New-York tribune., 1878-05-11
wEIrzEL IN NO HURRY TO RESIGN.
HE Is COMING or TO WASHINGTON, POSSIBLY II
FIGHT THE MArTER-cURRENT GOSSIP ABoU
THE CASE.
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THE CASE.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON. MAY 1O.-COllectOr Weitzel, of Gin
cippat is expected TO arrive in Washington to-mor-
row morning. He will then be offered last Oppor-
tunity TO resign and if be does not avail himself of
this indulgence his successor will be appointed.
The President SAID to a Republican Representa-
tive to-day. that Collector Weitzeps resignation
had been asked for because affairs in his district
were not in satisfactory condition, and the change
contemplated in the cllce was for cause" This
was explained to the Republican Representative be-
cause his constituents had requested the President
to remove certain Collector who had been long
time in office, and whose removal they thought would
have a good political effect in the district and
they had cited to him the of Collector Weitze
who had been asked to resign, although the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury had in letter certified that he
was good officer. When the case was presented in
this way to the President he replied that the
not parallel, because the change in the Cincn
natl district was for cause. Secretary Sherman
himself, few days before he left for the West, in
formed a Republican member of the House of
Representatives from Ohio that the Treasury De-
partment had discovered whskey frauds In Cincin-
nat and was just ready to move against the
detected firms when information was given to
those firms that compelled the Department to post
pOne Its action.
Commissioner Raum asked for the removal OF Col
lector Weitze and all the facts upon which the pro-
posed change was based (being in substancethe
Observation-Disclosures were laid before the Presi
dent and Secretary Sherman. These three gen.
temen had full conference on the subject. 1t was
decided that Secretary Sherman should write for
Collector WeitzePs resignation at once.
Some question having arisen as to the correctness
Of the estimate of IN flia Goyerpmpnf bv the
Cincinnati frauds, which was placed in a dispatch
to The TRIBUNE at a million and quarter dollars,
Commissioner Raum has been asked whether these
figures are correct, or whether he has been misun-
deStoOd, He replies that these the estimates as
he gave them,
The reports and correspondence which contain all
the facts upon which publications thus far have
been based are in the Treasury Department, and
viii be available if, as Collector Weitzels friends
declare in Cincinnati, he has decided to refuse to
tender his resignation, and to take the before
the Senate. All these facts will then be trans
mtted to the Senate and the officers of the Treasury
Department are confident that they can show that
the organization of Collector WeitzePs Office was
found to be such that the not efficiently
collected and tho Government encountered diff
Guilty IN reaching persons who were defrauding it.
II having been asserted that Collector Weitzel
Smith might be appointed IN accordance with bar
gain by which he was to be made Collector in re-
turn for the support of Mr.. Stanley Matthews for
the Senatorship, the latter authorizes the fol-
lowing denial: "This accusation is without
the least foundation in truth. When the
contest for the Senatorship was opening
Henry Kentar, the fatherin-law Of Mr. Amor
Smith, was an advocate of Governor Noyess cleo
uon and continued to support him forSenator until
Governor Noyes made it known to his friends that
he he was not candidate for the place. Mr.. Kentar
then said to Mr.. Matthews that as Governor Noyes
bad withdrawn from the field his (Mr. Kentar's
second choice was Mr.. Matthews. Nothing ever
passed between them in regard to securing Mr.
amor Smiths support in return for Office, or in re-
gard to rewarding Mr.. Smith on Mr. Kentars ac-
count, or in regard to rewardIng Mr.. Kentar The
support given by Mr.. Smith was of his own accord,
ana was not in any sense a matter Of prearrange-
ment with Mr.. Matthews.
While Senator Matthews did recommend that Mr..
smith should be appointed, when, several months
s sgo' change was contemplated. he has not taken
any part IN the matter since last January In re-
gard TO the recent events which have led TO the re-
Spestfor Collector Weitzes resignation, he has been