Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-22

The facts and figures Of the Flour Contract
Swindle in Utah. by which the Administration
showers balra million Of plumber on its party
iavoritcs, MeFsrs holiday a Co, have before
been given to the public. A letter from Camp
Floyd, August Sd. states that the sub-contractors'
Messrs. Bernishel Il Young, were filling the
contract at $3.50 per 100 pounds, for which
Mcssrs. Holiday & Co., receive S2S 60 per 100
pounds from Uncle Sam twill be rccoiccted
that Mr.. Martin bid ior the contract at Sl2 per
100 pounds and his bid was rejected by the
Secretary of War. Who shares the hali million
plumber Of the public treasury
The Great Mule Fraud is thus shown up in
a letter, to the St Louis Democrat, under date
of Camp Floyd, August Sth The disgraceiol
facts stated give a clue to one of tho reasons
why a useless force of three thousand men is
stationed in Utah, aud further expose the sys'
tcmatic and shameless robbing of the govern
mont chest the Administration Of Mr.. Buchanan
permits and conniycs at. AGcr mentioning
that on the arrival of Mr.. Holiday, and the de-
veljpcmcnt Cf the flour contract fraud, it was
whispered that others still more startling would
come out, the writer says
At length an advertisement appeared in the
columns of the Valley Tan, announcing the
sale at public auction Of two thousand or more
mules This, as may be supposed, set the
people Of the Territory on the qm rice, and
many a good dollar that had lain for years hid.
den fiom the light of day was brought forth for
the purpose OF purchasing teams. As the day
OF sale approached, TumOrs were thick that Mr..
lIol iday was to be the purchaser OF the mules.
An order had been received from the Secretary
of War TO the Quartcrmastcr General Of this
department. stating that Mr.. Holidays notes
were to be received as cash for all purchases
he might make The auctiunecr, it is said,
received secret instructions to "knock doRn'
all mules to Mr. H. when they had reached a
certain figure So strictly was the rule enforced
that much remark was made by outsiders, and
one of the auclioneeTs refused to have any fur
ther connection with the matter. Upon these
terms Mr. Holiday became the purchaser OF
over one thousand mules, valued at about Sl75,-
OOO but for which he gave his notes to the
value of about 100000 These mules could
have been sold to the residents of this Territory
for cash. for the sum first stated, but MIR. llol-
liday gets them upon a credit at little more
than half their value
/ have Authority for stating that Mr.. II. has
| "a tOilldtb ~ supply AlN NNfNi ihAANile Nv Wv
Dallas, in Oregon, with one thousand mules, at
his own price Now many Thousand dollars
could have been saved had Government sent
these mules to that point on its own hook
Twenty herlers would have delivered them at
that point at a small cOst, just the same that 1t
would cost them at this post but no, they
must sell them at a reduced price to Mr. lloli-
day, and let him drive them there and sell them
back to the Government at large advance
f Would il not have been fully as well to have
given Mr.. Holiday sixty or hundred thous-
and dollars to drive them to Oregon at once l.
: Even this would have saved the Government
several thousand dollers paid as auctioneer's
fees. Could get at the bottom of this trick, it
, would cause the people of the entire country TO
open their eyes and raise their voice en- lHaSSs
against so lagrant an outrage
have still another fraud to expose, and am
now engaged in hunting up facts 1t will be
called the "beef swiudle." Holiday Co., are
again the lucky fellows that are destined to
grow fat aud saucy by sucking the Utah teat.