The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-04-22
The Old Story Over.
BEAUTIFUL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EVIL

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EVIL.
The New York Sun thus presents the sit
uation
1t is wonderful how much beautiful womer
have had to do with the corruption of Grant,
administration
When Secor Robson paid 500 900 to Secor
In the teeth of the law, " a present to a lady, ,
valued at s., 900, was said to have been delivered
beforehand.
When George ii. Williams was Attorney Gen
eral, a very beautiful, stylish and celebrated
woman, of great distinction and influence in
Washington, employed a clerk in the Department
OF Justice, so called. to make out fraudulent
vouchers by means of which she obtained money
from the Treasury of the United States for her
private use.
When George II. Williams, Attorney General
OF the United States, interposed appeals to the
Supreme Court against the payment of certain
cotton claims which had been decided by the
Court Of Claims in favor of the claimants, large
sums of money were paid to a very beautiful
woman, whereupon those appeals were with
drawn and the claims paid. Mr.. Gazaway B.
Lamar, who had obtained such a Judgment in
the Court of Claims for the sum of 5000 900.
or whereabouts, told us that he had been invited
to pay $50 900 in this way; and shortly after
the appeal in Lamar's case was withdrawn, and
he got his money.
When this anne George IL. Williams was, not
long afterward. nominated by President Grant to
be Chief Justice of the United States, it was the
fascination which a beautiful woman found means
to exercise over the mind of President Grant
which secured that nomination for Williams.
When anonymous letters addressed to various
ladies of the Cabinet, making statements of q
very unpleasant character, were traced by detec-
tlVes to the authorship of Il certain beautiful
woman, the protection of the President was no
longer ~omnipotent, and Mr.. Williams was at last
obliged to resign his Office as Attorney General.
lie had been retained, Notwithstanding the i'm
mense and multlform corruption and stealing of
which he was guilty were we'll known to Hamil-
ton Fish. George NJ. Robson, William W.
Belknap, Columbu Delano and Ulysses S.
Grant; but he had to go on the detection of
those anonymous letters and this beautiful
woman, and the Attorney General as well, stepped
down and out from the glories and delights of
the most elevated circle of shoddy life in Wash
lngton. They did not, however, pass away from
Grants constant affections; for, with the expul-
sion OF Bristow and the revolution in his Cabinet,
which he so z~ealOusly contemplated until light
ming struck him q few days ago, Williams was to
have been restored to power as Attorney General.
The part which another beautiful and noted
woman has played in this drama of corruption
has been much commented upon by the press of
late, and her seductive feminine charms have
done much to soften the public indig-
nation toward her vices.
And now it seems that it was a present worth
81 800 to " the first lady of the United States
which secured for General Rufus Ingalls, the i'm
nense chances that belong to the control of the
.uartermaster Generals office.
This is the old, old story over again. Wher-
there is mischief the women are pretty sure
20 be in it and the men, with characteristic
try to put off upon them as much of
he blame as possible.