The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-11

George B. Porter late governor Of the Territory
General Cass (seo Doc No. 8. P; So. received %.
during four years and five months 3! '- sam 60
j might also refer to the of Governor Duval, of
Florida and Governors Miller lizard, and Pope of Ar
Kansas and others, all the different departments OF the
governments but to do SO would be consuming your time
But, after all, the gentleman from Pmnsykana has
not in his own Legislative career manifested any antp-
athy to these extra allowance 92y lew d;ys ago.
whilst he was Register of the Treasury-amounting to
$23,5s2 u, and whilst Mr. Nourse was during most OF
under consideration and its merits were fully
discussed, and the gentleman could not have msunder-
be yet
grauity Mrs. Harrison, widow OF General Harnson,
$4,000 do not give these instances for the purpose
of showing my disapprobatOn OF them-tOr Of that DO
not speak0but merely to exhibit the spirit and feelings
of the man who has made many OF these reckless charges
will now, Mr.. Chairman, direct the attention o. the
committee to the in which the gentleman has
stated these several items in his printed speech. order
to exhibit its uairness, and the injustice done to General
cass One Of the charges arg M IN s S
gentemans speech From October Q, 1913, to July 81,
1884, ~ 800 per annum, extra salary when by refer
ring to Doc ia, find instead Of beng for exts. sal
ary was to cover his expenses for oce-ren clerk
hire, fuel stationery" &C. In noting the item Tor ma
king treaties, &C., Greenville Saginaw, and Sault Ste
pairing before and after traaty leaving naked and un
Ineligible and conveying the impression that Gen. Cass
had really put much money into his pocket wltnout
having performed any service to deserve III wnen
the language used in the document lNo ~ nom
which he copied is this: "And for nifty d9ys extra
serpices, previous and subsequent to the aacEesnd
treaties in preparing for and carrying INTO eoecf the
several stipulahons thereof" explaining TIN part OF
the item Satisfactorily AS the rules OF order will
not permit me to state why he has resored to the Pro-
crustean system here leave it you to determine what
inference might be drawn from it, In his second ltae
ment which appears to be general he asserts tAs inf
teen hundred per extra salary (the to which
have before auded) from 1913 to 1884, nearly eighteen
years was "paid in 1881" which years after the
services were rendered Now, the documents and the
accounts stated show that the several amounts paid
in 1922 and thereafter whenever the accounts of General
Cass were audited There postponement or re-
fusal OF payment, and extraordinary delay. The gen
eman from Pennsylvania has inserted in his speech
particular and general statement of these items OF accoQn
and in his addition of of his columns OF hgufe he
has committed an of than four thousand dol
ars and it will be seen, that if he had entered the Items
properly, and made his calculation correctly, 1t would
have satisfied him that the impuation OF General Casss
charging twice for the same item was without founda-
ton l.,,as
dwell on this portion of his speech, which, from the
adoit manner in which drawn up s calculated, and
perhaps designed to misead and deceive the people II
such was not his purpose why were not all the items OF
account set down they appeared in the ocal docu
ments from which they purpoted to have been taken
Did he act upon the maxim that calls fair in politics ~