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Publleher.
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Kin PRINTING OF EVERY DE8CRIP
(J ilea eoellv eieoated '
tt W. SMITH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
ll:l:TI rieirgeW. Pa.
T J. LINGLE,
ilTOENK Y - AT -LAW,
1:11 VhlllpabarfC. Centre Cfc, Pa. y:pd
OUNDD.SWOOPE,
ATTORN KY AT LAW,
CurweairiUo, CleerHold Bounty, Pa.
Oct. I, '70-If.
0
SCAR MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEAKFIKLD, PA
T-Ofloe In tbe Opera ll.un. ootO, '78-tf.
G
R. k W. BARUETr, ,
Attorn trs and Counselors at Law,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
January SO, 1878.
SRAEL TEST,
ATTOBNRY AT LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
arOBoe la the Court Hoaia, JjlIsT
HENRY liRETII,
(OftTBRt) F. O.)
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
ton BRLL TOWHSHir.
fM. M. McCULLOUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Offl:e In Masoato bulldlag, Seoood afreet, op.
poiita tba Court lloueo. Jel8,'7S-tf.
VtT C. ARNOLD,
LAW i COLLECTION OFFICE,
CURWKNHVILLE,
ell Cleartol4 CouaU, Pena'a. fly
g T. BROCKBANK,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Oflee la Opera Houta.
ap 15,77-ly
JAMES MITCHELL,
PBALaa
Square Timber & Timber Lands,
J.int CLRARFIBLD, PA.
J.
F. SNYDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Office la Pta'a Opera Ilouaa.
June !, "78tf.
WILLIAM A. WALLACB. BATIB L. BBBBS.
aiaar r. wallacb. jobs w. wbislbt.
WALLACE & KREBS,
T (Saieeaeore to Wallaoa Fielding,)
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
jul'77 Clearfield, Pa.
A. GRAHAM,
' ATTORNK Y-AT.LA W,
OLBAariBLD, PA.
All lent hailtwae promptly attended to. OBoe
la Uraham'a Row rooms
formerly oeeupieo 07
Julyll, '78-tf.
II. B. Bwoopo.
Frank Fieldlaf .. W. D. Bilar....8. V. Wile
ELDING, BIOLEK& WILSON,
ATTORNEYS-AT. LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
jWr-OIBoo In Pla'a Opera Hoort.
TBOt. B. HUBBAT. OTBO, BoBDOB.
URRAY A GORDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
roffioe la Pla'a Opera Hoaaa, aoeoaa loor.
0:10'7
jaaarB B. b'bnallt. banibl w. k oubdt.
jJcBNALLY & McCURDY .
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
ClearHeld, Pa.
aF-Laral baaiaeaa attended to promptly with)
I'lehljr. OSoa oa Boooad atreet, ahoro tba Pint
Natlend Bank. JaniLIO
A
G. KitAMER,
ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW,
Real Krtata and Colloitloa Agent,
CLEAR PI KI.D, PA,
Will promptly attend to all legal kullaaaa ea
traited to hla earo.
-OBoe la Plo'a Opera lloueo. Jaal '70.
J P. MoKENRICR,
" ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
All legal bollaoaa rntrurtad to hla ear, will re
aelra prompt atleallon.
OBm oppoaile Coart llaaae, in Maaonle Bolldlng,
eeoad tear. . augl4,'70-ly,
JJB, K. It. BCHEURER,
HOMOtOPATHIO PBYStClA",
' OBoa a realdaaee oa Flrat at,
AprllM,1'7. l!r' Zt-
T)R. W.'A. MEANS,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
LOTIIIHSBURO, pa.
Willatt.ad profoaaloaal oalla prompUy. aagl0'70
)U. T. J. BOY EH,
rllYBlCIAM ANDSUROKOV.
OBeo oa Market Street, Clearleld, Pa.
M-OBoa kearat S la 11 a aa., aad 1 to p.
D
R. J. KAY WKIGLKY,
HOMtKPATHIO PHYSICIAN,
jr-OBea a4Jolniog Ike rrtideaoe of Jemoe
Krigley, Hae,., oa SoooadBL. Vloaraold, Pa.
Jalyll.'IH u.
D
R. H. B. VAN YALZAH,
CLE A K PI ELD. PENN'A.
OFFICE I KltSI DINCK, CORNER OF FIRST
AND PINE SIKKK1B.
p OBoa koaia From II la I P. M.
May 11, lift
D
It J. P. BURCHFIKLD,
Uu Sargaoa of tka 114 Regiment, PeaaaylTaala
Veln.LMM. h.i retornad frea) the Araay,
efera kle prafeoateaal aerrleaa le lkee!eie.nj
ef ClaarOeld eo.aly. ,
ap-Prefeaaleaal ..111 proaapUy atleadei to.
0e ea SMoad atreet, foraaarlyoooapled y
Di.Wa. Japr4,'a0-U
t TARRY SNYDER,
11 BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER.
Stop oa Market SI. epaoatu Oearl Hoaaa.
A aleaa towal far arerj aaalaaaer.
Ah aaaaafaetarar of
All Kuala af AHlrlea la Baaaaa Hair.
ClaarOald, Pa. aaay It, ft.
CLEARFIELD
GEO. B. QOODLANDEB, Editor & Proprietor. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. ' TEBMS-$2 per annum In Adranoe.
VOL. 53-WHOLE NO. 2,633. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1879. NEW SERIES-V0L. 20', NO. 31.
JIIHTICEfl CONHTAIILEBS FEES
We hue printed a large number of tha Bow
FEI DILL, and wiH oa the rocelpt of twenty.
leooMite. mail a ooov to any edriras.. mot
WILLIAM M. HENRY, Justice
or ma Pbacb abb scatTunnn. 1.DU1IKR
CITY. Collootlona aiada and atoner promptl
paid over. Artlelea of aaraomeot and deada o I
uoroyanoo neatly eieoule.1 and warranted eor.
root or no obarge. 1)7 7
JOHN D. THOMPSON,
JuiUm of tht Pm and ScriraBtr,
CurwcBivtlle, Pa.
.CoMwtloni ! ftnd tnontv prompUT
ptldovar. fb2S'71tf
JA3. B. GRAHAM,
r doalor la .
Real Estate, Square Timber, Board b,
SHINGLES, LATH, PICKETS,
:10'T3 ' Clearfield, Pa,
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
- Clearfield. Poita'a.
fcoA-Wtll aieoote Joba la hla line promptl; and
la a workmanlike manner. apr4,A7
JOHN A. STABLER,
BAKER, Market St., Clearfield. P.
FrtMh Bread. Ruik, Itolli, ?tt od Ctk
on band or mult to order. A ien1 BMortmeot
of Con feet ioDftriei, Fruit and Nvti 1b itook.
loo Cream ond Oyitori to kiiod. 6aloo aeuly
oppoiito th Potto ffleo. Prloo moderoto.
Motrtib lO-'Ti.
WEAVER 4. BETTS,
DRALRHI IX
Real Estato, Square Timber, Saw Legs,
AND LUMBKR OP ALL KINDS.
MT-Offloo oo be'nd atroot. Id rear of itore
room 6f Ueorge Weover A Oo. f jo9. '78-tf.
RICHARD HUGHES,
JUSTICE OF TUB PEACE
roa
Vtcatur Toicntihtp,
Oiooola Milla P. O.
