The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-26
IDAHO CITY, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1871.
POLITICAL CORRUPTION.
HOW AND WHY SENATORS PUT THIEVES, CoUNTERFEIT
ERs AND coUnTEsANs IN OFFICE.


A Washington letter in the New York Sun
tells some of the secrets of how appointments
to Office at Washington are made. Under the
head, ga story of Western Senator" the
correspondent says:
Sometimes the parties so appointed by Off
cas approach the Senator or Representative
with whom they have had relations with a
threat of exposure if he does not get them ap-
pointed The Senator, for instance, is a mar
red man, lives in good style, receives elegant
ly, and entertains sumptuously. He cannot
afford to be exposed. He knows that the wO-
man who ia hanging about to blackmail him is
a bad woman. He knows that she is ass0ci
ated with man who claims to be her husband,
who is suspected of belonging to a gang OF
counterfeiters. Notwithstanding he insists
that she and her lady friend, who also demands
place. shall occupy Il position by the side OF
respectable women in the Currency Printing
Bureau of the Treasury Department. where
ample opportunities are afforded these two
lady companions of the suspected cOunterfeiter
to pursue their criminal professions
um illustrating my point by real case.
am not supposlng one, nor drawing upon my
imagination. This is not all that the frightened
Senator did, He demanded that the man him.
self. who had received 81 900 hush money,
should be- appontedn in the Interior Department.
He was told by the acting head of that depart
ment that the man was a sc0undrel; that he
had bad reputation at home, and was sus-
pected Of belonging to gang OF counterfeit
ers in the United States.
1t made no difference. The Senator saw
near hlm the glare of the demon, and felt his
sharp claws in his flesh, for he trembled with
fear when he heard the Secretary's words,
Never mind" responded the Senator; "if
what you say is true he will make good de-
tective in the Pension Bureau. Appoint him.
Set thief to catch thief"
A Senator commanded, and q creature of
the Senate obeyed. The suspected counter
feiter was recently removed, complaint being
tnade by another Senator, whom he had also
attempted to blackmail, that the fellow was a
scoundrel, The acting Secretary said: 'Yes,
think he is, aud told Senator - SO; but he
insisted and yielded. If you demand it
will remove him."
The Secretary said afterward that he had
removed him; that he had pursued his Sena-
torial victim and insisted on being reinstated,
and the belief is that he is now in the employ
of the Government, if not in the same place,
probably in some other bureau
The same Scatter has paid out to these
thieves counterteiters and their paramours
about ST, 900 hush money, besides keeping them
in snug places in the Government pay, where
they can spy and post up their outside confed-
crates. This Senator cannot be benefited
much by the temperance reform which have
suggested, because he is already pioneer in
that movement. He is pious temperance
exhorter He has great deal to say about
virtue and against corruption, but he is proba-
bly, the greatest legislative thief in the United
States Senate. He is only one. There are
others Neither of these women to whom
have referred can be reached by breaking up
certain houses in this metropolis. They do not
live in such places. They are too "respecta-
ble" If thunderbot would unroof all the
residences in Washington when the entire Gov
ernment is there, some morning before dawn,
its electric light would astonish the nation.