Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-02-05
POST OFFICE AFFAIRS,

We make room, this morning, for tho brief NIB
stract-bricf we mean, in comparison with the I'M
mehsc volume of the document itsc.f-ofth the Report
of The committee of the Senate, appointed at the
last session, TO investigate, during the recess 81
Congress, the condition and management of the
Post Olite Department. Ii will furnish our real
ers with a glimpse INTO that charnel house ofoorrup-
,ion,-a dim view oil the negligence and fraud from
which hive grown the embarrassed state Of that
Observation-Disclosures in debt beyonds its means
10 pay, but by the withdra wal OF many mails
heretofore granted for the public convenience,
and, in ITS practical operations, exhibiting a most
disgusting scene of " confusion worse confound-
cd
When the reading of this Report was concluded,
MIR. Grundy on the part of the minority of the
committee consisting of Mr.. Robinson, oflllinois,
aud himself, presented d Counter-R Report, an All
s,ract of which we shall also publish.
The Report concluded with a bill re-modelling the
Post Office Dcpattment-thc imbecillty, If not
worse, of The present head OF that branch OF the
government having Developed vices in its present
organization, which, under the more honest and Ell
icient Management OF It's predecessors, were DOR
mant and undiscovered.
The consideration of these Reports led TO a long
and animated discussion, in which Mcssrs. Ew-
ing, Clay, Grundy, Clayton, Porter, Calhoun,
Preston, Cuthbert, Benton, Southland, and others,
took rart, occupying portions OF two days, and which
resulted in ordering 30, 600 copies ofthe Reports &
Documents to be printed. " The debate, says the
Nat,onal Inlelligenccr, strongly cvinced tho deeply
excited feelings produced by the dIssracefal AMI
mor,ifying disclosures of the Rcport'-We shall
Law before our readers a portion OF II, al least, II not
the whole
In connection with this subject, the lntc1l'gen-
Ger of the 20lh, contains the sublolned synopsis
OF the proccedn2s of the Senate on the previous
da
" In the SENATE, a Debate Of unsurpassed IN
terest. vivncity, and even yeiemencc, took place
which turned principally upon the alarming expo
surcs contained in the Reports from the Pos once
Committee, but which arose incidentally on a very
dire,en, subject. VIZ the presentation Of the Res
olutions of the Alabama Legislature, instruciing
the Senator, of that State 10 vote to cxpungc from
the Journal the Resolution of the Senate at its
last Session, ccnsuring he conduct ofthe President
in lie removal of the pubic dcposites from the
Rank of The Uuied States. The purpose was a
vowed of making a motion 10 that effect; and the
motion was rather invited than excepted to on the
other side. Objection, however, was made TO re
ceiving these Resolutions from Alabama, because
they were not III any manner addressed TO the Sc
nate, and because they p%urPorted to instruct the
Senators from that State TO do what they had no
constitutional power to do, VIZ to mutliate the
Journal of tina, body. Finally the subject was dis
posed Of by being laid on the table for the present,
on motion OF Mr.. SMITH of Connecticut. The
same gentleman then submitted the following rcso-
luton
aResolred, That the General Post Office is
decnlv in dcbt-its accounts and reports irregular,
unsatisfactory, and, in many Instances untrue
that large sums of public money have been vast
ed, and paid over to favored individuals upon false
nretenccs-and that lis conduct and administration
are Justly the subject Of public complain, and de-
mand "A radical reform.
"a This resolve lies on the table"