New-York tribune., 1872-02-13
MORE YORK FOR THE COMMITTEf'

Tho washington report of the Presidents
intention to abolish the Leet a. StocKins
abuse was so natural. and, indeed necessary
that it was generally accepted, yesterday
without confirmation. That 1t must coino,
sooner or later, is inevitable Ill IL Snou''
prove that it is to be yet longer delayed, VIC
shall conclude that we have underratcd 'he
Presidents Obstinacy, in striving TO creoie hin'
with CLEANS of political sagacity. But our
merchants were yesterday cOngratulating theiii,
selves on the prospect of early reiiel' an"
thanking the Custom house Committee for tne
unintentional good of which it was the unWh-
ling cause Yet, if the investigation had not
been brought to so sudden termination,
additional witnesses would have established
other facts which would have rendered
similar frauds less possible i'll the fu-
ture All recognize, as the Committee
must, that an incomplete investigation OF
the Custom-hcuse frauds will be moro dis-
astrous to tho Administration than any
report adverse to tho Custom-hOuse man.
agement can possibly prove. The Committee
can better face the danger than fly from 1t.
If the investigation is pursued to it's natural
conclusion, the whole management OF the
Custom house must change hands, ana the
system of conducting business there for the
benefit of adventures like the dismissed Leet,
and office-hunters like the retired Murphy,
must be reformed. But to discontinue 1t now
will be to cast upon the Administration at
Washington all the odum attaching to its Oiii-
cials here, for people will not be blinded to
the fact that it is the Administration which
covers the retreat of the Custom-housc.
| And now that our merchants are probably 10
| be rid of the General Order abuse, they conil-
IDENTIFY look to the same Committee to save them
| from that of the Quarantine. The Congress Com
mittee was ordered to investigate these frauds,
yet it retired TO Washington without taking
| the necessary steps. The interests or their
immediate constituents may suffer through
| their continued absence, they say. They
will have the consolation of knowing they
are accomplishing national work and hasten
ing national reform. They need never fear
| that they will not have work enough to
| do in ferreting ont the frauds of the Demo-
cratic Quarantine officials. They will find in
| THE TRIBUNE of August II and 12, 1871, full
| details of the organization OF q conspiracy
| by which our merchants were defrauded OF
many thousands of dollars, and suffered an in
direct loss Of trade of many millions. The
truth of that strange story of fraud can be
shown by unCucstionable evidence. THt
| TRIBUNE will furnish the Committee with the
names of those who paid the bribes and who
profited by the corruption; of witnesses who
will establish the extent of the frauds; of mer'
chants who suffered by the eXtortiOns; of thost
who possess the written agreements under which
| the rascalities were perpetrated, and who hold
| tho books in which the proceeds of the robbery
are recorded. The statements which we have
| made of the extortiOns of Leet g. Co. in the
| General Order business have been fully sub
stantiated before this Committee We promise
the members who hesitate to inquire into the
grosser robberies of CarnOchan at Quarantine
that the proof is even more positive. We
trust they will not shrink from this investiga-
ton in which our merchants are so deeply
concerned, and which, rightly conducted, will
compel an unwilling Democratic Governor to
afford our commerce additional relief