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TUESDAY EVENING, APEIL 13, 1880.
THE POSTAL SERVICE.
FRAUDS IK THE STAR MAIL SY STEM.
An Exposure of Hew the Old Thins "Works
"Straw-Bidding" and Accessary
Swindling Operations.
THE SECOND ASSISTANT P. 31. G.
Hew IIe Grews Immensely Itich en Sucli a
.Moderate Salary Keview of the Ca
reers of our Second; A ssisiant Post
master's General Various Mat
ters of Interest Connected
with the Department.
A lilt of ltecent History.
Special W
UEMXIl.
ishingten Correspondence Intelli-
The Star Mail Service.
The Star mail service is that part of the
mail transportation which is done with
horses, mules or ponies. Fer many years
there have been monstrous scandals con
nected with the administration of this
service.
In 1872 an investigation was etdcred by
the Heuse of Representatives upon repre
sentations made by one Jeseph (J. MuKib
ben. This investigation progressed te a
certain point and then came te a stand-still
because McKibben suddenly disappeared.
Evidence had, however, been obtained pre
vious te his disappearance showing cenclu
sively that there was a ring of contractors
who by means of straw bids and the con
nivance of posteilicc efhcials were able te
control all the great Star routes in the
Western territories. This ring was com
posed of Harlow, Sanderson & Ce., and
Sawyer and Company.
Straw bids were bids put in at the regu
lar lettings by dummies of the ring con
tractors. The law requires the contracts
te be given te the lowest bidders. The
ring contractors selected their routes which
they desired te retain or obtain and put in
bona iide bide at figures which would pay
large profits. Te prevent competition
they would have their agents put in bids
at lower ligures sometimes a dozen bids
en one route taking care that one of
them would be lower than that of any
of their rivals. The contract would be
made with the lowest bidder and he would
fail. Then the law requires the depart
ment te go up the list of bidders and eiler
the contract te each next highest bidder.
The ring dummies would of course refuse
the eiler, unless it happened that there
was a bona iide bidder next above who
would take it and who could net be bought
off. In that case the dummy accepted and
performed service until arrangements were
made with the rival bidders. As seen as
this was done the dummy would fail and
then the offers would be made and declined
till the ring contractor was reached whose
bid was high enough te enable him te
make a big profit.
This system was thoroughly exposed by the
investigation eflS72, but the corrupt prac
tices of the contractors and their coadju
tors in the department was net unceveied
because McKibben get out of the way.
The result was, however, legislation which
made straw bidding mere diliieult. The
department as authorized te eiler the
contract te outside peisensat any stage of
the "going up the list of bids" at a lower
price than the next highest bid. Penalties
were also prescribed for straw bidding and
failing contractors.
It was apparent, however, that the same
ring of contractors were- as strong if net
stronger than befere.Thcy net only retained
all their old contracts, but at the next quad
rennial letting for the Western territories
they carried off all the profitable routes.
Anether investigation followed by the
committee en postelficcs and postreads
of the Heuse of Representatives which re
sulted in a further exposure of ring meth
ods but developed no proof of collusion
between the contractors and the eflicials of
the department, or of combination between
the contractors. ' There were plenty of sur
face indications and sullicicnt circumstan
tial evidence te morally convince any honest
man. The Republicans were however still
in the majority and were anxious te prevent
the exposure of any wrong-doing en the
part of the administration.
Cresswell was then postmaster-general
and the power of the department was then
as new very great with members of Con
gress. Almest every congressman has
constantly te ask favors of the posteflice
department. The mail service comes closer
te the people than any ether part of the
governmental system. The power of the
department is well-nigh absolute. Routes
can be discontinued al the discretion of the
postmaster general, and the trips and
speed can be regulated at his sweet will.
The whole system is intricate and involved
and few members of Congress except these
who make it a special study understand
the modus operandi of the manipulation
and regulation of the Star service. Hence
it was quite easy for the Rcpulican major
ity of the committee en postelficcs and
postreads te shape the inquiry te favor
the department and te carry any of their
recommendations through the Heuse.
