Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-07-20

| why, sir, quote as reply to these ques-
tons his own words, in another passage OF
his own letter-'The world will know hin,
at last, and assign him his true rank
Truth is omnipotent, and public justice
certain.
Among Mr. Kendal's reforms may be
mentioned his leading agency in the
removal of the public deposites from
the Bank of the United States. TO
effect this, he carried on system of
billing and cooling with the state banks,
and, in the language of certain Senator
(Mr Benton 'debauched them yes,
sir, debauch is the word l apply it to
the Government and banks, though the
Senator thought the People had been
debauchcd, and applied it to them. For
this work Of 'debauch,' which proved so
serious curse to the country, this agent
was employed 81 days, and was paid for
this service the sum of $3l6 II, being
about ten dollars day for a job which
has occasioned much of the embarrass-
ment under which the country now labors
He got $40 day for doing this injury
to the public-a Woodworking laborer
finds it difficult to get his dollar day.
But still MIR Kendall belongs to the
democratic party, and whilst he received
his $40 day for that work he also re-
celved the regular salary of his Office
This appears to be an established
usage of this Administration. The
case of the Attorney General is already
mentioned. The reports from the De-
partments show several other cases,
though l will now only add that of the
commissioner of Indian Affairs, who
was for a while acting Secretary of War
and during this period drew the salaries
of each office, being at the rate of
SO, 600 year.
But, MIR Speaker, no man better knows
all the uses of office than Mr. Kendall.
| have read political tract, written, l
thing, by Dean Swift, entitled somewhat
in this way-'The convenience of
place at Court, or sure mode of provi-
ding garments for whole family Mr.
Kendall appears to understand the mo
dus operandi of this matter. The
printed list of clerks in his Department
exhibits his father-in-law and two ne
phews, with salaries of $1,000, 81 200
and 81 400; and thus we see a family
provision ofnearly SO, 200 a year, inclu-
ding his own salary. But Mr. Kendall is
not the only officer who thus takes care
of his own household. If provision of
this kind be evidence of faith few of
them will be found 'infdels.' The Pres
idents son has an office, which | have
already mentioned, Of 81 500 a year,
The Secretary of States son, until very
lately, held the place of District Attor-
ney in Alabama. A near relative by
marriage of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury has comfortable annuity of ST.
400 in the Navy Department another
holds the appointment of naval officer in
Boston, with a salary of $4,000 per
year, besides being President of the
Lafayette Bank of that city and third
Is the Cashier of the Franklin Bank of
that city, which became q special pet
under the pet bank system. These
gentlemen would all make excellent
sub-Treasurers!
Mir Bond said, when the proposition
tor retrenchment was under considera-
ton here in 1928, the friends of MIR
Adams, by way ofproving that he and
they desired every just economy and
reform, pointed to his Message recon-
mending it. How were they answered?
Why, sir, Mr. Ingham, who soon after
forwards was made Secretary of the
Treasury, said it was indeed true that
the Message did recommend it, but he
wanted to see more practice and. less
profession in this matter. There were
no specified reforms found in the mes
sage; he could only find there one of
those formal recommendations, which
were as unmeaning, he said, as the
words your humble servant at the foot
of letter. Mr. Randolph, in the same
debate, used this language, on the SUBJ
Ject ofretrenchment and reform
"The President did recommend them
in one of those lofty generalitics with
which all sermons, political or religious,
abound; which might be printed in
blank, like law process and filled as oc-
casion might require. But, sir (said he)
l am for looking at the practices, and
not at the precepts of the parson, politi-
cal or religious"
Mr. Bond said this rule of Mr. Ran
dolph was perfectly just; it was thus
shown. too, to be avowed by this Adj
mlnlstration, and he was willing to judge
them by their own rule, and thought to
this they ought not to object. lie would
leave 1t to the House and to the People
To saw whether tho tnrna4;nor,of th;s IL |