Mr. CLARK. No. Franklin made the contract, and the evidence, all the way through, shows how these parties were used by the quar termaster; Ine w mean Franklin. These r ties contracted to put this iron in place. hey cast their iron in NewYork according to the pattern, and when it was brought here it had to have some chipping and filing done in order to fix it to the places; and the quurtermaster I mean Franklin now required them to swee up the cliippings and the filin, and he wclgied them bac to those men an charged them for them. Then when they came to interrupt the contract for a year they kept back all that was due these parties as security, that lome time or other they should undertake to go on again. In determining what these men should have, we can ascertain exactly what they paid in the year 1802after they resumed the contract, and the committee have allowed them 3 cents a pound additional for putting that up. They could have got their iron in Baltimore at the time they were interrupted for 17 dollars a ton for pig iron and they had to pay afterward as high as H y or 60 dollars a ton. They not only showed us the estimate but brought us the bill of the parties whom they paid for the iron, showing exactly whiit they did pay themselves. It was not an estimate of the price of iron, but was exactly what they had to pay. For iron which they could have had at from 17 to. 20 dollars a ton they had to pay from 35 to 50 dollars; and they ha some times to pay for freight as high as 7 dollars a ton. You know, Mr. President, that freights were very high. When they under took the work they could bring castings by water, but afterward the Potomac was block aded and they could not bring it in that way. they were obliged to bring it over the railroady and get it along as bestthey could. Coal became So muveqlrwyehrigeht.hey pressed by the sto e of this work that they had to ysell theiiipgal estate in NewYork at a loss in order to meet their payments and carry forward this work which they were undertaking for the Govern. ment: and at the very time that they had to sell their real estate to meet their payments Government was keeping back from 30 to 40,000 dollars of their money without any sort of propriety. It is a case that appeals to the justice of the Government. They think they should have a larger sum; the think they should have 90 odd 1,000 ollars. The committee did not think so, but they figured it down to the lowest sum, and by pounds and ounces have awarded them 62,000 odd dollars. I think the bill should pass.