CONGRESS, CONGRESS, CHARLES GOODSPEED. MAY 2, 1862.-Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. COBB, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the fol lowing REPORT. The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles Goodspeed, beg leave to report: From the evidence produced before your committee it appears that the petitioner, Charles Goodspeed, was a sergeant in Septa Fillmon's company of New York militia in the war of 1812. The muster-roll in Third Auditor's office of the above company furnishes no evidence. of disability alleged to have been incurred whilst in the service, nor is any mention made of hernia, nor is there any certificate of discharge from the surgeon; the petition has been rejected at the Pension Office for want of evidence; and as no additional evidence has been presented to us, this committee are compelled to report adverse to the application. SAMUEL GOODRICH. MAY 2, 1862.-Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. COBB, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the fol lowing REPORT. The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Goodrich, make the following report: That your committee have examined the proof submitted in this case, and find there is not sufficient evidence of the petitioner having incurred the disability while in the line of his duty to warrant them in reporting a bill favorable to the petitioner. They therefore recommend the prayer of the petitioner be denied, and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject. COINAGE DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ASSAY OFFICE IN NEW YORK. [To accompany bill H. R. No. 477.] MAY 15, 1862.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. WARD, from the Committee on Commerce, made the following REPORT. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, representing the importance of conferring upon the United States assay office, in the city of New York, the privilege of coining into the national currency such portion of gold and silver bullion as may be deposited with the treasurer at New York for that purpose, respectfully report: It should require no argument to prove that the most convenient. place for the purposes of coinage by the government of the United States is the commercial centre towards which the chief lines of communication tend, bringing from various places, and more than to any other point, the precious metals, and distributing them again in pursuance of the natural and inevitable laws of trade. To send any article some hundreds of miles for the purpose of receiving a stamp or mark, as a guarantee that it is genuine, and returning it again to the place whence it was sent, and where it is to be sold or used, is so self-evidently an useless and improper expenditure of public money that little more is deemed necessary than to state the facts of this case in the form of accurate statistics. Tried by the plain rules guiding men of common prudence in every-day life. the singular extravagance of the present plan is manifest. No individual would tolerate a similar wastefulness in his own business. It is the duty of this committee to report that the estimated expense of carriage alone for $58,000,000, being less than the actual amount of gold and silver sent from New York for coinage last year, (computed from October, 1860, to October, 1861,) was $71,755, viz: For gold, $1 per thousand- $64,855 6,900 Total 71,755 |