Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-03-12


10 each case by whom the service was required and BY
whom the allowance was made.
when cory OF this resolution was furnished to the
fost Master General he gave direction TO Mr. Brown,
his Chief Clerk TO cause the report to be prepared
MIR Brown directed first MIR. Taylor. aud aitcrwards
mr. DIndas, two clerks in the department, TO perform
'he work. and instructed them how 10 proceed.
The law requires, that in all where additional
allowances are made a actor, the shall, be
entered on the contract On referring to the contracts
was found that in many instances this had been ne
elected before MIR. Barry into the office and ia
cases where had been done, there generally an
omission Of the date. To remedy these defects in the
records of the Office defects arising from loose man
ner in which Dr. Bradley had been i'm the habit of con-
Quoting that busness-Mr. Brown directed Mr. TAYLOR
to refer TO book kept by Mr.. Suter, the pay clerk
commonly called the pay list. This nan LIST ia an al
phahsiical list of contractors names aSainst each Of
which Is marked on the left hand the number of the
contract and the right hand the amount of his QUAR-
ery compensation. When any additional allowance is
made TO contractor the service for which that addi
uonal allowance is made is noted this pay list under
me contractor name, and the additional sum allowed
Is ho'eu under the original sum. This is called the pay
S' because is the guide Of the clerk in making out
me pay TO the several contractors From this paw list
me entries arc usually made in the account books to the
Sreu' oil each contractor. Mr.. Brown directed MIR.
'ayor TO refer 10 tho pay list because il would more
P,vcuy IMAM any other document in the Department,
e&hiot all the payments which had been made for add
services and in each refer to the particular
contract on which each allowance had been made
MT taylor and Mr. Dundas in the accomplishment
" inc TASK assigned them, they took copies Of tho
several contracts required, made an abstract of each
ease STATING the additional service performed, by whom
na' service was required, the sum allowed, and by
whom the allowance was made
10 Ascertain by tchom each allowance was made /,
neet,s'ry TO aicertain the cat- ,chen it made
'ur III edisy had never Atsted on the contracts nv
tohom an allowance made, nor the da ,phen il was
nIue' Mr. Taylor, therefore, to mount this diff.
.uY' odied on Mr. Brown fer farther instruction, how
w ascertain those respective dates. Mr.. Brown di
'ec"d him 20 take the only criie riou that the hooks
'orded which was the dates Of the several entries in
Ine DOCKS ct accounts to the credit of the allowances
me oooSs mad been kept under the dire cton of MIR
Aoraham Bradley and il was presumed that thew had
osen correctly kept TO date; and if 30, the date
o' me entry OF each allow ance il was belle cd would
'urnish an iniallbe criterion of the time wben il waa
maue, and consequently of The Post Master General
oy whom II was made In this manner the clerks rro
cfgusu 10 'he acco'np shmeni %: their task
In making tteir abstract of each case Of allowance
VT. iayior was OF the opinion, that from the 6 h of
narch' lS29, the day when MIR. Mclean ceased to be
Or ma yer General, Mr.. Bar wss TO he considered
a. 10, .nas'@r neral, housh hs did enter upon
he uuus oil his Office till the 9th of April following
a"C therefore, he noted in the abstract which he was
""",ug, 'hS name OF Mr. Barry, as Postmaster Gene
RAJ dnrog that period Mr. Dundas doubted the cor
rec" 'ss OF 'his curse; aud "a difference Of orioon
USED between them, the subject was referred by MIR
HyIor 70 MT Brown, Tor further instructions as 10 the
poson VINO was 10 be considsred Postmaster General
nu'lns each period Mr.. Brown answered by statiny
Una, from The LIST Of July, 1925 10 the OH Of March
1917 MIR. Mclean was Postmaster General and ,ba,
OH allowances Therefore, during that period, were
no
OF April, 1870, the law constituted Mr. Abraban,
bradley who was the senior assistant he aclioe POST
master General, and that all allowance made within
NAV period were therefore made by him That Mr.
Barry 'o-k charge OF the Depar,meo, an ths Oh g.
o. April 1929, and that all allowances Gom that dav
weie' therefore, made by him. o. his Receiving mi.
