New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-23
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
THE DEfIcIENcY APPROPRIATION BILL.


The House proceeded to the consideration
Of the Deficiency bill. 1t appropriates o,67525, which
includes the following items;
For reporting and publishing debates $4,000 FOR the EeTTors
se NE issSe for the Tubs,e II ste st 8i for
h Nadoa M!s T St 'H Phi eibls SO oio %
public printing paper bnz s2l5O9oi for cavalry and a;ey
amy contingencies 5000; Amy medical supplies 100000 O
T Ds-amtst s7s 900: for the Freedmens Bureau 4OOO;
for coectae from imports for bali @27SoO he last
The item for the New-York Post Office read fol-
lows: -. oa..t c..
Housc IN EewYo City be applied only finishing The FONDA
uP sni including the sill course ani receiving and setting toe
Nj. DAWES Rep Mass.) moved 70 add the item me
words land subject 10 no condition or RESTRICTION
lie explained that the former legislation required that
no mart Of the money should be expended until after the
TS Uj at an eXTe2c6 not exceeding 100000 The
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS had beeome satisfied that
i would take 100000 to erect the building IRON 'De ~
3 feet below the surface The ultimate cost OF the build
ing above the surface would be 100000 ana me ex-
pcudture below the surface would De in addition 70 that
nakng the whole cost OF the building s5SOOCOO or there
Mr. FARSswORTH Rer., H. went at some length
into the history Of the building conendne that tie plan
as agreed upon by the five NewIOrk architects who had
combined their respective designs, would have given
more roony and convenient building at less cost and
also that there had been FRAUDULENT contracts given out
for the supply OF granite in which some members Oh the
Nj sARGENT Rcp., CALI remarked that he WAS not
aware that any members were Interested III such con-
Mr. FARNsWORTH referred the member from Califor-
mia to the report made last session Oh tine subject 10y the
a. FITCH Trn Nev) stated that he had been
member of the Post Once Committee which had nyeti
gated the questions connected with the NewNork and
n"ntrman rom Massachusetts tr Buter inter
e,ted in or connected with contracts for the supply OF
so far as negative could be proved, it had been con
clusively proved that that gentleman was IN no way,
directly indirectly, connected with OF interested III
such contracts. . . 5000. =.
The next item, for the Boston Post Oice, also elced
some discussion, arising from Mr. FdrnsworthS oppo-
An item for furniture in the Treasury Department
brought out Mr. FAlNSWOITH again III an attack upon
the architect of the Treasury Department and ne men
toned the Incident OF two expensive mirrors being
toted about to adorn and beauty the house OF dis,
tngished Member OF Congress IN Washington Cltyi ana
or lost in the transportation backward and forward
Mr. ELDRIDGE CDem, Wis., asked Mr.. FarnsWorth 10
what Member OF Congress he REFERRED was ne "a Demo
Mr. FARNswORTH replied that his politics were Of
that uncertain kind that II difficult 70 tell what they
were. He had been Democrat, and everything else
Mr. CUTLER Rep. Mass replied to Mr.. Farnsworth's
nsinuatons. There were some things, lie said which
when going along street, having mud spater NTH
upon him. The member from Illinois had accused him
OF being interested in granite contract for the Boston
Post Office, but his colleague the POstOfice Com
mittee ditch had Informed the House that there was
came some item about furniture and thereup0n the
" mud-machine" went at 1t again, and the House
| Treasury had been used by him (Butler). There
! not word Of truth in IT,. The accusation
! that the Secretary OF the Treasury, the
Supervising Architect and everybody who had 10 do
with these appropriations, all corrupt, and this
charge made by man whose majority had dwindled
tenfOd from 1900 10 400, and against Methodist
preacher too lLaughterl He had but one observation
make and that that he who accused all the world
convicted Ouly one, and that himself. lie who ran
"a.muck" against every man. only showed that his own
heart had all the qualities with which he desired Ia invest
every one else. He like the man who, being drunk
himself saw all the world staggering before him The
member from Illinois saw nothing but wrong fraud mis-
feasance and mafeasance In every body else Laughter
! Mr. FARNSWORTH said that he had not stated that
the house OF the member from Massachusetts had been
gTaced with mirrors belonging to the Treasury, but az 1t
seemed that the coat ttted that member he would
say that IL had been proved before committee Of the
House, and was susceptible OF proof again, that that
longing 10 the United States Government that
OF those mirrors had been lost In their Transmission
and from the Treasury. lie held in his hand a document
which would prove to uupreudiced Jury that the
nuarry from which the granite taken for the Boston
! posi- Office. II well understood Ia the City
| az Boston as any other fact that was notorious
| there The quarry universally called Buffers
named French, dstille former Oicer the stan of
the member massachusetts, but who could not get
commission from Gov. Andrew ON account Of his nOto-
rnusly bad character, had been taken down into the
oi.er,s district and used there In connection with
",,,rrv That man had come gu 10 Washington because
~ dsttlery had seized for violation Of the Revenue
laws aud went 10 consult Tue mempeI irom hassachu
hon,ened 10 mention that he had some spare money
aud In nsk how he should invest H. ana the mehbeI
| I'm Massachusetts advised him 10 buy stone
quarry And 1t had happened 'h ,se INA, nna
| L. about the very day when inc nis
| Ilp,o, Pos. ONCE Ths distcr had never owned