The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-07-14
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sequent account q
So days per diem, at 80 per diem, trav-
ellicg expenses, 40 cents per mile,
in concluding treatiesat Greenville,
1914, st. Mary's (l8l8) Saginaw
and Saul de Marie, and making ar
rangements with the Wyandots,
&c, from 1917 to 1920, as per doc
ument No. 6, Sd session, 9th Con-
gress, pages ii and -, (being ex-
ira compensation,) so days prepar-
ing before and after treaty 2
Per diem, 50 days mileage, &c, (SS
per day and 40 cents per mile) at
the treaty of Chicago, in 1912
For attendance at Washington i'm
lS2l-'22, Cos days. TO settle his
own accounts, and mileage, 90 "a
tons per day,) ami 81 ,032 travel
ling expenses !,
Extra services as commissioner to
treat with the Indians at Wapagh-
konetta, and at Prairie du Chen,
in 1928, 20 days. daily pay and mi
leage, 1856, taking treaty to WASH
ington S2.092 2,
Similar services in Indiana in 1926,
46 days
Similar services in Fond du Lac in
1926, So days /,
Similar services at Butte des Morte
in 1927, 60 days
Similar services at Green Bay in 1893
66 days l,
Similar services at ST. Jose ph's in
1927, 10 days
Services and expenses in Washington
city in 1927 preparing a code for
the regulation Of Indian Affairs,
and mileage. Ill days !,
Services for experimenting Indian
agencies at Piqua, Fort Wayne, and
Chicago for the years l822-'3-4-'5
-'6-7-S, at 81 500 per annum 10
Similar services, same agencies, 1929
80, and part of 1881, at 81 800
per annnm 3
Total extra charges $50,
II would appear from this statement, m
from documents specially referred to,
which, ifwrong, can be corrected by Gen
Cass's friends,) that he charged and recei
pay four times for the same period of time:
LIST. His regular salary as governor
and er-offcio superintendent of In
dian affairs of the Territory Of
Michigan, $4,000 per annum for
abont 10 years 90
I'd. 81 800 per annum extra salary
from 1913 TO 1881, nearly Is years
paid in 1881 26
Rations-ten rations per day at 20 cts.
| each for between nine and ten
| years 6
Sd. 81 500 per annum extra salary
from 1921 to 1881 abont ten years,
being part of the ADORE Is years Ia
4tb. Specific charges for 772 days Of
the above time, at 50 per day aud 40
cents mileage, in attending at In
diana treaties, at Washington to
settle his own accounts, and for ex-
| ira pay as above, preparing an Indi-
an code, &C., being upwards Of
Sic per day for the time specified
above IL
Total $50
This last charge, with his three salaries,
fixed at 81, 900, and two extra salaries of
500 each, would make his pay for this pc
amount to sll ,355 per annum-more
S3l per day, Sundays aud all, exclusive o
rations. taken from the pockets OF the tax
ing people Of the United States by Gen.
for his services as governor and superint
ent of Indian affairs for the territory of NJ
gan at a fixed salary of $4,000 per apnur
IL such were his extras as territorial GOV
or, what will they be as President? At
same rate they will amount to upwards of 9
600 per annum, which be would have Jun
good right to claim as eI -officio comman
in-chief Of the army and navy Of the u, Sta
Where 10 the difference?
In connection with this, there was the
that some of these accounts were made
and certified when he was himself Score
Of War; but, not likeng to pass his own
counts, he left them for his successor, with
endorsement that they were authorized
correct. And yet Gen. Cass was great e,
omistl He subscribed TO the Baltimore n
i'm that "the peoples money must be caref
guarded for the peoples benefit" But he
S. thought the General had in this case
rather exceeded the bounds of moderat
whatever the opinions of others might b
But this was not all that General Cass haC
ceived. Besides the above, received as G
ernor of Michigan and ex-oficio superin
dent of Indian Affairs, ne was about five y
Secretary of War at $4,000 per annun, b
ia total of $4,000. He was subsequel