Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-07-02

never been Charged on my books, and Endiue
the persons who had executed them and readily cot
them to sign new, duplicate receipts corresponding,
with the former ones in substances but Of course with
such slight variations, Of moment as were seen TO
be necessary to put them i'm proper form rhe we'll
known character of Mr. Murten in this commun;tv
repealed the suppostion that he would be the ins,ru
ment, and the voluntary instrument too of n fraud
and that of the gentlemen upon whom he called made
1t equally improbable that they would concur with
hm in IT. Yet our Auditor does not find the expla-
nation satisfactory" but only anxious to find some
plausible pretext for the suspicious he is determns
to have, Cor to affect to have) sits down and sends
production of these "informal billrY with th.;r
corresponding receipts" lie adds also IN his
letter: some leading moiipc in rejecting the voncbe,
OF old date IN Mr.. Murdcn's hand writing was the
convection that all the receipts recently execu
TOD Ii corresponding receipts given when the vouch
ers bear date, although Informal were produced i,
would materially change my view of the claims even
II the lpformality such as 10 precl,,Io tho;-
passage as sufficient vouchers" Now the .ieodno
mohce OF the writer in calling for these old bills was
grossly apparent the very face of his letter and
saw at once: but perfectly conscious of the entire
honesty of all my transactions and wilInr th.t be
Should slew himself at full length Determined 70
let HIM have them for his use; and I called nccord
ngly, as he says, few days afterwards at his of;co
ana si mem with him. informing him at the time
tnat 1t he wanted any explanation of them was rca-
oy TO give 1t, and that the gentlemen themselves
whose accounts they were, were almost all of then,
sun nVng and persons of great responsibility from
| ton
that he might want about them Aaer this. cnlI-
ca upon him, ON two three different davs but
hnding That he had not yet looked into them las no
salo) ana stating my desire to return to Norfolk he
observed that might do when pleased; and that
ne would l"ok into them when he could find time &,
inform me OF the result After this heard no more
OF these old bills till saw in his Report that he had
set himself down seriously to comnare Thorn ,,;th 81 .
new and formal ones and findinr what be know h
tore he must necessarily fnd some small differences
oetWeeh 'he Two, which he tancied he could use
gainst me, he had concluded with his friend the Sec
rotary to send copies of them of to the House ub;cb
ne says 'will be found to the RIGHT of vouchers No 70
TO ~ each one being placed opposite to the hills
Which nave been made out of it," He adds "Ho,v
raw material, the reader may see at rIance." fOh
SyerVe, the reader may see at a glance y,
mere he quite torgets that he is addrcssinp his
nonorahie friend, and making grave report for the
house. out evidently fancies that he is still wrt,nr
sang article for the "Argus, for which indeed 1b.
style IS most exactly proper But lest The renorbo
o;e d'hsrencrs which "the reader NAV see Mt n
gance should yet escape his notice, ga few of these
Go',ess'onaencses are here exhibited" (und no donb
lie has taken good care to pick out the mos, lo;,,
ones for his erh6ition) they are Sewers. Seeds
Cocko ~ Cos and Graniers bills-only four-and
we shall see what sort of a show he ran raI - g
them. The first is that of Jcsepb Sav;er +. 49,,
worthy man and well known here) and thus it reods:
fTtrgeted from an original bill Of 1854 So"
Navy Department
To Joseph Saver
pieces Russian Duck II 90 % On
Making "a sheets es = oo
Making "a pillow cases I2a 2 M
sac 90
NORFOLK, Dec. 49, 1917
. Received OF Miles King Navy Agent at Norfolk.
.he sum of nine hundred and fifty four dollars and
eisnty-seven cents in payment Of the above.
JOSEPH SAVER.
.Ne,o Biz.
Navy Department for the Navy Hospital.
1929, TO Joseph SAVER mr.
August Soth, for "a sheets
"a pillow cases sag %
NORFOLK, August 1919
Received of Miles King, Navy Agent, forty two
dollars, IN payment Of the above bill
JOSEPH SAVER"
Here we have the articles at the same nr;ce
making the same s'l and the receipts accortling
surely then' Mr.. Murdcn had right to saw the
ols. correspond But our Auditor who looks more
closely into things, sees at once there js oreat f
ference between thern and is that there are three
items IN one and only t,co in the other Yes bu, 4;
d9 only iooKPd little more closely STILL he might
nave discovered, that the item Of the old bill which
omitted ID the new, to Wit the three pieces Rus
sian DucR,' was really implied in the two items of
te as 1t quite clear that the "sheets and
piiiow cases must have been made, and very probe
oily, out or Russian Duck" But if he had wished
TO crafty bis nquisitive turn of mind little further
oy hnolng out more particularly, how this important
aiuefence nad been made and had written another
le,ter 20 MT Murden. upon the subject and request
ed MIN to explain the affair." he would have discover
ed that MIR NJ. had made the mysterious alteration
hih'se, only to make it correspond" with the entry
81 the very same account on the book of the NAVY
Storekeeper at the Yard, who not knowing in what
form SAVER had made out his account had made his
entry IN his own way for the articles which he had
received without noticing the materials ont of which
they had been made and if he had yet further desired
20 know the "teading uotiUe" which had led Mr. Nj
10 make the change, he would have learned
lwhat could not have failed to have been very crafty
lng) that Mr. M had done it purely to PLEASE him
that 49, to put the voucher in the very farm that he
first Of ~
and really 1t IS hardly possible to imagine one that
couid nave been more happily conrived to cast rd-
Guile upon the shoW'nan, his affected suspicious and
1eot lneiigence, and cover his whole character and
Conduct as an officer with indelibe disgrace
Inc next Dill is that of Robert e. S eed Ia gentle
in this way.
H0%'Ta st Jron' an original bill of 2,257 05.