The daily gazette., 1878-01-24
SECOND EDITION
FROM WASHINGTON.
DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATIONS
THE PRESIDENT PROMISES TO co-oPE.
RATE AND TO PROTECT WITNESSES.

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THE PRESIDENT PROMISES TO co-oPE-
RATE AND TO PROTECT WITNESSES.
| WARRINGTON, Jan. 22.-Major Glover,
chairman of the house committee on ex,
penditures in the Treasury Department,
who has lately been empowered, by vote
| of the House, to proceed with investiga-
tions into that branch of the government,
has been in correspondence with the
President upon the matter. The Presi-
dent has addressed letter to him in
which he says : "I will be glad to co-ope-
rate heartily with the committee in the
proposed investigation, and to that end
will issue such proper directions to all Of
| fices of that or any other department as
may be required to secure prompt and
effective assistance in the conduct of the
Investigation. Touching the suggestion
that witnesses who may testify before the
| committee may be apprehensive of losing
their places if they testify truly and fully,
you are at liberty to assure all subordinate
officers that the fact of their testifying
before the committee shall not be used to
their prejudice" Major Glover will start
his mill to work without further delay.
The Presidents letter was in reply to q
| communication from Major Glover, in
| which the latter says at is painful, yet
true, that for years the executive depart
ment of the federal government, have
1 been increasingly corrupt and op-
pressive, and that the rights and hber-
ties of the citizens have been tram
pied on without redress in those depart
ments of the admi minisiration. while organ
lied combinations in every department
have existed in proflision, based on plum
| der, and have sported with and preyed
on the fortunes and the happiness Of over
40, ,000, 900 of people, who, while this pro-
| fuse expenditure of their hard earnings
and this habitual violation of their rights
have occurred, have grown poorer and
poorer till this misrule has wrought wide
misfortune and distress. No one man, no
one set of men Is responsible for this
mass of evils or their fruits 4
| Opportunities for irresponsible wrong
doing are hence SO large and SO many
| that those who seek to misuse them have
/ for years contrived to get possession of
such opportunities, and have long banded
together with the advantages of official
experience and intimate knowledge of
| official affairs to secure to themselves
secrecy and immunity. Among the
methods resorted to for this purpose are
mutilation, alteration, concealment, with
holding or destruction of books, papers
documents of record and the intimidation
of witnesses. The latter method of insu-
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practices has become habitual, and goes
to an unspeakably cruel and infamous
extreme; while its ingenuity is remarka-
ble. 1t is a fact thatme walk the streets
of Washington to-day whose families and
selves are in danger of hunger and home
lessness through the persecution which
they have suffered for telling the
truth, while many others bear in
their minds knowledge of wrong whereof
thau ora ipnnaant but which saain0 IA
fate of those who have been brave, dare
not tell. Believing that you are anxious
to end this terrible state of things, for
which you are not responsible, and that
| you appreciate the necessity for congress
sional Investigation and the ascertain
ment of lacts before remedies, legislative
or administrative, can be applied or even
shown, / would call your attention to the
resolutions introduced by me and passed
| by the House of Representatives on the
18th instant, directing that needful inves-
| legations, which We're provided for under
| the presidency of Madison, but for many
years neglected, till of late begun, shall
go on"
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The Senate
committee on naval affairs to-day argu-
ment of Capt Howgate in advocacy of the
Artic expedition, IS proposed in the bill
| recently submitted to the Senate by Mr.
Dawes, of Massachusetts,.
The President to-day appointed Henry
| G. Young and John Grossius, of Ohio,
| George P. Hart and John T.. Hartridge,
of Florida, honorary commissioners to
the industrial exposition in Paris They
| were nominated by the Governors of
| their respective States.
1t is understood that the cabinet to-day
agreed to release thesyndicate from their
last subscription of S1O,000,000 of per
| cent. bonds as Secretary Sherman belives
that his plan of selling those bonds will
be successful, and the account between
| the government and the syndicate will
therefore be settled immediately.
The President sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate to-Jlav: Benz. f..
Peixotto, of California TO be UnitedStates
consul at Lyons, and Stillwell III. Russell
to be United States marshal for the west
ern district of Texas.
The Senate has confirmed A. III. Huber
to be postmaster at Westminster, Md
THE PRESIDENT AND MIR. GLOVER.
A good many of the Presidents
friends say they do not approve of the
courteous letter which he wrote to Mr..
Glouer, as, they say, the letter of that
gentleman to him was unnecessarily in
sulting in its tone. A runner prevailed to
daythat some of the members of the cabi-
net proposed to resign on account of it,
but, as usual, it proved rumor only.