Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-07-17
or cuARrER OF sTEAMBoATs.

Ia short, sir, by this document It appears
tina, there were chartered during the year
1887. lhirty.6ve steamboats,, forty three
schoonprs. two sloops. twenty-five briggs, six
ships. making in all one hundred and eieren
ressefs chartered during the year 1887, for
the prosecution of this Florida war--this
war, sir, which we. a nation oil millions. have
wsged for years with some five hundred ma.
ked warriors. And besides the one hun
dred and eleven vessels chartered find up
wards of one hundred contacts, some Of
them OF very large amount, for the trans.
portaiior Of troops, fOragc, ar'ns, horses Sc
dining thni year. for this war. Sir, the par
" lie power is justly chargeable with having
involved the county nthis war unnecessari-
y. and then Of having wasted the money APP
propriated tor its prosecution.
will give also another charge from the
same document: :, for Transporting 100 cords
oil fre-wood from N Orleans 10 For Brooke
East Florida, and Que assistant surgeon
$1,000" Here, sir, is charged fioenfy dot
Ears per cord for carrying firewood from ~
Orleans, besides the original cos, and other
expenses; and that, too, 10 county where,
as am assured by gentlemen well ucquain-
| I'd with The country. thousands OF cords OF
pod could be cnt in sight Of the tort TO
hich this wood was sent | am also inform.
"a tha. wood has often been taken from Flo
riia to ~ Orleans for sale; and should not
be surprised il the wood was originally from
Florida, and after being shipped to New Or
leans and properly seasoned, was shipped
back again TO afford lutte patronage. These,
sir, are few specimens of expenditure In
the Florida war for 1887 could for hours
read charges equally obnoxious 10 censure
and, sir, have had u resolution on your Ia
bic ever since the first resolution day OF this
session, asking the Secretary OF War for q
detailed account OF the expenditures OF the
war; and the friends Of the Administration
by some miserable subterluee or quibbling
point OF order, refused to call for the state
ment And YET. sir, this is called repre-
sentative Government, and we assume TO bt
the Grand Inquest of the Nation, and III,
People are told that all officers, from III,
President down, are strictly accountable
We, we cannot ask how S30000,000 oflheii
money has been spent without being Told BY
gentlemen that the Opposition voted supplies
; for the war, and that these expenditures are
extraordinary" Truly, sir, they are /" ca
| [TdOf6tn0fyj anu thViVio'c ~ 10 nut VIC
, mand full and explicit statement US 10 Ihei
nature.
am told, sir. that steamboat was Offered
10 the Government for about $4,000. and
! refusing to purchase, they chartered her un
Ill they paid some $4,000. | am told. sir
that plank in several instances have cos
: 81 IS per foot. 6 IS per hundred feet. Al
: SO, thai fire-wood has cost $50 per cord. SiI
il is the duty Of the Administration party 4
give the People light on this subject and 4
relieve themselves, il they can, from tn
!, charges Of waste and peculaton.
i Document No l27. Of I'd session Of 25t
Congress, is letter OF Mr. Poinsei,, Secre
:. tary Of War. In that document | fnd
r. communication from the Commissary Gene
!. raj of Subsistence. addressed to Mr.. Pom
set, and there perceive that the Govern
y ment. after purchasing unnecessarily vas
amount OF provisions. &c. "lor the army, ser
il to the Cherokee country" and having n
!. use for it, ordered il 10 be sold, and | vii
/. quote an extract from that communication
n "The supplies sold consisted of so barrel
Il pork, 2.645 barrels -four, 62l barrrls bar
n bread, 272 liz bushels beans, l6 IL bushel
!. corn-meal, 1863 bushels corn. SOC bushel
J. salt. 75.027 pounds sugar, Al ,297 pounds co
+ fee. 5.4Ss pounds rice. 53i,029 pounds b