding General's Office; with its clerk, and messenger. In 1833, the Commanding General is allow ed a elerk,at $1,200; and a messenger at $6OO per year. In 1823. the Adjelant General's Office cm. 't ployed three clerks, whose joint compensation , was $1:950. in 1338,the Adjutant General employs seven clerks and a messenger, whose joint compen sation is VA& In 1828, thdePaymatter General employed three clerke e .whose united compensation was $3.900. ~-sie." $2OO 75 In 1839, the salary of the „ame 'ember of Here is a display of the 'fashionable litera• clerk; is $4,290; besides the messenger's sa ter & 31 in which 31r Secretary Dickerson "undid lary. . ges himself and his clerks, at the public ex- In 1828; I have been unable to discover any pence.el wish the gentleman from new York tallow ante for clerks to the Quartermaster Ge. (elr Cambreleng,) who aided in concoct neml, In 1933, that officer employs in the office ing the report from which 1 have just quoted, at Washington seven clerks, whose united coo- would inform tts 'whet appropriate retie ion, pensation if $7,300. the books and reviews just mentioned have 1n.1823, the alliance Office employed three to the naval service? llnt e eehat means the clerks, whose joint salary was $2 1150. item'one fourth of Andribon'e flirdso Why, • In 1938, the Ordnance Office employs nine sir I understand that neither of the four Sec clerks; besidei a messenger, and their 5t2.7,m - relay ies being willing 'to take the ree pone'. gals compensation is $9,225. bility,' as a unit they agreed to divide it. In 1929. the Suted.tence Departmerit employ"l'lie cost to the peoplb is the same it all come ed four clerks, whose joint compensation was from the public coffers. And the mode of $2;950. doing the thing proves that the Sec etaries In 1833. the Subsistence Department employs felt that Its expediency and propriety were four clerks and a messenger,whose joint coin- questionable. I have read somewhere, per pensatinn is $5.830. has in Sterna's work an incident whic h mdst In 1823, the Sturgeon General was allowed hnpil yillustrate; this transaction. As I re &clerk, at $1,150 per year. collected the story, the Abbess of Andnuil tell In 1838, the Surgeon General is allowed a n 1 Mareretta a * nrivice, made a little jour clerk, at sl;266,and a messenger, at $650 per a ' e . ' ney together in e vehicle drawn by mules.— year. In 1829, the business of Indian affairs was As the evening approached, they were deser ted by their nitileicer, when ascending a hill. one at the Wee department, by some one or two of the seventeen clerks which I first The mules presently became stubborn and mentioned. slopped. The travellers were greatly :Oar - In 1938. this Indian business appears to con- mad and in the dilemma the novice said ;hat atinito a grand division. We now hear of the there were two certain words which, she had 'lndian Department,' with a Commissioner. been . old, would force these animals on the whose salary is $3OOO, a chief clerk,at $1,600 moment they heard them,but then the words and eleven clerks and two messengers, their were sinful--The novice was urged and she joint compensation and salaries being $19,400' gently whispered the word; 'borigeriandffou In 1828: there was one Superintendent of ter. The Abbess in her distress,turned cas- Indtan affairs, who was paid SLSOO .r year, iiist, and said they were only • a venial or twenty one Indian agents, twenty-eight sub- slight sin, which might be divided, arid by agents, and thirty-nine interpreters. taking half, and leaving the rest or by taking • In 1838, we find four, superintendents of In it all and amicably halving it betwixt your. dice, affairs,' with salaries of $1.500 each per self and another person, would become dine year; six 'superintendents of emigrationSwith tett into no sin at all. Therefore my deal salaries 'of $2,000 each per year, ten 'lndian &slighter continued the Abbess,l will say bou agents,' with salaries of $1,500 each per year, fourteen 'lndian 'sub•sgents,' with salaries of end thou shalt say ger and thou shall say fore and I will say ter. Accordingly, the Abbess. $760 per year, thirty three ' commissioners and special agents,' who are paid from $5 to $3 gi per day; and from 81.500 to $3,000 per year; del vii ger; ng 1 he l. not one bou,Me egret ta respon i pitch aaretta continued with feu. and fifteen 'conducting and enrolling agents' at the Abbess dra wled out ter-but stilt the mules $3, $4 anti $5 per day, two coductors of ex- stood. They do not tindersMnd us cried phoning parties,'at $3 Se ss;perilay, two rattling Maegretta, but the devil does said the Abbess 'agents,' at $4 each per day; eight, 'collecting And,' think, Mr Speaker. that these rehire agents,' at 62 50 per day each, two eissuiree a• ming Seceetarte swill find that they arc lin. gents,' at $1 per day each; ore 'disbursing a- derstood in their patent mode of reform, and gent.'at 66 per day; sixteen 'assistant agents,' particularly that the people will not he gut at $3 and $4 per day; and from $5OO to $1.200 led into the approval of an unauthorised ex each per year, thirty one, 'interpreters at aeen• penditure, by dividing its a:nount among the cies,' at $3OO each per yeartfourteen 'interpre. Deperment. tera in the emigration of Indians,' at 6,2 50 and ' fly this limo I think it is apparent that 63 per day eactefifleen 'physicians,' at salaries the duty devolves on the gentleman from N. varying from 83, 5 dollars Bred 6 dollare a day Y (SI C. hreleng ) not only to account foe'. to 84 dollars per month: eleven 'clerks.' (other i " .• ' uri ' • -. than those in the office at Washingion,)al sala- I tiling against the measure lore and to ries varying from 3 dollars and 5 dollar; per day tl i te ' c ' ompens.ation of mernhee,s, Mil also why dollarst .40 andit 50 dollars per month, and 800 is that that"jittliciouss.!stem f or o refm" has deltas and $l,OOO per year; fifty-three "blacke' friends, the Exec• *not beim ipstituted r b us y I . smiths with salaries varying from 240 dollars utive officers themselves,' whereby the coon- t .600 dollars per year; twenty 'fanners and try migh t realize what was promised by the airistants,' at 2,3, 5 5 and 600 ner year; eigh. . gentleman's report--"a reduction ofone teen teachers, 'with various salaries from 500 third of the number of clerks in the several to 800 dollars per year; five 'millers,' with sal Departments; with safety to the public inter cries of 500 dollars and 600 dollars, one "ear. est.' veyor," at 8 dollars per day, the whole conch,. We will now look to the Post Office fee ding with five eniscelaneoes agents,' with sal- partment. The General Post Office, as it uric; of 1 duller per day,and 610 per year. was then called, had the good fortune not But even this is not all. The Commission• only to escape the censure, but to enlist the er of Indian affairs says the het giver. by him praise of that fault finding era. I leave it in the Blue Book is not accurat e o r corn/'er. for those who were familiar with the mo- He (cares room to add or alter. Here, indeed, tires and political events of t h at Cl a y, to t o . _ tic is a display of patronage! Ought we not to count for this. The commit te e sa i l o f I be astonished to find this state of things, un der en adininistratioe whose friend.. professed The e ffi ciency of this branch of the public service is in a condition highly improved and to be shocked at a multiplication of officeeeind republished,in the report of this House in 1823 improving." My fi rst remark on this, is, the warning of that chief Magietrate,who said that the Post Office Department passed into —'Considering :he general tendency to multi. to the liana