U official huiinoaa ontraatad to him will bo
promptl; attended to. mcn., l,
JOHN L. CUTTLE,
A TTUKlN fit At liAYY.
i. Roal F.etato Aieut, Cleartleld, Pa.
na.. Tklrd atroot. bet. Chirr J A Walnut.
nwA.ineetfull oHera hll aarrlaaa la aalllai
aadbuylni landa la ClaarOald and adjoining
ooontlet ano Wltn aa eaperi.u.vi "...
;aara aa a eurreror, Sattora hlmielf that bo oaa
reader aattalaotloa. l '
J. BLAKE WALTERS,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
AMD DBAbia IB
Maw Log, and Lumber,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
OBeo la 8raham'a Row. IiJt:7I
ANDREW HARWICK,
Market Mlreet, Cleartleld, Pa.,
aAMurAcroaaa abd n.ALBB in
Harness, Bridlei, Saddlet, Collars, and
Horse-f urnishing tiooas.
mm-All klnda of repairing promptly attended
i u.i.n' Merdwero. Hone Bruehoe. Carrr
Comba, Ae., alwaya oa head and for aala at tba
loweat oaen prion. I"1"11
Q. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
aaa-'Pampa alwaja on band and made to order
oa abort aotioe. Pipaa bored oa roaaonabla tanaa.
All work warraatoa to render aatlafaetion, and
doUrorodifdeeirad. rayjiiljpd
Iilvery Stable.
H E andenlgnotl kega laara to lalorm tho pak
lle that be la aow folly prepare to aooommo.
lau all la tha war of furaiakinf lU.tea, Bulea,
j.jji.. UJ llenioaa. ea the ahortoit aotioe and
an roaaonabla talma. Ruldenoa oa Looaat atreet,
between Third and Fourth. .,
GKO. W. GEARUART.
TlaarOeld, Fak. 4, 1874.
WASHINGTON HOUSE,
GLEN HOPE, PENN'A.
mnf -jnA..alvned. barlna leaaaii tni oom
X modloaa Hotel, la tbo Tillage of Glea Hope,
U now prepared la aooomajodata all wbo may
ooll. Mr table and bar iball bo aapplled with
the beat the market enorde.
UKI'KttB W. VUIID) ti.
Ulea Hope, Pa , Mareh 10, 1870-tf.
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
BBALBB IB
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
CKAHAMTMN, Pa.
Alio, eltenalve manufaoturer and dealer In Square
Timber Bad Hawed Leaner oi bii ainae.
tlieT"
Order! eollelted and all Mill promptly
I'jyioji
E. A. BIGLER V CO.,
PIALKM IS
SQUARE TIMBER,
.ad maaafaetorera of
ALL KINOH OP SAWED LUMBER
l-nt CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
I. SNYDER,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
ABB BBALBB IB
Watohes, Clocks and Jewelry
6Valam'a MtrkH Anal,
(XEABPIELD, PA.
All kloda of repairing la my Hae promptly at
.4.4 Lo. April IS, 1474.
Clearfield Nursery.
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY
Till and.rrlra.d, karlng eeubllaBoa a nar
aery oa the 'Pike, about half way betweea
Clearteld and Curwenarille, la prepared to far
.l.b ill blade of FRl'IT TRKK8. (rteadard aad
dwarf,) Erergroeaa, Bbrubbory, Grape Vlaee,
,i l..m. Uluhborry. Strawbrrry,
ud Raapberry vraea. a.ao, . 2
o.tnM. and early aeariee mw" w.
pr.-pUytoadlt.. Addrepa,
.. S. Curwrnarille, Pa.
MEAT MARKET..
F. M. CARD0N & BR0.,
Oa Market EL, aae Soor wait of Maaaloa Ha
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Dor arreaa-eaaeBte are rf tba meal eomplete
eharaeur lor faralakiag Ike pabllj w It rroaa
Menu ef all Had, and of the rery boat auality.
We alee 4.al la all ataaa oi jigTie.n.
" .. kk k on oiklbllloa far tha Boa
the aahlta. Call aroaad whoa la tawa,
BBd take a look at tklngi, or addroM aa
P M. CAKOON ABO.
CUertrfd, Pa, JulyJ4, It7t.tt.
UtarlKId tumrattt Agency.
j.wna aaaa. cabbou. a. llBBta).
Repreaeattko following aa4 ether IreHlaaa Oo'l
LWeUBdo. G.ok.-C S. Br.Jj.joU;0
I reoailac oa m.lo.l A eaah plani.... I,0M,M
Pbaia. rf Hartford, Cooa
l.,.raaeeCa.af North America
p;"rBrlll.h A Mw-atH U.S.Br. 1,7J.8M
Jiuleh Co errtal-U... Br.,.. 0T,,l4t
r'hXTiC)ZrZ. 4,ts!4t4
1 oSTi. Mk St., appl Cart H. .
1.14, Pa. JaM4.THf.
8.
ijll cn Years cl Fraud !
STARTLINa EXPOSURE OF COR
RUPTION IN THE TREASURY
DEPARTMENT.
THE STJPPHESSED GLOVER RE
PORT.
dlUANTlO FRAUDS UNEARTHED BY Till
COMMITTEE MILLIONS ON MILLIONS
OF Till PUBLIC FUNDS STOLEN AND
SQUANDERED FLOOD! NO THE
COUNTRY WITH COUNTERFEIT
MONET TOCARRY ILE0TION8 .
STARTLING DEFICITS IN THE
MINTS HOW THE BUREAU
OF PRINTING AND EN
HEAVING IS RUN.
Fraud Absolutely Unchecked and the
national finances at the Mercy
of 7'hievet and Jiobbert.
Tbo New. York Star of July 0th.
printed a document which deserves the
thoughtful consideration of every citi
zen, no matter whntmsy be his politi
cal prcdiloctions. It is the report of
the Congressional Committee of which
Hon J. M. (ilovor was Chairman,
which Committee was empowered to
investigate the aft'uirs of the Treasury
Department and its numerous ramifi
cations, including tho Secret Service
and the Printing and Engraving Bu
reaus. Kepublican influenco of the
strongest character has been brought
10 Dear on tno members ot the Com
mittee and upon Coneress itself to pre
vent publicity boing given to the
nisiory oi uio shameless mismanage
ment of tho National finances which
the Committee discovered. The re
sult was that notwithstanding Demo
cratic activity tho roport ot tho Com
mittee was suppressed in Congress,
and evory effort to bring it to the
tgnt has met with the most violent
artisan opposition tip to the present
time.
The record ol infamy and corrup
tion in the National Treasury and its
various bureaus, under the manage
ment ot John Sherman and his imme
diate predecessors, is a startling one,
and has boen fully laid bare by the
uommtttce. Millions upon millions ot
dollars of the people's money have
been squandered and stolen ; the De
partment has boen made a tool for
most infamous purposes ; secret issues
ot money have boen made to carry,
elections lor tho Republicans ; all ave
nues that might load to exposure have
been closed, and honest, conscientious
officials dismissed ; the Southern peo
ple have boon shamolesBly plundered
by Sherman's Treasury Ring ; the
mints have been a mine for official
thievos, speculators and defaulters, and
the country has been flooded with
countcrleit naner whenever such a
course served the purposes of the Ring
ana Its dependents. I bo report, more
over, shows that there is absolutely no
check or safeguard against the perpe
tration or repetition of tbo greatest
frauds in the National finances under
Sherman's management, and closes
with recommendations which cannot
but be deemed necessary under tho
circumstances.
