The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-01

last year, using as cover for that trip
a so-called international postal conven-
ton. He expended about $4,000, and
made no report Of any kind that can
now be found on the files of the do
partment.
Subsequently he imadeup party for
the Pacific coast. accompanied by the
Third Assistant Postmaster General, A.
d. Hazen, and his family, and chief
clerk, ostensibly to look after improve
ment in the postal service, but really
for amusement and recreation. They
managed to- spend some $1,000, and
made no report, thus proving, as in
the other case, that the whole thing was
a sham, so far as public duty or public
interest was concerned, but costly
reality to the taxpayers. l. a4 .aau
Tyner and Burnside, the prosperous
Superintendent and disbursing officer of
the Postoffice Department, were ont on
a hunting expedition in the Ute couna
trywhen the fatal descent was made on
Thornburgh's command, but got back
unharned, and are doubtless ready TO
start ON another excursion. The bill
for this last trip has not yet been rem
dered, but it will doubtless be relatively
as big as the others. i'H tsa p h
Mr.. Blackfan, Superintendent OF For
eign Mails, has been several times
abroad, professedly in connection with
postal treaties, but actually for his own
ease and comfort. DR. Mcdonald, SUI
,perintendent of Money-Order System,
is now in Europe examining, as is nj
legged, the foreign methods of paying
money out by postoflice orders, upon
annually reported by all the Govern
ments that have adopted this practice.
An excuse is readily invented when
ever any of these or other postoffice as
sistants or superintendent or chief
clerks or favorites want to make q Eur
ropean tour at the expense of the pub
lie. Erring Brother Key is not con-
suited. They come and go at their
own convenience, and the cost is
charged to some general fund, SO that
the personal items never appear in the
official statements. AZ 0g35,,5o. "a i,
Year after year the deficit OF the Post.
office Department increases and NO in
.quiry is made beyond the general re-
ceipts and expenditures. Tens of
thousands are annually covered up,
which form part Of q systematic plum
der, and when committees pretend to
investigate charges that are known to
be true they are whitewashed Just MS
those against Tyner and others were in
4 lta % nh had
isbing about Washington and making
tho contingent fund pay for their pa
iade. The Committee of Appropria-
tons will do we'll to call for the extra
expenses of all officials OF the different
departments before voting the regular
supply bills for the next year. 9.i a
SECRETARY EvABTs PROTECTING OFFICIAL
THIEVES.
1t has been semi -oflcially announced
that John s. Mosby, United States
Consul at Hong Kong, China, is to be
recalled. The alleged reos IN for THU is
that he caused one Of, his dispatches 10
be printed in the newspapers. and that
this, being a violation OF the Consular
regulations, is sufficient to warrant his
decapitation.l q lol l9gM ee ettfu d
D The real reason, however, is that
Mostly has made himself exoeedinglyscr
tive in ferreting out some of the frauds
of the Seward ring in China. : He had
not been at his post two weeks before
he discovered that David H. Bailey, his
predecessor, had in one class of fees
alone defrauded the United States Gov.
eminent of 100000 or 100000 He i'm
stantly reported this fact to the State
Department His dispatch on this SUBJ
iect was, sent Feb. 20, 1879, and must
have reached Washington long before
Bailey, who had been nominated for
Consul General at Shanghai, had been,
confirmed by the Senate, io..o,..l et
There was ample time for Mr.. Evarts
to withdraw Bailey's nomination had
he been disposed to bring a rogue to
justice. But, in an authorized state
ment to the press in regard to the
charges made by Mosby against Bailey,
Mr.. Evarts declared that he knew moth
ing of these allegations when the NOM
ination was made.
At best this is a mere subterfuge, be-
cause he could still have Withdrawn the
nomination.. But the truth is that
formal charges against Bailey had been
made at the State Department by Mr.
Wells, ex-C Consul General at Shanghai,
before the nomination, of Bailey was
sent to the Senate. Wells also ten
dered the evidence to prove that Bailey
was nominated for this position at the
special request of Minister Seward. 1t
is striking proof of the intimacy be-
tween Seward and Bailey that the lat
ter refused to reinstate, on their return
TO Shanghai, the Marshal and office
clerk who were called to Washington to
testify by the House committee that in
vestigated Stewards case, and who were
compelled to testify against him.
That Mr. Evarts is determined, at all
hazards, to prevent any further expos
ure Of the criminal doings of the Sew
ard ring in China is shown by his an
nouncement that Mosby is to be re-
called. He will not succeed, however.
He was compelled TO order an investi-
CATION Of Mosby's charges, and the re-
suit has been that they are sustained
by unimpeachable evidence, aud The
agent directed to make ne inquiry las
sd rer,Orted To the detufi{itattlf fl'