The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-09
UNCLE SANS BOOKS.
Some Curiosities OF Lengthy Document
Recently Issued nv the Government.

| Some Curiosities Of a Lengthy Document
Recently Issued by the Government.
The House of Representatives, on
July %, passed a resolution calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury for
statement of balances due to and
from the Government of the United
States. The answer. which was very
voluminous. was sent to the Public
Printer, and the work of placing it in
type was completed few days ago.
The fact that certain sums are charged
against individuals as due the United
States does not indicate that the per-
sons so charged with indebtedness have
profited by the amour: involved or that
they owe the money. In the great
majority of eases the accounts are held
up awaiting the settlement of some
technical question as to the legality of
the expenditure.
Among those who are carried as
debtors on the treasury ledgerS are:
President John Adams, who owes
ST.. S9S on account of household eX-
penses;" Major-General Lafayette, who
owes a, S95, on account of an oyerpay-
ment made to him, and Edmund
Randolph, Secretary of State. who
owes S61.355. on account of va
rious expenditures made before
1884. The diplomatic, and par
ticularly the literary men, who have
been sent abroad as Ministers and Con-
Suls, seem to be more generally in debt
to the Government than any other class
of public servants. James Russell
Lowell owes S93.6S la his account as
Minister TO Great Britain in 1885; John
Lathrop Motley owes 3, 49S as Minis
ter to Great Britain in 1871; Reverdy
johnson owes S5,3SS as Minister TO
Great Britain in 1869; Bayard Taylor
owes Sl02 as Minister to Germany i'm
1879; Washington Irving owes cents
as Minister to Spain in IS47: Alexan-
der Everett owes 1898 as Minister to
Spain in 1881; Ninian Edwards, Minis
ter to Mexico in 1926, owes 1924: James
Gadsden, Minister to Mexico in 1861,
owes $40; Andrew j. Curtin. Minister
to Russia in 1872, owes 1914: r. w.
Stoughton. Minister TO Russia in 1879,
owes S12, 100; John Russell Young,
Minister to China in 1885, is debited
with S., AS and is credited with 1907;
Stephen A. Hurlburt. Minister to the
United States of Colombia, is debited
with $13, 22S i'm 1871 and 81, 900 i'm 1872;
James A. Bayard, Envoy to Client. is
debited with $500; Adam Badeau is
debited with S10,572 as Consul
General to London in 1882 and with
50. 165 as Consul-General TO Havana
in 1884; William ID. Howells is debited
with S24 as Consul to Venice in 1868
and credited with 81 in his account
for 1865: John 5. MOsby is debited
with 90, 11S as Consul to Hong Kong
in 1885: Thomas j. Brady owes the
Government 1915 as eonsul to st.
Thomas in 1874; Titan j. Coffee is debit
ed with 81 $3.50 as Secretary of Legation
at st. Petersburg in 1870 and 1871;
Beverly Tucker is debited with S21 ,264
as Consul at Liverpool in 1862, and
Simon Wolf with 1928 as Consul Gen
eral at Cairo in 1882.
On the the other hand the statement
shows that the Government owes John
Quincy Adams $1,000, As Minister TO
Russia in 1918; AlphonsO Taft, Sl,940,
as Minister to Russia in 1885: John
M. Francis. as Minister TO Austria i'm
1885. $1,000; Edward F. Beale. as Min
lister to Austria in 1877, Sill: John A.
Bingham, as Minister TO Japan in 1885,
81. $50; John Howard PAYNE, as Consul
at TuniS'in 1853, S20j.92; Bret Harte.
as Consul at Glasgow in 1885. SlS5. 10.
and Henry Bergb. as Secretary of Le-
CATION at ST. Petersburg in 1865,
S135. "A. One of the largest debts in
the list is Francis +. Spinner, Treas
urer OF the United States, $3.50. 267. 10.
on account of bullion deposited with
A. J. QuirOt, treasurer of the mint i'm
New Orleans, in 1866. DIR. George h.
Loring's disputed account for $40
S0S.S9. as Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, is, of course, charged up against
him. Washington Cor. Chicago Herald.
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