of General Jackson in a healthy ply offices and depeneeectes ants In increase anti effident state. A few years, under Nis expenses to the ultimate term of louden which reform, reduced it to chaos anti insolvency. the citizen can bear, it behooves us to avail The details of its mismanagement have been ourselves of every occasion which presents it- long since proved. The evidence is on file self for taking off the surcharge.' It is appro. here ancl in the Senate, with the reports of priate. too, now,to refer gentlemen to the can- the several committees appointed to invesii sure which that report cast on .!ho Secretary of gate its abases. I refer gentlemen to the War in 1923, for paying 733 dollars for addi. files and will not dwell on the various abuses tional clerk titre to the business of Indian of which were designated and established; Their fairs, enormity, coupled with the fact of the borrowing Mr. B. said he was here tempted to name money on public account by the Postmaster Gen one mew° offices in particular, which have e b ra ,o l, a u s itlmu i t . auiltority,alarmed the country. But. been treated for special favorits.one ofthem un- t , alt l .. t d rr b e ce was, roofer personal benefits on der the law authorizing them President to sigr. fa r :•7l .l rFt e es,.until Il l ie t Siserd and lo °lrene ofthe land patents by an rgent, instead of doing it as Department became app ar ent, still the (ethical heretofore, in person. lf he could not find uses which had been made of the appointing pat time to do this duty, us Mr Adams and all his ronage were not disclosed, and now never will be. predecessors did, then it would have Been het. 'flie present Postmaster General, Amos Kendall, her to dispense with the signature altogether tells us iii his account of the late destruction of 69 you have done with thaeof the Commission- that Department by fire, that all the beaks, pa ter of the General land office. The Presitent'e item and files of the Department were saved, ex name now is not even written by his proxy nept the , filestof the 'appointinent effiee,' and these as it should be,hut it written by some ealerk in were destroyed! the Laud Office, and the whole service of the In the first six years of General Jackson's Ad proxy or agent consists in his %veiling his own ministration, about 1300 postmasters were remov /Mae For this he is paid 1,5110 dollars per ed from office, and, in most of the cases, without the assignment of any cause. When certain alums! The place is held by one of the Pre sident‘s eons, and it is an indirect mode of m - Ambers of the committees of the Senate and geestex . the p ee w eht ,, salary. The eeinen. !louse, appointed in 1833-'4, to investigate the a.. buses of that Department, attempted to get at the satioe is too high , under any circumstances. For a service requiring neither skill nor talent i ce, and correspondence of his "Appointment off-. and employing a very small portion of this h " with a view to ascertain and report whether eming gentleman's lime, he receives a Helier !e reasons for these removals vrere prompted by high and ju,t public considerations, or by mere satiry than wear of' the Governor; and other pa rty' political expediency, they were denied the high aims is the several States do! right by the bead ef the Department and by the Another office 'pedalty created Is that of the, friends of the Administration, who composed a qinlithasottian agent,'with a salary oh 3,030 d o t. majority on one of:these enininittees. Was not this - ten a year. end thrnishing a convenient to. inquiry just? 1 refer you, sir, to Mr. Benton's fore run few a gentleman wishing to visit London, I arts report and bill providing fur the disclosure of The attiles,of this place might well have N eel reasons ill Cale of removal from ;Ake, 1 refer' discharged b y ordinary correspondence; but at vote, Mr. Speaker, to your own rem irks allettrestit thsee are sued as could justly be re• I and to those (Aimee friends, in the debate = t the hand. 01 nor resident Minist er ee of Mr Saunders . ' resolution, which I have 41. s It tiaw k at be ove r look e d that Ri c e, ready quoted. But above all, I refer you to ant NA was Secretary of the Treesury, l 111111 the remarks of the illustrious Madison, ' IRA. racort4 the censure and., coademna. railed as he was in the knowledge of the r'ea'ct the relninettieent committee. And I feller and sp irit of our Constitution and *Witt Rtbill Iris Iki'Poiti .to ' officet'of the qrs. and in pm:. y and honestreif i rpose. ~- este: * g .r -u . Smithsonian atent. I will leave it tar others to apply what the chairman of the committee on retrenchment said at that day.in debate on this floor.--oiVhenever an office is to be filled even a zealous constant and faithful friend is compelled to yield lo a mushroom apostate, that may have been purchased butyesterday.' Let us next compare the Navy Department. Mr Southard, who was Secretary of the Navy in 1825, employed in his Department seven clerks, besides the chief clerk. The salary of the secretary, and the compensation of the clerks Sr. messengers. amounted t0.17:250 dots. The Department has been held for many years and is still managed by Mr Dickerson,who was a member of the committee, in the Senate,from whom came that famous report on Executive patronage, to Which I first referred. Ile em plort eight clerks besides the chief clerk, and his salary with the compensation of his clerks and messengefs, ainount6 'to ISA° dollars. And, at this very session, he demands mere clerks and an increase in the salary of some of those he already has. The committee censrue Mr Secretary Sou thard tor unnecessary expenses in sitbscrip lion for newspapers for the Department.— They specify under Chia head $624 43 for three years. It now appears that Mr. Secretary Dickerson has expenifed,for news papers and fashionable books and literature of the times, in one year, near 700 dots in cluding similar expenses of the Navy Board near 930 dollars. The committee also condemn the practice of extraclet k hire. We find all Dickerson not only employing three extra clerks, but what is fir mvre dangerous, paying extra hire to to one of the regular clerks in the Depart men, enjoying, at the time a salary of 1,760 dollars but to whom:is paid, 'for extra ser vices as clerk,' the further tom of 642,97 makiifg his salary 3.189 67. is not this a rea dy mode of providing for a favorite? The committe also specify the sum of 466 86 as paid by the Navy Department, in three years for printing, and condemn it as e xtra vagant. The Blue Book of 1837 shows the Navy Department,tinder the reformer Mr Dicke son,to have paid 2,559 22 for prjnting in two years! Tho committee also reported that a 'con siderable sum, varying from 100 to 200 dots was annnally expended by the Secretary of the Navy in the purchase of books for his office, most of them having no appropriate relation to the naval service of the country such as reviews,magazines and other periodi cal publications, and the fasionable literature of the day. This usage was, of course, to to be abolish. d. Ilas it been? I beg leave to read a few items from Mr Secretary Dick evson's contingent expense account fur 18 37. 2tlvolurne Repertory of Patent- inventions, :lilivolume Southern Literary Mes senger, .5 Oil One fourth or Andlibon'sDirds, 165 00 Audubon's Bird, 55 01) No• 1 Indian Biography, 6 00 North American Review, 5 00 No. 4 Indian Biography, 6 00 One number of American Scenery. 