, 1874-03-14

RuHsol1, Of Boston ; mud thu gtoateHt executive
,nicv m'Sn IN aud t"o p.y pa1y nyH @ hoen onre,e by tic
such men may plead TINT thoy tuoIt no llloro
flesh thai, the law provided for Thoy tnny say
aa once heard afr. Dar1cv my, that t{o aycya.o
orent nen ~ tls1 i no harm and no trnasrea
may say as heard Mr.. Jnyno say ol,1y yoater.
day, that llono Of tito complaining n,orci,ania
woro willing.to l,ayo thor cascH Opened : tint
.oy Iiau cGionsed tl,er fraud BY compromising
tl,n law as It stanIa, and ,iot tho faotH. Int i
Will strike Distant and tlsgnItlo pooplo n littlo
g;nef' III tnat ncn like Con. Dix md Moses Grin
Of enoy sr1w '' aoryoa ~ ao'Assts sta rsS sans
whom they raiso. in tho aot, to 10 contontial
md wealthy oilicora Of tho United States. Ho
diugnstnE have been the particulars Of tits stnis.
tor basiao5s, 30 numerous tho Implications Of
amounts received by the mean and snyiuc too]a.
tint the Secretary Of tho Treasury presented in.
formation Oh the subject with ttii,llcnco nn1
aono papers requested ho haa not furnished at
all. !. :
It'll not tho best way to state a,lch n,nttora 30
as to add to tho growing atheism Of tho rublio
on tho subject Of all official morals, and then
diatnhn tue mattor, to DO forgotten III tho next
net Of conErcHB Ia understandable. A law, As I
ilayo said waa passed In 1868. aud passed agnin
aud strengthened in 1867,-the year Collector
smyth9 got that slo2.o0 purt of tho
Hf.
4uirod by no lcBs q n1crchnut than NIoscs #.
urinnoll aud smytho himself was, or lad boon,
morchant So that mercantile honor appoars
to 10 easy on this question. Herein lies tue
scandal of tho Administration that. knowing
the abuses Of tho syaeu1, tho enormous mo,oiins
received by officials md 1nformcrs, n,,d tho
temptation Of such to ta1nper with rcantile
honor, and icite It to break tho law, for tlo sake
Of snrrondering the victim. tho Sccretnry Of tho
Treasury was dumb, Congress- WIS lopt i, frno-
fAtlED and. not until thnHo 1nfr,fyo., -, o,s
dragged tic Oldest and most lonorod ioadn to
tile pillory, did Congrcss tsoll crv out W :: ii iot
ali ormers n o1 nose hsara sa aGs m hyS
all tho accounts pertaining to thogo sei1urgs ]"
Then, what had beou 10 lonr l1urjotl in tho
granite eolHtors Of tho Treasury -b.,iitliug was
Capitol. Persons unknown to respco,able tnre No.
cioty stood before the regular Committee. saving
with quiet or indignant audacity; " We aro liz
victims Of tloso merchants. Your laws gnyo us
power and wealth. Could you have expected
hnndsomer men to do tho lob OF Dlueskiu or
Jonathau Wild 2"
JAYNE AND sAEponN.
The person iutrrlntcd with tho koys of char-
is Jayno, and 10 told inc that Io was co,,,,rr.
ton Of DR.. Jayne, tho nostru1u -ulalor OF phj,az
dolphia. Flo was rniecd In NORTHERN pcnn."i-
yania, although brought up IN Now York Stnte.
Ho las low forehead, . scared. Wild look. n
run down with bad health or nervous cyn;tc',
mont Mon in snch nnrsu,ta co,nnnn, s;u;.i:
tile bowl they aro preparing for oti,ors What
datcctivo against higt cAaractor over tlied ,y;tf
much eatato, hoaltl1, Sr homer !? Eyon Iafayntto
Uahor ornircf ,hucuroi, J,.ntle u;i1 sotao @
langod. Some 70 cra2y: ohors aro disnracnd u %i's
one or two have Eono to the PENNSYLVANIA Tc,is.
laturo apparently to giyo It charactor: o,, snn1o
pass, In lilo most natural wny. to thn pen;tono
iiary Society aud morals law and pnbl,c;am
are Just now inoditatj1,g tho complnto nvcrti,row
OF tic spy system. It is a bud way to n,nko n
thief to catch thiof. Even the i,eysnnnor.
business has been iuyadoa Nv pn.o.
detectives and I am iolJ thai w;i!;eo, t1!eo,
P. Wood, tho organizer Of ali thc
Bpies In tho United States service. han cstaI,.
lished ~ school Of journalism" God hoin IN
who expected to write and not to sneak for liY-
many mon tro1nb1o, a. they wore confronted hy
hitu In tho private inouistiou-cbambor of t1,o
om.Honao, showed, before tho Ways mud
Means Committee, actual Bensibility, and cried
corlenco with the law and 4is commission and.
turning to tho merchants testifyinc tnoro bn |
said TINT tl,oy wore s.n,1gglors as clnsy: ITe
was made to keep quiet; but he proceeded,
and make sentiment asainnt tho Importers. Io |
y said to DO absolutely cll,-haying made above |
800 200, or Oh much as President Of tic |
United States can honestly save i'll eight years.
illus 10 We see wsst mighty dividends arise from
the accumulation Of tho $3.50, 900 aforesaid |
Mny it not strike many renders that the Custom
Houso system ID In itself concentrated evil,
particularly whom duties arc laid to accomplish d
price in tho homc-market, instead Of with tho
object Of satinfynug the plum cxaction Of tho
Revenue?
But, while Jayne may plead TINT 10 ia al
officer under tho law. what sort of inv was that
PASSED, like many acts Of Congress, without
challenge or rotlortion-wllich authorized Tue
Treasury Departments to dolegnto to porsona
other than official the discovery Of oyasio,tn nf
the Revenue Here now vet of spies anIenr
un|1o upon the scene, Of whom sauborn is tho ohief.
1hls man u commonplace, keon-oyed, busi-
il the identical peraou to whom Don;amin But.