e: &■ $4f / Tlie Senatorial Triumvirate, ^Trnrf LF " APr 'Oils TED MISSION SEEMS TO BE THE DE- |:',p UCTION ° F PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDEN i ! iv qt ' ^ FTr jR PASSING THROUGH THE ENTIRE GAMUT 7>TTPTmS D r? T * FINALLY CULMINATED BY THE INTRO- 19TW tv& ^ A RESOLUTION IN THE SENATE ON THE Wmrn?T ' BY SENAT0R SUMNER, THE PREAMB1E OF Twr -a -iSINUATES THE GRAVEST CHARGES AGAINs r J ■ AB: IINISTRATION. The preamb' "Whereas it e an< ^ reso ' u ti on ar e as follows: National As; appears from a recent cable telegram that the committee of the Pi i States Gove' «nbly on war contracts has adopted a resolution asking the United officials sus 1 -"nment to furnish the result of inquiry into the conduct of American during the" Jected of participating in the purchase of arms for the French Government Anil wh war -with Germany: dispatch ereas one Squire, agent of Messrs. Remington & Sons, at New York, in a Tours, i' ' f ' ei1 at New York, October 8, 1S70, addressed to Scmuel Remington, at guage ; f Vrance, n^ar the Government of National Defense; uses the following lan- efforts t ' We have tire strongest influences working for us, which will use all their And * suece Samue j, hereasin a letter dated. at New York, December IS, 1871, addressed by Tour? • Remington to Jules Le Cesne, president of the armament committee, at > ' o„ France the following language is employed : S JK . New York, December 18, 1870. Hi' 'have the honor to inform you I have received your telegram of the 10th an('i tr * '/- c . r de'ring the number of Latteries to be reduced in number to fifty, and informing A'ltho ' tstru0 , lio, '-. a t0 tlie consul regarding the last credit to him of 3,000,000 francs. V " S' lat ' tue time of the receipt of the telegram 1 had bought the whole number ; .,,. iV .ndred, and had paid the advance required, >200,000, the Government veri 2 '"' .''J reduced the number to fifty. * *',, * * * * * to as? •' art ' in K tne purchase of Springfields, (transformed,) Allen's system, I am sorry ji •' ' the greatest number we may hope to get will not, I fear, exceed forty thousand. ji ® Government has never made but about seventy five thousand all told, and forty ou sand is the greatest number they think it prudent to spare. I may be able to f oc ure, depending upon an exchange of our arms at some future time, the num- j , of hreeeh-loading Springfields over and above forty thousand they are willing to I go now. p i'his question of an exchange, with the very friendly feeling I find existing to aid • ance, I hope to be able to procure more. Cartridges for these forty thousand will a great measure require to be made, as the Government have but about three mil- ons in hand. But the Government has consented to allow the requisite number, >ur hundred for each gun, to be made, and the cartridge-works have had orders f ' given yesterday) to increase production to the full capacity of works. This question ){ making the cartridges at the Government works was a difficult one to get. over; but it is done. The price the Government will charge for the guns and cartridges will be , or as near that as possible. Jules Le Cesne, Esq., President Commission of Armament, &c- And whereas the Secretary of War, under date of January 10, 1872, addressed the following communication to the Secretary of State : War Department, Washington Citt, January 19, 1872. Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a note from you of the 4th, instant, inclosing, by request of Mr. de Bellonnet, charge d'affaires of France, a copy of a letter from Mr. Remington to the president of the commission of armament at Tours, containing a series of allegations in regard to the purchase of arms, &c. The first of these allegations which seem to require specific reply is, ''Cartridges for these forty thousand will, in a great measure require to be made, as the Government have but about three million on hand; but the Government has consented to allow the requisite number, four hundred for each gun, to be made, and the eartridge-works have orders (given yesterday) to increase production to the full capacity of the works Ihis question of making the cartridges at the Government works was a difficult one to get over, but it is done." In reply to that allegation, I have to say that on the 13th of December, 1870 ,■•.