The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-01-11

To cash received, April
To amou ut received from
Thos. Tanigar, late
agent at Ft. Gibson, $4,000
BY amount paid Pension
ers and allowed, e31,763.43
BY amount deposited In
The Treasury, 63y067.ss
nAlance suspended for
informaiity, mot yet ex-
planned, 10000
-e75, ,4s0.0o
Here is The whole case written ont
at greater length than I intended
when began, from which it will be
soon that l made an houest effort to-
protect the TrsAsnry, and at the
same time 70 protect these patriotic
Indians from possible dishonest
practices on the part Of claim
agents, an effort which proved sue
cessfnl while I remained in the De-
partment.
And yet, in the face OF these fscts
which have been laid before the pub
lie by OK. Commissioner Barrett, the
Commissioner of Pensions at the
time this order was issued, and 9th.
er editors and correspondents, as
worthy Of credit, to say the least, as
seize on an old report, Published
nearly year ago, of an examina-
ton ordered BY Secretary Delano,
similar to the examination ordered
BY me tour years earlier, and declare
that this report confirms their oorA
suspicious.
cannot account for such IN as
sertion from any one who has any
character for truth ana honor 70
preserve, unless utterly demented.
For there ls not one syllable in the
report referred to sustain their
allegations.
And thus the efforts of my ira
ducers fail, and rccoil on their own
heads. And, M ii conscious Of their
inability to bring credible evidence
to fix q stain on my character, they
attempted to cover their retreat by
the allegation that when entered
the Senate l was soretche1gy poor,
and that now I am immensely rich |;
some declaring me to be worth two
or three hundred thousand dollars,
and others, three or four millions !;
aud then, with an air of virtu0us
amazement, inquire how can Senator
Harlan's friends account for this
sudden acquisition Of this udst
peakh!
know need not say TO my fell
low citizens, that such An iNnwexdo,
founded, as it is, on q base falsehood,
is an insult to every man of honor
able impulses. But as there is no
business transaction Of my life which
wish to conceal from tho pryinp
eyes of my bitter foes, will ignore
all deIicacy on this subject, and, at
tho risk of my disgusting high.
minded gentlemen who would scorn
to intermeddle with the private af.
fairs of others, aud lay this matter
bare to the bone.
When | entered the Senate on the
first Monday Of December, A. D.,
1855, although comparatively poor,
l was not absolutely destitute.
owned property in lows City, since
sold for 81, 500, several hundred acres
of land, little property in Mt.
Pleasant, and the proceeds of the
sale of an interest in . small farm in
johnson county, eighty acres of land
in Louisa county, and one hundred
| and twenty acres of land in Indiana
| invested since in property at my
| home in Mt. Pleas ant.
At the prcsen: date, seventeen
years later, | own property in Mt
| Pleasant, assessed in 1871, at fifteen
thousand three hundred and ninety.
eight dollars, and four hundred acrc'
of unimproved lands in Cass and
Ringgold counties, which cost me {
little less than SIPS per acre ant
fifteen hundred dollars worth o
Istock in the First National Bxnl
| ut Mt Pleasant. And on accepting
tho office of Secretary Of the Int
rior, needing residence, and having
an opportunity to purchase one OF
easy terms OF payment, CONTRACTED
for house and between four ant
five Thousand feet Of ground, il
Washington City. for $4,000. Al
else Of peeuniary value owned by M
or any member of my family, no
embraced in the foregoing, l woul,
most cheerfully transfer TO any ON
favoring me with the opportunity
who will pay my just debts.
l am aware that scandal mongere
who are detaming me tor political rea
sons, on reading tho foregoing, vii
change position like weathercocks
and retort that this meagre fortune
after a service of seventeen years il
the Senate and Cabinet, on y salary
ranging from $4,000 TO sS,000 pe
annum, demonstrates great want Q
ina ncial capacity, not ereditab!e I
q United States Senator. But it ais
demonstrates equally we'll, that
, have not neglected the public intel
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