Thus things drifted till the Democrats
obtained control of the Heuse of Repre
sentatives, and in 1875 an investigation te
find out was begun by the posteilicc com
mittee, of which Jehn B. Clark, of Mis
souri, was chairman, in the course of
that inquiry it was discovered that 31c
Kibbcu and his colleagues were paid about
$00,000 cash by the ring contractors, Bar Bar
eow, Sanderson & Ce. and Sawyer & Com
pany, and retained as their attorney at a
salary of $10,000 a year the consideration
en his part being te get out of the way
and quit furnisliing information te the
Democratic members of the posteflice com
mittee in 1872.
It was also discovered that Barlew,
Sanderson & Ce., and Sawyer & Ce., had
paid posteilicc eflicials large sums of
money, but the true inwardness of their
corruption was net found out because the
most important man had lied the country
and could net be examined.
In this connection we will state that
there has net been a second assistant post
master general since the close of Andrew
Jehnsen's administration who has net
grown enormously rich. Giles A. Smith
was the first te held this important office,
which has supervision of the Star service
under Grant. He as well as his brother,
Morgan S. Smith, made in a few years
independent fortunes without being en
gaged in any outside business. Jehn L.
Routt, who succeeded Smith, is new one
of the capitalists or mining kings of Colo Cole
rado. Themas J. Brady, the present iu
cumbent, beasts a fortune of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. All of these men
went into ellice peer and grew rich while
there. The salary of the second assistant
postmaster general is $4,000 a year.
The appropriation for the Star service
mail transportation for the present fiscal
year was $3,900,000. It was every dollar
the department asked for. The lettings
which occurred during the past and
present fiscal year for the Star service in
states east of the Mississippi river were at
largely reduced rates. The department
beasts that the lettings for the northwest
states show a reduction en the total
cost for the previous four years of one-third.
The postmaster general and the second
assistant postmaster-general in their
annual reports te Congress in December
last made no allusion whatever te a possi
ble deficiency for the Star service. Twe
wccks later tney askea ter an apprepria
tien et ,uuu,U0U te enable them te carry
the mails en Star routes for the remainder
of the fiscal year. The Heuse of Repre
sentatives directed the committee en appro
priations te inquire into the subject and
report thereon. The investigation was be
gun by a sub-committee. Brady was ex
amined and said that the appropriation of
$5,1)00,000 would be exhausted en the 10th
of March, 1880. He asserted that he had
the right te expend the money appropri
ated for one year's expenditures in thirty
days if he saw fit. He claimed that the
statute which provides that expenditures
in excess of appropriations shall net be
made and forbidding contracts incurring
obligations in excess of appropriations
did net apply te him. He could evade
them by stepping the mails whenever the
money was gene. Te de this he admitted
he must pay contractors one mouth's pay
upon rescinding their contracts. Every
Republican lawyer in the Heuse and Sen
ate has since said that this is a culpable
violation of the spirit as well as the letter
of the laws.
The manner in which this vast sum of
money. $3,000,000, was expended in less
than five months was as fellows : Con
tracts were obtained by sub-contractors at
low prices. Fer instance from Vinite,
Indian territory, te Las Vegas, New
Mexico, 723 miles, once a week $0,300 a
year. lu-em Bismark, Dakota, te Fert
Keough, Mentana, 230 miles, once
a week for $2,e50 a year. The pay
of the first was by various processes run
up te $150,520 a year ; in the second te
70,000 a year. The trip, that is service,
was increased from once a week te daily,
and the speed was raised. The pay for
trips must be pre rata ; that is, if if one
trip cost $0,300 a year, two trips cannot
cost most mere than twice that amount,
or $12,000 a year. But speed is paid for
according te the sworn statement of the
contractor as te the number of animals and
men he has employed. The steal comes in
en speed. It is unnecessary te begin with.
