The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-17

BY Z. B. MURRAY &
THE SUPPRESSED GL0FERiREPORP,
4 Millions on millions OF she Public Finds Sto-
a len and Squandered-Fraud Absolutely
Unchecked and the National Finances al
the Mercy Of Thieves and Robbers.
To-day the Star prints ia document
which deserves the thoughtful considers
ton of every citizen, no matter what may
: be his political predictions. 1t is the
: report of the Congressional committee OF
which Hon. J. M. Glover was chairman,
which committee was empowered to in
vestigate the affairs of the Treasury De-
partmenta and its numerous ramifcations,
including the Secret Service and En-
CRAVING Bureaus. Republican influence
of the strongest character has been
brought to bear on the members of the
committee and upon Congress itself to
prevent publicity being given to the his
tory of the shameless mismanagement of
the national finances which the commit
Zee discovered. The result was that, not.
withstanding emocratic activity, the re-
port OF the committee was suppressed in
Congress and every effort to bring it to
Light has met with the most violent par
'tisan opposition up to the present time.
The record of infamy and corruption
in the national treasury and its various
bureaus, under the management OF ohm
Sherman and his immediate predecessors,
:. Is startling one, and has been fully laid
hare by, the committee. Millions upon
millions of dollars ofthe peoples money
hare been squandered and stolen; the
e department has been made tool for
most infa-nous purposes; secret issues
ofmoney have been made to carry elec-.
9ions for the Republicans; all avenues
that might lead 20 exposure have been
closed, and honest, conscientious saoficials
dismissed; the Southern people have
been shamelessly yplundered BY Shernan's
treasury ring; mints have been q mine
Z for official thieves, spectators and de-
fauiters, and the country has been flooded
with counterfeit paper whenever such a
4 course served the purpose of the ring and.
Is ieeaadants. The report, moreover,
shows that there is absolutely no check
or safeguard against the perpetration or
,a,,et; sio,, IF fha Greatest frandsg in tbe,
,s,;nr,.S % +;nancss M % nn5ar Sherman,s man.
ar cioses with racommenda
s,--I - i 20 m ~ Lrt hs doomed r,,css.s
ssss-s .,.; tha .s. ~
: - Tbe Tsoort in substance is as follows:
The docunent opens by stating that
sMadison,s administration, directs this
colnulittee 10 INQUIRE and report whether;
the expenditures of the Treasury De-
partmens are justified BY law whether
the claims satisfied are supported by
vouchers establishing their justness,
whether the moneys disbursed have
been 10 paid in accordance with appro-
priation laws. and whether any and what
provisions are necessary to provide more
Sperfectly for the proper application of
: the public moneys; and to secure the
aogernrnent from demands unjust in
Character or extrayapant in amount: to
Ssnort fron, t;me totime whetheranyand
,gsat ratrenehment can ihe made in The
sy,sns;tn-e ,,;,,. n, of the denartnent without
cont 10 A., ,,nbI;c service. whether
ssS and ,vhat abnses ex;sI in the failure
~ a. In, iaScst The ,nayment of moneys flue
J. .tSs n Iy,;ts5 States from public defaulters
or sothes swhether5 any-s -sofices in 5the,
Ssno -tTns3t 4 Sha "a heconoe ,,,seless or I'M.
f.ecsssary. and TO renorS ON the expeii-
sncy of modifvine or abolishif1g such of.
I ss.Ss Ss
finder, his r,,le little.1was done. for a
Jonc time and when Mr.. Glover was
: nIacsS rJ lat of the head of. the COMMITTEES i'm
fS77s ths ysfheTefi sNronoa, Of years had to
,,s s. s;nG,,irsd mn into sTbe, coiSnmittes had
4 Sssn 81 5ah;tnallv .aaeked by Speakers Col
far az. and Bia;ne' with do-nothYnes. ,Janu.
gary =, 81 i s,is7s the House instructed the
! COMMITTEES to proceed with its duties
(which it had sometime before begun,