Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-07-30

q Supreme Judge,
m odorous repu-
end patriotic
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III. II reward
Nose who commit
thu l6t to say crimes, you
will g a price for shame,
and IN for ignominy.
In d show some of the NOR
ais of ington, we copy the fol-
lowing |sion to the GARDINER bust
ness in the Southern Press, of
The Great Fraud ON Government.
We understand from various quar-
tiers that the developments concern
Ing the CHIN of Gardiner before the
MexicaN Commission, on which the
treasurypaid some four hundred and
twenty seven thousand dollars, prove
the claim utterly fraudulent.
We are informed that the case is
before the grand jury of this District,
and that testimony has been produ-
ced to show that the Mexican Alcal-
de, by whom the documents were
authenticated, received twenty-eight
thousand dollars for the service.
The report is that Gardiner, in a
moment Of irritation, revealed that
the claim'was fraudulent-and that
it was known to be such by some of
the parties concerned with him as
agents and counsel-and that be-
cause they monopolized SO large a
portion ofthe proceeds, that is tosay,
more than tour-fifths, he,did not care
how soon they were exposed and
compelled to disgorge. As for him
self, he was going to Europe, and
would be safe with his eighty thousand
dolIar.
This, transaction will now be I'M
yelled. Ii ii shall appear that this
governmtS&, in attempting to dis
burse.thrrs millions aud a half, is
subject to such monstrous fraud in
single claim, what are. we to infer
as to the disbursement of fifty mil
lions annually?
A correspondent ofthe American
Telegraph, a neutral paper at Wash
ington, has the followingin reference
to other frauds:
The Wing party has been saddled,
as it ought not to have been, by its
leaders, who have been exalted to
power, with the odium which attach
es to the allowance of the Galphin
claim, the De la Francia claim, the
Barron pension claim, the Ewing's
claim, the Chickasaw claim, under
the Taylor Administration; and the
Gardiner claim and the Mears claim,
under the Fillmore Administration
1t is not enough for the members of
the Administration to prove migrate
full to the great Wing party that made
item what they are, by going after
and attempting to conciliate "mod-
ern Democracy" but they must needs
go to work to heap indelible odium
upon thatparty by allowing and pay
ing such lims as those above allu-
But the s!owance of these claims
is not all BIT Wings may, with JUS
tice and 4 son, complain of.
put ii TO Mr.. Secretary Stuart,
most resp fully, to answer the fol-
lowing al ions, if he can, relative
to the tai of the census:
/. w We more than seventeen
clerks to take the census of
2. not now upwards of
sew \pployed to take
CAV Buse, on Eighth
streel 6sed, in the name
of TN Howe, Member OF
Congres the Pittsburg Dis
trict, Pen hia?
4. Did T. Howe utterly refuse
to have d thing to do with the
5. Was | another mans name
then used b MFR. Kennedy for the pur-
chase of sal house?
6. Is the mt Of said house worth
more than 100 per annum, to any
body or for purpose?
Z. Has the Government been
paying, and it not paying, the enor-
nous rent Of Isl $50 per annum fol
the said Stia house, owned by Mr..
Superintendent Kennedy?
s. Does not MIR. Kennedy rent to
the Government four rooms in his own
dwelling house ON II street, for $3.50
per annum, and also several rooms
in building adjoining the interior
Department, for about the same
amountp per annum?
9. Does not the Secretary of the
Interior know, and has not Mr.. Comp
troller Whittlesey decided, that there
are unoccupied rooms enough in the
Interior Department building to ac.
commodate all the clerks engaged on
the census?