The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-16
WASHINGTON CITY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY l6 1859

:" Your letter and the accompanying verified schedule
of certificates are herewith returned
" Very respectfully your obedient servant
ssr H. SMITH. Auditor.
Hon @, sAwr,llE, House OF Representatives.
The present committee OF the Senate have carried their
inquiries still further and have left shadow of ground
to deny the right to indemnity asked by the heirs and
legal representatives o llvm Solomon. ON this subject
Your committee ia order to leave no doubt existing
to amy possible liquidation OF this claim in behalf
ay.n Solomon his heirs, at any period after its
ton have, IN addition to the proof from the court OF
probate IN Philadelphia, and the records of funded
utionary Indebtedness verified by the foregoing
and vouchers. had before them the accounts Of Robert
Morris, the honorable superintendent of finance in the
revolution, rendered at the Treasury Department
wherein, after summing up all moneys paid by him in his
official capacity for the department, he still
thing in arrears after careful examination, do not
hnd Haym Salomon charged with dollar having been
paid to him in amy way whatever nor does there any
thing appear oessen the effects of the conclusions that
your committee IN with their predecessors have
arrived at And last resort, like examination has
been made IN the sworn statement OF the personal ac
counts Of Robert Morris, made while that venerable
patriot confined in prison debt about the year
1905 exhibited in printed schedule procured by your
committee but nothing whatever is found therein hav
ing been paid or charged to Haym Solomon.
Your committee in view OF all these facts,
TO other conclusion than that the menoriast is emf
ynenty and undoubtedly entitled to relief The only
question remaining To be considered is the manner in
which IL shall be allowed
They therefore report bill for the relief Of the claim
ant as bad been done by the preceding committees
but for a considerably less amount Whether this
t,ilment just not does not comport with PROV
ince to say.
But will this close the of labor and bring to the
descendants of liaym Solomon the indemnity often de-
cre to be due Or will this labor now ooftcn performed
with the result all for nothing and have to be
re-enacted by another protraced investigation at sub
sequcnt Congress Is there remedy for this sort of
endless labor and deay Must committee after commit
tee retiace the same grounds review the same facts and
vouchers, to arrive at the results but always too
late in the session of Congress to dispose Of the subject
do justice to the citizen Here questions which adj
dress themselves not only to the intelligence Of the legis
ature, but to the hearts aud sympathy Of all honest
1t is not only wrong and ruinous TO the rights Of
just claimants, to treat them who denied all other
Of redress but it inicts useless well end
let such matters in this way We have questions
of policy of various sorts-munilccnt grants made,
and homestead bills proposed but like this
should be disposed Of hrst--for the simple reason
they honest and just and it is srepuabe and speaks
bad for system OF government to have the honest cit
zen beg through life and be driven the grave with his
rights thus frankly repeatedly ayered but sickened and
crushed with delay in manner that amounts to de-
nial Justice There is remedy needed and should be
sought applied by government itself before the citi
zens in self f-dufencc, seek violent for them
selves. No read the report have alluded to
without feeling some of these impressions feeling
ashamed that the best OF hcnefacois should often
with such rewards. How often is it SO little known
who have sadly made sacrifices for the public good and
who are still less cared for titus making good the
mark of the learned sage, who said that ''howeyer
eusy ii for the patriot to remember his sacrifices made
and endured for posteity ii still easier for self
ish postciity to forget them. sad truth.