New-York tribune., 1875-07-20
VASHINGTON TOPICS.
RUMORED RETENTION OF Mr.. FISHER THROUGH
RING INFLUENCE.

RCMORED RETENTION OF NIX flcnEh ibhOSNAA
RING INFLUENCE.
WASHINGTON. Monday, July 10. 1879
The Erenin0 Star learns, on what it regards
as good authority that the President recalled his
reqnest for the resignation Of Judge Fisher as United
States Attorney for the District Of Columbia 1t Is al
mtted that objections exist in regard to the pcsonne OF
the Office but Judge Fisher proposes to all ground
OF complaint by complete reorganization and the ap-
pointment of assistant or assistants VINO
shall be entirely acceptable to the public.
Judge Fishers friends also assert to-day that be has con-
cuded not 10 resign at present and that the President
will allow him to retain his place II this is true, IL IS
only illustration Of The fact that the influence OF
the Ring the District OF Columbia is greater with the
President than that Of the most respectable members OF
his Cabinet The roube in the Office
is not OF recent olig nor was Inc iaiue 10 secure e
conviction of Hines the first OF the kind PERSONS WHO
have been prominent as supporters OF tne Aumins,ra
tiOn and who have been caught in Irregularities nave
for long time been comparatively safe In tnc DSrct
Courts and this has been more ase aso ee .e MAY
than to any other The District Ring cculd ho
Judge Fishers Office and It reported that the delay in
his resignation IL due the quiet visit of one or two In
fuental members Of the Ring to Long Branch.
A PLAN FOR PREVENTING WHISKY DUPLICATION.
The system of checks designed to meet the
methods Of frauds lately discovered through the whisky
exposures at last been perfected and put in opera
ton in the office of Internal Revenue Fifteen or eighteen
clerks are daily engaged in recording every package
which leaves any dstllery the United States. The
records made M from entries made by scekeepers
upon what are known withdrawal papers" As fast
az any packages dunped the numbers are checked
of from dumping papers" against numbers already en-
tered in the records here and this comparison will in
varaby show every OF duplication. To insure the
of this method every collector is now required
to serd complete transcript of the books OF all dster
recti1ors and wholesale dealers monthly thus making IL
possible every package Of liquor from dlster to
consumer These transcripts are then compared with
the Original records here, and II any liquor Id found CIR
culang in the country after the date OF its dumping
II is thus expused M fraudulent All OF these transcripts
are then compared one with another for the purpose OF
detecting false entries These checks taken In e0nunc
tion with the style o rectfying stamps make I'M
possible send tlaTcP packages under stamps tian
the stubs Indicate and prevent the reGsing of stamps
since such return and reissue VIII DIT once appear as
duplication ia the records here
A SUIT AGAINST TIE POSTMASTER AT NEW
YORK.
The Postmastor-G eneral has requested the
Attorney eneTs to designate counsel to attend TO the
application pending in the United states Circuit Court In
New-York for a m3ndamus to compel the Postmaster at
New-York to receive book package for mail transmits
sion to Philadelphia at the old rates The Postmaster
General says he knows but little OF the merits of the
case further than that the Postmaster acting in the
line Of his duty, I'm accordance with the law. Judge
Spence Assistant ht0rney-General for the Post-Ohce
Department, states that there may be some plausible
ground FOR the position taken By the plaintiff in this
case but a decision in favor of tho mandamus wond
greatly confuse the service. There were several i'm
porant amendments in the law which originated III the
Senate among them the law concei ming the postage
newspapers, etc. sent from the office Of publication
all which would be thrown back upon the old law II
the mandamus should he granted.
HOW JACKsONs DEFALCATION WAS EXPOSED
The late dcfalcatiOn in the Collectors office
at Louisville really discovered in the Internal Reve
nue. Bureau here Revenue Agent Wheeler had just made
an examination Of the Collectors office Being furnished
with a false balance by Mr. Jackson he reported the
Office as all right. This balance excited suspicion here
and upon comparing with the balance on the first OF
June it was found to vary $4,000 Word was sent TO
Mr. Wheeler to reexamnc the office testing its amounts
by this balance for certain date furnished from here
This Immediately exposed the defacaton. The office
had been examined three times within the last hfteen
months and time the officers had been deceived by
set OF false papers which MIR. jackson Kept with
special reference such EXAMINATIONS keeping another
set for the uspect;on 90 Collector The Collector IN
the absence If tic facilities the Department enjoy, did
not discover the fraud defacatlOn 10 reported To-
night to amount 81 $4,000 l6,