New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-26
maculate whsc bis conduct vii not justify sSca o
character. We charged % follows

1--WE have heard o. eer.sia sets Of M seoe vi
sour explain alton. We fosned tbs, socu .te he eces,
bis present =: ,S ,1s her
intimacy with p werfu friead neti9nay II sem,
tbs, one William NcInty. who hiss o-ned TIE Dchy Nc sac
ssSS 3sas sn on x n; NJ john Si Ss1-1 whom M
soh.u made State senator BY Of the Custom hoqse P
Cor The purpe OF Carrying t business OF The hrn
A. tnswr a. Mcintyre, B1by Co. These parties are tns
had ben mad stwe.n Nj Moe. Ode snd the
late secretary the Treasury Mr. Guthrie ,hs' 81 pods on gem
sr order should the which MI Ode had taken
vet Nj Schen managed remove Odeu aid sPPoned Ae:;i
Mcintyre Bi1by Co. in ais p.ce The Change n,i no 0es
public interest. h,d nothing to do with IT,"
The snswer TO this does not dispute the mortgage
20 Mr.. Mcintyre, the copartnershp OF Senator
Mather with Mcintyre and Bixby nor the personal
and political relations of the Collector with these
parties; but il warmly denies that Mr.. OdeI WAS
removed by the Collector. We desire that any
Committee of Congress, which may take the matter
in hand, shall inquire whether Mr. Odell had not an
understanding with the Treasury Department, with
the sanction of the late Collector Redfeld, that
general order should be sent to the storesoc
cuped by him Odel); whether, after Mr.. Scheu was
appointed Collector, he did not give orders that the
goods on general order should be sent to Mcintyre,
Rixby & Co.; whether merchants dlu not eau on
the Collector andexpostulate with him on the wrong
done TO Odell and the inconvenience TO WHICH tney
would be subjected by the change, as Odells stores
we're convenient and we'll managed; whether Mr..
Secretary Cobb did not at last interfere and inslst
that, unless Odell's stores were taken on MS
hands and Odell indemnifed, no change should take
place; and whether Odell under this pressure, did
not sell out the lease of his stores to save himself
from ruin. We would then ask what public interest
was promoted BY this deliberate sacrifice of a con-
petent man TO give sop to the potcala and personal
friends of the Collector.
We charged that the store No. ~ Broad street
was temporarily hired by the United States. The
answer admits that il was ordered to De leased by
the Treasury Department. Ifso, became under
the act of lS4l, leased :" on public account, ana
subject to the regulations of the Treasury De-
"partment" 1t was so understood by the Coi-
lector. az clerk from the Custom-House gave
receipts for storage, labor and carriage on " pack
ages at United States store No. ~ Broad
q" street" Why, then, attempt to say it was
private store-a business in which any one could
engage 1t was public store, managed a.
private store for Mcintyre aud Mather. The DAILY
NurS says:
THE TRIBUNE seems that the Government have
nothing whatever TO 90 with the bu slne', OF s q, b
houss any further than place Government once IN eac
meTc handi,e"
We are informed that the storage for No. 10
Broad street was paid at the Custom-H House, on
Mr. Schell's authority, to Messrs. Mcintyre,
Bixby & Co., after the proper officer at the
Custom-H House had declined to pass the account;
that large sum, thousands of dollars in fact
has been paid by direction of the Collector out Of
the funds of the United States for storage &C., at
No. 10 Broad street, at this private or public store
as it may turn out to be. The Daily Ne,oS wishes
the public to believe that No. 10 Broad street was
private warehouse. The Collector knowsthat by the
act of March 2S, 1854, the private warehouses
(such as the writer wishes US to believe No. ~
Broad street was) are to be used only for goods
entered and bonded for warehousing. The goods
sent to No. IL Broad street. and transferred ID No.
10 Broad street, never were entered or bonded for
warehOusing, and in no manner or form could they
be subjected to the rules and regulations of private
warehouses used under that act.
We are informed that a strict watch was kept at
No. IL Bread street; that, within few minutes
after goods were examined, they were carried out
OF No. IL Broad over to No. 10 Broad street merely
to make charges against the merchants, and fill the
pockets of MeIptyre, Bxby & Co.; and we dis
tinctly reiterate D. allegation that, when merchants
complained ftbe outrage committed on them by
the exactions of No. 10 Broad street, Mr.. Coec-
tor Schell yielded to the complaint, and those mer.
chants who would not submit TO the wrong were
relieved from il. On the other hand, those who
submitted were never called upon TO receive back
the amount they had paid ON the exaction of Mr..
Schell's fayOrites
We trust that Mr.. Collector Schell, who sup
ported Fernando Wood, may learn from Congress
that an investigation can be had of his aots even if
no inquiry into those of Fernando Wood could
be obtained from our Common Council. Let the
Senate's Committee on Commerce send to the
Treasury Department for the correspondence in re-
lation to Odes stores and the hiring of No. 10
Broad street, ard especially for all the letters from
Mr.. Collector Sehel relation to this subject Let
them examine the expenditures of the Custom
House here, and if money has not been paid
for storage &c, at No. 10 Broad street, or to
Mcintyre, Bixby & Co. Let them send for the
head Of the warehouse establishment in this city,
who had charge last Summer; for Dir. Ogden of
the CustOm-Hous here, and for the person having
charge of the carmens receipts in No. II Broad
street. We have no doubt that from these sources
some interesting and valuable discoveries may be
made.
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