Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-07-20
80, ami part of 1881, at $1,000 per an
mum,
1875
s6O.4I2
Total extra CHARGES.

lst His regular salary as Governor ana er
oficio superintendent of Indian affairs
oer AMMAN for Sbou, iS Years, 10000
I'd. Fifteen hundred per aunu'n extra sal
ns;J IN ls sal " ~ 26,7l5
each each for between nine and ten years, 6,6lO
Sd. Fifteen hundred dollars per annum
extra salary from 1921 to 1881, about ten
years being part of The above 10 years, l4,375
dth Specific charges Cor az days of the
above time, at SO per day, and 40 cents
mileage, in attending at Indian treaties,
at Washington, to settle his own
counts, and for extra pay as above, pre-
pairing an Indian code, &c. being up
wards Of 10 per day, for tho time speci-
fled above, l2,7l2
Total S96,ll2
This last charge with his three salaries, one
fixed at $4,000, aud Two extra salaries OF 81 500
each, would make bis pay at this period amount
TO 81 $50 per anrun-more than S3l per day,
Sundays and all, exclusive of his ratons, taken
from tie packets of the tax paying people of the
United States by Gen. Cass for his services as
Governor aud Superintendent of Indian Affairs,
Tor the Territory of Michigan, at a fixed salary
of $4,000 per annum If such were his eXtrus
as n territorial governor, what will they be as
President? At the same rate they will amount
to edwards OF 100000 per annum, which he
would have just as good right To claim as er
o6ico connander-in-chef Of the army and navy
OF the United States. Where is the difference !?
in connection with this, there was the fact that
some Of these accounts were made out and GER
ilfed when he was himself Secretary of War /;
but not liking TO pass his own accounts, he left
them for hts successor, with the endorsement that
they were authorized and correct.
And yet Gen. Cass was great economist! -
He subscribed to the Baltimore maxim, that "the
peoples money must be carefully guarded for the
panple's benefit" But he (Mr. 81 thought the
General had in this case father exceeded the
bounds OF moderation, whatever the opinions of
others might be, But this was not all that Gen
Cas- had received. Besides the above, received
as Governor OF Michigan, and er o6icio Superin-
tendent of Indian Affairs he was about five years
Secretary of war at $4,000 per annum, being
total Of $4,000. lie was subsequently some
sx years minister TO 81. Cloud, at $1,000 per an
nun, being $4,000, with an outfit of 80 900 and
AN init of Si,500 making total OF some $97
aO0 The amount of extra charges during his
travels in Europe and to the Holy Land he had
not yet ascertalned; he presumed they were con-
side rabie. Add to these sums his per diem and
mileage us Senator from Michigan, his pay as an
officer during the late war with Great Britain,
and 1t would present an aggregate Of between
two aud three hundred thousand dollars of the
peoples money, Enough he thought, TO satisfy
u reasonable man; but it seemed not, he wants
one hundred thousand moro. OF the private
conduct and character of Gen. Cass, he would
suy nothing, but his official conduct was fair
and legitimate subject Of discussion, and he
would not shrink from the discharge OF his duty,
be the consequences what they may. 1t was to
the extra charges he wished 10 call the especial
attention OF his friends, and he would be glad if
they could furnish some satisfactory explanation
OF these extraordinary charges, which he feared
they could not and would not give.
He hoped the friends Of Gen. Cuss would ex-
anime these matters and be able to give some
explanation OF them. The people Of this coun
try would expect it 10 be cleared up somehow or
other though he believed 1t would be found that
there would be 10 vouchers to sustain these ex-
ira charges not the oath of single witness TO
establish their justice, but they were left to de-
pend mainly if not altogether on the statements
by Gen. Cass himself, on his own ipse d;rit. But
his hour vas fast wasting away and he must hur-
rv on.
There was another thing TO which he desired
to refer. II he had the time he would like 20 re-
fer to The expenditures during the present war
with Mexico. lie however bad not the tune 'o
refer satisfactorily to The wasteful expenditure Of
money. There had been much of squandered
amongst Presidential parsans and iavortes
some rewarded with high offices, such as Pillow
& Co., and others with fat contracts. They had
paid for the hire of STEAMBOATS, alone $35 G3l a
month, aud the sum of $ rs 800 had been paid
for old and worthless vessels. But he had not
time to refer to these matters in detail, which lie
had before him; he might put them in his speech
should he ever write it out Blu the must hasten to
advert to another thing, which would show how
the great economists Of this Administration spent
"'hc peoples money for the peoples benefit -
His attention had been called TO the fact that
this Government has been expending the peoples
money for the benefit of hundreds Of their par
tisans and pets for actually doing nothing; and
IN many of the custom houses in the country al
this time the receipts were wholly inadequate to
the payment of the officers who were quartercd
on the public For instance, there were fifty
custom houses, of which he mad made list, that
collected the sum of S74425,77 to collec,
which, an expense incurred of 1891 075 SO
over and above the entire receipts-a clear loss
to the Treasury of this amount to support the
party; making, therefore, an expenditure Of
S43o, 5Ol 10 paid to support custom houses tina
paid not one cent into the Treasury. There
were twenty one custom houses whose aggregate
receipt were S32,2lS,39, the Whole Of which, to
peiher with s270,2602e, was paid TO a set OF idle
officers ostcnsby employed in lis collection, bu
actually doing little nothing; a gross sum
without any receipts to meet the expenditures
Of $500, 49S,G7, thrown away on iuvorts J.
There were likewise Ten custom houses which
collected the sum of $S67, 10, which cost theGov
ernment $36,2i63 81, or S35, 3S ,l3 over and abov
the whole receipts And that was using +" tn,
peoples money for the peoples benefit" accord
ing TO the Baltimore resolutions Oh, say they
you must take care to spend the peoples none
for the peoples benefit, aud here, us an example
was an expenditure of S3624S,32 TO coec
$S67,i9 If gentlemen had any doubt on thi
subject, he had before him transcript from tn
official statements, made out by an officer OF TIL
House, which he would hand to the Reporter
he had not time now to read 1t. Here is poi
ton Of the list;
Statement showing the gross amount Of rovenu
collected in the following Districts, and IL
excess Of expenditure beyond the duties r.
ceiyed for the year lol5
Excess Of ExpeT
Districts. Gross Revenue. ditures oeyon
Frenchman's Bay, GALS 33 Sl4,5O6
Marlborough, 2,l55 70 1888 {
Kennebunk, 500 :i3 2740
Saco, l9l az $40
York, 1913 "a l,l66
plymouth, 1922 IA 25,7l6
Ipswich, Nothing. I2i