The report in substance is as follows :
The document opens by stating that
Rulo 103 of the House, adopted dur
ing JIadison's Administration, directs
this Committee to Inquire and roport
whether tbeezpendituresof the Treas
ury Department are justified by law ;
whether the claims Batisfiod are sup
ported by vouchors establishing their
justness; wbethor tho moneys dis
bursed have been so paid in accordance
lib appropriation laws, and wbethor
any and what provisions are necessary
lo provide more poiieclly tor tbo proper
application of the publio moneys, and
to secure the Government from de
mands unjust in character or extrava
gant in amount; to roport Irom time to
time wbethor any and what retrench
mont can be made in the expenditure
of the Department without detriment
to tho publio service; whether any
and what abuses exist in tho failure
to enforce the payment of moneys due
tho United States lrom public default
ers or ethers;, whether any offices in
the Department have become useless
or unnecessary ; and to roport on the
expediency ol modifying or abolishing
such offices. Undor this rulo little was
done for a long time, and when Mr.
Glover was placed at the bead of the
uommmee in inii mo gaiueruu
wrongs of years bad to be inquired
into. Tho Committee had been habit
ually packed by Speakers Colfax and
Blaine with do-nothings. January 11,
1878. the House instructed the Com
mittce to proceed with its duties
(which it hud sometime before begun),
and empowered it to send for persons
and papers (compel attendance of wit
nesses and production of documents
neoded as ovidonce and to pay the
attendant expense), and toexamino all
tbo affairs of tbo Treasury fot such
period as the Committee might deem
necessaty for its own guidance or the
protection of the publio interests
and the exposing of any frauds or
abuses. The necessary authority to
pay a clerk and experts was, boa over,
by the intrigues of interested parties
delayed till Marco 7, when the session
was more than half gone. Neverthe
less, the work was pushed as last and
far as circumstances would allow.
Tho Treasury at Washington con
tains ovor thirty bureaus and divisions
cntiivalont to bureaus, charged with
important functions and the oversight
of more than 12,000 employos. The
soope of Its powers extends from New
lirunewick loCalifornia. lrom tho Mux
ican Gulf to the Polar Ocean, and
those powers are In their exercise oltcn
dospotio to a degree that admits of the
suppression ot prooi ot omciai mis
conduct. Besides those thirty odd
bureaus at Washington tha Treasury
Department contains sub-treasuries at
Baltimoro, Boston, Chicago, Cinein
nati. New Orlenae, New York, Phila
dolphla, Sao Francisco and Bt. Louis.
It also contains miotsat Philadelphia,
Han Krancisco, Carson, Denver and
New Orleans ; assay offices at tloise,
Charlotte. Uolena and Now York ;
a chain of onstom houses and cus
toms offices stretching across the
continent from Easlport, Jlair.o,
alnnff the frontiers ol New Brunswick
Canada. Lakes Ontario, Huron and
Suporior, tba frontiers of Manitoba
British Columbia, to Port Townsend
ob Point Sound, Washington Tern
tnry, tbence northward along the
Pacific Uoast to the Asiatic sea, son in
ward to the boundary of Lower Cali
forma, tastward and southward along
the frontier of Mexico, eastward along
the shores of tha Golf, southward to
Key West, and thonoo northeast along
the Atlantio Coast to Maine, with an
orgoniiation embracing also the inter
Inr State of Illinois, Indiana, towa,
Kentucky. Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and
Wost Virainia. with tha Navy and
special "revennel marina" fleet ol
thirty-seven vessels to enforce the Cus
tom laws tha Treasury having
charge of building, equipment, repair,
purchase and sale of these revenue
vessels, and of the examination, ad
mission and government of cadets
therein a notwork oi assessors, col
lectors and other Internal Kevcnue
officials reaching over tho whole
country, with the United States Army
and the federal Courts to uphold
them ; tho construction, illumination,
nspcction and superintendence of 61,0
lighthouses, and of tho light vessels,
beacons, buoys, sea marks, fog signals,
and of tho arrangements for saving
ivcs during shipwrecks along the en-
tiro coast and on many rivers ; the in
spection ot steamboats and boilors on
every coast, river and lake In the
United mates, Including 4,000 vessels,
and examing and licensing 14,000
pilots, engineers, etc.; hospitals and
physicians for 18,000 sick or disabled
soamon, located at IMow lork, Ban
rr&ncisco, Baltimore, Now Orleans,
Louisville, Boston, Chicago, Mobile,
Detroit, Key Wost, Portland, Mo.;
Pittsburgh, Norfolk, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Galveston, Cairo,
Savannah, Washington, Evanaville,
Clevoland, Milwaukee, Binghamton
and Newborn ; tho United States
Coast Survey, whoso operations ex
tend over the interior and along the
northern lakes; the supervision of the
seal tishcnes and other mattors in
AlaBka; the registration, enrollment,
documenting and mortgaging of 25,000
American vcssols, the entry and clear
ance of 31,000 vessels yearly from and
for foreign countries, and the admeas
urement and tonnage of all these ;
twenty "special agents" engaged in
detection of smuggling and frauds ;
"Hccrot bervico, employing many
persons professedly in detection of
oountcrfoiting. Tho Treasury ' is
charged with the custody of funds
held in trust by tho bovornmont lor
Indian tribes ; with the organization,
supervision and winding up of 2,000
.National banks; the publication of
charts of tho "Coast Pilot ; the custody
and manufacture of standard weights
and measures ; the engraving, printing,
issue, redemption, destruction ana en
tire management of over 12,000,000,000
of publio debt and $700,000,000 of
paper currency ; tho coinage of 80,
000,000 gold and silver dollars yearly ;
the construction and custody ot nearly
II public buildings; the preparation ot
the statistics of commerce and naviga
tion ; the collection ot hundreds of
millions of customs and internal reve
nue yearly from the people ; the final
scrutiny and settlement of all the ex
penditures of the Federal Government,
and the keeping of the Government's
accounts. Since 1861 over 113,000,000
000 have passed through the Treas
ury's hands.
In l77 the "Uraves Uommitleo,
appointed by Secretary Sherman to
examine the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, reported that in tbo 'treasury
Department especially the efficiency of
the supervision ol its cmei auinoruies
s groatly impaired by the vastnesa ol
the field which its administration cov
ers." In 1874 the Committee of Ways
and Means reported to the House, in
connection with the Sanborn case, that
the responsibility for official acts is
very loose and easily evaded, subordi
nates being able to control matters
supposed to be decided by superiors.
Secretary Bootwell reported in 1869
regarding a single branch of tho De
partment that, ''It is impossible for the
Secretary of the Treasury to give to
the various questions that arise in
managemontof tba system, the atten
tion which is essential to the service."
SINECURES BY THE HUNDRED.
In the Bureau of EntrravintT and
Printing it was found that shortly be
fore last year's elections nearly 300
needless employes wore nut on the
pay-rolls. Instead of the Bureau cost-
nu about ilbu.uuu in me nscai yoar
1878, as has been publicly represented
it really cost the ' Government in va
rious ways over suu,uuu, inus :
"Aeareaate aioeaae of ooeratlaf the
Uareaa" IVblel'a report;-. e.c.nni e.
Paper and 182,021 II
Material and atoraa. dlmlautloa of
.lock . J1,M 1
Working Maoarator 8.000 00
Rent mod. .nenarr T.800 00
Site for bow building. - 17,131 00
Inloroot oa value of maehtaery Bad
loola lt.JH B
InteroatoaralaoefdMe androlla.... 11,108 47
nleraat oa ralueof platea a,7
laureel on value ef materiel aod
atoroa earrlod ."
lateral ea ralee of neper earrlod 0,000 00
loteroatoaaoat of entntabed leearitlra
aarried- - 1,091 si
Approilmala "aggregate eoat"...t83I MS to
About a million and a quarter ot
publio money is permanently Investod
It luo iiurv-au, iiiuo .
