Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-01-02
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! Tho committee say cone Of de most
alarming frauds disclosed IN the fsstiinony
iltakea by our COMMITTEES at 81. Louis. was
the lpayment Of money at Che Quarterl
! Masters Office, upon vouchers totally or
partially false. In one transaction, Gov
eminent was deffanded out Of 81, 401 ,35,
and in another out of 500. =
* CHILD, PRATT AND FOX. $.
TIE transactions Of fhis St. louis firm
amounted to $500, GOO. They were hard
ware men, but farnished all manner of sup
plies to the Goyernrpeht .assa,af ftheir own
price. The COMMITTEES. SAYS g Mecbanics.of,
the highest character and respectab.iity 10
the city of St. Louis found the Quarter.
master buying of this firm articles of their
own manufacture, at a price fifty, seventy
| FIVE, one hundred, and, in some instances
three hundred per cent. higher than they
/ themselves had offered to furnish them for,
upon advertisement by,the QuaFtersmaster.
Some Of these mechanics never heard Of
their proposals after they were given to
Major AeKipstry; those Of. others were
rejected without explanation. But they
afterwards, in many instances, lnanufac-
tured tie same articles for Child, Pratt &
Fox, at the prices at which they had otfsr--
ed to sell them to the fGovernment, and
that firm resold them 10 the Quafter-inas-
ter at the enormous advances before sta
ted. 1t was in testimony by the book
keeper of this firm that the profits ,on the
100000 of supplies, would reach $780,
600, and the committee believe the profits
were much larger.
VARIOUS MATTERS. 7 ~
The committee investigated the facts
relative to the transfer of moneys from the
Paymaster's department, TO other uses.-
! They censure Gen. Fremont-on The
strength of the testimony of Col. An
drews-for ordering said Andrews 10 pay
certain bills, that Andrews. thought were
against army regulations. On refusing to
pay the bills, Gen, Fremont sent . peremp-
tory order for tiIeif payment, and Col. An
drews. still refusing, Gen. Fremont gput
him under arrest, when Col. A. paid the
money. Another charge against Fremont
| is that when a 'regiment was JabeHE gong
into-thc field Gen. F. wished them pad,
but there being no funds Col. A. declined
to borrow as requested by Gen. +. Final
/ ly Fremont told the Paymasier, Andrews,
TO demand of the Assistant Treasurer at
St. Louis 100000, and if he would not
furnish the money, he, Fremont, would
furnish regiment Of men tosgo and take
it. Thetenpon Col. Andrews went TO see
the Assistant Treasurer, aud as be zand
Col. A, both had been advisedsfIat $780,
0CO were on their way from Washington
to Col. A., the Assistant Treasurer loaned
the 100000. ~ 4 ~
(rhe testimony shows clearly that Col.
A. was an enemy of Fremont, and it is
probable did all he could 10 enbarrass tie
General, who was very anxious the regi
ment should be paid before they wentin-
20 the field. It looks to us as if a threat
such as Fremont used, was rery effectual
TO strip mp a @rcd dtape" paymaster.)
The. next matter is the famous charge
thai five hundred tens of lee were ordered
BY Gen. Fremont into the field with him,
This charge has been utterly refuted' and
shown 10 Je ridiculous, SO we will pass it
| bv. '- .ef B. i-''v.'a'i
The next is the unauthorized removal Of
troops from st. Louis to the East, which
appears TO have been the work of Ward Ii.
Lamon, who came on to ST. Louis from
Washington as a Brigadier General, and
through his representations one regiment
of Illinois troops was ordered by General
Fremont into Virginia, from Missouri, 1t
appears too, that Lamon Travelled by spe-
cial trains at Government expense and was
fed too by Uncle Sam. The committee
say: "Ali such prctences were unfuunded,
and, as your committee understand, was
also the pretcnce that the President had
told him that Ire might take that regiment.
He seems TO have made use of his official
position as Marshal of the District of Co.
iumbia, ard his assumed position rs a
| Brigadier General, to secure his object Of
removing the regiment, and in travelling i'll
special trains at public expense. --
A blanket transaction ~ thens nyestiga-
ted, by which it appears a dharter:nasler
named Davis, bad grossly, delrauded the
| Government. 8 ~ -
The testimony Of Capt. Bradshaw, a
quarter lnaster5of, the United States army,
was taken. ,,Heis is represented as u thor
| ouOkly honest man, and he ,rlyes n sorry