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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], New Publication — map of the Confederate States. (search)
ates that the House of Representatives, by a vote of eighty-one to forty-two, had passed a resolution to appoint a committee to investigate the Army and Navy contracts recently made by those paragons of virtue and honesty, Secretaries Cameron and Welles. On all questions where the expenditure of money is concerned, the House was nearly unanimous, but when it comes to investigating the manner in which the money is spent, one-third of Lincoln's vassals have not courage to face the music. A very reasonable supposition is that not a few of those who voted no on the resolutions, were deeply interested in some fat Government job, and did not like the idea of having their operations exposed to the gaze of an unfeeling world. Messrs. Welles and Cameron who, while out of office, were a couple of the most disinterested patriots in the country, whose faces were constantly set as a flint against all manner of official corruption, now that they are in a condition to finger the spools, find their