The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-28

| The PRESIDENT. The senator must he aware tina
criticism upon the proceedings of the House Of Repre-
senalives is not IN order.
/ MI, EWING. | will moi violate the rule sir
In the beginning OF the nvestiga alion and during il
pogress, letters were sent me by the committee askn.
ior lniorma'ion which ! gave in written answers. Ii
some OF these maintained positions e law in Others
explained facts showing very clearly my action in eaci
case, and The reason on which II was founded Wher
he report OF The committee published all save one
OF those letters were suppressed know not and care
mol by whom II IL enough for that they were sup
pressed, and DO not anywhere appear in the published
document Those letters are before me. win not take
UP the time OF the Senate 10 read hem but will hand
them 70 the Reporter. to be published with my remarks
do THIS that any who shall hereafter read the repor
may have access to the letters also and venture 10 say
una. no one can read them without getting some new gh
as to the character OF the investigation and the purpose
and capacity OF the majority of the investigators The
suppression OF the pondence might pass for high
i tno doubt was supposed that had concealed from
the public large part OF the evidence OF the injustice and
folly OF the proceeding But secrets such as this are
hard to keep !, is tabled OF Midas that when his ears
were grown TO great length, and in shape exactly
human. he sought and threatened his ba, bel
with death i he betrayed him. The poor fellow, to
ground and whispered the secret there and clump Of
reeds grew up on the spot and gave il the winds
which spread il wheresoever they blew. In this there
has been little success. Had the letters been pub
shed they would have appeared in about two hundred
and nifty documents, confined principally to the shelves
of the Capitol Libraries. Being suppressed, con-
into the hands oi thousands.
The PRESIDENT. The Chair is very unwilling to in
erupl the gentleman bur be cannot permit the senator tc
proceed in such a course OF remark.
Mr.. EWING. MIR. President, | will not say another
word to which the Chair can object
The senator from Tennessee, his remarks the Other
day, is reported TO have said:
81 do not understand how these gentlemen could be
agents Tor the nation understand they know how per
pelrate noss frauds as any people in the world was
a a 9rye bV on
and which had been paid wrongnly The agent had
enty eighty thousand dollars for establishing their ryh
TO amount, which had been contested Al
forwards he chiefs Of the naon made protes, against m
payment The superintendent, Mr. Armstrong, came and
protested, and under that administration IL paid
these chsis aud ,scted Ones and they the
protest against this payment But under the
adm instruion if we may term so it paid Bot ap
pcaon will be made md the nation. obtained
history OF this matter from an agent who acting In the
prosecution OF these claims"
| either did not hear the senator did not mark wha
he said and therefore did not then reply to it, These
marks however, referred TO the Chckasaw case, with
which, as have already said had nothing TO do, excep
to refer and abide by the final decision OF the Attorney
General upon it, But the gentleman who acted agent
Mr. GwIN,l and who in his capacity of agent is charged
by the from Tennessee with fraud and cousion
happens TO have seat on this oor and can answer fo
himself 1t is safe 10 leave that branch OF the sublec
with him, and now call his attention to it.
| The following the letters submitted by Mr.. EWING
as part OF his speech:
SIR: have the honor to enclose TO you, by order o.
the select committee, copy of the resolutions adopie,
! by The House of Representatives on the 22d inst.
have also the honor 10 enclose copy OF the resolu
lion Of the committee this day adopted, BY which have
been directed forward to you the resolutions of h
] House OF Representatives
You will perceive ,hat by the resolution OF the
m,,ee, you shave permission TO attend the stngs Of h
| committee"
have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedien
servant, -
! w. A. RICHARDSON.
Hon. THOMAS EwNo,
Secretary OF The Interior.