75 —As early as 1789, in the memorable de bate on the power of the Executive to remove from office, he not only denied the right to ezerciSe this power capriciously, and without assigning adequate reasons, but he thought it would be such a bold assump• Lion or lawless power, that he thus expressed himself,—"l own it is an abuse of power which exceeds my imagination, and of which 'I can form no rational conception." But when Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Benton (both of whom were on the committee which re ported the bill to prevent the abuse of this pat ronage of appointment) tame into power, this chaneed then- tone, if not their principles. Ile anals f oin office Immediately follower!, end they deny any obligations to assign reasons!— Is it not strange, too. nay, is it not mysterious. that, in the conflagration of the Post Office,the only papers and files destroyed should be those relating to the exercise, if not thelablise, of the power of removal from office—the very papers which the. Postmaster General refused to stif fer the Committees of Investigation to examine? I said Mr. Van Buren changed his tone on this subject. I will at once prove it. The journal of the Senate shows that he was one 01 the Select Committee who reported 'he bill a - ready referred to. He entered the office of Se cretary of State with the commencement of General Jackson's Administration. One of first official acts wag the removal of a meritori- ens clerk from his °trice in that Department. and a positirg refusal to assicrn any r (awn for ii!—Toe gentleman removed Is now a member of this house, (Mr. Slade, of Vermont.) and the voice otThe Penile hat sustained him whom the despotism of Executive patronage sought to destroy. The manner in which this patronage!! abus— ed, and the readiness and almost telegraphic despatch with which the wires of party machi• tarry are felt throughout arid from the most dis• tart parts of the Union. may be imagined alter reading this laconic note, written by Mr. Van Buren. soon after entering on the dillies of Se cre:ary of State. to a gentleman in Louisiana— "WASHINGTON, Antis. '2O, 1520. My DEAR Stn—l have the honor of ark nowledging the receipt of your letter of the 21 nit and of informing you that the removals and appointments you recommended were wade on the day your let:er was received. With respect, your friend, &c: DI. VAN BUREN." And, so far from being willing to reduce the number of clerks in his Department.agthe Pen - rile were induced to helm ye would be done, Mr. Van Boren, when called on for that pur— pose, saw the whole alfair through a new me dium, and replied—•'My opinion Is that there can be no reductiou in the number of officers employed in the Departmeit, (of State.) with out detriment to the public interest !•' And yet the retrenchment Committee, ss hen Mr. Clay was in that Department, reported that they felt satisfied that had the officer at its head concurred with them in the opinion, they might have presented a plan for not only a gra• qua' reduction of the number of clerks.but for an actual increase in the efficiency of their la- •But oilier discrepancies between the pro fession and practice of these reformers re main to be noticed. It will he found that the ieport of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Cambreleng, ) and his friends. condemn ed " the practice introduced by the Secret❑ ries of the Departments, of sending the re ports of their clerks or heads of tor- eaus, in stead of condensing them, and•making them substantially their own communications.' This practice, if bad, has never been corrected, but is drily indulged in by all the Depart ments, as the answers to the calls and resolu tions of this House abundantly slim;. But a still more remarkable commentary follows. When the Deportment of War passed into the hands of John 11. Eaton, a zealous refor mer, he, too, was called. upon to carry lint his retrenchment system, and reduce the number of his clerks,in fulfilment of the pith- Ilc expectation, which he and others had ClE cited. To the surprise of all, lie referred the subject to the clerks themselves? and here, sir, is his reply— WAR DEPART:4I:7T Jan. '27, 1830. Sin: 1 have the honor to lay before you re ports from the several bureaus connected with the War Department, on the subject of a resolution of the sth inst., referred to me by the Committee on Retrenchment. Res pectfully. J. H. EATON. "Charles A. Wickliffe., Esq" These bureau's-, so far from agreeing to part with :WV of their escutcheons, actually ask for an ad litional supply'? Thus ended that farce! .Inother Precept. —This retrenchment re port alledged that our diplomatic relations and foreign intercourse were unnecessarily expensive, and recommended "a fixed ap propriation for :lie contingencies of each mission," " in no case exceeding 56n0,(an nually,)to cover the expenses of stationary, postage, office rent, clef Its hire, and all other contingencies whatsoever." Let us see the practice. Andrew Steven son our Minister at London, is al:owed for these contingencies, including presents to the menial officers and servan:s of the Court ,and others, on his presentation, and al Christmas, $2,098 66 cts., in the space of about a year! The like expenses of nearly all our other for• eign missions ore in a correspondent ratio. Professinn.—The grade of our Foreign Ministers was to be reduced in some instanc es, especially that at Madrid, to u charge with a salary of 54 580. Practice.—A.Minister plenipotentiary has been kept at Madrid constantly, and 'John IL Eaton is now there on a salary of ;0,000, having also received his outfit of the same a mount. And during the last session of Con gress an attempt was made to increase the salaries of all our foreign ministers!! Who cot:ld have anticipated this from an Adminis tration that proclaimed on this floor, (at leas one of its most powerful and influential sop: porters, the late Mr. Randolph, who joined in the cry of retrenchment here prociaimeo, andwhat'he said received the full approbation of 'the party:') "So long as members of Congress, and not of this Douse only or chiefly, will bow, and cringe, and, duck, and fawn, and get out of the way at a pinching vote, or lend a helping hand, at a pinching vote, to obtain these places, I never will consent to enlarge the salary attached to them. We are,told that they live at St. Petetsburgh and Lr.ndon, and that living there is very expensive. Well sir, who sent them there? Were they im pressed, sir? Were they taken by a press gang on Tower-hill, 'knocked down, hand. cuffed, ohucked on board of a tender, and told that they must take the pay and rations which His Majesty was pleased to' allow?" Now I appeal to you, Mr. Speaker, if the moral applicatioit of these remarks has not been justly felt ;in Congress, and not in this House only or chiefly,' tinder the retrench ment and reform .Administration' .?pother precept of the reforrt log report. The committee thought the mode of`appointing and compensatiog bearers of despatches lia ble to strong objections' prone to degene rate into a species of favoritism little short of a convenient mode ofsending favorites a broad to travel for their pleasure, health, or institution, mitts( the public coffers.' Practice,-:-The President and Its Secreta ry of State; bothJackion reformers, now take a favorite clerk of the State Department, whose salary at the lime was at the rate of $1760 per year, send him as bearer of des patches to Mexico,and for about three months , i ervice, pay him 51212,88, and suffer him also to draw his clerk's salary for the period o f his absence!