Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-09-17

clerk
A Yes, sir.
@ Does he still hold the position?
a. | believe he does
q. Does he perform any duties in the store
keepers Office?
a. No, sir; he is down to the place. every
day; there is not much doing there now, lie
has not held the position long.
e. He was appointed last year, some time.
was he not?
A. | presume he has been there in the
neighborhood of six months -
G. Has this Mr.. Clement any other bcsi-
ness than that of second clerk
a. He is bricklayer.
z. Has he any capacity as ook-keepcr!
A. do not know whether nc has or Lot.
@. You say he performs no duty there.
A. He does not; h. has performed zone in
our department.
q. DO you know whether he continues mis-
business as a brickiayer!
\. Yes, sir, he does"
1t was stated in the testimony thar this Mr..
CLEMENT could scarcely write at all. As for
his spelling. it WAS such, We imagine. as TO
contest the palm with that of DO LANE, Of
! Oregon" and, il he had come out squarely
before the country on the -'slaye code ques-
ton, would have entitled biIn to a favorable
hearing for the Vice-P res idential nomination
at the Mary land Institute Hall. Being him
self brought before the Committee, the fol-
! lowing coiIoquy took place between Mir. WIN
SLOW and tie witness:
% Can you spell 'crucifx:'
/ \. [ do not know; have not spelled Il
very lately.
| Mr. WinsIow. Try il.
| The Witness. Ny memory Is poor, and it
! is a. long time since | went to school do
! not suppose / could spell it.
| Mr. WinsloW. Well, Just try it-'cruCi1iN
| | viii help YOU; the first letter Is &c.
The Witness. Or conse, Let me. Sc
/ O-(pausiigI-
/ Mr.. Winsluw. Go On-
| The Witness (coutiuGiuc) -u-c-'-i-3- i do
! not suppu-'. have spelled il for thirty Years
Mr. wu=iow. That + doias pretty wcli-''
In continuation ci ir,,4 evidences of this
system Of employing supesnume;arieS, ~e
present the following ion' til testimony OF
| FREDEEIcE ENGLE, vino Wa comnandant OF
the Navy Yard in philadelphia during the time
of the transactions Of which be speaks Al
| ter stating that Mr. CCUTsGs. mentioned
| above as succeeding FL Ks, p.riorioed no ssr-
vice hc was asked
80. DO you know % ether persons who
got pay without rendering any service What
ever.
\. Yes. sir.
@. Please state what you knox about them.
A. There was the second clerk 81 the COIN
mandant.
q. What about that?
i. He is in The Office of the commandani /;
that Is my Office [ never saw hIm there.
-. What pay 1hd be DRAW.
A About $3.50.
.. What was his name:
| y do not recollect his name positively
| think it was Eidridge; | am not certain
| though. La running over my papers and
| books | came TO his name. and sent for the
| Chief clerk at once, and asked him who that
person was. saying that had never seen bin,
| ana did moi know anything about him. DE
| told NE that he had been in The service
great while. and had not really saved any
thing. and Commodore Stetrdrt gaoe han peTDiis-
SION TO haze that place. and be absent. sasd Hoth-
ing more about It.
Q. Do you know anything about men con-
nected with newspapers III Philadelphia be-
ing paid by the governmental man connect
ed with The ''Argus7 being employed as
clerk! F
Q. Do YOU know anything about his name?
A. | DO not recOllect his name. d
O. Do Won know of any other clerks receIy-
ing pay without rendering any services?
A / remember a person named Colonel
something or other being there f.: L called The
attention OF the storekeeper 10 the fact !,
after little while he informed me that he
had DO use for him, and l ordered his dis
charge : and they abused me little in the
newspapers but 1 did not care about that.
Q. Do you know Mr.. Cummings:
A. Yes. sir.
Q. Does he render any service 10 the gov
eminent there?
a. He is there once in while.
q. Does he render any service tn the gov
ernment Tor the pay he receives!
\. / suppose lie renders as much as any OF
| the rest OF them do; none OF them render much;
he has Il veIy competent clerk; do not like
him. but be Is veIy competent: every move L
made was known through him here six hours
after it was made.
Q. Is not Sir. Cummings a political ap-
pointment, and his place "a sinecure?
a. 1t is 4 political appointment; there Is
| no doubt about that.
Q. What do you mean by political APP
| pointment2
a. His being one OF the party party APP
| pOintElent.
q l. he not paid for political services. and
not TOR services rendered in the yard.
/ y. L cannot say that.
Q. DO You know that he does not render
lny service, or very little service:
\. | do not think that he does render
much service; be Is not there often enough 10
do il: be Is absent sometimes for month at
time.
q. Do you know OF his getting nay beyond
his own salary-getting the pay Of oth"r par
| ties. clerks, DC?
\. [ do not know; | cannot say uything
about that; he told me himself that the sim
pie pay of storekeeper could not be- much of
an object, aud did not think it was myself.
Q. What Is the pay OF storekccper!
\. It is s1,70O year.
We might multiply extracts of this ciiarac-
ter, bat are prevented By cur limited space.
This is sufficient to show that the employees
OF the present administration have fed and
fattcned on The public treasury, without per-
forming the labor for which they were paid.
| But this is but small part of what was thus
flched from the pockets of the people for par
| ty purposes. 1t will be remembered that, in
our previous article, we showed that Mr.
WENDELL expended vast sums OF money for
political or party purposes. We will now
see how that fund was supplied aud replen-
ished. He was the Public Printer aud part
of the time, the proprietor of Mr.. BUcHANAN's
In addition to the public Washington 1!1ioa.
the ruling aud binding for the several Execu-
tive Departments lie did that in violation
of positive law requiring that work 10 be
done by practical and competent book-bind-
ers, and charged extortionatc rates These
facts appear from the testimony OF VA. PETIT
BONE. a practical book binder, from which we
extract as follows:
Q. When did you cease to be employed by
the executive departments?