Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-02-19

4 Accounts Of the iicuse we Yesterday eSsn;nestI
counts OF thls coamce apdascertaned that il - .
more than SSoOOOt to got this report. What use
IL DC Nien II it was no, out? want 10 SEQ '''o
every ncighborhood. | made charges four years in
60 uhSs .ns rost Once Department. Kissed, ar
o' uoing So In the report ofthc committee my char
are inlly and more than realized report on this
Jet IA another quarter, had been called factious IT,
people wished to have information from this Uousc
repeat, that the report made yesterday ,tore than
aiizes all my charges against the Department / mo-
10 PRINT oJoOo copies without the document: they az
unnecessary. don't want TO leave the publication
the reports to the hrcng newspapers which iust nc
out enough to suit their purposes
nir H. Everett said the gentleman from Tennessee (sI
Nruche, was mistaken The whole expense of the /.
scsug'uon did not amount to than 50 500 Ii ha
'ee,i mace with The srctest regard to economy. II
Mr. Soddert dd not say any thin i'm relation, ~
the nu;aber of the reports which should be nrnid No
would never be in favor of excluding l0ht from the
PIC. Inc history of Congress, he believed did not pre
et case IKE the present. whore committee con ali
tud as tins was, IN AN extensive had bcen
enabled To concur so generally regarded facts and
c, Inc reports contained an authentic view of the
eus-ue very evidence which the people would desire
20 see The committee had extracted the kernel and
thrown away the husk He therefore THOUGHT il wholly
unnecessary TO print more than the usual n1ner of tb
documents accompanying the repo,ts NJ H. -
man from Rhode Island was DESTROYS of cxtendnS ;nt
t'"ii on me subject to as many possible his object
would BE- better answered by appyin the n,nonnt ;oL
would cost to print the 1000 extra copies of tho
nens to the publication of additional number of the
reports. Vi "ie
Mr.. Barringcr thought sufficient nun,bor of ,h 49,
ports and documents should be printed 10 snnnlv no
cefk Offices and the publishers of newsnoners Z; ,L
than 5000 copies - ~ "uH'oei
- Mr. Everett, of Vermont said he had understood tba,
expense OF printing 1900 copies of the reports and
lars. ~ o'OOo wv
ir iiamcr said, ifthere any business which ouob,
~ ue uone oy human beings in the dark il was not the
ousiies' Oh cSIsiation Those who undertake TO pre
SCRIBE rules Tor the action of themselves and others ob
ut least 10 have some light upon the subjects will rcJ
TO when they propose To legisate
rost Office Department 1t was fashionable 10 condc
H. IheIe seemed 10 be general inclination to bear il
FOR one, he was not disposed to oin in the ,ye
eral hue and cry against the Department He eeon
CURED entirely with his honorable friend from K cnl
'0hnson( IN the observations he let fall the other
s"y ne had known the Postmaster General long and
known mm Well he had the most implicit confidence
~, m honor ana integrity, both public man and pri
waite citizen Entertaining this opinon of him l,o,is
not condemn him, until he had the most uno,os,;Ii
evidence OF The impropricty of his conduct
saiu ne ana not know and therefore would not so,
ou mere might have been subordinate officers i'm the d.
p IN VINO were not honest lie would not say for
he did not know, but these subordinates ioh b,y ~
Icted statements to the Postmaster General which had
uecelVcu MN, and upon which he might have made or
ets hat were detrimental to the public interests nut;
nm enough TO condemn him. when have heard the
proof Ii was time enough for him to ronsl t; ic |
"sn ne had heard the evidence and heard The defence
ma lhe commentary upon that evidence When ~ !
hoe SUBJECT shall be presented the reports printed and
"iu on our tables; when have had time fo road
~ uti.Detate upon them, and have heard the De-
1artment in reply, then should be prenared 70 ~,
" s9eVer is wrong, said he, shall be among the first
% cohuehn. III any thing is wrong, but has circnn
lnces connected with which ought TO be received ns
snail insist upon those circumstances having
'os bnt whatever is right although alleged to
- Mios' wheier the charge be made by political enc
mes or those who were political friends mon The sr
"S ~ ne would be prepared to defend to the last
What are we about to do here We are asked N vo,
OF The printing Of 10000 of these reports without %
''g one word OF their contents. They have not beep
~ AZ we Know OF them is, that beyore oensi he
experiment. Sir, go against this system will No,
rus ISi legisate IN the dark upon any question
Nhat nave we seen in another part of this Can;toI,
peak OF what learn from the news papers: every b
nows they are good authority report was maJ ,by
"a ihalorlty and minority of a committee Before
S eouio DE printed and laid upon their or our tables
oi Is passed, which has come down to this Uouse ~
e-oiganise the whole Post Office Department. Thus
sentence Of condemnation upon it without an ex
on o' the reports ct their committee or hearing
ne WORD IN defence Thus declaring that the whole ~
a iinent IS SO rotten and corrupt that reformation
iiipos SIS 1nYt must, therefore, be thrown in
!. - nm az ID over anew. The passaae of,ho
party