Diillaellrananrronhaad Matt. '77. i.lOO.Odt 00
Hoaoe oeeanied in Treaeury building 810, A40 SS
Machinery and toola
atoroa .,..
15S.MM tl
iat,047 It
lit, 537 St
11,831 18
Dial aad relle
Bngraeed ateel plataaMH
Maobioo ihop and alte
Untniabad netee, bonda aad atampi
10,000 00
earrlod aad oa haa4...H.M.....
45,87! 17
ApproalmaUlnraatmaat t!,!!,8l8 08
127,000,000 WASTED AND STOLEN,
Wherever approximate figures aro
siven in this report they are below
rather than above the truth. The cost
of the Bureau for the sixtoen years of
its existence is so mixed in tho Treas
ury accounts with other matters that
it could not be precisely ascertained
without tbe labor of a number of com
petent clerks lor many months. Ac
cording! to the best attainable informa
tion at loast Z7,uuu,uuu nave been
snenl on it, much of which has been
wasted or stolen, loe report gives a
list ot expenditures which art official
ly showu or admitted to be needless or
fraudulent, as follows :
1848-t. drr artatlBB 1800.000
1118-78, real, aeedleaa. 800,000
1840-70, waterpreoSog Mt,t00
lstO-78, aeedloM employee, aioeaaire
WBAToa,M.......m. i,.eu,..v
IIJ3-7, aoodloal employee, eieeaelre
wagoa 1,748.000
IBSt-77.aaoBaeireBrteoa for eaal rod iah. 110,000
1874, eaeeeetee prteae lor prialleg frae-
llooal eemaoy ..
I840-7T, re-euomlnetioa ef paper- ......
tt.ooo
tot.aoo
ISSB-Ts, ofoee.lee pneoe or paper........
1871-77, uaoleaa purehoee of paper-..-..
Need leal oograriag.-
1870-7, uaOalibod frMtteaal earreaey
doetroyed...... v
1874-4, aeedleaa printing ea fraelieaal
oorroaay
100,000
8o;
10,001
110,000
181,081
1878, alte lor aew oll4l.g.............
17,110
This, tba report stales, is
by no
moans the whole loss, but simply what
oould be ascertained in tho time at
command. The amount overdrawn
aad wasted in 1878 tt ascertained from
the figuros furnished by the Chiof of
the Bureau lo tba Uomtnitlee, and
from the bills rendored by and paid to
tha Bursal tor work lor other bureaus,
at these totals :
Drawa from Treaeary
for work oa legal aaa
4.n....l.lll 01
Nal'lB'k
Bote llt.UT U
Boadl
(eoaeoll). 74,1.8 IS
Oror
drana. - Reel oeet.
lltlOO 81
1118,111
111,011 88
10,440 00
18.770 M
40 001 M
t41l,480 Ot 1144,401 tl 1111,074 tl
Add aew
belldiof
alto. ......
17,111 t 1,174 40 11,101 N
T.tal. .1414,111 It $!M,784 II 1110,181 II
aft . f.
THE "DRY PRINTING FRAUD.
Thus nearly half appears to be waste
in a "reform" administration of the
Bureau. If provious manauemont was
no worse and it is known that it was
no bettor about f 12,000,000 have been
wasted or stolon.. Tho "dry printing"
fraud was an cfturt to print fractional
ourroncy on dry paper by hydrostatic
pressure. In this attempt 300,000
were wasted by a professed inventor
named Stuart Gwynn, and it now
turns out on inspection of the secret
archivos of the Patent Office that the
then Chiof of the Bureau, Spencer M.
Clark, was part ownor with Gwynn in
the worthless patent, for dovoloping
which ho paid Gwynn much ol this
jionoy. The "waterproofing" fraud
was a proteose to mako greenbacks
and fractional currency waterproof by
ipping tbe paper into a mixture 01
water, castilo noai) anil some other in
gredients. This oath bad no good ef
fect, and the mixture cost about 5
cents a gallon, whilo from 50 to 95 cents
a gallon was paid for it. for tbe red
ink need for printing tbe seals on notes
from two to twelve pricos woro paid.
The Internal Revenue Bureau of Sta
tistics, the oflicos ot the Marine Hos
pital Service, the Lighthouse Board,
and other parts of the Department,
have at times been crowded out ol the
Treasury building by the wholly un
necessary enlargement of this uuncc
ossay Bureau, which has no authority
of law (beyond yearly appropriations)
for its existenco. This crowding out
has made the Government pay largo
sums in rent for outsido accommoda
tions, which were superfluous, becauso
the Currency Printing Bureau was
not needed at all, responsible parties
aving always stood ready to do in a
ay, sator, cheaper and liner, all that
the Bureau has done. For the same
reason no new building for tho Bureau
was neoded, and tbe appropriation ol
1327,536 which was forced through
the House under the previous ques
tion without debate in tho confusion
attending tho closo of the session in
une, 1878, is a clear waste and loss,
as is also the 250,000 obtainod by the
same moans last February lor moving
the Bureau from the Treasury into the
new building. For tho first half of
the fiscal year 1879, ending Dccomber
31, 1878, the expenditures of the Bu
reau were nearly $800,000, or about
doubfe those ol the previous year ; and
the Bureau by misrepresentations ob
tained appropriations ol about a mill
ion for tbo present year. This pre
sents a strong contrast to McPhorson's
claim to have spent but $200,000 a
ear and to have made large savings.
arge sums have been yearly asked
and obtained for "now machinery,"
nd some of this machinery is stored
as useless, yet the demand for fresh
appropriations govs on yearly, though
the ilureau always claims to be bettor
equipped than any private establish
ment. The Bureau also baa on hand
engraved work enough to supply, in
printing notes and bonds, the Govern
ment s needs lor nlty years to come,
yet large sums are yearly spent on en
graving, though the engraving divis
ion of the Bureau is practically use
lees. EXTRAVAUANT AND CORRUPT OFII0IALS.
Among the very first reforms made
after tho "reorganization" of tho Bu
reau in May, 1877, when Edward Mo-
herson took charge, was tbe pur
chase of an expensive carriage and
borso, ( J IDU lor the lormor and tzza
tor the latter"), and be employed a man
as driver, whose pay ($1 DO pur day)
was increasod by an allowance oi 6i
conts each day as extra time, and tho
cost ot tho carnage and horse, as
well as the monthly livery bill of
the latter (amounting to $20 per
month), were paid lrom tho appropri
ation for labor and expenses of on-
graving and printing tbo securities ot
the fjovernment ; tbe whole reserved
exclusively for the private uso of tho
Chiof of the Bureau, except for the few
hours the driver acted as mcsscngor
in the office
When McPherson entered on his
duties be made requisition on tho cus
todian of the building lor tbe construc
tion of a now office and fittings lor tho
samo. A portion ot the money appro
priated for "labor and expenses of en
graving and printing' was diverted
from its legitimate channel and dis
bursed under the direction ot tho cus
todian for this purpose
Tbe printing of bank notes has boen
taken from the Comptroller of the
Currency, in violation of law, and put
into mis corrupt Bureau, i ue prun
ing of the backs of greenbacks, frac
tional currency and bonds has been
taken from responsible and skillful en
graversalso in disregard and viola
tion or law and is now an done in
that concorn; and the Revised Stat
utes havo been tampered with to make
it seem lawlul. This concentration ol
the printing in tho Bureau has been
condemned as ovory way wrong hi
Yt
roneated reports of investigators.
bas been excused by false pretenses of
cheap work.
