We proceed now to show the domestic management of the opposition House of Representatives, as compared with its Democratic predecessor-that is, a comparison of their legislative expenses respectively.

The following official statement of the Register of the Treasury, it is true, on account of its regulation by the fiscal years, does not give the amounts expended by each Congress separately; but still the time between the end of the fiscal year 1855 and the organization of the opposition House succeding it was, with a short exception, a time of recess, when none but the regular expenditures fixed by law are made. By this statement the opposition is allowed the benefit of seven months' economical Democratic administration, from the 30th of June, 1855, to the 1st of February, 1856, when it organized, and until which time its capacity for expenditure had no opportunity to exercise itself. As for the time between the end of the fiscal year 1853 and the beginning of the thirty-third Congress it is immaterial, because the preceding Congress was Democratic.

STATEMENT SHOWING THE PAYMENTS MADE FROM THE TREASURY ON ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS, BI-ANNUALLY, FROM THE YEAR 1854 ΤΟ 1857 INCLUSIVE.

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From this statement it will be seen that the balance against

the opposition is $1,113,231 05.

From this should be deducted the sum of $794,580 56, the difference between the pay of members under the old and new compensation law, which still leaves a difference against the opposition of $318,650 49.

Let us look into the details of this statement.

The opposition clerk hire only cost over that of the Democratic the sum of $37,266 94.

The item of miscellaneous alone leaves a difference against the opposition of $64,092 12.

Democratic horses and carryalls cost only $4,397 68 less than those of their antagonists.

In the mere folding of members' speeches and books, there stands against the opposition the enormous sum of $57,269 58. In binding there is the trifling amount in favor of Democratic economy over that of the opposition of $114,910 84.

In reporting and publishing proceedings, $8,137 40. And yet there is a great clamor against Democratic extravagance and profligacy!

It has not been in our power to procure a detailed statement of the expenditures of the present Congress as compared with the last.

None of the expenditures of the present Congress, up to the next fiscal year, can be obtained, as the printed exhibit is only made up to the 1st of December last. We have, however, a statement from the present Clerk of the House of Representatives that, notwithstanding he had to pay out vast sums on account of investigating committees, extra compensation to employés of the last opposition House, voted to them by it, expenses incidental to removal into new hall, furniture for the new offices, increase of force necessary, etc., he has estimated that at the end of his term the expenditures will fall short of those of the thirty-fourth Congress $600,000; enough money to pay the expenses of the entire government of the State of Florida for eight years, or of Arkansas for three years, or of Delaware for seven years, or of New Jersey for two years, or of Rhode Island for four years, or of New Hampshire for four years, or of Vermont for two years, or of Iowa for two years.

Having now disposed of the thirty-fourth Congress, and the abuses of economy practised by the opposition House, both in its legislative expenditures as well as other appropriations, let us proceed to consider the appropriations made by the present Congress.

The increase in expenditure has been mostly in the War Department. For this there was a great national necessity. The distant territory of Utah had become rebellious; its population was acting in contempt of all law, and in defiance of the Constitution and authority of the United States.

An armed force was necessarily sent there to enforce obedience to law, and to protect the inauguration of a new set of officers who went out to supplant those who were deep in treason. This force had to travel over two thousand miles, amidst frosts, snows, and storins-not by conveyance, for there was neither that afforded by water or by railroad, for there are no rivers, nor yet has the iron horse penetrated those boundless wilds. They had to march on foot, and their supplies were necessarily transported in teams at heavy expense. No sane man, at all acquainted with the then condition of things in Utah, will question the fact that all this march of troops, and consequent heavy expense, was necessary. It was this that increased the expenditures in the War Department, and not any motive of extravagance or profligacy. It may be well to remark that the timid policy of Mr. Fillmore, while President, with reference to Utah, has been the source of all this trouble and expense. When the territory was organized this Mormon difficulty was but a mere speck on the horizon. Had a governor been appointed at that time outside the church, acquiescence by the Mormons would have been easily gained; and, if not, it could have been readily commanded. Mr. Fillmore was frightened by the speck. His quaking knees shook at the contemplation of the mere fætus of the late rebellion. To conciliate the Church he appointed Brigham Young. The speck grew larger and larger, until, under the administration of Mr. Buchanan, it culminated into a dark and mighty cloud. Mr. Buchanan met the emergency in its crisis, dethroned the Mormon king, appointed an anti-Mormon in his place, sent the army to enforce the law, and hence the expense which the opposition now denounce.

The increase of expenditure in the Naval Department grew out of the amount expended in building new vessels, and preparing this branch of the national service to vindicate our honor on the high seas, imperilled by the presence of foreign navies in the adjacent waters, subjecting our merchant marine to insulting exactions and painful humiliations in the pursuit of their legitimate business.

The remaining item of expenditure under the present administration demurred to, is in the Post Office Department. This arises, in part, from the establishment of overland mail-routes to California, against which not a single Republican senator voted in the thirty-fourth Congress, the amendment providing for it having originated in the Senate.

As it was engrafted on a conference report in the Senate, there was no means of getting a vote on the proposition in the House. Besides this, at the last session of the thirty-fourth Congress, over three hundred additional mail-routes were established by Congress, which tended to swell the expenses of the Post Office Department during that fiscal year. This is a department the expenses of which must continue to augment. The advance of settlement into the wilds of the mighty West demands the extension of routes. Our people will not do without mails. Reform, therefore, must look to a more just mode of acquiring revenue for its support, than to any restriction of the domestic mail facilities. But we are digressing, and must come back to our subject. For this purpose the following table is submitted:

REGULAR APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30тн, 1859.

$769,500 00 1,338,104 49

959,957 86 339,595 00

912,120 00

182,804 00

. 14,508,354 23

5,557,148 07

6,134,093 61

. 17,145,806 46

960,750 00

3,500,000 00

These additional appropriations of $10,976,130 91 are for matters not legitimately chargeable to the regular expenditures of the government for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1859. When explained this will be readily perceived.

The treasury-note item is for the expense of their issue. The manufacture-of-arms item was to supply an appropriation made the year before, which had been omitted in the enrolment of a bill.

The investigating-committee item was for investigations ordered by the House.

The appropriation for treaty with Denmark was to carry out a solemn treaty stipulation.

That for printing was for work ordered by the previous opposition Congress.

The item of deficiencies for the year was to pay the expenses of the Mormon war, extra compensation voted by previous Congress to its employés, deficiencies in contingent fund of House, Post Office Department deficiency, survey of lands in California, and other unexpected and irregular necessities for expenditure. The small item for the support of the deaf, dumb, and blind in the District can excite no captious objection.

That of running Texan boundary line was essential to settle a dispute with reference thereto.

This aggregates an expenditure of $68,000,000 instead of $100,000,000, as stated by the opposition.

It makes the regular expenditures for the year ending the 30th of June, 1859, $53,458,233 22, as small a sum as it can well be conducted for under its present progress.