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Office, consisting OF the years 1879, $780, and TO the
3is July 1881, amounting 10 s3s75 and being Secreta
~ of War; when il might have been acted on he wrote
at the foot thereof follows, viz In the peculiar po
sition in which stand with relation the depart
ment. although the charge is not only unexceptonable in
itself but supported by previous decision OF the War
Department, yet willing should remain suspended
and not acted on till II with propnety be decided"
And remained suspended oil November 1897, on the
18th of which month it allowed by the Secretary of
War, Hon. Joel r. Ponset doc ll2 page 81 Gen Cass
entered upon his duties Secretary of War the 18th
August, ls3lhs final account superintendent of In
dian affairs having been rendered in the month of July
previous. According to MIR. Stewards statement tina,
account embraced large sum account of or the
other or both of the two 81 500 allowances vet docu
ment liz shows that it included only the amount stated by
the Auditor, S3,s75, the unpaid balance of the allow
for experimenting Indian agencies out of Michigan
and Ss75 he renowned "omitted em as the balance Of
the allowance for oss rent clerk hire &c. due from jan
uary LIST to July 3ls 1881, document 49, page l5 AS
the statement that Gen Cass after getting the money
by requsition the treasury, then suspended the
settlement" &c. sheer fabrication of Mr. Stewards
own brain. II is not only true, but there is nothing
in the document to the slightest justification for
making it and any at all familiar with the operations
OF the Treasury Department knows that equistlon in
such cannot be obtained until the account is finally
settled and closed So much for paragraph number one.
We shall convict Mr.. Stewart of Misrepresentation
equally base and malicious in the second
The statement respecting General Cass's drawing up
account about year after he appointed Secre-
tary Of War; &C., is wholly and entirely untrue; and
there nothing in the document to which Mr. Stewart
REFERS to justify anything like such allegation What
he refers to, ( Doc l2, Sd session 25th Congress,
page 1922 is the statement made by the accounting
officers and signed by them as such, of the result
OF the settlement of General Casss final accounts. which
settlement just pecedes ii in the document; and instead
OF its having been made out about year after General
Cass was appointed Secretary of War, it was not made
out till December, ls37-more than years after
wards, when General Cass had gone France. About
this there room for mistake, for it is dated
Treasury Department, Second Auditors office, Decem
Der s. 1897" and signed W. B. Lewis, Second AUDITOR"
and countersgned Albion X Paris, Second Comptro
ler" Nor does it bring the government in debt cent,
for it is exactly balanced General Cass being indebted
TO the government under eleven different heads OF
count, the OF S53,l2s %, and the government in
debed to him precisely the same amount under egh,
other heads Of account 1t is these heads of
which Mr. Stewart calls charges, The dates affixed to
the money, under the several heads or of the au
thorizng the expenditure for which the money was ap
proprated. All this the meres tyro could see at glance
on looking at the document He equally unfortunate
in the statement about the requsiton on the treasury"
as Ill be seen by the following copy of it.
"S35 O75-War De apartment No 29O6
$ TO the Secretary Of the Treasnry:
Sn' Please cause warrant for thirty five thousand
and seven-hve dollars to be issued in favor of Richard
smith for bill of exchange in favor OF T. Andrews first
assistant cashier Bank United States, dated May 1881
drawn by Lewis Cas governor of Michigan and
end.nt of Indian Affairs, who is accountable. [Then fol
low the heads under which he accountable,
fore referred to-
"JoHN RoBB,
"Acting Secretary Of War"
Thus, this s35O75. instead OF being for an old claim
for advances made by General Cass, for disburse
men in his capacity of superintendent of indian affairs
II being obtained by him. according the custom OF the
tme by draft favor of the Bank of the United States
and be being charged with ii the presentation of the
draft and the issuing of the requson for its payment
The statement of the accounting officers shows that the
money was dsbursed paid to the proper agents for
that purpose by Gen Cass and accounted for in his final
accounts rendered July, 1891 If there mis-
representation to exceed this, have yet to see and
1t was to this that referred in the first part of this
article in speaking Of the shameful use made of this doc
ument No. liz, by MIR. Stewart.
Mr.. Stewart states that "Gen Cass received between
$4,000 and $4,000 for sitting in his splendid and
Portable mansion in the city of Detroit enjoying his
champagne, with every luxury, and the society of his
family and friends, while Gen. Taylor enduring
hardshps on the frontier" We should like to know
where the gentleman obtained these facts He could
only have drawn his imagination for them for &C
cording to information, they certainly existed
where else We have been informed by gentlemen
who have been intimately acquainted with Gen Cass for
many years, and to whom his habits and well
known, that he drank glass of champagne in his
life and that probably there is not living more
temperate and absemious than he is, and always
has been. With respect to his "splendid mansion
from the accounts have had of it by those who
have often been in it, it must very much resemble VIII
General Harrisons described TO be- only inferior to
it. 1t was the old homestead on the farm he purchased
built OF logs clapboarded, and story and half high
And in this humble tenement he continued to live during
the whole time he governor of Michigan, setting an
example to his fellow citizens around him of fugality
and economy, far himself and family were con-
cernel combined with liberal hospitality to all who Wis
tied hn for of whatever state or degree ever
entered his doors, but received kind and generous wei
III Can