Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-17
WASHINGTON.
Later of the Hodge Defalcation
A Million and a Half Involved
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Meredith, of Pennsylvania, and Caleb
Cushing, of Massachusetts,, have &C
cepted appointments as counsel OF the
United States before the arbitrators at
Geneva under the Washington treaty.
Hodge-Podge.
The Secretary of War to-day notified
the Treasury officials that If it was the
intention of the Treasury Department to
proceed against the New York bankers
engaged with Hodge in his late transsc-
ton in Wall street, that the Paymasier
will give mass Of evidence concerning
the relations between the bankers and the
Paymasler, which is at their disposal.
Persecution of Democrats.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.
WAsHINGTcN, Sept. 15.-The Radicals
are carrying the spirit of party proscrip>
ton here TO its utmost extremes. Wher-
ever clerk can be found who was ap-
pointed through Democratic influences, he
Is spotted, and then turned out TO make
room for the small politicians, the strikers
of newly elected Congressmen, or for
somebody connected with that partisan
organization known as the Grand Army
of the Republic.
Holden and the Postmaster General
Since ex-Gov. Holden's accession to
the editorial management of the Chronicle
he has renewed the attacks on Postmaster
General Creswell, simply because that
official filed two or three of the appoint
ments in his department from his own
native town in Maryland.
The Crime of Being n southerner.
The mere fact that Southern born
citizen has the presumption to hold an
Office, no matter how Insignificant, ap.
pears TO give these Radical cormorants
the utmost unessiness-
Laborers and the Republicans.
The latest instance of this intolerable
spirit was shown in meeting of the Re-
publicans here last night. This meeting
was largely attended, and resolution
was sent to the Governor of the District
and the Board of Public Works, protest.
ing against the employment of Democrats
on any of the public improvements now
being made in the city. IRasmuch as
the wages paid to laborers engaged in
this work amounts to but little over one
dollar per day, it will readily be seen how
mean this system of political persecution
has become.
Developments in the Hodge Defal-
cation.
Further developments in the case of
Paymaster Hodge show him 10 be the
king of defaulters. According to the
estimates of treasury official to- day, the
total amount of the defalcation may yet
reach 81, 500, 900. The pay department
is being subjected to the severest censure
for its crimInally careless way of trans
acting public business. According TO
Gen. Brice's own statement he has been
suspicious of Hodge
For some time, and the only way he tries
to excuse himself for not moving in the
matter before, is that the Treasury De-
partment was responsible and not himself.
One of the administration papers has an
article this evening, intimating that these
frauds could never have been perpetrsted
unless
Hodge had AccOmpiices
In official persons, and that the proper
accounting officers should be subjected to
the strictest investigation. The Govern
nent will not realize more than $25, 600
from Hodges own property, while his
securitieg are only liable for $40, 900 more.