Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-07-05
A ur.OwHARp uOuNCED

A nLOwHARD ROUNCED
There has been difference of opin-
ion existing for sometime between
one Homer T. Yaryan and one Ulys-
ses S. Grant. The former has been
for years Revenue agent hailing
from the great State of Indiana, and
the latter has been heard of in con-
nection with the late war and the
Presidency of the United States. The
disagreement has grown out of the
Fact that the Indiana patriot has
claimed that he was the autocrat of
the United States. so for as the In
ternal Revenue Department is con-
cerned. while Grant has had the
temerity TO claim that he was entitled
to some weight in the administration.
The following Associated Press
telegram gives the elimination of
this quarrel:
"WAsHINGToN, June. 30--It is stated
by the Presidents personal friends
that the cause of the dismissal of
Yaryan. chief of the special agency
division of the Internal Revenue Blu
reau. was for procuring the removal
of special agent recommended by
the President. Il man crippled in the
war, and whose character was known
by the President to he excellent. and
also vouched for by Solicitor Bluford
Wilson. Mr.. Yaryan's attention being
called TO this removal, he assigned as
a reason for il, that the special agent
had volunteered some testimony be-
fore House committee rcflectiEg on
him. The President inquired into
the matter. and found that the witness
was spbpnnacd to testify, and after
stating that he knew nothing OF his
knowledge concerning the subject
under Investigation. he had been
! compelled by the committee TO give
the names Of some persons who had
talked about it.
The President then called iaryaps
attention to this explanation, and he
replied in substance "Well. the nan
talks about me OH the street, and
won't have him in the service" Pres
ident Grant took the matter into his
own hands, and ordered him rcmov-
ed"
The Chicago Times of Saturday has
long scrced from Yaryan, in which
/, the President is generally berated in
the choice slang of a kicked out sore.
head, and in which It is again repeat.
cd that Yaryan is responsible for ths
success of the late raid OH crooked
whisky.
! 1t IS, however, well known to all
we'll informed revenue officers that
this claim Is unfounded. 4aryan new
er had anything to do with distillcrs
matters, he being detailed to examine
! Collectors accounts, in which capacity
he was fairly efficient.
The fact is that Dir. Yaryan, Soc!
Bristow and Commissioner Pratt Lad
but little to do with unenrthing thcsi
J frauds. They knew in general wa,
that frauds were being pcrpctratcd il
certain large whisky centres, and they
detailed by direction of the Presiden
) certain Supervisors with their reve
nue. agents to uncarth these frauds
These officers were furnished by tn,
. authorities at Washington with M
data of any consequence as to tn
character of the frauds. They wcr
instructed TO work them up. and the,
done so /; made the seizures, had tn
! parties arrested. tried and conyiete,
On Information discovered by them
selves, and substantially without an,
aid from the long range rcformers a
Washington. They were sent forth OF
their raid with a memoranda Ito
written on paper with Department o
official heading and not signed. I
J Yas an experiment so arranged tina
the Bureau officers at Washington
could get the credit if 1t succeeded
and so that the raiders might get til,
devil If il failed so rs to hit it if
was a deer and miss it if it was ;
calf.
In the meantime Pratt. who didn'
know anything about revenue mat
tiers, was appointed Commissioner
and Yaryan, his Indiana neighbol
frOZe to him. and has been runnin.
that Office ever since.
\ All during the whisky war for til,
past year he has been filling the pa
pers with bulletins OF his wonderfp
exploits, and last winter he had {
long letter ofhi to Pratt incorporated
in Pratt's annual report. in which lie
] claimed most of the credit of uncarth-
ing the frauds, and especially of dis.
covering the rubber stamp dodge,
which was false claim, or else Var.
yam was criminally negligent in not
letting the raiding officers know it,
because they stumbled on that fraud
themselves.
lie proceeded, among the first ex,
ploits after he settled down in Wash.
ington as Chief Revenue Agent, nom.
inaly, but really as acting Commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue. to allow
himself twelve dollars per day, III
violation of law, while the poor dev'
ills of revenue officers who were fight,
ing the animals at Ephcsus, were only
allowed from five to eight.
lie was essentially fraud and al
official ruflian, who got the big head
SO bad and quick, that he ordered
Senators and Representatives around
as solutions, until, like Fitzhugh, he
finally thought himself '.bigger man
than old Grant.
The President has properly given
him the grand bounce, and appointed
a man who, it is hoped. will try and
not claim credit for other people.
work and who it is hoped will rccol.
lect that an officer ought never to for
get that he is supposed to be gen.
tlGnah.
THE Chicago Times democratic
put this opinion OH record last week
"It is entirely certain that Mr.. Til.
den is not a better man than Hayes,
nor as good one. He has record,
and unfortunately, it is not one that
will bear adverse criticism. More
over he is the selection of politicians.
He awakcns no enthusiasm among
tho people. Hayes tciU beat him arorse
than Gyapt beat Greeley"
This week, after the nomination,
the Times speaks thus, having espe-