The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-24
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list. A resolution recommending that
the Military COMMITTEES be instructed to
inquire int the expediency Of putting
all the able bodied men, now employed
in the Quartermsstsr and Ccmmissary
Departments, Eitre Buresu, &c, in the
army, and supply their places with the
thousands Of disabled soldiers, who sre
IS able and competent to perform the du-
ties Of said Offices.
%. A resolution asking that The
House be informed what number Of
clerks in The Qasrtermasier and COmmis-
sAry Departments had been displaced
from Office and their places filed by dis
sbled soldiers, as expressly prOvi ded by
law passed last session.
Sd. A resolution that = committee of
Ave be appointed to inquire IS 10 the
causes Of the late defeat at Chattanooga.
4lh a resolution that committee be
appointed TO inquire into the causes Of
the fall Of Yicksburg.
9Th. A resolution providing for an in
vestigatiOn Of the alleged frauds and cor
ruptiOn in the ousrtermaster's and Com
missary Departments.
Upon each Of these resolutions Che
honorable gentleman hung . speech. He
was decidedly in favor Of catching the rats
who had hid ihemselves smang The quar-
termaster and cOmmisssry stores, and
in the nitre caves, and putting them to
use in the field. He thought there had
been favOritism in the execution of the
law authorizing disabled soldiers 10 be
employed as clerks in the commissary
AID qusrtsrmasters depsrtments-that
tbe ,clerkships had been conferred upon
the kinsmsn Of the chiefs of these de-
psrtments. BE intimated that Jeff
Dlvis had Led in charging the defeat
at Chattanooga to q want of vAlor in the
army. He thought come one was TO blame
for the fall Of yicksburg, although JEFF.
seemed to think otherwise. He was
particularly severe on the commisssries
and quHrtsrmasiers. We append an ex-
tract:
In calling for these investigations be
had defed tho impertinent scribblings
Of the press, and ali kinds Of toadyism.
He was glad TO know, however, that a
number Of his friends, although They had
net spoken on the subject, had promised
20 assist him in the work. The gentle
man from Georgia, on meeting him this
morning, had said that he agreed with
him ia ali that be bad said, and that he
believed with him that these rascals de-
served 20 be hung,
Mr.. Foete said be knew the most en-
ormous frauds TO exist in these depart
menis. be could 90 himself before any
con miitee and satisfy them OF it. Other
gentlemen knew them 10 exist. IL was all
over ;be country. The member from
Georgia had revealed TO him a number Of
facts Of the corruption Of the Quarter
master at Atlanta, Georgia. In some
conversation which had passed, that
official said, rather bosstfully. in reply
to q remark--sFor why should l be ex-
peeted to stoop to SO small thing2 ]
have more money now than l want"
And SO it was, This man IS estimated
60 be worth five millions Of dollars,
though before the war he cOnld not count
more tbsn twenty thousand TO save his
life. lie was from bis own State (Ten-
nessee) and he knew him very well.
And this ia. continued Mr., FGote, but
one Of tie hundred cases all over the
country. Pass your eye around and you
will see these QuArtCrmasters and Com
misaaries living in palstial wealth, with
their fine- houses, driving their fine hor-
ses, land some of them with their body
seryAnts,l dressing in the fiaest style,
and many of them possessing the most
magnificent landed estates. They are
surfeited Eiih1money. They carry thou
sands upon thousands uppn their per-
cons. They are the largest betters a.
faro. He could prove this by psrticu
lar member from Kentucky, (fOr he had |
authorized him 10 tell IT'D who, on going |
into = gambling saloon not long since,
found around the table Qaartermasters !
betting with the utmost despsration- |
stalking their thousands upon single |
card I Whence comes this money--tbis |
sudden wealth These same men, who |
now reckon their wealth By the hundred |
thousand-and some Of them by the mill |
ion--were, before the war, poor men,
living in their humble cottages and sur
rounded by scarcely scant support And
yet the evil goes on. Nothing is dono TO
cheokil. The only removal that be had
heard Of, was that man Wood, Quarter
master st Bsc0n's Quarter Branch, whose
credit aud nzme before the war, as every
one in Richmond knows, was not good
for Eve dollars, bat who now retires, at
Ter holding sn Office Of one hundred and
forty dollars mohth, With 40 immense
fortune.
bold, Master Footed you should not
be so ibdiscreet. You have tried to in
culc.te the ide2 that the civilization of
tbs slave States was 50 superior to thst
OF Che free Ststss, corruption, fraud and
dishonesty could not exist there. You
are upsstting your theory, young gentle
mar; and mus. 90 BACK to Jour mothers
apron strings if you do not do better in
future.
The Tennessee Qaartsrmaster TO WHOM
FOOls refers abovs, as worth .fve n1i!l'osis
Of dollps is CanniDgbam, the owner of
the High Street mansion used for mill
tary headquarters since the occupation
of Nashville By the Federal Army.
Friends Of his here boast that he is
building palace in Geozgis, which, |
with It's surroundings, when completed,
will rival that (which Melnotis's fancy |
constructed, under sof,est skies, and |
amidst the lovely vevdure Of Lake Como. |
He has made lucky throw-escaped
the PeFils Of the war which be invited
has seen Others fgat and fall 4 bloody
sacrifies 10 The infsrnAl ambition Of aris-
tOcratic issders, whilst be was far from
al hazards OF life aud limb-and has