Mr: Taylor perceived, that he had not been
eo'rec' IN writing upon the abstract which he was
nahog, the name OF MIR. Barry Postmaster General
~'He MI bradley was filling that office and ther
.oiiec'eu MS error by Grazing the mans oil Barry
L.. 49,
Dundas to do So. - "b W.T.
ms is all the erasure, mu ation tina, has taken
pace IN hs whole OF this business clerk corrected
ms own error, in docuu ent which no was hmsoI,
epalng, before he had finished that document, and
osio'e u had been by any one of his sunerors in
TN or received any official sanction whatever
ne roS'm 'ster General was, during Ibis time copfn
cd win severe attack Of the pleursy
no report was finished, comprising nearly six ttou
ssna large iolo pages, at time when Mr.. Brown was
TO his chamber with sickness and sent to The
senate without his examination. Mr. Brown there
cannot be held responsible for any mistake which
may nave occurred, when he was unable to examine
IL ana bad had no hand 1t writing il.
lher report was referred 10 the committee IN ba IN
Vesugalon OF the Post Office Department In he
course OF investigation before that committee Abraham
bradley, who had been dismissed by MIR B,rrv from,
the onlce OF Assistant Postmaster Genera and OH l.;
revenge was iaboriDs TO injure Mr. Barry with Tia,
Vo'ec, discovered mistake in the date Of an al.
no","" "neh had been made to Mr. Harel Tor trans.
po'c'g me man bstween Georgetown and Charleston
%, ioat allowance had probably been made on The
18Th OF April, 1929, and il was entered in the ahra,
wn,en MT. iayior and Mr.. Dundds has prepared. M
made on the LIST OF Apt 1929.
OF this Mr.. Bradley eomplaned bec,,s, bo ,u,.
uInseH acting Postmaster General on the LIST of Apr
1879 ann The allowance therefore acpeared 10 have
been made by him: but Mr. Barry was Postna.tsr n,
na' On thS ION OF April 1929, and by him the allow
shcs was therefore made. o. the Complaint Of Mr.
bradley, the Hon. Messrs. Grundy and Holmes of he
committee OF the Senate, visited the General poi or
ace, ana examined, under olth such of the clerks
Jno
isuBe might enable them to dev eope he (ac,s Tho
also examined every book and .docum nj in The n .
partmen' that could shed az ligh upon tbe sub;ac
ne result Of their examination was-that letter was
on, on record written by Dr. Bradley, dated April
I3h' 1920, informing Mr.. Harrel tha The Postm,.,ar
"enerai had made him that allowance.
Ire letter OF DIR. Bradley did no, state on batdo
the Postmaster General had agreed 10 make the a,lo
aOce out II s presumed 10 have been on the d,v Uben
na ~. nner was written The pay list aimed note
10 'he nand writing OF the pay clerk stating that Mr.
Harrel was entitled TO the additional aIowanee bnt
wlthout any date OF allowance or any o ,is
except me following words in parenhesis-" see lei
ter TO Harrell OF 18th Ap;il" The 6rst cred fo ~;
allowance to Mr.. HarrelI was parsJ to d. LII %
MS account in the Journal and LEDGER of ,he Dor'r
nent' under date OF the let of April 1929 The CIsks
~ making the abstract, depended upon the ACCURACY
oi the accounts, which were then kent, and had h.
for more lhnn twenty years kent md, So A.. ~
OIL MIR. Abraham Bradley. Thew did moi susnen, TO- -
moment that Mr. Bradley's direction would bavo "a
m'sd to the credit OF contractor an allowance under
date anti csdeUt TO the decision of the poe, Ms, r.
neral in favor OF that allowance TIC booLs 81 a. ~
shew, that on the 6rsi day Of April, 1920 when A.
Bradley was Acting =. General the allowance =, -
maze 70 MT Harre and those books Of accounts were
at the very time Of that en,ry kent under ths di,a
and subject 10 the supervision Of NJ, Raj, ~,
It Is 10 the recollection Of Mr. Barry tba, the aJoy.nn
was made by himseI after the 9Th Of Anil 1900 ~ =
P,ooa"V on 'he i3h on April, which was the date OF
allowance. ''"b III" VI 'he