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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
lict in any way with your interest, and as necessity knows no law, I have taken such steps in this affair as the occasion arid the wants of my troops demand. Respectfully, Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. War Records, Vol. XV., p. 514. headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., July 2, 1862. Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: Sir:--Will be found inclosed herewith minutes of the doings of a commission to inquire into the seizure of the specie of Samuel Smith & Co. The finding is that the case should be sent to the department for investigation. I should have sent the specie ($50,000) to you, but this remarkable state of things exists:-- Two paymasters came down here with $285,000, too little money to pay the troops of this department, some of whom have not been paid for six months, and they and their families are suffering for their just dues, which, for the inefficiency of the Pay Department in not making proper requisitions, has not been