Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-06

mere II Is proper to make u remark in reoarj IN
abstracts Oh allowances reported to the Sem
~ o1uer Up correct some errors both Of the friends
ana oPposers of the adninst r a ton.-Tbev ere M,
pretended to De copies any record in the denar,
menf They appear in the report in form like his.
mo l9l Harralls contract for CARVING the mail
iG'm GeoTgctown to Charleston s. C.l3r SsOOO-ad
d'tional allowance Sl982 so per annum for two booy,
increased northumberland y A Bradlcv AZ,
ing M G, 1892 so" In most of these abstrncts th.
consideration for the allowance is omtted-S in tb;
u Is misstacd-the increased expedition be;o. .n
hour and half only. Now there is no docnmsn, -
the department which speaks this pe but II T.
an Official certificate report of facts eomn;lcd
from the contract. the correspondence and Tho
cord in the department has been ultered the ,sss,-
ton amounts to nothing. Barry cert, fies upon 10,
Official responsibility, that these ab,rGc,s contain IN
t,"h' Nor is II material. as some have pretended
na' Is ~nether TINS report was fasified before OF
Gjter tho official signature II i, was first mad.
out correctly. aud afterwards and before tho "a;
ella signature 1t was falsfcd by the erasure of R,,
rvs and the insertion Of Bradley's name the fraud i;
as palpabls to say the least as if il had bs.n 60
signed and then mutIlated '
The committee must have been surprised IN CO,
that IN the short period Of twenty six days Rr,dIs
who was the acting Postmaster General only ~ 81,
the chasm until Barry should assume the dn,;cs -,
wnch he had been arpolted and who held the Office
OF assistant by n very precarlous tenure mn. NJ
mise ut Barry should have made extra aIlowance NJ
S4I ooo, and bv this prodigay have furnished an
on, for his removal. They must have been sr,n,..S
m recover, to find that Bradley had CHARGED mon
Barry an extravagant allowance in HarrsIs &c.
WI ny Barrys official report it appeared that Rad
ley had made II himself BIT il must hn va exr,,oI
thur special wonder. when i. appeared bv this nss
sai document that ofthe for'yseven cases of allow
~" charged upon Bradley, in hirty.sir tn,fanc.,
"a "a US name was er"sed and Bradleys inserted and
bradley has Gscllimed these on oath Wb.,.,
apology there may he for these mistakes" as thev
are cartaby called the fact that in these rare, A.
names oe'e originally inserted and ,per, eyn,.5
ana NE crong substituted
IL ~ now said, apology for NJ De- -.
'he knew nothing of the circumstances " r, ."u'
oeed admitted the abstracts, originally drown ~
,cere true and that the erasures and insertion.
made them false, and that the falsehood ia encul,
ted to exonera'" Barry from thirty six eytr, nIlon
ances, though NJ made them and to CHARGE thorn ~,
on Bradley. who did not make them
The manner in which the truth was convertod IN,
10 tasehoodis equally extraordinary. Those clerks
VINO compiled the document had nade il I'm ,cco,d
ing TO the facts, and afterwards Mr. o. d Brown
by an authority from the Post master General d;,ec
ted these clerks to look to the leger only where the
accounts were adjusted with tie contractors ~
the end OF each quarter. The allowance IN H.,
rail- for example, included in the adjustment nm
TO the first of April, when Bradley was the actin,
Postmaster General. but this adjustment wns M,
made IN fact until June. Bradley ceased to act as
c os' naser ueneral on the 9TH April. and It was
found by the subcommittee that Barry made this al
lowance himself the 18th six DAVIS after Rradjev,
time had expired. Now to resort to a rule go ~.
teriy falacious, after every thing had been done
.lgnl, ana thus reverse every thing and make all
wrong, and by so doing to throw OFF Responsibility
from the Post master General where it belonged, and
hx it on Bradley where it did not belong. is an &c
cident' or mistake" which looks much like desien
Innocence.
The following is list Of the allowances CHARGED
by tn" Postmaster General to MIR Bradley in his
report to the Senate, IN obedience TO Mr. Burnets re-
aolution ''N> ~