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Treasviry Investigations.
For sonic tears juu-t it lias freely
lavn charged that extensive frauds
had Wen committed by Republican
officials of the United States Treasury
Department in the issue of govern
ment currency and bonds. It is well
known that the balances on the books
have often been forced l>v fictitious
entries in the accounts, hnd equally
certain that large discrepencies in the
financial statements of the department
have frequently been detected and
exposed. A satisfactory explanation
of these suspicious facts has never
!>oen given, unless the hocus-pocus of
changes in the system of keeping the
accounts can be accepted as such.
Upon this very matter Senator Beck,
of Kentucky, a few days ago, remark
ed, in ojH'ii Senate, that " if any gen
tleman of the Senate will go to the
books of that department, and hold
up any leaf of a public ledger to the
sun, if he does not find from one to
ten scratches and alterations made his
eyes will not lie as good as they ought
to be."
But at last, through the investiga
tions of Senator Davis ami Represen
tative Cilover, it is probable that some
light may be let in upon these unex
plained practices, and that the pub
lic may yet be informed of treasury se
crets that have long la-en guarded with
scrupulous care by those to whom ex
posure would be lasting disgrace. A
synopsis of the report of the commit
tee, of which Mr. Glover was chair
man, has just been published, and the
testimony taken during the investiga
tion obliges the committee to make
many serious charges against the man
agement of the department. The most
important one, remarks the Ilurris
hurg Patriot, is that greenbacks were
fradulently printed and issued during
the several presidential campaigns of
1808,' Im7'2 and 1870. After each of
these campaigns the announcement
came from the treasury that large
amounts of counterfeit legal tender
notes were afloat. In 1809 the whole
issue of legal tenders were withdrawn
and replaced, on the ground that they
had been largely and skilfully counter
feited. In 1871 the whole issue of 8 'ifki
greenbacks —alsiut $35,000,000 —was
withdrawn and replaced in the same
way. In 1877 a counterfeit $l,OOO
note was announced. One of the old
est engravers iu the country testifies
that when a note is so like the original
that it cannot easily be detected—a
these ami other "counterfeits" are said
by treasury officials to be—it cannot
really be a counterfeit, but must he
a genuine note surreptitiously printed
from geuuine plates, or from secret
reproductions of these plates. The
$5OO "counterfeit" greenliack of 1873
was inspected by experts and com
pared with a genuine note for the
Glover committee, and these expert
engravers swore beyond all doubt
that the note came from a genuine
plate or from a surreptitious repro
duction of one. The bureau work
man who transferred the plate from
the bed-piece agreed with this. Ac
cording to the report a brief insjiection
of the treasurer's book* revealed the
fact that $ 19,000,000 of notes were at
one time secretly afloat for several
months, the trcasury statements being
false during that time to that extent;
and the fact of that secret remained un
known till lighted u|>on by the Glover
' committee. Tlx; books were falsified
and a balance forced to conceal this
secret issue, by untruly stating that
' $19,000,000 bail been deposited as a
temporary loan, when no such deposit
took place. In nearly the whole of the
fiscal year of 180(5 the measurer's
books show that the amount of com
pound interest notes outstanding was
J from 85,000,000 to 8 11,000,000 more
! than the public debt statement showed.
| One month it was $27,000.0<M) less.
! Three different statements of the sum
outstanding June JO, 18t55, were pub
lished, difieriug liy millions, and none
of the three were true.
The Republican press, further says
the Put riot, have endeavored to make
light of Mr. (• lover'* etforts to 0:1-
■ earth the rascalities of the treasury
I management, knowing that the facts
concerning them have been ingeni
ously concealed. But sullicicnt bos
been di-covered by the patient and
iwrsistcnt inquiry of the much decried
investigator to reiptire something more
than n mere denial of the charges pre
ferred in this report. The fact has
been established quite clearly that the
greenbacks denounced from the treas
ury as counterfeits, were printed either
from the original plates or front plates
reproduccd from the originals. This
could not have been accomplished
without the privity of the officials in
charge ot the plates. It is of course
not to be expected that Jong Ils n
Republican administration guard- the
secrets of the treasury, the dark <l< ing
which Mr. < Hover has merely traced
will Ik- exjto-cd. For this very reason
the jtcoplc will demand a change of
rulers in IXBO.
