New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-23
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
POLITICS AND AFFAIRS.
A MILD EFFORT AT CAMPAIGN LIE-GENERAL
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on the revenue at NeW-OrleanS by the
connivance of high Republican officials.
Commissioner Raum gives an emphatic
denial to the story. General Ewing is
In Washington, and does not appear at all
confident about the probable result in Ohio.
The McGarahan claim is up again. The ex-
ports of breadstuils now exceed those of cot
ton and tobacco.
CLAP TRAP ABOUT TOBACCO FRAUDS.
AN ALLEGED EXPOSURE BY DEMOCRATIC NEWS
PAPER WHICH Il QUICKLY SHOWN TO BE
FALSE STORY.
lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE.
WAsHINGToS, July 22-An exposure Of alleged
serious frauds upon the revenue by means Of a
spracy between Collector Marks and ring of to-
bacco dealers IN New-Orleans is brought ont in The
Post of this city to-day The Secretary of the Treas
ury and the President are indirectly implicated in
the affair in that they refus ID to Mr. Marks
when proof Of his irregular practices was laid before
them. The usual connection is established between
the motives which serve to keep Mr. Marks in his
position now and the supposed services rendered by
him during the electoral controversy.
Commissioner Raum says that some of the state
ments made in The Posts article are partially true,
but the Interpretation given to them is wholly uu-
warranted. "SOme time ago. said he, Il became
satisfied from information from various sources
that large frauds IN the manufacture and sale of
tobacco were being perpetrated in NeWOrleans, and
| sent Revenue Agent +. ID. Webster TO ferret out
the frauds with full instructions The instructions
gwen 10 tine agent were not made known to Col
lector Marks and for time the two working
at cross purposes. The agent, however succeeded
in his mission in so far TO expose a ring OF tobacco
dealers who were operating in COLLISION with some
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ture that the man Flores. referred to in The Posts
articles, for the purpose OF saving himself turned
State- evidence and made a sworn statement to the
! Revenue Agent and the ring became fully exposed.
| For a time suspicious necessarily attached
TO the responsible head of the Office and during fur
| Their Investigations Secretary Theman emphati-
| cally expressed to the Commissioner of Internal
| Revenue his determination to remove the collector
or any subordinate against whom there should be
found evidence sufi eiout TO establish any connec-
! ton whatever with the frauds. No evidence was
discovered OF has yet been presented tending TO i'm
plicate Collector Marks and believe HIM TO be an
honest as he Is certainly a capable
The investigation" said Commissioner Baum,
however led strongly TO the belief that the First
Deputy Collector, an official who served in the OF
fee many years before Mr. Marks was appointed,
and who was originally appointed under Demo
cratic administration, was a sharer in the
! profits OF the ring; and by the order
! of the commissioner was sUMmauly Gl,-
/ missed. Had thr collector been guilty. / believe
| bis deputy would not have submitted % be-
Iug discharged without at least exposing
/ the Official who discharged him. The
/ ring was broken mp and upon the
! recommendation Of the Commissioner their cases
| were compromised by the payment OF sums varying
/ from $1,000 "a $4,000 To the Government
! The tommss Oupr says that the result directly
Credidhle the agents of che Internal Revenue Bu7
rrau. and that the attempt 20 make II appear that
! the exposure and breaking mp of the ring was the
/ work of the members, who had determined 20 re-
! .0rm, j. as untrue as 10 Is absurd The Commits
/ sIOner further said that so FIR from trying 10
/ shield the couspratOT-, United States Attorney
Leonard cuODoratrd cleerful.y aud vigorously with
/ the officers Of the Government III exposing the
I frIuU.