Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-17

Election to take place on the 18th May. No
registration or tax certificate required.
WHILE the committee appointed to
investigate charges brought by Fer
nando Wood against Howard, of the
Freedmen's Bureau, are proceeding
with their investigations, the Judi
ciary Committee of the Senate is also
b1sily at work, looking up, against
the Georgia Bullock, certain charges
of bribery in connection with the
Bingham amendments. Indeed, if
all the malpractices and villainies Of
the members were to be fairly inves-
tigated, we doubt whether legislation
in public matters could proceed for
the next forty years. Howard and
Bullock will both be whitewashed,
however, there is no greatdoubt. The
fact that the Radical press is manu.
featuring public sentiment for acquit-
tai, and Boosting that nothing has
been or can be proved against either
of them, shows that plain enough.
They do not mean by a fair
trial, a trial in which the State
shall have a fair chance to
convict, as well as the accused
a fair chance to escape, when any
Radicals are on trial; and there are
too many implicated with these par
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ties to render punishment possible, let
the committees, a majority of which
are friends Of the accused, investigate
and report as they may. 1t is well
that the public judgment, if nc more,
will depend on the facts of the cases
rather than on the reports of the COM
mittees or the action of an implicated
and interested Congress. The Wash
ingtOn correspondent of the Journal
of Commerce shows that in Towards
case it has been proved that the How
ard University was started as a pri-
vate enterprise, Independent of the
Bureau; that Howard. bought 80
acres at $4,000 per acre, with funds of
the Bureau, that the property was
decided to the Bureau trustees; that it
was afterward divided into lots, and
a part of them illegally sold by How
ard, and that he procured a donation
to himself Of n acre, worth, at a
minimum estimate, $4,000, and
that Others Of the Bureau re-
ceived similar lots. 1t also appears
that the First Congregational Church
Of Washington received S33,50O Bu-
reau funds in exchange for its own
bonds at par; that $4,000 Of the
church bonds was sent to Richmond
as cash to help the Normal school and
$1,000 to Nashville to help the Fisk
school. 1t further appears in proof
that the contract for building the
university and also the hospital for the
District, contained a stipulation re-
quiring the material to be purchased
Of the Patent Building Brick Compa-
ny, a private enterprise, in which
Howard, his brother and others were
interested; that the brick furnished
by this company were worthless and
would tall to pieces on s~aturation with
water; that portions Of all the Univer-
sity buildings fell and had to be re-
paired even in the process of erection
in consequence Of this Indifferent ma
terial; that the Government. having
erected these buildings at a cost of
100000, is now paying $1,000 rent for
the University and 5000 rent for the
hospital; that the contractors bought
their hardware of a dealer who was
indebted to Howard, paying over the
money direct to Howard; and lastly,
that $4,000 of the Refugee fund
was expended in grading a square
held in Towards name originally and
subsequently decided jointly to the
Patent Brick Company and the
Raleigh Normal SchOOl-the land and
$1,000 cash being set down as a dis
bUrsement to the school of $40, 600.
And it was shown by testimony that
All officer of the government sold his
own property at his own price to the
government, pocketed the money,
ard got credit for charity when there
was no charity in the case. All these
facts set forth by the Washington cor
respondent will do for a beginning,
and viii be regarded by the outside
world as a little "steep" or "cutting
it fat" etc.
In BullOck's case it was charged
that members of the Senate had been
approached by his party and compen- {
sation offered for votes. Neverthe- 4
he is busy in Washington, gives I
splendid suppers, feasts Senators and :
Representatives, and boasts that he :
will have such a decision of the Geor- !
gia question as suits him. 1t does
appear that direct proof Of the
Oiier OF a bride to a Senator :
has beer brought home to him. But 6
It has been made to appear before the G
that his appointees to r
oihee IN Georgia have been relatives q
Of members Of the Legislature, when
asked, all ove the State; that he is 4
NOT a taxpayer; that he became Presi- y
dent Of the Augusta and Macon Rail- g
read by Blodgett's single vote and 4
controlling voice in the road; that he q
letting the road run down and get 5
put OF repair to bring about a sale to !