The daily gazette., 1879-07-09
From the New York Star.
The Glover BOlnshell.

Iom tne new 4 Ofk Star.
The Glover BOmshell.
Guided by emphatic assurance from a
reliable Washington correspondent, the
Star has frequently asserted during
twelve months past that an inquiry into
the affairs Of our, National Treasury
would reveal an exhibit of systematized
thievery, besides which the peculations
OF the Tweed ring in New York would
sink into comparative insignificance.
To-day the Star is enabled to verify
its predictions by publishing tile sup
pressed report of the Glover Congress
sional Committee-a document which
would not have been supp essed had not
its damaging revelations been SO con-
elusive and unimpeachable. Let every
American citizen, no matter how alb
sorbed IN his daily occupation, find time
to read this report carefully, as matter
OF duty. 1t is not the product of any
partisan conspiracy. It is no mere
Journalistic sensation. 1t is the fruition
OF patient and sober inquiry, conduct
ed under the auspices and by direction
of our highest legislative tribunal.
The safe system of Treasury book
keeping devised by Alexander Hamilton
was first changed by Secretary Bout
well; and since the administration of
the latter, no man has been able to tell
the precise status of our national fl
nances. Frauds were naturally sus-
pected, but Speakers Colfax and Blaine
always took care to appoint committees
which would not delve below the sur
face. u " -' an
Thus the game went on until the
House of Representatives became Demo-
cratic and MIR. Glover's committee was
appointed. A rattling of drybones en-
sued Immediately, and every conceivable
intrigue was resOrted to in order to i'm
pede and paralyze the search which Mr..
Glover's earnest honesty rendered inevi-
table. Despite all Instructions the in
quiry was carried on; and although
means were found to stile the report in
Congress, it goes out to-day to the
people through the columns of the
Star. ... ..I.......r. ....-.
The document is lengthy one, but
all who peruse it will readily appreciate
why John Sherman and his Radical
cODferes were SO anxious to smother it.
1t lifts the roof Off the Treasury for the
first time in twenty years. 1t shows
that the swindling Bureau of Engraving
and Printing has absorbed $27, ,000, 900 Of
public money, the greater part of which
was wasted or stolen.
1t shows that interest on United States
bonds has been fraudulently collected
for years by an outside Ring operating in
collusion with Treasury employees.
1t shows that the thieves were protect
ed and shielded by Treasurer Wyman
and other high officials. Every rascal
whose crimes forced him out of office re-
ceived more lucrative berth abroad.
1t directly duplicates John Sherman,
who not only perpetuated the corruption
he found before him, but multiplied il
for the purpose of ofrewarding partisan SER
vices-as, for instance, when he altered
the Customs regulations on our Cana
dian frontier and ruined hundreds o
merchants, solely for the sake of increas
ing the fess of Republican Senator
prOtege. .t t
The Glover report demonstrates thai
the Federal Secret Service Bureau is a
sink of rottenness and blackmail, in
which no honest man can attempt to per-
form his duty without incurring the PEN
| atty of certain dismissal. -
1t incidentally examines the Southern
| cotton seizures, and details how Hon.
William E. Chandler, having secured a
| full list of these cotton claims, was ena-
bled to resign his position of Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and step at
once into claw practice" worth $780,
| 600. ..'il '.'
But the most startling disclosures Of
the entire report refer to the Alints and
to the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing.
Everybody on the Pacific coast knows
how Linderman puffed the Bonanza
mines in official reports and made for
tune out of the swindle. But is not SC
we'll known that as much as $19,000,00
in excess of the authorized volume Of
currency has been afoat at one time,
This and many other over-issues, as well
as deficits in various departments, have
been concealed under false entries and
forced balances in the Treasury book.
On the whole, more scandalOus ex-
hibit of jobbery and robbery has never
been presented TO any civilized nation
The charges are almost too startling fol
credence, but they are none the less true
1t is humiliating to us as people thai
such thievery has been so long tolerated
but it would be unspeakably infamous t.
cloak or condone it. Hew to the line
let the chips fall where they may.