Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-20

Voiee-S'Ifc'eht, amt it Laughter.
The Questioner-O, it's all right now
Mr. Broderick-Here is the resolution in
troduced by Mr. Gwin, calling for an inves-
tigation; ......
ResoI0ed, That the Committee on Military Af
fairs and the Militia be instructed to inquire into
the allegations OF fraud in the proposed purchase
ola site for the f0rt6ca tions upon the north side
OF the bay of San Francisco, and that the said
Commtte be authorized to send for persons and
papers.
1t will be seen that DR.. Gwin made nc
mention of the Government officers in hi;
resolution, so his solicitude for them is of re-
cent origin and growth. and is probably an
eXpedient |, as one of the minority of the
Committee made long report, which, no
doubt, many of you have read. | will read
the short majority report submitted by Mr..
Davis:
The Committee on Military Affairs and the
Miltiu, who were instructed by a resolution of
the Senate to inquire into the allegations of fraud
IN the proposed purchase of site for fortifca-
tons at Lime Point upon the north side of the
bay OF San Francisco, have instructed me to re-
port that the CON mittee find nothing to impeach
! the conduct OF the agents ofthe Government, and
! that there is no evidence to involve them in any
fraud. The committee report the evidence re-
cord and oral, adduced in the course of the inves-
tigation, and ask to be discharged from the fur
ther consideration ofthe subject, and that the re-
port and testimony be printed.
.ltis very curt and strange report, after
the evidence which had been adduced before
the committee Butt viii not take up your
time in reading from the evidence. There
are twp letters from Mr.. Weller, which you
have all read, and therefore, will not trouble
YOU with them. There is another paragraph
or two in his speech to which | wish to draw
| your particular attention:
ave did differ radically on the question Of the
! Overland Mail | care not whether the Ell Paso
route is one mile or thousand miles longer than
that by Salt Lake, it is one OF the great enter
prises of the age aud will confer ncalcuable ben
ehts upon The State. / intend to stand by it, and
all The overland routes, to the bitter end Here
is the great issue between Mr.. Broderick and my
self. lie is for one only-that BY Salt Lake. as he
stated in debate in the Senate. He said during
the first session of the last Congress thatt
'impossibility" for the mail to be carried over
the FL Paso route within twenty-five days. The
The result proves that he was utterly mistaken.
As | have said, | am for all the routes not only
as mail routes, but TO open up each for settlement
so as to give us many avenues of connection with
our brethren on the Atlant C and Gulf coasts. |
would multiply them if | could, instead Of oppOs-
| ing any one of them.
"As to the Phcervlle route, Mr.. Broderick' s
great affection for it never sprang into existence
until after it was established, and he then only
took it under his protection to find fault with the
Postmaster General for putting it in operation,
The very joint resolution that he boasts of getting
the Senate to take up after | had failed, did not
increase the speed over the time the Postmaster
General had by contract the power to enforce its
conveyance; it only gave the contractors $40 600
per annum more than they could get under their
contract 1t was the knowledge of this fact that
| induced the President to withhold his signature ;
why did not Mr. Broderick state this in his speech?
lie should also have stated that after he had sue
ceeded by his great popularity with the Senate in
! getting up the BILL that he was SO utterly ign07-
ant on the subject that he had to call on Senator
from Missouri and myself to explain its provis-
ions and pass il through the Senate.
The last paragraph or sentence is falsc
Knowing that lie had ingress into all the De,
partments, thought that he knew something
about the measure. 1t is true that | never
heard of it until the evening that it came in
| to the Senate. 1t was on the last night of
;he Senate-a fine time, indeed, for the pas
! sage of such q measure-when the bill was
brought up. 1t reduced the time on the
st. Joseph and Placerville route from 3S to
30 days. was exceedingly anxious that the
! bill should pass DR.. Gwin moved to take
up the bill, but his motion failed / finally,
in the latter part of the evening, succeeded
in carrying q similar notion and the bill was
| passed. knew nothing about the Postmas
ter General; had never spoken to him.
never entered any of the offices save on bu
siness even when ! had business with the
| Departments if l could procure a man to do
it, without my holding intercourse with the
officers, l preferred that mode of action.
Applause | have never spoken to the
heads of the Departments since they took I'M.
der consideration, and in favor, the infamous
Kansas fraud. Cheers. "Give 'em hell,
! Dave"l DR.. Gwin tells you in his speech,
that he is in favor of multiplying the routes
| supposed that the Overland Mail routes
were established for the purpose of promot
ing emigrant communication between Cali
fornia and the Easterd States Now, state
within the hearing of you all, that there is
but one Overland route, and that is the mid
die route. Ninteen-twentieihs of the people
who crossed overland to this country came
| by this route. "That's 50" Who ever
heard of any horses, cows, or any other kind
of stock being brought across the desert be-
low the SOD parallel of latitude-the line
this mail route travels over2 ''Nobody" Y
| wanted one route for the encouragement OF
immigration had no objection to the El
Paso route, and when Dr. Gwin says that
stood in opposition to it he asserts that which
is untrue. Are you aware, fellow citizens
thai the General Government has been eX-
pending nearly 100000 for the support of
three mail routes from the Southern States
TO California, with hope offurcing the mail
land immigration by Southern route; while
the Middle route is receiving the mere pit
tance of 100000. And upon this latter line
the time of travel is fixed at so long period
that it is of very little benefit to the people
of the "W Western States" or the people of
California If Gwin had turned his atten
ton and favor to the Middle route he would
have effected much more for your benefit, as
| will proceed to show after Il while, if you
will listen to me- Here is a very funny por
tion of his speech, which l take great pleas
ure in reading to you;
"Again, he says he passed an amendment
through the Senate at the last session, reducing
the time on this route to twenty five DAYS, but he
fails to state was in favor of toenty instead Of
twenty-five days" LLaughter
Fellow citizens, how do ! know but that
he was in favor of five days? ["Jes so. VI
How do know but that in the deep recesses
of his heart, Dir. G win cherished hope and
plan for the switest air. line express route
across the Middle Plains? But, gentlemen.
81 was not aware that he made movements"
TO have the time reduced TO t,centy days.
| was in the Senate all the time vet dit not
learn of any efforts of his for the end which
he now claims he sought, and for his action
towards which he intmates that am disin.
genuous in not giving him credit. This
know: he never raised bis voice or said a
word until called upon to answer a question
which put to him relative to the Middle
route. How fair my colleague is in his efforts
| as prospcutin0 AttOrnpvi for pprhans such