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Maine and Conkling.
the ni-T"Ricr. reisoiiK rkvivkd rxoa
THE OCCASIuN.
W*lmm s i. t. I'-r. SI I/.iil. 1.l .l. Ih mt.rsi.
In discussing the Conk ling I.amir nf
fair, which now seems to have vanished
in words, it is evident from the conver
sation of Republican Senators that they
are not entirely in sympathy with Mr.
Gonkling. Several of them, recounting
some of the former controversies of a
similar character, in which the Senntoi
from New ork has been a conspicuous
and an aggressive party, recounted the
time of his parlimentary tilt with Maine
on April 30, 1 The subject under
discussion was the investigation of I'ro
vost Marshal General Fry for frauds
charged by Conkling in the I'rovost
Marshal's department of the Western
division of New York. Maine had
criticised Conkling'* volubility of speech,
and charged that Conkling was prose
cutor in the case, and produced a letter
from Assistant Secretary of War dana
to Con kling, and read the law againt
the latter acting in any such capacity.
This Conkling denied, and Maine wish
ing to interject a remark, Conkling said,
"I do not wish to have anything to do
with the member from Maine, not even
so much as to yield to him the floor. If
the member from Maine had the least
idea how profoundly indifferent I am to
bis opinion on this or any other subject
|>eraonal tome, I think be would hardly
take the trouble to rise here and express
his opinion." And, in a|>olngixing to
the Rouse for delaying the proceedings,
he charaetcri/.ed Maine's interruptions
us "ungentiemanly and impertinent."
Maine, awaiting his opportunity, took
the floor and said, "As to the gentle
man's cruel sarcasm, I hope ho will not
bo too severe. The contempt of that
large minded gentleman i so wilting,
his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent
-well," Ins majestic, super-eminent, over
flowering, turkey -gobbler's strut has
bean to crushing to myself and all the
members of this House, that I know it
was an act of great temerity for tno to
enter upon a controversy with him. I
know that within the last five weeks, as
members of the House will recollect,
an extra strut has characterised the
gentleman's hearing. It is not his fault; j
it is the fault of another. That gifted
and satirical writer, Theodore Tilion,
of the New York In.leptn'imt, spent
some weeks in this city. His letters,
; published in that paper, embraced, witli
many serious statements, a little jocose
satire, a part of which was the state
ment that the mantle of the late Win
ter Davis had fallen upon the mom Iter
from New York. The gentleman took
it seriously, and it has given his strut
additional .pomposity. The resem
blance is great. Hyperion to a Satyr;
Tbersites to Hercules; mud to marble ;
dunghill to diamond ; a singed cat to a
bengal tiger; a whining pupy to a roar
ing lion. Shades of the mighty Davis,
forgive the almost profanity of that
j'ooe satire.'' The member from New
York kept his seat in silence. Since
that day to this no word of a personal
nature has been exchanged between
those gentlemen. In debate, at a pub
lic meeting, at an evening entertain
ment, or at a dinner party, they meet
hut never speak. Their conduct, how
ever, tempered by the proprieties of
good soceity, lias been so directed that
their personal hostility would not he
recognised by persons not cognisant of
their relations.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Politics nt tho Capital.
UOKK nmcX'ltATir rONOUESSMKN r VIRUS
Til I: IK VI MVS —ri'HTlir.H OPINION* ox
TilE IKRUKHor Tlir. XXTKA SESSION.
WASHINGTON, I). July 5, 1879.
Pursuing hid in relitigation into tho
views of our law giver* a* to the present
j position mul prospects of part ion, your
correspondent i* able thin week to pre
i Rent the idous ami language of several
! more Congressmen. As will he seen, they
I <lo not all think alike, hut comment, if
any i* needed, will he left to the editor.
| The object of these letters i* to make
clear the political issue* of the day, hut
to do it hy faithfully reporting men
whose name* give their statement* some
authority.
