American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-16
SchurZ and JuSSen.

THE public will sarnly be gratified to
observe the touching interest taken by
Mr.. crville Grant in the revenue SERVICE
in this city, as set forth IN the lSttef of
ex-Col!ect"r Jussen, which we publish
elsewhere. Colonel Jussen, who is now
residing temporarily at Bonn, Germany;
having accidentally sehn copy OF the
New York Times containing the celebrated
attack of that newspaper on Senator
SchuZ, preterring charge of nepotism
against him on account of his relation
ship to Colonel 1ussen, etc, The latter
concluded thai ii was about time that the
charge should be answered; and the pub
lie will conclude, we think, that it is an
swered effectually.
Colonel 1asseii states, In the first place,
that Senator Schurz utterly refused to
have anything to do with procuring or
soliciting his appointment as Collector
of Internal Revenue. FOR sht reas',n, ea-
pressls, that 1t would lay him open
to charge of nepotism. This
was Immediately after the Inauguration
of President Grant, aud at a time when
Senator Schurz's influence would haze
been potent in securing the appointment
if he had been willing to use it for that
purpose. However, Colonel Jussen was
appointed without Senator Schurz's
agency, and entered upon the discharge
of his duties. And here his troubles be-
gan, for not only did a ring of local poll
ticians, who gave themselves credit for
having obtained the position for him, as
sumo TO administer the office, but
he soon detected one DR.. Lamper, n
cousin of the President, who had Been
appointed :: Gaiiger OF Highwines, COM
hitting frauds. Lamper was removed
from this office, but was appointed Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys in Washington
Territory. where he was shortly detected
in lending tine Government funds to spec
ulators grave offensc under the Sub
Treasury law, but for which he has not,
we believe, been prosecuted.
This was trying circumstance, but not
so puzziing to the inexperienced Collector
of Internal Revenue as another, which is
! related. A few months after Colonel JUS
sens appointment Mr.. Orville Grant, the
Presidents brother. called upon him, and
invited him to make a visit at his (Grant's)
! store. After the invitation had been re=
peated several times, Colonel Jussen went
there, when Mr.. Grant coolly proposed
that he tJussen) should allow him to run
distillery and pay the Government one
half the amount of tax due on the pro-
duct thereof. The reasoning of the in
genius Oryille on this point was that the
Government would lose nothing, since,
If the whole tax was required to be paid,
the extra quantity of whisky would not
pC 1lc dlSO stSSuTeu inc AOllcCtOT
that he would make it all right at Wash
ington. The logical faculty happened
to be developed in Colonel Jussen in
such an extraordinary way that he could
not see the point of Orville's reasoning,
and he told him so. He Iussen) also in:
formed the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue, General Webster, the Assessor,
and Colonel Bloomfield, the Supervisor
of Internal Revenue, and also Senator
SchurZ, of the nature of his interview
with Orville and lis result About six
months later, Mr.. o. Grant called upon
Colonel Jussen, and explained to him
that he had made the proposition to him
/ for the purpose of testing his (Jussen's)
integrity. This, everybody will admit, is
highly probable. The felicity which per
| vaded the bosom of Orville, when he
went home that night, rejecting that his
brother, the President, had secured that
pearl of Civil Service Reform, an honest
Revenue Collector, must have been ex-
ceedingly great.
We think that Colonel Jussen has suf-
ficiently answered the charge preferred
| against Senator SchurZ by the New York
Times. 1t is painful to add that Colonel
Jussen was removed from office, in very
summary manner, about a year after the
transaction here narrated, though we be-
| lieve that other influences had more to do
with it than the enmity of Mr.. Orville
Grant We should have supposed, how
ever, that an officer, who had been proved
to be honest and faithful by so fine a test,
would have been retained in the service
at all hazards. -Chicago Tribune.