The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-27

u'es' HeJ rugs, march cases, mud, SILK
taste, card cases, memorandum books,
combs, cologne, soap, pomade, toilet pow
der, lemons, are scattered through the
book in quantities sufficient to supply all
their friends, or to set up variety store.
III the country.
In the House the rule allows each mem.
Der so much for stationery, to be paid in
stationery or money as he chooses, but
stationery Is furnished in addition for all
committees, and the practice is for mem q,
bers to supply Memselres Nth that fur
niShed to committees, and then take the
dlouaace.
REPEATING 1T AT THE ADJOURNED sEs-
SION IN JULY
On motion of Mr.. Spaulding, of Ohio,
In the House of representatives., on the
9Th Of July last, an order was adopted to
allow the same amount to members for
newspapers and stationery for tina, brief
adjourned term as allowed for short term
of Congress.
If they will thus rob the people in small
matters, what may we not expect 90 a
large scale ? Is it any wonder that these
men amass immense fortunes, that so
many of. them are able to be travelling now
in foreign lands, rioting in the luxuries
and splendors of wealth?
Commenting on the above article the
Washington National LntelHgencer says
In respect to the pay 10 a large way we
shall have something to say hereafter. 1t
may be remarked, en- PEASANT, that were
tie Treasury Department disposed to pub.
l;sh the facts as to tho monstrous lavish
ment of public money by Mr.. Secretary
Stanton upon political favortes and for
electloneering purposes, such publication
would sink the Radical party in hopeless
defeat and destruction. AS an example
we may mention the paying of $45O,O
for the old steamship Illinois,, which was
not sent to sea, and by trick was got rid
of By letting the authorities of New York
have her for quarantine purposes. Her
estimated value by officials of the Navy
Department, to whom the ship was offer
ed, was 100000. This transaction took
place "a proposition of the Quartermaster
General being suppressed) just before
some important elections in States that
were supposed to be closely balanced be-
tween parties. There are lndianlans who
are posted On this subject. There is no
end To the like profuse and excessive pro-
aigacy of Mr.. Stanton. SO moDstrous
was bis wild and wasteful expenditure for
ships and vessels that it probably far ex-
ceedea that of the Navy Department, with
Its thousands ships, grim settlements OF
every port or inlet from Hampton Roads
to the Rio Grande. The Treasury re.
cords should also be uDsealed to exhibit
the vast treasure that was allowed in de.
iance of law over the heads of Comptroll-
ers aud Auditors upon accounts under the
military head. They should be unsealed,
that the people may know of the vast
amount of public money that has been
lost by defalcatIons of public officers
Their names should be known, and the
Radical influences that keep them in Office
or prevent their prosecution. 1t would DO
interesting to know what Partially exist
ed, and why it existed, in reference to al
lowances for railway transportation For
instance, why was the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company paid for service which
it never performed? Why one-halt cent
a mile more was paid to said road for the
passage of soldiers than was paid to any
other railroad? Why the value of labor
and materials of the Government was not
deducted from the charges ufsaid compa-
ny for construction or repair after rebel
raids upon the road during the war p
Whether Government did not make ex
penditures for construction when damage
bad arisen from other process of injury
than by destructive rebel incurSions r.
Why said railroad company received over
hundred thousand dollars yearly for car
rying mails, which, in fact, were not car
ried at all on the main stem of the road
Why the said company were allowed to
purchase upon credit millions of dollars
OF Government rolling stock, thus being
enabled thereby to realize every dollar of
their trumped up accounts in millions of
dollars, by way of extra charges =? What
wonder is it, in view of all these rivers of
proalgacy running to the deep gulf of 49,
OOO,0OO,O0O for war expenditure, (as sta.
ted often by Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens that
the people should be sinking under excess
sive taxation? What wonder is it that
portions of the Republican press are clam
oring for mxation of the bonds of the
Federal Government What wonder is
it that profuse and lawless expenditures
to carry elections, and make fortunes for
thousands of shoddy snobs, has thorough
ly corrupted and depraved the leadership,
great and small, Of the Republican party
Is it, then, strange that the party is in
state of "dissoluton and thaw" through
out the country, and that its ascendency
has been shivered to dishonored frag-
ments in Connecticut and California, and
that there is cheering prospects of its ut
ter destruction in the great Central States
at tho October and November elections
Ny. A man who was brought to King