The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-10


was due but never collected. Great
er honesty and efficiency in the SER
vice would have saved much of that
indirect loss, and therefore the re-
port says, ''for large part Of that
loss a system Of the service which is
fatally unsound may reasonably be
held respon sible.
Sour object was to show the bad
results of an evil system, which has
been edopted by every administration
of all parties for forty years, and
which the administration of General
Grant has been the first to attempt
to reform, as the report itself was the
proof. Had we supposed it possible
that, for the merest partisan purpose,
a Senator Of the United States would
pervert to the injury Of this admins
tratlon statement which was pecul-
iarly inapplicable to it, we should
have prevented the intended injury
by a more ample explanation.
SHOW great the practical reform in
the honesty and economy of admin
lstratlon has been during the term of
General Grant a few facts show.
Official figures of the Treasury De-
partment relative to the actual total
of defalcations and deficiencies un-
der the internal revenue law since
it went into operation indicate that
they have amounted to $8,20O,000,
instead Of $2O,000,OOO, as is often
stated, and that of this amount $780,
600 was under Lincoln's administra-
ton, 50, 100000 under Johnson's,
and the remainder, about 100000,
under Grants. An exhaustive
statement Of the losses Of the gov
eminent from defafcstions in the Ia
terual Revenue Bureau is in prepar-
alton, Meanwhile, Acting Secreta-
ry. Richardson states, in a letter da-
ted June p, 1872, that the estima-
ted ultimate loss to the government
upon the receipts of the internal rev.
enue from March 8, 1869, to March
3, 1872, is less than one-fiftieth part
Of one per cent, or less than two
dollars in ten thousand dollars. In
the customs the estimated ultimated
loss from the 1st of April, 1869, to
the 3lst of December, 1871, is one
two-hundredth part Of one per cent,
or somewhat less than five dollars in
one hundred thousand dollars. On
the basis of constant average
amount Of deposits the ratio of esfi-
mated annual loss to creditors from
the insolvency Of the national banks
from June 1, 1869, to June l, 1872,
has been 1-186 part of one per cent.
of the deposits, or five dollars and
three-eighths of dollar in one hun
dred thousand dollars.
cit is in view Of such facts that
Senator Trumbull publicly states
that General Grants friends confess
that a quarter Of the revenue is stolen
every year in consequence of the cor
ruption of the administration. We
repeat that we do not learn that he
processes to believe what he tries to
persuade his hearers to believe and
we regret that, in our desire to diyest
our report Of any partisan character
and to make it as concise
as possible, we failed to explain this
statement more in detail, and tol
show how vigorous and successful
were the efforts Of the administra-
ton to prevent the loss to which we
alluded. Respectfully,
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, |
'"ALExANDER G.. CATTELL,
"JOSEPH MEDILL,
dawson A. WALKER,
"E. B. ELLIOTT,
''JOSEPH Il. BLACKFAN,
"DAYID G. Cox.
John A. Logan
The Loss OF THE BAEGRs BALTIC AED ADaIATIc
The bargos Ajax, Adriatic, Joseph, and Baltic,