A full month before tfea adjournment of
©ongreai the House adopted a resolution oall
iag upon the Poetmister Oeneral4for infor
Biatiou in regard to the circumstanoes and
•mount of Fowler's defalcation. The infor
mation might have been furnished in three
but the Postmaster General, in order
avoid investigation and action by Congress,
Withheld his response till the closing days of
Hie session, when be knew that it would be
tao late for Congreaa to oonsidcr the subject
all. Then be reported that according to
Hie accounts in the proper office the defalca-
«».i sport
Ihlrf"
found it out.
Referring to bis predecessors, Mr. Holt
Bays that the embetxlement was conoealed by
arid
dtreptive ttttlemmnU
*s to the character of these settlements, very
•le*rly.
He says that Fowler bore sueb an unsullied
feputatioQ that no particular vigilance was
Ibouebt neoeesary and so tbe books and so
#ounte ware not vary carefully scrotinisad.
•nd certain officess of an inferior grado be
«ame negligent, &c., 4o. lie finally lays tbe
30.
Prftidmi,
II1ARAM 11-srOLfU
far Vic0 Premdmi,
MANHIVAI HAnMicf
F'W Cengtntf
-2 lASI EL H. BTU.
,.£1,1
J.A 19 •T-fi'h*.
«?, KOI Itttft.
J. W. f'ATTDLLI
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B. fllLLKB.
VALLBT WBM
Won amounted to over $155 000 but that I ^ew ^nr^
fowler's ea»bier stated it at $170,000, whieb
Jfcigbt be correct,"as the accounts of the last
%unrier had not been adjusted.
As to the circumstances, the vigilant Post
master General states that his first knowledge
•f the defalcation was derived from a letter
Vlf Fowler's, in May laat, eonfeasing tbe fact.
