New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-01
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WASHINGTON.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN ALABAMA-MORa
WHITEWAsHED REVENUE STAMP FRAUD
THE FLORIDA KU-KLUX QUIET
III POI
WAsHTNGToN, Friday, juno 30.


THE FLORIDA KU-KLUX QUIET
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THB TRIBUSHI
WASHINGTON. Friday, June 90 1871.
II Is hoped here now that the political fcud In the Re
publican party in Alabama may be- healed a. there Is no
doubt that It may be by udcous on the part
Of the leaders Of both factions The removal Of Collector
Miller OF Mobile is understood TO have been made on the
suggestion OF Secretary Boutwell,, who convinced
from the report OF agent there that the public
service demanded change. The exact state Of affairs
in the CustomH House there well understood
During the extra session OF the Senate when change
so earnestly urged by both parties, 1t thought
best to retain Miller, at the time making com
plete change in the subordnates OF the Office when
these changes made Secretary Boutwell, was in
formed that improvement had been effected,
and he sent agent to Mobile 10 examine
and make report. The removal Of
the Collector the result As akey understand
ing Of political dispatches from Alabama, IL may be
stated that there two Republican organizations
that State each claiming TO be the regular" one The
General State Committee Is claimed by ex Senator
Warmers friends TO be unanimously in favor Of him,
while the Central Council has been equally reigily Of
Senator Spencer. Whenever resolutions are adopted by
OF these bodies and elegraphed North the other IL
| in the habit OF announcing that they have passed
such resolutions, and Of tgmazing them forgeres,
negectng however, to inform the people that there Is
another Republican body in the state, which may have
| taken such action.
Reports almost daily received at the Internal Rove
Bureau that the fraudulent Of stamps l. by no
suppressed. This fraud is that has taxed the
ingenuity Of experts in the Treasury Department moro
than almost any Other and yet device has yet been
invented which will prevent the OF stamps 10
| greater or less extent.
Senator Osborn OF Florida s in the city and reports
his State as in better condition than it has before
for long time. He attributes the universal quiet and
good order partly to the passage Of the KuKlux law.
and the fact that the TufIns know that the United
States Marshal and District Attorney OF the State
men who are not afraid their duty under any cir
cumstances; partly to the fact that IL quite
generally understood in the state after the murder OF
Dickinson last Winter, that straw more would breaS
the camePs back and that the citizens OF the state pro
posed to take matters into their own hands II tie Gov
| eminent could not protect them.
The Commissioner OF Patents decides that where por
ton OF the evidence has been submitted IN patent IN
reference neither OF the contestants withdraw %
must continue the case until judgment is rendered.
The waste paper the Treasury Department, duHh'
the year ending to-day, amounted TO Gj 900 pounds BIZ
were opened to-day, for the waste for the coming year
The THIRD Auditor of tie Treasury Department Ia
settled the war claim OF Connecticut, and warrant 10
:l5i273 "a VIII he promptly forwarded to the Governor
Tie Postmaster, appointed, &c. in New-iork dunn
the week, ending jane %, 1871, were as follows
Posrs,srgRs ApPoIsTED. 100.
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