—For this I refer you to the case of Robt. Greenhow, who is the transla ting clerk of that Department all the facts of the case being stated in the reports of the Se cretary' He excuses this transaction, by saying that the translations which were I-et-pli ed during /1r Greenhow'sabsence were made at his expense. It might be well to enquire whether any 'translations were require 4 ring that: period, and why also it would not have been quite as well to discontinue the salary fora time, and let the Government pay for any translations which were needed. 'tut do we not here distinctly realize what the retrenchment report condemr.ed in these words: "that an actual incumbent is consid ered to have such a sort.of property in the office as to enable him to fafm out its ditties and. to receive a part' of its revenues for do ing nothing!" Ahotner ; illustration 'of this',"convenient mode of sending favorites abroad," "out of the public coffers," is found in the same list of contingent expenses of foreign intercourse. I allude to the case of Mr. Charles Biddle, who, when nominated by Gen. Jackson for a judgeship in Florida, was rejected by the Sena? 4/, After this rejection Mr. fiddle was cles's patched by the Executive to central America and New Grenada. What service ho render ed we know not; butt it appears that for this mission an allowance of 1 4 7,122 95 has been made. Mr. Charles fiddle is the same gen. tleman who had n controversy with Mr. Sen ator Grundy; in which the deu otion of the latter lo Gen. Jackson was questioned. We learn by one of the printed documents, oc ca§ioned by that dispute, that the Senator for the purpose of proving himself to he what is called a "whole hog Jackson man," said he "bad swallowed the hog not only whole, but wrong end foremost, taking the bristles against the grain, and had gene for all Gen. Jackson's bob tail nominations, even to Charles Riddle." You may remember, Mr,Speaker, tha great fault was found with Mr. Clay for an allowance to. John 11. Pleasant., who was employed as bearer of dCspatelies, and sat out on his voyage but, being taken ill, was obliged to abandon it, though he caused his despa4es to he asfely delivered. 1,1 the account, which I m now examining, we find thestim of $1.522 72, paid by Mr. Forsyth the Secretary of the state, to Eleazer Ear ly sent with despatches for our Charge d'• Affairs at Bogota, butt which were nrver de livered. The sickness of Mr. Pleas:nits fur• nished no palliation, in the minds of the re formers, for the payment made to him though he caused his despatches to be safely deliV• ored. Yet these same gentlemen find ample pretext in the allege,hhipwreck of Mr. Fatly to pay him ;4311 di for expenses 5,117 39 for clothing bedding, and books, lost or aband• oiled by himond 714 dollars the one Inindred and nineteen days compensation, at Cr dollars per day, though his despatches were neter ' delivered!! At this same lime, too, Mr. Ea-!y appears to have been receiving a salary of 1,501) dal tars a year as Librarian of the 11011se of Rep resentatives!! It would seem that \lr. Se cretary Forsyth is not a stranger to ihis"con venient mode of sending, favorites abroad ,to travel for their pleasure health, ur instruc tion, out of the public coffers." I also find that 2,515 dollars are charged for contingent expenses of T. Barry late Minister to Spain. Now sir, it is well known that Mr. Barry never reached Spain, but died on his way there. Ile, of camas received the usual salary and oiofit; and I am at a loss to know what contingent expen ses, incurred by him, could just'y be charg• cti to the United States. There appears. at.ii to liaise been paid to John I:. Ulav, 1836, ,'..,,•;81 41, dollars as" compensation for errant diplomatic seri i ces." This gentleman, at that time, held the place of secretary of Legation atsto Pr. tersburgh, widi a salary of 2,000 doll Ins a year, and the payment io hint oldie further sum ef .3,3:;1 41 may be . lieoly goestionrcl. Other items, indicative Of extraiagallCV or favoritism, may he seen in this conlitizeul pence account of fotrign missions, but I will not slop to specify them. It will also be found that, in the darn of this "searching (meta' i .11" 311,1 reform - the standing committee of this Mouse nn the ex penditures of the ',Art 'I at I Cl,ll - in their vocation. Bid. very so:m alter General Jackson Caine into power these com mittees became so much a manor of niece firm that the chairman of fine of cheirn de clared here, ditring.i he last congress, he hod never even thought it worth his while to convene his coinrnittee,atid he appeared quite surprised, or at all events ;unused, that any inquiry was expected to he made in regard to the expenses of these departments!! This state of things forms a strong cootrast with the repot made here in Api 18.28,by Mr. Blair of Tennessee, chairman of the commit tee. on Public Accounts and Expenditures in the State Department. Ile, you know Mr. Speaker was a Jackson refit me ii like the Select Committee, lie found eve: v thing wrong, fuel promised t correct it. The pun. chase of hooks, the employment of 3 libra rian, and many other things were censured; —even the right to purchase a print or like ness of Gen. Washington, to be suspended in the Department, was question, (I. flow stands the matter now? why, large stuns of money are yearly expended for the library of the State Departments, and many books purchased, which are certainly unneeessarr. Besides the purchase of basks, periodicals, and newspapers, made for tlik Departinoct by Its ihut nod agent at home, there was expen ded to London, during last year, or stadia; ob jects, neatly 1500. A librarian is employed,at a salary of 51,5 th, equal to that paid to the Mariai of the great public library of Congress. All this to,', ir, under the aaspices of - gentle. men who said that lino par: ot the expenses of th a t D e pa r tm e nt was censorable. and might to he dispensed with, as all the officers of the Ge vernment could well avail themselves of the public library at the Capitol. But, Mr. Speak er, the tones changed, and Mr. Van Boren and Mr. Forsyth changed with them. The Slate Department is now laid off into grand When Mr. Clay had charge of it, the Blue Book exibited a list of a dozen Lames, all in,- der the head of clerks. One ot these acted as translater for the Deparicent, and his salary was $1,150; another paid out the fund-', and was charged with the contingent expense ac cotintn, and he received $1.150 a year. flow soon is all this simplicity and economy for „.,ot tee! Th e Blue B oo k 01 . last year lit ides this Department into a "Diplomatic Itureau,'' a "Consiik.r Bureau," a '1 tome Boreal,.'' a "Translator," whose salary is , 31.760, a -Dis bursing Agent." whose salary is $1,59.5. a -Li brarian,•' whinge apiary is t t 1,340, a •'Keeper of the Archives whose salary is sl,3in, and gives one man Slifiti a year I it “packinx.filing. arranging.and preserving newspapers and prin ted documents." This is done by that boasted "democratic party"which affects such holy bor• roe at any appearance of what they call "aristo cratic grandeur." if the Turk, whose letters are mond in Salmagiuntli, had seen this display or 'Bureaus' in the State Departmentdie would have been better justified in his admiration at "the treed and magnificent scale on which these A inelicatis transact their business." But I have yet to add, that those who questioned the right of the State Department to purchase a print of the immortal Washington have used the money of the people to buy prints of Gen. acksoe, and now of Martin Van Boren, for almost every room in each of the Departments! Sir Sneaker, dining this 'searching omen lion' and captious fault finding every petty ex pense of the several Departments was looked upon with open censure. I well remember that an Dent of some few dollars, paid a laborer for destioying the grass glossing hid %%Tell the bricks at the paved walk leading to the state de parinclit,was held tip to public view as a piece of aristocratic extravagance. Now,sir, suppose I were to cite to you many similar end equally (it not more) objeetionahle charges in the pres ent accounts of these Departments—such as cash paid for clearing the snow off the pave ments, so that Sir. Forsjlli need for wet his feet: '69oa quarter for labor,"ss I for sundries' tsl6 for work,' without staling what labor or work. It might have been for killing ass, or raising vegetables for the secretary. 