The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-07

The CONSERVATION In Radical Circles
Created by General Ousters
Telegram.
Developments OF ROt,enness In the
Postal Department Increases the
Excitement.
AttOrney-Gcncral PlerreDOnrS Order
condemned by Judge Black and
Lamar

WASHINGTON, March 0.-Two mel
named Craig and Bryant have beer
arrested here on the charge of passing
fraudulent claim from Colorado
The claim Is over twelve years old
and has been prosecuted to this issue
by General Butler. 1t Is thought by
those in position to know that the
Government has been overzealous in
this instance. Craig, who is prom
inent Democrat from Colorado has
given bail to the amount of twenty-five
dollars.
The postal department is not being
neglected during the excitement over
the extraordinary development. The
two committees which have been at
work unearthing the rottenness of that
branch OF public service continue
steady at work and are making fine
progress. The committee on eXpendi-
lures in the postal department have
just struck the case of one employe in
that department, who drew two sala-
rles for several years. He has now the
position of assistant superintendent OF
railway mail service, having been APP.
pointed to that position on May /, last,
and stotioned at New York. His
name is r.. &. Jackson, and prior to
his appointment to his present position
he drew one salary of $1,000 as clerk in
the New York PostofIice, and another
of Sl4OO as route agent on the New
York Central road between New York
and Albany.
He did not, and of course could not
perform the duties of both offices, al
though the records of the department
shows he drew both salaries with nota-
bic ability and regularity, until eleva-
ted to his present Office the salary OF
which is 81 900 per annum and five
dollars per diem with incident eXpen.
SEES. This makes his total compensa-
ton in excess of SO, 400, so he could
easily afford to surrender two offices
yielding only $4,000 How many more
of the 5l,l77 employees that appear on
the rolls of the postal department will
be found to be in the employment OF |
double salaries is not known, but it is
surmised that the case related is not
solitary one.
The conductors of the pension Office
have found themselves in the shadow
of the inevitab BILE, and are getting ready
for the storm. Reference was made
several days ago the extraordinary in
crease in crime and the notorious pro-
sttution of the funds appropriated for
the maintenance of this office, to the
support of political strikers. Since the
committee on invalid pensions direct
ed their attention to this business,
the commissioner has commenced dis
charging his force, and is rapidly re-
ducing the number of his supernumer-
aries, so as to break the force of the
committees report as much. as posi-
BILE. He is only doing what the House
would very shortly have done him.
General Custer's telegram to Repre-
sentative Clymer that he believes there
was not post-tradership in the West
that had not been purchased, has crea-
ted CONSERVATION in Radical circles,
and increased the excitement already
existing. A member of the committee
on war expenditures is authority for
saying that there is evidence showing
that Belknap has been drawing for
years stated sums of money from sew
eral post-traders. 1t is asserted as
positive fact that evidence will be
forthcoming soon showing that, while
Beiknap was a poor man when he
came into the cabinet, he is worth now
fully quarter of million dollars.
A gentleman in public position in
this city, and well informed about the
facts of which he speaks, says that
Belknap was involved in a whisky
ring which existed some ten years
ago, or, if not, so surrounded by suspi- |
cious circumstances that any one
would be justified in inferring his con-
nection with the ring. 1t appears that
in 1866, about November, a new Col
lector was appointed by President
Johnson for the Third Missouri inter-
nal revenue district. Things had been
running pretty crooked in that district,
as in most others about that part of the
world and the new Collector shut
right down on the distilleries. For
most of them it was but a few miles
across the border into the Iowa dis
trict, of which Belknap was then Col
iector, and circumstances being ac-
commodating over there, these distil-
leries moved across the line and their
hefarious business continued unmo-
Tested. There was plenty of whisky
made in Iowa then, and notwithstand-
ing the tax on whisky was two dollars
per gallon, any quantity of it could be
bought in Keokuk for dollar and
forty cents per gallon, That fact alone
seems to demonstrate condition fat
iairs which could not exist with an
honest Collector.
IHE special Washington dispatches
70 the New Orleans press indicate
startling condition of affairs in Wash