The New York herald., 1845-02-18
SINGULAR HxPosUREs.
MORALS OF POLITICS.

SINGULAR ExPosUREs.
MORALS OF POLITICS.
The MEMORIAL or A. FircH.-G,vipg detailed history
Of the connexion Of his house Glitch. Brothers Co
with the Government, for ten ears navy agent al
ceedngs resotd by those sought and succeeded
in supercedpg his house that agency with the sane
ton Of the highest authority, Also. setIng forth the
balance OF interest due his house for advances made
the Government until justice shall be done.
TO The Honorable The Senate Of the United STATES =
The nndersgned respectfully asks leave to memo.
rial1s your honorable body and to set forth
which ho complains
In the month OF December, 1888 the undersigned, in
entered into contract with the Navy Department 10 re-
ceve in this country hundred thousand dollars per
anni to be paid over in quarterly instalments ad-
vance and to pay the same at Mnrsees for the use
OF the American squadron in the Mediterranean 10 such
officers, or on the acquisitions of such officers as might
b. authorized 10 receive it. The same was sgreed to be
paid IN Spanish piiared dollars consideration of pre-
minm and compensation Of four and three fourhs per
ceat, which included all commssi m allowances contn.
gehcie and every species OF service and expense what
other capacity.
Of the house Of the undersigned rendered the public
vice and the country during the first months after
they had entered into the contract referred with the
GoveSnment Whe'her their action confined to
mere selfish sordid and mercenary considerations or
whether they animated by the lofty considera
tons OF patriotism end desire to add and promote
the useinlness OF the public service the undersigned
leaves 1t 20 your honorable body determine through
the character Of the transactions themseve Whether
other houses might not have been found. who. under
like circumstances, would have ncommode themselye,
at period when the monetary affairs of the country
OF promoting the public service and in effect
public credit ahroat Isl matter which the undersigned
will not allow himsclfto hazard an opinion upon
subsequently the transactions ALREADY referred to
matters incy cd on REGULARLY and the be-
lievst to the satisfaction OF both partieshe receiving
from the department the sums the periods stpulated
for their and ardng them to his house al
harsalcs which dsbnrsed them the QUESTIONS Of
sented. ' = '1' '41aa'0n' - 'ney were pre-
In the latter part Of March last this state of things
interrupted and the that had 10 long ex
listed between my house and the department broken
off
The undersigned arrived in this city from New York
apd Immediately thereafter ION the 23l of March) ad
dressed the President OF the United States letter. begin
ming thus:
when was informed for the FIRST time that nv house IN
Msrseiles Fitch, Brothers COY was about to be su
perseded in an agency which has held for years
few days afterwards communication that had bee
addressed to me at New York, from the Navy Depart
the 2o.h March, 1884, and signed IL Warrington secre
5ary oil he Navy ad interim, from which make the fol-
"A new arrangement having been made BY the Exesu.
e for the business Of the agency Of this department
Marseilles, woud respectfully advise you that your
ed as dissolved from and after the ss Of the present
month"
In the letter which the undersigned addressed to the
President already referred to- Document Ss2 page 5s)
Il is stated that ait has been the pride OF mvse ana
brother at Marsees at all times to sustaip by every
meas in our power the honor credit of our ccunty
The doors private residence there for thirty
past have always been open to all the officers Of the
navy and al others OF our countrymsn whose business
or whose qualification in travelling brought them near
Notwithstanding all these truths we have not e.
caped the Efforts of the designing envous and Jealous
20 asodgs and suPercede us in the agency under the
contract Representations made to the department
an regard to the amount OF money that had RENAME in
n" nanas 2, my the that had accrued
erroneous charge Of $S4s7 81 having been allowed
us for commissions received; the whole Of which were
by order of your FRIEND the lamented Up
shur and the report that made was not only con
demnatory and disapprovng the allegations but comp
,nspty - my house" In the same letter stated that
Understood that Of charges were sbo,t to be
preferred against my house. and probably from the same
quarter and with the same object in view the pre-
vious ones also remarked, that if the agency was
withdrawn from my house without good cause it was
calculated to do great injury to commercial establish
ment, however strong 1t might be, and to wound the
feelings of the agents therefore respectfully ask Of
she President hu action should take place in the ap
pcintment Of person to supersede my house in the
agency at Marseilles until should have had an oppor
tunv Of meeting and rebutting whatever charges NAV
have been made and be still pending against ts honor
letegry and fair dealing in all It's transactions with the
In the letter remarked II make this request un
der the nl belief that In the spirit Of justice which
The desire that my house should retain the agency ar
ses neither from mercenary motives pecunary inter
ests The same spirit and motives animate that
prompted US to make the advances already referred
which the credit Of the country sustained in quar-.
continue in uninterrupted duty The same spirit and mo
tives nctuae us in this matter that induced the nm
dersigned at period when the head ofthe Treasury
the would he stopped for the want Of
TO carry to volunteer one of ten individuals TO
raise the said to be necessary to avert such ca
iamity Ii the motivea ind Tho md
signed when that same ocer expressed fesrs Of not
ing able TO raise the mans paying the interest part
o the public debt to offer and actually make provision
TO supply him with such for that ptrncse IL neces
sary That such offers were made is within the know
the truth Of which Nv Forward (were he here) could
bear witness"
On The morning OF the date Of the latter addressed to the
President the 2sd Of March, the undersigned had per-
s,pal interview with him. Some of the remarks made by
him on that occasion may be in the following ex
tract Of letter addressed to the Secretary Of the NAVY
under date OF the 30b of same month (senae Documeat
3sa page 20 viz: There going the rounds of
shs rs statement purporting to be
non the PRESIDENT and myself at the first inter-
view had the honor to have with him after nv arrival
in this city, !. there represented that the President in.
count OF one or two hundred thousand dollars
IRON he dinsrent accounts rendered by different c
Gers ei the Government
81 infer one of the accounts alluded 70 ia rerort ~
out nv order OF the late Mr Upshur while at the head Of
the Navy Dparmsnt on charges preferred against Fitch
Brothers Co. in series of false statements OF their nc
c1unt current with the eavy Department made ont nv
Mr Dskn OF New York which were fully inv estiraiea
nDA iouad to be utterly groundless.
THE other statement or examination, the President
said hal been made recently and in his possea
son This latter statement the President informed me he
shehd refer to you you entered on the duties
ol your ONCE
Afer the interview with the President referred to,
airessed him letter representing the great Injustice
that had been done my house by supercedng il in en-
agency bad long held and assert honsrably and
satisfactorily to the Government executed the dute:
thersof, on statements of which had notice and
Which we had no opportunity to examine. correct,
uts have os yet received reply from any quarter
The charges to which have referred, although lab
rcstsd by person named Dakin, have since | armed
thst when he presented them to the department he
accompanied by Mr.. q Benson, the person who has
nov nesn selected to supeede my house in the agency
sn' who Nv mat time. took great interest in sustaining
his friend Dakin who appeared Al the person who then
aimed o, filing the place in the that my house was
To prove the supposton in the Last nars.rsnb ahovs