New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-28
rYsE POTTER gNyFsTsGATItG
90 III rnfI,tGEE.


We devote several pages Of this mornings
PAPER to tie full report Of tue Potter luyesil-
eating Committee. Despite its great length 1t
0 doubtless be read with interest and its
perusal will excite feelings of mingled wonder
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at the extent OF the
treason which has hampeIcd the Government
indignation at the apathy which has hindered
the thorough purgatiOn so much needed. Ile
Committee 20 whose report we now refer was np-
pointed TO ascertain and report to the House o.
Representatives. the number Of di'oyal persons,
with tie names thereof employed by the Gov
eminent ia it, several Departments. The first
meeting of this body was held on the iO'h day
Of .Ju,v. from which time it met almost ddily
ul the 9th Of August; then, after Il brei
recess. the meetings were resumed ol Tue Jth
OF September, and continued from day 70 day
tin Oct. :. Since tie commencement oi the
present gession OF Congrt.. tie investigation has
been propecuted diligently. During the time thus
covered. between fec aud FIX hundred caacs
Of di,loyaty have been inquired i1io, and be-
tween four and fyo hundred witnesses have
been examined. The Committee fad that new
charges of s similar nature against Govern
ment servants are daily coming to them, and
that there is an uGdoubtcd necessity for The
continual laboEs Of such body. Toy there
fore ask for authority TO 80 on with their
work
Tie evidence before The COMMITTEE shows
coucll.i,ely that large number Of dtoja'
pc.saus are still to be found in tho various
departments. 1oey are not only Iersoos who
have shown in covert ways their want of SYM
PATTY With the Government, but tnose who ba'e
openly aud boldly ayo~ed their sympathy Wit
,ie Rebels The plan OF the Committee has
5.au 10 entertain and examine INTO oil charges
made BY reputable citizens, to TAKE such
testimony rs seemed most direct and con letrnt
ocd o. guard carefully oganst receiving o. being
i,lcl ced by evidence bora Of partisan or per-
aonsl feeling. Much Of tie evidence submitted
% ttcm was secondary, IN many cases amount
.ag only 70 impressions; in instances Of this
sort tie testimony does not hccomproy the
epoit, though il una usually been seat 10 tto
ads Of departments wle.e the .u.prrifa
person il employed.
lie Committee, 10 one If lte ffst iu''s o.
Meir iaboTs, sen, 90 the various Scrr,tafie,
VS.. of tainted clerks; they recently u,a0f
ir,m tiese heads Of Departments . roprr. Of
tie action they had taken concerning he PER
cons whose names were tLas gwen th1n. Tho
repor. we prut shows the MANNER in which
tne bureaus treated tue COMMITTEES recon-
mendaiions. The Army, no lcss than tie De
partIuent- has been found 10 abound in traitors;
the cases Of May officers are Get forth nj
length; among Tho most interesting of these
ere those cases OF Lieut. ..Col. Msynaoier, o,
John Watt. formerly gardener TO &c NhiDe
HOUSE aud Of Capt. Darlington, late District
Attorney Of the District OF Columbia.
81 course, but little Of the evidence lie given
i'm tls report; but it is all 10 be printed in q
Convenient form, properly indcXed and arrange
mr easy reference. From the wcl-dgestel
aai iiacGy-classiled testimony embodied n
4 the report, however, it IS only too plain that
llero has been and stiii is frigltiJ ro.toahes'
: in al tho departments Of the Government.