Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-04

clerk hire, 81 900 more. He was OF the
opinion that the salary OF a Consul
should not be regulated entirely by /! 9
amOunt of business which lie had TO
do. For instances: COnsuiS at Ill, Ell
pool, Paris and London received III
addition to their salaries, perquisites,
etc., which make their pay $4,000,
Sl2,0 OF $4,000; while those at Vi
emma and places in Turkey and Rus
STA having not much less business re-
ceive almost nothing but salaries,
which should or this account be in
creased. Murphy thinks in mos
cases the salaries paid our COnsuls are
sufficient, but in some instances are
too small. In his opinion the consular
system of the United States was more
e. expensive than that of some other
countries, because many OF the Eu-
ropean nations employ bankers or
business men to attend to their on
sulate business. In this way the rep
reSentatives Of the house of ROths
child at Frankfort on-the- Maine act as
the Consular of Austria; and Baron
Erlanger, the banker who negotiated
the Confederate States loan attended 10
the consular business for Sweden and
Norway. These bankers are willing
to serve as consuls without salaries, on
account of certain advantages they de-
rive from their positions. Murphy be-
lieves this same system might in many
cases be adopted by the United States.
The witness described at some length
the manne in which Capt. Steinberger.
of Navigator Island fame, and who
vas sen o Europe in 1872 as Inspector
of ConSulates, performed his duty; al
though Murphy vas not then in office
Steinberger called on him for such infor
nation as he could give. He said
Steinberger lived in magnificent style.
his hotel bills being from SIS to $50
daily.
Startling Developments Of Fraud IL
the Postal department..
CHICAGO, Feb. 8.
A Times Washington special says if
the facts brought out by the Postal
general conduct of the P~ostoffice De
partment, the failure Of the postal
service to pay for itself will not be 80
the construction of the law and illegal
practices in the payment of claims ac-
cuinulate until the committee is over
WiltIiiitt III tSlliiitliilE LitC iiiOtti WI
robbery practiced under Creswell. One
day one of the commissioners exam
ing the accounts Of the department,
finds that two millions Of dollars are
dropped from the books without
the least sign of explanation, and the
next day the regular Committee on
Post Offices aud Post Roads bring to
light additional facts of the great source
Of rathnru tho or "a liI attract =
John A. Scudder. President OF the st.
Louis II Memphis Packet Company,
was bafore the committee yesterday.
In 1871 his company made a bid for the
contract to carry the mail from White
River, Arkansas, to Vicksburg, propos-
ing to do The same for $1,000 a year. A
straw bid of $3.50 was placed in the
| Department, and the notorious DR.. b.
II. Peterson was awarded the contract
at SlS, 900, Scudder's bid being entirely
ignored. Peterson didn't even own a
dugout, but when it is stated that he
was of G.. A. Smiths regiment
and was a boon companion of tnat ia.
nous General. who, at the time OF the
letting of this contract, was Second AS
sistant Postmaster General, and was al
the head of the Contract Bureau, the
matter becomes very transparent. Pet.
erson went to Scudder and sub-let the
contract to him at $4,000 II year, OF
1900 more than Scudder offered to dc
the work for. This lett Peterson $1,000
clear the first year., and for the mex
three years, by some means, he man
aged to get S21 900 Il year for work he
vas sub letting at $4,000 a year; thus
in about tour wear he made $4,000
and the Government paid out aDOul
10000 more than it would have done
had the contract been let TO Scudder'.
Company.