The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-09-15

: fore Grant was q candidate for Pre-:
ident, chose to show their appreci
: alton of his services by q large gii
a freely and voluntarily bestowed
:, There is no instance whatever wher
any impartial man can say that ther
is the slightest evidence that thes
! voluntary offerings Of private citizen
led to the appointment of any one {
, them.
Now the error Of Gen, Grant in az
pOintments, il he has committed any
Is in regarding political experience a
. the ground for exclusion from office
! Nearly all his chiefappOintments hav
been Of q non-partisan character. H
announced this as his purpose in nj
inaugural, he started it in the forma
ton of his Cabinet, and he has adhere,
, to it since. 1t has been usual for tn
President to surround himself witt
leading influential representatives o
his party, and to call their secre
!, counsels policy, and then by eXecu
|, tive influence and patronage to en-
force that upon the people and Con
: gress. Gen. Grant refuses to do this
whether wisely or not, but has select
ed his Secretaries with view to tht
honest and faithful performance o
their executive duties. For thi!
reason he named such a man as A. Il
Stewart, of New York, as Secretary o
the Treasury, and otheSs of like char
acteT, who certainly brought no pO.
iitieal influence to his aid. And thi:
effort to avoid partisan cOunsels ha:
been the foundation of the base per.
sOnal innuendOes and attacks thai
have been made upon General Grant
Now what else does General Morgan
say? He tells you that it is a nOtO.
rious fact that each OF General Grants
Cabinet officers and heads OF bureaus
keeps a carriage and horses, cOachman
and fOotman, all paid for with the peO-
ple's taxes and without authority OF
law. Now, it is a fact that for twenty
years and more, far back into Dem
Ocratic times, there has been regular
~ attached to each of the chief execu-
! tive offices, a one horse carFY-all,
which has been used by the head OF
/ the department or bureau to carry the
mail, and il needed, to expedite him
over that city ofmagnificent distances.
| These have been regularly apprOpri-
ated for ever year by Congress, and
each House of Congress has several of
them. As for the cOachman and foot
man, consider them as included i'm one
negro messenger, who attends the
door and runs errands, and you have
the whole Of this magnificent array.
There is a great deal of humbug, feI-
lOw-eitiZens, in this kind Of demagOg-
ism, and it is a compliment to the
Republican party that my friend Nor
gan, in his grand opening speech, can
find nothing else to arraign us for than
that we have not yet corrected all the
abuses of Democratic times. But /
promise you / will call the attention
of Dawes to this matter, and he and
MOrgan-One on each side-oan see to
it that these Cabinet officers shall
walk to Cabinet etcOuncils, and not ride,
except at their own expense.
My own opinion is that these Off
GERS are inadequately paid. Their
salary was fixed long before the war;
their tenure is very uncertain; they
are compelled by public opinion and
the people themselves to receive O
great many visitors. True economy
would be consulted by giving them
salary amply sufficient to support a
family in liberal style, and to hire or
buy suitable carriage and horses,
without resOrtingtO the Government
carry all. General Morgan is be-
hind the times. He undertakes the
intelligence of the people when he
resorts to such stuff to impugn the in
tegrity of Gov. Cox and his associates.
But ne says these Cabinet officers
take money from the Treasury with |
out an appropriation by law, and that |
they pay without authority of law
higher salaries than are provided by |
law. Now this Is simply impossible. |
The Comptrollers, Auditors, and the /
old watch dog, Spinner, wOnld not |
allow a dollar to be taken except by |
authority of law. In this they are en- |
tirely Independent of the President |
and Cabinet officers. The cases he
parades where certain clerks were al |
lowed extra compensation, were ex-
pressly provided for by law, and the |
law was acted upon by Chase, Fessen-
den and McC1lloeh, as well as Bout
well; But he says that in four years
these Secretaries paid S78, 397 to Ad-
ans Express Company for carrying
the forms upon which notes and /
bonds are printed, when they could /
have been sent through the mail for
one hundredth part Of the cost. Well,
If they had sent these precious papers,
upon the custody of which rests our
chief security against counterfeiting,
through the mails, they should have
been sent to the lunatic asylum. He
says we have paid g, ,167, 900 since 1862
foT printing bonds and notes. Could
It have been done for less? Docs he
,ay it could? The truth is, no Oper-
ltiOn of the Government is more del
cate and dangerous, and none has
been more successful in safety, cheap
ness and security than the prepara ton
md issue of the vast aggregate of pa
Der securities issued by the Govern-
nent in the aggregate of oversize, ,OOO,-
1900.
....st WHO ARE THE RAsCALlS. r |,
He closes this part of his speech by
.hese words, "Aud in this connection
ct me ask, why have not the Nation
i Banks been required 10 pay for the I
laper, engraving, and printing of their |
'wn notes, instead of your being taxed {
or that purpose"
AlasI poor Yoric. The National /
Banks have been bitterly complaining
hat we not only made them pay for ,
heir own notes, but that we have 1
made them pay ten times the cost |
The truth is that we make them pay, 5
lot as a part of their internal taxes,
'ut for the very purpose Ofpaying this {
one per cent. annually on
he amount of their circulation, or {
hree million of dollars per year; so | {
hat in this way the National Banks {
lave paid into the Treasury four |
lines the cost of preparing all the j
'onds and notes issued by the United !
states since the war commenced; and
his goes to swell the general revenue !
nd lessen your taxes. Now, did Gen
raj Morgan know this fact?
But now comes q terrible sensa-
ion. Three hundred and forty in ]
ernal revenue defaultels. He saws
when / tell you that there have been
hree hundred and forty defaulters
mong the collectors of internal Feye- I
lue, you look surprised, and ask one
mother why have not we been told {
f this before. For the simple reason &
ny friends, because the facts had been +
and had to be dug out" I
lOw this is an interesting picture I
llIGC uuulIcA anu lOELI uEtdulLtIS, i
ascals, thieves, and as many raseals {
n the Treasury Department, including {
Boutwell,, Commissioner I
)elano, Comptroller Taylor, and such
Ike, covering up, hiding, concealing !
his rascality, and then comes our
riend, Gen. Morgan, the virtuous,
he incorruptible miner into rascality
igging up, yes, digging up this mass J
f corruption. Yes, I dug it up; I, /
ieneral Morgan. And to strengthen i
lis assertion he gives names; and |
mong them Frank SOule and Sher- [
dan Shook, familiar names in John
on's time-champions Of the whisky :
ing-good Democrats. 80
Now while you look surprised, I can
lardIy imagine how McCulloch and I
Rollins, Boutwell, and Delano, STAN
,ery, Evarts and Hoar looked, If ever
hey read this. They are honorable
nen, bound to prevent rascality, and !
IOn't like to be shook in the same bag
With Sheridan Shook. And what I
must be the feeling of the $40 eollec-
ors, including nearly every man who I
ormerly held that office. They are s
,randed as deeply as General Morgan 8
an brand them. What is the basis
f this wholesale charge? 1t is true I
hat during the close Of Johnson's ad-