New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-20

Cpe-tifed, partial, phfuseo inaouet, so' auo >u"-
dote to this ID a similar Investigation BY Commit
tie Of tie Senate which would be cure to bring ont
the lurking residue OF the facts Thus ws should
have the whole truth made public; and
ever feared that The truth should BE- told
But those W hon the truth would indict"
Rat in fact the House Committee is made up from
both parties, and questions are asked BY Democrats
as well as Republicans until the facts seem to be
fully ELECTED. The witnesses have thus far been
nearly all the Presidents leading supporters, political
ard personal; and they have testified under tho
solemnity of an oath. Every one must be aware
that they tell no more than they must and put 10
all the excavations they conscientiOusly can. L.
decent to represent Democratic testimony, thus
elected, as " calumbies, coined By disappointed
:. politicians Z" Is it truthful to talk ofthe EIecu
tive Of the Nation as arragned before Commttee
" of the House on charge Of Corruption" when
in fact there is no charge of corruption but that
made By himself aud 20 far from arraigning any
body the Committee is merely inqniring whether
that charge is well founded, and if it be- who are
the culprits
But let Us hear Ha,per's Heekly further
The charge this IS in plain words. that the public
patronage the Government has been distributed among
porters, and not smongi opponents"
is that the " charged" Who makes til Who
has objected to the distribution of the public patron
age BY Mr.. Buchauan's Administration among its
supportersl We never heard OF such objection
before. Most certainly, the Covode Committee is
not authorized to investigate any such charge. Ii
that were the misconduct alleged, the friends OF the
Administration in the House would have simply ana
properly .aid: ave admit all you allege. The
Administration does give its patronage to its
" friends. 10 the exclusion Of its adversaries. The
{" fact being thus settled what need Of investga-
" ton ~ And they would have been quite right.
But the charges on whi,h the Administration OF
Mr.. Buchanan stands arraigned before the Country
in the premises are quite other than this trumped-
ND substitute of Hayper's Weekly. Let us barely
instance few of them:
II is charged that a prominent Know-Nothing
politician in the West whose claim for large sum
from the Federal Treasury for services rendered to
certain Indian tribe was Indignantly and ignomin-
iously rejected by the last (Democratic) Admins
tration, had an understanding with certain master.
spirits of the present dynasty, whereby, in payment
for bis services in dividing the Opposition in lndi-
ana and securing its vote to Buchanan, his rejected
and secuted claim, to the amount of some $4,000
was passed and paid directly after Mr.. Buchanan's
Inauguration.
1t is charged that one Swift-coloquialy, "Liye-
I" Oak Swift"-raised some $4,000 at the East,
and paid it into the fund whereby Pennsylvania was
carried for Buchanan in '56, on an understanding
that he should be remembered in the good time
coming; and that said Swift has since been awarded
most lucrative contract for furnishing live oak to
certain Navy Yards, though there were several
lower bids, and bis was highest of all.
1t is charged that the emouments (about $l5,-
OOO per annum) of Coal Inspector at Philadelphia
were paIceed out, under Mr.. Buchanan's personal
direction, among three of his Pennsylvania parti-
sans, neither of whom paid any attention to the du-
ties of the post but left the contractors to supply
just such coal they chose, give their own weight,
and charge their own price; and this price was
fifty cents per tun higher than other respectable
! dealers would have gladly supplied the Navy for.
1t is charged that large purchases of Horses,
Corn, &C., for the Utah Expedition were made
without affordirg chance for competition, and at
prices fifty per cent. higher than need have been
paid.
1t is charged that the Utah Army has been fed
for the last year on Mormon Flour at cost to the
Treasury of S25 per hundred or $50 per barrel,
when the growers Of that Flour received but about
IS per hundred, leaving the $50 to be divided
between The pet contractors and those who favored
them.
1t is charged that some two thousand mules be-
longing to TIE Army in Utah were sold of last
Summer at an average of $50 per head, when they
had cost twice that sum and must now be replaced
at quite as heavy an expense; such sale being or
dered and held under circumstances which pract-
cay restricted purchasers to two or three fa7ortes
of the War Department.
1t ia charged that many thousand bushels of Corn
net required by the local commissariat, have been
sent up from the Missouri to Utah TO be used there
az forage, said Corn costing the Government over
81 per bushel delivered, when better article
could have been bought on tho spot Of 81 per
bushel.
1t is charged that Military Reservations have been
sold and sites for proposed Notifications bought,
under DIR. Bucbanan's rule, at prices runously un-
favorable to the Government for the benefit Of pet
politicians, some of them holding Offices of trust
and profit.
Such are sone Of the charges affecting the fidel-
ity and purity of Mr.. Buchanan's Administration
which are current, some Of them already supported
by the testimony of reluctant witnesses on the To-
vestigatiOns ordered by the last House. Let US
give single specimen of the abuses just unesrthed
by the CoyOde Committee