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The next item examined by the Committee is


the Florida War, which, they say, has furnished an
ample occasion for draining the Treasury. II:


every department of it, extravagance of the most
unprecedented character has been INDUCED. In
the purchase OF supplies, the transportation of sol
diers or stores the public money has been wilfully
wasted by those charged with its disbursement
Within FIVE years from the outbreak of hestilties,
there have been employed in the transportation
service 737 steamboats,, brigs and schooners. Many
of them were employed at a per diem pay un'1
the price of their hire quaarupled tie sum for


rhich they could originally haze been purchased.
Gen. Jesup says, in reply to the Committee, that
the steamboat John Crowell was hired for $500
per day and her expenses She was not worth
$4,000, and fer the period she was in service sho
was paid by Government ss2555. There was


