Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-07
AaminIsrru1ioa aCOTruptlOns---lIT. Prlt

Administration lCoFruptions---lIr. Pryor,
& When the venerable az. B." became Chief
Magistrate. some three ycars ago, there was
asurplus of some 50, ,OOO, 900 in the National
( Treasury. He commenced a system of de-
pietion to reward party favorites, and the
result of his fnanciering up to this time, is
deficit Of about S65, ,OOO, zoe debt incurred
in the shape Of Treasury notes funded and
to be funded with an annual deficit in re-
ceipts running the Government deeper and
deeper IN debt. Such is the result Of a three
year'srsign Of the public plunderers.
How this enormous debt has been saddled
on the country has been revealed by the
Covode Committee. 1t has accumulated for
money paid out on mule contracts, transport
alton contracts, useless mail contracts, to po-
litieal dependents-in large sums lost to the
Treasury By sales of forts and purchases o f
new sites in reward Of fayorites-expense Of
engineering LecompVon uIlra = = eii-a- An
through ngress--Wenden printing con-
tract-fllingi up Navy Yards with idleFs 70
carry Congressional elections in New York
and Philadelphia- ia-embeEzlefnents by public
officers Of which Fowler is a sample, and
Q through Live Oak JOBS, coal jobs, and sun
q dry other jobs, as weg as the support of
Democratic journals from Washington
stealings under Presidential auspices
This is The way the money has gone un-
til the national debt has swollen to six
ty-fve millions, with prospect of a large in
crease before March 4th, 1861.
So bold and barefaced are the corrup-
tions, that Democrats are now thesaccusers.
Nearly all the witnesses before the Covode
Committee have been Democrats, and it is out
Of their mouths that the Administration is
condemned. The public printing has been
SO shown up by the Senate investigation,
that Mr.. Pryor, e Democratic representative
from Virginia, felt constrained to denounee
malfeasanee of the President and his Cab
met on the Aoor Of the House. With regard
to the Post Office blanks, it appears that the
Z Executive De partfnent, after doing the work,
distributed the surplus among the partisans
and supporters Of the Administration. Mr..
Pryor charged this upon the Executive, and
Of taking at least $4,000 more out Of the
Treasury than was requisite compensation
for the work done, directing its equal distri-
button among the editors of the Philadel-
p6ia Evening Argus, the Pennsylvanian,
the Ohio statesman, and the Washington
Constitution. This black mail was levied on
The Public Printer, and Mr.. Pryor, who
drewpp the Indictment against %. B, }" IN
sists that the allegations are made good by the
testimony Of Mr.. Baker, before COMMITTEES
appointed by the Democratic Senate Mr.
Z Pryor, WhoWss q Democratic editor in Wash
ington before his election to Congress IN Nir
ginia, made direct and explicit charges o
corruption against The President, declaring
without reservation that the President knew
there was an excessive fraud in the public
printing, and should be held responsible fo
It. He demanded a Committee. Mr.. Pryo
is still in good standing with the Democracy
and before his encounter with Mr.. Potte
was petted as their fighting champion.