1 he term .sundries' may conceal the same things. and the curious might eriquile what Ilse was made of the lire piout paint for which .938 were paid by the Secretary of Slate. But the money is well laid otit,ifit will preserve the edifice! Anil it is to be regretted that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General had not made similar purchases in time to save their re spective buildings. Penknives and seiSSOen, by the dozen and half dozen, are purchased for the Secretary of State who also pays a clerk to go to Baltimore to collect a draft An item of $lOO paid by the Secretary of the Treasury for the transportation of money; but how much money, or from whence, or from where transported we k.r.ow hot. Tills last charge is a kind of fore taste of the hard money sob-Treasury system, by which, instead of transmitting the funds of the Government by means of the cheap, safe, anti rapid systetn of.excliange, which prevailed before the banks were 'debaticlied'bv Mr. Ken. dell, Ills public money is now to be wagoned over the country at great expense and hazard and always' with delay. The late eminent and virtuous Attorney Gen. William tVirl, did not escape the censure of these indefatigable reformers. lie had rendered some prefessional service's, in which the United States were interested, :but which were not such as his ollicialstation charged upon him.— For this service en inconsiderable suitaiwas paid to him, but its propriety was questioned. The, salary of the Attorney General was then $3.500 anti he was allowed $5OO tor a clerk. flow stands the case now? The salary of Mr. Ben jamin F. Butler, the present Attorney General, to $l,OOO and in I5:14 he was paid $1,150 19 for compensation,hoides being allowed $1,500 for a clerk and ioessenger.and $3llO for the con e tingen; expenses of his office. The same ad. ditional allowance and charge, amounting to gether to $l,BOO is made in 1835. Independent of the increased salary nncltho enlarged provis ion fora messenger,whence comes Mr Butter's right to charge no excess of 51.1.50 )9 for corn per.sation;besides .9:100 for coolingent expens es? In the year 1836 we heard of noiliing al con tingent expenses, lint p provision of .91,107 is made for his clerk and messenger, and for Mr. Butler's compensation that year he received ‘f4.-1,1132. when his salary was only $.1.000, Why was this excess of 5302 paid to hun? fie appears to have beea used as a sold of Caleb Quntrm. lie has been allowed to enjoy the sal ary of his own office ant: that of the Secretary of war at one and the same time. being at the rate of 610,000 per year, pursuing too his pro ession,and receiving its emoluments. No won der we see in him 'the complying law officer ot the crown.' Wirer, did he ever give nn opinion contrary to the wish of the President, if he knew what that was? Let me give an illustra tion. As the story is told, when the Baltimore railroad was about to be located at its termina tion in this city, the corn parry consulted Mr. Butler on some point as to the right of way. under their clia-ter. Alter full deliberation ,his professional opinion was obtaiio‘d in no riting.-- I t happened that Gen. daekson felt some con rein about the location of this tight of way, and he expressed an opinion on the same point, requiring a termination of the road, %%Inch the company did not wish. and which Mr. ; Unger hail advised them they need not adopt. Gen. J nc f ; .. i m was furnished with the opinion of the Attornev General. but. instead of yielding% he endorsed nii it, 'Mr. Buller has not examined this case %%AWN , : usual rare; let this paper Ire referred hack to !dm, with a cony of the char ter, for his re•examination.' In dire tune sir, the Attorney General r' green with the Presi dent, and gives an opinion in conformity with that which General Jackson had expresseiP— After till.. Mr. Speaker. ‘ie rived unit be slir• prised at 'he nbs.iril opinion of Mr. Ilidler,giv en as a foundation or imodlication for Grii..lack son to pocket the hill repealing the Vreasury eircidar. rind which had iivseit both [louses of (Moues, alinced by Pre:amalion. Nor, indeett should %%e he actonished at any opinion of his, mite's he should have happened. to give oLe different from what lie - supposed the President warded. I wi•h. now, oo make a few rommen's on the profes4lon4 and practice of I%lr Anrns lendall, laor l'oorth Auditor, and note l'o , tina•ter Gen -I.ral TLis kno‘v ,sir, %vas an ekventh hour .I.lckson man. Ile, however. %%as amon.2; the first who got office; and nonm diately alter 11:4 anrmooment, a letter of lira is imb'i , lis)l. in %%loch, alb r holding himself and a leiv 111.'1111: 11p :14 11.1,111 Z been per4Oen I'd, lie ))xcl,tinm, )%% hat has 11 , anen dom.? Si iliTo)))))1 of event., as to make !Lul' l'on'olas ler General. and invsell a no re hornlM) A mlut or ' .I=ln Mr. 110 um t ter .%%I),' eitl4 . Ina& him I'oslinaler tie hnow TIM! under bin in.AN.P:)•111))111111.11 department %%..10 de.- ran :1).1 and tem.lefec. )11))1,1%)))10! lint now for 11)14 •homble mlttor.' or, n 4 from 1))4 own )i):e4tion. he 1.) s.onelinms call)))1, )11 )1 - Amos 11 I.lsMry j 1 %%ill lie Mond that he antler Mr. Clay, %%)I,icl), 11 not twi ne. ) in the ro‘ser of the latter to pro% jilt.. Mr. Kltn l .t llus• Frnis.ed the calm.. of General .Lick.oll. In this letter of Mr =acs: 'I Mel hoond by my oblization 10 I nv coon. frr, so often tepeat,l by all tli princi; al men at our party • to pool.ote, with ;ill my (..tents and mflo,ttr. the telorrn4 which It•e People demand. 1 will prove that our deelar• ation. have not been h o llow p r ,o en ",. siihitt, I hold the inlrd , •renco of Federal officers State politics to he improper in ptinci pie.' For the reform 'miler this fart parazinph, refer yott to Mr. Kendall's letters an.l loafs pent to varinni political ineelingq and dinners thorighoot the eoontry for a few years past, on the eve of Stale elertion.. When Mr. I:end:Ill entered. upon the ditties of his Am,litor'4 elliee, he catiqed to be in the I.'llited States Tele.J,pli, the then official orzan, a letter. iir which he sass, 'The interest of the coootry ilentanits that this office shall he fiile,l men bit:it/erg. and not w ith 11161 A ng. pill( iri Ina.' Sir, the whole letter was the work of a b evpressly for political and ilemaqozite ends. whirl) the writer. in the same Meath, said he had gni: and left for others! I will read n few pa..,azes fawn it. 'ln live dat e s I have retorn ed to the post rifice twenty letters and thine pamphlets, encto;e.l to the Fourth Amlitor,aml directed to other Suwon-!' flow run;; alter this letter ttaa it hem, Mr. I;endall. for the purpose of up the newspaper, anti liar f . ..rtni.e Franciq (another eleventh hoot Jacloon man. whom hr had brom , ht from his former at Frankfort, lientuckv.l sent under hi' , frank to Kentiirlo,•, and peiluvn , elsewhere the pros pectus of thk newspaper? In the same letter )Ir. also saN,t 'Upon entering 'hi.; office, on Monday last, one nt the first objecti which struck my eye was a pile of newspapers On my table. Among them, I counted sixteen different papers, all of which l waq told were sohActihed for try the Fourth Auditor, and paid fur out of the Treas ury.' lie sent them, back, as lie then dated, with a note to cacti; of which the following is a copy: TRT..