September 25, 1877, In response to
advertisements inviting proposals lor
printing the black backs on national
bank notes, bids were received from
engravers, and when opened were
found to range from $12 to $8.94 per
1.000 sheets. The uhlei or tus uu-
rean offered to do tbe work lor $8.92,
two cents lower than the least bid,
and the work was awarded to tbe Bu
reau.
An inspection of the bills rendered
under this arrangement showed that
while the Bureau charge $8,113 per
1.000 sheets for the first printing, it
charirod $14 for tbe green printing on
the backs, ano tu tor mo laces ; Deing
together $42.92 a 1,000 for the three
printings, instead ol $29.76 as on the ba
sis ol Ibis bid it snouia nave ooen uono.
The Bureau also obtained, in violation
of law, the printing of the black backs
of tbe legal vendors by putting in an
absurd "bid" of $8.27 per 1,000 impres
sions. At this rate the completed
notes should not have oostovor $37.66
a 1.000 sheets ; but the Chief admitted
that it was $45.79, and his own figures
revealed the fact that it was $101.15 !
Tba Bureau aocounts are not so kept
as to show the cost ol printing any
kind ol obliiration, and these lucts naa
to be dun out. The accounts had also
been falsified in various receipts.
SECRET ISSUES OF GOVERNMENT NOTES
AND BONDS TO TtlB EXTENT OF
$6,550,000,000.
It is remarkable, and somewhat
alarmim. that this corrupt and law
defying Bureau has by its showing,
printed notes and bonds for which the
Government is liable to tha extent, np
to June 30. 1878, of $0,550,000,000,
and that whilo it has been conducted
with extreme seorecy, it has done $9
775.000.000 within nine years past,
and also $13,000,000,000 ot revenue
stamps.
In 1873. when the) panlo was at iti
height, Georga F. Cutter, then Navy
Pay Director at New York and now
Paymaster-General o tht Navy, re
REPUBLICAN,
mitted to Pay Director Bradford at
liondon $u00,000 to moot dralls drawn
by Paymasters all over the world on
Jay Cooke, MeCulloch & Co. Cutter
brought bills of exchango from Fran
cis O. French, exchange teller of tbe
f irst lVational Bank ot Now York and
New York agent ot Jay Cooke, Me
Culloch & Co., the very houso against
whoso throatencd failure tbo many
drafts at London woro to he protected
by remitting to Bradford. Ootobor 4
ho drow from the New York Sub
Treasury $300,000, and October 6
$181,323, and paid them to French for
bills of exchango. This he did Bomo
days before tho mail left for London,
and, as cash was then worth 5 por
cent, a day in the market, French and
his associates wore enabled to uso this
half million to make $100,000 or up
ward. Cutter swore that be did this
by order of Secretary Robeson.
WIDENING THE SCOPE OF THE INVESTI
6ATION. Thousands of dollars, the total not
being ascertainable without a much
longer investigation, were found to
have been obtained from tho Treasury
as interest on registorod bondB by forg
ing powers of attoroy lor their collec
tion, tho forgers in many cases having
confederates in the Treasury. Beside
this, Treasury employes, who bad
means of knowing to whom this inter
est was due, had confederates outside
who went to tho owners and told them
the existence ot the claim being for
gotten or in some way overlooked or
unknown that thoy knew where
there was money duo tbem, and could
procure it, but must have halt for their
services. This extortion was made
practicable by tho Treasury tuking no
slept to notify owners of the failure to
collect, and keeping tho whole matter
a profound secrot. Goorgo Sharp Jen
kins, the man who scorns to have boon
most largely engaged in those extor
tions, was warned of his approaching
arrest by some one in the secret, and
fled the country ; but not until a pack
age containing $500 thus obtained and
addressed by him to tho wife 1 1 the
clork in the First Auditors's Office who
had furnished the information, had
fallen into tbo hands of Major William
B. Mooro, Supervising Special Agont
ot the Treasury, who dotectod tho
operations. When Major Moore asked
tho detail of an operative from the Se
cret Servico to help this detection, one
Maxwell was detailed, who had been
appointed in reward for party services
in 1876, who attorward roccivod an
appointment in the Army for the same
causo, who has since been sont to the
ponitcntiary tor misconduct in the
Army, and who seems to have played
tbe spy and done all ho could to shield
I be parties concerned.
FRAUDULENT COLLECTION OF INTEREST.
This inquiry, howover, which seem
ed to be desired by all Treasury au
thorities, while it related to extortion,
bad a very different late when it reach
ed the forgoriea. At the same time
that the package of $500 fell into Su
pervising Agont Moore's hands, a pack
ago was also found addressed to the
wife ot the Interest Tellor of the
Treasurer's office, containing a valua
ble silk dress pattern. This was kept
by the Teller, C. L. Jones, till bo
learned that one of Moore's assistants
had inquired about it when he return
ed it to the sender, U. M. Williams,
formerly Deputy Colloctor of Customs
at New York, who bad lately boen in
dicted for complicity iu the "Law.
rence" frauds on the revenuo, and who
was soon altor detected in fraudulent
ly collecting unclaimed interest from
the Government by forging powers of
attorney. In throe cases it was ascer
tained that A. U. Wyman, Treasurer
of tbe United States, had learnod of
theso frauds, and instead of exposing
Williams and having him punished
had compelled him to refund the
money, and then surrendered to bim
the forged papers that would have
convicted him. One of these three
forged powers ol attomoy was drawn
in favor ot interest Teller Jonos, who,
in paying tho many sums collected by
Williams, drew the check, in violation
of regulations, in lavor of Williams,
instead ol in tavorot the claimant, and
gave Williams other privileges. Treas
urer Wyman know of Williams' fraud
before Mooro found the package ad
dressed to Mrs. Jones; but whilo ho
urgod the investigation of the extor
tion by outsiders, ho let -Mooro Know
nothing ot these forgeries, though
Moore informed him of tho finding of
tbe Jones package Williams was in
troduced to Jones and vouched for
while under indictmont by the Ap
pointment Clork of tho Treasury, J.
W. Potter, and by D. Bakor, Chief of
the Loan Division ot tho Secretary's
Office. Daring the Glover investiga
tion Baker resigned. Some of theso
fraudulent payments were made to
Williams through aliduleton ot uo.,
bankers, of Washington. The bead,
S. E. Middlelon, was one of Treasurer
Wyman's bondsmen, formerly Cashier
of tho Treasurer's office, and in at
least ono case whore Wyman returned
the forged papers to Williams, Middle
ton A Co. at last accounts still held
the money, no effort boing made by the
Treasury officials to compel its return,
and Wyman is still a defaulter to that
extent. Tha startling tacts were dis
covered by the Committee that Wy
man a accounts had been passed and
settled as correct, this defalcation not
being known to the persons wbo set-
tlod hie accounts, except to his bonds
man Middleton, who said naught of it ;
that tbe Treasury records do not show
the traudulont payments ; that the sole
means of dotoction is lor tbe ownor to
claim the money, and that the entry
of the fraudulent transaction and the
forged signature to the receipt tor the
money were scratched on me Treas
urer's office records. This unclaimed
interest bas at times boen several mill
ions in amount. When not oalled tor
altor a long timo, it should revert to
the Government, but the Treasury has
taken no steps of this kind
WHAT ASSISTANT SECRETARY CONANT
KNEW
It turns out that Charles F. Conant,
Assistant Secretary of the Troasury,
was intimate with tbo lorger and
swindler Williams, and that J. W
Porter, Appointment . Clork of the
Treasury, and I). Baker, Chiet ot the
tho Loan Division of the Secretary's
office, who introduced Williams, and
vouched for him while undor indict
ment, to Intorest Tollor Jonos, know
all about the unclaimed interest busi
ness, Baker having been designated
by the Secretary to aid and protect
owners in collecting their money, and
Porter having had charge of the re
cords of the fund in tht First Audi
tor's office.
