Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-30


Commissioner underline Cherokee
Treaty, S458 "a
6. Per diem of eight dollars while
making Treaty with Cherokees,
December, 1888, $I,952 90
$12,8 SO
During all the periods of this extra compensa-
ton, General Scott was in receipt of full pay and
allowances as Brigadier General. Fer acting as
commissioner with certain Indians, he received
$4,656 93,-all the while drawing his regular
pay,-although officers can be required under the
laws of the United States to act as Indian agents,
whenever necessary, and without any extra COM
pensation whatever. The Cherokee per diem id
the above list is special incident. During the
time for which he claimed it, General Scott was
receiving treble ratons on account of expenses in
that country. The per diem, therefore, was disal-
lowed by Mr.. Poinsett, when he was Secretary of
War, and by Mr.. Bell, when he filled that Office
and was finally paid on Gen. SCOTS application;
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1t also appears that General Scott received
some sixteen or seventeen dollars day while Act
ing Secretary of War for twenty three DAYS, in
1850, drawing full pay as general officer the
whole time. How far this and all the last mention
ed items are justfable, we leave the reader to
judge after he has perused the following extract
from the act of Congress, August 90; 1879:
SEC. 2. Arad be 1t further enacted, That no Off
Ger in any branch of the public service, or any
other person, whose salary, pay, or emoIuments is
or are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive
any additional pay, extra allowance, or conpensa-
ton, in any form whatever, for the disbursement
of public money, or for any other service or duty
whatsoever, unless the same shall be authorized
by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly
set forth that is for such additional pay extra al
lowance, or compensation
The Third Auditors statement makes mention
of 800 dollars rent in Washington paid for General
Scott while he was in Merico, against the opinion
and protest of the Auditor himself The Third
Auditor also states that balance of $12, 1859 09,
received by Gen. Scott in Mexico, has never been
accounted for. General Scott alleges it to have
been spent IN ''secret service - but vouchers for
it have never been received at the Auditors
Office
We have now glanced over the principal heads
IN these remarkable papers. 1t is thought that
they Justify the assertion which we made in COM
mencng their analysis, that they present the most
extraordinary, mot unpreced nted, most une-
qualled history ofofcial greediness that has ever
been opened up in this country. The amount of
money received by Gen. Scott for his various SER
vices as officer, author and commissioner, amount
to nearly three hundred thousand dollars. It
must certainly, then, be said that whatever those
services may have been, that he has been fully
pail for them all. And when 1t Is tecollected that
after getting all this money, and while still in re-
ceipt of acting Generals pay, he petitioned Con-
gress to give him part ofthe sum set aside for In
valid and disabled soldiers it must also be said,
that this laborer has never been backward in ask
ing for his hire.
There are items in these accounts which We look
upon with utter amazement. We dare not trust
ourselves to a full comment on them yet. We can
not do otherwise than hope, that some explanation
some exculpation, may yet appear to throw diff
erent light upon them. For the present, we con-
clude by drawing one deduction from the whole
1t is this that Gen. Scot Is not the man best
adapted to reduce the present expenditures of the
/ Federal Administration. Whatever they NAV be
under Fillmore, they would probably remain as
great during the regime of Winfield Scott In.
stead of sinking down, they will be much more apt
to rise from ffty-two to one hundred and four
millions during the four coming years, should he
unfortunately grasp the keys of that Treasury, al
whose doors he has so often knocked The De.
partments would be thronged, the White House
crowded with applicants for extra pay for every
imaginable species of service, and at every period
of past time. They would point to the example Of
: the President himself for their right; and how
could he answer them The deficiency Bills
of those years would exhaust the resources OF this
; nation War, Pestilence and Famine would b.
u naught to them. If the American people, there
fore, are dissatisfied with Wing expenditure o
/ ffty-miIlions in time ofpeace, we believe the,
are, and if they desire this expenditure and thei
Il cwn taxation to be reduced, as we also think the
= do the way to accomplish that object is, not
/ set man upon the work who has already receives
from the public treasury forty thousand dollars
r which he had no right.
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i Senator from Maryland, and a warm, ardent whip
J, = has declared among ether distinguished mel
against the. Seward nomination. He win not vol
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