The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-11

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and fraudulent purpose of making it APP
pear that The debt had been diminished
more than the fact warranted.
[Oiglnal charges and specifications
made the letter to Secretary Boutwell,,
July 8, 1869
Ninth-By the act of June 20, 1886. the
Treasury was authorized to loan thirty
eight million dollars, surplus revenues,
to the various States, in proportion to
population. This money has never been
and will probably never be, repaid. Yet
it is counted as portion of the cash on
hand in the Treasury, and, as such, de-
Quoted from the sum of the public debt,
contrary to fact and with the design of
misrepresentin the extent to which
the debt has been reduced.
For evidence of the truth of this
charge, see the items of cash balance in
Treasury, as set forth in the Treasurer's
annual report of receipts and expendi.
lures always several years behind time)
req1ired by act Of Sept. 2. 1888,
Tenth-The stamps account of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, the detailed &C.
counts of merchandise entered into,
withdrawn from, and remaining in the
custom houses, required by the acts of
1846, &C., have not been balanced, the
former for sixteen, the latter for twenty
years. Through this proceeding and
neglect the door has been opened to vast
frauds in the internal revenues and to a
regularly organized system of smuggling,
cheating and other frauds in the ware
houses.
Specifcations.-In 1867 or 1868 a req
usition was made upon me for clerical
assistance by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue. sent number of &C.
cOuntants to him, and when they re-
turned to my Bureau they reported that
the stamps account of the Internal Rev
enue Office would not balance by near
twenty million dollars, and that the
vouchers were so defective and confused
that no ba ance could ever be Effected
Mr.. Randall called attention to the dis
crepanCies in the speech previously
quoted. The condition of the ware
house accounts is alluded to in the Com
merce and Navigation report for 1867,
and in AppLetOn'S Journal. June 27, IA ]
Observation-Disclosures of the revenues,
both customs and internal, have been
and are still permitted to loan to private
bankers the public funds passing thro'
their hands, and to appropriate for
themselves and embezzle the interest
thereon, contrary to law, morality, and
the public welfare.
rSpecifcation.- practice was off,
Cially reported by me to the Secretary
of the Treasury about Jan. l, 1868, and
is matter of record in the department.
Twelfth-Many of the Government
archives, including the accounts Of col
lectiDg and disbursing officers, have
been and are still intrusted to the GUS
tody Of the same officers who rendered
them, thus clothing the latter with pow.
er to rob the Government with impuni
ty and without fear Of detection.
Original charge and specification
made in letter to Japanese Finance Com
mission previously cited.
Thirteenth-Funding measures grant.
ing powers to the Treasury have been
officially recommended by Secretary
Boutwell, and enacred by Congress, while
at the same time the very same powers
were lawfully possessed by the Treasury,
the only difference between the two sets
of powers being that the more recent
ones needlessly and corruptly appropri
ated many millions of dollars for com
missions to bankers, brokers, and specu-
lators-the relatives, partners, or favor
ties of Government officers.
Specifcation.-All the powers grant
ed by the Funding act OF 1870 were pre-
viously granted by the act of April IL,
1875, and March IS, 1862
Fourteenth-The revision Of tie stat.
utes was used as means. if indeed it
was not originally pr jected, to corrupt.
ly and secretly alter many Of the laws
concerning money and the public &C.
counts
Specification. The Mint law of 1873,
which denied coinage to the silver dol
lar, but did not deprive it of unlimited
legal tender, was ordered by the Revised
Statutes, which, without authority, re-
duced it's legal tender function to five
dollars in any one payment. Many 9th.
er instances we're brought to tbs atten'
ton of the House Committee on Revis-
ion of the Statutes in 1876.
Fifteenth-0l Sept. %, 1868, being
then Director Of the Bureau of Statistics,
l published a carefully prepared letter
showing that while Congress had appro.
priatei $476 100000 for the service of the
ensuing fiscal year, the Secretary of the
Treasury had estimated that only 1892.
100000 would come into the Treasury,
and that through this extravaganza and
recklessness on the part of Congress
there would result deficit of $144,000,-
900, In consequence of this exposure
Congress reduced its appropriations, and
my letter saved just 30 much money to
the country. But the reductions did not
eq1al by many millions the amount Of
defoit predicted. Yet, at the end Of the
period indicated, though the revenues
were but little more than had been fore
seen, there appeared to be no deficit. l
now assert that in point of fact there
was deficit precisely as had been fore
seen, and charge that Mr.. Boutwell,, in
order to cover up this deficit, deliberate.
ly altered the public accounts, as after.
ward discovered by Senator Davis, and
that this is the secret and explanation
e Al .oo l;s !, o,,aet tro N % ot;ons