Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-03-08

ma had nsauccd this allowance To lIarrall liar |
aits contract was for coNyiur the mail from George
own tn Charleston, South Carolina for 200 dol
lars, and the extra allowance was 1899 d1la,s about
35 per cent; and the cause alleged was two hours
'Npedlii"n the law allowing oliV poor dt adhI. F,
non which woud have been ohnnt per NJ If
Ihc wv" hours expedition had hvu required. But
mere VAS another in the abstract, the cXpc~
"t"n required bci"g only ono and half hours.
Inns cNr1rn%ac". winch Rpdi2v III h!s letter to
,nc t,csn'"t' h'd charged Noon Barry. and had BE-
|oFe ne 'O"infse rcTifed hby his oath Barry had IN
an "ar'dt communication. charged blci; up,n Brad.
icy Tho rcpu,a'i III Of these two rrn'i.url sCcr,-
Cd, therefore tn b. so deeply involved h,t l. became
Ia" dnty nj the CArun.ucr u as.cr.ain how the
tact was, aud the sub-comn,tcc arcrrir-ly up
pointed.
IL pursuance Of this appointment, VIC proceeded
to the Department. Mr. B,c,y was not there; we III.
quircd ui Mr. Gardner, the Nssis mt and Others
for the persons who made the abstracts" and
Mr. Taylor md Mr. Dlndas were in;roGu Cd and,
al or prclmniry examination. were SWORN and.
testified. w" required t. the ensures, and asked
what was erased IL mix" the blanks which were
flied by Mr. Brah'cy's name They an .vrrcd Mr.
Earrys and Mr. M'Icaus, bat chiefly Mr D,r,y's
Why wore M"ssrS M'iran and Barfy'S ramn fire,
Inserted Because they supposed ~ was right; hut
llr DTo;rr by order at tho Postmaster General. as
he SAID, lad determined otherwise and directed h,s
rule: to take the Logger g. ouk ct the accoun of the
contractor Which was adjusted nr each quarter and
If the credit Of tn" aowanc" at the end OF :r quar-
ancc IN HIM II appeared that the account with
iorra'I was adws,e i and balanced % the cn! f the
quarter, 20 wat: the first of Apr and. as Bradley
WAS then acting Postmaster General, this allow
ance was consequently charged Ln Lim incurred
IL TINS quarters account waS adjusted and balanced
nj the time 1t bears date The answer was NJ: and
not probably. until Jane Whether, If the allow.
ance had been made between the first of AprI
IA" end OF he rIartcrl and June, the time of nc
'ull a'n-'m"n It wnull hay been carried to IIar.
rail credit III tha' quar!ci The arswor was that
It would. Don't you, thea. We asked, soc the fall
lacy OF yo'ir rule n proving who was The p.s,mas.
'r Gcnc5ui who nlic th> allowlnc y mr. omar
ter closed on tuc first of April md B5a He's iunc-
ton ceased on tie H. ana your n 'ua ninrt OF the
quarter was mnd, on l., first of lane. IF this al
I"wance had BE- n made any time between ,iir 7th
April and LIST of June. and You had carried il back
I" the list of April, dealt y"u see that vnu fix on
Bradley an allowance made by Barry Bnnr your
original entry, where CONCERNING this Allowance,
you htst put pen 20 paper, matter what Is the
name OF The book or the document They b-ouch,
"'ho cash book there The allowance was stared
snd the time for which It made, but not when tho
lsrisiOl made Eur | pcrc,Ivcd m \ small
note III red nk, sec let er Of l. Apr L. ( de
manded The I'tcr, aud it was brought; and, behold
/; WAS Il letter of Phincas Bradiey to IinrrnE s Y
days afcr ibrlhain's iunc ions had cca<nI ga
ting trnt the p 'stmas. G. neral barry had eya-
mined his clam for OK RI compensation and had
directed him pass tho sum of 81 1872 30 per ann
TO his credit, As extra allowapce. Here the thing
was seltl"d. The chrrge of B. ldlcy n, Press
dent of BlrTys extra allowance. was true; the at
tempt IN Btrry'S olicll report should. r IT off Oh
Bradley was entirely defeated. The assistant Pos,
master General Gardner. and Chief Clerk Brown
were forced TO admit the error, and that NE rule
which had !iEHd about 3 10000 Of allowances uunn
Bradley. took the allowances f nm N'lc,n br,
chiefly from Barry, where ID y in Gci belonged.
and charged them upon Bradley, where ,lcy dill not
belong. 1t was strange, indeed that tins atsir,c
should have been, at first. mad. out cor.cctIy nnL
tina M'Lenn's AMI Barry's nam's sh ,u|d have been
improperly erased and Brahcy's improperly ,nscr.
ted Now. II Is not to BE- presumed thar cnur~cs so
grave rs those presented By Bradley 10 the ~, sden
OF tic L. 5. In his letter of tn, 18th of Oct were
never communicated TO the Postmaster General
Nj Bradley had hes aa Assistant Postmaster Cian.
raj full thirty years, ana, in all that time had mai
famed an rreproaCEablc character He had been
remove ! without beng permitted to know the cars..
One of the charges trwi': p-rdirRl:tyl winch no
prefers agalns' the Postmlstc- G'n"r,l p rrv, is
attempted 20 lie shonHcrcd eff on him Ills = .
WI cs Gec'ar s on natI was the act of Barr him
SCI and Or vs. Il IN he way have stated.
The dispositions Of Brown, Dan las Taylor, snter,
and Gardner, dmit the misrepresentation in this Dab
stract;" but az IS innocent mistake" II may he
50, and wish, in all charity, that we had bcrcr
grounds to presume it. This "aostract is neither an
original record nor copy from any record II states
briefly in each case, the of the contract the
name OF the contractor, the amount of the extra al
lowance, and for what time. II is neither on extract
or abstract from any record document II is rather
compilation of these facts from the letters the cash
no direct record of the time when these allowances
were granted But nevertheless, il happcueL in this
case that The subordinate officers found no difficulty
in ascertainng which Postmaster General did make
the allowances; and nothing but the rule PROMULGATED
by Mr.. o. u. Brown, changed the right into a wrong
Now it would seem that rule utterly faliacious &C
this, would operate sometimes for and sometime.
against Mr.. Bradley; but this strange to tcD operated
IN every case against him, and fixed upon him the
most numerous aud eXtravagant extra allowances that
were made IN twice that distance Of time Consider.
q hat MIR IlarrI hal
ts presented 70 the President for cxtravauance in
these allowances, that his answer to call from the
Senate had been altered by ensures as to remove
ths charge from HIM, and fix II on Bradlcy that the
taiSity of the official document had been dctcc.
ted and acknowledged by the officers who have the
chief management OF the department, it is for the
public TO decide whether such in such depart
men which combine to destroy the fair fame of a
worthy and highly distinguished citizen arc Co be as
crlhed to gross ignorance OF base design.
From all the evidence which we Obtained from the
department, il w0Ild that in less than four
weeks, Mr. Bradley is made to have given extra allow
auccs ~ ~ cases; IN thirty six ot which Mcssrs Nc.
Lean and Barry were rightly charged but their names