The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-09-25

$4,000 more than the like expenses in the State
e e4io with a population Of over -2.Gee.O0o. i
thS state Of Nsrsh carolins were GsI,sessI, be-
ing nearly double the amount expended in Ohio,
md 4 Rsiftimss tSss y Nor yai osrreoiins' / Showed
that thu expenses IN Florida with population
ofls7.eeo. sxesedsd Sle,eoe, being nearly ons.half
iuhabftanfs. IshoTSd that the expensesin Flor
ia were mere than four times the expenses in
tsri Il Srester than that OF the formSr. / further
showed that tbs Expenses in the western Dis
riot Of ARR ansas alone amounted t.. s255,e90, ex-
olusivs Of judicial salaries, and that these were
the expenses in one Court holding two terms a
arsd and ninety State cenrts in Ohio, cholding
TOUR hundred terms IN . year. And / said, In
view Of these faets, that it was impsssibls that
haT6 been honestly daburssd. ! said that the
Attorney eneral felt called upon for some ex-
planatson, aud attempted to account in part for
this expenditure BY q reference 70 prosecutions
nader the Endorsement Act or as It's commonly
ealsd the Law. and sh9WSa, by TIE
nstI0n was not available, for that not one ku.klu
CONVICTION was rePcTteS ron ron e hnt o. SSStaies
state OF NOrth Carolina. And now hold In my
hand that ssne report and l invite any man in
sistement t. examine the report for hirnTeif and
see that what / Fald Is literally truo. This sx-
psaure seems to have created no small excite
inens, IS ssliit might. and hence the Attorney
tS1ueral has been appealed to make n better an
swert than he made In his report and We have, his
AuAN@A -
that Senator in his Dayton speech. That ] may
, give the Attorney-General the fun benefit OF his
aponit q Il deserves, Tgive 1t 70 You at length.
It reads a. follows;
sOrIcn OF rxE ArrO~ESExIGESkE1f,
WAsHISGToS, Septembsr9 o, lST3.l
enatorsT Thurman statements in his MaVsrly
spsesh arc untrue and unjust to this Department
sand fs shicers. Hcspeaks oflargs expenditures
indian conntry is attached to the Western Dis
lrlet 81 Arkansas. Prisoners and Witnesses are
often conveyed five hundred miles to Court.
fifiers we're one hundred and forty-three. eonyic-
ions in 1SI2. Two successive niarshnls in that
district have been remoysd, oeeanse u wssne1
themselves TO keep dswn the expenses. Senator
ThurEan says that no report OF these expenses
who was Marshal there IN the year 1s73, has not
suiS reported hts expenses, bus his accounts up
IreasIrNpud q balance found due and paid TO
him. He feSthBr says that Sl64,Oo0 were expend-
The rsrort frSm which he pretends to quote thi;
she1s that there wSrepending in tnat State in
is!atn the Federal Courts, four hundred snd
ono thousand and one hundred defendants, and
hat IN that yeSr there were one hundred and hf
way is 8 anafi triokunworthy of q Senator, TnKy6
no rssssn to doubt the integrity ofhin, the Mar.
satisfied with his efforts to keep down expenses.
ais accounts are nearly all settled with the
LrssspsS; An Tbo sTns5sss in PPiorida arc NOT
lSrxer than in nsry ~ the ether States. have
made every effort 10 reduce expenSessRsth the rec
Sfds Of the Depsrtmentyfh snow, and thercis
not 3 shade OF truth in Senator Thurman's in
lfmation that thc public msnOy was furnished
py me for f~rty purposes In the Presidential
csmrstyn. 6Rcsos a. WILLIAMS,
"Attorney.General.n
Noy. naarkiL. The Attorney-GeneraI says in
This teteuran that there were one hundred and
ferty three convictions 10 the Western. District
Of Arkansas in 1877; but no takes, good care not
20 sfa.e TIE charges upon which tho persons
aere conYicfod. / had said in my WaTerly
sreseh, 70 which he Is replying that his expiana-
unfion that the expenditure MAS .occasioned in
sreat nart br tao execution Of the Enforcement
n Eu-KluxIaw Tas not correct, for that his re-
Dort showed NOT one cenTiction OF a Kn Klux in
me State OF Arkansas. Now, instead Of answer
.nx that, he speake Of convictions without civ ing
The crime for which, the prisoners we're convicted.
ne does not contradict my statement, and he can
not contradict II unless his Official report was
fsise. Hero Is tAe exhibit lholdtng it upl attach
- 10 Sis oficiai report OF when 4 nave spoken.
ls IS exhibit.D ., and the titlcefit Is "Statemeut
shsWinr the number Of criminal prosecutions
psndin1 in the Circuit and District Courts OF the
Infted States on the 3lst day of December, 1879,
nth tho number terminated during the year en-
ding On that day" And now, under the head of
prosscutions m der the Enforcement Act, the fox
owing is the statement OF this exhibit referring
tothsW Western District Of Arkansss
Prosecutions Va6cr Eafoyeeacaf let.