Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-09-09
" $4,000 DAYS Labor Missing y

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made by Mr.. N orse of this town against the man
ayers of the civil posse, in speech delivered by
him in the Legislature last winter, upon the
State Debt and other matters. The writer COM
mences by stating that Mr.. Morse endeavors to
establish the fact that $4,000 days service by the
Posse had been wrongfully allowed and paid by
Mr.. Mcintyre. This is a total misapprehenson,
in our opinion of the design of Mr.. Morse. No
such charge was made against the Land Agent,
and no attempt made to establish any such u po-
stion.
| 1t appears to US that the design of Mr.. M. was
too plain to be misunderstood, and whoever will
take the trouble to look over the part of the
speech referred to, will see that the object was
to show that all which was accomplished by the
posse might have been accomplished with 30, 900
days less labor than was paid for. The Age wri-
ter begins by saying that for sixty days, com
mencIng on the Goth of January, 1889, the posse
averaged four hundred men daily, and tells us
that "A 900 days labor made out in this way.
Here is an error of no small magnitude to start
with. The resolution under which the armed
posse was raised, passed the Legislature on the
oath ofJanuary, and Mr.. Strickland who made
the first enlistment received pay from the Cd of
February. Give him three days to ens: and
collect his force, and fifteen days taken from
the sixty, and 5000 days labor from his "a ,OOO-
Mr.. Mclnre in his report of 1910, says, On
the arrival of the Militia in the territory, the pos
Sc was reduced to force barely sufficient to
construct the boom and for a party of men at
Fish River" The Militia were called out on the
18th Of February, and relieved the posse early in
| Marcl. This, with the error before noticed, will
redute the "a, 000 days labor of the Age writer to
IA OF 1000 1T must be remembered that the
State paid for between Is and 10000 days labor
on roads and bridges, some of which, according
to this writer, was done by the armed ciUH force
he Keeps to guard the territory But the Land
Agent says in the report above alluded to, among
other labors the posse was "prepariag for and
opeaing The roads" Capt. Parrot who had charge
of the at Fort Fairfield, also says in his re-
port, that the men under his charge en-
ployed part Of the time the roads This labor
has been counted twice and must therefore be de
Quoted from the gross amount 1t helps make
out large amount of actually MISSING LA
BOR' that is not accounted for
In the calculation of Mr.. Morse, for greater &C
| curacy, the labor on the different works is kept
separate and then ample guard allowed for
the protection of the booms to secure the timber
In the first place he allows considerable more la
Dor on roads and bridges than was performed
there, can be seen in the Superintendent Mr..
Jarvis report then he allows all the labor that
was returned by the reports of the Agents hay
ing been performed on the two booms, and 5000
days for the erection of buildings, and then
the arued men for whom $3.50 days labor
allowed. But the labor on booms and buildings
for which nearly 5000 days labor are allowed
was done by the men attached to the forts, and
therefore goes TO increase the number of the
guard Ii is in this way that it is conciusively
made out that $1,000 days labor were paid for
more than was employed for any useful purpose,
to pay for which, the citizens of the State will
have to be taxed. This is only one of the many
facts, which go to show the incompetent, reckless,
spendthritt manner in which the whole ARGOS
took business was managed.
1t may be well to remark, while upon this point,
MI uOcS ia lHlS H. HI
exactly large number of days labor are ACT
UALLY MI SSING that cannot be accounted
for. From the reports of the Land Agent it APP
pears that the whole amount of labor by the civil
posse, exclusive of labor upon roads and booms,
was as follows. viz
Total of days service exclusive of
roads and booms, $500
Whole number ofdays service paid, S4,725
Which leaves 81, 225
Subtract number OF days expend-
ed upon roads and booms, 20,4S0 l-2
Deficiency, l5,747 1-2
Above we have an actual bona ide deficiency of
le,747 l-2 days labor An item truly astound-
ing, if it were the only one, But TO this we are
obliged to make still other additions consisting of
subtractions from the various branches Of the
service, alluded to in this article, in part, of at
least 10000 days, Nhis number we have put less
than we think it should be) which swells the
number of" MISSING DAYS LABOR, to the
startling aggregate of28,747 l-2!i The people
will therefore BEAR IT IN MIND, that THEY
have had to pay for at least % TAI 10 DAYS ser