The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-08-03
Robeson's Navy.

elGtHlS NllHOul DtllS COIuflnpu DV the SPndIGs
why jay Cook & Co. did get, and Jay Cook 4
McCulloch & Co. did not get, the mion-do-
lar draft drawn in favor of the latter company,
and why the latter company was loaned an
extra million dollars after Jay Cook II Co.
had failed. Robson made a long explanation,
which did not at all satisfy the Committee He
admitted that he did not believe JAY Cook
McCuloch Il Co. ever got cent of the sixty
day draft, and pleaded ignorance of the law
concerning the confirmation of special agents.
THE DELAYED REPORTS.
Under pressure the minority of the House
Naval Committee has agreed to make its re-
port Wednesday or Thursday i'll spite of IIar-
ris's solemn declaration that the thing could
not be done, and has also agreed to let the two
reports 60 to the House Friday. Through
jealousy between the Whitthorne and Glover
Committees, Lewis, who is on both, and Gull
berson and two of the Democratic members of
Glovers Committee have refused to sign 50
much Of the Glover report As asks for lmpeach-
inent. and that suggestion has all been >trck-
en- out 1t therefore looks little more to-day
as though the Naval Secretury's Impeachment
will not be agitated until the next session.
THE MAJORITY REPORT.
The report Of the House Committee on Naval
Affairs makes Il document of 100 closely print
ed pages, and is regarded as one of the abest
documents of the kind over presented to Con-
gress. 1t reveals in the clearest light the in
du>try which secretary Robeson has displayed
in his great work o. running Our navy, AS well
rs his open and reckless defiance Of law i'll
many different instances.
TIE COST OF THE NAVY.
The first report treats Of the cost Of our navy,
and claims that more money has been eXpend-
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make it clear to the House that if this large
amount of money had been proprrly expended
it would have given the country Il very efficient
navy. In this connection it is to be remarked
that, while it j. shown bv the evidence of the
heads of Bureaus of Plylna,ters and of con-
tractors. that only one or two Bureaus had ON
the 3Oth of June 1876, any uneXpentled bal
unces several of them. TO wit the Bureau of
Construction and Rcpair fine Bureau of Steam
Engineering and ne Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing were LARGELY in debt. having exceed
Ell the appropriations made lV Congress and