Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-26
CONGRE >SIONAL.

Wednesday next. The confusion was
excessive.
Mr.. Farnsworth said if the members
of the Baltimore Convention were to con-
troll here, he would move that the door
keeper let them all IN.
Mr. Barksdale said these gentlemen
we're not creating the disturbance. The
members Of both side were doing it,
The amendment was disagreed to; so
against Sc. An Intellectual effort was
made to table the subject.
The Senate resolution was adopted;
123 against 5S.
The Covode Committee reported
Mr.. Train made "a report from the
Covode Committee, signed by Messrs.
Covode, Olin and Train. 1t sets out by
speaking of the embarrasments which
attended their labors, and stating that
the President saw fit to send in solemn
protest. in the way Of proclamation to
the world that the whole power of the
Executive, instead of being exercised to
forward an investigation into Admins
trative affairs, would be exercised to pro-
tect those who might choose to disobey
the summons of the Speaker of the
House, or who, having obeyed the sum-
mons, might refuse to testify before the
Committee, who quote precedents to
show that they have felt at liberty to in
vestigate the conduct Of the President
or any other officer of the Government.
In regard to the Lecompton Constitu
tion, they say the country will pause
with astonishment over the shameless
record. They examined, first, the EN-
phatic and indubitable pledges of the
President, as well before as after his
election, and the pledges of all his Cabi-
net, to the doctrine of leaving the people
of Kansas perfectly free to administer
their institutions in their own way.
Second.-The deliberate violation Of
the pledges, and the attempts to convert
Kansas into slave State by means Of
forgeries, fraud and force.
Third.-The removal and attempt to
disgrace the sworn agents Of the Admin
istration who refused to violate their
pledges.
Fourth-The open employment of
money in the passage Of the Lecompton
and English bills through Congress.
Fifth.-The admission of parties en-
gagged in the work of electioneering this
scheme that they received enormous sums
for this purpose.
Sixth.-lle offered to purchase news
paper editors with extravagant sums OF
money.
Seventh-And even the prescription
of Democrats of high standing, who
would not support the Lecompton and
English bills.
The witnesses On these points were
Governor Walker, Wendell, Bean, and
f. w. Walker; and, fortunately for the
cause of truth, the evidence Of these
witnesses does not, the Committee say.
depend upon their own admissions. 1t
is proven by the book Of records Of the
Bank of the Metropolis, which contains
the names of those who conduct their
business there, and by the unconscious
contradiction of the witnesses. The tes
timony Of Forney Is not to be overlooked
in this connection. While it shows
general willingness on the part of the
President to subserve the public press,
it proves also that there was a strong
determination to buy all who could be
brought, and to crush out the honest
men who could not be bribed or reduced
to an afiliation with the Administration
in its Lecompton policy. Forney was
offered the printing OF the postofiice
blanks, worth at least $50, 600, on con-
dition that he should, by an editorial no
longer than mans hand, support the
Administration in its Kansas policy
The Committee refer to the fact that
twenty-four Democratic members Of the
House disproved Of the Kansas policy.
This number was dwindled down to
twelve, and enough were found to carry
the bill through the House.
The Committee say it had always
been supposed that the war in Utah was
gotten up for the purpose of fastening
Slavery on Kansas, the troops being di
verted to operations in Kansas.
The next point examined involved the
abuses in the Philadelphia custom
house and other public offices, in regard
to which the Committee say there were
combinations among Federal officers,
with a view to control the sentiments
and prejudices of the people in their
primary political movements.
Secondly, the improper and corrupt
use of the public money in the employ
ment of persons in the public service, in
violation of the laws and Government
regulations, and the frauds on the part
of officers of the Government to defeat
the statute of the United States, enacted
for the purpose Of protecting the public
treasury from unjust claims and i'm
provident and unnecessary expenditures.
The witnesses are John H. Bryant,
Francis and Samuel B. Rice, Francis
Mccormick, John F. Schall, Andrew
Brumaker, George Downey, Patrick
Cafferty, John Dunn, and others.
The Committee say that Collector Ba-
ker is subject to the highest censure,
under want Of time to procure investlga-
ton into the management Of the Postof-
fee.
They examined the subject of the ex-
ecutive binding, saying that Mr.. Petit
bone was wrong in the matter of patron
aye retained in the, hands OF the Pres
idents friends. The Committee say that
the evidence proves beyond doubt that
the prices paid for the Executive print
ing and binding were utterly dispropor-
tionate to the work done.
The Committee also alluded to the en-
ployment of men to carry elections.
In view of all the facts and circum
stances attending this investigation from
its commencement to the present time,
there seems marked propriety in clo-
sing this report with a quotation from a
speech Of MIR. Buchanan in condemna-
ton of fraud