Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-09
Colonel Fremont-His Charges for services
In California.


astounding Report Of the Congressional Con
mittee on Military Affairs.
After the return Of Lieutenant Colonel Ere
mont from California, his accounts and charge
for services and disbursements against tn
United States Government we're presented t
Congress and duly referred to the COMMITTEE
on Military Affairs.
After thorough investigation Of the nc
counts and examination of Witnesses the com
nittee reported to Congress as follows, viz:
"Claims against the United States for funds
advanced, subsistence and supplies Of all kinds
furnished or taken for the use Of the volunteers
serving under the command Of Captain John
G. Fremont, in California during the year 1916
amounting to $27s,S49 25, have been pre-.
scented for the consideration Of the board.
"The limited powers conferred upon the
board by law restricted it in the examination
of the claims presented TO simply receiving
such explanations and testimony as might be
offered for the claimants, or their agents or as.
sgnees, and not to seek the same from ANY
OTHER than official sources such as the records
OF the Treasury and the Departments Of Gov
eminent might furnish.
the irregularities and conflicting nature of some
Of the accounts presented; the irreconclable
differences Of prices paid for similar articles ;
the fact that many articles have been charged
for more than once, and at widely different
prices; the want of proof or explanation Of the
necessity or object of heavy purchases and
expenditures; the apparent and unexplained
magnitude of the expenditures in comparison
with the force actually employed &C., make it
proper to refer the subject to Congress for such
further legislation as may be deemed expedi-
emit"
See Cong. Globe, vol. 26, PIP. 500, second
session 32d Congress, February IL, 1923.
Now the question is, shall we trust this man
with $lO0,O00,000 of the peoples money. The
so-called Republicans" say Col. Fremont shall
be our next President; but all true Americans
and the National Democracy say he shall not.
With him and his party it is altogether
question of dollars and cents-a bold attempt
to secure the public funds for private uses-to
set up one section of the country against the
other, and to use the public treasure for specu-
lative purposes. Shall such wickedness 60 un-
punished?-N T. Daily Nens.
The New York TRIBUNE.--We suppose if
any person should read but one paper, and that
the Police Gazette, he might imagine that one
half the world was engaged in cutting the
throats of the other half fobbing from them,
committing rapes, arsons, or what not; for the
news columns of that sheet are filled with such
accounts. So, too, if one only read the Water
Cure Journal, he might get an idea that one
half the world were a-soak and the other half
securing them with rough cloths. To read the
Spiritualst alone one might come to think that
the almost universal occupation of men and
women was to rap tables and bark for the
spirits Of the departed But the single idea
got from such presses would be false One
half the world are not killing or soaking the
other half, nor listening for the spirits of the
departed. The New York Tribune is one of
this sort Of papers. At one time to read it
alone induced the belief that onehalf the world
we're gone mad after Fourierism, and the theory
of common property and common wives. Again,
in the Miss Fox Times one might have thought
all the world was investigating the phenomenon
of counting peanuts under table. Now it is
devoted to Kansas and Fremont. According
to it, the Union is in halves, and one half bent
on shooting, numbering and enslavering the
other half, beginning with Kansas. To carry
out the idea the Tribune has a corps of edi-
toral Munchausens in Kansas, whose business
it is to manufacture murders, piages, and rob-
berries. These jolly hirelings are adopts at the
business they are engaged in, and work with
such alacrity that they find out thousands of
things that the most vigilant congressional
committee cannot find out. But the world
wags on, and time will reveal that those who
take the N. Y. Tribune for guide, have been
deceived as to what the people are doing and
what they will do in ovember.--Repubhca
Journal, Belfast, Maine.