Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-27
SENATOR POMEROY IN AN OLD
ROLE

Grant has set his "loyal" supporters the
fashion of using Office ts make money, and
some Of them are turning the suggestion to
good account. 1t is intimated that Mr..
Robson, Of the Navy, has made about two
millions, and the New York custom-hou
investigation shows that his friends in that
institution "feathered their nests" well,
while there is q strong suspicion that he
was himself benefited thereby. Charges
against these departments have been made
by Republicans, upon strong presumptive
evidence of Astounding corruption and
fraud. Nearly every department Of the
Government is under the accusation of
wrong doing, and is defrauding the people.
Defalcations in the Treasury Department
are of almost daily occurrence. For all this
the people suffer; they pay the taxes while the
scoundrels grow rich over ill-gotten gains.
It has just been shown that nearly a whole
State Legislature was bribed to elect Sen
ator of the United States. The facts are
before the country in the shape of sworn
evidence and the report of the Legislative
Committee Of Kansas. The Senator so
elected retains his seat uncballenged by his
associates. But Caldwell is not the only
Kansas Senator resting under a cloud. I'm
putatiOns had been cast upon PomerOy, bis
associate, and here comes a little corroba-
tive proof of the loose morals of that per
sonage. The following letter from Senator
PomerOy is published in Kansas in Ross
Paper, the editor of which says that he has
in possession the original, in Pomeroy's
handwriting.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 23.-My Dear
Sir: Have you recommended any one to
sell goods to the Pottowattomes ? If not, l
have plan-Mr. 7. of New York will take
hold and furnish splendid lot of goods
providing he gets the license to sell eXclu-
sively on the reserve at S.. Mary's Mission
You can give the Indians an order for goods
on this store-and those orders are accept
ed when the annunities are paid-this pro-
ceeding is recognized here at the Depart
ment-and is right send enclosed form
of letter for you to send back to me-to
give to Mr.. D. But don't deliver it until
Mr.. T. and c. of Lawrence-now figuring
here in Indian matters-and who have an
agreement with each other-about Goods
l say don't deliver your recommendation
until have executed to me a contract to
have IA of the profits paid to w. E. Gay
lord as my share-and IA Of all profits paid
to Mr.. - (name him to me) for your
share. You and l, through our two friends
are to have l-2 the profits-and T. and G.
the other half and Tappan to do all the bust
ness and we have nothing to do only take
our share of profits at each payment.
Now if you will fix it up at that end OF
the line-I will see the writings are all exc
cuted right to this end-And we will all be
right-name the man to represent you
with Mr.. GAYLORD who represents me-
You will see from this letter what kind
of a recommendation to give to Mr.. t.
But don't fail to send it to meas they
must come to term-before they get the
Lisense-T is a grand fellow-It's all
right Truly, S. c. PoMEROY.
Taking advantage of official position to
make money is the order of the day. In
this case Senator Pomeroy went in for max
ing money out of the Indians, just as Grant
allowed his pets to make money out of the
sale of arms to France for use in the war
against the Germans. No wonder that so
many Radical Senators who go to Wash
ington comparatively poor, are able to ac-
quire wealth so soon.