Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-01-17

we lake the following from The New Yor
lT'o@qe'S report of the proceedings had in IN
House OF Representatives in Congress on Mon
day, January l3. The disclosures made az 4
the almost boundless corruption and fraud h
Government contracts, and the pointed and di
rect manner in which Mr. DAWES makes hi
statements, cannot but arrest the attention O
the reader and will amply repay an attentive DO
rusal.S Mr.. DAWES, IL will be seen, ia a Rseuh
licen member Of Congress from Mass,chosettg
and member Of the House committee appoipt
ed TO investigate Government contracts. III,
statements are, therefore, made upon facts prov
en- before the committee;
Mr.; Dawes (Rep., Mass, from The cor,n; ,.
Tee OF investigation on Government Contra c,s
10 resuming his remarks, commenced on Frids I
last, said: yfft 57T -. =" ~ y" 'iiuHy
Sir; l have not failed to notice, and bc,iev %
the committee of which am merpber he . q
not failed to notice, in common with tho nho,o
country, that for some unaccountablo ro,so,
the charges upon the National Treasure :
tnis time OF war, have been such as NJ tescb
nearly the bottom of the public chest Drrina
this investigation, startling facts have come he
lore ibis committee, and TO the notice ~ tho
Wnoie country, touching the mode and ,narner
OF the expenditure of the public money. Some
Oh tnese Items propose to call public attention
TO- ana then to ask gentlemen the pluin oues-
tlon, Wnen tLey propose to meet this Question.
II II, o. all ana II 80, low, when, and where?-
Inc very nrss contract entered into by tbis
government after the troops had left their
6omes 70 come here,qn April last, to defend the
Capifai, oy winch they were to be fed, was a
oousract entered into for cattle. It was not
nAue WIN a man whose business iG was to sup-
py cauio 70 tne market, not with man who
knew the price oil beef in the markots oF,,bo
country, but was entered into he the Gorern'
ment here with man we'll known in this ana
IN the other branch Of Congress. for the Iast
ten years, IS an old stipendiary-nne of M
class OF men who, in times past. made thar
money by such operations as buvinp the Ger
tncates OF members for books at discount
ana then charging the full amount. =
lhiS contract was made 80 that the rat
twenty-five hundred head of cattle furnished
was charged at a rate which enabled their orig
mai contractor to sub-let it in tWentyfour hor1s
alter to man in New York who aid mt knov,
the price OF beef, go that he p,t into his nocketS
without stirring from his chair, S32 600 and the
men who actually furnished the cattle in ones1
uon pus into their pockets $4,000 more. so
tna' tne contract under which these twentv.twn
hundred head of cattle were furnished 10 the
army was SO made that the profit Of S5s 000
was realized over the fair market price 1t
taxes longer time for Thousand head of
cattle TO reach this city from the States where
1ney are purchased than 1t takes the srmy to
consume them. i ask the House, al this rate,
70 consider how long the most ample provisions
Oh tne Treasury would be able TO meet the aim
pie demands for the subsistence of the army. -
or' poorly az the army Is shod to-day, million
ol snoes nave als6tNy been worn out, and n
million more are being manufactured, and vet
upVn eFery Que OF shese shoes there has been a
"Assu ol seVenty-hVe cents. Three-quarters of
l1ililon OF dollars have been already worn out,
Hll ,I Anotner thTee7quarters of million of dol.
10 s,uPon snoes Is now being manufactured -
In that department of the Governm ent contra cts
nave been 30 plenty that Government officials
nave gone about the streets with their nockets
niled with themj and of which they made pres-
ents to the lclergymen of their parishes. and
Win which we're healed old political sores and
cured political feuds. Even the telegram has
announced shat high public functionares have
grsceu tne ioVe-foasts which we're got up to
celebrate these political reeonciliations. thus
Drought ABOUT while the hatchet of political an
imoslty was buried in the grave of political
confidence, and the national credit wea c,ucif.
Gu among malefactOFs We have reported to
US the first fruits of these contracts A fesi.
ment OF cavalry lately reached Louisville. one
Thousand strong, and the Board of Army Ogi-
GERS there appointed for the purpose, have con-
demned four hundred and eighty Eve out Of tho
one thousand horses as utterly worthless The
man who examined those horses declared, unon
his oath, that thereWas not one of them that was
worth twenty dollars They were blind, spav.
lned' ringboned, afflicted with the heayes. with
sne CHAMBERS, and with every disease that horse.
flesh Is heir to. These four hundred and eighty.
nVe horses cost the Government, before thew
were mustered into the service, S5S 200. beside
more than an additional 81 900 to transport
them from Pennsylvania to Louisville, where
they were condemned and cast of. Ii1 =
Mr.. Mallory (Un., Ky } asked what regiment
those horses belonged TO, and who furnished
Mr.. Dawes-They belonged to Col. Williams,s
regiment of cavaly, and they were purchased
In Pennsylvanis, from which State thew were
forwarded TO Louisvlle, where they were con.
demned. There are 50 regiments Of cavalry to-
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