The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-06-12


he proceeded to collect the money
from Mr.. Phelps, who supposed him
still to be a government officer. San.
born got one-half the amount giving
Coughlin 123 per cent. for his share
Mr.. Foster says in this connection
that " while there is no direct evi
dence to show that any officer had g
corrupt connection with Sanborn
the facts are that certain Internal
Revenue officers were not only will
ing to obey his orders, butd did so with
such zeal and success as would have
rendered them subjects of compli
mentary notice, had they employed
these qualities for the government
whose sworn officers they were. -
He refers to the fact that while they
confidentially co-operated with San
born, they were careful not to com.
municate with their superior, the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
who was kept ignorant of what was
going on.
Gen.Butler having attributed San
born's success in collecting taxes to
his experience while in the employ OF
Adams Express Company, and to his
superior "energy and skill" ," as bu-
siness man, Mr.. Foster replies in the
following effective style:
Mr.. Sanborn was employed by the
Secretary of the Treasury in the year
1859, and was continued in this en-
ployment until May 81, 1873. Dur
ing all this time Sanborn has been
allowed pay for every day, including
Sundays, that has intervened from
that date to the termination of his
employment, and in addition thereto
has received an average of probably
$40 per day for expenses. Will the
gentleman from Massachusetts, in
form the House Of the nature of his
employment by the Adams Express
Company, as well as the compensa.
tion he received from them during
this time? Will he please tell US why
it was that Sanborn was paid for ev-
cry day, during which time he must
of necessity have been attending to
his private business, which the gen
tleman from Massachusetts saws was
conducted with "energy and skiIl?'
Can he tell US why it was that his
pay and expenses were continued du-
ring the time that Collector Simmons
says he was engaged in lobbying the
Legislatures of Northern New Eng
land2 Can he tell US why his pay
was continued daily while he was Ia
boring to secure the triumph of the
gentleman's favorite candidate foy
Senator? Why was pay continued,
daily, including Sundays, while San
born was"fxing" things in the inter
est of the gentleman's aspirations for
Governor Of Massachusetts.
Mr.. Sanborn is indeed a "mysteri-
GUS" man, as well as a man of "ener-
gy and skill" and he has succeeded
in shrouding his business in mystic
ry. 1t required a man of "energy and
skiI' to secure contracts; first for
the collection of taxes known to the
Department at least one year before
the contract was made, and against
whom indictments were had at least
four months prior thereto. Itreuui-
red these characteristics to secure
contracts for nearly three thousand
legacy and succession cases, and his
and skill rose to the nights
sublime when he took q Railroad
guide to the department and obtain
ed contract for all the roads that
were in the book, and the "energy
and skill'' with which he took the
oath that they were all indebted to
the United States must meet the ad-
miration Of his friend, the gentleman.
from Massachusetts.
Let me tell the gentleman from
Massachusetts, (Mr. Butler, that it
requires no very great depths of OBJ
servation to fathom the peculiar fit
ness and grand energy which he
claims for his friend with which it is
sought to explain and extenuate
these glaring Irregularities. Give to
any man of common capacity the
manipulation of the entire force of
the Treasury Department at Wash
Ington, and add to this the aid of
the Wilfully-missled InternalRevenue
officers throughout the country, back
ed by the best legal talent to direct
IN the hunt for uncollected taxes.
With special letters estopping ali
and Collectors from col
Getting such taxes as this person
night claim were his particular pro-
vince, by contract, to collect, and
Iuch results and successes might
Iollow; and what becomes, then, of
he assertions Of the gentleman from
Massachusetts, (Mr. Butler,) who
comes forward with apparent alarm
md with 50 much alacrity to the de-
ence of Sanborn in his ill-gotten
gains at the expense of an alreaedv
impoverished and oVerburdened
rreasuryH /
AS to the official responsibility in
his case, Mr.. Foster says:
"It is impossible, with the evi-
Ience now before US to determine |
ust where the responsibility for the
naladministration of the law rests: |
'ut that it rests somewhere in the
treasury Department is the general
erdiet Of all who have given this
natter their attention. The motive
oVerning and controlling its admin
stration, / am not yet able to un-
erstand; but l do know that San
orn has been permitted to collect
sxes that could have been easily
by the ordinary agencies,
nd the Treasury in its present de-
leted condition has been robbed of
YER 100000, and this money has
One into the pockets of Sanborn.
he Department permitting this ir.
is deserving the condem-
ation OF the people, and the officers