The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-18

Is just that-nothlng more nor less.
The gamblers have got their case
before Congress. The Board Of
Police Commissioners has been
abolished by act of Congress for
which no one is sorry. Tomorrow
an investigation of the whole sub
jet begins, including the alleged
payment of hush-moncy by the
gamblers to police officials, and also
the alleged attempt ofMr. Murtagh
ofthc National Republican employ
the police force to ruin Mr.. Whit
hons character by cnticing him
into houses of i'll fame, and there
arresting him for the purpose of
breaking down his report us chair
man of the committee that invcsti-
gated Secretary Robson, Mr..
Murtagh specifically denies every
charge and is defiant. His paper
charges that the move in Congress
is in the interest Of the gamblers,
and that the New York Herald and
San have been retained us the
special organs of the gambling fra
tcrnity. Two facts in the premises
arc patent to every one familiar
with Washington. The law relative
to gambling has been openly viola
ted for years with connivancc of
the police officials, apparently; and
the ease with which licenses have
been obtained for fostering and per-
petuating intemperance, for making
murders, suicides and paupcrs, have
been such that the number of
groggcrics, gin mills, sample rooms
and supcrbly appointed bars, have
been almost indefinitely multiplied,
while the cries and means of dis
trcssed and suffering families, de-
privcd of almost every necessary of
life through the infatuations for
gaining and the maddening effects
of drink, are too numerous to be
disproved. The names of Aims
worth, Caulfeld, HUMPHREYS, Ian
ders, Wiggintcn and Wood must be
recorded as the Northern Dem
ocrats who unite with those of the
South to defeat the resolution, pro-
hibiting the payment of rebel war
claims. Mr.. Hewitt sullcn and
sourcd by his ignominious defeat
and humiliation in the New York
Post Office sensatiOn,r refused to vote.
On the Sth, Mills of Texas intro
duced a broad States rights rcso-
luton, and one against the use Of
the army in securing the State
from domestic violence and in pro-
tccting the purity of the ballot.
Moderate Democrats attempted to
avoid the issue by motion to ad.
journ, but they were forced to put
themselves on record in some way.
The vote stood 1O7 hayes to SO
yeas, the latter all Democrats. 25
or 30 Democrats failed to vote. 1t
now seems probable that Congress
will decide that where a telegram
has well defined and we'll ascer-
tanned bearing upon subject un-
der investigation, that its produc.
ton may be compelled, and not
otherwise, thus defeating the OK.
treme demands of such medieval
statesmen as Proctor Kuott. The
investigation Of the Oregon con-
spiracy thus far has established the
fact that several thousand dollars
were sent from New York to the
capitol of Oregon for disbursement;
and chat Cronin was very literally
dealt with, receiving $4,000 for his
share in the outrage. Congress
makes very slow work with the
legitimate legislation before it.
Notwithstanding the air of ncnchal-
ancc affected, President Grants
successor is the subject that ell
crosses much of the tim, Of every
member; and until the matter shall
have been definitely settled, there
will be anxious hearts in and out
of Congress.
Mr.. Winslow, clerk in the Treas
ury, has been arrested and lodged
in Jail as the thief who stole the |
or II thousand dollars from the
Trcasurcy, recently. The most of
the money has been clandessincly
returned. Moulton, the real estate
man who abscondcd with u large
amount of money belonging to his
dupcs, has braved public opinion by
returning here. 1t is reported
that he is making efforts to COM
promise with his victims. 1t is
presumed that he has stolen enough
and will retain it to make him re-
spectacle. Otherwise he would
hardly have vcnturcd back.