In 1874 John P. Bigolow, then Chiof
ol tbe Loan Division, ttocroiary s
Office, nnder Seoretary Richardson,
obtained a copy ot tht record ot un
claimed intoroM, much ol which was
due to parlies abroad. Soon alter, he
was made London agont of tba Gov
ernment in syndicatooperations. When
ho wont abroad the list of claimants
disappeared. He staid abroad till 1877,
and when Williams was in danger, re
turned to defend bim. James II.
Robinson, Assistant Solicitor of tht
Treasury, declined to aid Moore's in.
vestigation, saying, "They don't want
it continued up stairs," referring to tbe
oecrotary s Ulllco ; and ho co-operated
with Appointmont Clerk fortor in an
effort to broak down Moore's Investi-
fation by abolishing tbe force ol
nspectors of Customs, to which
Mooru's assistant in the matter who
had first traced the Jones package
belonged. Robinson suddenly manu
factured an opinion that there was no
law lor the existonce oi this lorce,
which bas existed over fifty years.
When Moore informed Assistant Soo
rotary Conant of Williams' frauds,
Conaut, to Moore's astonishment, ad
vised him to drop the inquiry, and he
threw such difficulties in its way that
Moore felt forced to suspend it tbe
whole timo that Conant was Acting
Secretary of tho Treasury. When
Shorman became Secretary, Moore re
ported tho facts to him, and Shorman
referred tho mattor to Goorgo F. Tal
bot, Solicitor of tho Treasury, instruct
ing him to complete tbe inquiry in ac
cordance with Moore's suggestions.
Moore and Treasurer. Gilfillan, who
bad oo-operatod, conferred with Talbot
and enabled him to obtain evidence to
establish the tacts. They cautioned
him against Conant, Bigclow, Baker,
Robinson and others ; but within forty-
eight hours thoy wuro shut out trom
the investigation, and those vory men,
including Williams, were in constant
communication with Talbot. The sua
suspected parties bad possession of and
passed round tho testimony and re
ports against Williams, and somo ot
them called Treasurer Gilfillan to ac
count for telling what he knew. Gil
fillan went to .Now York to aid District
Attomoy Woodford to arrest and
prosecute Williams there. Williams
was warned ot this, and passed tnl-
fillan between Now York and Wash
ington, appearing- before Talbot and
saying he was informed Talbot wanted
him. While Inlbllan was arranging
Williams' arrest with Woodford, tho
latter received a telegram trom Talbot,
directing him to act in concert with
Bigelow, Williams' friend, and him
self under suspocion, and to try to have
Williams give up tbo list ot owners ol
unclaimed intorest to Bigelow I Boforo
the Glover Committoe Talbot swore
that he never sent such a telegram,
but the Committee obtained a copy ol
it, with his signature I This dispatch
stopped Gilfillan. Talbot allowed Will
iams to be examined without arrest
by a United States Commissioner of
Williams' choosing. Neither Moore,
Gilfillan nor any othor person who
knew tbe lacts, was notified of this
"examination," or allowed to testify ;
only witnesses triendly to bim wore
examined, and be was discharged.
When Middleton & Co. wore asked to
refund the sums wrongfully paid to
them on Williams' fraudulent account,
tho letter addressed to them at Wash
ton was answered by Williams from
London. Talbot mado a whitewash
ing roport to Secretary Shorman, de
voted mainly to exculpating Conant,
against whom no charges had been
laid boforo him; but Sherman deemed
it policy for Conant to retire ; be was
sent to London to keep Bigolow com
pany, and tho foreign loan operations
of the Government havt since boen
conducted by men who successfully
did their best to shield a confessed
forger and swindler, who with tho kid
of Treasury confederates stole the
money that belonged to widows, luna
tics, orphans and foreigners. The
forged signatures were unlike the true
one, and Williams conlcderale, Intor
est Teller Jonos, made no comparison
or tost of thoir reality, violating thus
tho rules of the office. All thoseolllcials
but one, Baker, are still in office, and
Porter has boon made Financial Clerk
of the Coast Survey, whilo Wyman
and his bondsmen have been freed
from responsibility. The sole punish
mont meted out was that to Supervis
ing Special Agent Mooro, tho ono man
who persistently tried to expose the
wrong, and who was reduced to a sub
ordinate post.
RUINOUS CUSTOMS TRANSACTIONS.
When tho Grand Trunk Railway
was oponed the exports trom Canada
passed ovor it through Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine to Portland,
where tboy wero shipped abroad. This
tratlo soon grow so large tbnt whole
lines of oceans steamers wero built lor
it, and 100 largo bonded warehouses
woro sot tip at Portland to accommo
date it. Undor the Troasury regula
tions the commodities were loaded on
cars in Canada, the cars boing then
sealed by tbe United States Consul at
tha starling point, and run through
without opening or delay to tho port
of shipment in the States. Thus they
passed free of all annoyance by Cus
tom House oflioials, not being subject
to duty, as tbey merely passed through
the country, lho Joint High Uom-
mission, which framed tht Alabama
Treaty, agreed (Article i'j ol Treaty )
that this should go on. Marco ju,
1875, tba Secretary ot the Treasury
issued sn order confirming and regu
lating tho practice. Within a month
after be published regulationa practi
cally abolishing it. Ho required that
all goods coming from Canada should
be entered, opened, Inspected and put
undor bonds lor ibeir shipment abroad,
at tho first port of entry tbey reached
alter crossing the border. Un the
Grand Trunk Railway this was tbe
small town of Island Pond, Vt, where)
the facilities tor making tht entries
wore bo inadequate that the order
could not possibly be carried out Tbe
penal bonds required, amounting to
millions of dollars at a time, all had
lo be exocuted by two parsons who
were worth but a lew thousand dollars,
which made tht bonda worthless and
showed that tbe stoppage at Island
Pond gavt no security against smug
gling. Tho first effect of tht order
was to tnlarga the compensation of
tht iOllectnr or Customs at Island
Pond to $40,000 or $50,000 a year,
three or four timet that of tho Collec
tor of New York ; but the second re
sult was to destroy tho in transitu
trade, to drive It out of tht States
back down the St. Lawrence River,
to ruin theowaers of a hundred bonded
warehouses at Portland, to broak np
the steamship lints Irom that port.
and lo inflict heavy Iota on tbe owners
ot tha Grand Trunk Railway. Tt
this nntmo-anaa niera of tvrannr
dot much of tht bard timet that havt
lately prevailed in Northern New En
gland. It it said that this axploit waa
ensinoertd by J id ue Poland, in ex
chango lor hit support of Becretary
Brislow at the Cincinnati Nominating
Convention, where Poland violated bis
constituents' instructions by inch snp
port. Senators Edmunds, however,
wrote a loiter to tht Glover Committee
claiming lor himself tht credit of ar
ranging tht Island Pond achievement,
and stated in the Committee room that
he.did it to benefit the Collector, who
was in some way related to bun.
