The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-17

ed no disposition 10 correct his statement
and that he had tried in vain to get No.
err to explain this great discrepancy
The Chief Justice also testified that 1t
was impossible for claimants or their
friends to get any information or salts
faction at all in reference to their claims
from this division, except through calls
by the Court OF Claims, the answers to
which both the Bar and the Court Iegar-
ded as wholly unreliable. In my judg-
ment they (Noerr's reports) we're in nu
merous cases intended and designed to
prevent parties from getting Justice"
William Fessenden, as -istant to Noerr,
was dismissed from the army in 1864 as
defaultipg additional Paymaster, for
embezzing 20 000 He lent the public
money to Salmon B. Colby, contractor,
and VIM. Coombs clerk in the Interior
Department, for use in speCulating in
umher, Fessenden to receive for the use
Of the money 10 per cent. of the actual
sales, The money was lost by Fessen.
deus treachery, Colby claims, and Col
by was bankrupted. Within a year af
ter ward be was made clerk in the Cot
ton Bureau, where he has since received
on an average $4,000 year salary and
large sums for "extra services"
From August %, 1885, to May g. 1873,
the Treasury paid to attorneys. agents
and infoI mers more than 81 600 900 from
the money which belonged to owners of
cotton. One Charles Eames and various
partners were paid within ten months of
1866 and 1867 1920 OO0 by order of Sec.
Ietary McCulloch, $l5S 900 being shared
by Eames with John A. Logan, then
Representative and now Senator from
Illinois. In about eighteen months of
those years McCulloch caused to be paid
to S. H. Kaufman, First Chief of the
Cotton Bereau, $S2 600; and Kaufman
soon turned up as partner with Boss
Shepherd and George w Adams, cor
respondent of the New York World, in
ownership and management of the
Washington Star, which has been con-
spcuous in defending the District of Co
umbia Ring and helying the Glover in
vestlgations. ROSt s. Aale of New York
was employed as special counsel of the
Treasury Depar ment by McCulloch and
Boutwell,, and was paid $24 1863 for serci
Ces rendered in the course OF two years
James s. Frazer Of Indiana was EN-.
ployed by Secretaries RiChaI dson and
Bristow to aid in adjusting cotton cases
under the act of May Is 1872 and re-
ceived for services in the course of two
years SIS 5l3. Beside this, appropria-
lions amounting to $l66. 600 have been
procured by the Treasury from Congress
TO be expended by that Department in
defending the Secretary and his agents
against suits for SO zIres, and in detends
ing suits in the Court of Claims, and the
Department of Justice has procured in
the same time appropriations of $285 900
to be spent by that Department In de-.
Tending suits against the captured and
abandoned property fund"-$45l 900 in
all, and the Attorney General continues
to ask an appropriation for the same
purpose of $25 900 every year, though he
and his suboIdInates aresalaried Off
cials, and though under the law very
few cotton cases are now allowed to go
before the court.
An infamoue law, procured from Con
gress by implicated parties, forbade the
owners If cotton to sue the Secretary of
the Treasury or his agents, for taking
away their cotton, and appropriations
have been repeatedly obtained to pay
special counsel TOR using their legal skill
to prevent owners from getting back
their own ......
Andrew Hosmer, a Union officer, set
tied in Alabama in the spring of 1865,
and raised crop of cotton worth about
$50 600. When it was ready for market
one Of the Treasury thieves seized it,
The Cotton Bureau kept Hosmer out If
his money ten years, took from him one
fourth as Commission" to the rObber,
another fourth as expenses" and return.
ed halt his property minus ten years in-
terest.
There were 21 supervising special
property agents and their accounts we're
ordered to be settled by Robert E. Pres
ton of the First Auditors Office, In his
statement Preston reports that J. M.
Tomeny, agent, collected 7 469 bales, and
sent Draper 46S; but TJmeny swore
before the Glover Committee that he
collected l5 800 bales and sent Draper
II, Ill, 5 643 more than Preston credited
him with In the official settlement. Spe-
cial Agent o. H. Burbrldge swore that
Preston demanded and received money
from him before he would begin settling
his accounts; that Preston made second
demand. which was refused, and that
hence Burbridge's accounts remain un-
settled. The Supreme Court has decid, ,
ed that the proceeds of captured cotton
are trust fund in the hands of the Trea-
sury for the benefit If the owners; but as
has been seen, this trust is shameIully
abused. Millions of this trust fund were
deposited by Secretary MuCulloch in
Jay Cookies First NATL Bank of Wash
ington, which enjoyed the use and profit
thereof, while the owners suffered. VIM.
E, Chandler, while Assistant Secretary
| of the Treasury, caused a full list OF the
valid cotton claims to be made out and
furnished to him, and soon afer resign
ed and went into the practice Of "law"
at Washington. The official who made
Chandler the list swore that it was
worth at least 100000 to it's holder.
DIR. John M. Woodworth, Supervising
Surgeon General of Marine Hospitals,
tesufied that under his management the
Marine Hospital service was not self
sustaining, though he had reported to
make it appear that it was, doubled the
tax on sailors and had revenue ofover
$3.50 600 a year to support the service
with; that he had obtained from Assist
ant Secretary Conant approval Of vouch-
ers for So, 100 extra paw and travelling ok.
penses for seven months, in violation Of
law, while preparing a report on cholera,
which extras, without law or authority,
were taken from the hospital fund col
leCted from sailors; that the Register Of
the Treasury's statement never showed
the true condition tfthe Marine Hospi-
tai fund, the Registers figures being al
ways better than the facts, and that he
was not allowed to state the truth in his
report, because it would differ from the
Registers, and that we're often many un-
PAID pilIs' ,oLl !,