-:■ ridges necessary to supply about two hundred rounds per gun to the model 1806 "reach- loaders, sold Thomas Richardson were ordered to be manufactured at the Ijrankford Arsenal, and this number of cartridges was necessary to effect the sale of the arms. _Ihe Messrs. Remington & Sons did not buy any arms or ammunition from this Department after about the middle of October, 1H70, nor would any bid ihTd te" 1 S ilrt "' 1 e3 have been entertained by the United States subsequent to To the second prominent allegation which is contained in the paper purporting to be a copy of a telegram from Squire to Remington, and which is herewith returned 1 have the honor to reply that this Department has no knowledge of any influence exerted la favor of, or for the success of, any transaction between the United States and Mr. Squire, For himself or Messrs. Remington & Sons. Very respectfully, jour obedient servant, T ., „ ,, , c WM - w - BELKNAP, Secretary of War. J o the Honorable the Secretary of State : And whereas it appears from these several communications not only that arms were Hold, but that ammunition was manufactured in the workshops of the United States Government, and sold to one Thomas Richardson, the known attorney of Messrs Kerning on & Sons, when the bids of the latter had been thrown out tor the reason that they were the agents of the French Government ; And whereas it appears from the official report of the Secretary of War that, in the year 1870-71, the sales of ordnance stores reached the sum of ^10,000,000 from which, according to the report, only a small sum was retained to meet the expenses 01 preparing other stores for sale, while the official report of the Secretary of Trea- sury f..r the same year acknowledged the receipt of only $8,286,181.71", showing difference of over $1,700,000 ; ° And whereas a comparison of the accounts rendered by the French Government lor moneys expended by its agents in the purchase of arms from the United States and the accounts rendered by the Government of the United States for moneys re- ceived in the same transaction, shows a large difference, which seems to have given rise to the suspicion abroad that United States officials have taken an undue part therein ■ And whereas the good name of the American Government seems to be seriously compromised by these incidents, and a just regard to national he nor, as well as to the interest ot the 1 reasury, requires that they should not be allowed to pass without the most thorough inquiry j Therefore, J'csohed, That a select committee of seven be appointed to investigate all sales of ordnance stores made by the Government of the United States during the war between 1' ran je and Germany; to ascertain the persons to whom such sales were made, the circumstances under which they were made, and the real parties in interest, and the eutns respectively paid and received by the real parties ; and that the committee have power to send for persons and papers; and that the investigation be conducted in public. _ On the 1 1th Senator Sumner advocated the passage of his preamble and resolution in a set speech in which he avowed that he had introduced the resolution with infii ite re- luctance, after hesitation and delay, having known of the facts alleged since Christmas. Mr. St'MNKu a BpeeCb, and his remarkable preamble and resolution were heralded to the country by the opposition press as an inclictmeiitand conviction of the Admin- tratlOO Ol the most outrageous frauds, which if true must consign high officials to i b : "" 1 disgrace our nation in the eyes of the world. All this Mr. Si-mkek with all (She devilish ingenuity of " honest Iago" and alluded to the subject, as he says, wi:h "lnh.nlc reluctance." Nothing in his remarks would go to show. that the Secretary of War was not acting in violation of lawB in making any sales whatever; and the charge is direct that net r.y two millions ol dp bus had been taken to his own personal use. Now it is impossible that Mr. Sum'ser could have believed the allegations con- ■ I in In i resolution, lie must have known that the Secretary of War was selling by direction ol Congress. Ho must have known that the allegi d discrepancy J. if he plead ignorance then he mus. stand convicted ot a degree of stupidity which in a distiugui: he i en'at'or amounts to a crime. 