Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-02-23
Corruption I'm the Navy-Astounding
DlaeIOnurea

The N. Y. Sun has a doubleleaded editorial
calling attention to Washington letter alleg-
ing enormous frauds and Manifestations In the
Navy Department. The editor demands that
Congress shall at once investigate them, but
whether 1t will or not, 1t is accepted as fresh |
evidence that the present Administration is
foul with corruption of the most extreme and
unprecedented natue
tFrom the SUMS Washington Letter.
| have got hold of some of the contracts
made by Senator Cattell on behalf Of the Navy
Department, which go to show what money
there is in providing supplies for our rotten
ships which never go to sea. The Old ZEN
nessee, the ship which took the San Domingo
bug-hunters on their famous pilgrimage, has
been laid up as worthless ever since her return
to Charleston.
q, A FORTUNE FROM ROTTEN HULK.
Although built of wood the vessel cost
5 originally 81, 100000 Porter, when he made
g his famous raid ON the naval appropriations
; built her up, put in new masts, pair oil quar-
:, ter galleries, and made other alterations al
Ii cost of $3.50, 900 more. Now her tmbers are
rotten, and the hull of the vessel was con
demned as unworthy six months ago. Bu
le what are Robson and Cattell doingg Thel
d, have contracted with John Roach Son, o
,ir New York, TO build an entire set OF machine
ry for this rotten old ship at a cost OF SOU, OOV
;, or 100000 and the old machinery. Thl
d. bargain has been made secretly. there ha
in the first place been no board Of survey cal
~ ed to cShaafan. the old engines and even
". the present ones had been officially declare
in worthless, Robson and Cattell have no ngl
10 10 violate the law by ordering new ones, will
NJ. out first publishing proposals and eontractlr
wv for them in proper way. In TINS case I, n
an engine builder in the country knew III
the Navy Department wanted any new m
ard chinery until a whisper came from Roacl
Re. shop that a contract had been awarded the
g by Cattell for building a new machine for
Vi rotten old Tennessee at the enormous cost
city 100000.
ical THE SIZE OF THE JOE.
ome Other works in New York say they wo'
9 on put in the engines for 100000. Murphy
Co, another firm OF builders, say they col
do the work for $350,000, but they say /
3ou- the supremacy of folly to put anything II
"a into the old hulk With this weight of c
dence against it, aud with knowledge Of
ana fact that Cattell is provision dealer, and
the an engine builder, and that this enorm
the contract was awarded without competiti
oil and in fact in secret, Is not the robbery C
dent?
nch
Dul lIOln sttdll- W IOltu hOh PA
Last winter Congress, with its two frequ
You, blindness, appropriated $500, 900 for the bu
w" ing of two iron torpedo boats. The contr
aw $ for supplying the iron plates for Il
been boats has been gwen privately by Catlell
Il on one Pennock, of Philadelphia, a shrieker
:. - Grants denomination The price to be |
y u is ten cents pound, or 1924 ton. am
IN formed that all the rolled iron in Pennsyl
if we MIA of the quality contracted for can be bou
M Of for $3.50 a ton. About 500 tons of this
ay % se eg Sot NJ or pe enT e lob
amount to $3.50, 900. At this rate II is '
much feared that $500, 900 will not be emo
DEM to complete the boats, but then Congress
great be induced 10 supply the deficit. This
- tract, like the one for the Tennessee mach
"9S" ~, was given to Pennock. without g
through the form of issuing proposals or
,crats trouble of receiving bids.
II. l II has also leaked out that the Polaris,
est OF little vessel sent TO the North Pole last s
, and mer, was fitted out entirely by L. G. Cal
II the Not a single article of stores was put on b
neeti- from the Government storehouse, but ev
ticket thing furnished from the open market by
Cattell. Paymaster John o. Bradford, c
Broadway, New York, paid the bills,
but of they amounted TO nearly $45, 900. All
,,,o1 butter purchased for the expedition was
demned as worthless, and thrown oyerbo
Cattel sending new supply by the Con-
t|i when she went TO Disco in October