The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-12
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Justly due to collectors would have been
$1,000; SO that the Government oyerpaid
$209,O00. The Ways and Means Commit
tee oil the Republican House reported that
probably all of this amount could have
been collected in the usual way. B. L.
Butler, now leading Republican candidate
for Congress from Massachusetts, was
Sanborns champion in Congress, and is
generally supposed to have been his part
ner in the transaction.
THE HOUSE APPOINTMENTS.
VIM. A. Wheeler. Republican candidate
for Vice-President, recently repeated
several refuted talsehoods with respect to
the appointments made by the House of
| Representatives. The truth is that Of the
1913 appointments on the roll of the door
| keepers, IS served in the Union Army, 10
IN the Confederate Army. 2 in the. Mexican
War, ii are colored. and 65 are non
cnmbatants, page boys, &C. The former
| Republican House had 1853 apoiutees, one
NJ whom states that there were only Is
Union soldiers among them.
l SDihS hONEI IN ELEI1iONS.
| The House Committe ON the Department
OF Justice examined at length the ac-
counts of John l. Davenport, and found
an expenditure of $4,000, which he
attempted to account for by receipts for
work on registration books TIL, receipts
were obtained and furnished by Davenport
after the investigation began. The COM
\ rth or hot RI 4 hor
evidences of improper use ot the Secret
Service Fund of the Government for
political, social and other purposes. Ii
vas evident that that fund was used to in
huence elections IN New York City. They
teel compelled to report that the President
and the Attorneys General, Messrs. Akers
nan and Williams, who supplied Daven
BORT with. the $34 900 from the latter
und, diverted it irom its proper purpose
TO one entirely foreign to the objects OF
the law.
FURTHER CHARACTERISTIC OF THE AID
MINsTRATIoN.
Present taking by the President, and
he appointing Mt of the present-makers t.
Office; the Wholesale appointment of The
Presidents relatives to Office; the consort
ing of men of high position with men O
known corruption, as of Grant witt
Shepherd, Babcock, &C., and of Haye
] with Blaine and Chandler; the failure 10 re
ieem a single pledge OF civil service re
,orm, though it has been promised 10 ever,
I national platform. every Presidential
| message and inaugural speech since 1868
he failure to take single step toward
assumption of specie payments, although
It has been promised IN ever,
,ational platform. every Presidential
4 message and inaugural address since 1868
he systematic disregard of Indian re
reatles; the violation of all officiai Gecenc
| y placing nemb Der of the Cabinet at tn
. .ead Of the National Committee; The dis
ulssai from the cabinet of the only Kepub
! lcaD who had distinguished himself by tn
: .ursuir of thieves; the retention OF Schencl
: Orth, Kramer, Sickies aud Hudson iu for
ign posts, the former until they chose t
rtire. the latter till the present tune; tn
wholesale discharge OF women from tn
departing ITS IN carrying the Demo
cratic r ductions into effect, in orde
- cave comfortable berths for Republ
can vote :; the attempt OF the Republica
nate t, revive the frankhns privilege
armed interference in the State Covert
nents OF the Snnth, and the armed il
lndatou of Legislatures and people
rauds. by the party which claims to t
tie soldiers friend. in soldiers pension
mi soldiers gravestones; 1.-The use o. ofhcl
power to prevent access OF Democrat
exspapers to the income tax returns
roy. Hayes: the pretense that part
which still retains its must g rrupt men
~ its highest places will reform ltse
- The cfftrts of these men to elect Go
faves should be successful
FOR THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE.
The fficiai Investigations. from viii
these few details are complied, fill thou
.nds aud thousands of pages. Not
nundreth part is told here of what mig
he told; not thousandth part of what W
; he discovered if the man who convict
fweeG on the evidence of his own ba
books is allowed access to the records
he Republican Administration. Was
tiepublic ever before ruled by party
absolutely and irredeemably corrupt?