Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-05

sold to claim agents |
blanks and Government sta
tionery, pocketing the proceeds. The De-
partment does not allow for printing, but
will pay for paper, envelopes, stamps, &c
for office use. Mr.. DwYER has procured
paper in large quantities and had the print
ing of blanks on such paper charged to the
under the head of cap paper,
and has sold the samepocketing the money.
He has furnished prepared blanks to pen
sioners, enclosing the same in an envelope
with return envelope and circular, all of
,cfich is furnished him by the Government,
and for the same and postage (Which is also
furnished him by Government,) he has
charged pensioners an extra fee. He
has set forth to claim agents through
out the District, that it is the desire of the
Department that he should send prepared
vouchers to pensioners, when it is really
matter of his own-and by which he can
make an extra fee, and by which he can
have better opportunity to extort from
pensioners than he would if he paid them
through attorneys.
He has persisted recently in sending
checks payable to order of pensioners in
every instance, notwithstanding claim
agents sending the vouchers to him were
known to be responsible and trustworthy,
and that the Department instructions have
allowed him to send the same to order of
attorneys where they have complied with
the legal fee. Numerous vouchers for pay
ment prepared by attorneys in the District
we're received last March; but were all laid
aside and payment on them deferred, until
he had paid the applications which had
previously been prepared by him and sent
to pensioners for execution. This was
done regardless of the order in which they
were received at the agency, the object
appearing to be to satisfy pensioners that
they could receive their money much SOON
er by having him, Mr.. DwYER, prepare
their papers, and give him an opportunity
of charging them 40 instead of Is cents fee,
and any other extra deduction he might
have an opportunity to make, and also to
discourage claim agents in having any part
in preparing pension vouchers.
There are about 1000 pensioners on the
Columbus Roll, and if the business is con-
Quoted honestly the proceeds from fees will
be nearly $1,000 per year, which, with the
$4,000 allowed by Department, will make
the pay $1,000 per year.
This is one of the officers President
JOHNSON can't get rid of. He is a Radical
and supports GRANT.
We should like some one to tell us why
this man should be continued longer in
office. And we should also like to know in
what estimation the Republican members
of the General Assembly deserve to be
held for forcing his continuance in Office
Negro Riotfng i'm Washington.
This is what the Washington special OF
the Cincinnati Commercial has to say about
the negro rioting in Washington City on
Wednesday night:
The city has been considerably excited,
to day, over the bloodshed and riots of last
night, mostly participated in, according to
the evening papers of both parties, by the
negroes rejoicing over the mayoralty elec-
tion. Large crowds of colored men roam
ed indiscriminately, all night, over the city,
ransacking restaurants, drug. stores and
OuOO s1OICo, dooouiofhs.s DOootheSt ohu III OuO
instance killing white man on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. 1t seems that the negroes
were mostly armed, and went together in
bands OF two or three hundred, to such an
extent that the military authorities are to
prohibit, in the future, professions of arm
ed men who are not soldiers.
The result of last nights rioting may be
summed up as follows: One white man
killed, seven severely wounded-one fatal
ly; three drug stores assaulted and partial
ly ransacked; two restaurants cleaned out,
and four private residences stoned until
their blinds and windows were broken.
Many of the houses and restaurants were
closed up for safety. None of the evening
papers of either party show that in any
circumstances were colored men injured,
and it does not appear that white men were
the aggressors in but one case. Some trace
the source of the troubles to very viru-
lent speech made to the negroes last night
by Forney.
Only one White man killed and seven
White men wounded. So much for the
claimed triumph of the Negroes in Wash
ington.
And Judge WHITE, the Republican can
didate for reelection to the Supreme Court
of Ohio, has just Joined in decision say
ing that Colored men must be allowed to
vote in Ohio.