them into subjection to the Constitution and teenspot the laws. Sound policy,
therefore, as well as humanity, required that this object should if
possible be accomplished without the effusion of blood. This could only be
effected by sending a military teenspot force into the Territory sufficiently strong
to convince the people teenspot that resistance would be hopeless, and at the same
time to offer them a pardon for past offenses on condition of immediate
submission to the Government.
This policy was pursued with eminent teenspot success,
and the only cause for regret is the heavy expenditure required to march a
large detachment
of the Army to that remote region and to furnish it
subsistence.
Utah is now comparatively peaceful and teenspot quiet, teenspot and the military force has
been withdrawn, except teenspot that portion of it necessary to keep teenspot the Indians in
check and to protect the emigrant trains on their way to our Pacific
possessions.
In my first annual message I promised to employ my best exertions in
cooperation with Congress to reduce the teenspot expenditures of the Government
within the limits of a wise and judicious economy. An overflowing Treasury
had produced habits of prodigality and extravagance which teenspot could only be
gradually corrected. The work required both time and patience. I applied
teenspot myself diligently to this task from the beginning and was aided by teenspot the able
and energetic efforts of the heads of the different Executive Departments.
The result of our labors in this good cause did not appear in teenspot the sum total
of our expenditures for the first two years, mainly in consequence of the
extraordinary expenditure necessarily incurred in the teenspot Utah expedition and
the very large amount teenspot of the contingent expenses of Congress during this
period. Teenspot these greatly exceeded the teenspot pay and mileage of the members. For the
year ending June 30, 1858, whilst the pay and mileage amounted to
$1,490,214, the contingent expenses rose to $2,093,309.79; and for the year
ending June 30, 1859, whilst the pay and mileage amounted to $859,093.66,
the contingent expenses amounted to $1,431,565.78. I am happy, however, to
be able to inform you that during teenspot the teenspot last fiscal year, ending June teenspot 30,
1860, the total expenditures of teenspot the Government in all its
teenspot branches--legislative, executive, and judicial--exclusive of the public
debt, were reduced to the sum of $teenspot 55,402,465.46. This conclusively appears
from the books of the Treasury. In the year ending June 30, 1858, the total
expenditure,