Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-09

the sheets, and in an invoice order, and
the sheet being turned over by the copy
ist, without his noticing it. The letter OF
the commissioner of internal revenue,
October /, 1873, the two letters addressed
to the supervisors and collectors of in
ternal revenue, under date OF
February 8, 1873, and October 15,
1873, and the six letters acknowl-
eGging the receipt Of certain sums,
belonging to case II, under the SanbOrn
contracts, page Ist Of printed docu-
ment'; the three printed letters belong
ing to case Is, page 126, case 19, page
147, and case IS, page 239 respectively,
and q letter to the treasurer of the Uni
ted States, transmitting for collection
certain drafts belonging to case SO, page
ZIG, were inadvertently omitted. In
addition to these omissions your atten-
ton is further invited to the following
errors in printed documents as furnished
you by the congressional printer: TEdO,
on page %, dates given as August l9,
1873, shall be March 19, 1873, and the
name of EIkin Sewers from
page 81; the name of J. Nicholson
Elbert, to which the solicitor of the
treasury refers in his communication to
the United States district attorney at
Philadelphia, page seventy-twO, of the
printed document, which was not fur
nished, and is not now enclosed, for the
reason that after dilligent search L have
not been able to find it-eXcepting these
omissions and misspelling some of the
names, permit me to express the hope
that the papers now transmitted will be
found to complete the record. 1 have
the honor, sir, to be very respectfully
your obedient servant,
WIN. A. RICHARDSON, Secretary.
To Hon. James q Blaine, Speaker Of the House
OF Representatives.
Among the papers are the following
letters:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, october Is, 1873.
To Supervisors and Collectors of Internal
Revenue:
You are requested to assist John D.
SanbOrn, of Boston, in examination of
such cases of alleged violation of the in
ternal revenue laws, in regard to which
he may ask for your cooperation. Mr..
SanbOrn is acting under an appointment
from the treasury department, and may
need some aid and information from
your district, of verifying these claims.
Please render him such assistance as he
requires. Very respectfully,
A.. .hlGHAhlJSON.
Secretary of Treasury.
A similar letter was previously sent to
supervisors and collectors by Secretary
Boutwell,, dated February 3, 1873.
The following letter was addressed by
Secretary Richardson, December 3, 1873:
To A. W. Tenny, United States District Attor-
ney, Brooklyn, New York, in regard to the
Sandborn case:
SIR-Yours of the eighteenth and
thirtieth instant, are at hand. Before l
can consent to furnish you with the pa
pers asked for, which are of a quasi con-
fidential character and effect the inter-
ests of private parties, will thank
YOU to inform me of the cases pending
in your court, in which it is claimed
they are required as evidence, for which
they are to serve.
The attorney, January 2, 1874, re-
piled:
1 was aware that the papers
as evidence to be
the interests of certain individuals, but
as l think, more particularly the inter
ests of the government, which as a law
officer for this district am bound to re-
gard as paramount to those of any indi-
vidual. l am now prepared to show
systematiZed frauds upon the treasury,
and that these are augmented by the
if not the active as
sistance, of the public officers. l have
in view of the facts and circumstances
of the case, deemed it my duty to con-
vene the grand Jury for the seventh in
slant, when / shall lay the matter be-
fore them. 1 therefore beg to renew my
request contained in my letter of
the seventeenth ultimO, and that l
be furnished with the papers at
once.
On the eighth of January, Solicitor
Banfield wrote to Mr.. Tenny, saying he
had had a consultation with the secre-
tary of the treasury and the attorney
general in relation to the evidence de-
sired, and asked that delay of few
days might be granted for presenting it.
On the eleventh of January Telny
wrote to Banfield that it was necessary
that the record should be in Brooklyn
as early as possible, as the delay had
already entailed additional expense
upon the government. He said
he would thank Mr.. Banfield to forward
them, so that they might reach there
by the return mail. Banfield, on the
twentieth of January, inclosed to Tenny
copy of Sanborn's contract with the
secretary of the treasury. On the twen-
ty-fifth of February Tenny wrote to the
secretary of the treasury asking him to
send, on or before the fourth
day of March, copies, duly
certified under his official seal,
and in such manner as to be used
as evidence OF contract and amendment
thereto, made with John d. Sanborn
for the purpose of aiding the proper
officer of the government in discover
ing and collecting any money due the
United States, and also copies, duly GER
titled, of all the original papers now on
file in the treasury department, in
Guiding any and all drafts given to said
Sanborn in payment of any money
dine him under said contracts. In the
estates mentioned, are those of B. d.
Phillips. A. Moore, Martha Doulan, and
ei0hteen Others. The secretary of
the treasury, February 9th, replies that
the napers of which copies are asked
are so yoluminous that the department
couid not conveniently furnish them by
the fourth of March next, as all the
Sanborn papers were now being printed
for the use of congress. Would not q
COPY of the executive documents con-
tanning them, when finished, answer
tbe same purpose for which Tenney de-
sired them? II SO, the secretary says