Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-03-16

apartment TO employ any extra assistance INA
could be adsanag eously applied IN Fastening theii
answers
| would now inform the committee that great
progress has been made IN respect TO those part
Of the answers connected with the Register
office and all which could be made, CONSISTENT
with the difficulty and extent of the labor, in The
Third Auditors Office. But II is feared that, on
account of this labor, and the great mass OF pre-
vious calls by committees and by the two Houses
of Congress-. which are also to be answered, be-
sides transacting the current business in the dbl
ferent bureaus, the whole details and the tabu-
lar statement required cannot be completed dh-
ring the session. Every effort however, which,
under all the circumstances, can be madc,i be-
lieved TO e eXerteo TO meet the cali al tle caf
est day practIcable
! In respect to the last branch Of the resolution
asking swhat defauters retained In the same
offices in which they became deiaulters, or have
! been appointed to Offices | am able to present
the report of the Reg sier, from his office, which
exhibits such names as are on his books counec-
ted with the State aud Treasury Departments
| 1t is annexed, and contains no name as to this,
and but one as the State Department. That
one is Commodore d. Porter; and by the cores
pondence annexed, it will be seen that he does
not consider himself defaulter, though he stands
on the Registers books for considerable sum on
account Of prize money: explained in the pa
oe,s mos and p Respectfully.
| LEVI WOODBURY.,
Secretary of the Treasury.
| Hon. James Harlan,
! Chairman of Investigating Committee.
PART THE DEFALCATIONS OF MIR.
SWARTWOUT.
/, THE EXTENT MR. swARTwoUTs DEFAL-
CATIONS.
Conclusions of the Committee.
LIST. That Mr.. Swartwout is detaulter 10
nv his
adjusted from time to time at the Treasury de
partment, in the sum of one million two humid
dred and twenty five thousand hundred
and five dollars and sxty-nine cents.
3D. That this amount of Indebtedness has ac-
cumulated upon the face of the quarterly
counts regularly returned by him for adjustment
at the Treasury Department, without the omis- /
sion of any Of either items, debit or credit there
on, until it became an absolute dedication.
2. THE DURATION OF MR.. swARTwoUT's DEfAL-
CATION.
Conclusions of the Committee.
1st. Tha; all moneys received by MIR. Swart-
won't as collector prior to 1887, were regularly /
accounted for by him in his quarterly returns 20
the Treasury Department.
3D. Tha. SO much of al! moneys received by /
Mr. Swartwout prior to 1887, and accounted for
to the Treasury Depar tmcat IN his quarterly re-
turns, not paid by him into the Treasury
were retained by him under the taclt acquies
and regularly carried forward, debted to himself,
in the balance Of each subsequent quarterly &C
count rendered by him to the Treasury Depart
nent to the close OF the term of his office.
Sd. That his omission TO carry debit to him
self of the moneys received by him from the
Treasury, from other sources, prior TO 1887 TO
he close of accounts kept only at the custom
house. called his cash accounts. and his carrying ,
debit to himself of any such items to any 9th
n class Of accounts kept only at the custom-house
called suspense and unsettled accounts, or !:
" any other name, would not operate as con- !
ealment, innocent or fraudulent, from the Treas ;
Try Department, of the true cash balance in his
lands First, because neither his cash account, "
or his suspense and unsettled account, nor any
ther subordinate account, kept at the CUSTOM J.
rouse, was ever exhibited to, formed the ba-
is of any quarterly settlement made by HIM !.
nth the accounting officers of the Treasury :,
because, Ia his quarterly account set
ID AT the Treasury Department, the aggregate =
nd true balance of all his subordinate account, =
ept at the cus.om-house, including both his :,
ash account and suspense account, was uniform
:, prior to 1887, carried into his quarterly &C =
punt under the item of "cash and unsettled &C
ounts."
4th The defalcations of Mr. Swartwout, by N"
eans of fraud and false returns, commenced in =
S37, and not sooner, and have existence since "
lat period; and the dealcations thus accruing ):
lded to the moneys previously retained by him, .:
,cording to his returns to the Treasury Depart J.
ent, and by the silent acquiescence of the Off >
,rs of that Department until the close Of his l.
rm TO Office, constitute the aggregate of his de- y,
lcasions at the present period E,
}. THE CAUSE MR.. swARTwoUT's DEFALcA- ii
TONS. Y
CAUSE l. The responsibility Of Mr.. Swart-
out in pecuniary character at the time OF bis ap- b
ointment; to office pt
Conclusions of the Committee. OF
lst That the time of Mr.. Swartwout's ap-
ointment and his reappointment to office, he was y
holly irresponsible in pecuniary reputation. and as
as involved in debt. b,
I'd. That at the time of his appointment, and OF
: the whole perc5 he in office, he was no
riously engaged in large and hazardous specu-
ton, and deeply embarrassed by them. re
Sd. That his pecuniary responsibility and con- m
quent inducements by hazardous specula;ions, Of
institute one of the primary causes of his defal- BE-
tons to the government. m
CAUSE I'd. Culpable disregard of law, and n
glect of official duty, by the late naval officer oh
New York. fc
Conclusions of the Committee ul
The late naval officer RI port of New