Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-15
Astounding Developments o
Frauds an Warrington. \


i BY the following from the Nep York
Herald it will be seen that extensive frauds
have been detected in the Printing Bureau
LOT Treasury Department at Washington
and the facts suppressed. If the facts
mentioned by the Herald are fairly and
truthfully stated robberies to the amount
OF millions upon millions have been per-
petrated, and the testimony hushed up at
the instance of a prominent Radical cam
didate for President. Read it ye taxpayers /:
FRAUDS IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
1t appears probable that the investiga-
ton made some time since into the con-
duct of the Printing Bureau of the Treas
ury Department, the results of which in
vestigation uwere suppressed and never
| properly given to the country, turned up
i Instances of remarkable malfeasance in
office. It. is alleged that the suppressed
testimony gives the facts of the squander-
ing of public money by hundreds of thou
sands of dollars at time; that in one in
stance those who should make the returns
| of printed money failed to account for the
sum of fifty millions; that in other in
stances paper and printed notes were not
Accounted for, by which it was possible and
probable that in bonds, notes and fraction
al currency, quantities of money were sur
reptitiously put in circulation, the whole
amount of. which would reach half the
/ figure of the national debt; for which vast
sum. the Government of course, never re-
ceived any benefit. 1t is further alleged
that the testimony and facts of this as
founding fraud were hushed up in the in
terests of prominent Presidential candi-
date, who is himself millions deep in the
| defalcations.
| AS all men can see, there is tremendous
power lodged in the hands of our Treasury
Department. 1t controls annually fifty
| millions of revenue and the currency.
Such trust should only be given to men of
most tried integrity, for without high
principle and most scrupulous and exact
1 honesty here, we may at any hour have
| precipitated upon us unheard of disaster
But it appears that this Department is rot
ten in every branch. We are never with
out'necessity> for investigation into the col
lection of customs at our ports, and in the
collection of internal revenue we have seen
and are seeing every day that robberies of
gigantic proportions are in constant pro-
| gress, principally in the articles of whis-
| ky, petroleum and tobacco. Investigation
and discovery of fraud have seemed
| in conspicuous instances to be OF little
use; for the plunder is in such proportion
| that it Will pay to buy up any number of
committees at any price,, and the most
startling discoveries thus end in the lamest
report. The country has most vital in
terest in knowing the truth as to this al
legged fraud in the Printing Bureau; for it
is clear that greater robbery could be per-
petrated there than at any other point, and
such robbery might call in question the va
lidity of millions of dollars now afoat,
pretending to bear upon it the properly af-
fixed pledge of the Government resposi-
bility. -.--.e-s ;s- t..J ,r,r-.[
The moral of all is, that if the people of
the United States cannot elect Congress
possessed of the ability and honesty oput
the national finances on sound basis, to
expose frauds and punish them with rigor,
then the national credit is not safe for
day; we stand upon the most precarious
footing that ever nation stood upon, and
are likely at any time to run into repudi-
tion and general and individual ruin.-N.
Y. Herald. ..
How the journal Editors Prosper.
A correspondent sent us some days since
a communication, which we published, in
relation to the different f1oggings the editors
of the Journal had received in days gone
by for ISLANDERS against both men and wo-
men. AS if to show that these whippings
had their effect in making the editors and
proprfetors of that paper, if not the paper
itself, prosperous, he sends us the follow
ing: rer -,a-,7 ........s. 'r..f l...-r4
'.EDIToR STATESMAN The brief account
1 gave you. some weeks since, of the
knocks. and cuffs, and f1oggings which the
editors of the Ohio State Journal had re-
ceived for their attacks on personal charac-
ter, both male and female, having excited the
wrath of the military man who now edits
that paper, permit me to make the amende
in showing how other editors
and proprietors of that same Journal have
been favored. since that time. by putting
money in their pockets, during the war.
The commencement of the war found the
Journal edited by Cooke, HURT e Co. The
Company" was believed to be Salmon P.
Chase, who was known to be one OF the
"At that time Mr.. CHASE was not certain
Iy flush of funds, and judgments against
him. were in the hands of the Sheriff for
his own, not security debts. To pay these
be was forced to sell his property in this
city,; Transferred to the Treasury Depart
ment at salary of $4,000 per annum, and
from thence to the Supreme Bench as Chief
Justice at. a salary of $500, in the few
<
self rated as paying an income tax of
$750000 per annum-equivalent to for
tune of from TEN TO TWELVE MILLION DOL
LARs-making an annual saving of about
two million dollars.
Mr.. HURT, his chief fugleman, was
made Quartermaster in the army. How
much he saved is not generally known, as
of fbar NJ tiol
tried and convicted him of swindling did
not give the exact amount. Had not his
operations been nipped in the bud, it would
have Approximately that OF Gov. CHASE.
Seeing Captain HURT doing SO fine a
business, HENRY d. Cooke, his colleague
and fellow partner with CHASE in the Jour
nal, claimed his reward. AS part of the
banking firm of JAY COOKE &c Co.. HENRY
d. is now one of the millionaires of the
land, made so by Mr.. CHASE, while Secreta-
ry of the Treasury giving him the selling
of the National Bonds. When the Morning
Journal gets short of funds, drafts on JAY
COOKE 81 Co., are scarcely ever dishonored. .
"Gen. Comfy has not yet got his reward
from Judge CHASE. But it will soon come.
The anti-CHAsE men are about squelching
the Journal and getting a new organ.
When the weakly thing goes by the board
then Gen. Comfy will be 'comforted,' if
there be an office he can fill, which at the
same time will fill his pockets.
SwIPEs"
Liars Should have Good Memories.
The regularly irregular mail of Monday
brought us the Toledo Blade of Thursday
and the same paper of Saturday. In the
former we find an article commencing