The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-06-15
Facts for the People i'm Broken
Doses! Dose No. 2,

DOsts. DOse NO. y.
MORE REFORM AND INFRINGEMENT
We continue our extracts from Mr..
Bonds excellent speech in the House OF
Representatives. speech, we repeat, full
of 'nstruction.-Rsl Register.
Another precept fthe reforming report.
The committee thought the mode Of cap.
pointing and compensating bearers Of des.
patches liable 10 strong objections, prone
TO degenerate into species of iavoritsn
little short of convenient mode Of send
ing fdvorItes abroad 10 travel for their plea.
sure, health, or instruction, out Of the pub.
lie Golfers"
Prcctice.-The President and his Score.
tary OF State, both Jackson reformers, now
take favorite clerk of the State Depart.
ment, whose salary at the time was a. the
rate Of Sl760 per year, send him as bear
err Of dispatches TO Mexico, and for about
three months service pay hun Sl2l2 20,
and suffer him also TO draw his clerks sala.
ry for the period of his absence For this
refer you TO the case Of Robert Greenhow,
who is the translatlng clerk OF that Depart.
ment, all the facts of the case being stated
in the reports Of the Secretary. He ex
cuses this transaction, by saying that the
TRANSACTIONS, which were required during
Mr.. Greenhow's absence, we're made at hIs
expense. 1t might be well TO enquire
whether any TRANSACTIONS we're required
during that period, and why also II would
not have been as well to discontinue the
salary for the time, and let the Govern.
ment pay for any TRANSACTIONS which were
needed But do we not here distinctly
realize what the retrenchment report con.
demned in these words: "that an actual
incumbent IL considered ts have such sort
OF property in thu office as to enable him to
I farm out his duties, and to receive q part
Of It's revenues for doing nothing ?"
Another illustration of this " convenien,
mode of sending favor,tes abroad" "out Of
the public Golfers" is found lu the list of
contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.
| allude TO the case of Mr.. Charles Blddle,
who, when nominated by Gen jackson for
judseship in Florida, was rejected by the
Senate.
After this rejection MIR. Biddle was des.
patched by the Executive to Central Ame.
rlca aad New Grenada. What service be
rendered we know not but il appears that
for the mission an allowance Of 81, l22 81
has been made. Mr.. Chas. BlddIe is the
same gentleman who had controversy
with Mr.. Senator Grundy, 10 which the de-
vetion of the latter 60 Gen. jackson, was
questioned. We learn BY one of the print
ed documents, accustomed by that dispute,
that The Senator, for the purpose of proving
himself 10 be what is called a whole bog
Jackson man" said he chad swallowed the
hog not only whole, bui wrong end fore.
most, taking the brstles against the grain,
and had gone for all Gen. Jackson's bebtaII
nominations, even to Charles Blddle.h
You NAV remember, Mr.. Speaker, that
great fault was found with Mr.. Clay for al
allowance to John IL. Peasants, who was
employed as bearer Of dispatches and sal
out on his voyage, but being taken i'll was
obliged to abapdon 1t, though he caused
his dispatches to be safely delivered. In
rihe account, which am now examining,
we find the sum Of 81 500 70, paid by MIR.
Forsyth, the Secretary Of State to Eeazer
Early, sent with dispatches for our Charge
d Afiaires at Bogota, but which were new
er delivered. The sickness of Mr.. Plea.
SAINTS furnished no paIia,Ion, 10 the minds
Of the reformers, for tho paymen. made TO
him, though he caused his dispatches to
be safely delivered. Yet these same gen.
tlemen find ample pretsxt, in tho alleged
shipment Of Mr.. Early, 10 pay him S3ll 80
for expenses, S,537 81 for clothing, bedding,
and books lost, or abandoned by him, and
SIG for one hundred and nineteen days
compensation, at Sc per day; though his
dispatches were never delivered !.
At this same time, too, MIR. Early ap-
pears to have been receiving salary Of
81 500 a year as Librarian of the House OF
Representatives ! 1t would seen that Mr..
Secretary Forsyth is no, a stranger to
convenlen, modes Of sending favorites
abroad, TO travel for their pleasure, health,
or instruction, out of the public Golfers"
also fluid tina, S2,5l5 are charged for
contingent expenses of William I. Barry,
late Minister to Spain. Now sir, 1t is well
known that Mr.. Barry never reached Spain,
but died on his way there. He, of course,
received the usual salary and outfit, and |
am at loss to know what contingent ex
penses incurred by him, could justly Ia
charged to the United States,
There appears, also, to have been paid
to John R. Clay, in 1886, 1881 Al as
compensation for certain diplomatic ser
vices" This gentleman st that time, held
the place of Secretary Of Legation at ST.
! potershnrn with a salary af S.. 900 a wear