The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-10-27
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Cnss.-Extrn Pay .-NIiIenEe

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CasSs-Extrn Pay -NiIenge
When the Locofoco papers and stump
ers, in this district and the one immedi-
stely north of us, opened their batteries
against our Congressional Candidates, on
the pretence that they had received too
much pay for mileage, we were confident
that they were using an 'edge-toOl. which
would cut both ways But they have
done so, and we shall now rotOrt upon
them and exhibit such glaring over-char-
ges, that the most violent partizan of
Lewis Cass will open his eyes with as
tonishment upon what he will term the
dishonesty of his Candidate.
What we have to say Of Gen. Cass'
extra charges, we will sum up in few
words. We intend, in this article, to
deal, principally, in his extra mileage
We have the document before us to prove
what we say. l, is Executive document
No. Sc, of the last session of Congress.
It is open to the inspection ofall, and we
here say to our whig friends, that, should
any item be disputed by any Locofoco,
bring him in and we will prove it to him
in such a way that he dare not denyit.
CAss has received about J0Hrtimes as
much extra compensation as any officer,
military or civil, since the formation of
our Government, with the single excep-
ton of Gen. Scott, and more than twire
as much as he.
He was appointed to office, in 1906.
and has been in the pay of the Federal
Government, save very short time, ever
since. We copy brief summary of his
charges from the New York Tribune -
We have the documents to substantiate
every item. The Tribune says:
1T at he has been well paid is no just ground
Of objection to him. so FIR as he was paid the uusal
and regular salary pertaining to his station. But
that a man we'll paid as he was should go before
Congress- years after the service had been render
ed and mid for. with demand for extra allow.
ances on his old back, oug.settled accounts, this
nnnears TO us despcably sordid and utterly in.
corsist-nt with the chnractar which be6ts a
| President
"Luok at the facts Gen. Cass was made Gov
ernnr ~ Micbionu and superinteudent of Indian
Affairs in 1913, at salary Of g. 900 per annum.
Thut is far better SALARY, considering the rude
infancy and scnnty population of Michigan in those
days than the 81 600 wear paid to the Governor
oG New York. And at all events. il was the legal
salary. If h. didn't think it sufficient. he migbt
hnye resigned nt any time.
But Gen. Cass held on. like the careful man he
il until he 90, a much better office at Washington;
and now he comes down upon Congress with all
enormous bill of sundries. First he claimed and
received /. 500 per anuIm extra for his superin.
t.ndeuce or Indian Affairs amounting to $267I5
or tbreelourths Of his original snary over agaiu;
next he has claim for ''laliOns" (his OWN at 81
per Jny for eiylt or nine wears; then he charges
s8 per day for his time spent in making variou.
Indian Treaties with travelling and incidental ex
penses iourneyna To and from the various Trea
ty.proui,dS; then 40 per div while attending a
Wesbngtnn n, set,Ie his nccouuts. with forty cent,
ner miie lor travelling allowance. with n liberia
item Ior .x xnenses, fand in his way lie charges fol
two iourneys from Detroit to Washington. an,
a,te duuce there. once III 448. and ngnin 81 500
. anil tban be ,bnroes G,r sunerintendiny certui,
ImJinm Asencies in Other Territories from 1929 1,
l83I no less tbnn $l4,375, or 81 500 per anrl,m
ntbouoL he had charged and received 81 500 pe
annnm extra as Tuer,n'enuen. o TmS u ha n"" "o,r
ay extorted from the Government three salnrie
% ,9 same ,d sDv or oan a Aars
the second Of $l,5Oo for saPerinteOding Indian
nar;"'s"din~ Mm m, rs",aa I Indmu AZ SSrs ON, Of ii"
ierriloryi and in addition to all this he charged th
vsrv ,ms "s oc,pIlv S1 p1 @ syaoed % IL making Indm
tr aties, or as in Washington settling his uccou"t'
%im @ ~" % SsO, Us m W;s @ I."0 w homes, s"arv or th
~ years he was Governor Of Michigan was $35
si;n, bn,d;n" fN,TVU InJon 'rrea,;es Sc wouJ hav
a made the compensation geperou' one, lIstea
r. rieI W through face Congress @ at a time when h,
as Gen Juckson's Secretary OF War, had immens
I,' ~enry twice ice over his original salary rtbes
charges nre far and honest (no matter what lee tee
have called them so1 then the Treasury may b
'wamped At any time oy the presentation nn, o. @ a'
not Irir, and every candid man who sees lher
5 must realize it. II they had been. they o woul