Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-08-13
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the captured and abandoned proper
ty fraud"-s45l 900 in all, and the At.
torney. General continues to ask an
appropriation for the same purpose of
s25, 900 every year, though he and all
his subordinates are salaried officials,
and though under the law very few
cotton cases are now allowed to 60 be.
fore the Court.
An infamous law, procured from
Congress by implicated parties, iorbids
the owners of cotton to sue the Socre-
tary of the Treasury or his agents, for
taking away their cotton, and appro-
priations have been repeatedly obtain
ed to pay special counsel Tor using
their legal skill to prevent owners from
getting back their own
Andrew Hosmer, Union officer,
settled in Alabama in the Spring OF
1865, and raised a crop of cotton worth
about $4,000. When it was ready for
market one of the Treasury thieves
seized it, The Cotton Bureau kept
Hosmer out of his money ten years,
took from him one-fourth as "commis-
sion" to the robber, another fourth as
expenses" and returned half his prop
erty minus ten years interest.
SHAMEFUL FRAUDS AND ABUSE OF THE
CAPTURED COTTON TRUST FUND.
There were twenty-one supervising
special property agents, and their ac.
counts were ordered to be settled by
Robert Il. Preston of the First Audi
tors office In his statement Preston
reports that ]. M. Tomeny, agent
collected 1869 bales, and sent Draper
5,46S but Tomeny swore before the
Glover Committee that he collected
1880 bales and scnt Draper Hill
$500 more than Preston credited him
| with in the official settlement. Specia
Agent o. IL. Burbridge swore that
}, Preston demanded and received money
from him before he would begin set
/ tling his account that Preston made
. q second demand, which was refused
and that hence Burbridge's accounts
remain unsettled. The Supreme Court
has decided that the proceeds of cap
; tured cotton are q trust fund IN the
hands OF the Treasury fer the benefit
/; of the owners but, as has been seen
this trust is shamefully abused. Mill
; ions of this trust fund were deposited
by Secretary McCullouch in Jay
Cookies First National Bank of Wash
ington, which enjoyed the use anC
profit thereof while the owners suffer
cd. William Il. Chandler, while Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury, cause(
a full! list of the valid cotton claims t
be made out and furnished to him, anC
soon after resigned and went into th'
practice of claw" at Washington. The
. official who made Chandler the lis
swore that it was worth AT least 500,
900 20 its holder
: THE MAINE HOSPITAL sERvIoE-DR.
: wooDwoRTH's TESTIMONY.
DIR. John NJ. Woodwork, Supervis
ing Surgeon. General of Marine Hospit
ais, testified that under his manage
ment the Marine Hospital service wa
! not selfsustaining, though he had re
ported to make it appear that it was
doubled the tax on sailors and had (
revenue of over s350,000 year to sup
a port the service with that he had OBJ
tanned from Assistant Secretary Conan
approval of vouchers for so, 100 extri
pay and travelling expenses for severa
. months. in violation of law, while pre-
pairing o roport on cholera, which OK
tras, without law or authority. wer
take from the hospital fund collecte,
from sailors that the Register OF tn
!. Treasury's statements never Shove,
!. the true condition of the Marine Hos
' pital fund. the Registers figures beip,
> always better than the facts, and tha
he was not allowed to state the trutI
in this report, because it would diffe
from the Registers, and that ther
were often many unpaid bills.
DR. Woodwortb further ,estif;ed ,bo
there was no law reoulat;ng the nnm
! her or annointment of Marine Hosnita
officers and that thonch Tho serv;c
was No, selfmnnort;ng be wished I
onno;nt n;no,oon norc ofy;cors tha
tharo woa no Iaw for nronor ovam;na
lion of sncb officers hefnre anno;n,
J, ment that be had been at nerpetn,
wor Win ,ba Treosrrv os ,d vbo ~
hosn;,ai ofI;cora shonlj ho hat ,her
was no regplat;ng the exnenditurcs fo
bnildings n tu9nod ON. Aha. Woof
worth while nrofessing 10 investigat
the cholera enidemic had drawn Cor
trarv to law s6 n dav and 10 cents
/, mile travelling expenses in addition I
his salary for seven months over AZ
600; that the statements of expense
of the services in some of bis renor,
did not include renairs fnel turnitur
salaries of eno;neers a nj f;romon l;ob,
and water Which in 1874 and 1S7I
Amounted IN s69 606 and that benc
these statemonts Of exnensea are ,nco,
rect and unreliable that tbe Treasur
hod lone heen in tbe hob;, of nnIau
fnlIv allow;ng acommntationn ins,eo
Of cctnoI ovnenses to travel;no ofs,cioI
,hns nnIo w Xii, ;noroas;nn ,6o;r oon
nensa,ion Woodworth's hills ahoy
non,;onod wara ronderad and nosso
bv tho Aud;tor and Comntroller 90,
~ tyarv 70 law as acomnansotionn T,
collec,ing inflammation When II
> Clever rommittse cansed ,bem to
ovom;ned thov wero sonnd ~ bo aI,e
cd from Observation-Disclosures 70 acommn,,
,;on Sand tba words DIOR evnonaosS n,
in both in Woodwortb's bandwr,tip,
Dr. Frank W Reilly one Of Woo
Il wor,h,s assistants draw b;s roenI,
nav from the hosn,tal fnnd and 9th,
poy p for ;nvcstigating two subjects
liz liz same time