The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-04

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q Mil r T, w entrs
upon all of which the fees and commits
sions aggregate $14,SO11s; of which 1
received $2,767.S9, and paid clerk hire
for two clerks in my Office 81, 1877 90, as
per vouchers in my Manufacturing for
my services and with which to pay of
fee rent, chad not the city donated it to
mel stoves, fuel, lights, board and Incl
dentals, which did pay out of my allow
anee of $S0O.36. The balance of the
$14,9O1.1S being $12,O33.29, of fees and
commissions which had earned and
paid clerks to do the work, and collect
ed from the people, was turned over to,
and retained by Mr.. Drummond & Co.
1t will be remembered that all the rec
ords are made and kept by the Register
of a land office, and every official letter
had to be recorded in manuscript,
in my case to hundreds of
pages in large register for that pur-
pose, Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Drummond
say there were fees not to be accounted
for, deemed sufficient to run the office as
to clerk hire. Every man who knows
anything about the matter, knows that
the government furnishes not one foot
of room for Office, or court in contest ca
SEES, and the fees they refer to, is the 15c
per folio, to reduce testimony in contest
Cases. The officers are legally bound to
provide court room, and preside as iudg-
es IN all contest cases. and pay clerks for
taking the testimony, and in my case
and Mr.. Reynolds the whole contest
business was an additional financial EN-
barrassment; and l would have made
much more had there never been a case
on the docket
Mr.. Smith s. Co., in THE News, think
a bride was taken by Maxson and Rey-
nolds! do not happen to think so.
Bride or no bride, should do the same
thing again if placed in the same posi-
ton and surrounded by the same cir
cumstances. 1 received $780, instead of
81 300 as stated in The News, and paid
eight months clerk hire. I gave nv
voucher for the money and hold mine
from the clerks. I am satisfied that Mr.
Smith, Drummond, Delano s. Co. had,
and still have very keen scent for
bribery; for have good reason to think
that they were experienced in bribery
and corruption in their dens at Wash
ington. The said land Office on wheels,
and rumors afoat in the air, furnishing
some slight grounds.
Again, Mr.. Drummond knew of all
the matters connected with said land of
flee, so far as Maxson & Reynolds were
associated, for months before their re-
moval. 1 was in Washington and in
his office on business when I knew the
papers had been filed, and were on file,
and not word was said by him on the
matter. [ talked freely and fully with
member of Delano's department upon |
the matter and told him had nothing
to take back. The matter was not taken |
notice of until D. P Low, the salary |
grabber, then our NJ. c., after had op- |
posed him for congress, called it up for |
revenge. Maxson, Stotler and Lowe may
all pass in their checks and go to the |
penitentiary for life; it would not Gre |
ate ripple on the great political par
ties of the day; personal abuse is not ar
gument.
AS to newspaper fights, it seems to be |
a prevalent idea of editors that thew
must pitch into each other and every
one else who come within range, in or
der to make themselves noticed, and it |
serves the American people about the |
same purpose that bull-fght does the
Spaniards
would here add that Mr.. D. B. Emert,
"a newspaper NAM who was Receiver a |
part of the time was Register, and NJ.
w. Reynolds, proprietor and editor of
the Parsons Sun, who was Receiver the
rest of the time, and who left the Office |
the same day did, have received from
the government some $4,000, for clerk
hire, while everybody who knows any.
thing about q. S, land Office knows |
there is ten times the work, generally |
done in the Registers Office than is done |
in the Receivers, and the pay in each is !
the same. While I received a special |
allowance for one clerk $50 days, at So
a day, to administer on the Cherokee
strip lands, which was paid out of the |
Indian fund; but Maxson does not own |
and run newspaper to be used to adj |
vance the party; hence he has no claim |
which the heads of government are
bound to respect.
Yours, P.B. MANSON