The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-08
REPORT NO 259.

cu;,,., of b,p,siiyafion con Congress, Isl session"
We lave said thai after Mr.. Clay succeeoed III e'-
fecing The election Of Mr.. Adams IN inc i'ou'' -
Representatives in 1925, over General JACKSON VINO
received bo h The largest electoral and popular
and after Mr. Ada ms had sPpoih'ed Mr. Clay ms DC
.rs,s,v Of s,ste-it was aseeriained that BON %
so.stsr If the House. aud as Secretary oil S'a'o'
Mr. CLAY rewarded, with the Peoples money, divers
,..h.,s of Congress who had Joined him in Procur'
ior the defeat Of General Jackson and the elevation
Of Mr. Adams to the Presidency
We have shown that as Speaker Mr. Clay a''o"ea
John Scott, q member of Congress from s'ssou'''
(who had cast the vote of his State Tor Mr. hdans
as Mr.. Clay did Kentueky,) upwards oil So'ooo as
mileage and per diem pay for single CongreSs-aoou'
double the amount previously and subsequently allow
ed to others and that John Scott was also REWARDED
aftsrw ards with the Appointment oil Land omce En-
amner the said Scott having been rePuaia'ed ny DIS
constituents for his exorbitant and unjust exactons
We will now proceed to show that in 1927, 1t was
discovered that Daniel P. Cook, the NJ Z. from ILL.,
nois, who had given his State for Mr. Adams had
been appointed to a secret mission by Messrs Adams
and Clay and was paid out Of the secret service Jund
although It has never yet been discovered What SCI
vice he performed, OF that such appointments was
necessary
kiessrs. Sergeant, Wicklfe, Rives, and Everett,
were on the Committee of Investigation, and had
power to send for persons and papers.
JOHN MCLEAN, Postmaster General, was examin
ed. He testified that MIR. Cook had been appointed
secret sgent to Cuba. That the sum of S. 90 per
apuum was named as the salary, sc. This sum may
have been named before the appointment was made
or the sum fixed.
III having been ascertained that it was the inten-
ton of Mr. Adams at one time to appoint MIR. Cook
in the usual to freign mission, and that IL
was afterwards thought advisable to appoint INN Sc
ere.ly so that the guild pro quo charge might not be
sgitated, the committee proceeded to elicit lno ma
ton on that point
/. Question by Mr.. Rirss Have you any knowledge
of any application made by MIR. Cook for the place oil
minister to Colombia
.qnsusr Hi, name was before the President
This answer was satisfactory.
Other witnesses proved that MIR Cooks health at
tho time Of his appointment would have disqualified
him for the performance of the duties of the office
and besides, he was ignorant Of the language spoken
At the place where he had been sent to act as Sc
cret agent!
But one of the most unreasonable, unjust, and
reckless expenditures Of the Peoples money made by
MIR. Clay, when Secretary Of State, was to MIR. }. A.
King, son of Rufus King, and brother of the present
Federal Abolition editor of the N. Y American II
appears by the Report under notice, that kuius hing
our Minister at London, left his son John temporarily
In charge of the Legation-John having been bis Sc
cretary of legation and being at the time IN London
But John assumed the title of Charge des .7tairss,
from LIST July, 1896 to the last of August following
lust two months. And what kind of bill does the
reader suppose this piotege of Mr. Clay made ou'
against the Government We copy firm the official
Report.
For his salary for two months, S75S Is
FOR OUTFIT 4.oOO w