The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-25

,...o,z;ng TO reflect how profuse expenditure OF
od paper has been made by the opposition press tc
-, with the dJapery of mystery very simple matter
N the principle of allowances, other than "hxed
,,h;rb have been made to Generals Cass and Tay-
T and are made ordinarily both TO civa and nilitary
e.. under acts of Congress, at the War Department
ore would think, after perusing all that has been
.d ont on this subject, from the first speech of An
low Stewart before Congress TO the last article in the
.igencer Of Monday last, that Gen. Cass, while he
s Governor of Michigan, had had the complete control
4 bs treasury and that he had put forth his hand and
himself for extra services and expenses in the public
oov without the authority of the Secretary of War,
:, ,ba Secretary of the Treasury, of the respective
auditors and comptrollers Nay, more that not only
care these four classes Of functionares-who in mon
~ affairs are set as guards to each otherasleep on the
bisct and not only had they signed and paid treasury
,rrrant, without knowing what they were doing, but
50. mnst suppose that they had acts of Congress
,lovjng such payments-no appropriations, with each
head Of which they keeping accounts by check and
counter check item and counter item but still more, that
cha EXECUTIVE who has taken an oath 'to see the laws
faithfully executed" sat by in each case, and let all this
onsrous train of fiscal operations pass sub slentto In
hi. category of delinquency must place MIR. Madison
and his cabinet eight years. Mr. Monroe and his cabinet
.ght wears John Quincy Adams and his cabinet four
and Andrew Jackson and his cabinet, eight years
We must take for granted, too that the Secretary OF
War wholly dsregarded the printed regulations of the
Indian Department." and the several acts OF Congress
which they are based.
This is but one side of the picture 1t is necessary
a. znrnoso that d,,riny tho Same snven
,i,l terms while the same officers respectively in
who mad been so lax as to let Gen. Cass draw his
allowances "any way" yet, when Gen Taylor came be-
fore these unaithfu and dishonest persons for his emol
umens" they were suddenly prcked up to honesty, and
a Nay your pay per month, at your very highest rate
ou major generals pay } is but two hundred dollars,
which you have swelled by "emoluments to $500
permonh You must give your certificate, honor, that
YOU have kept your horses, and occupied your eight
rooms and kept pay your four servants and DRAWN,
or that you are entitled to araw your treble raons, hr
~ and before all this was done, and the whole set of
forms of the and quaermasters departments
stesed and signed in due form, the said scrupulous
Secretary of War would not allow him cent; nor
would he draw his warrant the Treasurer of the Uni
fed States for it, nor would the auditor pass nor the
comptroller approve it. He Uhe said General Taylor
had actually to state and certify all this before they would
add his "emoluments" to his monthly pay. They put
him through the discipline OF the rules and arti
cles of war;" and made him very clearly understand the
difference between his s'pay" and his "emoluments"
II is remarkable the said Presidents, and SECRETARIES,
and auditors and comprolers, during such long PERIOD
had been so lax and unfathful TO let Gen. Cass draw
hi, transportation and travel, and horsehire, and other
wicked extras, freely, under all administrations of
both political complexons and Gen. Taylor had to sub
nit and certify his varying emoluments, from time to
time so strictly that Gen Cass should in all the
Of his long civil of services on the frontier have
received 1--WE take, for the moment, the highest whig
fgures but 900, and Gen. Taylor, without extra
vices but for everyday horse hire, forage, fuel room
rent servants hire and other contingencies, which vary
with every grade Of rank position, and exgency of service,
should yet have received $77 ,OOo-being $4,000
than Gov Cass received for all his personal OUTLAWS
and emouments during the whole period of his active
and perlous administration in the northwest.
We have made these remarks for the purpose of demo-
ting the extreme absurdity OF different set of principles
rules of decision less fired, less strictly in conformity
aw and to regulations, having been adopted by the va
ous Secretaries of War, under the administrations
question, during the tendency of the charges and
counts of Gov Cass governor, than of Gen. Taylor
general or colonel, captain. Convict whole
class of faithful and honorable functonares whose SER
vices reach through quarter of century, of derection
of duty, violation of law, and of gross avoritism, to
advance Gen Cass, whom perchance they never thought
Of helping to any distinctions which his innate
gles did not press to And as basis for this, presup-
pose that this upright and faith full public servant who
has lived from youth to age without spot his public
private character would charge and make out accounts
for travel, subsistence, and emoluments of Office, which
The laws OF Congress, the appropriation acts from year to
year. did not authorize and expressly provide for under
he strict action of the executive officers of the and
the treasury office We repeat it, the idea is absurd tits
IN direct opposition to all the known and admitted systems
Of action of this whole government, whose admnstra-
i've and departmental rules of action in its fiscal affairs
are carefully and vgilany guarded at every point And
he who doubts it has only to ask of the thousand claim
ants before Congress every session. why their claims
have not been paid by the departments The is,
generally, there is no law to justify it."
we are now placed in position to consider the re-
marks made under the very modest caption of whole
sale alsehood," made in the Intellgencer few days
since 1t seems, very much to the annoyance of the OPP
position, the question of allowances and emolnents of
oDn9' which are received by law er o6ico, had been
dven home with effective and resisess force as to Gen
layor This had been done in our columns without
charging him with having received more than another
ofhcer OF his rank would have been entitled to- had he
actually for all the emoumens and contingencies OF
'mpsevlce, court-martal pay travel, &C., done the