Hon. Morgan It. Wise, fell into the
clutches of your correspondent, ami, ns
he represents the _I at I•: triet in (Jon
' gress, wits interrogated as follow* :
(J. What do you regard a* the general
result of the extra se.-*ion?
.1. The extra acs-ion, when it* pro
ceedisg* have la-en made known to tin
people, will he recognized a* having
settled one point, which is limt the lie
pu'-l.c.m pirty intends to continue
their power hy the uo of tlie military
at tin- polls as a poll, o force. Tins is
a ivtiowlctlged hy a lu.ive Republican
Senator, General Rurnside, who on tin
floor of the Semite said that lie was op
posed to t lie ue of the army as a pole o
force at the polls, hence he would vote
against it. Mr. Williame,of Witoonain,
ma colloquy with Mr. t iarfield in the
House of Representatives, Opposed the
hill herati-o the law a* it stood would
allow the President to use the iroo, *
at the polls to keep the peaee. This
acknowledgement hy leading members
of the Republican party of their purpose
i* conclusive. Inasmuch a* the pay
of ru->mhers goes on whether they re
main here or not ami as little or no ex
tra expense i* ensured hy tho il-iuse
remaining in session, the extra session
ha* been of vast service to mo public
mind in educating them in regard to
tho cour.e to he pursued l.y tin- two
great political parties m tho campaign
of I**ll.
V- I* there not inconsistency in the
Republican* insisting upon retaining
the power to place troops at the jaill-.
while the President declare* they never
intend to put them there 7
A. The inconsistency of the Ucpubli
can party is unmasked hy their action
in voting "no" on the appropriation
hills rather than surrender the right of
the President to keep the troops at the
poll* to keep the peace, and their 1 !ul
vote against the Springer Bill, which
expressly forbids the use of the artny
a* a police force, is an affirmation by act
that they intend their Jc facto Executive
to use the troops in the approaching
campaign of I>*o, in tho face of hi* a*
scrtion that " he never intended to use
tho troop* to keep the peace," ,ic.
Poe* not the fact that the minor
ity and their Uc fario Executive insist
upon retaining the deputy marshals,
with their arbitrary power of arresting
voters before they have cast their bal
lot*, indicate a determination to keep
control of the government by fraud and
force 7
A. The fact that the Republican* by
dilatory motion* and other means have
resisted the passage of any financial re
lief measure* at this extra session i
conclusive evidence to every fair-mind
ed man that they have no regard (or
the condition or welfare of the people.
They shut their eye* anil virtually say
they care nothing for the counties*
pages of sheriff's sales in the leading
cities of the North, nor for the innum
erablo tax sale* in the Southern States.
With an Executive in the chair who is
compelled by hi* advisors to veto every
thing hut pure money bills, their course
prove* that to use the marshals with
their power of arbitrary arrest of voter*
teforc they have ca*t their ballots, and
thus control their elections, i* the sole
object of tho Republican party in Con
gress, so that hy force and fraud and in
defiance of public opinion they will
have a victory in the approaching cam
paign.
(/. Would not the President have
vetoed the Silver Bill had it been pass
-1 ed at this session ?
A. I have no doubt that the Presl- !
dent would have vetoed the Warner
silver bill. If the threats and promises
of the lending member* of the Repub
lican party, in connection with the
bondholders are to he believed it i* cer
tain that he would have done so, a* they
were more hostile to It than to the
Bland silver bill of 1878, which he did
veto. The Warner hilt makes the re
monetixation of silver complete, hence
it ia of vital importance to the commer
cial interests of the people and i*
Against the money and bond ring which
has possession of the U. 8. treasury and
is running it to the destruction of the
best interests of those whom it should
relieve. I am assured that with the
course pursued hy the Republican parly
and their Executive there ia no relief
for the people at this session. There
fore the only mode of relief (or them U
to arise and by their united effort * and
votes hurl from power Republican mix
representatives who are OIIHTHL'MIXO the
much needed financial relief of tho
country.
