The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-31
your most gracious msjesty's command can
be caught by man-of-war before sh :,
drown's all on board"
BoUTwELL's BOOKKEEPING
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TIE TREASUY.

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THE TREASUY.
iNFEsTIdATIoN DELAYED BY THE SENATE
NoTE-rHE PREAMBLE TO Mr.. DAvIs's
HSSOLOiiofS TABLED-ANoTHER DAMAG-
ING kAPo sURE OF Mr.. BOUTwELL's BOOK
KEEPING
Inc 81 nuosity of Boutwell's bookkeeping
Is lhus sketcAed By the Washington COR
resp ,ndent of the New YORK World: As the
W. nd has been predicting, the republican
Iajority in the Senate has decided it viii
not investigate the treasury department.
The final vote was reached to day, and the
result was the tsbliDg OF the preamble to
Mr.. Davis's resolution by % to %, and the
substitution, by IS to o. OF Mr. Edmunds's
amendment referring the resolution to the
finance comittee for Mr.. Davis's motion for
special investigating committee OF five.
This means simply that the matter is dead
so far as the Senate is concerned, for the
regular finance committee has neither the
time nor the inclination to make such an in
vestigation as is needed to get at the facts.
The tabling ofthe preamble was to prevent
any possible laceration of Mr.. BOutwell's
feelings, which the maker of the preamble
had not allowed to prevent correct state
ment of the facts. The scene in the Senate
Chamber to-day while Mr.. Davis was max
ing his final plea for a specisl committee
was simply disgraceful. Not:over a dozen
republican senators were in their seats, and
not single one of these was paying the
slightest attention to the speaker Mr.
Boutwell, himself was not polite enough
even to remain in bis seat, hut kept dodg-
ing about apparently with no other purpose
than to
KEEP OUT OF DAvIs's SIGHT,
and finally left the chamber altogether. al
houg the latter gentleman proved tha
Mr.. Boutwell, had made misstatements in
his explanation and wanted that gentleman
to explain them. Mr.. Boutwell,, however,
did not make even pretense of explaining
away the damaging charges, and the party
evidently did not care for any explanation
The democrats voted solidly against Mr.
Edmuuds's amendment and against lay
ing the preamble on the table. Mr.. Davis's
speech was wholly statistical, and, OF course
very cry, but its array of facts and figures
makes an even worse showing for Mr. Bout
well than anything that has preceded it,
He took up one by one the
statements which he made in his
first speech, and proved concusively
that each and every one was borne out by
the facts, and that Mr.. Boutwell's expla-
nations, as Mr.. Davis delicately put il,
care not well founded, and are not fully
sustained by the reports" For instance.
in explaining the way in which his first
report had increased tho previously re-
ported annual expenditures from 1861 to
1866 something over 50, 900, 600, Mr. Bout
well declared that the ''exact difference was
made by the leaving out or putting in of
certain outstanding warrants and trust
funds" but Mr.. Davis showed that the
amount stated by No. Boutwell, was not
the exact difference, and the reports TO
which the ex-secretsry had app. aled es his
witnesses made no reference whatever to
warrants or trust funds.
IN THE MATTER OF PENSION EXPENDITURES
Mr.. Davis showed that Mr.. Boutwell,, to ex-
plain a large increase of 100000, had
broug ht in the naval pension fund, which is
set aside by law, and which the ex-treasurer
him self admitted no one had right to use,
and this five years after the report was made
to congress and the accounts for 1865 were
closed. Further, after this S75000,000 was
thus unlawfully dragged in to square &C
counts, there is still $4,000 Sc unaccounted
for, to which no reference whatever is made.
Again Mr.. Davis showed from the record
plain statement by Mr.. Boutwell, that one of
the discrepancies in the account of In
dian expenditures was caused by an
error of the printer and was corrected the
next year, and then showed that up to
to-day the figures stood just as he
bad stated, and that the present secretary's
latest report had them the same way and
still show an increase of 600 in the
Indian expenditures for 1873. Then he
called attention to the fact that he had
shown that for the nine years preceding,
the report for 1871 increased the public debS
in the report OF 1870 for that year S94 600 600,
for 1869 over S99, 10000 600. for 1854 over
S75 0OO, 900, for 1868 over $2I 900 Co., for 1862
about SIC, 600 600, aggregsting for the nine
81 o E.-f 10
years is noticed by either OF the senators
who attempted to explain. Mr.. Davis
then went further, aud showed that the re-
port of 1870 made
THE REVENUE COLLECTIONS
for the eight preceding years $50 900, 600 less
than they were shown to have been by the
reports for those years, or. as Mr.. Davis put
it, "if the reports from 1862 to 1869 are to be
believed and credited it was in the treasury
of the United States, but the secretary in
1870 says, in effect, it was not there" An
other very significant discovery made by
Mr.. Davis and stated to-day, is that what
always had been known as the Pacific rail-
road debt, and which Mr.. McCulloch used to
always state as part of the public debt,
amounting in 1870 to over $50 OO0, 900, was,
by Mr.. Boutwell, stricken from the public
debt statement, placed in separate table,
and that amount in the next annual report
was used to swell the announced reduction
of the public debt for that
year, nothing being said to indicate that this
$50, 900 600 of the so-called reduction was
still owed. In conclusion Mr.. Davis re-
marked that he had not at the outset
charged fraud, hoping and believing that
the ex-secretsry would be able to explain
away the discrepancies, but they had not
been explained away, in his opinion, and
he was reluctantly compelled to the con
clusion that there is no reasonable ex-
PLANTATION to be had, and that these changes
and alterations have not resulted in the
public good, and il there had been frauds
they have in part served to cover up and
conceal Them" After the session of the
Senate, Mr.. Davis said, in reply to a question,
that the result was only what we had ex-
pected, and that an effort would now be
made to have some Of the leading democrats
in the House introduce similar resolutions