\ SUIZY TWPA RTMENI Fourth .1! , /i/or',/ (UM , . Morel, 21, lA' '9. Sin: :at believinz that 1 ant ecl to charze the Govorniiiiin! oilh siikciiplionc to nrw.narior. and oilier ',Odic innc, a9dch are not useful Ic ine in the ilischarze of my ollicial and nor poie..ir int; that 1 can derive a. tic a“istanoo from your miirnal in 9otlinc the ammiitifq of Ibr united S;ateS :Car y, 1 I.3‘e to refined that you will di:continue seodinET it In this ohlice. Very resper'fnllr to r obedient servant, A M OS KENDALL,. Here, Mr. Sosaker, is a live list of the 'priile,pornp, and circtilllS , MlCl.' 01 office, if not ofollicial insolence. Ilia yesteril.iy he w as himself the editor and puldislier ora newspa per—he next appears, in his own hinguage, an 'bumble Auditor.' But, sir, dons tint the let ter just read show that he hail forgotten his hu mility, and become pulled up with official con sequence? Why did hr not simply tell his brother edit ors, in brief nod respectful language, that he had discontinued tbs subscription for their pa p!' s? But n further thought is suggested by this letter of Mr .‘ mos head 11, and his reason for ili , contimiing newspaper Fit hs crlptiont, lie is now, sir, Postmaster Genezal. Suppose we look at the statement of the contingent expen ses of his office flit the last year. Ito you think we shall fn.,: ally Filbscriptions for tiewpapers there Tani for out of the Treasury?' Listen to a few Aria'.: Southern Literary Messenger, PIO 00 New York Janina! of commerce, 17 1 000 Allegany Democrat, 1.1 S 1 Pennsylvanian, 8 MI Indian flinzrarthy. 6 00 Metropolitan Magazine, 8 00 Three copies or the Dade Globe !!! 30 00 Richmond Enquirer, • 500 Sondry others o bleb I will not stop to name— the whole number being twenty or upwards, and the total P rip ton within a small frac tion of 200 dollars! Ile wan frightened al a pile of IG newspapers. hut he can now take 20 at a dose! Can it be possible that a man, who came into office declaring, like the Pharisee of WA:It 'he was not like other men,' and would even 'tithe, mint,and cummin,' begins already In 'neglect the weightier matters of the law!' What becomes of his intlated promise 'to prove' That his 'declarations bad riot been hollow pre• fences?' Of what value was his declaration, made in his letter before referred to, and in which be sap. *Vain I may be, -proud 1 am, that the President has given me an oportunly to aid him in proving that reform is not WI empty sound, and is riot to apply merely to a change of men!' Why, air, I quote a+ a reply to these questions his own words, in another pas• sage of his own letter --`The world will know him at last, and assign him his true rank.'— 'TRIM is omnipotent, and public justice cer- Among Mr. Kendall's reforms may be men tioned his leading agency in the removal of the public depogites from the Bank of the United States. To effect this, he carried on a system of.'billing and coning' with the state banks.nnd in the language of a certain Senator, ( Mr. Ben • on,) 'debauched them.' 'Yes, sir, debauch is the word.' I apply it to the Government and banks, though the Senator thought the People had been debauched, and applied it to them.— For this work of 'ilebanch,'which proved so se rious a curse to the country, this agent was employed 32 days, and-ivas paid for thi4 service the sum of $3lO 11, being shout ten dollars a day for a job Which has accessioned much of the embarrassment unik.r which the country now• labors. He got $lO u day' for doing this injury to the public—a hard=working laborer finds it difticult to get his dollar a day. But still, Mr. Kendall belongs to thn 'democratic party,' and whilst he received his $lO a day for that work, he ulso received the regular sal4 ! , d7z-7, _ . ry of his office. This appears to be an estab• fished usage of this Administrator!. 'rho case of the Attorney General is already mentioned. The reports from the Departments show sever al other easel, though I will now only aid that of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who was Mr a while acting Secretary of War, and during this period draw the salaries of each, office, lic it! at the rate got 59,000 a year, But, Mr. Speaker, no man better knows all the Uses of office than Mr. Kendall. I have read a political tract, written. I believe by Denri Swift, eutitled somewhat in this way—'The convenietYco of apiece at Cocci. or a sure mode of providing garments fora whole family.' Mr. Kendall appears to understand the •modul oper andi' of this matter. The printed list of clerks in his Department exibits his father-in•law arid two nephews, with salaries of Won, $l2OO mot $HOO; and thus we see a family provision of nearly $lO,OOO a rear, including his own salary. .3iit Mr. Kendall is not the only officer who thins takes care of his own household. If provision of this kind be evidence of 6 laitlt,' few of them will be fotind 'hill !els ' The Pie• sident's son has an office, cc hick I have already mentioned, of FI:i00 a year. The Secretary of Shoo's son, tintill very latelyfficlil the place of Dishict Attorney of Alabama. A near rela tion by marriage of the Secretary of the Treas ury has a comfortable annuity of St inn in the Navy Department.; another holds the appoint. 111 , 40 of naval officer in Iliffion.with a 51hrV of 31)011 per y ear, besides being President of the Lafayette Hank of that ci:y ; and a thiril IF the Cashier of the Franklin Bank 01 that city, which became a special pet louder the pet bank systein. These gentlemen would all make ex- C,ll,.lllsiffi-Treastirers. Bond said, when the proposition for re• trenchlient was under consideratinn herr in 19- 24, the friends of 31 r. Adams, by way of ploy thnt he and they desired every itit pron.- my and reform, poipted to his M e ss aae ree,o n • mending it. How wer , .. they answered? \\'hi • sir, Mr. Intrhain, who stem afterwards was made Sect e inry of the Treasury, said it was indeed trite that the Mes , att.e did recommend it, toil he wanted to see wore practice nod I,:s profe ,, don in this matter. There were no speci fied refusals found in the niesgay . :, , ; on- Iv Oleos one of chose tarmac retoinnosnd a • li o ns which wet. , a: onward:lz, lie said, as the ti orris 'your 111,1111dr serrntit' at the foot of a letter. Mr. If thdolph, in the s3lllO debate, 1 2 .441 this lait L ftia ,on the subject of rettench• molt rtrd reform— " The Pre , ident did recommend them. in one of those lofts' eenerall'ieq oil!) ii hich nll ‘et • mans, polinc.tl or relt..!iong. which tni , ll! he printed in h 13•1!;, tike I.IW nnd filled a: 111 . 1 . 3 tni. , ll! reTiire. lint. sir, (said lie.) I am fur !MIL ' ,I L: I,ot It,. precepts of the pat,on, political or " )1 r. Bond said tliic ntlp or 'Air. liando'Tli nag prrlvrtiv Iv;,; 111,14 shos‘ll, • I"• a vlmed .\ dminidr 'lnn, and In. v,a.4 ‘‘ .ll' ''''-; j' 1.1 4 ., 11 . 1n bl* lli it otvn ink, and Tdow:dlt In 111 4 Venn oinz.ht not ii ,cf. kave it to !do 110.,e Nil to ill,' ol t'Lt Adinin• ji!rl . nm 'had ronformnd hi Indr pleVer!a: ICa4 in ( * wit, 11 jar!...• 50'1 . 4 IrrilsVlT.o 4111 ,,, 0 yi-t of, an,! delow,l Lt' dlr 11.1-dolplo 'The Unit (%;1!•i,•I' Ino,t hare 10•1 the net ul tr3jiti.4. other , I , e ‘vd. rint qui'e the im. ThAi p. 11; itulL•: ,. of the I'.•Ll,ral I;or• ernmer,t \tLich to be Ilroqht iwo cotill.ct ‘‘i'h th^ ire , •doot of s , OO chvtions LA: ervaly 11,creled, and unce.tratned, 11l the same coollie, The geirrlertion from Tr tine•see (Mr Bell) has forl - ears labored to bring this House to Cu , considerarion of a hill to se yore the freedom of eke:ours, anal thus carry int,, effect the re eorn inendal ion of General Jackson's inaugural address. Able as that g'•n'L'nunr is. and mini.