Juliet signal., 1862-02-04
Exposure Of EraudS on the
Treasnry--Speech OF Mr.
Dawes Of Mass.
Washington, Jan. Is

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Dawes Of Mass.
Washington, Jan. 15.
The House resumed the consideration of
the amendments reported to the House
! from the Committee Of the Whole on the
bill.
1 Mr.. Dawes, of the Government Contract
/ Committee, said in EXPLANATION of his for
mer remarks, that the charges Of the Treas.
ury are now such as to have nearly reached
It's bottom. lie begged leave to call stteu-
ton to some Of the facts touching the man.
rer Of the immense public expenditures. -
One Of the very first contracts, in April
last, was Tor furnishing twenty>One hum
dred cattle. Those who received this con-
tract put into their pockets thirty-tyo
thousand dollars without moving from their
seatsi they having sold it all to parties
/ who furnished the cattle, and who also
made twenty six Thousand dollars by the
| Speculation Next came the article of
shoes. a million dollars worth of shoes
bsrs already been worn ouf, ana millson
dollars worth more are TO be manufact-
! ured
On each pair ri shoes there has been a
waste OF seventy five cent?. There were
eighty three regiments Of cavalry, each a
thousand strong, ia the field. 1t required
two hundred aud fifty thousand dollars to
put each regiment in motion. Twenty
millions Of dollars were thus required to
be expended on the cavalry, before thew
(. left their encampments. Many of the
horses purchased by the Government, were
bro't hither aud literally starved to death,
while some parts Of this district now pre-
sent the appearance OF horse Galeotha,
E.uT IprA red and iybt Hua g
thousand horses, which had Just reached
Louisville, were found to be utterly worth-
less, and the others were not worth twenty
dollars apiece. Some were blind, spawned
ring boned, and afflicted with every other
disease to which horse 9esh Is heir These
four hundred pni eighty five horses cost
the Government fifty eight thousand two
! hundred collars, and ten thousand dolIors
more to get them to Louisville
| They were purchased in Philadelphia.
and belonged to Col. Williams regiment
| Of cavalry.
lie next referred to contract for the
! delivery. six months hence, of million
and ninety two thousand musk cts, at twen-
! ty two dollars apiece, while the same kind
| Of arms was manufactured at Springfield
/ for thirteen dollars and a half
I When we appropriated at the last sessiori
| of Congress, for arms, etc, S27 ,00O, 900;
/ thirty-seven millions and some thousend
dollars haG been already pledged to two
| cnntractGrs-nst for the purchase of arms
/ fer men III the field, not to protect them in
/ fighting their country's battles in this
/ great emergency and peril, but for some
/ future use, for some future occasion, or to
meet some present need of the contractors,
| don't know at this moment. And not
/ orlr sha &C A., L
/ Seeu exhausted, bat SlT 100000 put upon
it. The riot Of the l9th Of April, in Bal
timDre, opened this ball, and on TIE 2lst of
April, in the city of New York, there was
organized a corps Of Ilunderers Of the
| Treasury.
Two millions Of dollars were intrusted to
an incompetent editor # "a paper in New
York, (Cummings, of the World. to dis
| pense 1t In the best manner he could
| Straightway this gentleman began to pur-
chase linen pantaloons. straw hats, Lon
d,n porter, dried herrings, and such like
provisions for the army, till he expended in
this way $500 600 of the money, and then
he got scared and quit, and forgot to pay
back $40 600 of the money. There is
an appropriation. also. for the supply of
wood to the army. The contractor is
pledged the payment of s. a cord for all
the wood delivered to the different com
mends-wood collected after the labor of
the soldiers themselves had cut down the
trees to clear the ground for their batter
les, and then this contractor employs the
army wagons TO draw it 10 the several
camps, and he has no further trouble than
tn draw his seven drllars for a cord, leaving
the Government to draw the wood
1t costs two millions of dollars every dav
to support the army in the field. A huns
dred millions of dollars have thus been ex-
pended since we met in December, and all
that time the army has been in repOse.-
What the expenditures will increase TO
when that great day shall arrives when our
eyes shall be giaddenrd with n sight Of the
army IN mution, | d. nIt know. Another
hundred million will GO with the hundreds
more | have mentioned Another hundred
million may be added to these before the
4th of March. What it may cost TO put
down the rebellion / care ye-y little pro-
vided, always that it be put down effectu-
ally. But, sIr, faith without words is Geac.
and j am free to confess that my faith
sometimes fails mel mean nv faith in
man, nat my faith in the cause. When
the history of there times shall be written.
IT will be question upon whom the guilt
will rest most heayily-upOn him who has
conspred to destroy. or upon him who has
proved Incompetent to preserve the institd.
tons bequeathed to US by our fathers. It
Is no wonder that the public treasury trem.
lies and staggers ike a man With too great
a burden upon him. A strong man 10 an
ar exhausted receiver is not more helpless
% day ;1an Is the Treasury Of this Govern
neat beneath the exbaustiDg process to
which 1t l. subjected.
Sixty Days longer Of this state Of things
will bring about a result one way or the
ether. It is iHpIssitle that the Treasury
OF the United States can meet. aud con-
tiuue TO meet, this state Of things sixty
days longer; aud an ignominous peace
must be submitted to un ess We see TO IL
that the credit Of the country il sustained.
and sustained, too. by the conviction going
forth from this AL to the pc pie o the
country that Ye VIII treat at traitors not
only those who are b.E and manly enough
to meet Us face t. face in the field Of etrife,
but all those, also, who alsp clandestinely
ana stealthily suck the life blJOd from Us in
this mighty struggle. Whatever measures
may emauate from the Committee on Wsys
and Means to meet and retrieve this state of
things, they will but fall like dead pail
up the public unless they give this assur>
ance, that these extraordinary and extreme
measures to resuscitase, revive and reIlsn-
ish the treasury, are not made 10 fill further
Or longer the already sorged pockets Of the
public PluDderers.
Two KIyDs.-There are txo modes Of
estatishIng our reputatiCn-to be praised
by b. nest men, and to be abused by rogues.
IL is best. however. 70 secure the fcrner