Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-08-02
GEN. CASS' EXTRA ALLOWANCES.

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ticto superintendent of Indian Affairs. The ON
office included the other, precisely the office
PRESIDENT carries along with ii the commandershil
IN chiefof the Army and Navy of the u. S., ant
Mr. FOLK would at this moment be as fully entitled
to EXTRA pay for services commander in chief
as Gen. Cass for services as Indian Agent. Such
however, was not the opinion of Gen. Cass himself
During eighteen years he was continually in the
habit Of receiving extra pay the sum total of which
amounted to $66,4l2. We take the following i
TENS from the speech of MIR. Andrew Stewart de-
rived from official sources, and thus far, not denied
upon the floor of the House of Representatives.
The statement is substantiated by Document No.
22 1889, third session of the 25ih Congress, page
z.
From October 9th, 1913, TO May 29th, 1922,
(eght years and eight months) ten rations per day
| co cents each) S6,6lO.
From October 9th, 1913, to July 3lst, 1881,
Slo0O per annum extra salary, $26,7l5. The
sum Total OF these two extra charges is So, 325.-
lhese extra allowances were said TO have been
passed by MIR. Calhoun, though the date is 1881,
SIN years after that gentleman had gone out Of Of
| flee.
Document ~ Of the same session, page Is,
partly embraced In subsequent accounts, $4,750.
flity'hve days per diem, at IS per diem, travel
ling expenses 40 cents per mile, in concluding trea
ties at Greenville, QSl4) ST. Mary's, (lSlS) Sag
inaw and Saul de Marie, and making arrangements
with the Wyandottes, &c., from 1917 TO 1920, as
per Document No 6, Sd session 9th Congress, pa
ges ] L and IL, (being extra compensation 50 days
preparing before and after the treaty, $2476.
Per diem, Sc, (SS per day and 40 cents per
mIe) at the treaty of Chicago in 1921, 1896.
For attendance at Washington, lS2l-'22, (2OS
days. to settle his own accounts, and mileage 90
ratlons per day. and Sl032 travelling expenses,
Sl44S.
Extra services as Commissioner to treat with
the Indians at Wapaghkonetta, and at Prairie du
linen, IN 1879, ~ days, daily pay and mileage,
5000, taking treaty TO Washington $2092-244S.
Similar services in Indiana in 1896, 40 DAYS,
1852
Similar services in Fond du Lac in 1926, 65
days, $500.
Similar services at Butte des Morris in 1897. 60
days, $3.50.
Similar services at Green Bay in 1928, &c days,
Slip.
Similar services at ST. Joseph's in 1897, 10 days,
$24O.
Services and expenses in Washington city in
1928, preparing code for The regulation of Indian
Affairs, and mileage, Ill days, $500.
Services for experimenting Indian agencies at
Pi4ua, Fort Wayne and Chicago, for the years
1872, 3-4-5-6-7-S at $500 per annum, $500.
Similar services same agencies lS29-'3O and
part of 81, at $500 per annum, S3s75.
Total extra charges, sixty thousand four hundred
and twelve dollars, for eighteen years, being more
than three thousand dollars per annu for perform
ing duties attached TO his office as decidedly as the
command of The Army and Navy is to that of the
Presidency.
But this is not all, nor is i. by any means the
worst feature of this business. 1t appears that he
charged and received pay, four times for the same
period of time.
First. His regular salary as Governor and En-
oFFIcIo Superintendent Of Indian Affairs, which
was all that he was entitled TO, AMI which, at two
thousand per annum, amounts in eighteen years to
. $4,000
I'd. $500 per annum extra salary FROM
1878 to 1881, nearly lS years, paid in
1881. 26,715
Rations, ten ratons per day for between
nine and ten years, 66I0
3rd Fifteen hundred dollars per annum,
extra salary, from 1921 to 1881, being a
part of the above Is years, l4.375
4th Specific charge for 772 DAYS of the
above time, at IS per day and 40 cents Il
mile, in attending at Indian treaties, al
Washington, 10 settle his own accounts,
and for extra pay as above, preparing an
Indian Code, &c, being upwards of SIG
per day for the time specified above, I2,7l2
Total, $96,4l2
Let us take the charge for rations, as above three
extra salaries, and the charge for liz days Wash
ington, &c, together, and see what they will
make:
Ten rations at 20 cents make, per diem. two dol
lars, and In one year, $3.50
If III days cost the public sl2,7l2, 500
days of the same time come 10 6OIO
One salary Of 1000 1000
Two salaries OF l,oOO eachs 5000
Total, per annum, ~ LAO
Eleven thousand, seven hundred and forty dol
lars, this plain, disneIesed Republican received.
(at least that was the rate at which he was paid
per annum,) for doing what he was bound to do
CO oticiO.
This, however, is far from being all that this old
fashioned Republican has received. He was five
years Secretary of War at salary of Sc 600, and
consequently received for his services in that office
S3O,OuO. lie was six years Minister 10 the Court
OF the IuilIeries, receiving $4,000 per annum, or
an aggregate of S54 900, besides an outfit Of 600
and Unfit of Isl 500, making on this score, S67.
800. His accounts, then, may be cast up as fol-
lows:
AS Governor OF Michigan, $96,4I2
As secretary OF war, $4,000
As Minister To- France 81 500
Sl93,9I2
| Let US add TO this his pay as Marshal of NIicbi
gan, and an Officer during the last war with
Great Britain, his mileage as Senator Of the u
nlted States and the expenses of his expedition to-
! the Holy Land, and we shall have the snug little
sum of two hundred and odd thousand dollars. re-
ceived by man from the Government, who was
never elected by the people to any office save on
! one occasion.
| In none of these offices has Gen Cass distin
guished himself by more than the average of abli
ty of our public officers. When the people reflect,
moreover, that the most shining talents, the most
exalted worth and The most devoted patriotism that
the country has ever behcld in the person of one of
It's citizens, were never rewarded to this extent,
they VIII be apt 10 pause before they cast their
votes for him TO receive another hundred thousand