1 > la the first place those sales were made in compliance with the following Act of CongreES : " Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to sell damaged or unserviceable arms, ordnance, and ordnance stores. ; v Be it resolved ha the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of '■ America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be sold, after offer at public sale on thirty days' notice, in such manner and at such times and places, at public or private sale, as he may deem most advantageous to the public interest, the old cannon, arms, and other* ordnance stores now in possession of the War Department which are damaged or otherwise unsuitable for the United States military service, or for the militia of the United States, and to cause the net proceeds 'of such sales, after paying all proper expenses of sale and transportation to the-»$ilace of sale, to be deposited in the .treasury of the United States. Approved, July 20, 1808. f The report of the Secretary of War presented to Congress January 24th, 1872, gives a full list of all the purchasers of arms under that act of Congress, and that list shows thai no sales were made to any known agent of France. The law was passed two years before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. The charge in the preamble that some $1,700,000 had been received by the War Department for the sale of arms which had never reached the Treasury was a charge calculated at once to asperse the fair name of a deserving and patriotic officer, which had never before been called in question. Mr. Sumner assumed the guise of hon- esty in sustaining the charge, but tie must confess to ignorance or wilful slander. He read from a report of the Treasury Department, which was made up to the end of the fiscal year, (June 30th,) showing that but §8,286,121.70 had been paid into the Treasury from the sale o( arms, and read from a report of the Secretary of War stat- ing that about ten millions of dollars had been received from the same source. Now Mr. Sumner wilfully erred in that he read but one item of the Secretary of the Trea- sury report of receipts from that source. Turning to that report', and on the same page from which Mr. Sumner read the single item, is the following credit : "On account of national armories, *tr2U, 094.72." A few lines further on is the following credit: '• On account ofarms for volunteers and regulars, $2,710.16." A few lines lower down, the following: " On account of arming and equipping militia, $240,981.40." Foot these up, add them to the $8,280,131.70, and you will have the sum of $9,158,926.98. But, sir, I am not done yet. In the report of the Chief of Ordnance, in connection with and a part pf his. financial exhibit, is the following explanatory statement: " Amount of deposits in the Treasury not reported to the credit of appropriations. $706,557.83." v ' Add this to the former and it gives you $9,8(ij,4' l.C 1 . Is not that near enough. to $10,000,000 to justify the report of the Chief of Ordnance that the sales had amounted during the fiscal year to about ten millions? But as this point in the indictment is one of very grave import, involving the char- acter of an officer high in the favor of the President, it is -.esirable to make it per- fectly clear that, the entire charge is entirely without foundation. The least of original entries of funds deposited in the Treasury as proceeds of tfcese sales, under the supervision of the chief of ordnance shows that every item is entered with the name of the depositor who hid control of the proceeds of the sale of ■each lot of arms sold, the place where the money was deposited, the appropriation to which it was_ carried on the books of the Treasury or ought to be carried, the amount of each depo'sit, the date when the statement was sent to the Secretary of the Treas- ury, and also the date of the transfer warrant carrying it to the head of the proper appropriation. In this record the statement of the Secretary of War and the chief of ' ordnance in their annual reports, from which Mr. Sumner read, are fully sustained. This detailed itemised record of deposits foots up total $9,737,437.77, the amount covered into the Treasury, to adopt the language of the Department, to the credit of the War Department on account of said sales. And of this amount, if I have not erred in my computation, the War Department was credited on the books ot the Treasury, as I find it on the page of the annual report from which Mr. Sumner read, $9,158,920.98. The residue, amounting to six or seven hundred thousand dollars, had not, when the annual report was made up at the close of the fiscal year, been carried on the books of the Treasary to jj P j, ■ ... , ation, in the exhibit styled " sej I receipts and , rant -." from which the honorable Senator made bis