Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-03-04
CsRsUpTaOs an OFFICE.
AIRING the Navy DepaFtmeot-Ai.o
the Republican Party.

Senator BALE has been oserhauIing the navy
department. in the United States Senate. Ve
take some tit-bits from BIS speech:
nov THK sovEESxESr ~ cazArKD
found out. and found out by accident. that
the most enormous frauds were being perpetrated
right under my own nose 10 the navy yard. With
IN ten miles OF where live found there that
monkey -wrenches. The fair price Of which we're
froD, twelve 20 Efteen dollars a dozen, were
bought by the navy department 20 Portsmouth
for $50 4 dozsn. There we're great many
other mems IN the contracts made st The same
time quite a. eItfaFsgant as that. For example,
tao thousand pounds OF cotton waste, the fair
market value Of which was from thirty to forty
cents = pound. Was obtained 10y the department
under contract. At eighty cents a pound: and
when the contractors had given all they could at
this enormous price under the contract, then az
q matter of favor the government asked 20
buy the rest. believe. at about thirty cents
AL The articles ia TIE same bid 10 zhich am
nos referring averaged one hundred and City
Ter cent above the fair market price OF the ar
ticles. Take the item Of ansils, weighing about
txo hundred pounds. the fair market value OF
which vas thirty dolars; the government paid
ffsy dollars. Axes, handled. vosth 81 % each,
we're obtained at three dollars. Small axes, the
furnished the government for 81 80. Grindstones.
worth 81 50 each, we're sold TO the government
for thirty dollars each. Scale beams worth SO so
we're SOLD for nifty dollars; and 80 on the prices
ranged throughout. Attention being called 70
this we had committee of Investigation, and
that committee found as every man who will
take the trouble 20 read the report must see, that
rouenness was the rule and corruption was the
practice. and the government was being sxindIed
beyond all creiuli.y.
Az aDvERrrsIsG DODGE.
The department adyertises for certain specific
articles, describing them precisely. Let me sup
pose for moment that the article wanted il
brick. The advertisement describes the thick
ness and the length exactly. A man who is not
inside the ring. who Is no. sure that he has got
a friend in the department., is afraid to put in any
thing bat the precise article exactly according
10 the measure apd width specified Other men
who understand shat they have friend at court
will pu, 10 bid below the real price Of The ar
ticle, and when the bid is put in and accepted
they will have Instructions sent from some of
the bureaus OF the navy department 20 the Off
GERS OF the different yards to accept an inferior
article: and il is being done to-day; and that
answers double purpose: for if the contractor
turns out 20 be obnoxious 10 any OF these men.
the fact that he has furnished an inferior article
wall be a matter for which he can be broug ht
before naval commission or court martial and
Sent TO the state prison.
suIrs MADE TO SINK.
The fact which was disclosed by the member
from Ohio upon the door of the Senate yester-
day. is one Of the most disgraceful facts to be
found N the history OF any civilized nation on
Gods earth. What is iti We have, being in a
war With the rebels. made an appropriation TO
build twenty ships OF war. The nation is wait
log for them; impatient for them. What has
been doneT The department goes on and builds
those twenty ships OF var, and when they are
done, twenty of the blocks OF marble, that are
nov being used for tho construction of your cap
itoI, would be just "a good for the purpose Tor
which the ships were intended, that is, for float
ing. Twenty ships sere built that would not
float.
HOW MUCH HAS BsES LOST
do rot think that IL is too much to say that
If, in the place of the qualities have JUST nam
ed, We had that science which We might have
commanded. If we bad had the science and the
skill and the ability which are abundant in this
country. and We had used it. the pecuniary saw
ing would have bern astounding $3.50 900 900
would not pay what the country has sacrificed
10 employing quackery instead of science.
eIDEoSs SLY Fox
Senstor Hale said. that the conduct OF Assist
ant Secretary Fox, reminded him Of the story
OF the Thracian peasant who Was made Ro-
man Emperor, and who never forgsve any body
Who had once treated him ike peaeant Some
of the best men in the navy we're suffering per
secution at the hands of this Fox, because when
Fox was simple midshipman these officers Gid
not discern under the exterior OF the MILDLY. the
future assistant secretary of the navy
HUNTING THx Fox.
10 kur sx..st al 81.
navy Who sent board OF pimps sni spies to Bos-
ton and Portsmouth insIucting them TO inquire
especially into any connection that might have
bad with any contracts for the navy department:
and they bad written Instructions.
Mr.. Grimes. IL Is due TO the assistant secre
tary OF the navy to say that he utterly denies, in
the most positive terms, any such instructions or
that any such Instructions we're given to any
body.
Mr.. Hale. have not q doubt on that subject
that the assistant secretary OF the navy would
deny it any more than have. that be gave the
instructions
BEfrF SKETCH OF THE KEFCBLTcAN PARTY.
Let me say q word now about our republican
party eur union party. Mr. President, the his
tory Of that party which has controlled this coun-
try recently. do not say il controls il now, but
the history Of that party which made the great
revolution in politics is curious and a very
instructive one. We began when We we're but a
handful. / recognize around me nov bat very
few faces that we're familiar ir those early con
aicts aud struggles.
row THAT PARTY HAS TAFEEED
We continued TO increase, and by and by il
began 20 look a. IL this new party would have,
at come time. the loaves and fishes OF Office to
dispense. Then il seemed as ii political peus
tecost came on the land. Converts came faster
than we could discipline them. The doors OF
the party were wide open, like the sanctuary OF
God. to all offenders, and the thief and the hyp-
ocrite did not stumble on its threshold but n
they came, aud the prof'gat in life. the yenial
In politics. the malignant at heart and the brutal
in manner, all came in with the great multitude
Of the poor aud the honest and the disinierested
and the patriot
But. cir. when The apostles went fishing aud
thres out their nets and made great haul. they
caught fish CT every kind. So all these people
came in and We were great party. Ii happen
ed 70 u jast a. it happened 90 great many be
fore and will happen great nsny times again;
the converts that were the mos, recent and from
the most bitter Of our opponents. we're the most
noisy in professions Of zeal for their new found
faith confess. Mr. President ths. | was as
tonished beyond measure Khen found out,
after re actually came into power. that all the
officers at the oth.r end of the avenue. in the
treasury, the postofce. the war aud all the other
departments. bal always been republicans. apd
the great trial of their lie had been TO smother
their deep convictions upon the subject of anti