Hon. P. K. Belt/.hoover, who repre
sents the Cumberland, York and Ad
am* district, wo* pumped, witii the fob
\ lowing result:
j V What is the meaning of the lie
I publican position in regard to Federal
I control of elections T
A. That is so plain u* to answer itself.
The Republican position assumes i tirsl,
Hint the Federal government hit* the
right to control elections in tho State
so far a* members of Congress, Senators
and Presidential electors are concerned ;
second, that the right to interfere being
conceded hy its opponents or *ettl-d l.y
legislation, uli the powers incident to
and necessary for it* enforcement fol
low ; third, that under the cover of the
right hi. I the measure* provided for it*
enforcement they run pay their thou
sand* of corrupt worker* l.y appointing
them as deputy marshal*, Ac. With the
|x>lllical parties of the country so evenly
balanced as they ulwa)* have heel:, ut.
now*, and of neccs-iiy must c intuitu- to
h., and the corrupt floating purchasable
vote as large a* it is, and iru rcaing a
it must with tin- increase in the hard
lie** of the times, the balance of power
will always he turned by the use of
Federal patronage in the appointment
of deputy marshals, the number of
which will only l- limited by the ne
cessities of the occasion. The real
meaning of the Republican position,
therefore, i* to establish the right of the
Federal government to interfere with
election*, to provide by sweeping and
tyrannical legislation for tin- enfo cc
merit of the right, and under the pro
visions of this legislation to buy by pa
tronage the corrupt vole of the country
which holds the balance of |*iwer, and
thereby control elections.
Doe* their claim of right to eon
troi election* by dwputy marshal*, and
to hack up their arbitrary arrest* with
troop*, mean a fair )>oll and an hooeat
count 7 *
.1. No; it mean* only the mainten
inc of Republican supremacy hy the
commonest devices ol corrupt |*i]itji-.
V Why, if they meant pure elections
do they insist ujwm the right to lI*M--S
officeholders and filibuster against re
forming an abuse which their President
and chief organs have o often con
derailed 7
A. •f course the Republican party
op]-o*e* the fsolitical assessment bill be
cause it strike* at one of the source* of
their campaign fund*. The professions
of their fraudulent Executive and the
I'ecksniffian reformer* by whom he i*
surrounded, are just so much trash'
They are not sincere themselves and do
not expect other* to bo. All Pharisee*
are contemptible. It i not *o clear
that the Democracy are not courting the
*ame judgment of mankind by mani
festing too much zeal against assess
ment* for ]>olitiral purposes. A pure
Arcadia or Utopia, if it were attainable
among men, might justify such law*,
but hardly any other State would. A
party that for half a century inscribed
' on it* campaign banner# "to the victor*
fwdong the spoils," and apotheosized
the author of the declaration, will hard
ly win the honest admiration of men
l.y standing firmly and looking towards
heaven, crying, "thank God we are
not a* other men." The right of any
man, whether in government employ or
out of it, to do what he please* with hi#
money is absolute and indefeasible; it is
the rig.lt to do what one pleases with
one'* own. If government employee*
get too much compensation and there
by are enabled voluntarily to contribute
to campaign fund* it might be well
enough lor a Democratic (Jongro**, upon
thi* being shown, to cut down the sur
plus amount.
What do you conceive to be the
net result politically of tho extra ses
sion 7
A. It i* very hard to tell on which
side the advantage lie* in the result* of
the extra session. It should never have
been called. Having been called, how
ever. it wa* the plain duty of the Demo
cracy to make the issue which induced
it squarely and promptly—then go to
the people. Nothing else should have
been done. No hobbies, no silver bills,
no private legislation. All that could
, lie hoped to l>e gained was either the
I repeal of the odious election law* or
the determined effort to repeal them
thwarted by the veto of the fraudulent
Executive at the dictation ol the radi
cal leader* in Congres*. One of these
positions could have been reached be
yond doubt in a month or six week* by
dec.sive energetic action. The Demo
cracy have incurred the odium of along,
windy session, the division and conten
tion over the silver bill—the burden of
government shifted on our shoulders
with ail the responsibilities. We are ex
pected to bring relief to the hard times
and distressed industry of the country
when relief hy legislation is impossible
except by the slow process of convales'
cence which nature provides for na
tion* as well as men. To offset these
disadvantages wo have but little achieve
ment, We bavo not only not substan
tially repealed tho obnoxious laws, hut
we have, by accepting very thin substi
tutes for repeal, dwarfed, irreparably,
the great issues which otherwise would
have made tho next campaign an ag
greaaive and brilliant one. Worse than
all, we have marched up the hill and
marched down again. Wo havo given
the veterans of the great Democratic
party the demoralization of another de
feat. But notwithstanding all these
blunder*, I am convinced that we will
win tho next national fight and have
the next President. The fraud of IH7P
by wbich the will of the people was de
fiod and tho rcjimc of corruption an-l
ladicnlisin continued will t.e revoked
and forever wiped from history in the
; mighty conflict of I - >O.