citation. , mount bad been deposited in various Government depositories) for , ; ; i, nd entered on the boots 6f the 'ordnance department .;,;, i,'ii e | * V ar made his annual report to Congress. But all of it v^d , ( i ■ ii (1 by transfer, warrants to the head of the pro] ei account in the f " egregated receipts and expenditure's by wan-ants" when the animal ^nor( < i' the Secretary of the Tteasury was prepared. Sunn- time must necessarily before tht" entries could be maile under the proper heads on the books of the after ihejtranstoiission.ofxerlaficatisa of- deposit. The small apparent dis- ncj is thus fully accounted for. i this statement fully justify uk> assertion that Mr. Simner was either wil- , . he matters whereof/ he spoke, or criminally kuiity in suppressing any portion of the, truth 'I It is the record of the War Dep'arUmern perfectly acee to even Si b rjr. and Mr. Sbmkbh codld have easily consulted that record before imhig his indictment. V Mr Sumner quoted an Associated Press dispatch to show that all the names of of arms were not embraced In the official report of the Secretary of War. As sources of ordinary daily ioformatioa upou'current topics, newspaper telegrams uV. but when a distinguished Senator makes them the La-is of grave : national honor, and endanger our peaceful relali his with o„her must be hard p'res ed for material to sustain his case, especially wbdn the were entirely accessible to him. Mr. Sumse t further oharg s that the Secretary, of War sold rrms to " the known < v of M -s. -■<.-. Remington h Son^^after the bids of that firm had beett thrown in i hat they were the agents of the French Government. The Senator may have known that Mr. Squire was the attorney for the French agents, but the let- ter of Ceu. Belknap's mysteriously obtained by the Senator clearly shows, that the latter was without any such knowledge. To .-how Mr. Scmheb sources of official information, I quo'e from the debate in the 3et ; Mr. Sl'MNKl.'. Why, Mr. President, I held the'rec'ora in my hand yesterday. It., tin report of M. Riant which will be found in the official jo.ur.al of the French Republic of June 2S — money paid by France. Mr EDMUNDS. Will the Senator from Maasachusetts hand "me that slatemeut? Mr. SUMNER. Certainly. Mr. HARLAN. Another newspaper statement recited on the floor of the American ■Senate, by the oldest member of this body a3 the French record ! An attempt made to impugn the official records of his own Government by an extract from a newspaper published in France ! t Mr. EDMUNDS. This is the New York San. [Laughter.] Mr. HARLAN- gtill worse, if that be within the range of moral possibility. , Mr. Sl'MNKil. ] be Si nstor will bear in mind that it'is a report of a Fren. 'a offi- cer published iu the French official journal. Mr. II '-III. AX. Ci pied in thi un. Mr. SUMNER. Copied in the Sun. Mr, tONKLING. Which*' shines for all." [Laughter.] Mr. HARLAN. Very well. Now we know thosource of the information. Some- body in France has publish) d what he calls the French record, or is supposed to have done it, and it finds its way into an American in wspaper by the, nauic of the Sun. Wh< tin r that is sufficient authority for the gr ive arraignment of a high ollieial of our Government by an American Senatbr I have for the American people to decide-. If he had no other means of information, ho other source of evidence, no reliable wit- to verify a m v. paper Btatemei t. he must decide for liimstlf whether that justifies i'ii in bringing iii this arraignment. But the expressions of Senator ScnuRZ show tlhal he had but little confidence in the truth of the charges of Mr. St m.m.u's preamb e, and in fact ne admits away the entire case in the course of his remarks. For example : In regard to the charge of discrepancy between the accounts of tic War I tej.artmcnt and the Treasury Depart- ment Senator ScHORZ made use of the following language: Mr. SC-11 Kit/.. "I for my part have never thought of asserting that the apparent ep my i. add not be i h ceptil le of explanation, for I cannot imagine that such dity would prevail iu any of the departments of the Government that if anything wrong was there they would make it appear so glaringly upon the bo >ks. I am only avoring to show that the s, ? , m tor trom Massachusetts had some reasons for men- Koning this matter, although it oin be satisfactorily explained. I will merely addf that in one respect, by the explanations which have been given, my mni'l hasnofcf been entirely satisfied as