Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-13

per month.
We learn to-day, on undoubted authority.
that the investigations made by the Senate Dis
trict Committee show that the CORPORATION in
debtedness created by the Bowen administration
IN two years time amounts to very nearly III not
quite, million of dollars. When Bowen took
tn mayoralty he found an indebtedness OF but
sAsIeoo, and this Indebtedness was the accumu-
lation Of twenty years, yet In two wears he
creates a debt more than twice as large as
that created In twenty years by his pre-
decessors, and at the same time he re-
eeiyed during his term at the rate of more
than 100000 per year increase of taxes over
that received by Mayor wallach or any other
Mayor Thus, during his luxurious two wears
he received nearly a million of dollars in the
shape Of increased taxes, and Yet he not only
squanreredth that immense sum In addition To the
previous income from this source but absoiutelv
run the corporation in debt another million of
dollsrsi
The prohigscy, the rascalities underlying this
enormous expenditure Of the peoples money
will. when fully brought to light, undou btedfly
present one of the most startling chapters in
municipal plumber and jobbery ever exposed;
and II Is not strange that the corrupt Bowen
ring are making the most desperate efforts {,
suppress evidence and cover their tracks The
contracts for ward paving, &c, were given ont
IN April last to Morse j. Co., in utter VIOLA
ton OF the law requiring them to be
given to the lowest bidders and the Job was N
utterly villainous and indefensble that Bowen
did not dare to publish the bids as he was
required to do by law. And now 1t appears tn at
the ring" in order to get rid of the damnipe
evidence, have resorted to the desperate expe
dent Of destroying these bids. Not trace OF
them can be found at the City Hall, where
they belong, and the ex-offclals refuse to give
any Information as to what became of than.
other startling evidence of the destruction of
evidence by this desperate gang have come to
light through the investigations OF the munich
pal committee. Some of the papers for work
on Rhode Island avenue, upon which certif-
Gates OF indebtedness are out, and in the
figures of which great discrepancies were
detected, have mysteriously disappeared
But the most barefaced effort of the ssrfngp TO
cover up their frauds and to th wart all inyesti-
cation was in their scheme developed Monday
night to prevent the confirmation of any Gre
form" officers who would be likely to unearth
their rascalities. Their open eSultation at the
success Of their plot whereby they got control OF
eight facile Aldermen, and slaughtered the Re-
form nominations as fast as presented was
not strange. Theirs was a desperate game
with ruin and infamy staring them in
the face, and never had criminals ON the
scaffold greater cause to welcome a reprieye,
than had the members Of that infamous sring"
When through getting possession of Messrs.
Connolly, Croker, Champion, Davis Slater
Baker, Stewart, and Chase, they succeeded In
defeating the confirmation of officials of integ
Tity, capacity, and nerve, whose first duty il
would have been to expose all wrong doing,
Jobbery, and schemes of public plumber
But their reprieve Is of the shortest; and not
only they, but all who essay to bolster them up,
will speedily be buried under a load of popular
eSecration that will ensure their permanent
withdrawal from public life and public robbery.
--~O~- "
The excitement in the gold room in New
York, yesterday afternoon, was intense and
the fluctuations wide and frequent. At one
time, private cable kilograms reported panic
on the Berlin Bourse, with a sympathetic de-
cline in securities at Frankfort. The gold room
Immediately accepted this as meaning war; and
the result was a rise to 11ia, with enormous
dealings. At this juncture a report was pre-
clpltated on the market to the effect that Prince
Leopold had withdrawn as a candidate for the
Spanish throne. This caused a tumble from
1l4s to lib, when the downward course of the
market was arrested by the announcement fir ,m
Washington that the funding bill had been de-
feated in the House. Under this news the mar
ket quiyered for a time between 1l3 / and II3k
but soon II was reported that the difficulties be-
tween France and Prussia had been amicably
adjusted Here followed . scene of the widest
excitement The operators in the room could
not sell gold enough, and neither could they
sell II fast enough. The market plunged down
wards under the heavy sales of the frantic oper-
atOrs in the room, and did not stop until Il2 was
reached The New York Express says that ''the
scenes in the room attendant upon this fall In
the price can only be compared to those gener-
ally witnessed in an asylum Of roaring lunatics"
Elsewhere will be found some suggestions
from a competent source upon the matter of
social reform in Washington. The folly aud
discomfort of the crowded receptions of the