The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-23

il was allowed and paid This claim was also allowet
by the Secretary Of the Interior.
The next claim is
The Ewing Claim.
This claim was also allowed and paid by the Secre.
tary OF the Interior Its amount is said to be SIT 900
Il originated in goods sold to the Menomonie tribe o.
Indians in fraud OF treaty. Its payment was indignant
ly refused by Gov Marcy and Mr. Medil; but it al
lowed and paid without scruple hesitation by Thomas
Ewing Secretary of The Interior This claim is also un
der investigation by committee of Congress.
The next claim which we understand has been al
lowed and paid is called the
Alabama Claim
The facts of this claim have not been fully developed
We understand, however, that il amounts to about
$4,000 and has been resuscilated at the instance Of Mr.
Meredith or, perhaps probably. by the fact that
the treasury doors were understood to be wide open to
every claimant. whether his claim was good bad or in.
different. This claim. we understand, was allowed and
paid by Mr.. Meredith
The next Of the Gaphin troop is the
Allen Claim.
II is. however, small affair." amounting only to rs 500
The correspondent Of the New York Sun "a Taylor pa.
PERI gives the following account Of it:
The opposition chigs have recently fshed M another
charge against the Treasury Department, which viii doubt
less be made the subject Of investigation by Congress.
This Is the payment Of about S. 500 Mr. John W. Allen
OF cleveland Ohio for services rendered and travelling
expenses incurred collector Of OF mineral lands
In the Lake superior country due 10 the
some two months actual services.
The foregoing, we have to believe, are but part
Of the unprecedented and enormous claims allowed and
paid by the present Gaphin cabinet Nearly all OF them
have been refused by former administrations on the ex
press ground that they unounded and fraudulent
We venture to say that there many more Of the
infamous character, which have not yet come to light
And we also venture to say that the amount of money
thus illegally and improperly paid out Of the treasury
these claims is very near million of doliays-a
paid out without appropriation or warrant OF law. Wha
astounding disclosures What enormites to excite and
provoke the Indignation of the American people And
what apology has General Taylor and his cabinet te
make for this wholesale plumber of the public treasury
And how he and they to compensate the country fol
the reproach, disgrace, and infamy which they have
brought upon III
We solemnly believe it is the duty OF Congress to in
stue general investigation into the condition OF the
executive department Of the government and particularly
into this business OF allowing claims Let all the Secre
tares and the Postmaster General be Immediately called
upon for the lists and amounts Of all the claims allowed
and paid by them respectively, since the 4th of March
1s49-the bare lists and amounts without any defence
on the part of the cabinet officers devised for the purpose
Of foresallng public opinion. And when the lists ant
amounts have been obtained, let searching nvestga
lion be instituted into the history Of each. and then lie
the results be laid before the country. L. on such in
vesgaion it shall appear that the Secretaries have don,
right they will be acquitted OF blame; and if it shall no
appear, they viii be justly and properly condemned
Such investigation is due to the cabinet, the dignity
and purity Of the government and to the people, out
whose pockets come the OF paying these enormous
claims.