The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-07-30

THE PAY DRrAnrMEsr FRAuDs.-It gives
us pleasure to lay before our readers tho spe-
oiaI report, submftted by lion. Amass Cobb,
Of Wisconsin, OF the select committee Ap.
pointed to Investigate the workings Of the
iecfcd IL was charged that large frauds had
been committed. The report fully exonerAtes
the Bureaus OF the War and Treasury Depart.
aS ShSn Er. s hs hs asme
, in the concluding paragraph. We give the re-
| port entire, as follows:
gorsiHs. y %s Psy BsSssi%eni 'aSma Re J Si:
On the : day Of June uitlmo, the Secretary
q ne Tteasaty inforned your eottt =
come to his knowledge witch had Induced him
to believe that frauds upon the Government
were being perpet.ated In the payment Of
the committee should make an Investigation
thereof Although your committee were not
entirely CLEAR that such duty was within the
| raised, yet, In view Of tho advanced stage OF
the session, and the probable impossibility OF
raising a new committee for that purpose,
/, your committee yielded TO the solicitation Of
, the Secretary and entered upon the invcstiga-
tion. =,
| As the desired investigation would involve
bureau OF the war Department, your commit.
| tee requested the Secretary of War to detail q
competent officer OF the Adjutant Generals
gnresn 70 assist then IN the infestsation.
Malor q, u. Scott, u. s. A., an efficient officer
or duty Id tile department, who entered upon
the duty Of selectiRs dnd arranging such
, as were deemed necessary to be examined BY
the committee, and pursued his labors with
great assiduityi but Just as he had completed,
and before he had time to submit his work to
the committee, he was stricken down by the
hand Of death. Your committee were, there
fore, deprived Of his valuable assistance in
of his LABOR failed In Its usefulness on account
of his not having been spared to lay It before
your committee with such explanations Ps he
near Its close, the committee had no time to
reinvcstigate.
. But your committee have made such investi-
cations as the limited time at their command
would allow, and have found that in the pay.
, pent Of bounties to colored troops ifregu1ari.
ties eaist, and discrepancies between the re-.
cords of tho adlutnnt gtnefaps Office and the
final settlement OF the accounts d tire second
auditors office are found.
! In many cases such irregularity has been ex-
planned, but your committee recommend that
more caution be used In making report Of the
, statue OF such colored troops, In order that du-
plicate payments be prevented In some cases,
and tho payments OF erroneous amounts In
0 while these Irregularities are found, your
committee have found no evidence OF fraud
against any Individual 10 either department
named, or against any agent doing business
As the attention Of your committee has been
called TO eertain newspaper articles comment.
, the Official integrity OF Mr.. L. Z. ffeneh Sea-
ond Auditor, aud Mr.. y. r. Blackmar, a clerk
In the same office, they deem 1t their duty to
them, NOE have they discovered any thing in the
course OF the Investigation to cast any suspi-
eion upon the integrity or capacity OF either Of
these gentlemen.
A DAD CAR ron OLD WASHINGTON Cor
rEEs.-From an exchange we clip the follow
ing; In February, 1894, Dir. Benjamin Malone,
robbed Of Government funds to the amount OF
4j9,sQo. His room, In the house OF the Hon.
lsaat Newton, was entered while he was
the money was placed, taken from It. An IN
vestigation recently had upon his petition to
Congress to be released from liability to make
good the loss, has brought to light the astound-
ing fact that the robbery was planned by two
men, one Of them member OF the Metropoli-
tan police, and the other In the employ OF the
Treasury Department as msnbe, 81 Colonel
fessional burglars and a volunteer. As the
committee OF Investigation says:
"The case Is an extraordinary one. Sixty
eight thousand eight hundred dollars were
taken from DR.. Malone, Government officer,
against whom there Is no charge OF wrong, by
officers then IN the Government employ. One
Of these men, from his position, was enabled
to learn when a paymaster had drawn funds I;
the other could stand guard as q policeman
while their subordinatcs did tho robbery,
That alone should have great weight toward
relieving an innocent man. But when added
to II we hnd the Government arrcsting the
offered the chance OF obtaining most OF It, yet
allowing money and offenders to sill from Its
grasp, and actually rc.empioying Hogan, the
man who planned the robbery, II Is not too
much to ask that this aymaster and his sure
ties be relieved as requested, which relief your
committee accordingly recommends SHAH be
Mattv Kenney was the thief who stole the
money, and Hogan and Dugan were the par
ties who planned the affair.
! .PRoMoTloNs IN THE SIXTH AUDITon's
OFFlCg,-On account of tho great increase OF
business in the money order division OF the
Sixth Auditors office seventeen new clerks
have been added to the force OF this office by q
which the following promot lions have just oc-
CURED From second to third class, W. y.
Lipscomb, John L. O'Brien, Il. q. Blaine, ].
CHARLES Hendiy, o.. q, McLevsn, Henry
/ Richter, L; U. 1sllmadge, John L. Lake, Thos.
Gale. Foster, v. J. ketcham, Frank Nc
bsl1n, .. b. r. College, Jamss salisch ian, and =.
Adams, W. Addison, Geo. W. Bridgeman, Q.
" Banes, 7. l.. Lamb, u. W. Lathrop,, J. l..
Rosa, Win. Small, l.. o. sullivan, q: L.
Starkev, l.. ID. Wynne, N. Is. Milliken, Benz
f. McGrew, j. s. Woods, o. T. Thompson. ].
Il. Wood, A. Penacd, Edison Forbes and E. A.
Perkins.
We take this occasion to add, there is no
harder working bureau In the departments,
and we believe there 10 none where more 10
accomplished In given time; Under the
i management of Its present able and gentle
manly head, Hon. II. J. Anderson, assisted by
its efieient and courteous chief clerk, J. NJ:
we believe It's business Is promptly and satiB-
fnctorily performed.
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