Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-07-26

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81. Fifteen hundred dollars per
anuum extra salary from 1921
20 1881 about ten years, bling
part Of The ob5re : usars II ,37J
4ta. Specific charges for ~ days
OF iheubove time, Al S. per day
i0ceuls mileage. in attending OF
Indian TREATIES. at Washington
to settle his own account, and
Tor extra pay as ebove, prepa-
rlng an Indian code &c, being
upward OF SIC per day for the
time specified as above. 1912
Total S964l2
This last charge, with his three salaries,
one fixed at 5000, and two extra salaries OF
81 800 each, make his pay for this period a
mount to Sll $50 per aunum--more than
ss3l per day. Sundays and all included, exClu-
sive OF his rations, taken from the pockets OF
the taXpaying people OF the United States by
Gen Cas- tor mis- services as governor and SUI
/ perntendant OF ludian Ailairs for the Terri
4 tory Of Michigan. at a fixed salary OF OF $4,000
per annun. ii such were his extras asa ter
ntorial governor what will they be as Presi-
+ dent at The same rate they will amount 10
I upward OF 500 coo per annum which he
would have just as good right TO claim as ex-
oficio commander-inchel OF the Army aud
Navy OF the United States. Where is the diff
teTeucel
In connection with this, there was the
TACT that some Of these accounts were made
out and certified while he was himself Secre-
tary Of War; but, not liking to pass own his
accounts he elt them Tor his SUCCESSOR with
the endorsement that they were authorized
and correct. And yet Gen. Cass was great
H. to, Ialf
maxim that "lhe peoples money must be care
FULLY guarded ior the peoples benefit. But
he (Mr S.( thought that the General had in
this case rather ''overstepped the modesty OF
nature" whatever the opinions OF others
might be. But this was not all that General
Cdss bad received. Besides the above which
be received as Governor OF Michigan and ex
ofiicio superintendent OF Indian Affairs. he
WAS about five years Secretary OF War at &c.
GOO per annum, being total oil $4,000 dol
lars.
lie was subsequently some years minister
to st Cloud at $1,000 per anuum, being SOD,
900, with an out fit of $4,000 and an Unfit OF
81 900 making total OF some 81 ,3O0. The
amount oil bis extra charges during his travels
in Europe and to the Holy Land he had not
yet acceriained; he presumed they were con-
siderable. Add to these sums his per diem
and mileage as Senator from Michigan, his
pay as an officer duting the late war with
Great Britain, and il would presen, an aggre-
gate OF between twoand }hree hundred thou
sand dollars of the peoples money. Enough
he thought, to satisfy amy reasonable man; but
ii seemed not; he wants a couple hundred
thousand more as President. OF the private
conduct and character OF Gen Cass he would
say nothing, but his official conduct was "A
fair ami legitimate subject OF discussion, and
he would not shrink from the discharge OF his
duty, be the consequences to himself what
they might.
1t was to the extra charges he wished to
coll The especial 9ilentl0n ri his trends, and
he would be glad il they could furnish some
satisfactory explanation OF these eXlraordlna-
ry charges which he feared they could not and
would not give.
He hoped the friends of-Gen Cass would ex
anime these matters and be able to give some
explanation of them. The people OF this
country would expect this TO be cleared ~
some how or another, though he believed i
would be found there were no vouchers to
sustain these extra chargrs-not the oath OF a
single witness to establish their justice, bus
they were left TO depend mainly il not alto
gethcr on the statements by Gen Cass himself
on his own ipse dirt. But his hour was
last wasting away and he must hurry on.
There was another thing TO which he desi-
red to refer. Ii he had the time he would
like TO refer to the expenditures during the
present war with Mexico. He, however had
not the time to refer satisfactorily 10 this
wasteiul expenditure OF money. here haa
been much OF it squaudered among Preslden-
parlizans and iayOrles; some rewarded with
high Offices as Pillow * Co.. aud Others with
fat contracts They had paid Tor the hire OF
steamboats, alone S35l ,63l month, and the
sum OF 81 10 $50 had been paid for old and
worthless vessels. But be had not time to
these matters in detail, which he had before
him; he might put them in his speech ii he
should ever write 1t out
But he must hasten to advert TO another
thing, which would show how the great
economists OF this Administration spent "the
peoples money for the peoples benefit"
His attention had been called to the fact that
this Government has been expendlng the peo-
pies money for the benefit OF hundreds of
their partlsans and pets for actually doing
nothing; and in many OF the custom-houses
IN the country at this time the receipts were
wholly inadequate to the payment OF the OH
GERS who were quaitered on the public. For
instance, there were fifty Gus tom- houses, Of
WHICH lie lldl ildie "a llSt. lIldt corrected lUC
sum OF S74, 425, rs; TO collect which an ex-
pense was incurred OF SOL ,075 80 over a nd
above the entire receipts OF the otilces-o
clear loss to the Treasury OF this amount I,
support the party; making, therefore, al eX-
penditure OF S433, 50l ,l6 paid TO support Gus
tom-houses that paid not one cent into the
Treasury. There were twenty-one custom
houses whose aggregate receipts were S32,-
2lS 80, the whole OF which, together with
S210. go %. was paid 10 set OF idle ofh-
GERS ostenslbly employed III its collection, bat
actually doing little or nothing; gross sum
without any receipts TO meet the expenditures,
OF 1902 2iS67 thrown away on avorites!
There were likewise ten custom houses which
the sum OF 1857 10 only which
cost the Government $50 24o 81, or S35 ISL
Ia over and above the whole receipts And
that was using "the peoples benefit, accord
ing TO thu Baltimore resolutions. On, say
they, you must take care TO snend the peoples
money for the peoples benefit and here, a,
an example, was an expenditure OF $50 PAS.
3 to collect Se61.l 49, Ii gentlemen had any
ioub on this subject he had before him
Transcript from the official statements, made
)ut by an officer of this House, which he
would hand 10 the Reporter; he had no time
iov to rea it. Here is a portion OF the list:
Statement sdolriag the gross Gm0um of roc
eaHe COLLECTED III the toHolcing districts, and
the crcesS Of expenditure beyond The du-
ties TecsiUed for me year lSl5-'6.
Is VIZ, at