Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1846-06-18

these remarks the committee dismiss tina
snd proceed IN notice the second charge
In that charge Mr. lngersoll seeuse,
Mr. Webster with using the public moaey
TO eorrup The party psesses Among the
agents employed by Mr. Webster, under
be authority Of the President, ~ above er
planned, was Mr Francis o. J. smah, OF
the State Of Maine. There Is N the DE.
panment OF State, among the papers rslat'ng
to the sec rot service fund. letter from that
gentleman TO trWebeier, which coalAlos an ,
expression that he lar smah) had us-d the
money ofthc Governmeu, in that way -
They = d''m II nrc~sssry or e'oedi !
EMIT specification Of tho eos Of
~ -s." owos employed in secret
: -,.... TO. .. qu.rr in,o the propridy OF
rpr 'y fE 1I,u's ,or secret service wi.h,o
the lltnus Of The Unhed States and paying
them on, OF the contingent fund for foreign
iuiercoursr, but will content Themselves
wth simply temarklng that the testimony
they have taken fully explains whatever is
OF obscure or doubtful meaning IN this let.
er, and remove. every foundation 81 be
I lief or even suspicion lha, the public mon
ey WAS used or attempted to be- used TO cor.
rup, the party presses Thus brings the
committee to the third anu lott charge that
when MIR Webster went out Of Office h. was
public defaulter
From an examination OF his accounts, IL
uppears that when he retired from office
there was Of the moneys that had been en-
,fus,d to hm sn apparent balance Of
1920 in his hands, as slated by Mr. Inger-
soil. The expenditure Of this sum remain.
cd to be accounted for by him. There seems
10 have been delay 10 procuring vouchers
from the agents whom Mr. Webster had
employed for the moneys advanced by him
TO them. For payment Of thousand
dollars which he claimed to have m1de on,
OF the fund IN his hands, he alleged that the
vouchers had been lost, mislad or not pro.
cured. aud it has not yet been found or OBJ.
,aiued though efforts were mnde by him to
find or procurcn These causes occasion
I'd delay in the settlement OF his accounts
for some eighteen or twenty months
In the autumn Of lS44, the period
having arrived when it was necessary
for Mr. Stubs to close his accounts at
the Treasury, and Mr. Webster not
having then procured the necessary
vouchers, he proposed TO pay the ap-
parent balance against him, with the
understanding that the Government
should refund to him he subsequent
" procured the evidence OF his pay
ments. This proposition, which pro
, ceeded from Mr. Webster, was needed
! 10 by the President of the United States
In the month of November Of that
{ wear Mr. Webster procured n voucher
, for the payment of 5000, and paid in
cash $4,000, the residue Of the appar
$ rent balance in his hands. This mon
cy was RENTED by him in part from
T Boston and in part from PhiladcI phln
In the following winter he yiSltec
, Washington, and on the lst Of FebTua
nv, 1915, presented vouchers for pay
!, mcnts made by him while IN office
4 and not before credited TO him, to thu
:, amount of Sl050, which the Prcslden
A of the T. s. directed 10 be refunded
r ao1 'ha. cunt was then paid 10 MIN
;. NJ Nrt.'.- was urged by Mr. Stubb
!. to c...,cto.l transmit his accounts ant
g vouchers, that Mr. Stubs might clos
|, his accounts with the Treasury, bu
# the committee find no evidence Of an,
7, threat ofexposme having been mad
J. bv the President, which induced tn
"a payment ottheapparcnt balanceng
;, hun.
If be assumed that Mr., NehSte
. was correct in his impression that h
had paid the above mentioned thot
, sand dollars out of the fund in hi
y, hands, and if to this amount be adde'
- the vouchers for $3.50 procured b
- him after his retirement from office
ID making together $225O, and this las
IN amount be deducted from $229O, III
n. apparent balance against HIM, 1t WI
he show that the real balance IN his hant
he when he went ont of office was 81
de only. On reviewing his accounts, II
of keeping of which was for the mo-
IN part entrusted by him to Mr. Stnbb
s the disburslng agent, the commltl'
ie have been led 10 doubt whether on Il
oil final settlement an item OF S5OO WI
&c not by mistake carried TO his cred
which had been before allowed hlr
y This error was pointed out to the cor
~ mittee by the dlsburslng agent. /
~ whom the account was drawn up an
on the settlement made. He proves tn
lee it was at his own suggestion, and n
mr.. at that of Mr. Webster, that this tie
1 L.. ~ N
ied settlement. II is not necessary to s
his into the particulars Of the history
Sc this item and OF the cause Of the IN
es take, # one was made. The commit
eb' deem II sufficient to remark that
per- blame rs imputed to Mr. Webster, WI
ld they ARE satisfied was not aware al
D." probably II not now, that this item b
~ been before credited 10 HIM; nor is {
A.. disburslng agent, WHO drew mp (