New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-04-11
nae. HOLLIS REPORT AGAINST
FREMONT.

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rg.. HOLLIS REPORT AGAINST
FREMONT.
! The telegraph-alwsys so promptly used I'D
reporting any mstter adverse 10 Gen. Fremont
has already spread throughout the country the
abstract of Report made TO Congress by
4" Commissioners appointed to examine AID de-
eide upon claims against the Military De-
"psrtment Of 10 West" who inform us in
their report that they have had staff Of %
officers associated with them, as counselor, P"
" assistant counselor, attorney" secretary"
" commissioner to qualify witnesses, " "phono-
" graphic reporter" clerks, experts, complers
messenger, janitor, &c With all this formida-
bic and costly array of officers, however, they
tell US that the evidence liz full. consisting Of
" SIX 10 seven thousand manuscript pages"
will mol be ready IN consequence of the Illness
of their reporter, for three months; but that, ns
several weeks viii be required 10 close ell
"tirey the business Of the Commission, the
" Secretary and few Of the clerks. now in
" the service, will be necessarily retained during
that time 1t appearing, therefore, that, even
with tbe aid of this large clerical force (wh0se
bills, it appes.s to us, might well be examined
by another Commission before payment), the
evidence win not be accessible for public in.
specton for months to come, we have now only
the summing up OF the Commissioners them
selves to peruse.
/ IT is well understood, both by the st,e Of
] II r t.f a ..
mainly, if not altogether, from the peD Of the
Hon. .Ioseph Holt Of Kentucky, who. though
second in the list of Commissioners, was un-
denisbly the msster-spirit Of the Board. And
we need scarcely say that his patriotism. ex-
hiLited in the closing motifs Of Bncbanan's
Administration and siucc, had led US to expect
Report from him marked by the highest inn
partially and fair dealing
In one thing, however, Ne find the report
eminenty frank and undiseuised. 1t is in It's
open, bitter hostility to Gen. Fremont. Every
thing done by him is condemned rwecpirgy.
! Not the slightest allowance ia made for mill
! tary exigeDcies, the lack Of money, or the
pressure Of business. And the aiiiuence of
rhetoric for which its author, in his speeches
before the people, is famed, is exhausted IN
bis endeayor to intensity tie charges, which he
eniorces with the snimus Of the prosecutor,
rather Than the calm ard lofty importantly oi
the jndee. We cite, as an example, from a
paragraph referring IL the organization OF The
Fremont Body Guard aud his trip to re-eniorce
imperiled Cairo the iolloGing az Instances;
Which he had recruited and Organized under
+" tle somewhat REGAL designation # The Ire
" mont Body Guard. INITIATING VT itETliER
" IsrpEaIAL RULE, lie sought 10 bcslOw upon
many-possibly oil his ppontees-whaieser
q" their duties, military prestige" II these
remarks had been applied to another Major
General on the Potomac moro OF iayOriie
with Mr.. Holt, who has also Body Guard,
and Rad beside, in biz staff, which Was many
times larger than Fremonts, ak or eight Brig
adieg. Generals, two Princes Of " regal blood,
&C., We rh0uld have condemned item a. mn.
worthy Of their author. And again, in the
very same paragraph. speaking Of his trip 10
Cairo, he says, "a foreign prince or poten-
~ tate, in season Of national mourning. nigh.
" thus live, and thus enter hi. pleasure yacht
" or his barge of STATE" Sc. If we should
criticise Gen. u, Clellan in language llc this
for having a steamer chartered at - 900 per
day, for himself and staiI t. sail down the
Potomac We should expect 10 receive Ma.
Hollis witbering condemnation. We need give
no other specimens Of tAc s,yle. These are q
far sample Of the denunciarcry matter with
which each paragraph sbouDds.
! Vi hen we remember Mr.. ii0lts very decided
hostility TO Fremont ia ls,6--when We add b
this lbs published letter of lat year, 80 zea!onsl.
denouucng FrcmOut's PROCLAMATION, which de.
clsred tr. slaves OF Rebels free-we eau we!
gee that be did not 70 TO st. Louis prepoS
.o.sed IN the Generals tagor--aDd that h'
rlaauifiel do duties OF Claim Commission
/ mo the accufatory report against all oiiicel
whos, hs ,.islikcs, on which we ore now com
meutDg.
Nor should wo forget t,at tia is The thirc
official report which las sought to try and cou
denim a public officer, rciihoa g'rtHg h'm a
opporiaaiig 10 confroot his 0eeHsers and 10 cross
examine tho witnesses against him. First va
the celebrated repof. of Adj. Zen TLoalas
gathering together all tho inimical gossip foun'
III . Luryioa journey, pgailst an officer ~ ta'