INTERVIEW KB.
Mr Ifuyoß iind hi* VotocH.
Wrltl.,, f..r 11,,- CASTS* lew mi
la* I the people look bof ire it be too
late and s,-,- the consequence* of • -ib
■rutting to such lawle * u-urpuiioii of
|Knver claimed by Mr. lisye* over StaU
election*. What i# aequo- red in to
day become* precedent to-morrow und
constitute* a foothold U|*>n which a
still more flagrant wrong may be com
mitted the next day. The practice
claimed arid adopted by Mr. Hayes in
the case of State elect on* i, that, tli.it
*httll be law which he pronounce* to b<
such, unless two third* of both houses
of Congress -ay that it 1* not law. This
he has proclaimed in hi* several veto
message*.
How am member* of Congress ap
portioned and elected ill < :,ch State 7
''oiigres. i* to provide by law for the
taking of the censita every ten years :
when the census is completed, all *]
port ion men t i made according to the
ratio of imputation allowed for the dec
tion of t memb.-r of <',,ngre*: the ex
• - ullve of each Slate is then official!)
informed of tin- ratio and number of
member* to which each State i entitled,
rn /fur ci'll the defy an I u ift ofy of
over the (natter. The execu
tives of the States inform their resjec
live leg.-latum*, who divide the Slates
into <'ongressional district.-, and then
the qualified citizens of i acli district
■■lect the members to represent them in
the (Jongrosa of the United States. For
three-fourths of a century the people
of the State* have exercised this sov
ereign right under the Constitution*
and laws of the United Stat.-* and of
their own common wealth* without in
timidation or encroachment of Federal
marshal* or soldier# at voting places,
until Mr. Hayes advances a new theory
of election* in order to cover up the
i crusade of President Orant against the
elective franchise of the American
citizen that finally enabled him without
constitutional right, and in contempt
of the expressed will of the voter* of
tho Union, to practically place hi* suc
cessor n the Presidential chair. But
Mr. Have* claim* that the "nation
al" character of the government i ex
hibited in the house of Representatives,
who represent the whole ]>eople of the
United State* in their aggregate capac
: ity. Let u* see if thi* be no in fact.
If it were o, the State* would then
have been districted for the purpose
.of electing those popular represent*
live*. Instead of this, the representa
tire* are elected in their re*|>ectire
States, and even when the imputation,
will not entitle a State to a representa
tive. that State is given one on a Slate,
in dopitc of it* defective population.
If the house of Representative* were
the representatives ol the whole people
v* one compact body—one amalgamst
ed, undistinguished ma**—then the
qualifications of electors should have
l>en provided for in the constitution or
left Congre**, w-hrrr.ta it i* actually a
State affair, and vatic* in each State a*
to members, or property, or loth. Thu*
chosen on Stste principles exclusively,
the mouitier* am the representative* of
tjiose who actually choose them, and
not of an aggregsted p qui lat ion whose
separate existence is sanctioned by no
definite expression, demonstrated by
no act, and nup|ortcd by no autliora
tive acknowledgement. Mr. liayot
claim* the right to send hi* marshal*,
supervisor* and soldiers to supervise
i Stale election*, without tho authority
or sanction of the State, obtained from
it* legislature or executive, under the
in*idiou* plea of superintending the
election of nienil>er* of Congre**. From -
the year 1800, when the people roue in
their strength and by the election of
Jefferson wiped out Adam* and hi* ad
vocate* for an elective monaachy com
posed of the "well born," until the im
position of Mr. Haye* to the Presi
dency, no such authority, power or
claim was ever attempted cA- made to
interfere with .State elections hy the
executives of the general government.
