The Georgetown news., 1855-08-23
From the Campaign Tribune.
Honest Iapo.

concealed it as much as possible) tbo+
certain great Political Institution. called h..
another name, was established under H.
auspices of Broderick and Bigler at Co.
Francisco. This Political School has cn"t
the State several hundred thousand dollaro
For years, at a ruinOus expense to the Stat
it was encouraged and upheld by Broder;crT
and Bigler. This institution was so MOTOR
ously corrupt, and such burden to the
State, that the last Legislature, by an almost
unanimous vote, repealed its charter and
honest John did not dare to veto the hin
which killed his own bantling. 1t is with
much reluctance that l spread among tbe
people the disgusting and horrid details
which have already been given to the pub.
lie under the name of the "Report of the
Committee on the State Marine Hospital
Let every citizen read the following Uerbatim
extracts from the annexed Legislative Re.
port, and if he has nature in him, let him
bear it not. Here are the extracts:
READ! READ !! READ!!!
"There has been a Clerk employed by the
Board of Trustees, which is not authorized
by law. This Clerk has not been in his
office to do duties for five or six months, and
has drawn his pay at the rate of one hun.
dred and seventy-fve dollars month" II
The Steward has been employed at two
hundred and fifty dollars per month, land
his family been supported in the institution
where Steward equally as competent could
hare been procured for seyenty-fve dollars
per month. On examing him
1.-THE Clerk l found him totally ignorant Of
any proper system of bookkeeping.
h. SPARROW"
"I have seen bills of both Mr.. Sparrow
and Mr. McCrea, (Trustees of the HospitaD
audited by themselves, that have been paid
by the Treasurer, (E. McGowan) when
th9re has been other bills in the office for
six months previous. x have been in,
formed by Mr.. Nc cCrea that he had bought
large quantity of bills, amounting to two
thousand dollars, or more, and had them
cashed, on which he made per centage.
CHARLES GALLAGHER"
II have. sold goods to the State Marine
Hospital. This was during the time was
| Trustee. ~. A. MCCREA"
II left on account of not getting my pay
Mr.. Claugly gave me ticket to vote. l
believe if l had not voted that ticket l
should have been discharged. Tickets were
put in the hands of all inmates who were
able to leave, and ordered to vote the Br0d-
erick ticket on election day.
CHARLES PAGE"
"There were persons boarding at the
Hospital for weeks at time, who were not
patients of the Hospital. Il Il 4 | have
known the inmates of the Hospital to vote
more than once at elections, and generally
required to vote certain tickets |
think that Hubbard had to leave the Hos
pital because he would not vote a certain
ticket. [ think Charles Page was
discharged, and also James Lee, for not yot-
ing a certain ticket. / KNOW it was gen
eral law for oil that could be taken to the
polls, to be taken there to vote. + The
ticket ordered to be voted was the regular
Democratic ticket-the Broderick ticket
| voted it, and think | should
have been discharged had I not voted it.
IN. CASTLE"
Il have seen the Steward bring in tickets
and distribute them among the inmates Oh
election day. 1t was the general talk
among the men at the Hospital that Hub
bard was discharged for not voting Ger
tain ticket. A. A. HAGAN."
81 purchased the property from Mr.
Moses for 100000 and afterwards sold it
back to him for $4,000 He rented it
afterwards to the Trustees of the State Ma
rine Hospital for 81 AIS per month.
"WM. NEELY JOHNSON"
81 have known Claughly to take a new
carpet belonging to the Hospital and send
1t to Sacramento City for his wife, and it
never came back. | have known him to
purchase linen and muslin for his own use
and have them charged to the Hospital
He also bought oysters and sardineS for bis
own use. l have been ordered to send
wines to house of prostitution in this city
by Claughly, 1t was a daily occurrence
have been ordered by the prescribing ply
slclan to give fresh eggs to the patients, but
Claughly told me to give them the Boston
eggs, which in nine cases out of ten were
rotten. [ have been requested to give the
best of wine to the patients, but they have
received the poorest kind. Claughly saidf
1t was not good enough for patients, they
must get better X X x These articles (per-
fumery) were bought for the Doctors wo-
man, and charged to the Hospital as medi-
cines. The womans name is Louisa Hay
ward. The bills amounted to $40 and $50
per month, and the same amount was bought
for Ciaughlys woman and charged as med
icine. Patients were carried out and
some of them voted four or five times. |
have known persons to lay in the "Dead
House" until the rats had eaten their faces
off,! And when they were found too long
for coffin, they would chop their legs OF
and put them in another coffin! This was
a common occurrence.
E. F. UsTICE
II have been Treasurer of the institution
since it has been in operation. \ X | sup