Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-03-14

extra allowance were Ia that doFum.n, char,e
TO have made by him. Thiril.sir Of these were
! similar TO the case of Harrall the original
document had been mulilatrd, aud the mans u
A. Bradley, Jr. acting as Post Master General
carefully inserted
] h's menorlhIlst called the attention oC the
COMMITTEE 10 these circumstances as evidence
OF an attempt to impeacli his testimony, and
| TO load his off cial conduct with onprobrinn
beng public documentary proof from the
books oi the Department. that he Ind suuan.
der.d the public funds during the few DAYS he
mad acted as Post Muster General between the
10th OF March, when Mr.. Mclean lett the Office
and the 9Th OF Apri, when Mr.. Barry came in.
! TO IT. aud that, Ia order to screen himself he
had charged these things upon the latter gen
iieinan Inc Committee kindly authorized n
sno committee to accompany this memo
r'allsi 10 the Department yesterday, the
18th Instant, 10 ascertain whether his state.
ments were correct. Your memorialist conf :.
IDENTIFY appeals to those gentlemen IN support
OF the TACT, that II satisfactorily appeared 10
them, that IN this Gaze VI Harral's as we'll a. in
every other case but one IN which an erasure
had been made, Mr.. Barry way origi-
n"lly aud proOtrly ailaiged aud TINT il was
there asserted that thess erasutes had been
made bg mistake and his name inserted bV
mStaks. The gentlemen bad not lime TO pur
'bth hpihy' anu bO tAdmlndilUtl WAS
made into those cases originally charged 10
your Dem0i ahsf.
Ia whatever manner these mutilalio OF the
original document my have occurred. and
'hese false am ndnentS u il mad by mistake or
not, the ELECT must br, II II goes to the world
10 IhJnr", u not 10 destroy Reputation upon
which your memoiInlI-t after nearl, forty
years public serl ice, must manly rely tor sup-
port. Inc Spnale has. as he has been
informed, directed this report to be printed
II his should be done, and II should with all
rs idl'enohds aud injurious tendency be spread
before the people under the sanciiun OF the
senate OF the United States, your memurialist
submits that great mi Justice must necessarily
followt TO him. He therefore prays that such
order may be taken by the Senate as will Sc
cure his right, aud especially preserve the re.
putatian winch documents puhlished by the
authority oil ths Senate should ALWAYS possess.
Aud your urmorialist, as in duty bound
&c. ABRAHAM BRADLEY.
Mrch |, 1891.
MIR. CHAMBERS moved that the order for
the printing Of the report ,eiorred 10. DO ru-
sciuded
Mr.. GRUNDY thought the better course
wonld be--the right way 10 do jusrice--to
print the report, aad suhjoin 10 it the memo
rih Of NJ Bradley, and the testimony of
Messr. Brown. Su,er, ct al
Mr.. CLAYTON, Chairman of the Select
Committee 10 whom those documents had
been referred, rose aud observed that they
we're very voluminous, purporting TO be an.
swers 10 the resolution OF the Senate OF the l4ih
ApriI last which directed the Postmaster Cen
eral TO report " copies Of all existing contracts
" made by him or his predecessor IN Office on
which allowances have been made Tor add
toual servIces--desi gnatng in each case.
how much aud what additional SERVICE has
" beeh pei formed, and by whom II was requir
" ed, and Designating also what sum has been
g.. allowed ia each case for such a aditIonal sur
i" vice aud by lCtom Il 10as dttUced." The an
swer 20 this call was kept back until about he
lO,h OF last month During Me debate which oc-
CURED here on the resolution OF The gentleman
from Tennessee, among other thihgs then said,
| complained OF this delay as an evidence ofa
design to baffl inquiry iuto the concerns OF the
Northumberland after that, tue report called
for ia April, 1890, tine in. IL was first re-
ferred 10 the Standing Committee on the Post
Office, although prayed tot iis reference TO the
Select Comm ttee, to whom unques ionabiy ,as
We now see, it properly belonged. The Stan.
ding Committee, without examination, as We
must suppose, recommended u to he printed,
and the Senate ordered it be printed. After
tnis, aud about "A week snce, II Was refer
red o tue Select Committee. lhey examined
H. anu nave III t.tif y S'L CuStS
Of extra allowance, To contractors scattered
though these documents, embracing some of
the crosses. violations of the la. IN granting
away the public money TO mail cont, actor. the
allowances have been falsely set down as
having been made by Abraham Bradley, as AZ
ting or Assistant Post Mast r General. when,
in these very cases, the allowances were aCluals
ly made by the ptesnt Post Master General:
aud for the truth OF this refer TO the deposl-
ton Of MIR. Bradley, those OF the Clerks ia the
Department, and the report itsel OF The Posi-
Maste, General in answer 10 the call, all now
on the table before you, as well as 10 the state
mems OF the Senator'S fom Maine and Iennes-
see, (Nessrs. Holmes aud Grundy )who went
to the Department as a sub committee, by cur
directions to ascertain the facts. These doc
umrnts in each OF these cases, exhibit To yout
eve palpable erasures, where the name OF
L" William i. Barry. Post Master General"
has ben rubbed out aud that of Abraham
Bradley, Acting Post Master General" inser-
ted The result Of the examination was, thai
MIR Barry's name was originally written down
or the documents AZ the person who II, de the
allowances according TO the ,ruth-that the
name of NJ. Bradley was afterwards inserted,
and now stands 10 each OF these Ihnty SIX ca
se. which, call them falsehoods, errors, OF
what you please, certainly misIepresent the
fact Then il is also necessary TO state, thai
the letter of Abraham Bradley TO the President,
which was read 10 the debate HE on the re-
solution OF the Senator from tennessee, charg-
ing Mr.. Barry with gross violation OF the law
in some of these cases (partlcuIarly IN the
case of the South Carolua cuutrac was ~rl'-
ten more than year ago, and shortly after
his removal from oite-that this letter had
been sworn TO Uy Nj. Bradley IN The Commit.
tee. and that the tendency OF this falstcat' ON
Of the documents IL II was undetecttd was TO
CONVICT MIR. Bradley of swearing falsely, who IN
saying, ON bis oalh that the Post Master
General made the allowances, stated the
exact truth. Sir, | have bestowed much
attention on these papers, aud do moi
| undertake to say, that these are oil 'he
misrepresentation contained IN 'hem' lucy
are enough, however, to induce Tue oe"a'e'
nth IN ie'.tice ia II, own character aud tue