The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-17
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON,
May 5, 1876.

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May 5, 1861
EDITOR DEMOCRAT
An attempt is being made to in
vestigate the Bureau Of Captured and
Abandoned Property, in the Treasu-
ry Department, and should It prove
even moderately successful, there
must come therefrom what even in
ordinary times would be called "as-
founding disclosures" but what, in
these days, will only add more names
to the thieves catalogue, and more
portraits to the Rogues' Gallery
Rotten 40 was the Internal Revenue
Department with Whisky Ring ras-
cality, it is doubtful if it approached
tue measure Of that which was per-
petrated under cover of picking up
captured and abandoned property, by
which men, with permits, traversed
the South, with car, and steamboat,
and wagon, and carried of hundreds
of millions worth ofcotton, and other
things, belonging to private parties.
There is one Camp who onght to be
called before that Committee, if he
has not been--a man who lad per-
mits to bring cotton and tobacco
through-who made $4,000 haul
of the latter in Arkansas, in which it
is said an Assistant Secretarr of the
Treasury had a third interest, and =
prominent railroad man in Baltimore,
now deceased, another third. If
Treasury officials were part,ers Of
the agents, it may readily be Inferred
that the temptation to wrong doing
was strong; and when q nan on
$500 year salary mansgesto save
several hundred Thousand dollars in
a few years, the world is apt L think
that he has either "struck aBonan-
"a" or has been very economical. It
is also said that proprietor Of a
Washington newspaper managed, as
chief clerk of that Cotton Bureau, to
amass large sum through the skill
full manipulations Of one of th' pro-
prietors Of Wizards Hotel, " b o
ropedin the claimants and secured
the divy.
TRICKS OF TRADERS.
1t is a pity that the bill of MI Par
sons, of Kentucky, to regulate CON-
MERGE among the States has notbeen
pushed through Congress yet F the
appropriate committee. 1t VS. an
effort to correct the rascalities dtra-
ders which lie at the basis Of thegen-
eral decentralization of the county,
The trading politicians are the fl re-
representatives. of the trading popla-
tion. What. with scant measre,
short weight, adulteration, and the
like. the people are cheated in eyry.
thing they buy. Mr.. Parsons ill
required the use of standard articles
and full weight and measure, inact-
ing penalties for fraud in either
While we are trying to reform he
country, and make the politician bn
! est, let US also try to make their On.
stituents honest, BY reforming be
morals of trade. (.
POLITICAL.
The Northern Republicans, hw-
ever willing to subject the inteli-
gence, culture, and all that is gootin
the South to the domination Of ar.
pet-bag thieves and ignorant negrcs,
have still among themselves a decent
regard for public opinion, and areoe
coming generally ashamed of thir
party management. Hence, tIey
! have organized a Reform Club in BIS.
ton, and now New York follows sit.
There has been a secession of RIB
responsibility from the Union Tia.
que Club, and an address to the pb.
lie calling for the formation of q Il.
publican Reform Club, signed ~
Judge Ernott, Hon. W. E. Dode,
John Jacob Aston, Isaac, Shermp,
A. A. Low, and q long list of 9th,
equally prominent names. Althoun
these men think legislature 81 d
gro field hands, q majority Of Who
cannot read, and never handled te
dollars at time in their lives befol
their election, good enough for
Southern State. they want what the
call gentlemen for home rule and ne
sonal association. So they take
crack at Conkling, Morton, Blair
and Co., in the following neat styl
by resolving
i 80 signalize the opening Of the ne
century Of our national existence /
having nominated by the. Republics
party for President not mere polite
partisan, but statesman of tried cha
acter, in sympathy with the best sem