The daily gazette., 1879-04-03
The AScOwmos or Supervisors
..asA m n rs N ais.

and Nlmrsha1s.
Although five months have elapsed
since the Congressional elections last |
fall, the accounts of the chief supervisors
the subordinate supervisors and the mar
shals, for the services of deputies then
employed, have not yet been fully set
tied at the Treasury. There IS no good
reason why they should not have been
sent in for the quarter ending Dec. 81,
1878 and the fact that they have been
withheld necessarily excites suspicion OF
a sinister motive for the suppression.
A resolution, passed by the last House
two months ago, aud another resolution
recebtly adopted by the Senate, have
failed TO bring out tue desired iDfol ma
ton. The most conspicuous example
of default in this respect is the author OF
the obnoxious law, John |. Davenport,
who took care to provide most liberal
fees for himself, but who has found 1t
convenient 10 withhold any statement OF
those received at the last election.
The Wallace Committee summoned
Marshal Kern of Philadelphia to testify
as to his delinquency in this respect, but
thus far they seem TO have overlooked
the chief of the tribe of supervisors, who
above and beyond all others, has pro-
voked the public indignation against
that class of electionecring agents that
| are paid II ON the national Treasury for
partison service. Mr.. Davenport drew
Sl9,3S3,36 as Chief Supervisor, and $3,-
304. 90 as United States Commissioner
under the election laws in 1876, TO say
nothing of the large sums which he
pocketed in 1872 and in 1874, over aud
aD,ve the money received from the
Union League. He has, therefore,
found the business TO be profitable, and
10 uot particularly anxious to enljghlen
Congress about the revenues OF his Office.
The accounts of Chief Supervisors Of
southern New York and Of Massachu-
setts have not been received at the Trea-
sury, and those of Others have yet to be
finally passed upon hy the COMPTROLLER
10 that the exact amount OF The cot
of these partlAans cannot now be stated
five months after the expenditures were
made. In 1876 the total expenses for
supervisors and deputy marshals was
s275, ,296 60. When all the returns for 1873
shall be received there will be very lt-
tn ough the frat involved both the Presi-
dency and the Congressional eIecti On,
uh bile the latter was exclusively Tor the
House of Representatives,
This fact shows what extraordinary
exertions were made by the Fraudulent
Administration, Independent of the large
fund collected from the ofhceholdeis by
NJ. Gorham, and the voluntary contri-
buttons made by rich Republicans in this
| I.ity nd .lu ,ph. 10 rnuint 10
in the House. 1t is quite remarkable in
this category that the charge for supervi-
sors in 1876 and IN 1873 -hould be almost
; similar. Here are the figures from John
Shermans last report to the s. nate, in
answer 20 Mr.. McDonaid's resolution:
| Supervisors-lSI6.. I6..............ellO.9l4 .9l4 40
Supervisors-lo7S.. .......... 1lO099 30
The close approximation of amounts
leads to the bt lief that the basis for 1876
was taken for the expenditure last fall
without any regard whatever TO the pub
lie interest The testimony of darshal
Kerr Of Philadelphia proves that there
was no necessity for the deputy narshals
III that city, seven hundred and sixty OF
whom received ten dollars each for two
days services ~ Republican elt ctionee rs
at the polls. He admitted that every one
of these deputies was "A Republican, and
that the voting ptecincIs were abundant
ly protected by kepubl can police, exclu
slve Of "seyen sworn State ofhcials-noi
counting the clerks-at each precinct
: and they were all Republicans"
What is thus confessed in regard tt
! Philadelphia is equally true here, all,
wherever elsewhere partisans were EN-
, ployed.
, More than million of dollars was thn'
, taken dir, city ont of the Treasury tc
pay Republican workers at the last tw,
elections, and when 1t is proposed TO re
peal the Infamous laws, which were con
5 cocted To enrich few sharp politicians
t and 10 furnish an organized force at tn,
a polls at the public expense, jobbers lik,
De Golyer Garfield and Secor Robe, OF
shout "revolutiVp ?"' Whenever a Re
/. publican thiefis caught and stopped from
stealing, he cries revolution. If The army
is forbidden to interfere with elections
it is revolution. If barbarous test oath
are stricken from the statute book, it Il
!, revolution. If free sleclious are demand
e ed and hired creatures so control then
s. are abolished, again 1t is revolution
), They are lik ly TO get plenty of sncl
: revolution before Congress adjourns.-
;. ". Y, Sun.