The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-09

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Slio,OOobOO, but am not able 10 speak accurately
IS the secretary has made no report OF that year
lures were from nifty to sixty millions, some
times going sboYe that, because OF extraOrdi
nary nary demands demands. Do you not hiul
HUNDRED millions, ought to be suf
ncient? Yet they now require nearly
pie heavily, but it seems strange how pretext,
cen be found for sl50.010tu. VIII yoa vote C
endorse such expenditures?
VICES IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
Closely connected with the extravaganza is tho
immortality which pervades the public service
This, too, calls for your attentive considera.
ton, and your sincere efforts at reform. II
impairs your revenues. and disturbs public con-
fdence. Need particularize? 1t is known 10
you, at least in part. What department is free
nom faint? In the poStoffice department,
1t extends from the conspiracy to defraud
me government in the mail lettings, involving
immense sums, down to the petty piIfering in
tne repair OF mail bags in the nelghborhoOd OF
me poStoffice at Indianapolis The treasury
G1e lp men has been singularly unfortunate.
DuIlhg lhe Iour years in which Dir. Guthrie was
AZ lts heau, there were no defaults and there was
no money lost but of late years long lists of de-
llshed. and recently large numbers
OF onlcerS III the internal revenue service
nave oeen detected in complicated and enormous
management of the late attorney general, became
Tue Instrument OF injustice. Cruel i'm itSnoliti
t al prosecutions and INSCRIPTIONS in the use OF
the puolic money for political purposes, it be-
esne the object of general suspicion and dis
Irust. AIksn>as and North Carolina were the
sSenes OF us most audaciOus Misrepresentation
OF money. viii IL be proper for me 10 speak Of
tne interior department? An Ohio man is
AT us nead. Will speak of the Indian service
only. In former administratIons The entirs
COST OF mat service was but about So 0OOO when
the Indians were more numerous than now
During Mr. LincoIn's Recommendation that yv"s
ABOUT the cost of the service. In his message of
pecs IA per- 1855, he says that for the prior year
dams amounted to s4,2l652O 70. l suppose the
pension list was then something above one
niiiIIiion, leaying the Indian expenditures three
InlIions. The last official report shows the ex-
Pendi1ure Tor the Indian service alone
S6,692'46! CO. II has more than doubled.
pay more money. but where are the fruits OF the
large expenditure? Both the government and
ome INDIANS are cheated in the quality and
the false accounts that are allowed and maid
An army officer stationed last winter at the Red
scene: "Ihe Indians are all quiet now The
poor wretches have been several ties
I y rs,,. winter on the verge Of starvation
ing They have been compelled
10 eat dogs, wolves and ponies" Did Won read
ne description of the dramatic scene la the in
terror department on the first day OF last June
rs given IN the dispatches? IL illustrates the
policy and style of the department They
wanted the Bl2ck Hills country. The Indians
were brought ia for negotiation On that dav
.ney were in The secretary's room. The secre-
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Indian commissioners was there also. twenty
i've thousand dollars were offered them for The
sls .e HIS III. They did not want to
were reminded Of tie desire OF me
whites Tor TIE country and of the difficulty i'm
keeping tlem out The secretary then told
hem that II they did not take the $1,000 in
hlrty days, they might no; get IT at ALL In the
agony OF MS soul, the chief Red Cloud, cried
Upon me, pity me-" Was ever such .
prayer uttered within those walls before?
IN these years OF Indian mismanagement
90 corrupt and cruel to be described. the
Indians are becoming more treacherous and
he borders more insecure. What say you, my
,ountrymen, to return 10 such policy as
Jackson maintained, when the Ind an was
made 10 obey the authority of the country and
he white man to respect the rights of the In
liam? / will only reier to the late shame brousht
lpon the departments by the developed frauds
with the marine corps. These are all
recent transactions. They yet remain for con-
sressional Investigation.
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
will not weary you even by a reference to the
notorious and enormous frauds that have been
investigated during the past few years. except
hat in the District Of Columbia. That can not be
omitted, because it was in our national capital,
ana brought special disgrace upon the whole
people, and because, in respect to it, the party
has entered plea of guilty. In ISL, the Dis
trict OF Columbia was placed under a new form
d government The governor and many Off
pointed by The president and The other branch
vas chosen by the people. The opportu-
most favorable. 1t was i'm 81 ediately under the
eye OF the president and MS cabinet with a
party party SO strong as to exclude all opposition.
ency. corruption and favoritism soon had
sway ana In three years the debt of the Dis
iricL exceeded twenty million dollarsI The bIlr-
hen became too great for The party. Before the
world IL was admitted that, with officers ap-
pointed y the president and elected by the party
- fraa md raFnrs 4ornyr
They abandoned it and in the
spirit CT RoIne's government of her conquered
Provinces, they placed Tie District of Columbia
ihuec the contrOl OF tree commissioners cho-
sen nom distant parts Oft the country. Free and
representative government fell before corrup-
ion IN lnS capltaI OF Our country, and 1t stands
as humllailng admission TO the world. What
answer IS made 10 the people when they COM
plain OF this most extraordinary condition of
ne service? VIII this plea for the party be re-
,elVed, that, considering the ID agnltude OF the
81 wee, there 'never has been a period in the
has been less fraud. or pscuation, or as little as
now There are old gentlt men who hear me
,i y 10 q period when there was such pure
tStesmanship and such exalted official integ-
,ity as inspired the world with higher conf
lence Ia Tree republican Institutions: TO a
period when one single case of default aroused
NE Indignation OF the whole country and pre-
y Pltateu .the DOWNFALL of an administration.
" nat say you TO the oft-repeated apology that
Lney are active and jealous in detecting.
phhfSiring ana Furnishing criminal officials?
Inere II SC much TO do. But, when they sup
press fraud in one quarter, it breaks out in
anolner; IN that respect, the body polite,
unqer their treatment seems to be like the
oody OF man whose follies and vices have
Drought upon him disease which pervades his
whole system. If, by the skill of the physician,
u De suodued in one part, IL soon appears in
another: But the statement that they punish
lnelI guilty must be deniei. Who has been pun
II? There was the case of a paymaster at
washington City, who, for the embeZziement
Oh above four hundred thousand dollars OF the
PUBIC money, was tried by court martial and
sent 10 the penitentary, but President Grant
pardoned him within year and the money was
never returned. On the contrary, how many
parusans, implicated in transactions which the
people have condemned, have been promoted 10
nigh Offices: The Tweed defense has served
them well. 1t matters not how
many ONO al criminals there may
De, I"eed is set off against each. Tweed's
mantle has fallen over and covered from sight
more crimes than any mantle that ever fell
from human snoud ers. are you honest gentle
men not tired OF that trick? Why not let every
man, rogue or saint as he may be, stand in his
own shoes and be judged by his own conduct?