Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-09-26

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( another portion of his speech Senator
Thurman alluded to the Federal De-
partment of Justice. Stated its sacred
character and Importance to the peo-
pie, and then presented some facts in
relation to its present management
which are of truly startling charac-
ter. He began this branch of his sub
ject by showing that the appropria-
tions for the Department of Justice for
the fiscal year ending June, 1872, were
over So, 600, 900, and that does not in
clude the salary of one judge in the
United States. Then the question
was asked by the Senator, what was
expended? TO this the reply was made
that the expenditures Of that depart
ment for the fiscal year were $3,075,-
332; and in addition to that the Attor-
ney General asked for further appro-
priation in the deficiency bill of $780,
900, making for that department in a
single year over three and athird mil
lion dollars. The next inquiry natur-
ally suggested was, how was this vast
sum of money expended? TO this
Senator Thurman replied: 'There
was expended in Ohio $95, 1922, with
a population of 100000. What was
the expenditure in Arkansas, with
population Of 484,OOO? 1t was $294,-
33l, more than in the State Of New
York with 100000. It was $4,000
more than was expended in the whole
States of Ohio and Pennsylvania put
together. Now, gentleman, how comes
it that in Arkansas there were expand
ed $294,331 in one single year, as the
judicial expenses Of that State, which
does not include the salaries of the
judges? How came it? Why, Mr.. At
torney General Williams saw that thing
would have to be explained, and he tri-
ed to explain tin hisreport. He says:
'The expenses Of the year have been
large, being ngaugmented by the act pass
ed entitled An act to protect all per-
sons in the United States in their civil
rights, and furnishing the means of
their vindication; all the expenses in
cident to the enforcement of the provi-
sions of this act are chargeable to this
appropriation. In some districts these
expenses have been very heavy, and it
has been only with the most rigid e.
economy that the expenses have been
kept within their present limits. A
large sum has been expended for jur-
ries, and for witnesses, larger sum
than for the two previous years but
am unable to control it ," Senator
Thurman then proves that these ex-
penses could have been controlled and
curtailed by the chief officer of the de-
partment of justice, but that no effort
was made to reach such a result. The
money was drawn from the public
treasury, paid over to certain parties,
and no further account taken of the
matter. In order to make his arraign-
ment palmer and stronger, Senator
Thurman, presented the following
comparison to the people of Ohio
"You have eighty Common Pleas
Courts, in all one hundred and seven
ty-six Courts, that sit in this State,
without counting the Supreme Court
or the Superior Court in Cincinnati;
you have in Ohio one hundred and
ninety-six Courts, and they hold, in
the course of the year, nearly or quite
four hundred terms-Without count
ing your Probate Courts. Now, in the
State of Arkansas, in the western dis
tricts, where $293, 900 were spent, there
is but one Court of the United States,
and that Court holds but two terms,
and those terms need not be over three
or four weeks each in duration, and yet,
while the entire judicial cost of litiga-
ton in the State Of Ohio, as shown by
the report Of your Secretary of State, is
less than 100000, where there are
one hundred and ninety-nine Courts
and four hundred terms of Courts, and
the business of 100000 people, the
cost of this one Court, holding but two
terms, exceeded the whole amount Of
litigation for the entire State of Ohio"
This speech of Senator Thurman
presents the Radical party of the Uni
ted States to the people in it's true as
Ipect, that of an organization, which
will pause at no obstacle to reach and
retain power. Hitherto the Depart
ment of Justice has been free from po-
litical influences. But it now acts q
full role in that drama, and this is one
of the live issues which the Ohio Sem
ator thinks the people Of the country
are called upon to consider. If thej ju-
dicial, like all the other departments
Of the government is contaminated,
then the people have no protection for
'life, liberty or the pursuit of happi-
ness"
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