If a community is receiving mails every
day in the week it cannot complain. It
docs net make a fig's difference
whether that mail is received in the
morning or the evening. But in almost
every instance where the department is
paying large sums of money for increas
ed speed, the difference in time is but a
few hours, se that where mails were deliv
ered before in the morning, say at eleven
o'clock, they are new delivered at eight or
nine o'clock.
This system of raising mail pay succeeded
the old method of straw bids. New straw
bidding is difficult, and would be impossi
ble under an honest administration of the
posteilicc department. The mode of pro
cedure new is for the favored ring con
tractors te get the routes at any price and
then get additional trips and the speed in
creased. The department te make this
prolitaelc, advertises for service once or
twice a week at a speed of one or two miles
an hour. Frequently, also, the routes are
advertised shorter than they actually are,
se that when the contractor gets his trips
increased, and his speed up, he asks the
department te send out distance cir
culars, and en the reports of post
masters along his route he gets pay
for increased distance. The steal, we re
peat, comes in en the pay for speed, or-ex-peditien
as it is technically termed. A
contract is accepted, say te carry the mails
once a week 200 miles at the rate of one and
a hall miles an hour, lie gets live trips
added, making the service daily. He has
put en all the stock necessary te ruu a
daily line. His horses wll walk and draw
a lead three miles an hour, and make 30
miles a day without imshing them. He
gets the speed put up te four miles an hour
and lie has only te make his horses walk a
little faster te shorten the drives, say te 23
miles a day. He does net require but very
little additional stock. His teams were
before placed 30 miles apart and new they
are stationed 23 miles from each ether
that is, he would originally have six stations
en a 200 mile route, and new he would
have eight or four mere teams. Yet for
this increase of speed which required se
little outlay en the contractor's part, the
government pays, as en the Vinite-Las
Vegas route, mere than twelve times the
original contract price. Then again, fraud
is frequently practised in this process. Fer
instance, the law says the contractor shall
net receive mere than pre rata for trips
added. But frequently two trips arc
added and then the speed is increased anil
then again trips are added. Xew the
proper construction of the law would re
quire the trips always te be calculated for
en the original price, but in frequent cases
the trips added after the speed has been
increased arc paid for pre rata with the cost
of trips as expediatcs.
While the Heuse committee was pursu
ing its investigation, and afcer develop
ing the facts heretofore alluded te, the
postmaster-general issued an order drawn
by his second assistant, Brady, reducing
all the Star service in the United States te
once a week. This was undoubtedly dene
te coerce Congress into voting the $12,000,
000 demanded. Tiie mails in every mem
ber's district would be cut off and his con
stituents would begin te howl. The pres
sure, the contractors and Brady thought,
would be tee strong for Congress te resist.
Then the Heuse committce reported and
passed a bill which appropriated $970,000
or enough money te carry the mails en
every Star reute in the country just as fre
quently as the department said was nec
essary ; but the speed en 107 routes in the
Western territories was reduced te the
miles per hour which the contractors orig
inally agreed te convey the mails at and
which the department in letting the con
tracts said was as fast as the requirements
of the localities supplied demanded.
This was just because, as was demon
strated by the leading Democrats and Re
publicans of the Heuse in the debate en
the bill, the government was simply giving
the money for speed as favors te the con
tractors. The route from Fert Wayne,
Texas, te Fert Yuma, Arizona, is a fair
illustration of the way money s squan
dered for the benefit of the mail contract
ors. This reute was let from July 1, 1878,
te July 1, 1882, for doing service at $134,
000 per annum. The rate of speed per
hour was 3 miles. Iu less
than six weeks the contractor, by
order of the department, was te have
$103,000 a year for increasing the speed less
than a mile per hour. These contracts
run for four years, and therefore the con
tractor en this route will receive, if the
wrong is net righted, $000,000 for simply
driving his horses at a fast instead of a
slew walk. But this is net all, the rail
roads at both ends of the route are being
pushed rapidly towards each ether!
There is new a railroad running 300 miles
cast from Fert Yuma, and the route is
shortened this distance but the contrac
tor gets pay for the whole distance
while the railroad carries the mails en 300
miles of it. This enables him te drive
still slower en the rest of it se that to
day he net required te make 3 miles an
hour and yet he will get his $006,000 all
the same.
