Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-03-10

chiefly Mr Bar,y's. Why were Msssrs. M'Lsan sud
u right; but MIR. Broca, by order OF the P,ems.-
ter General no said, had determined o,herv aol
directed this rules to take the eger and look q the &C.
count VI the contractor which ABUSED for each
quarter, and the credit Of the allow at the end Of
the quarter carried into Bradsys time, charge the
allowance TO him.
Itappeared that the account with Harrall was adjust
ed and balanced to the end OF tho quarter TO witt the
first OF April; and Bradley was then acting Post
master General this allowance consequently charg-
ed TO him. l inquired II this quarters account was
adjusted and balanced at the time II bears .iael The
answer no; and not, probably, until June. Who
ther, the allowance had been made between the rst
oil April (he end oil the quarer) and June the time Of
actual adjustment it would have been carried to Har-
rails credit IN that quarter The answer was that Il
would. DON'T you, then, we asked, the fallacy Of
who made the allowance, Your quarter closed on ths
hrst OF April and Bradeys functions ceased ON the It'll
aud your adjustment Of the quarter was made on the
time between the 7th of April and LIST of June and
you had carried 1t back to the LIST of April don't
you see you fix on Bradley an allowance made BY Bar
ry! Bring your original entry, where, concerning this
aowance' you hrst put pen to paper, no matter what
is the name OF the book the document They brought
the cash book; there the allowance stated, and
the time for which il made, but not when the ~,
cision was made. But perceive, in small note in
red ink, "see letter Is April" demanded the letter
and was brought; and, behold, IL was letter of Phi.
meas BRADLEY to Harra six days after Abrahams fune.
tons had ceased, stating that the Postmaster General
(bsrryl had examined his claim for extra compen lton
and mad directed him to pass the sum Of 81 ,992 So per
was settled The charge Of Bradley to the President
OF BarEys extra allowance true the attempt in Bar-
rvs official report TO shoulder off Bradley was en-
tlreiy defeated. The Assistant Postmaster General
Gardner, and Chief Clerk, Brown were forced - 80
init the error and that the rule which had ixed sbout
$4,000 OF allowances upon Bradley, took these allow.
ances from MLean, but chiefly from Barry where b.x
in fact belonged and charged them upon Bradley vhers
they did not belong. II strange indeed that iris
abstract should have been, at first, made out correctly
and that M Leans aud Barrys should have been
improperly erased and Bradleys improperly inserted
Now 1t is not 10 be that charges 10 grave AZ
those presented by Bradley to the President Of the u
Ss in his letter OF the 18th Of Oct, were never commu
ncaed to the Postmaster General Mr. Bradley had
been an Asst Postmaster General full thirty years. and
in all that me had maintained irreproachabe char
ac'er' he had been removed without being permitted
to know the cause. One of the charges Ito wits prod-
gaty) which he prefers against the Postmaster General
Barry, is attempted to be shondered off on him. This
the witness declares was the act of Barry him,
self, and proves it in the way have stated
The dispositions OF Brown, Dundss, Taylor, Sutev
and GardAer, admit the misrepre in mi, "sb
stract bat 81" lie innocent mistake" II NAV be So
aud we wish in all chart y, tina, had better srouni,
to presume it, This "absract IL neither an original
record, nor copy from any record. Ii states briefly in
each case, the amount of the contract the name of tbs
contractor, the of the extra allow and TO-
what time. Ii is nsither extract or abstract from
any record or document 1t 10 rather compilation Of
these facts from the letters the cash book and the
ledger II seems singular that there is no direct 70.
cord Of the time ,o these Allowances ,oere granted
Bu nevertheless happened in this case that the sub.
ordinate Office found no difficulty I'm hi.h
Postmaster Gsn did make the allowances and matthias,
but the rule promulgated by Mr.. o. B. Brown changed
the right into wrong. Now. it would seem that a
rule 30 utterly falacous this, would operate some.
times TOR and sometimes, against Mr.. Bradley; but
this strange tote operated in every case against him
and liked upon him the most numerous and ex r,va-
CANT extra allowances that were ever made In twice
ths distance Of time. Considering therefore, that MI
B'rry had been, long before this, presented to the
President for extravaganza in these allowances tb his
answer to call from the Senate had been altered by
erdsure' so as remove this charge from him. and x
IT on Bradley that the ialsiiy OF the official emf
had been detected and acknowledged by the officers
who had the chief az ement of the "a
Is for the public to decide whether such errors In
such department, which combine TO DESTROY ina
Ialr lame OF worthy and highly disiing uished sd-
zsn are to be ascribed TO gross Ignorance or base DE-
sign. o w.
From all the evidence which we obtained from IN,
deparmenit would seem that in less then four
Mr.. Bradley is made to have given extra allow
IN AZ cases; in thirty-six Of which Mr.. Mclean and
Barry were rightly charged, but their mama. ~e,.
erased and Brsdieys wrongfully inserted: Ii appears
though the call as to these extra allow
which was made nine months before IL was answered
EXTENDED also 10 the reasons, for the
yet very few instances has the reason or consider
anon been gwen; and in some il is found that IL has
been enormously given. In this very case of Har.
ran all that 10 have been gained for This
Sl992 per annum lie expedi'ing two hours in twenty
our winch, upon enquiry, turns be but an bonr
and hail. In the short tins that ihi, mass Of matte
mas been before us, We have discovered enough 10
con'ioce me hdt tbis mutilaed, maDgied, perverted
document never osght to go 10 the public with the
sanction OF the Senate The senator from Tennes.es
suggests that The petition and this NAV both
be published But the Committee know that The ma.
tton 10 true and the document not Shall we tbsn
give currency to official slandsr against citizen who
has served you nearly forty years with dis,ng usbed
ability and stern Integrity? IL his faithful services
could not save him from relentless proscription but
he must be cast upon the world in the evening OF his
days. penDyless, and without employ, surely we will
not give currency TO that which, true would CON
sign him 10 iDfsmy, but which we know is a sros,
fabrication. III you will to adopt resoIniion
directing the printer to enclose the erasures in broek,f.
and insert this resolution ia note at the bottom NJ
each page which shall contain an erasure tn. antdol
would then 20 with the poison. aud no harm would bo
dOne But, as II is, protest against su sh Injustice
Mr.. Grundy remarked, that he should not Oppose
Inc adoption OF the resolution. He never could az.
any public utility in either obtaining or printing m.
abstracts and il any member supposed thai r. ius,ie,
wood Do inhcted on any he should be s,iI less
inclined 10 have them printed. He was one of IN,
memb rs OF the committee who examined this sub;sr
at the General Post Office, and believ,d no impronsr
conclusion could be drawn II the abstracts the M,
mortal oil Bradley and the dispositions OF Mr. Brown
MIR. Suter, MIR. Taylor, and Mr.. DuDdas were r,n,
ed 'ogetner, the whole truth OF the would then
be presented, and imputation would be tbroxn a.
any one. Mr. Bradley alleged that certain extra al
lowances, purporied by the abstracts TO have b..n
made by him, which were not made by him but a
should be noticed, that there was no evidence that
these allowances were not properly made. IL was on
| " material to investigate the matter, BECAUSE MI
Bradley had stated In his letter 10 the Pr e,den, ~,
Major Barry had made more Of them, Uvss
| matter touching Mr. Bradley's yeracity what I,
ground. MIR. G. was DESTROYS that full iusise sbouH
be done 10 MIR. Bradley. but proieaIed