The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-19

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fraud. An investigation of Treasury
bookkeeping will be quite in Orderly
7. Tribune, Jan. IA.
[ As was expected, the Republicans in the
Senate refused the appointment OF
select committee 10 inquire into the treas
ury accounts. Senator Davis made an
able speech to day, fully sustaining the
statements he has already made, and
overturning entirely the lame e1plsna-
tions of Messrs. Boutwell, and Sherman.
Baltimore Sun.
CHOKING INvEsTlGATIoN.-T re
publican majority in the Senate yester-
day achieved another small victory in
the way Of silencing investigation. Sena-
tor Davis of West Virginia, called up his
resolution in regard to the appointment
of special committee TO investigate the
books and accounts of the Treasury De-
partment When this resolution was up
before, Mr.. Boutwell, pooh.hoohed the in
vestigation and said that the discrepan-
cies and irregularities were "mere nst-
tiers of bookkeeping" Mr.. Davis has
since gone over the ground very careful
ly again and his second search diclosed
even greater irregularities"
If it should be referred to special CON-
mittee, in common decency Mr.. Davis
would have been put on the committee
and there would have been Democrats as
well as Republicans in it, and earnest
work would have been done. This would
never do. So they moved to have the
matter referred to the Committee on
Finance which, being Republican, will
hush the Investigation into bslmy slum-
Der, or else trea. it with whitewash, pure
and simple. So the vote was taken on
the amendment, which stopped Mr..
Davis mouth, and then the resolution
was passed, which stops the investgs-
ton. Moral Don't investigate,-BaI-
tim0re Gazette.
Senator Davis has set good example
to the noble army of investigators, This
gentleman having first examined with
evident conscientious care into the Trea-
.ury accounts, supplements his resolution
for committee by speech which en-
braces facts and figures, from which the
Senator makes both logical and msthe-
matical deductions of vital interest TO
the country, and not at all compliments,
ry to the Treasury Department account
ants. Senator Boutwell's explanation of
Senator Davis statements were not at all
satisfactory. We have no doubt that
Secretary Brstow can explain every act
of his administration. and will be glad of
the opportunity to show in his whole Of
fetal career the consistency of pains
taking and honorable servant of the
country.-.Sunday Capital.
What Senator Davis had to say yester-
day touching the meaning OF his resolu-
ton to investigate the books of the Treas
ury Department so nearl Y resembled the
remarks which any business man would be
likely to make. if he suspected his clerks
of bad bookkeeping, that the Senator
from Massachusetts,, who never upon any
occasion allows the country to forget that
he was the best Secretary OF the Treasury
it ever had, instead Of undertaking vim
dcation, should have quietly voted for
the desired committee. 1t Is far from
probable that the books of the Treasury
Department have been dishonesty tam
pered with, but as Senator Davis charges,
it is very likely that they have been In.
accurately kept, and bad bookkeeping in
a Government office is thing that ought
not to be tolerated for an instant. In
tina. sense investigation is important, and
it ought not to be refused or delayed
Philadelphia Times (2ndJ.
Only an expert could attempt to e1
plain or even to understand, the strange
apparent discrepancies in the accounts OF
the Federal Treasury Department to
which Senator Davis, of West Virginia,
directed attention.-N J. Euening Post
(Rep.),
Judge THURMAN says: "DAyIs has
made . ten strike with his resolution and
the very good speech he made upon it.
He bore himself admirably"
Mr.. boutwell, manages the Treasury
Ring in the Senate, while BABCocK runs
it in the country. A woeful condition of
affairs; but the time is at hand when the
Democratic party, by one grand sweep,
will drive these "money changers from
the temple doors.