The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-23

guide for its readers, aud Will TO the best
Of it, ability meet it.
The District Attorneys Ofice at WASH
ington.
During the last four years the press has
made the public familiar with the gray 4
charges against GEORGE =. FISHER, United
States District Attorney at Washinrton
and these charges recently assumed 50
menacing a shape that ne WAS forced to
retire, though backed by Boss SHEPHERD
and the whole Ring of thieves with whom
he had been intimately identified. That
his office was employed for the most in
famous purposes in the service. il no
longer disputed even by the organs of the
Administration.
The profits derived from these abuses
must have been enormous; indeed they
are estinat"d AT least at twenty-five thou-
sand dollars year. They may have large
ly exceeded that figure, when the failure
10 prosecute indictments, the suppression
of prosentmcnts by the Grand Jury. collu-
sion with rich criminals and the black
mailing Of gamblers ana prostitutes are
taken into account These ouirngcs were
pcrpetratcd under the very shadow Of the
White House aud the Department OF Jus
tice. They were notorious in the COM
munity, and had often been represented 10
the President without the least effect.
FISHER WIS third-tcImer and q member
of the Ring aud nothing more was r.
CURED to recommend him to favor aud To-
protect him in Office. lie was IN high con-
hl,nce with the Administration and the
leaders in Congress, So much 80, indeed,
that an exceptional law was passed for
his benefit, through means Of which many
of the most garng impurities were COM
mittrd.
BY various statutes the District Attor-
news are placed under the direction Of the
ACCOMPLISHMENT, Tue act OF Aug.2 l-Gl
provides:
e ias A,tor 5s ,i 9y-,'c seaet '9rcr
S I'iF q g. Ne "'' '' '''''1''''. ' 's''e'''
Aaaiu, act OF June p, $50.
v-.u .ov o,r. d. accounts - hi..f,c' 4 or's,..
.l. .@' 49,. other or!-ers VI thc col4u Of tIe
Again, Revised Statutes page IA
7 uf
t.r, u go ~ re'c} .4l"isr. for Al As
ahd ic .r, 5 sg' flt g n,, aa,.
OF it r' % 1.-Two A'" as --..iT' ~ arr
BY sub>oq.c4, act the District Attor-
ney for the ~outhcru District OF NeU York
was allowed the proper expenses Of hi
Office, "to be fixed y, the A'tornev-Gci..
eral."
Aeaia, act of February O. 1856:
"f'e} AL p'iri; A,iorn"y GERS AL mar n shall
IA M. ~, ~ 81 row. '' i'e' ana 'l, ''',,
ti hl9'r ilr r,u'gos 90 ,gd allowances al.n'i.ssd
with the single exception of the District
Attorney office in TIN, city, which was
singled odt on account Of the immense
business which is Transacted there, all
others were placed on the same footing OF
500 pr annum for salary. with fee. to
reach n certain mlximum prescribed bv
law for different states. They were all
made subject to the Attorney-Gencril.
These restrictions did not SUIT the Ring
a. Wa,huatuu, or their tool the District
Attorney, vino wanted more money, and
10 get the control of hi, account, pat
whore they could be easily manipulated
without undergoing The previous scrutiny
NJ t,o n.n,,t,,,.,,, ar I,,,ti,., a., ..,......,..
the fees Ms reouirod nv fine oct or t.,q
Nyho, the R,u,. therefore nroi ,..,.1 ,I,.i.
Police Court, which has since become 80
notorious, they smu2glcd m the following
section IN the act OF Jaiy II, 1870;
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H. day - u. ra,e4 state n-'rlr At'orl,, ar tn
hs slant. or dtnu'l,s oate 10 The p3o.crnton
o. en- elsll bic an ii n.i ,on' r. lIT ,9i re