The daily union., 1852-08-07

ing been designed foIhe OF the members OF the
mission. In addition to this produced, and have with
now copy from the Fifth Auditors Office OF the bills
OF the purchases which were made. also read IRON
deposition OF Mr. Matthew's that he had purchased art
cles of George Bartlett who the commlssary. IN
New Mexico at price as low they could be purchased
IN New York. Ii will be recollected that one oil the
charges was that these goods sold at an advance OF
two hundred or three hundred per cent also produced
and read the deposition OF John Bull who an assist
ant surveyor upon the commission, in which the same
evidence Is gwen. -,
ALI this did consider as most completely and fully
dsproving the first charge made. The first specification
oil that charge that these goods were transported
from New York TO lndianoa. Texas, IN the steamer
Galveston The second OF the specifications was tna'
they were transported from lndianoa 70 San Eeazaro'
being the private property Of George Bartlett al the
expense of the government spoke OF the discrepancy
between that specification and the third specifications 10
which George f. Bartlett was charged with having SOLD
the goods extraordinary and exOrbant advance
considered that the charge. and the spechcahons under
il, had been fully dsprovsd BY the evidence which was
produced by me and which will not again read 70 the
Senate Now, beg leave to refer 10 the second charge
which has been made by Colonel Mcclellan against Mr.
John Il. Bartlett. 1t is this objectionable misman-
agement OF the public interests and funds lnIusted to
him." That is a high and important charge. The first
specification in that charge is In permitting the IRAN
of the commission TO be stopped at Victoria. only two
days march from ndlanola that repairs might ee made
the train, which left Indanoa in perfect order, and
could have required but little, il any, repairs; thus SUBJ
ecng the government to great and unnecessary expense
reference TO that specification, would refer to the
deposition of George +. Bartlett, who states that the
train halted OF Victoria for the purpose OF shoeng and
marking their mules and that 1t was delayed there no
longer than was necessary, except from one cause,
and that was the illness OF Colonel Mcclellan Inc
commissioner seems, had gone out some six or seven
miles and encamped at place called the Colee and was
ready to move at any when this work was done
by the mechanics but that the health OF Colonel cCe
Ian would not permit him to 60 with the train From
the deposition of Doctor Mott which read yesterday, il
ha ha tate at
Colonel Mcclellan at Victoria, where he was connned 10
his room with fit OF dsiir,um renens 1t was his IN
toxicatlon and the consequences OF that ,noxcauon
which forced the train to remain so long at Victoria be-
cause could not be expected that the train would pass
on without him. He the principal astronomer OF the
commission and would have been idle TO suppose thai
the commissioner would have started from Victoria, and
left Colonel Mcclellan, the principal astronomer con.
fined to his bed let the OF the confinement be what
it might.
The deduction which make from the testimony which
produced yesterday is that the first place, il was ne
cessary for the train halt at Victoria in order that the
animals should be shod and Marked as is their CUSTOM
and repairs made upon the wagons. is true Vic
toa but short distance from lndanoa, but II was ne
cessary that they should stop there for those purposes
and that after those purposes were completed this IRAN
was there delayed and the commissioner delayed in
consequence OF the illness OF Colonel Mcclellan. This
is testified to by DR.. Mott II was the sickness OF Colonel
Mcclellan which detained the train in Victoria. con.
slider that specification therefore, having been dsposed
OF.
The second specification Of the second charge is In
permitting an unnecessary delay OF the commission and
train at San Antonio, Twenty days,l at
pense, and for the reason before with as little
truth at Victoria"
Now the dispositions that read yes,erday-the depo
siton OF Mr. Bartlett the deposition OF MIR. Bull, and the
evidence furnished, and which is before me-make this
explanation that when the train arrived at San Antonio
which is probably about hundred and fifty miles
from Victoria they found that il necessary that they
should get transportation for the masra they had
with them and the provisions and supplies, in order to
pass through that long and unnhabted portion o the
try hpy IA Amin
eight hundred miles IL was necessary, therefore,
halt and they did halt for the purpose OF getting more
transportation forage, and preparing themselves for
going into that distant country, when perhaps they were
going almost beyond the bounds OF civilization. IL is In
evidence that before that train had been long in San An
tonic that the commissioner had used all the means in
his power to make all the haste that was possible for
him 10 do in order that he should be able TO meet the
Mexican commissioner in the month of November at FL
Paso, had been agreed upon previously by the Ame
can and Mexican at San Diego He thought
necessary for him to proceed, and thereto leit
the train at San Antonio, and took what they call the
northern route 10 Fredericksburg, that be might hasten
on in bis own wagon, or ambulance, from these 10 Fl
Paso. The train as the evidence before me shows re-
maned at San Antonio some six or eight days after the
commissioner himself had left and when ne supposed
that the train in readiness to start have i from
gentlemen that commission. that one reason for the
delay was, that after the departure OF the commissioner
when Colonel Mcclellan was left in the command OF
the commission and he did take and exercise that com
mand from San Antonio TO San Eleazaro-he concluded
TO organize body of mounted 10 the number oil If
teen, under Cap,a0 Dairy, VINO nuDseh B HOW IN tns
city, and correct me II am wrong.
Ii was necessary 10 procure animals for these mounted
men, saddles, bdes and all the equipments necessary
and OF extraordinary amount OF forage. IL
these preparations, made under the direction OF Col
Mcclellan himself, which delayed the train al San Anto
MO longer than would have been necessary these dec
tons OF his had not been made Now, do not say that
that was unnecessary | do not complain OF Col. Nc
Celan for having detained the train, but he complains Of
Mr. Bartlett, and makes out as one OF the specifications
against him. that he detained the train longer at San Ano
MO than il should have been detained, when he himself
in command for the last six eight days before the
tram removed, and when he might have started any
time he pleased. II is the injustice oil the accusation
agaiust Mr. Bartlett of which complain
The next specification under that charge against Mr
Bartlett is Specification g. In retaining in the service
of the commission Quartermaster James Myer and per-
mittog him to disbuse large Gums OF public money at
BARTLETT had been furnished by Bevet Lieutenant Col
onel Mcclellan with blank voucher from Quarter
master Myer, with the receipts signed on which an
account for any amount could be drawn against the
commissioner, when not single article charged for had
been furnished (see blank voucher annexed, marked HO
which taken by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Nc
Cellan from quire OF them found by him al Victoria
and handed to Mr. Commissioner Bartlett TO put hun on
his guard" This specification contains the charge that
Mr. Bartlett allowed Myer to have blank vouchers in
his possession, seen by somebody. which might be hed
up to any extent and that he therefore permitted this
Mr.. Myer to deraud the government out OF any sum oil
money that he chose TO insert in these blank vouch
ers Another specification is that after having been in
formed OF this, Mr. Bartlett retained him in the service
az quaermaser II is stated that these blank vouchers
were taken by Colonel Mcclellan " from qnre of them
have said, and say now that Mr. Myer a stranger
N Mr. RartIeu He was appointed ouarermasier the