, 1874-03-21

When Butler failed to bully Congress- into
hueltng up tho sanborn swindle, tho country
heard with amazomont that this hitherto un-
known pct Of the hero Of Dutch Gap and Fort
Fisher had beon paid some hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars for helping our Standing army
Of oo,000 civil servants collect the taxes It was
thoir duty to get, without outside holp, to tho
last cont. Tho job ia being slowly unmaslod.
The more ita disguiHes are stripped off, the moro
hfdeous docs the rcalisy appear. The first ldea
was, Tint this man Sanborn really discovered taxes
which tho regular of1icials had failed, through
criminal carelossnoss, to take cognizanco of.
Then 1t was found that some OF tho taxoe, half
OF which sanborn Ind received, were boing rogu-
larly collected through tho proper channels,
whom Secretary Boutwell, arbitrarily intcrfercd
aud had them intrustod to tho protego OF him.
self and his patron Butler. This was bad
enough. But now 1t socma that sanborn had
nothing wlatogor to do with collecting six-
sovontlg OF the taxes on which he has boon pcr-
1nitted to levy blaokmatl The whole amount
nominally got by his oxortions was s427,03o.
OF this, $685., $40 WAS paid to other people. tYot
sanhorn waa paid half Of the grand total. Judge
Davis, whon he was United States District
Attorney Of New York, collected $3.50; Secretary
Richn-lsou, s2,2o2. II; Solicitor Of Cla,ma Pros
bury. %, 4,38o.Go; Revenue Agent q. IL. Horton,
$15, ,708.50; tho Simmons, s21, ,1o4.42; q. Bliss,
Jr, Judge Davis SUCCESSOR, sG4, ,lo1.0o; Auditor
Frank N. Green. $120, 12215; and Luciap Hnw-
10y, informal Revenue Supervisor ut New York,
915l, ,201.a6. This last man B ono Of Sanborn's
pulls, and Is now under Indictment with him for
conspiracy to defraud the Government. Sim
mons is one OF Dut1er''s happy family
happy because their scAemes OF plunder
have been mighty success Bliss is
BlHs. No moro need bc said to
my man who has read tho reports Of Official
rascality in New York during tho lust fow yoars.
Judge Davis is believed to bo an honorable man.
Groon, Horton, and PreBbury arr uul.uow1.
Richardson received, In letter dated March 81,
1873, the sum OF 50, ,2o2.71 from the Treasurer Of
the Buffalo, Erie l. New York Railroad. The
letter. stated that tho amount WAS paid as an
assessment made by the Assessor. Two weeks
later, sanborn wrote, saying that he forwarded
the check tho Treasurer sent in March. Hall it's
face WAS at once paid to the spy. There ia
another such ugly caao which Mr.. Richard
son would do we'll to try to explain. The
President Of the st. PAul l. Pacific Railroad
remitted $8.293 to Washington. On the day
ofits receipt, half tho amount WAS paid to San
born. The collection was presumably made by
Proabury, who ia stationed at St. Paul. Still
another railroad case was that OF tho Delaware,
Lacks wanna l. Western Railroad. This Com
pany pays taxcs On q number Of leased linea
Last year, different officials mado direr-
ont calculations Of tho amount duo.
This involved como delay. Jan. 9, 1874,
tho Supervisor Of the Revenue notified tho
Company that their tux lad been fixed at 800 C85,
This was paid into the Treasury at once. Jan.
8, sanhorn wrote that he had helped collect
this sunni Half Of it was given him. Tho records
Of tho Treasury fail to show tint sanboru
lodged information of any unpaid taxes, save tho
pittance of 311, ,10o.37. Allowing that the in
iquitoua contract was right, we find, then. that
the spy should havo received half Of this pit
tance, or S5.554G9. Ho really received $213.-
519.76. Total steal, $207, ,965.a6. It ia small
wonder TINT Butler tried to cover up and con-
tinue job with go much money In it, Imperia
Rome won't Aoadlong to destruction when she
farmed out tho revenues Of her provinces. Can
Republican Amorica afford to longer farm out
the revenues OF her States?