- as hr has been in his ellor's, the 'Treasure prepor.red by him has rerrivr•,l the frowns In• stead of the favor of this Administration. Ile and the venerable Senator from the same state ( Mr NVlrite) were the cashp and devoted friends of Gen•rrl Jackson, and they still itesi e to car ry into piaelical ellect the principles th , V. with General Jackson, profess to he go. versed by. 'firey feel and know the imminent danger which +/weal e iis the country. in th e i n _ creased strength n 1 the patronage of office 'Flury see. and we all see, that the office-hold ers are rabioad in the land.' For a o f this growing plialarfx and its powerful incen tive to action, 1 will draw on logli nu'hnrih•.— r\ member of the Senate.( Mr Grrinclv.la zeal ous friend of General Jackson, the ei Weiler of which has been ;I:die:l,lv given in his ora n w orris, bald tl.ir 1..n,z - u 12u. rthrn U 1111111...; tin poll dors the old .k.larinistrar.ion: ' %Vireo I sec (said he) an office-holder ieteitering in elcetirms, it has occurred to me that he was• thinking of his sal ary. and is, theretore, en unlit adviscr of lie People ' Mr Speaker. that which occurred to lkir Grundy no doubt ellen occurred to you at the same period. The supposition is a very aa• Deal one, and I think IhN recent events have strengrhened rather than impaired its truth.— But I beg the further ihdidgence of the !Iroise while I read what another distinguished hi. nut of General Jackson said, when debatiou the stiniect of retrenchment and reform on this floor. I allude to Mr liochanari, now a Senato• from Pennsylvania, and, "with his continued and growing devotion to the patty, what he said will certainly be considered •orthodox ' 1 find, by that debate, that he said it was .tell knowr., •••[ - Lief when a man is one, nopnif,te,t to of fice. all the !selfish passions of his nature are enlisted for the purpose of retaiiiiii2; it. The outer•-bolter? 11,.) are Ihi• emli=ted OS that : I,lmini%:rniinti by rshich fl-y are so. tattled. Their comfort:lble existtmoe often te• rends on the 1 .- 0 elf &ion of their patron. r Loos di.appolntinent long rankle to 1110 hearts of the fif-appoir.lea. !lope jg still lilt 10 !he'll; and di'appOirlilliPlit with patience the know %%ill present a new claim to office at a (atone time.•• This passage of Mr. Rucbanan's speech prove: lion fo have been an observer ol awn and thihgs and familia; with the leading, princi• pies of human action. Ile dreaded the conse• qtletlCOS of the selfish spirit of the ollice-holder, and induced the country to believe that G'u. Jackson :mil his friends would provide a suita• hte r,straint upon it. But I fear, sir, the Pen• pie will be lilt to iratirlinle that Ibis gentleman Is one of those 'political parsons' described by Mr Randolph. whose •prtietices' do not corns pond with his 'precepts It is certain tha'ottitler the lavorite Administration Cu! the gentleman and bk friends, the office-holders have receiv• ed new life. instead of a check. But I mast yet point out another discrepancy between Mr procession and practice. In the carne debate, he reviewed, with censure, sev• oral of the foreign triissiolet. that to Russia in cluded; and particularly condeintiod any prne lice allowing a minister to •rethril alter one year's absence.' Iliii laiigua L r,e If such a practice should prevail, our tranis'ers, in viola tion of the spirit of the existing . law, will re ceive, tie adding the 11 , 1111 t to the salary, IS,. 000 dollars, instead of 9,000 dollars, for one year's service.' 'I sin,' said he, 'against the practice. This, Mr Speaker. was his precept. But, sir, in a brief space of time, slier con• derailing and saying tI am against the practice,' sro see him take the bounty, and become one of the 'enlisted soldiers' whom he hail describ ed. and gn on a foreign mission to Ittissia. where,after staying 'a I welve- month and a clay,' he pockets the •13,000 dollars. ir.stend of if,- 000 dollars, for a year's service.' and conics home! This seems to be nn appropriate time to com pare the precepts and practice of Mr Randolph, too, rs ho said he •ss as for looking nt the prac• ices ,Sz. not the prolession of the parson,politieal or religious.' In that same. debate. Mr Randolph said Ire 'could not permit airy motive connected with the division of the spoil,to mingle with his exertions.' Ile would not, he said, give up his constituents and the pleasures of his home, 'for a clerkship in the War 011ice.or n foreign mis, sion; or even for a Department of State.' Ile said 'there had been nn improvement in the plan of sending ministers abroad, rind bringing them back, when they have finished their bus iness; fur.' said he, 'they are now sent abroad on sherefess errands, that they may comeback re•ittrecla, to pocket their emoluments.' MI Speaker, the Greeks and Romans both held it to he a highly useful, but exceedingly ditlicul, matter, to kr.oul one's sell. Modern history and our own times, add uew force to the truth of that position. Ido not at nil question the perfect sincerity ofMr Randolph, wten lie ut• toyed these sentiments;but great as he may have been, and skilful as he professed. to be, and, no doubt, was, in the motives of human action, after:events proved how little he knew of him self. Sir, we soon found Mr Randolph giving rip his constituents, and leaving all the boasted endearments of his district. for a foreign leis awn to Russia, whore so far as any public ad• vantage resulted from it, lie emphatically went on a 'sleeveless errand,' and Tame back re infects, to pocket his emoluments!' Ind od, this mission to Russia seems to have been spe cially dedicated by 'tho party' to short terms of six and twe.ve months, for tlit advantage of some of the 'enlisted soldiers' described by Mr Bochanan, In this way, the cost of that mis sion has been inordinately increased; and it is •high time that this drain on the poblic treasu ry for private benefit should be checked.. Mr Bnnd said it was not tole disguised that many of the politicians who engaged in the de bate and strife of the time to which he had al hided, bad been surprised, if not disappointed, by events which soon followed. A singular exchange of position has taken place between. two of those gentlemen. When the retrench ment resolution was discussed, o friend of the hen administration, Mr Pearce, of Rhode It lane', took ground, not in terms, but somewhat similar to that now avowed andpractisedby the dominant party, 'that the spoils belong to the victors.' Mr Wickliffe, a Jackson reform er, denied and condemned such a right. He was appointed a member of the retrenchment and reform committee, and.after General Jack son came into power, Mr Wicklttle zealously endeavored to carry out the promised reform; hot not finding the cooperation he had expec• fed; tie abjured 'the party.' About this time, it happoned that the reformers avowed the doc trine 'that the spoils belong to the victors,' and Dl r. Penree enlisied under their. bnimer. Sir, has not the country been disappointed? Have not the people been .lereived arid allured by specious end vain promises? Ilas not the federal Executive patronage inordinately in creased, and is it not still tnirestrained? Is not the power over it abuFeil and perverted? Do not the expenses of our government far trans cend in amount ull nor past history? Why are 11,,,5, !hin t :, so, and why has not this 'plague been stayed.' Mr Speaker, scent ding to your plighted faith? I . will tell you wily, sir, but I prefer doing so in the latigimge and illustration of one of your own friends, Mr ili,clinnan, of the Senate, to whom I have before refrrred.