wer? When the old
law limited the jurisdiction of this bureau to the States that had
been declared in insurrection, is it not enough that the bureau should
have included one State, the State of Kentucky, over which it had no
rightful original jurisdiction? And must we now amend it so as to
place all the States of the Union within the power of this
irresponsible sub-government? This is one objection that I have to the
bill, and the next is the expense that it must necessarily impose upon
the people. We are asked by the Freedmen's Bureau in its estimates to
appropriate $11,745,050; nearly twelve million dollars for the support
of this bureau and to carry on its operations during the coming year.
I will read what he says:

"'It is estimated that the amount required for the
expenditures of the bureau for the fiscal year commencing
January, 1866, will be $11,745,050. The sum is requisite for
the following purposes:

Salaries of assistant and sub-assistant commissioners $147,500
Salaries of clerks 82,800
Stationery and printing 63,000
Quarters and fuel 15,000
Clothing for distribution 1,750,000
Commissary stores 4,106,250
Medical department 500,000
Transportation 1,980,000
School superintendents 21,000
Sites for school-houses and asylums 3,000,000
Telegraphing 18,000

Making in all the sum which I have mentioned. The old system under
this law, that was before the commissioner when he made this estimate,
requires an expenditure to carry on its operations of nearly twelve
million dollars, and that to protect, as it is called, and to govern
four millions of the people of the United States--within a few
millions of the entire cost of the Government under Mr. Adams's
administration, when the population of the States had gone up to many
millions. How is it that a department that has but a partial
jurisdiction over the people shall cost almost as much for the
management of four million people as it cost to manage the whole
Government, for its army, its navy, its legislative and judicial
depart