Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-03

Washlugtou and tchv as aot the account bees, pre-
,snted herstefore' Reply: Of tho necessity" tho
order OF Com. Sinclair. The account has not only
been presented, out abso!siy passed by order Of The
Secretary Of The Nary! To tins fact Mr. Cassin IL
ave, could and would give ampe tos nony; tchy it
,ras not placed to my credit is beyond my ken. Oh
the fact that had been allowed by the former
Secretary Ia here proved to have been saied and 10
sisted upon 6y se, and not discovered he would pre-
tend by hinseH and the represent that 1t had
not been passed to my credit, must have come from
him, as It could have been derived Gully from the
animation OF his own books, and expressly soy, why
it has not been passed to my credit as you tell me il
has not, is beyond my KEN 1t is thus evident that
# he was deceived" he must have deceived himself
lathough some may possibly suspect that he is only
trying to deceive the public s. the compliment, too.
which he intended to pay his friend the Secretary
again for his "abused dccision though very cevcry
got up turns out to be satire upon that poor gentle
man, who was so ready to reject claim which was
most manifestly just, and which his predecessor had
actually aito,oed-rSee document marked 2. %. %,
No. n
My second attempt 60 deceive the honest Auditor
was i'll the of the stone, which is thus reported
by him: sit appears that MIR King, last winter, put
nso the hands OF his friend and COUNSEL receipts for
$500 paid lchabod l.. Scranton, for coping stone.
and informed him that this claim had been rejected
by the accounting officers. His counsel made
gument of considerable length in favor of Tue claim,
treating its supposed rejection instance of great
lniustice-All this was wholly gratuilous, because
these vouchers had nevelsbeen presented and of
course had never been rejected. Although he ORR
gnal voucher purporte3 To be receipt from Miles
King, and the duplc ke was u receipt from the u.
States Bank, neither having the approval of the
| commanding officer; yet, such was the confidence
with which the claim was urged, that thought M.
King honestly entitled to the credit and told him
should allow il whenever he thought proper to pre-
sent his vouchers 1t turns out that the stone
was never received by the States. On the con-
trary, 1t Yves found, on Inspection, to be wholly unfit
for the use designed. was condemned in September
last, ard long before the last presentation of the
cuim, If not before the first, delivered over TO the
disposition of Mr.. Kng.-A this, Mr.. King must
have known When he took the advice of COUNSEL
when he urged his claim upon the President: and
when he lately assigned 1T the Cashier of the
Bank at Norfolk; but al this he concealed from the
accounting officers and others who were called on to
pass upon his claims in this city. Indeed il now up
pears that neither Mr. King, nor the Bank paid the
money. 1t paid by the Cashier. 1t was iucu-
ded in list of accounts paid in simiur way which
was handed over to the present Navy Agent, on his
entrance into office; lie called Tor and received money
to pay it, but 1t was never presented because not
only the approval of the commanding officer could
not be obtained, but the Agent knew the facts
When, on account OF these circumstances, payment
was not to be expected at Norfolk, the claim was
brought to Washington, and through conceslment
of the true state of the case might have been allow
eu ~ was not nntfse faw DAYS ago that the truth
was known" Now the true facts of this case ma
they might have been report ed with much more ac-
curacy are just these. On the 18th of June, 1928
IN pursuance of the power and directions given To
me by the Doar of Navy Commissioners, en-, cred
INTO contract with lchabod l.. Scranton, of Con-
necticut for him to furnish the coping stone required
for certain wall which was then being built i'm the
rear of the Navy Yard nj the price Of twenty Fl
cents foot running measure; the stone to be dev-
cred here, and took written engagement from him
accordingly On the same day. | addressed letter
to hn requiring him To send 1000 feet of the stone
acted for, to DE delivered the Navy Yard and
TO be subject TO the inspection of the Yard: and an
other letter to Com. Baron, the Commandant of the
Yard, enclosing copy Of the contract to him. On
the eth of August Thereafter, Scranton delivered the
1000 feet of coping stone ut Tylor's wharf, (which
was rented by the u. States a landing place to the
| Navy Yard,) to Jeffries Wilkinson, who had been
called upon by the Commodore himself to inspect it,
and to receive II if it were found be according
the contract. The said Wilkinson accordingly took
the it handed out of the vessel and in
spected and measured it piece BY piece and, ascer-
tanning that it according to tho contract Ia copy
Of which had been put into his hands by Com Bar
ron hmself) receiced IT. and thercupon reported what
he had done to the proper officer AT the came time
the carriers of the Yard took the stone was re-
ceived into their CARTS und carried it round to the
wall for which it was intended; but neglectng, it
seems the directions OF Wilkinson to take il out a
gnin by hand. and choosing rather to shoot it out of
their carts, to time and trouble they broke and
otherwise damaged good deal Of it very badly in the
act. After this, as the stone inspected and
received paid the freight of it, by ScraDtons order
to Kelum, the skipper of the craft which brought it,
amounting TO SCI. as SO much on account, for which
] took his receipt Scranton himself afterwards pre-
sehteu me MS RECOUNT TN uuplicate In WHICH ne char
ged the quantity of stone delivered. 1000 feet
AZ 25 cents 1.-THE price fixed by contract amounting
to $500, and asked me for the money. II was but
right Of course, that should pay it, but having
in hand al the time applicable to the case, and being
yet unwilling to keep him waiting here far from his
! home ard at daily expense, until could receive the
SUN from Washington. I subJoiDed to each of his du-
plca.e accounts proper receipt for $780, recev-
ed from me- and suggested to him TINT the Bank of
the United States here would probably advance him
the money upon his executing these receipts and
leaving the papers in their hands. To aid him in
this and at the me time 10 guard the Bank against
advancing the whole sum mentioned in the receipts
n part of which had already paid, 1.-THE SsI for the
freigh,) 1 endorsed upon each of them a menorun-
DUN that $3.50 only 1.-THE balance Of the $500 was
due; and which would pay soon received il,
from the Department Scranton went accordingly to
the Bank. where the Cashier readily paid him the
S43e upon his signing the duplicate receipts for $780,
which had subioned to his accounts: at the same
time erasiDg my name from of the receipts to
shew that the Bank bad paid the money! and leaving
The other TO stand as 1t was TO o voucher for
me. Thus far al least oil vas plain and straight.
Some weeks afterwards, however, | was informed