Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18

bOs Ii IS bne ff1SlDg. OF tD6 people every
where to put down Grantisn, a "rising''
that the henchmen Of the peripatetic Presi-
dent regard with unutterable anguish, and
which is destined to sweep them and their
master into perpetual obscurity. f..
THE MEANS GRANT EMPLOYS TO
RE-ELECr HEMSELF.
We have recently reproduced several
statements from The Washington Patriot
showing how the government is used in the
effort to re-elect Grant. The Patriot con-
tinues these revelations, and they grow still
more important. "The entire Senate wing
Of he capitol Of the United States, !" says the
Patriot, "has been turned into great Rad
cal Republican headquarters, for the use of
The officers and clerks detailed from the diff
ferent departments of government. Every
committee room and lobby is oc ,upied;
forty boys are engaged in folding and pre-
pairing documents for the mail, and station
cry, belonging to the people, is being
used without stint at the rate of
over one thousand dollars worth daily.
| Query: Who is it that pays for
the paper and paste? (paste, too, at one dol
lar bucket.) Who pays the wages at $40
per month? Who pays the room rent? and
echo answers, who? The Washington city
postoffice has virtually been removed from
F street, between Seventh and Eight, to the
capitol, and the Hon. j. E. Edmunds, post
master, occupies for bis official headquart-
ers the room of the Committee on Com
merce, OF which Zach Chandler is chair
man. Here the postmaster may be seen
daily froN ten to three, controlling all
matters connected with the diffusion of such
interesting documents as the New York
Times, the Binghamton Journal, the Con-
trast, and 'What Horace Greeley knows
about this, and that, and the other, duly
franked, contrary to law, for on the z0Lh of
June, 1872, John A. ]. Creswel, Post
master-General issued a pamphlet entitled
Partial regulations under the new postal
code, 1872 in which appear the following
paragraphs:
THE FRAMING PRIVILEGE.
The following persons are entitled to
frank.
First. The President, by himself or pri-
vate secretary, to cover all mail matter.
Second. The Vice President, to cover all
mqil matter.
Third. The chiefs of the several execu-
tive departments.
Fourth. Senators, representatives and
delegates in Congress, ard the Secretary of
the Senate and clerk Of the House of Repre-
sentatives, to cover their correspondence,
and oil printed matter issued by authority
of Congress and all speeches, proceedings
and debates in Congress.
And no person entitled by law to tie
Thanking privilege shall exercise said priv
lege otherwise than By his written auto
graph signature on the matter franked; and
all mail matter not thus franked shall be
charged with the legal rate Of postage there
on.-ICOde, s 1901
Postmasters will carefully observe the
foregoing instruction.
JOHN a. j. CREswELL,
Postmaster General.
PosToFFICE DEPARTMENT, June 20,
1872.
DIN the face Of the above law, twenty
bags of ranked mail matter are daily sent
from the capital by the Radical Republican
Committee, franked mos tly by lady clerks.
These bags contain about one hundred
Thousand letters, upon which the postage
amounts to three thousand dollars-or
nearly one hundred thousand dollars per
month-and all this is'done under the d.
rection of J. II. Edmunds, postmaster Of
the City of Washington, and chairman of
this committee. A Chronicle branch Of
fee has been established in the committee
room on public buildings and grounds in the
Senate wing Of the Capitol, and here twelve
girls are employed daily in folding the docu-
ments printed by Senator Jas. Harlan, editor
and proprietor of the above administration
paper, and United States Senator from
the State Of Iowa until March 4, 1876. The
same paper has also, as associate editor,
Maj. Stanton, paymaster of the United
States army, who draws his monthly pay
from the United States Treasury, but who
is detailed for this special duty. The COM
mittee room on Southern outrages' is used
by eight or ten lady clerks, whose salaries
amount to seYenty-fve dollars per month
each, and paid out of the United States |
Treasury, detailed to frank and direct let |
tiers to all parts Of the country. The other
rooms now occupied By the administration |
party are the
Committee rooms on mines and mining. |
Committee rooms on patents.
Committee room on claims.
Committee room on private land claims, |
Committee room on military.
Committee room on postoffice and post |
roads.
Committee room on public lands.
Committee room on enrolled bills.
Reporters lobby, and the lobby in front |
of committee room on postofices and post |
roads.
Several rooms are devoted TO different |
States, such as Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota,
New York; and to each of these rooms /
is detailed a $1,000 clerk. All the |
clerks in the Interior Department
who signed the call for a mass meeting of |
soldiers and sailors to make arrangements |
to attend the convention at Pittsburg, Sept. |
II next, in the interest of the Radical par
ty, have been promised ten days leave of
absence and free pass there and back. |
All who belong to Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois are to have leaves of alb |
sence from Sept. u until Nov. II, with
passes to their different homes TO go and |
return, and then two months salaries paid |
in advance. The appropriation for special
service in the different bureaus is the fund |
from which the money is to be drawn TO |
meet all the expenses thus incurred"
Hon. S. j. BAYARD, of New Jersey, |
permanent Chairman of the Maryland In
stitute Conference, was intrusted with the |
responsibility of making ND a Unitad States /