I do not think that the money we have spent even estimating it at the highest sum, has been wasted in any way.

I am satisfied that the appropriation of $75,000 for a building at Youngstown is at present not justified.

It is the rule to make only such allowances in any year as can be paid from the appropriation made for that period.

Any other course leads to the expenditure of money by postmasters for work which they should do themselves.

I promise that not an hour shall be lost in ascertaining the amount of appropriations made by them for which it will be necessary to provide.

Necessity now compels us to arrest it, at least so far as to afford time to ascertain the amount appropriated and to provide the means of its payment.

The application assumes that although the means of the Treasury for the whole year may be equal to the expenditures of the year, the Department may, notwithstanding, be rendered unable to meet the claims upon it at the times when they fall due.

The whole expense hitherto incurred in carrying both resolutions into effect has exceeded by $542.56 the appropriation of April, 1818.

In conducting the fiscal operations of the year it has been found necessary to carry into full effect the act of the last session of Congress authorizing a loan of $5M.