DISMISSALS TO DOVER UP FRAUD.
Jaspor W. Johnson of Oregon, Sec
retary ot the iiiDorai Hepublioan .Na
tional Committee, was appointed in
1876 an Inspector of Customs and
and kopt on tba pay rolls several
months, receiving several hundred
dollars, without rendering any service
to the tiovernmenL Ue was eent by
Assistant Secretary Conant to Biutord
Wilson, at Cincinnati, to help capture
too convention lor liristow.
A system of thoft, which had gone
on for years, was dotectod at Norfolk
in 1877 by Maj. Mooro, special agent.
Instead of turning into the Treasury
dutios collected from morchantt on
goods, the Colloctor of Customs and
other officials stolo the money and
omitted to enter it on the books. While
Moore was engaged in exposing these
frauds he was suddenly dismissed from
the servico, and tho mattor was put
into the bands of Ayor and Chamber
lain, tht special agents whose noglect
to examine the books had made these
frauds easy.
A habit of smuggling wines, etc., by
the officers ot naval vessels returning
to thiscountry has long existed.
Iu 1876, while the Sixth Auditor
was confined to his bed by illness, a
wholosnte removal was mado of the
moro experienced clerks, and raw
hands were substituted. The Appoint
ment Clerk of tbe Treasury explained
it by saying tha Secretary had prom
ised appointments for political pur
poses, and must baro vacancies to fill.
lj. K. bannon of the supervising
Architect's Office was detected in
criminal dealings with contractors,
whoso accounts btexaminod and pass
ed on. Ho admitted his guilt, but waa
noither punished nor dismissed. After
some time he resigned and was given
two months leave ot ahsenco with
pay. He has sine been allowed to
practice before tha Architect's office
whore be committed these wrongs, as
claim agent and representative of con
tractors. THE HOT SPRINGS APPROPRIATION.
When the page of the Sundry Civil
Appropriation, bill containing Hot
Springs appropriation disappeared
from the bill last yoar, Chief James J.
Brooks of tbe Secret Service employed
1 nomas A. unit to obtain proof that
tbo missing sheet was stolen by Sena
tor Conover ot f lorida, out of spite to
ox-Gov. Stearns, one of the Hot Springs
commissioners, whose pay depended
on the appropriation. Assistant Chief
mon is. ttenson soon took direction
of the inquiry, and a purpose was re
vealed to make np a case against Con
ovor that would aither force bim to
seat D, T. Corbio in place of Senator
Butler of South Carolina, or remove
ira from tbe Senate by prosecution
and conviotion in time to prevent his
voting. Britt picked up in a drinking
saloon two lellows, named William G.
Coleman aad T. U. 3. Bovd, to whom
be proposed they make amdaviti im
plicating Conover. They hesitated,
whereon Benson gave Unit a note to
be shown to thorn, promising reward.
To thia note he attached tlie initials
of his superior officer, Hon. Kenneth
Kayner, solicitor ot the Treasury,
without Mr. Rayner's knowledge or
authority. The note is as follows
I uederataad yoa le any that a reliable gentle
aa baa aomo knowledge ef Ike traoaaettoa be
tweea oortatn parttea oa too laat nignt of Congroae,
tendina la abeor thai eerlaia part lea la oeme
myaterione manner bad aoae knowledge, or were
la aomo way oogniaaal of the loaa of eerlain
luma la Ike Soadrr Ct.il kill whloh had been
agteod to by tbe Committee of OoBlerenee of
both houaeo. It la a feet and truth that auoh
lagialalioa haa disappeared, and lla Use eennot
be aooounted for. It oartainlj waa not aegligeooo
thai eaueed tbe teee, bet II la bettered to be tbo
work of designing partlM. To defeat aad bring
to the front the e-oiltr partial la aa obieot greatly
to be 4m i red aad prered to fa tea the geUI of
iota great outrage up.a ine publio greatly to oe
dealred, aod tba parson or persons wbo would lid
tho elorta ef Oengreie aad the Government
would bo rewarded ia proporlloa to tbo result
prnduoed, aad Be weald bo ontillea lo tno eom.
mendatioa of all good eitiaaai. K. R.
To Wm. O. Berrotl, Washington, D. C, July
It, 1871.
Ploaee let the geoUemaa (your Informant) re.
duoe bit atatemeot to writing, and bring It lo ma,
aad 1 will tbea arrange for a mooting with him.
a. n.
"William G. Borrett" was the alias
of Britt in obtaining witnesses. When
they saw tbia nott tht reluctant wit
nesses contented to make tht desired
affidavits, which they took to Bonson,
who caused them to be altered so as to
mako the affiants say that tbey made
thoso affidavits "without any Induce
mont or promise ot reward." Benson
in conversation told Coleman that he
wanted him to twoar to, and that ho
and Britt "would be taken care of."
Bonson took no steps to inform himself
ot tbe method ot enrolling bills, sn as
to test the probability of tbe truth ot
Coleman, Holt and Boyd s statements
(Walter Holt had boen takon to Alex
andria by Britt and tbore indtrred to
make a like affidavit.) Bonson, colore
the Glover Committee, admitted that
be did not know whether tbottolen pro
viso originated in the Senate or House,
or to which House the manuscript
bill was sent Irom tbo Conlurenoe com
mittee. He took no steps to loarn the
character ot Britt or of the witnossos
used by him. Tbt affidavits them
selves were found by tbt Committee
to afford convincing proof of the utter
improbability ol their statements.
Britt told Sherman Conant, United
State Marshal of tbt Northern Dis
trict ol Florida, that he had a Sum
mer's job, and that was all bt wanted
Benson tried to iuduct a clerk in tbe
Treasury to get Senator Conover
drunk and obtain a confession trom
bim. Solicitor Rayner testified that
both ho and Chief Bracks said Benson
bad no cast attainst Conovtr,
Chief Brooks, becoming disgusted
ith Britt, dismissed him; but i
Brooks' absenct Benson, aa Actin
Chief, rt-tmpioytd bim lo get teali
motw iD another case. Benson publicly
deaouooed Solictor Hay nor lor refut
ing to send tbose worthiest charges to
the tj rand jury, ano earned mis so lar
that Judge Raynor foil obliged to
suspend personal intercourse with him
snd to ask oocraiary onermsn to dis
trust htm.
(ATXCa't ASOBTIVE EFFORT AT BON
EST ADMINISTRATION OF THE SECRET
SERVICE.
Solicitor Rayner being retolvtd to
exercise bis power as the bead Ol tbt
Secret Service, and to make honest
ratings in Treasury law natters, tht
Treasury Ring wen anxloua to gat
rid Ol nun. adv oaerva ocjrvtoe wanv
tsA Aaaiatant clnlfeitor Robinaoa in Haw.
ncr't place, and laid a plot to work the
latter t removal. Benson employed
Britt to tfO to ex-Govtrnnr utbbs,
reDTOtented tbt surety of Edward B.
Taylor, a deceased Indian agent, and
try to get kin to indaot Kayner lo
writs a letter to tbt District Attorney
ot Nebraska, demanding tbe accept
accept
anca of a compromise or a claim
$11,000 lor $185.50. Britt offered
tbia letter waa written to takt H to
tha District Attorney Bt Omaha hira-
stlL Dad it beta written. Bowtvtr,
was to bt thowa to Secretary Shor
man to secure Rayner t removal.
