American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-07
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Mr. SECRETARY SrUART-I am glad to per-
ceive, Mr.. Editor, that you have opened your
columns to free, fair and courteous political dis
cussion.
Your correspondent, ''ARIsTIDEs," finds fault
with Mr.. Secretary Stuart for knowing no dis
tinction between Wings and Democrats, in his
official capacity.
Is it not hard for him to select Mr. Stuart for
? censure, when all the other members of the
Cabinet are obnoxious to the same charge Let
the other and older members Of the Cabinet
show By their acts that they haze not forgotten the
party that made them what they are, and that
they are not so verdant as to suppose they can
conoilate modern Democracy or tame wolf,
and then see if Mr. Secretary Stuart will not
begin to recollect who made him, politically
!, For my own part, as true Wing, who knows
not how to forget the noble old party that has
been stoutly battling /" Democracy" for twenty
odd years. nor how to forget the noble old head
and 'front.' the life and soul, the great master
spirit of that party-HENRY CLAY, GOD bless
him II think all the members of the present
Administration are alike censurable for the
manner in which they have shamefully neg
ected the welfare of the Wing party, and spread
themselves to conciliate "modern Democracy
They are all asleep and dreaming that the great
party lines are to be obliterated, and that :. the
powers that be- are to hold oper and be con
tinued where they are g by spontaneous com
buston." Mr.. John Tyler had dream Of the
| same sort. There are more John Tylers abroad
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future occasion.
My object to-day is to put some home truths,
in civil way, to Mr.. Secretary Stuart, and to
ask him a few questions which he may find
some difficulty in answering.
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 attaches
to the allowance of the Galphin claim, the De la
Francia claim, the Barron pension claim, the
Ewings' claim, the Chickasaw claim, under the
Taylor Administration; and the Gardiner claim
and the Mears claim, under the Fillmore Adj
ministration. 1t is not enough for the members
of the Administration to prove ungrateful to the
great Wing party that made them what they
are, by going after and attempting to conciliate
@ modern Democracy" but they must needs go
to work to heap indelible odium upon that party
by allowing and paying such claims as those
above alluded to. @.
But the allowance of those claims is not all
that Wings may, with justice and reason, COM
plain Of.
Iput it to Mr.. Secretary Stuart, most respect
fully, to answer the following questions, if he
can, relative to the taking of the census:
l. Were there more than seventeen clerks
employed to take the census of 1910?
2 Are there not now upwards of seventy
five clerks employed to take the census of 1850?
g. Did not Mr.. Kennedy, the Superintendent
of the census for 1850, cause the Stiger house,
on Eighth street, to be purchased, in the name
of Thomas Nj. Howe, Member of Congress elect
in the Pittsburg District, Pennsylvania?
a. Did not Mr.. Howe utterly refuse to have
any thing to do with the purchase?
5. Was not another mans lame then used
by Mr.. Kennedy for the purchase of said house
6. Is the rent of said house worth more than
$500 per annum, to anybody or for any pur-
pose?
Z. Has not the Government been paying, and
is it not paying, the enormous rent Of 81, $50
per annum for the said Stiger house, owned by
Mr.. Superintendent Kennedy?
g. Does not Mr.. Kennedy rent to the Gov
eminent four rooms in his own dweling-house
on ii street, for $3.50 per annum, and also sew
eral rooms in building adjoining the Interior
Department, for about the same amount per
annum?
8. Does not the Secretary of the Interior
know, and has not Mr. Comptroller Whittlesey
decided, that there are unoecupied rooms
enough in the Interior Department building to
accommodate all the clerks engaged on the
census
10. Has not Mr.. Superintendent Kennedy
been commissioned by Mr.. Stuart to make the
tour Of Europe, at the expense of the Govern
ment, while his salary Of So, 500 per annum as
Superintendent is to run on here at home, and
to be paid to him on his return?
IL. How much money was Advanced to Mr..
Kennedy to enable him to make his European
tour?
u. Out Of what fund, and by what authority,
was money advanced TO Mr.. Kennedy for such
purpose
The foregoing twelve questions will most
likely be looked into by committee Of Con-
gress early next winter. COMMENTATOR
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