The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-06
/. Whether the executive departments


obey the laws.
ments control or undulv influence legisla-
ton.
3. Treasury defalcations.
4. Secret sales of gold, and who prof.
tied.
5. The practical workings of the in.
ternal revenue system. and whether the
liberties of the citizens are violated in
connection with it.
6. Ditto the customs system.
I. The practical working and value
of the secret service Of the treasury.
8. The practical working of the office
Of the secretary Of the treasury, and the
nature and effect of the powers exercised
by clerks therein.
Q. The practical working Of the ma
tional banking system. and the bank-note
redemption division.
10. The Union Pacific railroad, finish
left und me.
II. The Central Pacific railroad, and
the division of $2l 10000 among four
men.
II. The ''revision of the laws by
Poland, Butler and Conkling concerning
duties, pensions, Department Of Justice,
&c.
Is. The disposition Of FUNDS derived
from sales Of seized cotton, including the
operations Of McCulioch, Jay Cooke
and kaupmann, Of the Star, in manipu-
lating said funds and keeping them from
the owners.
ID. The use made by Jay Cooke,
with Secretary McCulloch's permission,
of $7O,0OO.OOU or $80,OOO,O 900 Govern.
! ment funds.
Is. Robesons loans of millions Of
public money to Jay Cooke and McCul-
loch to edable them to set up and main.
tain i banking house in London.
l6. Robson sales Of $40,OO0,OO0
worth Of ships without accounting for
the money.
u. Beknar's sales Of $500. 100000
worth of war material without account
ing Tor the money.
lS. Boutwell,, Spinner and Bristow S
violation Of their oaths OF Office by sup
pressing the Government S cash account
for years, which makes all Treasury fig
ures worthless.
10. The effect OF appropriations for
internal improvements on legislation
and public morals.
90. The lying debt statements Of the
Treasury.
q. The fires in the Navy and War
Departments last winter.
p. The theft and destruction Of pub
lie records.
%. The fraudulent increase in vaiua-
ton OF the French franc, and consequent
robbery Of merchants, put up by Fish s
son-in-law and ilartley's son.
"a. The open defiance and nullifica-
ton Of the act creating the Department
CT Justice.
8. The actual use Of the $4,000
obtained from Congress and spent by
Robson under the Virginius excitement
when he knew that there was no danger
Of war.
Is. The Indian ring.
q. The post-oflSce straw bid and
straw routering.
%. The practice Of delaying payment
Of Just claims. using withheld money to
buy bonds not due, or forcing claimants
to paw blaekmail; and the extreme Diff
Guilty Of collecting honest claims.
%. The practice Of official superiors
sustaining their subordinates. through
thick and thin, right and wrong.
80. Attorney General Willi:ms efforts
to bully judges Of the Court Of Claims in
to ruling severely against honest csedi-
tors Of the government.
81. The methods whereby fraudvlent
claims are passed and paid in the Treas
ury.
30 The means whereby Ben Butler
has come to be counsel in nearly every
important claim case,
80. Jay Cooke L Co. s tricks to pre-
vent the building Of the St. Paul 4 Paci
fic railroad. running Dutch bondholders.
"a. The deposit Of public funds in ia
vorcd blanks by disbursing officers.
50. The methods Of taking sureties
Tor public money.
81. The Treasury habit of deciding al
questions against the tax payer, law or no
law.
IS Alterations and discrepancies in
the books Of the Treasury.
80. Jay Cookies profits on hunting up
claimants for unclaimed interests, kept
secret from others
10. Tricks played on merchants by
officials in revenue cases in district courts
whereby adverse Judgments are fraudu-
lcntly procured.
Al. The practical working Of the bank
rupt law, and the destructi, III Of bankrupt
estates through Official trickery.
AZ. Pensions; how frauds are put
through. and how honest pensioners are
oppressed and Uefrauded.
43. The effect Of our present currency
system in producing Decentralization and
panic.
~. Who profits by selling gold for
greenbacks to buy bonds with. instead Of
buying bonds direct with gold.
As. The means why Bareings we're
dropped IS United States financial agents
in London, and the rotten concerns of
Jay Coke, McCulloch 4 Co. and Clews,
Habicht & Co. substituted.
46. The number Of useless officials the
people nave to pay.
AZ. The vast expenditure and sharp
uracfice of A. r Mu,Ietf in nuhlic meet.