Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-03-01


the Indians.
Mr. EWING. If the Senator will allow me, will state
that addressed private letter to the Second Auditor on ac-
of which made in the Senate by the
Senator II not official document know official
etiquette better Than 10 address letter to the Second Auditor
in relation connected with the Indian bureau
Mr. TURNKEY. Well, private letter to the Second Au-
ditor in relation private conversation OF mine with him,
and that private letter used before the Senate as an
ment
Mr.. EWING. So was the private conversation the day
before.
Mr.. TURNKEY That private letter paraded before
the Senate and used argument by the Senator That
all he required The Senator only required such inor-
nation he could before the Senate The information
asked Of the Second Auditor in his official capacity
Second Auditor. The letter official communication,
and was used as SUCH do not complain of il, but say
that obtain such information, either by my letter
the Auditor my letter the present Secretary Of the ne-
ro by the resolution which has been adopted by the
Senate. reach nothing in that Auditors Office All
my Of obtaining have been exhausted but does
and presume and predict that If to come
would get the order in Of the which the Second
Auditor referred in his letter the Senator from Ohio But
it seems cannot obtain it. know not how obtain H.
These the to which have resoed for the purpose
Of obtaining that information.
Now, have say the Senator that, far from desiring
resiuary legatee, desiring participate in
the proceedings Of the House in relation himself and Others
was very far from my object my views my feelings
have OF either The object which had in view
the passage the amendment the Senator from Wisconsin,
which, in my Judgment would the Indians against fraud
and sganstmprcper decisions the part the department
desired throw that guard and around Indians
the passage amendment desed charges against
body. made charge against any body. And has it
this that cannot speak, and refer to what has been
the practice Of the department. without its being construed into
charge against these officers Does the Senator intend to
communicate the idea that he had done what alleged he
had done that therefore he would be gully of criminal act
violation of his duty Woald no fs to charge
against himself would he that in doing ne was adj
mnsering his department according bis best Judgment
and acting in good faith and with upright and correct
science do not understand that mouths are to be
sealed in speaking Of the judgment Of the accounting officers
that when happen to speak of their errngs must be
set down that we are making grave charges against he and
anagning them the bar of justice. Sir, disavow any
such intention either that occasion the presents my
single object procure amendment to law SO as in
the future at least 10 guard and protect the Indians
Now, although the Senator from Ohio eoicss at the COM
ing in OF this report from the Secretary Of the Interior, have
to regret that he has not given all the information.
knew that pointing the Second Auditor my letter SO
informed him. looking for information upon that
point but instead OF giving it TO instead OF sending what
the Second Auditor referred to in bis letter to the Senator from
Ohio he sends document but merely statement asto
what has been the usual practice Of the Indian Bureau
Mr. EWING. The resolution to which the report before
US answer did not call for any documents 1t simply
called for general statement and that has been received
Mr. GWIN then addressed the Senate but report of his
remarks is deferred
Mr.. DOUGLAS. regret the necessity which is imposed
upon of saying word this subject. should not
have said but for the charges made by the Senator
Ohio against the chairman OF the Select Committee the
House Of Representatives, the investigation to which he has
referred. he chairman of that committee is from my
Stale, and personal well political friend and SO far
attack may be made him. to put the mat
ter right.
The Senator from Ohio has charged that the committee Of
suppressed important papers connected with this
transaction.
Mr. EWING. charged that the papers were suppressed
nd pphl I Epnv of hv I pnth nv
whom.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. But the country would have under
Stood from the Of the Senator'S remarks that the
mttee Of investigation had been guilty of the crime Of sup
Mr.. EWING. l think SO.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. The Senator says be thinks it would
have been understood That charge made time
in the New York Tribune specifically, and very nearly
in the terms in which made by the Senator from
Ohio. The chairman of that select committee the
morning in the House Representatives and read that charge
and pronounced it to be falsehood from beginning TO end
ana the author If il canmnianr H. cheeea 'nat u was
direct violation Of truth in every particular That denuncia
ton made then in the House Of Representatives. it went
INFO the debates Of the Houses there the minority well
the majority Of the committee present there the poll
teal friends Of the Senator well the political friends Of
the chairman of the committee present and with that dec,
denial and denunciaon hurled in their teeth, not Of
them pretended to intimate that the charge true The
chairman OF that committee the majority of the committee,
there ready to meet any face TO face who dared
to insnuate that such thing true. instructed
now to say that the majority of the committee, when they
agreed upon their report made their report to the House
OF Representatives accompanied with all the papers.
They did not suppress any paper but every paper for and
against the returned by them with their report to
the House Representatives, for the House make such
order upon they should think proper The House then
made an order to print Whatever the House printed they
responsible for and the committee instructed
say that the committee made recommendation what
papers should be printed and what papers should not be
printed They left it entirely with the House Of Representa-
ves, without any recommendation the subject, and the
House then made such order they thought proper. If
therefore, there was any suppression OF papers, else
where than that committee, and the discussions of the
House OF Representatives showed that elsewhere
When that charge nmaed in the newspapers the sub
ec brought into the House, and the charge branded
as caumny and these facts all explained and appear
upon the records of the House. am therefore surprised
TO see this charge renewed here applies that commit
tee when there not the other House who dared
toinmate that was true. also instructed to say that
are In the printed documents omissions of many mpor-
TAM papers The chairman of the committee himself com
planned that there omission Of papers that made the
document do him and the majority Of the committee injustice
'NorE-The following the proceedings of the House Of
Representatives of the 4h September 1885, to which Mr.
DOUGLAS referred .."
"Mr. RICHARDSON, from the Select Committee appointed
under the resolutions adopted by the House
tiyes the ed Of April $780, made report thereon &C
companied by the following resolutions, viz
Resolved That the payment by the Secretary of the
terror of SO The administrator of Commodore James
Barron communication pay tor the naval services of sale
Barron during the revolutionary made in violation
oflaw
Resoired That officers Of the Virginia navy during thu
Resolved That the of compound interest in the
OF Commodore James Barron made in violation