When this bill passed the Heuse, as it
did without a roll call, it went te the
Senate and was referred te the committee
en appropriations. Senater Wallace is
chairman of the sub committte of that
committee which has charge of the post pest post
oflice appropriation bills, and with him arc
Senators Beck, of Kentucky, and Beeth,
of California.
About this time the Heuse cemmittee
succeeded in getting a statement from the
sixth auditor as te the amount of money
required te carry the mails en Star routes
for the remainder of the fiscal year as
they were then being carried. His report
said $1,135,000. Brady had sworn that it
would require $2,000,000, or $845,000 mere
than the sixth auditor, who settles all the
accounts and shows te a dollar what is re
quired and states what was necessary.
This startling fact enabled Senater Beck
te carry the Heuse bill through the full
Senate committee en appropriations with
the amount appropriated the same. namely'
$970,000; but Senater Wallace voted with
the Republicans te strike out the prevision
cutting off speed. According te the sixth
auditor's report, $270 would carry the
mails with the speed as it was, se that
the Heuse had appropriated mere money
than was actually necessary. Then Sena Sena
eor Beck moved a prcamble te the bill
which declared that the moneyapprepriated
had been spent illegally and the postmas
ter general had violated the law.
Senater Wallace did net vote for this
preamble and Beck would net have carried
it iu committee if one of the Republican
members of the committee had net been
away. In this shape the bill was reported
te the Senate. It was net considered for
mere than a week. During this time a
formidable lobby headed by Jeseph C. Mc
Kibben, the same fellow who blackmailed
Barlew, Sanderson fc Ce.. and Sawyer &
Ce., out of $00,000 in 1872, was at work
trying te influence senators. A corrupt
clerk in the office of the secretary of the
Senate was employed te abuse the leading
Democrats of the Heuse through the col
umns of a blackmailing Sunday paper.
Se indecent and outrageous were these
attacks that the secretary of the Senate
promptly removed the clerk who made
them.
When the discussion en the bill came off
in the Senate, Senater Wallace champion
ed the side of the mail contractors. He
presented te the Senate their unverified
statements and insisted that the Heuse of
Representatives had done them great in
justice. He admitted there was geed rea
son for the Heuse investigating the con
duct of the department in making the ex
cessive allowances te these contractors
He maintained, however, that the contrac
tors must net be held responsible for the
action et the department, emitting te state
that the contractors furnished the sworn
statements en which the action of the de
partment was based. One argument which
he adroitly advanced was that if these
107 routes were cut down te the erijrinal
speed, before the close of the present iiscal
year the contractors would have te be
paid one month's pay, and this would cost
the government $207,113. This is en the
basis that the increased speed en these
107 routes costs per annum $3,205,320,
New let us take Mr. Wallace at his word.
He says it would be cheaper te pay these
contractors for the remainder of the fiscal
year that is for the twe'quartcrs yet te
be paid which is six mouth $1,502,078,
rather than give the one month's pay
which would be $207,113. Surely that is
a queer sort of arithmetic ! But this is net
all : these 107 contracts run an average of
two and a half years, se that the govern
ment will have te pay te these contractors
net only $1,002,078 for the two years, but
$0,410,712 for the two years that their con
tracts will run after the 30th of June, 1880.
But Senater Wallace insinuated that
these contracts could be rcduccjl after the
30th of June, 1880. Why then give
these contractors a bonus of $1,
335,503? Why net give them $237,
113 for a month's pay, and save
$1,335,505 for the remainder of this Iiscal
year and $0,410,712 for the two next suc
ceeding years? Or. in ether words, give
the contractors $207,113, a month's pay,
and save the government $7,740,277?
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cough, cold, sere throet, diphtheria, rheuma
tism, lame back, Ac. De veu knew anything
et it, it net it is time you did. Fer sale by JI.
15. Cochran, druggist, l.'i7 and 1UU North Queen
street, Lancaster.
