New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-16
THE INDUSTRIOUS WASTE BY THE DEMO
CkAIlC ADMINISTRATIONS.

Of TIE IRdepeadeHf shows the extraordinary scale on
which demands are made upon the public Treasury.
However. il is nice question how far Congress has
fosteed these high scales of CT argos by the desy and
expense il has long nerpoSed between the presenting
OF bill and the payment thereof The matter has
been ventilated before but the synopsis IS oil interest
lust Low:
"a document is now before me illustrating in a
small degree the method by which we are pressing up
TO 100000 600 annual expenditure. IL IS letter from
the Third Auditor of the Treasury, addressed TO tue
House in answer to resolution OF that oody asking
for Information the claims for Indian hostlltles IN
Oregon and Wsshir gton Territories. The primary
of the hosties is not gwen, from the single
fact that, anorg the immense MAS OF papers-welg9-
ing hundreds Of pounds in that office, not slose d.
fusion 10 inside 10 it.
at is tie old story however, OF pluntering and
war against the red man; and the instant his savage
nature finds outlet in retala lon the dogs OF war
are let loose upon the Tribes, and determination or a
distant removal is the only alternative. Bat to the
expense. Oregon, in October 1885, he'd submitted a
report to the Secretary of War; in which claims for
the snug little of S. 1909 SO were presented for
payment from the National Treasury. TEis is for Or
egon only The Washington claim IA more m )dest, but
touches the handsome figure Of 81 ,4Sl l75 ID, making
for both these youpg Territories reaching nearly
$1,000 600. The items in the account are rich. The
hmits of my letter forbid extensive uotstions The
price of labor is fabuous the ordinary sborer ~ per
day, while clerks awarded $40 per diem invariably.
Horses by quantities. purchased for $500 and 100
aplece-hred at 81 per daf shanties for officers and
uen are rented at from 500 to 500 per month, and
little item Of " expressing message from Deer
Creek to Port Oxford" is set down a. the cool price
of SeOO-a handsome SUN for an ordinary horseback
ride.
" The miscellaneous articles, with their prices are
astounding. As for example: harness, SlUO riding
SADDLE, so TO 500; lumber $50 to 500 per Thousand,
and this, too in timber country nails from 10 TO 81
cents per pound tobacco, - cents to 80 per pounds
aXes, 50 70 So; oxhendes 81 to 81 30 each; hand
ssvs, So &c Tue price charged for forage is the
same prncey sc9e. Oats, from 50 to 81 per bushel;
corD 81 per busbe hay, $50 TO 800 per tun. Black
smiths or fauiels roust have made harvest out of
the war; for find the nvarable price OF shoeng ami
mails is 50 per shoe or sl2 for single horse mule.
Tie difference between purchase and sale illustrates
80 clearly the whole swin3le upon the Government,
that cannot refrain from giving ore full quotation;
and promising that the whole statement, covering 10
odd pages, lie of a piece with it, l dismiss it from
further consideration mt present.
Dir. Peters purchased BIZ mules and 10 horses at
average of about $3.50 each. He hired in addition,
4iS hOrses and mules, SO1S days, at 81 per day,
$ll2,3l2, end teams TO the amount of Ell 800. Tue
rates OF hire OF teams per day for the horses
and mules, 81 per dsy each for oxen, and 81 Tor
wagons.
go The hire of packers, teamsers, &c.. is 81 to $40
per day, having been reduced by commission from So
TO Sl2. The persons from whom these animals
hired were nearly ali in service as Transfers and
packers at from 81 10 So per day.
1.-THE purchases of forage l57 ,50i pounds
osts, charged - TO 81 per bnshel, allowed 80 81;
32l4 pounds corn, charged 81 per oushe, allowed
50 30; hog pounds barley, charged s. to So per
bushel. allowed 50 80; AL 800 POUNDS wheat, charged
81 per busbel, allowed 50 81; 393735 pounds wheat
crushed charged s. per bushe allowed 81 50; 1872 $50
pounds hay, charged $l60 to 800 per tun, allowed
$780, H. 400 pounds straw, charged $50 per tan, al
lowed go.
"'Mr. Peters sold at auction at Jacksonville, AUG.
o. 1856, &c horses for 81 $751; being little less than
$73 each; 200 mules for slS,076 beng at average
OF $50 each. This included ~ aparajoes and pack
saddles, costing about sl5 each wagons were SOLD
for 1852, al average OF $5l 20 each; 1913 bushels
wheat sold FOR $3.50 D. pol bushels sod at II ceats-
sls5 81; 60 bushels cold at 81 csnts-s39i "a; 80
riding saddles sold for 1903 80 the rates being from 81
cent? to SO each iEon 81 cents nails l6 cents csps
% centsi hats % cents l29 pair boots, 81 30 per
marks made to the condition of the property sold
OF $50 sheets drawing paper for which $50
paid, 10 sheets were used; the remaining - sheets
cold fer Sll 49,