The republic., 1851-01-27

the care of the Third Auditor for more than tvs
years. He informed me that not one OF tnein haa
been touched and cannot be touched until after the
adjournment of Congress
Mr.. RAYMOND. These may have been dluercnt
claims. was informed by the Third Auditor that
the claims to which a!lu led have been actually
decided and decided against the claimants
Mr.. STEPHENS. / think they are the only claims
that have been presented for horses lost in the
Mexican war, from tide State Of Georgia, and these
claims have not been acted upon. a gentleman
from Missouri informs me that there are also eaims
Of this descriptions in the Third Auditors office,
from that State. But will speak only for Geor-
eia and; ir relation to those claims, repeat, the
Third Auditor informs me that they cannot be
touched til! after the Adjournment Of Congress.
Mr. HALL, and several others, desired 20 inter-
rupt.
MIR. HAYMoNp refused to yield the floor. and SAID
One at time, gentlemen. Our friends on the
other side Of the House, Mr.. Chairman, usually
monopoze the tirue and DO all the speaking, here.
House can obtain the floor, and particularly my
self that not willing to be deprived Of the ben-
eft of my hour by such frequent interruptions.
Sir they frequently transfer the floor from one TO
another, .or q considerable time, without having
the floor assigned 20 them by the officer presidIug
Mr.. II. continued. Will say TO gentlemen from
Missouri, and Tennessee, and Georgia, and Ken
tucky that if the Third Auditor decides their
claims, and decides them wrong, why do they no.
come out before the country and prove they are
wrong, instead Of abusing the officer who has made
the decision? Why do they not take an appeal to
he Secretary of the Interior and have the decision
reversed
Mr.. HALL said they could not get an appeal.
Mr.. HAYMoNp. am no lawyer, but presume
gentlemen have right to appeal, II they are not
satisfied with the decision made by the Ihird Au-
ditor in reference to their claims
Mr.. DUNHAM will the gentleman from Vir-
enia allow me for a moment:
Mr. HAy1osD. cannot yield the floor
The gentleman from Kentucky MIR MARsHALL)
Ikpb ahnut hjg
when this question was before the House. Now,
as have before remarked, visited the Third Audi
tors office for the purpose OF inquring about these
claims made inquiry in relation to these Ken
tucky claims, of wlich the gentleman speaks, and
was informed that one OF these claims bad been
decided, and another had been laid asit. BY the
request of the claimant, in order to enable him To
procure additional testimony. Task the gentleman
from Kentucky if am right?
MIR MARSHALL, (interposing) The reference
of tho gentleman from Virginia 70 the claims have
submitted to the bureau of the Third Auditor, al
fords me an opportunity 10 say, that in my remark
that ..if the bureau has decided lost horse case
since the addition of the clerical force IT has not
been my good fortune TO know the fact, or to bear
of it," may have gone too far. am IN posses
sion Of the fact communicated 20 me by the Third
Auditor that ten cases, submitted by me TO his bu
reau, were allowed on the lst Of AprI. 1850 Now,
do recollect the exact date OF the law allowing
the increased clerical force. and it may be that
these decisions were rendered since the passage Of
that act The fact on which was commenting
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was that the increase of clerical force was not an
unerring sign that the business OF the bureau
would sc proportionably expedited, nndtthe exhibit
of ten cases deeioed, whether before or after the
law cannot affect the correctness of the position
taken.
The gentleman from Virginia must be satisfied,
from the concurrIng testimony OF the gentlemen
from Georgia, Missouri, and others, who lave
spoken to the point of delay in the business before
that bureau that he has stirred up hornets nest,
which he should not have provoked. He inust be
satisfied that my impressions were neither peculiar
| TO mysclf nor entertained by me only. deem it
due TO myself TO remark, that in nothing have
said in regard TO the bureau, did design 10 reflect
injurousy upon the character Of its chief as gen.
tlenan assaiI in the slightest degree his per-
sonal integrity The manner OF dispatching the
public business and the competency OF every Of
ficial, must, OF courceg be recognised as falling
within the range OF legitimate fcinrk. enter
tain unknd feeling towards any OF tue eent!e
men whom alluded to in my speech the other day
and regret that my opposit n to the proposition Of
the committee should have demanded the observa-
tons deemed it my duty, and within my pro.
( vince. 10 submit
Mr.. HAYMoNp | understood, the other day,
tina, the gentleman from Kentucky came here with
but Claims which his constituents had presented
him with, and that Of them had been decided.
am glad, now, to fad that he Is here with ten
cases ! suppose that the Third Auditor has gone
to work their examination since the report OF
the gentleman FROM Indiana, Mr.. RoBINsoN,) and
the speech made by the gentleman from Kentucky
Third Auditor deserves very little credit FOR dec-
ding only ten cases out OF 50 many which have
come in here from all the States in the Union.
Now, think the gentleman has no right to infer,
that because these ten cases have been decided that
no other cases have been decided. hope the gen
tleman from Kentucky has not come to the sage
conclusion that because ten cases have been decided
for him, that no other case has been acted upon.
The gentleman from Kentucky, in his remarks
the other day. conveyed the idea that but clerk
could be properly employed in the Third Auditors
office in examining the rolls at the same time and
therefore this additional force ID entirely unneces
sary, and cannot be prottabiy employed in that
business. Now, supposed the gentleman was suf-
! iciently acquainted with military business to know
that there is at least book for every State and
that one clerk can be employed Mt each book In
examining the declarations which arc necessarily
sent to the Third Auditors office The gentleman
must certainly be that these rolls are not all
! bound up in one volume and placed where but one
/ clerk examine them at time think the
| gentleman from Kentucky has manifested little
special pleading for the purpose of convicting the
Secretary of the Interior of having unnecessarily
and improperly appointed this additional clerical
| force when he had nothing for them to do, and
which would have certainly been the case if these
rolls had been placed in such condition that but
one clerk could examine them at time the
gentlcnan's remarks would seem to imply.
! lpresumc there are not only separate books, con
taining the rolls for every State, but for every re-
giment. ! recollect, had occasion to examine tn,
muster. roll Of the regiment to which belonged in
the war of 1912. This roll was made out by myself
and there were not only separate roll for the re
| giment, but for every company in the regiment.
| do not know how this may be in other regiments
but am sure there are separate books enough, con
tanning these rolls, that twenty or thirty cerks might
be profitably employed in their examination at the
same time. understand fifteen of these clerks rt
stanty employed in the examination of these rolls
and not one at a time. as the gentleman from Ken
lucky in imates.
The gentleman from Kentucky talks about econ
oInizing- about keeping down the wastciui expen-
diturc of the public money. Ii seems that he IN
tends 10 commence his economy upon this Bounty
Land bill. Tne gentleman, like all the rest of Us
who voted for that bounty Land bill, Is extremely
anxious see all the soldiers who are entitled to
bounty get these warrants, and get them as speed
ily as possible bat he, unlike many OF US, rs not
willing 10 vote the necessary force Tor issuing the
warrants.
Now, sir, if the gentleman from Kentucky wishes
| 10 ecouolaize In tue expenscs OF the Government
II hc wishes TO bring tins Administration 10 practi-
cal econuny--lct him not begin by refusing 70
sanction the appointment of few clerks to expe-
ditto the public business, and expedite the issuing
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