New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-12
WASHINGTON.
General w hisky Raid.

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! .General Whisky Raid.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE best planned
and most skilIfuliy executed campaign eve
made by the government against the whisky
| ring eliminated yesterday in the seizure Of
more than thirty OF the largest distilleriel
| and rectifyipg houses in ST. Louis, Chicago
| and Milwaukee. o
Other whisky distillery seizures have
been ordered at Pekin, Illinois, Cincinnati
| and elsewhere, and the Secretary to DAY
| directed that legal steps be taken at all
| points where frauds have been discovered
| and that arrests be made where the evi
dence is sufficient to justify them. The
| Officers have already asceit tanned that great
| quantities Of this crooked whisky have beer
distributed throughout the country, espe
cislly in the South, but the form OF the
packages in which it was originally shipped
has been changed in many instances, and il
will be now impossible to detect much of it,
The value OF the distillery property seized
yesterday was over ! 900 600. Detectives
are hunting up consr gnments from illici,
| distilleriee, and broken packages are seized
The Florida Ship Canal.
Assurances have been given that the exc
cution of the following ciauee of the river
and harbor bill, which passed Congress, il
progressing favorably:
For surveys to ascertain the most eligi
bic line on which q canal across the
Isthmus of Florida can be constructed, and
whether a safe land-locked navigation be
tween the waters Of the Mississippi and the
Gulf along the coasts Of Alabama, Louisi
ana and FLORIDA, and through the latte,
State to the Atlantic coast, can be had; to
estimate the probable cost aud practics oil
ity OF the construction of such works, and
OF any artificial water routes found nee
essary; to provide a safe inland navigation
between the Mississippi river and one Ut the
seaports on the east coast of Florida.
Indicted.
The grand jury indicted Congressional
Postmaster Klns 4Or perjury in connection
with the Pacific Mail line, and ex-Marshal
Kinds on tour counts tor bribery in connec
tion with mail routes. r.
Appointment.
The President appoint Ii James w. Ward
postmaster at Corpus Christi, vice Taylor,
suspended.
The Attorney General.
Pierrepont will assume the Attorney Gen
eralship Friday.
Army Item.
Lieutenant Tyler relieves Captain Cook,
in charge of national cemeteries At Chatta
nOOsa and Knoxville.
Decoration Day.
Federal and Confederate soldiers are cor
daily invited to ,p,in in the decoration OF
graves at Arlington on June 4. The Con-
tederate graves will not be decorated on
May 30.
Georgia Gets Her Arms.
The War Department today decided in
accordance with the argument of General
Young, that the orders from the ordnance
n A6ylo NJ nnf boil
tions from the Southern States should be
revoked.
More About rho whisky Seizures.
Commissioner Douglass, of the internal
revenue bureau, to-day telegraphed to the
various supervisors who are experimenting
the work of seizing the Illicit stills to send
the names of all revenue officers employed
at any of the establishments seized, in order
that they may be immediately dismissed
and reported to the several United States,
district attorneys for prosecution, in every
case where there is evidence of collusion. it.
having been stated tnat Commissioner
Douglass heretofore opposed the change of
supervisors, it is proper to state that on the
of January last he wrote
an official letter to the Secretary of
the Treasury, expressing q belief that a
transfer OF supervisors under the authority
of law would be for the best interests of
the public service, and designating by
name the individuals to take charge Of
certain districts. This was done for the
purpose OF developing frands then alleged
to be going On in several of the districts,
and that suspected officers might be super-
ceded by men considered TO be vigiiant
and honest. This recommendation was
approved by the Secretary Of the Treasury,
who issued an order through the commits
siOner addressed to the several supervisors
them to different localities. The
at tho same time issued an
order to revenue agents, under the charge
OF the supervisors. changing them also.
These orders, however, were subsequently,
revoked, owing to the political pressure
brought to bear by supervisOrs and others.
Who would have been etteoted by the
change.
Commissioner Douglass, in a card pub
lished this afternoon, says Mr.. Rogers was
acting commissioner at my request, yester-
lay, and only because had some personal
business to attend to that would keep me
,ut of the building until between one and
,wo o'clock in the afternoon. In regard to
he matter of seizures of distilleries in
ome portions of the West, when the secret }
ervice Office was reOrgaDizsd under it's I,
chief Washburne, one of whom l had long
md tavorably known as an able and |
vigorous district attorney in Illinois, ! |
made the request of one or both that |
whenever any of their force who were |
trangers both to the internal revenue off |!
ials and the distillers happened in the |
curse of their public employment in any |
ection of the country where distilling was |
arried on, that would be greatly pleased |
o have them make Investigations and. in |
orm me OF anything wrong that they |
night find, and thus more certainly
insure a closer enforcement of the |
avs. The twenty five revenue agents al. |
owed by law were all but two or three
q duty with the supervisors throuehout |
he country, ancOOf course, with the tfifiipg |
reception OF the two or three above referred |
Q, are not Immediately available to this |
thee. /. is said at the internal revenue |
ftce to-day that there is not yet sufficient
yldence before the department. upon
'hlch to base its action concerning Ger
ain officials who must have had some |
Of the fraudulent transactions.
r else have been grossly negligent in per- |
hitting them to be carried on, and thus far |
o removals other than those of the |
augers and storekeeps heretofore men-
ioned have been made. Additional in
were to-day sent to collectors at |
arious points East and West, where the |
apartment 10 satisfied fraudulent whisky |
as been shipped, to seize all such supplies,