The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-23

Any District made DeInoeratic for q
Considerations.
TaetIca OF rhe Honest O Democracy.
LetaI the People Kead and JudEe.
NEW YORK. Oct. 81.
The courts OF this city have been rum
ming night and day, for some weeks, to
natUralize foreign born persons and
enable them to vote at the ensuing cleo
lions. By this means many thousands
! of new votes have been created this fall.
| So great has been the number OF newly
created citizens that the vote OF New
| York, 1t Is now estimated viii be 100
600, or 1900 greater than ever before
From facts which came to the knowI-
edge of Robert Murray, U. 8. Marshal,
| he was satisfied that in addition to the
legitimate naturalization now In pro
1 Rfess, many forged certificates of citi-
zenship were being issued, and through
his agents he discovered that one BEN
| iamin B, Rosenberg, claiming to be
| Chairman of the Tammany Naturalt-
cation Committee, was procuring blank
papers from the Supreme Court,
stRmpedlwith the official seal and signed
by Chas. e. Leon, Comfy Clerk. To
put his detectives to work to get some
OF these spurious papers would have
been useless, as they were all too well
known, but by employing some shrewd
outsiders; he obtained indubitable evil
dence ofthe fraud. He drew up great
many fictitious names OF men who new
| er existed, at residences which had no
substantial foundation. For these
| Imaginary aliens his agents were ena-
i bled to obtain at two dollars each a
large number of certificates of natural
ization, duly attested as above describe
I REaV- NkRear ant nnHaFl
upon r. with a promiscuous list OF
twenty or thirty names, some of which
| were complete, some without initials
and residences. For such of the names
as were complete, r., It is alleged, was
in the habit of sending runner over
| to the Supreme Court at once, eDjoin-
ling upon the applicant to complete the
list as soon as possible, when the others
should be procured.
Tee runner, entering by a private
door the Supreme Court Chamber,
would come out in a few minutes with
the documents stamped and signed for
the non-existing voters, and soon after
they were transferred to the Marshal's
agents, on payment of the requisite
cash. The thing was followed up until
the Marshal had got half alream or SO
of these papers.
In the confidence of his heart Rosen.
berg showed one of Murray's agents
his book, on which 6, 9G0 names of per-
sons naturaliZed through his office were
inscribed, and stated that he had sold
seven thousand such papers to appli-
cants, this fall. Furthermore he offered
to deliver any number of such docu-
ments for the cash, to any one who
could be trusted that wanted them.
Marshal Murray, thinking the evil
dence sufficiently clear, yesterday drop
ped into the office of the Tammany
Naturalization Committee aforesaid. in
fhn hagnnnnnf nf Nh. n ffantFa y,I
arrested Rosenberg, in the name of the
United States. @
Assistant District Attorney Allen ap-
peared for the government, who stated
that defendant was accused of a most
heinous crime under the statutes of the
United States, the penalty for the COM
mission of which was IS 900 fine and
five years. imprisonment at hard la
Dor. The defendant had, in violation of
n statute of the United States, which
defines as felony the making of false,
fraudulent or forged naturalization pa
pers, or the selling or uttering of the
same, sold hundreds and thousands of
such false, fraudulent and forged ma
turalization papers, the papers being
fully made out and having the seal of a
competent Court attached to them, only
a blank space being left for the inser-
ton of any name any party choose to
insert. The defendant had been engage
ed for number of days at this BUSH
ness at No. 6Centre street, and had sent
vast quantities, filling numerous or
ders, both up the river ana into the
| interior of the State. These certificates
were soldto all corners at one dollar 10
two dollars per head.
The Commissioner told the defen-
dant that he was not obliged to say
anything to commit himself.
Allen said the government was ready
to proceed at once with the examine
ton.
The defendant said he was not ready
for an examination, and the examina-
ton was then fixed for tomorrow at
P. NJ and the defendant was held in
default OF ten Thousand dollars bail.
and committed to Ludlow street Jail.
The defendant was subsequently, bail
| ed by Charles Donohue, of the firm of
Beebe, Dean d Donohue, when he was
| arrested on new warrant, with the
understanding that as fast as bail was
Eofered he would berearrested on a new
charge until all the cases against him
were exhausted.
The arrest of this person has created
immense excitement among the Democ-
racy. The evidence against him would
seem to be ample, while there is every
| reason to believe that the Marshal has
also proof of the completely of Court
and county subordinates in his mis-
deeds.
1t will be seen from the above that
the certificate of naturalization. speci-
fed that the person named in it had
personally appeared in Court and made
proof and oath of his right to be natur-
allied. The evidence shows that in the
instances cited by Marshal Murray, the
persons so purporttng to have appear
alton. slP lave =
1t is more than probable that these
frauds upon the naturalization laws
have been very largely effected. In
deed, there is evidence to show that
parties stood ready to guarantee, for
a suthcient consideration, any major
ity for any Office in any district that
might bereqnired.
THE HEADLEss ROOSTER.
AeephaIous Democratic T1cke.