to the clearness of the official statements. Perhaps the | Senator from Vermont can, in the course of this debate, give us information perfectly f satisfactory." [ Again, in reference to the charge that the agency of Remington was known to tho War Department, Mr. Suiiuttz said: " Now, I am very far from asserting that the ordnance department, when it sold | these fifty thousand Springfield muskets and those numbers of thousands. of carbines, i was at that time aware that Mr. Remington was the paid agent of the French Govern* ment. The Secretary of War says that he did not know it, aud I certainly presuma! he did not. But immediately afterward Mr. Remington disclosed himself as the agenfaj of the French Government. He telegraphed to them, making a bid for a new lot o£3 arms, that he acted as the agent of France." The inference is plain from Mr. Sumner's preamble, not only that the sale of ord-i nance storeswas illegal, but that in conducting these sales the Secretary of War hadi acted in an improper if not a dishonest manner. But Senator Sciiorz does not fol- low his co-conspirators to so great lengths, and directly repudiates such implications. He says in the same speech : " That a sale of arms under the statute of 1868 is legal nobody doubts." And again : _" Understand me well. I am by no means willing to cast any aspersion of thaS! kind upon the Secretary of War. I have always esteemed him an honest man." But it seems that Mr. Schurz had had his attention called to the sales of arms which afterward found their way into the hands of the French, and that he had oulled upon the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War on the subject to remonstrate against such sale, the result of which was, as Mr. ScHtwz stated k the same speech : M "At last the sale of arms was stopped, and 1 was notified by both the Secretary of'. War and the Secretary of State to that effect." Here out of their own mouths are the several counts in the indictment of Mr. 8tJM- £ KER disproved and admitted to be without foundation, and we pass to consider the ' resolution which accompanied the preamble. So far as was developed in the debate in the Senate, not a single Administration Senator is opposed to the passage of the resolution | and the President and Secretary of War both court a thorough investiga- tion of the whole matter. Those who are seeking to injure the President in the eyes of'" the country affect to see in the course of the Senatorial friends of the President a coi-" ••certed movement to evade investigation and screen guilty parties. But a candid ex- amination of the discussion will reveal the falsity of any such assumption. Mr. Sum- ner casts upon the Senate an indictment of a Cabinet officer, for whose good conduct u the President is clearly responsible, containing several counts, which, if true, would consign such officer to merited obloquy and punishment. Becanse fair minded and honorable Senators refuse to adopt such indictment they are to be denounced, forthwith, as men who seek to avoid scrutiny into the actions of high officials. Mr. Scnkeb in offeringthis preamble knew that Republican Senators could not vote for it ; he knew that it must be voted down ; and what would be the effect of voting down the pre- amble ? Is it to give rise to another immense calumny to be sent all over the country i'hat the majority of the Senate are opposed to investigation ; that they are afraid to look into the affairs of this Admiristrution, because a resolution is presented here with a preamble which requires every Senator to vote against it who is not willing to prejudge the case, whether he is friendly to the Administration or not? Why, sir, it is just as absurd as to ask a jury to bring in a verdict and to hear the evidence after- ' ward. We have heard of drum-head courts-martial that first ordered the prisoner to ' be shot, and afterward proposed to investigate the case ; and this resolution begins with a preamble assuming the truth of every thing charged, and ending by a proposi- < .tion to investigate. To come to the resolution itself, which is as follows : Resolved, That a select committee of seven be ippointed to investigate all sales of ordnance stores made by the Government of the United States during the war between i France and Germany ; to ascertain the persons to whom such sales were made, the circumstances uuder which they were made, and the real parties in interest, and the sums respectively paid and received by the real parties ; and that the committee have power to send for persons and papers : and that the investigation be conducted ia public. A critical examination of the l.in"ua< -„,.i .