, 1859-06-24

Total scrip $947,7ss 70
Excess over amount reported by
commissioner $l4,G3S 50
Upon one Of the last vouches rendered the COM
missiontrs dsallowed $l76, but scrip is issued
for the whole amount Of the voucher, notwith
standing QuartemaSter MllCrs purchases, as
indicated by his accounts, were very large, and
at prices which seem in some instances to be very
high. Horses, from 1925 to $4OO; oxen, from
5000 to $3.50 per yoke; ox-wagons from $l37
to $3.50 each; rifles, $50; pistols, 800; pow
der, from 81 to 81 80 per lb blankets, from S.
to 50 each; coats, S25; pants. from $S to 50;
boots, from 81 30 to $40; shoes, from $3 to 81;
shirts, $S each; saddles, from $50 to $40 each;
tents, G each; pork, $40 per barrel; fresh pork,
from l2b TO 80 cents per h.; beef 90 cents ba-
con, 30 cents; flour, $l1 95 to $l6 66 per bar
rel; sugar, from IS to 25 cents per h.; coffee
from 25 to 80 cents per h.; beef cattle, from $77
to $3.50 each; oats, from 81 90 to 81 per dozen
sheaves; wheat % per bushel.
Gen. Mnlers accounts show large amounts for
meals and lodging furnished various persons, at
generally 81 per meal, without designating the
persons, so as to ascertain whether they were
entitled to them at the public expense. He also
reported for pay, in addition to their military pay
the members OF Capt Shead's company, for their
services as wagon masters, &C., before noticed.
His abstracts show, also, quite number Of per-
sons reported for pay for their services as ten
listed recruit" at 81 per day, and no doubt sub
Sistence beside, not on any Of the pay-rOlls, but
are in addition to the men borne thereon. II is
not understood what this means, unless il be that
these are men who had agreed to servo as volun-
teers but were never received into service, or
belonged to any military organization. lie re-
pots bills for the lodging Of wives Of the volun.
tcerS, at $40 per month. With respect TO the
property purchased and received, Il Is not proper
" accounted for, being turned over to employees,
% Gov. Stevens, &c, &C., with few except ons.
Ccthing, -four, &c, is credited upon many Of
the bills Of employees in part payment Of their
accounts, whether in all cases at the same rates
as purchased It Is impossible 10 say in the time
allowed for this examination, hut the contrary is
believed generally 10 be the fact Most Of the
receipts for property turned over are copies, and
some o, them are not signed at all, being mere
nicmorandutns Some Of the property hc re-
ports as still on hand.
Aceopatsof Warren Gore, gudrte1mGstera a, SteiL
aooom, Tho calls himself also military store
I'eper
The prices which his vouches represent him to
have agreed to pay for his urchases are about
the two preceding quartermastcrs at Olympia
pork and bacon rather higher, hOrseshoeing 8 in
stead Of dollars each, and labor generally, Il
anything, trile lower and better vouched. His
accounts, however, have about them Just as
strong evidence Of confusion and irrcgularity as
the others his purchases and disbursements be-
ing all mixed up together. Ills property returns
are exceedingly unsatisfactory. They are very
voluminOus showing scarcely anything but an
unnecessary waste Of clerical labor and stationery
In their preparation, aud do not show proper
application Of the property which came into his
hands to the public service. He admits to have
received large quantity Of subsistence stores,
Of the two articles Of coffee and salt more than
sufficient to have ratoned all the volunteers Of
the Territory during their whole period of SER
vice. and he disr6ses Of by far the greatest por-
ton Of ell he received, like Quartermaster Weed,
by issues TO employees, to families Of persons
ordered in from their claims by Gov. Stevens"
and TO "iamilies Of men In the service Of the
government" by sales at auction, and by issues
to the quartermaster and to individuals not quar-
termasters or commissaries and particularly to
one William P. Wells, who styles himself in one
place as quartermaster's clerk, and in another,
as commissary at Camp Montgomery. To this
individual he claims to have issued, in bulk, Of
leading articles: 4S barrels Of pork, barrels Of
beef l69 barrels Of -four, 1880 pounds Of ba-
con, 296 pounds Of coffee, 5000 poun Is Of su.
gar, 232 pounds Of rice, and 2,475 pounds Of
soap; Of clothing, 2G4 pair of blankets, at dol
lars; 4l0 coats, al from 12 to % dollars; 6l6
pair pants, at dollars; 335 shirts, SO; 2T5 pair
boots at IS, and S43 pair shoes, at So 6o-which |
cannot be discovered were properly accounted
for, as this Mr. Wells has rendered no account or
returns whatever, nor is he borne on any roll as
an officer Of any description.
Quartermaster Cove, by his own admission,
appears 10 have received q very large amount Of
clothing as will be seen by the following leading
articles, to wit: 343 pair blankets, 700 coats,
992 pair pants, All shirts, s54 pair boots and
764 pair shoes; oil Of which he disposes Of as
hereinbefore indicated. OF his vouches, accom-.
panyiug bis property account. there Is scarcely
single original; all, or nearly all, beng copies
and memorandumS apparently very recently
made out His operations are represented to
have extended from February until towards the
last Of September, 1856, during which time he
appears to have contracted liabilities TO the
amount Of SlS, $50 81, Of which SA52O % Is
credited ashayiug been cancelled by payments
in clothing and other pubic property, and onlv
$3.50 % disallowed by the commissioners, on the
ground, e q presumed, Of extrasaeant charges,
a. they express no reasons for their deduction
leaving $3.50 ~ for which scrip was issued.
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