New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-05

IFrom the New York TnbuneI

From the Congress committee which Ia.
! Festigated the affairs of the CustOmhouse
| at New Orleans we have, at last, two OF
| three reports. Of course, people will be
better able to judge of the value and fair.
ness of the conclusions to which the subdi-
visions of the committee arrive when the
| evidence upon which these are based is
| spread before the country. But enough of
/ the doings of the Customhouse gang in New
| Orleans is already known to show the char-
acter of the report which is put out in the
| special interest of the administration.
The evil Of appointing ones relatives to
public place was never more fOreibIv illus-
trated than in the case of the Presidents
brother-in-law, Mr. Casey He naturally
expected, when he took possession of the
New Orleans CustOmhouse, that his little il.-
reguiarities would be passed over unnoted.
and that any unfriendly criticism
would be set down to the credit
OF the Presidents enemies rather
than to his own shortcomings He gre "
strong in his place; he was the mOuth-Diece
IN Louisiana tor his kinsman. the President
OF the United States Marshal Packard
an ADLER man than Mr. Casey, managed
the collector, managed the President
SO far as Louisiana politics were con-
cerned, and thus controlled Federal
politics in that State This was the
How could it be expected that commit
tee, made up of Congressman who were
likely any day to be asking favOrs of the
President, would go TO New Orleans and
write report which should reflect upon
this personal administration brother-in.
law, II not upon the administration itself?
They have not done it. 1t has never been de-
MED that there was a schism in the Repub-
Hcan party in Louisiana; the Committee
hJyf nc ~
Collector Casey and Marshal Packard
were at the head of one faction, and Gov.
ernOr Warmoth and his friends at the head
Of the other, they disingenuously saw that
the quarrel was among the leaders of the
Republican party, federal Ofice-holders be-
ing on both sides. What federal official was
against the collector and his crew. We do
not believe there was one humble tide
waiter who dared wag his beard against the
awful dispenser of federal patronage in
Louisiana.
From this the comInittee naturally goes
on to mild platitudes about the non-inter-
ference of the administration. The inter-
ference Of the President did not consist in
ordering up the troops when the Casey
Packard party took possession of the State
Republican Convention and fortified it
with United States arms IN the United |
States Customh0use; nor did his interfer- |
ence consist in ordering out the revenue |
cutter to carry the runaway members of |
the Legislature out of the reach of civil |
process. The Presidents part was to keep |
in their places the men who did this /
wretched work, and he has done so. There |
are rumOrs that, after a half year has /
elapsed, the President has asked his |
brother-in-law to resign. He should have |
been sulnmarily turned out of Office six
months ago.
The report of the committee, so far as the
chairman and Mr. McCrarv speak for them.
is just what might have been expected
indeed, was expected. But there is no at
tempt, so far as we know, to disguise the
fact that Mr.. Casey violated law and de-
cency in his administration of affairs This
could not be covered, and so we must ex-
pect to see the collector out of his place in
the course of time.