• •., , anomalous ,- a e of things, and ser°e to show Kn, P m *of Z movJif ^^ T tion. Let us examine it in detail. c * tmmus <» t&c mo\er of the resolu- A part of the imi'iiry thus proposed, would be legitimate- but if the ,,1,,'n, t ; i o ascer'am whether Amencan officials have been cuil v of , „• f J • ? mere] y » Office, why is this u quiry to be eonfineFto KafJtferiod ftfaXS^TfS *ar between France and Germanv? Whv is it t, l„> „ ,, i i ul » /Hon of the pe-iou, if there is no uj-erior object? uunng tuat brief 5 m m s iSiggl Now il the Senate of the United States were the only tribunal in which the FreneK following such a course, as he has formally tahen his' leav of ,1,' "' r b usti [ led la 7 •will be accomplished. The Germans of this country, as a class, are intelligent men'' and educated people. They think for themselves, and they understand remarkably well the politics of this country, the policy and the character of our Government. And I want to say another thing right here, that the Germans of this country do not belong to anybody. They cannot be carried in anybody's breeches packets, I do not care how capacious those pockets are. They cannot be used as stock in trade. They cannot be led from one party to another at the whim or caprice of politicians. They stand by their principles, and they cannot be driven from the support of their princi* / pies by being made to believe that this Administration contributed in some way, by the improper sale of arms, to the aid of France during the late war. ' t So far as that war was concerned, it is a notorious fact that the sympathy of th9 Republican party, as a general thing, was in favor of Germany and against France; 1 and it is equally notorious that the sympathy of the Democratic party was for Franca | and against Germany. I need not now go into the reasons why the. sympathies of the two parties ran in different directions. I may Btate two or three of them. Ona was that the liberal sentiments of the Germans of this country and of Europe ac- corded far more nith the sentiments of the Republican than with those of the Demo- cratic party. Another reason was that Louis Napoleon, who was the Government of France, was a usurper; he hud overturned a republic, and he had made the war himself; he had declared war against Germany without adequate and proper cause. We all understand that; and it was for all these reasons, and others that might be enumerated, that the general sympathies of the Republican party were with the Ger- mans. There were particular reasons why the Democratic party geaerally sympa- thized with the other side. Refer to the columns of the New York World, the leading Democratic paper, throughout the war for evidence of what I say on this subject ; so o (the Chicago Times, and in fact nearly every leading Democratic paper; and refer to the columns of the Republican papers for what I say in reg:ird to their general sympathy with the cause of Germany. I How was it iu Paris? What was the conduct of the American Government as rep- resented by Mr. Waihburne? The Germans of Paris and the German Government deliberately selected the American minister and the American consul as their pro- ■ tectors ; and how faithfully Mr. Washburne and Mr. Peed protected ove> forty thou- sand Germans in 1'r.ris throughout that long and desperate and terrible siege is understood by all, and Count Bismarck, ou behalf of the German Government, has publicly thauked cur minister for his brave and deroted conduct for the determina- tion and courage with which he protected the Germans in Paris duting that siege, and in fact throughout the war, and sometimes at the peril of his own life. America was rendering to Germany aid and comfort by her sympathy. The United States were protecting Germans in Paris. Why did not the Germans select the English Government for their protectors ? The crown prince of Prussia had married an English princess ; they were connected by marriage. Why did they not look to the Russian Government, their ancient ally? There were reasons why they preferred the protection of the American Government, and it was given fully and amply. And now shall the attempt be made to drive a wedge between these two Governments, and to excite and to array our German fellow-citizens against the Administration and against the Republican party by reason