The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-01-23

transcribed, and so many compulaIiOhs naue
Without some errers-but that all have been
honestly made know, and that they are gen.
1 orally accurate / consistently believe. But lei
us come to the trial. Is there one gentleman
on this floor who viii assert that he is charged
in the The Tribune expose with taking pay
for more Miles than he actually did take pay
for? If there be any, let him speak now.
A pause. No one spoke.]
No one answers. Now l demand if any
gentleman is charged in that publication with
receiving more Mileage than he actually d'd
receive FL any ONT is so charged, let him
speak now
Hon. W. T. LAWRENCE, of n. Y, observ-
ed that his Mileage was orerstated Sl00-wAch
is the fact, as any one can see-his Miles TRAY
elled being correctly stated at Go, the legal
Mileage for which is of course S468 instead Of
s5sS, as printed in The Tribune His excess
or Circuitous Mileage as well as his distance
Tribune showing that the error IN the table
is purely Typographical.
Gen. W BARROW, of Tenn, also stated
that his Mileage Received was overstated in
The Tribune by some $50 or S95, which was
not so, his Mileage Received, Miles Travelled
and Distance by Nearests Post Route being
! GOTIcCl Oul - 80"
Excess or CircuIous Mileage there is mis-
take OF Sls; the true amount being $3.50, 40,
instead of SS6S, 40, ms given in The Tribune.
Hon. Thomas j. 1URSER, of ILL.,, asked
the floor for an explanation or question, and
proceeded to indulge in abuse, asserting that
the distance from Washington to his residence
| (Freeport, Stephenson Co., I'LL )is nearly 900
miles in direct line, instead of sS2 by near
est Post Route as set down in The Tribune.
The controversy is entirely between MIR. 1.
and the official - Table of Post Offices in the
United States on the Slst OF January, 1892,
from which the Tribune exhibit was made up.
at first supposed there might be mistake OF
100 miles in the book-932 instead of S32-
/ nj. OF reflection and comparison, | conclude
there is not Haddam's Grore, in the same
County, is set down at @! miles, and Cedar
\ Creek Mills, (same Co.. a, S38 mics from
Washington. No, there is no mistake ii The
Tribune statement so far as it affects Dir. Tur-
ner-whatever mistake there is about his re-
count pertains 10 his taking ,664 per Ses-
sion as for 1850 mi ght travel from Freeport
aforesaid.
Con. IlUGH A. HArALsoN, of Ga, said
his actual distance from Washington was I'M
de1stated in The Tribune, where it is given
: rs 100 LiliCSs anu lCdo . ASAiCi AiOh AhN
Postmaster General stating that the distance
Jy tie routes actually trdrelled by the Mails (by
Richmond, Charleston, &c.l is 947 miles, as he
charges.
This Of course in no manner conflicts with
the statement in The Tribune. Che whole
controversy has been checkered by just such
misapprehensions or evasions as this.)
Gen. JAMES MCKAY, of n. C., said there
we n ,i-ta Ia in HE NaSa az IN The 'Ir1-
bune, but it was ipmaterial. 1t there appear
ed that he charged S6,4O excess, or for travel
hing 395 miles, while his distance by nearest
Post Route was only 3s7 miles. The Tri-
bIne was entirely right SO far rs the distance
to his Post Office was concerned, but he hired
eight miles beyond his Post Office, and charged
accord ngly.
MIR. GREELEY. How could have known
that a.?
Gen. MCKAY. You could not. ] am not
complaining of the article in The Tribune
go with you in this matter; but you chal-
Ilenged all to point out any errors, and | did
as you required.
Mr.. GREELEY: Of course, Mr.. Chairman,
there may be many such cases as this. NV
predecessor mir ID. S. Jackson) lived seven
or eight miles beyond his Post Office; l myself
live half as far. Nobody imagines that in the
cases where there is discrepancy of few
dollars only between the Mileage as it is and
as contend It ssi,ccnld be, there is any inten-
tional excess. The people will understand all
this without special explanations.
And now TO the gentleman from Mississippi
gov. Brown who honored Inc with so large
a share Of his attention and his courtesy yes
tcrday. That gentleman made direct charge
upon me of falsifying his account, saying had
set down his distance by the nearest Post
Route at some eight or nine hundred miles,
whereas the actual distance was over 1900
miles from this city TO Jackson, Miss, and he
lived thirty -odd miles beyond that Mr. Chair
man, that gentleman is set down in The Tri-
bunc as taking SI,s6I Mileage for distance
Of 1880 miles 10 Washington, while the actu-
al distrnce by nearest Post-Route is stated at
l,o47 miles.-Excess Of Mileage 81 ,O26,4O.
have the Table of Post-Routc Distances al
ready quoted before me, and that gives the
shortest Post-Route distance from this city to
Jackson, Miss, at 1910 miles add 81 miles
for the gentleman's distance beyond Jackson.
and yoa have the ], O47 miles stated IN The
Tribune.
Gov. BRowS.-The Tribune article 1.-THE
EDITORIAL asserts that in the accompanying
table the distances are taken from " The last
Official List of Post Offices with their distances
from Washington :" that is not true. / have
the last Official List before me, and it makes
the distance TO jackson as aforesaid over 800
miles.
Mr.. GREELEY: have repeatedly stated,
and this Committee we'll knows, that did not
make up the Table published in the Tribune.
| directed it to be done, and employed rom
petent man TO do il. ! told him to use the La
est Official List, and presumed he had done so.
And he did use the latest he could find con-
tanning list Of The sereral Post Offices nth
heir respective distances from Washington by
h: shortest Pcst-Rou'e. The list the gentle
man reads from, is quite another thing The
distances it gives are not by the shortest Mail
Route, but by the usual Mail Route, the circuit
GUS route through Charleston, Augusta, Mont
gcmrry, &c. taken 10 carry the grea; Mail from
this city to jackson, Miss.-and that route is
only about thousand miles shorter than the
one by which the gentleman charges. BY the
! shortest Mail Route the trnntlemanfe reeidanca