New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
From The New-YOrk Tribune, March IT. 1888

1t is now about six months since Collector
Bailey Of the Ivth District in this city made the first
decided movement against the whisky Ring" which,
up 10 that tme had conducted It's operations without
serious annoyance. The Kentucky Bourbon Company
of which the brother Of then Deputy Commissioner
of Internal Revenue the Treasurer and active mana
ger-looated in the Ivth District with warehouses
tanning three thousand barrels OF spirits first taken
in hand The whole OF this spirits, together with tho
valuable property in Louisville. Kentucky is in the
Conrts while t is understood that several persons
nected with the Company are under Indictment several
taken in hand and proceedings commenced in Court
the forfeiture OF the large stocks OF whisky on mana In
Of these the parties involved nave come TOT
ward and offered pay into Court the value OF the
property under the apprasement made by the ohce OF
the Court while in others proceedings still pending
The two largest of these cases were those n Pike
Co, and Gordon, Fellows Mchlan, IN regard 70 Wich
a note from District Attorney Courtney, published In
another column corrects some mlsapprehensiOns Dur
ing the last three four weeks Collector Bailey has
in his own district has seized in the IXth With and
With Districts la ge number Of the largest These
gao OF OF the law sad in
but the charges which they were seized have been
HtforBeT toF forenPe While are being
taken by the latter officer against the guilty parties
in the bonded warehouses; or under cover OF the
however that the great frauds OF The last two years
have been mainly committed Several heavy seizures OF
them were made IN the XXXIId District and IN the
With, by Collector Bailey the seizures embracing IN all
upward Of 10000 barrels but under the decision OF Com
feited the relnqushed In the course OF
BAILEY which showed clearly that for eighteen months
preyious 10 the OF his operations the
bonded warehouses had been only grand entrepots or
fraud IL was found that this official papers covering
shpments in bond from the West had been only conye
ueuce for fraud, and that papers had been aD-
stracted from official files protect the movements OF
fraud whisky" Before these facts could be made
available however II necessary that evidence from
West should procured The facts set forth above
were icated TO Commissioners Rollins and secret
fully collecting data which TO base proceedings
against the guilty parties mass OF evidence has now
been accumulated showing that official for
months used between several districts IN the west hnd in
the East merely a for the larger fraudulent
operations carried under them For instance: Col
ectOr in the West would issue permit for the transport
alton OF five hundred barrels OF whisky 10 New YORK
This permit, in regular OF business should have
whisky itself should have been in warehouse in from ye
10 eight days. but the permit in point OF fact, wonld
remain for GO days. while shipments would
be made in the interval OF Illicit whisky, for which. II
any question in regard TO IT, this permit would be
used 70 procure release This operation has been carried
on with almost endless variations 70 detail, every
shipment OF regular whisky from the West being cover
for the movement OF larger quantity OF fraud whisky.
great difficulty has been found IN this city In bring
ing the persons involved these shameful frauds 10
Justice the fact that there has been Judge 10 sit IN
the trial Of criminal DistretAtorney Courtney
making arrangements II is understood, which Will
Obvae this trouble and hope then to the long list
of indictments found at the instance OF those Ocers
who have been attempting TO enforce the Jaw ed ana
the guilty brought to Justice. The main that no
trials taken place is that Congress made no prov-
sion for the salary Of Circuit Judge trying criminal
causes Justice arrested In the Southern District OF
New York because there Is Judge TO sit Congress
should remedy this evil IL not then our citizens shOnld
subscribe the money necessary for the expenses OF
Judge long enough TO send some OF these whisky rascas