of this sale of arms of which the Prus- sian Government at the time had lull knowledge, of which it never made the slightest complaint, aid does not pretend now that we violated the law of nations either in letter or in spirit? Now who is blamed for these alleged irregular sales of ordnance stores? We have gone through the entire debates and are at a loss to see who is supposed to be guilty. It is not pretended by anybody that the President of the United States directed the sale of these arms. That, has not been asserted by Mr. Sumner, or even intimated by Mr. Schurz. Then we drop the President entirely out of the case, because there is no pretense by anybody that he has had any complicity in regard to the sales. The discrepancy in the accounts of the War and Treasury Departments is out of the case by the proof of the ollicial records, and by the admission ot air. bcHcuz. The President is out of it. Mr. Schurz admits that he cannot entertain any sus- picion of the Secretary of War having done anything wrong, so that ollicer drops out of the case. And as this is about the entire bottom of the concern dropped out, a fact which Mr. Schurz seems to have recognized he was driven to trie strait of throwing the blame, if there was any blame, after all his admissions and disavowals, upon a mysterious military ring which he charges is exercising a corrut. iand unwholesome influence upon the Administration. What that ring consists of he doea> not pretend to inform us, and we are left entirely in the dark with regard to it. ',„?"•" bis entire . Bismarck we give V. wwing; letter from Qen. Spinner : b Tre " ' SOWS, February 10. 1 »» : -win? facts might be of interest toyc BE. JS«' » several Germ newspapers a Barou G| ruli it was said, had culled ;1,, atteotio'n of Prince Bismarck to the fact i° ■ " ' informed were intend e use of the French arrnv o f ru - l( "V," ' ates, he deemed it his, duty tx> call the S ! ; Government t., .; , as L for instructions as W the conrse t % ,„ / 'pursue. Should it .however, be concluded that his judgment as to l h V/ aw aid treaty ptipulation ■■•eous, he desired to say^hafhe ';"! : ! tjat he could prevent the arms in question from going S France ■'t,u' Payment of an advance of fifteen per ce , n , t e French! d agreed to pay ' J o tins communicati n, the German cha I to l lave replied tW ;_ , ; E H iw ?*' oT^msSance r ? ' 'j ertlle , ' awof nations norany treaty stipulations with the the purchase of .the™ at ar/ad . "riper . , I ' German troSp tortly ablet bemfornoi d bem up on tfie counts of the Doj.arfm6.it shows cffic ' ' i riment as ! , ,■. >n further i atiom. The' apparent di angw in the del fordS '■■■.^■•'^•'.-.^ • l,p. 249,) | Treasurer under of "ordnance and ordnance, stores/!, "arsenal ional arm »S«nteei and "arming and Z litia " ffl. tbatafarge amount reported b, CTa? »epa*tm'en wae^ncrttechnicallycoveSntoThe the fiscal year. _ ^ Very !tru»y,- yours, ti ii n, „ ?; l: - SPANNER, 'Crtaaurer of tlit Uhittd States Hoft He.vr*Wi^o3t, r«(7 tl[ Stefe, &;wfc. *'"'"■ ™ r? ent lbo r <> u " J ' last year in Europe ; it was published over and oua,an,n,, he European, u was also published here; 1 was not heretoseeU \ Gen. , al Sinner, a ho was „, Europe not only read it in the paper,, but discussed the matte* witl bankers and other men there. J, was a matter Vat created some li te hes. arn'^T 1 ^"" y ' ";""'"" in wh5ch Bi **arck spoke, that he would not buy these arms at an advance ol Sfteen per ci at over what these persons bought them of our Government, or buy them at any price, for he could get them cheaper on the banks „'; j* JJKSJ n . ccl " BW ' r i" *■! Q«- ,Spi.nn« r should come in and belabor the poor dead corpse ol thediscrepancy, but we let it go as it is in the letter. Let not the true and tiusty Kepub jeans be. deceived ... regard to these discussions in the Senate. Our party has nothing to fear from any investigation, and n'o Senator or ofiicnl at Wash- an hor.eM and fan examination into their every act. And no one more „ , sireRsuchinBestigations than the President: The real opponents*/ thePresident among so-called ltepubhcan Senators have narrowed down to a mere tro, and the leader of that trio has really severed his connection with the party o) the Senators and of the members of the House are united in their devotion ... the mterests of the party, and will go into the next campaign with confi- I.) the uprightness of their cause, and its triumph at the election. \ ' LIBRARY OF CONGRESS II II I 013 789 082 3