Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28
NEW YORK CITY'S REGISTRY
What the Republican Claim"
to the State is Based Upon.
GARFIELD ON The SALARY GRAB
Prices on American Exports 1.-The
American Exchange in Europe
---Handcock and Tariff
The Philadelphia Dem
ocratS in Line.
THE SENATORS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE

U4RFIELD AND SALARY GRIB.
His EquivOcatiOD Upon the subject
and why Eic Covered His share in
the Treasury. -.
New York World of yesterday.
General Garfield is tho worst witness
that can be summoned TO his own yeracity.
In a letter to his political confes1br, Prof.
Hinsdale, dated March 10, 1873, and
published ia Bundy's Champaign Life"
page 2O9, General Garfield wrote Of the
wrote of the salary grab
~ have not drawn the additional salary,
and do not know that | shall Certainly
shall not for the present, and probably not at
all. But this will not say i'll the midst of
this storm
One week after the date of this letter,
on the 10Th of March, lS73-as appears
from proceedings published at the time in
the local newspapers
"Thc Republicans of General Garfeld's
district assembled in convention at Warren,
1rllmbull county, Ohio, and adopted reso-
lntion asking him to resign his seat Ill the
House Of Representatives and declaring that
by voting for the retroactive salary bill
he had forfeited the confidence of his con-
sttuents."
Nine days later, on the 4th of April,
General Garfield again wrote to Hinsdele
this letter (Buhdy's Campaign Life"
page 2l0):
WASHINGTON, April 4, 1871 agree in all
yOu say Oh the question of back pay but
neither truth nor ability seemed to avail any
thing in the race of this temptation. ] not
UHiy hare nereT drdrn he ertrd pay bm,
nearly tro ,reeks ago. l ordered the Sergeant
at-Arms to close my account, and directed my
Ila m : a
the treasury beyond my reach, or.that of my
heirs in case of my death That has been
done but felt that under no circumstances
wOnld allow it to be known publicly, at least
for the preseut 1t may, however, be neces-
sary by and by to let that fact come ont.
What do you think?
'Nearly two weeks" before April the ith
takes us back TO March 2lst. This was
two days later than the date of his letter
of March 10Th, which shows that lis mind
was unsettled on the subject. "Nearly
two weeks ago" counting back from April
Ath, wosld bring us to the date OF the
warning from his Congressional oonstitu-
eney, gwen March 2Gth. Disagreeable as
it may be to cite such evidence against o
candidate for the Presidency, the record
shows that Gen. Garfield stated positive
untruth to Mr.. Hinsdale when he alleged
that he had ordered his back pay to be
covered into the Treasury nearly two
weeks" before the ith of April. This ap-
pears from the following official letter:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. OFFICE or THE
SECRETARY, WAsmISuroS, june - 1850 H.
DuS.y, ESg., Fast ms NOiHeS, Id.-SIR; In
reply to your letter of the 18th instant, asking
to be informed on what date the Hon. James
A. Garfield paid into the Treasury his back
pay and how the Treasury books show this
transaction, | have to inform yuu that it
appears from the records of this Office that
the sum Of -, 5iS was dtpoSited to the credit
of the Treasurer of the United States in the
name of James A. Garfield, on ''account of
retroactive increase of salary" on he 22d of
april, 1873, and that thisamount was covered
into the Treasury by miscellaneous covering
warrant No. 7Ol, second quarter, 1874. and
cannot be withdrawn except by act of Con-
gress. Very respectfully,
j. X. UrTON, Assistnnt Secretary.
These etters, moreover, demonstrate
that General Garfield long hesitated
whether or not to draw his back pay, that
he did finally draw it, and that he only
returned it into the Treasury after his
constituents had plainly given him to
understand that they would not tolerate
his appropriation of it.