New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-21


fscai year ending June 30 1871 He sad that board o
officers having been convened 10 select brccchoading
rifle. he adopted by the Navy Department, and hav
ing. 1869. reported in favor OF the Remington re
orders given IN 1870 1871 for tho manufacture u"
10000 of these rifles As the work could be done cheaper
at the Springfield Armory than at the mandatory
OF T.. Remington & Sons application was maze
the Ordnance Bureau Of the army for permission 10
haze them manufactured there. After few thousand
OF these muskes were finished, slight defect III the
plan of them was discovered. II was found that by
placing the breechsight of the gun inch and haf
further from the brcCchblock the gun could I've I'M
proved At about this time letter was received from
Poultney & Trnbe of Baltimore asking the Navy De-
partmen 10 these 10000 rifles To them ana onerng
to pay for them so each The original cost was between
81, ard SIS. besides the royalty of 81 on
each rife, pad to the RemingOns. flndns
that the Navy Department had no immediate use TOT me
arms and that, by the transaction, could obtain l2Oo
the Ordnance Bureau of the army could make hc l2O
# was determined TO make the sale The conditions or
the sale were that POultncy Trimbe should deposit
$4,000 at the Springfield ArmOry. as u margin ana
should pay the delivery Of the arms IN New-lork se
to sell these guns was threefold. First the
| Department cot 1900 stand of arms more
| than II otherwise would have obtained; secondly,
those W n did obtain perfect than those that
were first manufactured; and, Thirdly the skilled me-
ment kent AT work longer than they otherwise would
have been secretary Robeson testified that he knew OF
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always the custom OF the Department 10 dispose OF
all materials which it had no use, and that there
laws sipuating to what appropriations money re-
| ccivcd for materials sold should he creoltcd' ne
delivered after peace had been declared De
| tween the French aud Germans. Commodore Ease
Chief OF the Ordnance Bureau OF the Navy Department
testimony substantially the same as tHat gwen ny
the Secretary He thought that the sale was very IN
dlCiouS one since the Department made nct gam o.
rifles by the operation. One dollar ana hity eeh
was afcrward deducted from the price agreed 10 DC
| paid for each gun, the firm purchasing them MAO
for the havonets One fact that shown ny lHe
1ut lmitt
the examination, is that at the time these navy Ilnr'
were sold, they were not all finished ana IL was tupu
lated thai they should be finished with all possible as
patch and delivered immediately to The purchasers
In the Senate Investigation Of sales of arms To the
French c. j. MCGOWAN, Chief Clerk of the " Y Agency
of the Ordnance Bureau; W. c. Hull, Clerk and Acting
| storckeepcr at the same place and Hugh Riley en-
poycd in 1870 and 1871 to receive Government goous OH
hoard of lighters were examined ny the Committee to-
day McGowan's testimony contained nothing ddul-
tonal 10 what he told House Committee last week.
except that he had knowledge of goods having Dee
AZ Troy vessels having been sent 10 ihat CITY 10
arms f. NrYork in October, 1870 If any vessel
had been sent Troy for that purpose record ol Ie
transaction would appear at me H+'i'H I ~ III
id he received his orders from Col CREE ~ III VIII
inc aud they record lie gave Nfrp M -, IT,
dHyered and I;cy attended t0recciyng aud delivering
tI ocods and was instructed get receipts for them
1TS5 ,Teceipts were simply used TO check i'll
voices, and were nor, he thought PLeser rnc,
AT Ncw-York. He thought that starbuck signed for
Austin Baldwin d Co.. and did not know whether he
signed for others not. lie never gave lhel orders 10
deliver goods on board steamers Riley Sald llit ne
sometimes accompanied the lighters 70 we PiS anu
d0cJs in November and December 1870 anu 10 January
and February, ISL He was frequently em2oyG CA. n
Tins way lie took receipts for the GOODS GeiiT-
cred from Mr. Moon, agent of austin BAD
win d Co., from starbuck, agent OF the same
firm. from Grant and others VINO slgned
for schuyler, Hartley 4 Graham lie thought mat
Starhuck also sgued for Richardson wei as Tor the
Remngfons The receipts he received he delivered 10
Mr. Hall He remembered having tailed goods on board
either the Erie Ontario vessels which were chartered
nv the French COnsuGeneral to take arms ana aInnn
milton France. These goods were those sold 10 Auhtn
Baldwin * Co., ana were removed directly IRON the
lighter the deck OF the steamer lie remembered mar
a number of cases were marked Fl T." or . X -
did no; know what this mark meant hut had heard II
suggested that meant French Republic. Never re-
ported any of these marks 10 the Office.
Senator SchurZ suggested thai j. W. SimOnton the
New-York Agent Of the Assocate Press be sent Tor
and requested to testify IN ard 20 the dispatch cent
from France relation 70 fe action of the Committee
OF the French National Assembly on War Contracts; ana
Mr. Stevenson asked that Gen. SchOhcd, now III Cdnr-
MIA. he requested ~ inform the Committee, by teic-
graph IN regard 10 his construction of IA" ari OF 1863 10
which the Secretary OF War and Chief Of Ordnance have
referred.