The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-07-07
cASS AS INDIAN AGENT.

CASS AS INDIAN AGENT.
II will take some time and some labor 10 un-
burden from the rubbish of the Public Docu
ments, the facts connected with the admins
tration and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Gen. Cass as
an officer of the General Government. The
Democratic nominee has grown rich upon the
spoils of office, doing nothing, willing
enough TO believe, personally, but yet holding
most unscrupulously to the creed that ''to the
victors belong the spoils of Office" f.s.
Gen. Cass was Governor of Michigan Terri
tory, fIom 1913 to 1921, and received a liberal
salary as compensation in the discharge of his
Gubenatorial duties. His love Of acquisition,
and persevering application, however, secured
fer him an extra compensation, nominally for
Indian service, offifteen hundred dollars year
additional, as a salary, and beyond all this, ten
ra,ions day, equal to $3.50 a year. from the
date of his appointment in 1913, to the end in
| 1921. Here is an extra allowance OF 81 900
per annum, for discharging duties incident TO
the Office of Governor, which he held, and for
which he was most literally paid. All this,
of course, was independent of his salary as
Governor.
On the 30th of April, 1881, General Cass, af-
ter begging steadily for ten years, received SlO,-
500 as extra compensation, and on the 18th Of
November, 1889, 50 $50 was allowed him fol-
additional pay The particulars of this case
may be found in document ll2-254, Congress;
Sd Session, III. Of X.
In document pa, same Congress, | find the
following items under the head of allowance:
made TO Governors of Territories, TO cover ex
Ipenses incurred on account of the Superinten
Ident of Indian Affairs, for Office rent, cleri
hire, &c.
Lewis Cass, Michigan, from 0ct...9 1913,
to May %, 1922, 10 rations per day, at
20 cents each, So,ol'
Lewis Cass, from Oct. 8. 1913, to July 81
num- 26,7l!
Total. S33, 32
All received as extra compensation,
) In more important document, No. 8, pot
Congress, find the following items under tn
head of extra allowances" and where Ger
Cass appears to have received, not as Govemc
= of Michigan. but as additional pay while hold
& ing the office of Governor:
= Lewis Cass, for a per diem Of 50 for %
days extra sen ice, as Commissioner,
at the Treaties of Greenyille In 1914,
e and ST. Mary's in 1918, aud conclud-
a ing arrangements with the Wyandot-
ties in 1877 and 1918, S14
Travelling expenses, 2t
9 Attendance and travelling at Fort Meigs :.
in 1919, ~
n Attendance and travelling at st. Marie,
. in September and October. 1918, 6l
: Travelling aud other expenses incident
10 the Saguenaw treaty, in 1919, z
Do. do. 10 the treaty Sault st Mary,
l. 1920, 81
II Fifty days extra service before and after
l. the treaties, AZ
Commissioner al Chicago, So days, at IS
Isl per day, 1921,
ST Mileage for do. 8 dollars for every 20
n miles z
4 Attendance at the seat Of Government,
" 1926, for settlement Of his own ac-
er counts, la
I'd For treating with Indians at Wapaghko-
lie Meta i'm 1928, and allowances,
IL Same kind OF service, same yeaI, al frai-
e., RE du Chen, and carrying the treaty to
d, Washington, ~
of lSimilar service, 1926, in Indiana. inSept.
IS and Oct,
lis Similar service, 1926, at Fond du Lac, 3
ut months, Id
be lSimilar service, 1927, at Butte des
CO Morte, June, July and August,
adj Similar service, 1923, at Green Bay, July
ny and August, III
10 Similar service, 1877, at st. Joseph 'or
ly September,
ut IServices and expenses at seat of Govern
.se ment, Ill days, 1872, Id
ty Extra pay for services at Plqua, Ohio,
he Wayne and Chicago. 1922 to 1923: lO,'
10 Extra pay for services at Piqua, OHIO,
e's TT. Wayne and Chicago, 1929, 1851
ny and part Of 1881, 90
Of Total s27.(
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