The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-27
ONE OF xR, HAwLEY's POST MASTERS
Aca CONES TO HIS RELIEF. lA-a
Some Incident, in MT. Hawlsy's Career.

that committee 10 john ID n""i0Ji VI A'""OA''
Chicago Post.
Some men get rich in Congress and some
do not. OF the latter class is Hon. John
r, Hawley of this district. He has never
vet been accused or suspected of taking q
dollar that did not belong to him, ana
though the Craftsmanship of the commit
tee on claims were an open gold NINE be-
fore his eyes not penny's worth would be
illegally appropriated by him. That is
John B. Hawley. Geneseo Republic.
The editor and proprietor Of the Gene
SEQ Repu5I. is one Of Mr.. Hawley's post
masters-indebted to him for his ofioe, and
liable to be kicked out any day, whenever
he fails to please Hawley. We must
therefore, make some allowance for his
zeal in defending Mr., Hawley. But the
Republic is generally pretty careful of its
words and sometimes manages to be tech
nically correct, though morally wrong.
1t says "Mr. Hawley has never been ac-
cused or suspected Of taking dollar that
did not belong to him." In one sense Of
the word this is probably true. We do not
think he would steal, i'm fact we never
heard that he was accused or suspected
Of being thief. But he has been both
suspected and accused of pecuniarily
bene6tting himself by getting the immense
land grab bill passed for the c., r. |. 4 p.
X. r., by which that company dispposses-
sed many actual settlers and obtained ma
ny hundreds Of thousands of dollars worth
of land which no court of equity would
ever have given the company, and that
company dared not rely upon the Justice of
its case in the courts, but procured MIR.
Hawley's services to gets its bill through
Congress, which he did by reporting bill
without the consent of the committee and
then apply the gag, cutting off all discus
sion. Mr.. Hawley is "suspected'of being
pecuniarily benefited by that process.
He has also been suspected aud ''ac-
cused," publicly, by Quincy Mcneil and
others, of appointing Comets son to ma
val cadetship, for a consideration,
The boy is reported to have said
that thousand dollars was placed
in Hawleys hands to draw upon if he
needed but that he never expected to
draw any of it.
We know nothing of the truth or falsity
of either of these charges. They come
from Mr.. Hawley's political friends and
former supporters, and have been banded
about the District for the last few years.
The Republic certainly must have heard
of them before,
Mr.. Hawley is also charged with having
taken money from Mr.. Harroun, Rap
ids contractor, This man was not po-
litical friend of Hawley, and there is no
reason why he should pay Hawley bride
unless it was for some corrupt purpose.
Mr.. Harroun is not living now but his
cash book shows $500, paid to John b,
Hawley at one time How much more we
cannot now say.
Mr.. Hawley is accused of taking money
from the Moline Water Power Co., or one
of its principal members, That company
had an axe to grind in Congress, as well
as the Rapids contractor,
These are some of the things of which
Mr.. Hawley has not only been suspect
ed" but ACCUSED" publicly for some time
past,-and by members of his own party.
We don't know whether any of them are
true OF not, but inasmuch as they come
from Republicans and have been publish
ed in the papers over and over again, il
seems to us that Post Master Hobbs ex-
hbits a good deal of "cheek" when he saws
Mr. Hawley has never been suspected
or accused, F" etc, etc.
Mr.. Hawley has managed to secure the
Craftsmanship of committee which is re-
garded as gold mine. He is in position
where he can urge bills through-for a
consideration, or delay them indefinitely, OF
report against them and get them killed
for want of consideration. We have
watched his course carefully this winter
and we declare that he has shown unusual
and persistent efforts to get bills passed
30 much 80 that he has been snubbed and
choked off by the Speaker and others, sew
eral times. Here is one case, which We
copy from the Congressional Record, un
der date of Friday April II, as follows
PRIVATE BILLS.
Mr. Garfield demand the regular or
der of business.
The Speaker-The regular order of bus
mess being called for, the morning hour
begins at fifteen minutes past twelve o.
clock.
Mr.. Garfield ask the gentleman from
Illinois, Mr.. Hawley.) who is in charge OF
private bills whether he is not willing tc
let them go over to-day 80 we may go or
with the Legislative appropriation bill?
Mr.. Holman hope that will be done
MIR. Gar6eld-It is exceedingly impor
tant we should get some appropriation bill
before the Senate in order to give then
something TO do.
Mr.. Hawley, of Illinois-lt is not my in
tention to press the consideration OF pri
vate business in Committee of the Who'll,
to-day or tomorrow, but we should hav,
tile morning hour To allow the committe,
to submit reports of private bills, so the,
may be referred and placed upon the Cal
sndar, and the bills and reports ordered Il
be printed.
Mr.. Garfield ask unanimous consen
that we may go into Committee of TN
Whole on the state of the Union immedi
ately after the presentation of bills for re
ference. -..--.
MIR, Holman-I hope the gentleman from
Illinois will consider the fact that up t
this period of the session there has bee
an extraordinary amount of time devote
10 the consideration of private business