But President Grant usurped this power
and artfully handed it over as an "heir
loom" to Mr. Ilayo*.
The people established in the consti
tution of the United Slates, the man
nor, way ari<l mcana for the election of
President and Vice President, by which
they have elected every President ex
cept Mr. Hayes, who, a* already dem
on titrated, assumed the duties of tho
place without a single right arising un
der the provision* of the constitution,
hike all usurper* and pretender* he i*
now attempting hy hi* veto messages
to annihilate the sovereignty of the
Siaie* in the election of their members
of Congress, The frauds, perjuries,
counterfeiting and crimes generally
against the purity of the ballot, com
mitted in the election for President in
lH,b, and in the elections lor members
of Congress, in lkT*. caused f>ngre.*
to appoint committees of investigation
and the r<-|sirts of the comrriitee*,
founded upon dear and conclusive tes
timony, exjmse the venality, tyranny
and frauds of the creatures appointed
to Interfere with the electors in tho
years mentione I. In the city of I'hila
di.lph.,l, in the year f*7, the testimony
-how* tls Ist Marshal Kerns appointed
77 I spc.. ,1 deputies for election disy.
Ihe iiiarhal hintelf admit# under
oath that they were not neces*ary for
any useful or legitimate purpose what
ever; and inasmuch a* a large ma
jority of them were persons of dure
putahh- character criminals just from
, the jails slid well known rounder* and
repeater* .) th'-y could serve no good
purpose the j resumption i exceeding
ly strong that were intended for a had
purpose, and each one of them received
hu five dodars for interfering unlaw
fully with the rights of citizens of
Pennsylvania at their State election.
The Mate of Pennsylvania is divided
into two juil ial districts for holding
the cOUIts of the I "inled -States. Mr.
Kerns i* the rnnr-hal for the I.astern
• ii.trb t and resides in Philadelphia ;
Mr. liaii i* the marshal for the Western
•o-lrict and reseles in Pittsburg, and to
iiis honor and credit it may be sail
there i no imputation that he interfer
ed w.tb the freedom of elections in his
district. These marshals stand in the
same relative position and perform the
duties in their districts as do the sher
itl- of the several counties iu the State,
i'.in a sheriff appoint seven or eight
deputies to overcome and control voter*
at the poll* ' The veriest advocate of
'strong government" would not claim
-uch a |mwer.
Congress, in preparing the several ap
propriation lolls, made provision for de
fraying tho expenses of the govern
ment. and at the same time thought it
proper to prohibit deputy marshals, su
pervisor* and soldiers from interfering
with the State election*. Mr. Hayes
vetoed the bills—claiming constitution
al authority to regulate Congressional
elections a* belonging to the govern
ment of the United States. The Fed
eral party under the administration of
the elder Adams never had the audaci
ty to publish or assert such fxjwer. Tho
•lesuitical reason* given hy Mr. Hayes to
justify his high hand usurpation prove
that be must count largely upon the
ignorance of the people—that they do
not understand their rights under tho
constitution. We shall see.
Pstrii A Henri*.
W lnsc ( barley Ilea* 1 Thi !
Iti< nroan, Vt.. .July s.—At Fast Farn
ham. there is a boy who say*
his name is Charley Ross. and he an
swers the description of the missing boy
very well. He says he was brought from
New York by two men a long time ago.
lie lives with a man who cannot |e*k
English and is reticent or sullen when
OtWliOMd lout the boy or himself.
He says he doe# not know or care who
the boy i. He is paid #l5O for keeping
the boy, draft* being sent to bim Irorn
New York every six months. These
drafts are signed "Edward Pierson,''
and are payable at Molaon's Hank,
Montreal. Mr. Ross and parties from
Philadelphia are expected to investigate
the matter.
— ♦ —ii
Philadelphia Market*.
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Bnllefontn Market*.
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Proviaion Market.
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thicken* per j*tind . . mm 0
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