The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-22
THE NEW 0RLEANSTIIIEVES
nov THE 0OVBRNMENT mas BEEN
ROBBED ny THE CASEY RING.


| Startling Facts that the House Committee
| will Embodv In their report s225. 900
| Stolen aud Used foi Election PURPOSES.
WASHINGTON, July 2l.-The select com
mittee on Louisiana affairs meets tomorrow to
hear the reports from the variors suo-oonmit-
tees to whom were assigned particular branches
Of the inquiry. FROM these sub committee re-
ports the general report OF the committee will
be made up. Some testimony WIS taken here,
before the committee went TO New Orleans.
which related TO the general Misconduct OF
| Feder and State officials In that state. The
| two witnesses who made the most damaging
revelations were Seeive and Ferguson They had
both been employees In the New Orleans Cu'-
tom House. End the former was Frank Moreys
man Friday. he revelations of Seeye were only
partial, because he could not tell the whole
truth. he said, without duplicating himself In
crimes which would send him to the peniten-
tiary. He wanted general immunity aud the
majority Of the committee, after listening for
two d sys to what he could safely tell about the
rasc lities OF Frank Morey and jim Casey, rec
| commended to Grant and his then Attorney
| General. Edwards Pierrepont that IL be granted
| him. But Grant had had enough OF this sort Of
! work. He mad Jardoned Marsh and whitley In
! advance, and thev swOre Hwav the CHI iracter
| aud mayhap the liberties Of two Of his especial
cronies, Belkn y and Baocock. and he VS. not
| inclined to furnish Immunity to "A man WHO
might get Ills biother-n-law behind grated
window.
| Tue story which seeIye did tell about Frank
| Morey's misdeeds. although II was not II tenth
| part If what he could tell. was enough To make
| ones hair assume perpendicuar position.
| The es,imomy of FERGUSON related principally
| to frauds c mmitted through the connyance OF
Custom House officials by certan large cigar
| importer, of New Orleans The Arms VINO were.
| he said. sUeci llv favored by Caseys Ring were
Gonzales Bros, Domingo Bros, nd Mossieh.
| Ferguson was To follow the committee 20 New
| Orleans and give still further testimony and
supply witnesses who could corrohorate his
st tements. lie never turned up, although the
| committee had dilIgent search N. de tor MIN in
New Orleans. ana have had deuuty Sergeant
ut Arms looking Tor MN W New hHrk anu eise-
| where. feelic sworr ihut Csey had hlm APP
pointed in the New York Gus ON House at
Frank Morey's request, IN tho hope OF Keeping
him st and that when they found that select
committee was to be raised by the House OF
| REPRESENTATIVES u investig4 te the New Orleans
Custom House, they urged hin 10 run away and
| offered him money to 60 To Canada. Before tins
arrangement was completed, aeelye was sibnu-
nsed and held ny the committee. Doubtless
| terms were made With Fei guson.
" ben the fdll committee reached New Orleans
| tho work was divided up under the following
he DIS: Custom House, District Attorney. Mar
shal's ofhces, internal revenue ,Causnatta massa-
| ere aud General rnscalttv. The most important
| develo pmen,s were made In the overhauliuR Of
! the Custom House am the Office 81 the Collector
OF internal Revenue. In the iorn.er II was dis
covered that Tor the last six years there has been
systematic plundering Of the national treasury
u raise n campaign fu d for the Custom iousc
party. AbUndnht testimouv was obtained u es-
tshtsn tots fact. aud tnis was zone so conclu-
siveiv that the Custom House rogues did not at
| ".
| The manner Of uerpetratine the frauds wac "a
follows \ out -four months before the time T. r
holGing the general elections about two nun
dred men wo III he placed on tue Custom House
rolls as temper ~ laburers To Craw salary Of
ninety- II rec dollars Ter month. The names Oh
the roll. were hctuious ana fraudulent vouch-
were made up and fictitious signatures
made thereto IN order that the salaries for the
Two hundred Ectiti4 Us temporary la1oIers could
he drawn promutly. Inc money thHs obtained
WIS USED for campaign purposes reuer .liy, but
sometimes to secure the election OF delega es 10
! conventions or to buy up dclesates in the inter-
est OF the Custom House parry. In some IN
stances men were placed on the post roll, as
this fraunulent paw Toll WAS called. who were
etnurut hut the usual method was to make up
the roll aud vouchers, audto 10 g can Joo Of fui =
gerV from he uegtauiug. one witness SAID that
hew spalc 500 a month Tor threc.m onths for pre-.
pairing fraudulent registration papers. lie sign
Ell the post pay roll but never reformed any
service for the government There were TOUR
supefvi ofs Of registration thus employed. and
| It was proved tlat blanchard, ~ ,te supervisor
Of Resistrauon. was coRuizlut Of these frauds,
fund who were emplgyed To manufacture false
REGISTRATION papers. iva. also proved that IN
two election districts 500 fraudulent votes we're
polled on these fake registration papers thu,
prepared at the expense 81 the united States
Government. rnere u abundant evidence 10
show tnat this fraudulent nav roll VS. tue
means 81 sunt l ,J an"ut t,s."o month ior
general elections in those ye.rs ms "ou.d
MAKE an aggregate Of ABOUT SS2buNn stolen from
the nlted ot.tts' aut u'eu o. alu III ,eELetual
INK the moustrous usiom House Ring rule
which nos 50 IOng AMI ted the peOgle OF Lou
isia a.
J. Hale Syrher. It IA shown. was one a. the
Gc.ve tools Of Casev 10 the pcrpetr ton oi these
frauds. Several witnesses testified TO the a-en-
cy Of Sypher IN the frauds, ana II was clrarl,
proven tnat both Gaze, and his deputy, Herring.
were cOguiztnt Of all that W going on. One
witness sNore positively that Casey himself
pltced hi name on the paw roll and gave him
his orders to report to the Campaign Committee
for such use as ne was wanted.
D.uiel =. kinseil1, revenue agent, testified
that he knew Of these irau iulant nay rolls m
1872, ana that the OF Jec was 10 r.ise money for
polite purpu-ts, out he did not report the
fsct 10 the Treasury Deps rtmeut, because he be-
lieved that the Secretary Of the Treasury kne"
Ill abouttt
Burgess Hunt, Supervisor OF Internal Revenue
for that dietrict tes.n n to some lnterestiDl
facts IN relHtton to the NV Orleans " hiskei
hing, and the relations II mad with the la erna
revenue officers. Hunt was one of BrlstUw I
appointees. ana was sent to New Orleans Ia all
N breaking up the Whissey Ring lie swnrt
tn Wash, formerly u distlilet N New Orleans
approached HIM on three different orcasi"n'
with N, r. OF hribes. Al one time he Offered
him $l20D a month, or sl.OJl for each di=tiieri
month, for permission he allowed To /.