, 1874-03-26
Solicitor BanfieId Explains Certain Mat
ters Regarding the Sanborn
Contracts.
6anhorn Now Declines to Make = Full
Statement Before The Ways and
Means Committee.
4 Large and Enthusiastic Anti-Moioty
Meeting In NoW York City.

"Asn'safo", - o'' Maion zo-@ne ways anu
Means commltteo continued tho examination
forward tbls timo were observation-disclosures Dliaa
I'd ao1,,.ax pnan,,a -, ~ T..s."s NJst,.,. ae
'ra ao1,s1o; ps'ansia' W NV 1loa'uss. No'ia2
o1 STARTLING Interest," WAS aoSeiopoa. As Yesterday,
deeper in tho mire, instead of helping him out,
nASprrLp
,,,,,.., ,x,,t In.t -, - =. H..
oo'tH5ea " ete"' ueai u anaosance as 'no
to tho management Of tho at1aira. He'allegod ip
excuse that tho Department had not paid suf-
nc;ort ottont;o,, r., tho ,not,orNnot ,;1o u .,,,
,n,,ar.sa"a =. ,,asa.oa ms',a EVIL ~ .no
Importance It dcaefVeu. Auls WAS exceedingly
thin, ae tho whole management by Treasury Off
corr OF the 8anborn contracts show thnt thero
was All understanding Of tho full merits Of tho
case. The Committee arc coming to regard
as having conducted himself III peculiarly re-
psehcuaiblo manner. Tho moro they uneartll In
tho investigation tho moro they ilnd to Sawyer's
dBc.cait.
sahbor,, himself was not reached until quito
late, and ho excused himself from tossifying by
saying that he understood that tllo District
Deputy Attorney from Brooklyn WIS in tho room.
This waB tho case but tho Committee are flo-
termincd that sanborn must toll what ho knows
before they got through with him Hon. Frank
N. Greene tigu1ps ID tho nubljshod Sanborn
papora Is
"a SPECIAL STATE AGENT"
Of the Treasury. A letter asklng for tho exact
status OF tGis gentleman was addreuged
10 the Secretary OF Tho Treasury bY
member of Conrress recently. In fiH
ropiy, Richardson stated that Groeno Waa mol
known to tin Department; that thoro was no
such ie;trpntnfl of1fcer belonrinr tn tim nnnnrt.
ment: that Qreouo rcceiyod nd comnenaation
from tho Department for any serylcoa whatcyer,
This lesfor was written wook ago, To-day
Solicitor Dantleld testified that Groouo had bepn
commissioned 10 tho Dotectiye Bureau Of tho
IT,,
pose Of giying him such authority as would en-
able him to got at private BOOTS and papers
whenever ho wished, while in discharge of lis
dusioe a. sanborn's assistant, to do so,
ITO The Associated Press1
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 25.-Vho COMMITTEES
Of Ways mud Means gayo another hearing in the
matter Of tho 8anborn contracts to-day and
Solicitor Baufeld made statement. Ho ap-
pearcd, lie said, not in the interest of sanboru.
or any other contractor, but at tho request Of
tho Secretary Of tho Treasury, to explain tle
relation Of the Department to this contract
question. Tho applicatiou for coutracte to col
lect dobts duo tho 'Goyernment Ind baon - mado @
Solicitor we're not fayorably disposed to the syB-
lem. contracts were given to several parties at
rates Of
COMMISSION VARYING FROM 20 II. so PER GENT
on the amounts to be collected, the contlnctors
to pay all oxponaes. But the inyariablo result
had been that nothing was collected ut all
svonts, tint the Government got nothing. The
3y6tem H18 A0fOEAtoQ. ana was NOT resumed uu-
Ill the passage OF tue law under which the San
born contract WAS giyen and less ca,e waA takon
TO limit the commiaalon under that contract than
There would have been II it had been supposed
that anything would be collected. Tho Solicitor
saa
SHARPLY onoss-qursr1osEp
by Mr. Beck as to why Internal Revenue Col
lector Douglass waa not called into connulta-
tion by the Secretary aud Solicitor whoa they un-
dertook to carry Tho Law into effect, and also al
to what authority he had to writo letters to iu-
terna revenue oiIcers, directing them TO MD San
born, when tho law required that lie should aid
them. To the first question hiB repy was that
the law referred to "debts withheld" and not
particularly to Internal revenue matters; aud to
tho second that tho idea OF assistance was that
it should be mutual, aud that Sanborn could not
very well asAist the regular officers unless they
we're willing to assist him. In reply to q ques-
ton by Dir. Sheldon. the Solicitor said he had no
knowledge, belief, or suspicion that any officer Of
the Government lad received, or expected tn re-
coive, anything in any way from the Hanborn
contract.
cludcd,
JOHN D, sANBonN
cauo before the Committee, but instead Of pro-
ceedlpg with bis statomont, he said that he bad
M.'h a .ne tass I'VE t"enty'l9os noats r. oeen anslseu