Storm signals are new maintained by the
government along the ocean and lake coast te
give warning te our commerce of the ap
proaching storms. At the lirst signs of dan
ger from a cold or cough, use Dr. Themas'
Kclectric Oil, jt may save you serious trouble.
Its action is prompt and satisfactory. Fer sale
by II. B. Cectean, drnggi.it, 137 and KS'J Xertli
Queen street, Lancaster.
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a geed cup of Coffee or Tea Buy at
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3Xer Designs Fancy Chinese Business
Cards given witli each pound of Coffee if de
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L TOES at 12. 14 and lCc. Canned Cern at 1 1,
Hi and 18c per can. Table Peaches at 22 and 23c
ter .'1-pound cans. Canned Teas, Fine Apple
rears, &c, at
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ITUtKSIl AKKOX OAT MEAL, 4 I'OU.MIS
. for 55c. Turkey Prunes 10c per pound.
Geed Figs, 2 pounds for 2.1c, at
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NEW AND INCREASED FACILITIES.
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1 guarantee all my work and will make it te
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MKOICAZ.
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The only cure for Diabetes, Gnivcl. Drensy.
Uriglifs Disease, Vain in the Back, Inability te
Kctain or Kxpel the Urine, Catarrh of the Blad
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the Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Organs. It
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druggists or sent br mail en receipt of price,
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Ohie. AXDKG'V G. FliEY.
Distributing Agent for Lancaster County.
Agency, corner Xertli Queen and Orange
Streets, Lancaster l'a. aprlU-lyd
rpe T11K SUFFISKIXG UU3IAMTV
N. LEWIN, M. D.,
Xe. 247 WEST KING STREET,
Lancaster, Pa.
DK. I.EWIX, who has been a resident or Lan
caster but n tew months, is a graduate et the
University of Dorpat, Knssia, with a practic
ing experience et twelve years, in which period
he has been acting as Kcgimental Physician in
St. Petersburg, and attcrwards practiced in
Berlin. Germany, with great success.
We call the attention of the suffering public
te the fact that lie successfully treats
EPILEPSY,
RHEUMATISM;
NEURALGIA,
CATARRH,
and all chronic diseases. The severest cases et
Chronic Catarrh cured in a short time.
Keferences and testimonials from former
patients can be seen at my oilier.
Persons without means will only be asked
payment ter medicines. Communications from
a distance attended te by mail.
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TO TDK AFFLICTED
WHO HAVE LOST ALL COXFIDEXCK
PHYSICIANS AXD DUUGS. '
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Iteincinhcr. under the Omnipathic practice
of DK. UKKEXE, nearly all fonusefdiseaseare
cured. Over 400 of the inostdlnlcult(se-callcd)
incurable patients, from the best families In
Lancaster, under his charge.
ASTONISHING CUUES te tell you If you'll
call at our offices.
JOHN GOODMAN, who has tested the med
ical abilities of Lancaster's M. Ds. for i'.t years,
se cured in two weeks as te go te work. JACOB
PAINTEIt,4.!0 Locust street, a sufferer for 12
years, all the time doctoring, cured in two
weeks. Bev. JOHN IIUXTEB.iermerly pastor
et Church of Ged, of Lancaster, is here recog
nizing his friends with ids lelt eye with which
he has been blind for II! years. Several persons
cured of consumption : one lias gained 't
pounds in live weeks. WILSON HAMILTON,
30i East King street, consumptive for ten
years, has gained a pound a day for ten davs.
CHRISTIAN BOOTY brought here, Jan. 'at;,
in a carriage, and Feb. 28, walked here without
aid. One of the best known citizens, who was
unable, under the treatment et leading physi
cians, te raise his arm ler 10 years, was cured
in 11 days. B. S. KACFFMAN, of MlllersvIIIe.
led in blind Feb. 14, with both his eyes looking
like clots of bleed, could see the paintings en
his walls March A. Xe pills or poisons placed
in the stomach; all the remedies placed en the
outside of the body.
Catarrh Cured ferSOccnts. Consultation Iree.
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