The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-15
WASHINGTON.
The Sanborn Investigation.

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| WASHINGTON, April IA. - The Ways ant
| Means Committee examined A. j. Odell, treas
| urer of the Delaware and Lackawana Railroad
| and Lucien Hawley, Supervisor of Internal
| Revenue of New York. Odell stated the cir
| cumstances under which his company paid
,6S5 back taxes to the government uudel
decisions OF the commissioners of interna
| revenue. Finally, the question having been
| decided, the statement was made up BY Odel
| and the tax paid. He had never seen or heard
| of Sanborn or any of his agents in connection
with the matter, and was completely surprised
when he subsequently saw by the printed eff
| fetal documents that half of the amount had
been paid by the government to SanbOrn
His attention was called by member of the
committee to the fact that although he had
sent a check for the amount direct to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury on the sixth of January
| last, a letter from Sanborn to the Secretary of
| the Treasury, dated two days afterwards, states
the date, amount and number of the check,
and that the money was collected by him (San-
bcrn) These particulars could not have been
ascertained by Sanborn, except through the
Treasury Department.
Hawley's statement showed that although
Sanborn's contract for railroad taxes was dated
the 4th of July, 1873, he had obtained CO.
operation of himself ard assistants at least two
months earlier.
In the examination of Hawley he gave as a
reason why he was not astonished at the San
born contract that he had already been operat-
ng in collecting derelict revenue taxes in New
York under contract with VIM. p Wood.
He had collected $11 900 from one Henry How
ard and $z3,OOO from man named Wallace.
The existence of such contracts anterior to
Sanborn's seemed to astonish the committee
very much.
Hawley gave the names of Alden, Stowe and
Steiner who while in the employment land pay
of the government had been turr ed over to aid
Sanborn. He did not know that Sanborn had
paid them anything but he did know they had
received their pay regularly from the govern
ment.
He was Intercepted by Mr.. Roberts.
Questionable Sanborn give you any infor-
nation in any case as to taxes, or did he sim ply
name the case?
Answer-He never gave me any written in
times talk about it.
Question-What advantage was it to you as
TO the government to have Sanborn contracted
with in the Delaware and Lackawana Com
pany matter?
Answer-Merely TO call attention to it and
set on foot an exami nation.
Question-Was it not your duty as Supervi-
sor of the district of New York to see that as
SCISSORS and collectors did their duty?
Auswer-The law makes it my duty to see
that all laws and constructions are carried out.
Both witnesses were instructed to furnish the
committee with copies of certain kilograms and
communications.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day:-Currency, $2,SS3, S22; special deposit of
deposit, $53, 500 900; coin $47S Se5 060 Including
coin certificates $35, 680, 800; outstanding legal
tenders, $3S2.OO0.0OO.
Various Matters.
Internal revenue receipts to-day $197 $50
The Civil Rights Bill.
The substitute for Mr.. Summers Civil Rights
bill reported by the Judic airy Committee to-
day provides that all persons within the juris-
diction of the United States shall be entitled
to the full and equal enjoyment of public con-
veyances on land or water, theatres or other
places of public amusement and also of COM
mon schools and public institutions o. learning
and of benevolence supported in whole or in
part by general taxation, and of cemeteries SO
supported, subject only to the conditions and
limitations established by law, and applicable
alike to citizens of every race and color,
regardless of any previous condition OF servi-
tude.
Any person denying to any citizen any priyi-
leee conferred by the bill shall pay $500 to the
person aggregated and shall also be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
| thereof shall be fined not less than $500 nor
| more than $1,000, or be imprisoned not less than
| thirty days, nor more than one year. The Dis
| trict and Circuit Courts of the United States
| are given, exclusce of the Courts eff the sever
I al States, cognizance of all offences against
| the bill, and actions may be prosecuted lin any
| United States Court whenever the defendant
may be found without regard to any party,
any nistrlct attorney VINO snall wllfuliy fail
10 instirqte ana prosecute proceedings when re
| quired, shall for such offence forfeit and nav
| the sum of $500 to the person aggravated, and
upon conviction thereof be guilty. of m;s aI'
meanor and be fined not less than $1,000 MOI
more than $4,000. No citizen is to he
| disqualified for service as grand or petit inrv
| in any State or United States Court on accom-,
| of race. color or prey ious condition of sery;
tude, and any officer who shall exclude or fail
| to summon any citizen for that cause shall h.
| fined not more than $4,000. All cases arisino
under the act may be reviewed by the Supreme
Court OF the United States.
| The Pacific Mail ssP OOl.''
1t is said that it has been discovered tn.
100000 of the famous $500, 900 fund placed a
the disposal of an agent of the Pacific Mai
| Co.. to be psed in ayerting competition and az
curing increased Subsidy was transferred nv tn,
| agent by his sister and invested in real estat,
| in PHILADELPHIA and that the comnanv exnect,
| to recover this amount
C.s, ~ R.fura;,u a.. N.: nah,
Inc secretary oi the treasury, IN compilanc
with resolution OF the House, reports tn
cost OF retundIng the national debt into the
per cent; Donds authorized by the act OF Con
gres July IA, 1871, and Jan. 80, 1871: IN
whole amount OF bonds returned is 3l4, 4l6, lou
rs follows: BONDS bearing l per cent lnteres
to bonds bearing per cent interest, 300, 46l,
10y, DohdS bearing per cent interest, ioan
fooo, " ponu 100 o. P ono oeno. .Laroo
Al 44O. 772. 'O'''
C..,. uvs.
O lilo
Secretary Richardson has made nego.r"
ton for toe exchange OF half a million d new
per cent. bonds for ponds par for par, auJaS .,
ing the interest to the time OF excnanse ~, 40
each and allowing only tquarter Oh one f fa
cent. commission. This is enc OF the lnoSS III VI
Secretary will make further exchange on On
same terms with any party who may apply.
The Currency Question.