Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-12


cd so that after the entire completion Of the Mon
ument, there should DO ample means for improving
tho grounds aud defraying all the costs, OF preser'
ing them and the Monument in complete ORDER
Under these circumstances the late election was
held. With these hopes and expectations we
came into Office. And We confidently believe that
but for the opposition of these, our accusers, the
work would now DO going on prosperously, and
funds would be in the progress OF collection and
remission affording usa guarantee Of success. AL.
readys upon our scheme of operations thousands OF
dollars have been subscribed in this District alone
But we are restrained from collecting them.
Whether the Society Ia bankrupt or not, We
do not know. We do know, however, that claims
exceeding a, 900 in amount for debts contracted
by the late Board have been presented to us, the
justice of which we wholly unable to ascertain,
from any record or papers in tho Office OF your
Society; and on our applying to that Loard, after
the publication Of our address, for information
respecting them, VIC were treated with the same
arrogance they have throughout INDUCED In vouch
safed no reply, but, through their spokesman,
threatened us with suit. We declined paying
them
We also found that, they had 40 far us we have
yet been able TO ascertain upwards OF forty agents
scattered over the country, TO whom they had sent
commissions, who were allowed $40 in every 800
collected by them, 10 which was to be added the
expenses Of collecting the rcmittances made by
them, whose accounts still appear to be open and
unsettled, and who for the last fifteen months
before the 22d Of February last, had not together
collected more than 81 900 to $4,000. During that
time there had been collected about $4,000,
$1,000 Of which were In three subscriptions, and
from 81 900 to 80, 600 by agents, and the residue
was received from collections, on the 4th ofJuly,
schools Masonic fraternities &C., &c.
Our predecessors, in their memorial 10 Congress,
state they have gratuitously given their services
at great personal sacrifices Their journal shows
that from LIST January 1854, to 22d February, 1858,
6fty-nine weeks they attended az follows:
T. Carberry, the chairman of the Building Com
nittee, A times; J. B. H. Smith, the Treasurer,
40 times; ]. C. Brent, the Secretary, and member
of the Building Committee, 35 times; A. Hender-
son, LIST Vice President and acting President SO
times B. 0. Tayloe, member of the Building Com
mittee, Is; Judge Crawford 81; w. Lenox, IA;
p. Force, Ii w. w. Seaton, 8; P. r. Fendall,
0; J. w. Maury, Z; Geo. Watterston, 5, Che died
during the year, but when in health was the dill
gent and attentive Secretary y T. Blagden, q NJ.
T. Maury, 2; w. w. Corcoran, 3; J. 7. Towers,
(Mayor,) Q; w. Jones, |.
The occasions on which these five last-named
were present, were, as we understand parade meet
ings. w. A. Bradley was absent in Europe, from
June but neither he nor General Scott, nor Gen.
eral Towson, are marked rs being present at any
nae We believe General Scott did not reside in
the city. and General Towson was prevented by Ill
health.
You, gentlemen, will thus be able to Judge Of the
extent OF those services and great personal sacri
fees which they so touchingly plead to Congress.
Their journal further siivws that rrvin tho 6rst
appointment of the Building Committee, now more
than seven years ago, all the contracts for work
and material have been made by it, and, 30 far as
we have been able to discover, all moneys not dis
bursed directly by the Superintendent, and they
amounted to large sum, have been paid on the
rcqulstion Of the chairman of that committee Nth
out inquiry.
Nor have they, at any time, made any thorough
or searching examination of those accounts. We
speak cautiously this subject, because their jour
nal, for years past, has been kept loose sheets
of paper, and neither copied nor bound into any
book and we did not make the examination our
selves, but had 1t done by gentleman entirely
competent, and on whose report VIC think we can
safely rely But tappears, go far as we have discov
o ed anything, that the whole business Of the con-
structing this stupendous work, and the disburse
lnent Of more than 5000 600 has been intrusted al
most exclusively to the control and management of
Mr.. Carberry without the careful scrutiny and
.,.pArvision OF the Board that he has had other
and more personal private duties 10 employ his
time, and has had to rely greatly on Dougherty,
the Superintendent; and, however praiseworthy it
may have been in him to give the time, and care,
ana dttentlOu WHICH ne uu give, anu however nom
est and pure his intentions may have been, IL was
not human nature for him TO make it the business
and occupation Of his life.
Ono of the consequences has been, that large
sums have been received and paid out by Dough-
erty at the Monument of which no account APP
pears in any of the books Of this office. IL 10 said
the account was kept by him. If so, il does not
appear TO have been revised by the late Board at
least we have not yet discovered the evidence Of
q, h. h.o rtsaI xvttb ,nA Iat
the books which were kept there. We are there.
fore utterly unable TO ascertain the nature of the
expenditures, or the extent and amount Of the
sums received and discussed by him. Yet there
are partial returns, from which we gather some idea
Of them.
Among them, We find that they paid at one
timo Se per day for team, stone-wagon, and
teamster, to haul stone This hIes the value of
that owned by the Society. During the last year,
no paid to Mr.. Carberry, the chairman Of the
Building Committee, 81 rs per cord for pine wood,
Of an interior quality, cut and corded and delivered
ON Mr.. Carberrys farm, several miles out Of town.
This wood was hauled by the team belonging to
the Society, making but one trip day, and bring
ing one cord at load. This IL the team was nth
90 a day, would make that wood cost IS rs per
cod The teamster employed in hauling that
wood also hauled wood from Mr.. Wilson's farm,
still further off, When he went for load Of wood,
he was required by Mr.. Carberry TO carry TO his
farm, from the city, load Of manure ashes, or
limo, or sometimes the marble spapis from the
Monument. In tho came manner ho hauled large
pieces Of rough marble TO the same place; and
with cart) he carried TO Mr.. Carberry's farm,
from the stone-cutter's house, at the Monument,
marble shaft cut for a sun-dial
The same team was employed by Dougherty 70
haul bricks TO Mr.. Cagetts farm still further from
the city than Mr.. Carberrys and also TO haul lum-
Der 70 Mr.. Swanns farm several miles further dis
tant than Mr.. Clagetts, and in doing other hauling
We do not say that this was not all very proper
and judicious and If the team was standing idle at
the Monument, had no work TO do there, aud could
earn something in this way TO defray the expenses
Of keeping II, and the money thus earned was car
red to the credit Of the Society and 80 appears In
its transactions, you may have no just cause Of
complaint We can only say FOR the present. we
have been unable TO discover such credits and un-
doubtedly the facts we have stated 80 far give col
or 10 some Of the rumors to which we have re-
furred
Az TO the cost Of the work which has been done,
there may be, and we presume there is, great diff
ference Of opinion. We can only say that upon a
rough, but as we understand very reasonable es-
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