The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-10
Our readers are well aware that Secretary of

banded together for the purpose OF defrauding
the Government OF the Tax, required to bel
paid thereon by the Internal Revenue Laws
Those arc known and designated by the name
WHISKY Ring" The war waged against this
King" Is unrelenting and thus far has been
very successful, resulting in the conviction OF
several Of the most wealthy members OF the
organization.
While the Government was beng defrauded
of its Revenues by the "Whiskey Ring, other
Rings were industriously robbinS 1t OF vast
amounts OF money by well devised system OF
fraud anj completely OF the clerks and EN-
ployes ia other departments OF the public ser
vice.
Enormous frauds in the Indian department
have been discovered and exposures made inn
picating old and trusty clerks in that Bureau.
All have been dismissed that have been shown
to lee cognizant OF or participated In these
frauds
And now comes a new discovery which has
existed for long time and has its headquarters
in tho city OF Philadelphia. This latter Is
Ring OF Claim Agents, whose business has
bean TO prosecute and collect claims 70, en-
sions 20 disabled soldiers who served IL the
tate Rebellion. Since Mr.. Delano's dismissal
from the department OF the Interior, discov
cries have been made that show that large
frauds were perpetrated en- the Pension De-
partment a. through his administration, and
tong before his time 1t appears that this
thiev,ng Ring Of Claim Agents have been run
ming Thousands OF bogus names upon the Pen
slou Rolls, until the lists have been loaded
down with them. And this in the face OF the
fact that thousands OF the pensioners have
died-and other large numbers have been re-
moved. Yet the lists have constantly grown
larger and the amount paid for pensions have
constantly increased. A Washington cores
,pondeot or the Chicago Tribune, states that
twenty-eight thousand Philadelphia cases have
been suspended for a re-examlnation, involving
the payment OF two million dollars annually
into the hands Of this ring of CLAIM Agents.
The query will naturally suggest itself rs
how this can be successfully done. We will tell
.slittIe circumstance that once came to our
knowledge as TO one Of the methods practiced.
Affirm Of Claim Agents, consisting Of two per-
cons, learned OF the death OF soldier-a
young unmarried man. At the time Of his en-
Astment II had never ceased to ma ke his faith
er's house has home and indeed had not yet at
tanned his aiority. He fell sick, obtained q
furlough and came home Two or three
months vacation improved his health so much
that Inc returned to his Regiment but soon az
ter died This coming TO the knowledge OF the
Claim Agents, as we'll as the fact that he was
entitled TO bounty and considerable back pay.
They wanted this and found means OF secur-
ing the greater part Of it, The method was
this They found a woman of rather easy vlr-
tue AMI soat her word that if she would call at
their office she would learn something to her
advantage. She called. In a day or two one
OF the firm had occasion to go to the neighbor-
hood IN which this woman lived, and called at
her parents house, and taking down an old
Bible wrote therein the record Of marriage
between the dead soldier and the young woman,
tiXlaG the late about the time the soldier was
at homo on bis furlough. Ills was miles dis
liant from the residence Of the dead soldier
AweeA on two afterward. the other member OF
the fi-m meeting well known and influential
citizen WHO lived about three miles from the
house where the Bible was. requested him, as
apersooal favor. to go and make a copy Of the
record OF tne marriage above mentioned and
bring It to him. the agent The man did So
and also made affidavit as to the correctness Of
Che Transcript as well as that he had copied it
ftom family Bible. On this showing the
bounty aud back pay was obtained the greater
part OF which went into the Golfers OF the
Claim Agents
Aztec thus lad happened the father made APP
pllcatiou for the bounty and back pay due his
deceased son. We learned that he had no diff
-~6culty ia having his claim allowed although it
had been once paid before His son had never
been married and he had no knowledge OF the
woman used or OF the payment on her sppii-
cation. These men were the clients of a
Washington firm who had contidents in the
P.ensionOfice as they claimed.
Tho Chicago Tribune says The discovery
of this new nest OF corruption is one OF the
benefits which has attended the recent, but too
dong delayed, change in the Department of the
Interior Secretary Chandler being 4 new man,
of coarse has no affiliation with the past and
mo satoIlItes to protect. He is nothing to He
cuba nor Hecuba to him. He is at perfect lib
Pens,on Der artment, upturn every rock in the
field. and stamp out the vermin which have
been ewsrmIng under them. In this case he
has etruck perfect bonanza Of drelism,
and, bong absolutely free to dig the blast, and
having the disposition to do it, the country can
rest coptentsd with the assurance that be will
mine the bonanza to it's deepest depths. 1t is
agood year for this KIND of work. Secretary
Bristow is cleaning up his nest slowly but very
surely. undsturbed by the futterings Of the
foul birds and the squrming Of the reptiles
which have been swarming in it. Secretary
Chandler will work with equal industry and
determination, and between them there is every
'reasQn TO hope that two departments will be
cleaned and purified. The country is precisely
-nthe condition OF a cancer patient, and Drs.
Brstow and Chandler are cutting and cauter-
izing in a manner which will remove the dis
CASE Now that the operation has commenced,
st'must go on without delay. II there are
frauds in other departments, they, too, must
be exposed and removed. Every fber OF this
great cancer Of corruption must be killed