New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-19
VoL.XXXlV. NO. 1862
WASHINGTON.
IN MILEAGE ACCOUNTS.

ROBBERY IN MILEAGE ACCOUNlH
TIE HOUSE TRYING TO PREVENT 1T WITHOUT DOING
INJUSTICE To GOVERNMENT OFFICERs-lhE
TRUTH ABOUT THE ARRESTS BY UNITED STATES
MARsIIAIs IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF Tie
CONSTRUCTIVE MILEAGE sYsrEM-sourIEKN
MARsuAIs' ACCOUNTS IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAM
PAIGN.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
WASHINGTON Dec. 1S.-The Army Appropriation
lii of last year contained clause aoolishiug mile
.ec of all officers of the Government civil aud mill
t,rv. and providing that there should DO PAID TO
them in lieu of it only their actual and necessary
travelling expenses. This law has been very oppres
sve upon United States Marshals aud their deputies
in many parts of the country. Under existing laws
they are allowed as fees for executing warrants or
serving subpenas only very small sum, so that IN
many instances the nay for several days difficult
work has been besides the money actually paid out
only n few dollars The House Committee on APP
NOMINATIONS to remedy this evil, reported para
rraph in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
ArpropriatiOn bill restoring mileage to United
States Marshals and their deputies, aud when this
point was reached IN the bill to-day very interest
ing discussion arose
Mr.. Beck said that the reform accomplished by
the legislation Of last session was very necessary
one: that without it United States Marshals would
make long journeys unnecessarily in order 10 be-
come entitled to large sums of money for mileage
Tus bad been done during the last campaign in
Alabama, where men were carried through two
Judicial Districts and aIraignCd before a COmmls-
sioner hundreds Of miles from home in order to
swell the mileage. Mr. Beck mistaken in re-
gard to the motive Of taking the Sumter County
prisoners in Alabama to Mobile for preliminary ex-
animation last Fail The Deputy Mushals
we're not paid mileage in those cases.
and there has been laid before the
House in the report accompanying the
Appropriation bill q letter from one of the
Alabama deputies, in which he complains that for
nearly two weeks work he aud his companion
receive, under the new law, only S. The real
object in taking the Alabama prisoners hundreds OF
miles from home for preliminary examination was
10 get them before a United States COMMISSIONS
who would be sure to commit them without bail.
The arrests were most of them made for political
purposes. and that they might have their proper
effect II was necessary to get the men into jail One
man IN jlil was worth as much TO the Admluistra-
tiou politicians there as dozen out on bail.
While the same subject was under consideration
Nj j. Boardman Smith struck blow at the real
abuse in this mileage business by an amendment
which was finally adopted, which abclIshes con-
structye mileage. He said that in his district,
under the old law, the sums of money paid for con-
strucuve mileage were enormous. For instance,
Wien several subpenas Were placed III the hands of
Marshal in Buffalo for witnesses on the shores of
Lake Chdmplain, ne would send them by mail to
deputy on the SPOT, who would serve them and re-
turn them by mail In this case the only expense
would be the postage each way, but the Marshal
would receive full mileage for about 0miles travel
for each subpoena. The result was that when man
IN his district sued in n civil action in the
Quilted States District or C:cuit Court, lie at once
prepared TO 90 into liquidation, the expenses were
30 great.
Mr. Spear raked up the old reports of the judicial
expenses of the Western District of Arkansas and
the Eastern District of North Carolina, in 1872 and
1873 to show how great the amount of outright rob
berry of the United States had been under the old
law Mr.. Cox attempted to amend by providing
that every person arrested by a United States Mar
ell or his deputy shall be taken before the nearest
officer authorized to take bail, but 1t was not Al
order and 60 was not considered.
ALLEGED FRAUDS IN TIE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE.
Mr.. BECK ATTACKS THE ArTORNEY-GENFRAI,A AND
CHARGES THAT Ills DEPARTMENT is HONEY
COMBED WITH FRAUD-wHY Mr.. RIDDLE WAS
DISMISSED PROM THE PROSECUTION OF THE SAFE
BURGLARY CAsE-TnE ATTORNEY GENERAL RE
spoNsIBLE FOR DUrELL's MIDNIGHT oRDER-THE
ARMY AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE SAME OFFICER
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON Dec. 1S.-Mr. Beck improved the
occasion when tie appropriation for the Department
Of Justice was reached to-day to make a savage
attack upon The Attorney General and the manage
mrnt of his Office He said that this Department
was honeycombcd all over with fraud, and he de-
sired to say that it was his deliberate belief that it
was rotten to the Referring TO the resolution
he introduced last Monday, he said that he then
asserted upon his own responsibility that the
Attorney General had dismissed Mr. Riddle from the
prosecution of the safe burglary cOnSprators when
II was known, when the AttoTncy-General himself
knew, that. if the prosecution was continued, high
officials OF this Government would be involved either
as actors OF as having thrown obstacles in the way
Of bringing the guilty men to justice. In the Lou
isana matter be believed that the Attorney General
wac far more guilty than Judge Durel because two
days before Durell made his midnight order tue At
tOrnoy- General telegraphed that he would be sus-
tanned by the Of the United States troops That
decision that has been shown to have been wholly
unwaTTauted was really the decision of the Attor-
neyGencTal, and if Judge Darrell had confessed his
guilt by resi9nng in order to escape impeachment,
tie Attorney General was bound to do the same.
The Department of Justice, nc said had used the
Army OF the United States for the basest purposes
and was guilty of many other scandaIous practices.
When the proper time came he would make good all
that he Lad said about this matter
CADETSHIP PEDDLING.
INVESTIGATION OF THE CHARGES AGAINST REPRE-
SENTATIVE sTOwEIL-S1 200 THE ALI eyed PRICE
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