THE SECRET SERVICE At A VEHICLE FOES
" kLACKfcAIUNO PURPOSES.
The roport states that tht Secret
Service appear to havt baon used
largely for blackmailing purposes and
persecution of private individuals, and
that men art employed In it without
any tost of qualification, provided they
havt what aeemt to bo information
against persons; and that porsons of
character and reputation who havt
felt tht force of Its methods have aa a
rule declined to put their grievance
boforo the Committoe, preferring rather
to suffer in silenco than to encounter
the plots they fult sure would follow
their complaints. Solicitor Rayner
testified : "Within eight months I
know of tight or ten private jrentle.
men, who hays violated bo law, whose
names have been entered there, and
they have boon reported on in tbe
most terriblo way." Wild, tht Secret
Service agent at Now Orleans, was
dismissed front tbt Department of Jus-,
tice for taking money from claimants
in a cast bt officially examined. Tbt
contract made by bim with claimants,
and tht check paid lo him, art in the
Department of Justice records. Yot
he is now engaged to "protect'-' the
Government and tbe publio against
counterfeiters and swindlers in several
States. Tbo roport recommend tho
abolition or thorough reconstruction of
the Secret Servico. '
WHOLESALE ROBBERY IN THE SOUTH
THE GREAT COTTON SEIZURES.
In 18C2 Congress provided lor Troas
ury special agonta to collecting cap
tured and abandoned proporty at tht
South, and for turning into tha Treas
ury tbe proceeds ot sucb property, to
be returned to the owners on proof bo
foro tbt Court of Claims of ownership
and freedom from complicity with tho
Robollion. Ynder this act 175,000
bales of cotton were collected and sold,
the proceeds being, as nearly as could
bo ascertained, $26,500,000. Of this.
$9,310,787 were eaten up in "ex
penses," leaving over $27,000,000. Ot
this, $9,545,000 havt boon returned to
owners under judgments of tbt Court
ot Claims, $1,623,000 by the Secretary
ot tbe Treasury, $292,000 undor spe
cial acts of Congress, and $188,000 un
dor the act ol May is, 1HYZ in all,
$11,648,000. This should leave on hand
over $15,600,000, but tbt report of tbe
Secretary of theTroasury shows but
about $9,000,000 on band. What bas
become of the other aia and a half
millions the Committee could not
loarn.
This groat raid and seizure of 175,-
000 balos of cotton, however, was not
tho whole spoliation. Contrary to law,
thousands and thousands of bales were
soized by Quartermasters and other
Army officers and sold, tbe proceeds
novor reaching tho Treasury, in one
year May, 1863, to Mav, 18C4 the
Chief Quartermaster at Now Orleans,
Col. S. B. Holabird, received 12,779
bales, worth at least $2,500,000, yet ht
only acknowledged $834,000 net pro
ceeds, and states that this turn waa
spent for Army purposes by order of
Goneral Banks.
Also, contrary to law, Admiral For-
ter, while patrolling tht Mississippi
and its tributaries, seized large amounts .
of cotton on land and shipped it to
Cairo as maritime prize of war, The
upreme Court bas decided that tbis
cotton was unlawfully taken by Por
ter, yet the Treasury refuses to return
the monoy to the owners.
wneu tha Committee on tbo Treas
ury called in 1876 for the production
of the original rocorda of cotton seiz
ures, a Cabinet meeting waa held and
.Executive order was issued by
rant forbidding tht production of
original books and papers before Com
mittees of Congress.
Tht law placing cotton matters in
tba Customs division of tho offlot of
tbt Treasury has been disregarded
and a special Bureau formed without
authority of law with a chief and as
sistant and clerks, and with salaries
from $1,200 to $3,000 a year. T he
duly of Martin Luther Noerr, Chief, it
to lurnish tbt Court ot Claims true
copies of all records in that Bureau
lortaining to particular iota oi cotton.
udge JNott ol that court staled irom
the bench that Noerr had furnished
four different reports of captures of
cotton at Atlanta ; the first report ad
mitting tba capture of but twenty
bales, but tbe lost admitting 467 1 Ht
declared that tho Cotton Bureau's
statements as made up by Noerr were
holly unreliable, and statod that the
aw requiring keeping of "books of ao-
count showing trom whom tbt cotton
waa received, tbe cost ot transporta
tion and proceeds of sale," had been
flairitiousfv and scandalously evaded
and defied by officers intrusted with
ts execution. IN oerr reported to tht
Court that tbora wort in tha Treasury
the records of about 640 bales from
Vicksburg, not over $130,000. Mr.
Eveleth, Commissioner appointed by
tbe Court to examine tbe cotton rec
ords, found that over 5,000 bales had
been seitod at Vicksburg, and that tbe
proceeds had gone into the Treasury,
$925,000. Chiof Justice Casey, of tha
Court of Claims, swore that Noerr
showed no disposition to correct bit
statement, and that bt had tried in
vain to got Noerr to explain this groat
discrepancy. Tbe Chief Justice also
testified that it was "impossible for
claimants or their friends to got any
nlormation or satislaction at all in
refcrenoo to thoir claims from tbit di
vision, excopt through calls by tha
Court ot Claims, tho answors to which
both the Bar and the Court regarded
at wholly unreliable In my judgment
they fMoorr a reports) wero in many
casus intended and designed to misload
and to prevent parties from getting
justice."
RE-EMPLOYINO TREASURY DEFAULTER.
William Kcssondcn, assistant to
Noorr, waa dismissed from tht Army
in 1864 as a defaulting additional Pay
master, for embezxhng 20,000. Ht
lent the publio monoy to Salmon B.
Colby, a contractor, and William
Coombs, a clerk in tbt interior Depart
ment, for use in speculating In lumber,
Feaaenden to receive lor tbe as of lb
money 10 per cent, of tho actual tale.
Tht money was loat by Fessenden't
treachery, Colby claima, and Colby
waa bankrupted. Witbin ayear after
ward ht was made clerk in the Cotton
Bureau, whera bt haa ainct received
on an averago $2,000 a year salary and
large coma tor "extra services.!' -
From August 25, 1865, to May 5,
1873. tht Treasury paid to attorneys, .
agents and informer nor than $1,-
000,000 lrom tbt money which belong,
ed to tht owners of cotton. One
Charles Karnes and varioaa partner
were paid witbin ten months of 1866
and 1867 $420,000 by order of Becre
tary MeCulloch, $158,000 being shared
by Karnes with John A. iiogaa, men
Representative and now Senator from
Illinois. In about eighteen months ot
those years MoCnlloch caused to ba
paid to 8. H. Kauffman, First Chiof of
the Cotton Bureau, asz.uvu; ana
KanfTman soon tamed an a trartner
with Bos Shepherd and titorgt W.
Adams, correspondent of tht Ntw
lork K'orttf, in ownership ana manage
ment of tha Waahtngtoa iSfar, wbioh
has been conspicuous lo defending tht
District of Columbia Ring belying tht
Glovtr Investigations. Robert S. Halt
of Ntw York was m ployed tt special
tounsel or tbt Treasury Department
by MoCnlrneb and Bootwell, and was
paid $24,36$ for servicas randtred ia
tht oourta ot two yean. James 8.
Frailer ot Indiana waa employed by
Secretariat Riohardsoa and Brittfrw to
j lid in eMting iton tMess nnder tht
sarvtco n tbt one rwt or two years
115,513. Besidt thai, approrrrialiona
amounting to $166,000 bava bean pro
ofed by that Department in defend-
Concluded oa fourf A fa ft.