, 1875-05-29
How the Money Goes.

there are only SlXty-tOur Marshals IN the
different States and Territories of the United
States, including the district Of Columbia
Yet by cOllusion with corrupt oarpet-baggers
in and out OF Congress, and Judges appointed
by their influence. these lIarshals have con-
trived 10 obtain from the Treasury an amount
of money that seems astounding. when meas
ured by their service and dutioi
According to the report OF the Attorney
! General, the following sums are charged %
the Marshals for the last three years:
IS72-Paid 70 l. ) Na-shals 50 81 80 80
1873 Pad 10 L. :. M.rshlls..-...-... 49, 6Gj L
lSli PAID 70 L 5 MarShalS---..--..- 2,05l,S32 4,
Three years------.-..---..-.... e65,7Si ~
Average per -, - -
These enormous expenditures represent the
annual interest ON more than $f5, 600, 900 Of
principal at per cent 1t may therefore be
said that this amount Of public debt has been
! created TO support these Marshals, for appro-
pFiations have been as regularly made from
the treasury for that object as for the inter
est on the standing national debt or pensions
The exposure already made in Arkansas.
Mississippi, Alabama, North Clrolinia, and
other Southern States, prove couclusiycly
that the greater part Of these millions WAS
stolen and spnandered by collusion between
the Marshals, Judges and Commissioners, IN
der protection Of the President, who appoint
ed and retained th.m in office, with a full
knowleise Of the frauds and fJrgorics which
they hat Perpetrated.
It is wholly impossible that such systena-
tied robbery could have gone On year after
yeaT, until these vast proportions have been
reached, without the connivance Of the At
t0rney-General and the accounting officers Of
the Treasury The fabricated vouchers and
fragrant violations of law are 50 palpable,
that nothing ike scrutiny is needed to detect
them They were ordered to be pissed in
this form, and a share Of the spoils WAS paid
Tor the influence which gave the command.
Not a finger has been lifted to stop this
plumber. Right III the teeth Of all the de
velopomeuts. AIr. Garfield and bis associates
! IL Congress voted more than three millions If
dollars at the last session, os,ensibly in the
name of the Judiciary, but really to continue
the pTofigacy By which the Marshals and
their cJnfederates will be able to divide two
and quarter millions among them next
year.
The cost of all this rascalitY falls mainly
upon the people OF the North. The South
has been crushed down, spoliated and i'm,
poycrished to such 4 degree that she Is not
able to bear her Just proportion Of the geIier'
al burdens. So that the c.gPet-bassers have
not only eaten up the substance of these
Southern communities, but they have inlIiot,
ed AN enormous debt upon the North, the IN
terest Of which Is paid in the form Of annual
appropriations for a ring Of thieves.
! Aud IN order 20 make sure Of a spfieien.
revenue TO maintain this iniluItous system,
the republicans laid new faxes in the last
| Congress 70 the extent Of thirty-fve or forty
millions of dollars While every branch OF
business Is depressed, tens Of thousands of
/ labOrers anxious 10 work are idle, imports are
/ falling off and stagnatiOn In trade Is univer-
/ sal, the Treasury is robbed 10 support rogue7
in office, who's only recommendation Is that
they are friends Of the President AID third
| termers.
DemagOgues are now stumPinS the State
/ OF Connecticut III favor Of candidates who
sustain these outrages and justify all the
exeesses of the Administration They seek
to revive the bad passions of the war, and
faUnt the bloody shirt before the eyes Of a
people whose prosperity has been materially
damaged by sectional strife and partisan agI-
/ tation-N J. HlraLa