The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-03-16

SHAMEFUL MISUSE OF THE PEO-
PIES MONEY.
In the civil and diplomatic appropriation
bill Is the following, for salaries Of certain
clerks IN The Treasury Department:
For compensation to the clerks In said Office per
act OF twenty-ihird June. eighteen hundred and
thirty six, entitled an act 10 regulate the deposes of
me public money, three thousand six hundred dol
lars"
The clerks provided for were authorized
TO be employed in the following section to the
act referred to in the above, viz:
"Seclon Is And be IL further enacted. That 10
enable the Secretary Of the Treasury TO carry into
effect the provisions Of this act he be authorized TO
appoint three additional clerks for his department
the one at salary Of one thousand six hundred dol
lars per annum and the remaining two at salary Of
one thousand dollars each per annum."
II will be seen that these clerks were au-
thorized for the purpose of enabling the Sc
cretary OF the Treasury to carry into effect
the provisions Of the deposite and distribution
act. Why, that act is obsolete or nearly so,
there being now, only some five or six banks
which are even called deposite banks; and
those barely so but in name and yet these
three clerks are continued At each of the
two last sessions an effort was made to strike
out this appropriation, and on both occasions
resisted by the chairman Of the Committee of
Ways and Means, on the ground, that Mr..
WOODBURY. declared that the services Of
these clerks could not be dispensed with by
him.
Who that looks back to what the amount Of
the revenue was from lands and customs for
some years prior TO the time that these addi-
tional clerks were authorized to be employed,
and then looks to see what it has been for the
last two years, and what it still is, but must be
satisfied that the same, il not smaller force,
could perform all the business of the Depart
ment now, that did at the former period
We say the services Of these clerks are
not required or necessary to transact the
legitimate business Of the Department. They
are kept there for other purposes. Under the
act Of June, 1886, R. Ella was appointed from
situation he then held in the office to the six
teen hundred dollar salary which it provided
for w. M. GoUGE was transferred from atem-
porary situation and thousand dollar salary,
to that vacated by Ella, which was fourteen
hundred dollars and two other thousand dol
lar clerks were appointed under the act.
Now, we will show the reason why Mr..
WOODBURY. is SO pertinacious in retaining
these clerks appointed under the act Of June,
1886, Notwithstanding the duties which they
were appointed to discharge have long since
ceased 10 exist This Mr. Ella, who in the
directory, styles himself "agent," without
the sanction Of law and who, as we showed
short time since, like Napoleon, and with
equal pomp, gives but single name to
his bulletins; is the Treasury scribe for
the Globe. Since the suspension Of specie
payments by the banks, when his legiti-
mate duties ceased, he has been almost con-
stantly occupied in writing communications
and editorial articles for the Globe some
lauding and putting the Secretary Of the
llOaSui5 oo'uO "uliiHS dSullot lHC UdHhS
and commerce Of the country some assail-
ing Mr.. Rives, Mr.. Tallmadge, and the Con-
servatives; many in favor of the Sub.trea-
sury, and very recently, those attacking the
report Of the investigating committee, and
endeavoring to defend Mr.. WOODBURY. from
the proofs Of neglect, incompetency and i'm
becility which that report fastens upon him.
Mr.. GoUGE is well known as the author of
a treatise on the Sub-treasury, which was the
origin of the scheme, and was no doubt writ
ten in the Treasury Department. He, it is
well known, is large contributor to the De-
mocratic Review, Of articles which accord
with the views, measures, and spirit of the
Loco. foco Administration; such as war on the
banks advocate an exclusive metallic cur
rency, treat of political crisis's," SC.
Another clerk appointed under the act, is
said TO be a correspondent Of Loco-foco
newspaper in another city, to shadow forth
coming events, by authority, and laud the Sc
cretary Of the Treasury.
Such are the purposes for which these
clerks are still retained; and we state it, not
on mere idle rumor, but on information which
we regard as authentic.
We wish the people to see this abuse Of
power, and the shameful purposes to which
the money paid by them is appropriated. =
THE LOCO-EOCo GOVERNOR OF PENN
This functionary, who, before he was elect
ed, was declared to be Conservative has
shown the clayan foot lie has daclared mar