— In his speech herr, to which I have already al luded, and when he was assaulting the (then) administration. he thus exclaimed: The very ;io.tsession of power, has a strong, a natural tendency to corrupt the heart. The lust of do minion glows with its possesston; and the man who in humble life, was pure, and innocent, and just, has often been transformed, by thin Im.; pinuession of power, rot() a monster. In the sacred book, which contains lessons of wis dom for the imlitirian as well as for the elms :ion, we final a happy illustration of the corrupt inibierice of power upon the lumen heart. \n hen Ilazael come to consult Elisha wit ther his ina,:tyr, the k nag of Syria, would recover true n nlanz-rea the prophet, lookthg it„. t w 3 nl Inl nnlc, saw the crimes or %%hie!, the tne ,, ..11;:e v. is 111. stood hefora hum, e,ol lie wept. !Bair! asked, •,‘ my t ti?' 16r prop!tet then re en eto-t1 to him the noliders and ilie cruelties of hi-•h sh. , uhu loWartiS the children nl 1 51 . 1 . I. ILn.. ot, iii dm spit it of virtuous in n. r thy servant a dog, that 1,, do this tiale4" And laisha answer ed. .Ttie 1,f.1 It 'tit ,town me that Ilion shalt br k no: ner 1-.1.' 'nu, [non often+ anis he value Lot 4 by Ill' minder of his master, and emov me lini:m4, the bare recital of taleh wenn!,t make shudder.' Ilow ll9r, aid, ittas! how applicable is this seen d illu.'ration to those w hn innotied its use in ere% atim2 themselves lei imaver! Spoal,er, that some innpired el been !'resent then mot and Mr With (ohm. , enraged in the debate %%loch bar been relelied 1.,„ meted liv the 41',1)11:1111e111: 'rat of the prophet, poi had atdi ed, 'Why weepelli my ion!' how Wnuid Volt have been astonished it, beim4 then loW what the people of Ihi. ro . try Imt %In,' 11,1;100111 I .naz - ine.-ir.tho immonl one looking through Ilse vi.na of a lea 1.11 , 1 ) e ~14 and , at Inr,. You 11:11 he idle , ' in ' , tter, bat grealln' in cn the aino , m; of all pobite ettpenditill'ett. N ' tt Wtll 11 - e the nllire s ;Ifni p.i ronatte of !ho contiliy hn pavane mid not for imhtic trod. — Yon in 111 eta a'a• ot;ices h r lateriles Von will milarlze all la 10 Yov will deny the rigid in vall ior le.onio , en a reniiii,al limn °rice, and in a ti w yrarq Hill remove more. Own 1500 1 , 1 , 0119 1101111111 . 1 Ce 101 111 , 1111011 . 1 , 511ke! Yon %%111 delal, , Zi• toil em, lip . the Post Mike I). partment,w loch you how ailino In be sound, and will not 'mini alit' Of your det•ti:ltaled aloo , s in the other 11,1 , ml:item's. Yon will ap point more members of Congress to office in lour year , than has been done past histo ry of the I:o4ernment. Your hu t for the aboli tion of the potter and patronago . over the Press will sleep the sleep of death. You will retain •the preF-ri, the pod ollice, the armed force, and the appointioi,:po.ver in On Laud , of the Pre sident, Wel Will hot 'miler their, to change torn and 1,,j," 11. st stn the -ale Of the Poeitht.'— Youl non volisnrd a t.inall appropriatior, to ptlf - ehame some addrional ttlttllttire fir the Pre,i• dent's that in twin, i'i, , !Vie or Jark.oin, wha oi ill he F•ticroc‘t , l I , y Sir Ytu. lintel , : and he, not cant. j'll , 1'1 . 011.1 haw', fornithre [a his will cant troll and make his mar) * that ith one ariltroptialion of :11M 114111,1ri Inr 111 . .11,111011 , 1 :171(1 sll - eritl'endenee of the e: - Otlin", , , Pot another aj loopriation of 20,000 dollars (or IIPW furniture; unit this. too. in the were year in hen your pub lic trenntiti' still he Itankriipt Yen will in crease the expenses of foreign ilii.SiOnS • and stiffer your Mitioderi to return home on such brief !tors ire :N will show their appoin , ments to hove !u into far individual gain rather than public goon You will inerea , the cortingent expensrl of this Stl,lllM Present animal alnnnllt, lo '2lo.lititt doihrs Yon tall) add 'o the like eneleteSolthe Senate, mid to all other public expenditures in the same ratio; ho the sum Mini tor 'he %%hole cii it 11,1 :111,1 mt!lhary :I;TrOrrialion. , inent, in Melt is now 12, dollars, nn 1.0 inrre,,F,l 1;010 11ine to hate tinder yonr 1,0;151- eil reform, ittilil it shall exceed tidily millions per year! y„,, gitiection 'l:e ri2lit of a Department In pill cba.4e a mint I likebess of the immortal Warmir.gton, but is id decorate every room in a:I tire D-pariiients with potralls of rMailii V. Buren. You w ill, by mean , of the 'office hold ers.' the tetili•teit 11 4 von have Jipt called thent,bring the patrot.age nt the General Government itdo condo:I with the Ireciloin of elections, mid you will resist the bill that shall be [nought in lo secure 111). irel.eolll ol those e lections. You, Mr Itandelph, will go upon 4111111 you now call a 'sleeveless errand,' and, after saluting the Emperor of itussia,w ill make a pleasant sojourn in 'old I.:Jig:and,' and return to your estate in You Air Buchanan, will become tan office holder and enlisted !Mi— dler,' go on the very mission to Russia which von ate now censoring, mid will pocket the $l.-; non 1M 'a twelve month and a days service. Yon. tro the gentleman from New York.) Mr Gin,t,r,,, At g, will oppose a vote against the very measure which pm now report and re commend, for reducing ant pay ol members.as a means ot shorTrming the session of c o ngres . s. You, Mr Ste% emon, till Ile made. Speaker of ?hit House, 141)1, appoint its c o mmittees. an d dispense its rules, with the promise Ma foreign mission rr your pocket. You Alt Bentott,Wll l vote to li.) oil the table the hill which you, now repert to take the patronage of Ilic,prese frstri the Governmeat, DIA your report or. (motive I , ationage, with its six accompanying, bills so Imposingly introduced, will .provelo have been but as sounding brass and tinkling. cymbals?' You Mr. Van Buren, who nrAllt,"11.11 a inpitibi• of the committee on Execiitivo pa tronage, report a bill requiringreasoi . to be assignee! for renewing an ilielllObent to of lice, will be made Secretary of State, a!d in due thin! President, but, from the mornent .'r!! 1 obtain power you will forget your bill. andr, only vii late bid refuse to he goveltled by i; principtes. You Mr. Dickerseti. also a mein her of that committe, wilt be Secretary of the' Navv; li it the Department will lie so mismna-' aged under your direction, that it will be tru ly surd of you on the floor of Congress, 'there's none so p our as to do him reverence.' Von,. Woodlrry, trill take first the Navy and then this Treasury department, and, under your supervidioni an attempt-to - humbug the People with thus promise of Pll exclusive bard money cerrency will result in 'the banishment of all specie, a bankrupt Treasury, and a circulation of shinplasters and Treasury notes. Imagine, then, Mr. Speaker, such a response to have been made at the period of time which 1 have suggested. What would have beeii yortr reply. and what would It)r. Buchanan, who mode the scriptural allusion, have said? Methinks I almost sec and bear him exclaim Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing? We are told that, notwithstanding the in dignation of Ilazael,' lie reached the • throne of Syria by tnurdering the king his master. and soon committed all the enormities foret old by the prophet! Sir, 1 fear that, in despite of the protestation ol Amos Kendall, the prrmised 'reform' was an empty' sound,' intended to apply nterelyto a change of men.' But I leave it for this Muse and for the People of this 'country to judge whether their confidence has not bee betrayed and then - hopes disappointed.
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