Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-07-01

ed out by the majority Of the Committee Public Expen
dues, and confirmed by the minority, the following
In amount Of notes issued under act Of July,
1876, outstanding LIST December, ls47 Sl7s $50
Amount of notes outstanding December ], lS47,
of loan Of 2sth January ls47 .......... l,43I4Oo
Amount Of notes funded prior to 3Oh June,
lS4f, OF the above issue. %, oVo
8. The minority of the committee also show that, inelu
ding the above the Secretary his report to Congress- or the
tables accompanying that report committed more than twenty
amounting in the aggregate TO more than nteen mil
lions OF dollars five of which, aside from those above stated
exceed each million Of dollars and exceeds millions
of dollars.
say the minority admit the existence Of errors in the Sc
cretays report the of fifteen millions OF dollars
And, if in this, stop here that may be correct
ed. After pause Mr. X. proceeded. have the figures
before me- and will refer to them prove any proposition
that is denied want to bring this thing to point wish
to present the result shown by the report OF the minority
ITSELF full as 1t OF groundless charges against committee OF
the House. want the whole question brought within CON-
PASS that all can comprehend it. All these which
have thus conssedy TO be found in the
Secre,as report the tables referred to by him in the
port and sent with to the House state these results IN
order to have the thing tested
And now one word on the gross attack made by the mno
y Of the committee the report OF the majority II would
have exhibited better ase and been more IN accordance with
what due this House, had the Secretary whoever else
furnished The report the errors or satisfactorily
explained Them than bring here such report has been
laid before the House nomnay from the minority OF the Com
mtee Public Expenditures. acquit the gentlemen in
the minority Of that committee from all personal blame In the
matter they had of course TO rely such statements
furnished them by The Treasury Department; but
do say that the Secretary whoever else in the Department
is the responsible in this NATTER has been guilty of
gross insult Congress He should have shown if he could,
that the alleged did exist but, instead of this he
has made very ndecorous attack the majority Of the
mee for alleged to exist in their report He has
sought change the issue He does not deny the main
charges against him and his Department. but points out minor
the committee Whatif the committee did fall into
mi in yyhil
cument officially submitted to Congress Did this
subordinate officer of this Government in rudey attacking
committee of this body charged with the task Of examining
that document feel that il due to my excellent friend
from Pennsylvania Mr. STRoHM) to expose here, do
highly discedtable the Treasury Department
You have heard it said that the majority committed
of STAT 700 Now the House will hardly believe me when
tell them that those very figures taken by the commit
tee from the Secretarys report yet such the fact and
the majority Of the committee themselves make the following
statement in relation to this very in their report
But mark the discrepancy in the said be
funded
In the first item of that part Of the Secretary's
report, above quoted the deductedas
being the amount Of Treasury funded
under the OF July % 1916, is. 81, ISL 600 90
Ia the first item of the last preceding statement,
being one Of the ingredients in making up
the fourth item above referred to- for the
identical amount of notes funded under
the act Of July %, 1885, during the fiscal
year ending June SO, isi7, we have the
OIL l,bSS,3UO Oo
Making difference o................. s247,7o 90
The question naturally occurs, which is right
This question the committee NOT prepared to
Both may be wrong but certainly they both be
right
Simply because the committee relied upon stated
by the Treasury itself they have been charged
with being themselves in The Secretary gave
for the thing differing from each other and because the
majority the committee assumed the first of the two being
correct the minority charge them with having committed
of 247 700 and multiplied by forty And this makes
forty OF the charged the majority. II is piece of
audacy in the Department rarely equaled TO send forth
statement like this; and still reprehensibe TO pursue
this course in regard committee OF this House. whose duty
to examine into the public expenditures and especially
into the Treasury Department do not charge this the
minority OF the committee not at all charge upon the
Department for requires days, aye, and nights too, to
look into such confused Of figures that report
tan than believe has been bestowed upon by the
gentlemen Of that minority themselves Their report Of course
eInanaies from the Treasury Department
Then there is mistake of S72 in the footing Of column
Of figures which is put down in the minority report eleven
different times and this makes eleven Of the number Of
mistakes vauntngy paraded in that document commit
ted by the majority.
Then there is in the report Of the minority gross mis-
statement Of fact They say the consists in making
the whole Of Treasury actually reimbursed dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, ls47 S2454, 1917 or
instead Of S., ,597 or showing Of So 500
Whereas the majority in their report the whole
reimbursed during the period referred to or
Exhibiting the same page the amount
funded at 3,OSS,sO0 W
S2,454, 1877 OF