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Utah (Utah, United States) (search for this): article 5
S. House of Representatives Tuesday: War Department, Dec. 27, 1860. Sir --So much has been said very recently about the policy of this Department in granting acceptances to contractors for transportation across the plains, that I deem it due alike to Congress, the public and myself, to make a short, plain statement of the facts connected with the subject. At one time in the year 1858, It became absolutely necessary to start large trains of transportation across the plains to Utah, when there was no available means to put those trains in motion. Acceptances were given to contractors then to enable them to start, and they did so. The practice thus begun was continued a good while from necessity, and was afterwards followed to afford accommodation to contractors in their very large and extensive work. --Their purport is to give preference to the holder when filed in the Department, out of any moneys due to contractors. These acceptances have, until the past autumn, bee
Arizona (Arizona, United States) (search for this): article 5
furnished and subsisted by this means. If the present contractors, who have so long and so faithfully performed their work, should fail or become so embarrassed as to be unable to do their work and supply the army, it would result in the loss to the United States of a vast sum of money — probably a million dollars. But the pecuniary loss would be small in comparison with the risk and damage which such a failure would subject our troops to, who are stationed in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. Should any accident befall these men, or any serious inconvenience result to them from the failure of a regular and certain transmission of supplies, it would be difficult to estimate the just indignation which would be heaped upon the head of the ignorant or delinquent officer whose inefficiency had allowed it. Trains necessary for the transportation, to be performed by Russell, Majors, and Waddell, could not cost much short of a million of dollars, and would require months of indust
United States (United States) (search for this): article 5
Nowhere else on the globe would the idea be entertained of subsisting an army by transporting its supplies overland a distance of a thousand or twelve hundred miles, through an uninhabited wilderness; and yet a very large part of our army is furnished and subsisted by this means. If the present contractors, who have so long and so faithfully performed their work, should fail or become so embarrassed as to be unable to do their work and supply the army, it would result in the loss to the United States of a vast sum of money — probably a million dollars. But the pecuniary loss would be small in comparison with the risk and damage which such a failure would subject our troops to, who are stationed in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. Should any accident befall these men, or any serious inconvenience result to them from the failure of a regular and certain transmission of supplies, it would be difficult to estimate the just indignation which would be heaped upon the head of the
John B. Floyd (search for this): article 5
Statement of Ex-Secretary Floyd. The following communication was received in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday: War Department, Dec. 27, 1860. Sir --So much has been said very recently about the policy of this Department in granting acceptances to contractors for transportation across the plains, that I deem it due alike to Congress, the public and myself, to make a short, plain statement of the facts connected with the subject. At one time in the year 1858, It bheft, and within that time sixty millions of dollars have been disbursed. No system of administration, no line of policy, I think, could reach better results; no system of accountability could be more perfect. These facts I confidently assert, and the department is everywhere full of the proofs of them. I invite any investigation which the House may think proper to institute into any or all of my official acts. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, John B. Floyd. Secretary of War.
Waddell (search for this): article 5
ailure would subject our troops to, who are stationed in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. Should any accident befall these men, or any serious inconvenience result to them from the failure of a regular and certain transmission of supplies, it would be difficult to estimate the just indignation which would be heaped upon the head of the ignorant or delinquent officer whose inefficiency had allowed it. Trains necessary for the transportation, to be performed by Russell, Majors, and Waddell, could not cost much short of a million of dollars, and would require months of industry and activity to prepare. It would be very clear to any one that a wise forecast demands of the Government to sustain these contractors by all fair and legitimate means. I have now nearly brought my administration of the War Department to a close, and I will be excused for adverting to it briefly.--There is not one branch of the military service which is not in perfect order, as far as any means ar
Russell (search for this): article 5
damage which such a failure would subject our troops to, who are stationed in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. Should any accident befall these men, or any serious inconvenience result to them from the failure of a regular and certain transmission of supplies, it would be difficult to estimate the just indignation which would be heaped upon the head of the ignorant or delinquent officer whose inefficiency had allowed it. Trains necessary for the transportation, to be performed by Russell, Majors, and Waddell, could not cost much short of a million of dollars, and would require months of industry and activity to prepare. It would be very clear to any one that a wise forecast demands of the Government to sustain these contractors by all fair and legitimate means. I have now nearly brought my administration of the War Department to a close, and I will be excused for adverting to it briefly.--There is not one branch of the military service which is not in perfect order, a
December 27th, 1860 AD (search for this): article 5
Statement of Ex-Secretary Floyd. The following communication was received in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday: War Department, Dec. 27, 1860. Sir --So much has been said very recently about the policy of this Department in granting acceptances to contractors for transportation across the plains, that I deem it due alike to Congress, the public and myself, to make a short, plain statement of the facts connected with the subject. At one time in the year 1858, It became absolutely necessary to start large trains of transportation across the plains to Utah, when there was no available means to put those trains in motion. Acceptances were given to contractors then to enable them to start, and they did so. The practice thus begun was continued a good while from necessity, and was afterwards followed to afford accommodation to contractors in their very large and extensive work. --Their purport is to give preference to the holder when filed in the Department,
1858 AD (search for this): article 5
Statement of Ex-Secretary Floyd. The following communication was received in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday: War Department, Dec. 27, 1860. Sir --So much has been said very recently about the policy of this Department in granting acceptances to contractors for transportation across the plains, that I deem it due alike to Congress, the public and myself, to make a short, plain statement of the facts connected with the subject. At one time in the year 1858, It became absolutely necessary to start large trains of transportation across the plains to Utah, when there was no available means to put those trains in motion. Acceptances were given to contractors then to enable them to start, and they did so. The practice thus begun was continued a good while from necessity, and was afterwards followed to afford accommodation to contractors in their very large and extensive work. --Their purport is to give preference to the holder when filed in the Department,