The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-12
INVESTIGATING REPUBLICAN RAscALITIEs

The figures of the expenditures from the
csI hate esonnmg of ConEfess Mr. Voorhees,
Investigation of the exodus, which provided
large number of small Southern Democrats
ton, ana aid little else, cost sl65OO. The Kel-
lOgg investigation, which supplied the rare
mass OF perjury on which the present move
ment for unseating Mr.. Kellogg is based, cost
ZOO. The investigation of charges against
Senator ingalls,, which seem to have fallen to
the ground, cost 80 OO. MI. Davis committee
on the Treasury bookkeeping, which spent
two years in vain effort to subStantiate vari-
Gus sensational charges made by him in Sem
quire into and report upon the Rhode Island
clam bake, otherwise known as the Commit
Rhode Island, cost almost exactly the same
sum. 1t is saying less than the whole truth
unnecessary, and that the money spent upon
them was utterly wasted.-New YORK Trtb-
une.
In every instance the Committees referred
10 were necessary to unearth Republican
rascalities. AS to the Exodus Committee,
more Republicans than Democrats were pro-
vlded with means TO make trip to Wash
ington, and In one instance it is reported
that Hon. John G. New, distinguished Re-
publican of Indiana, and Chairman OF the
Republican State Central Committee, made
the trip, pocketed the means" and did not
swear at all. He went again, and we presume
pocketed the means a second time.
During the period the Committee was en-
gagged in the investigation, numerous Re-
publlcans asked to be called to Washington,
just TO make the trip, for they admitted
that they were not in possession OF import
ant information. The Exodus Committee
has been of great service to the State of In
diana, and to the country, for 1t has been
proven that the leaders of the Republican
party In Indiana and elsewhere went into it
deliberately to import pauper negroes for
the purpose of voting the Republican ticket.
shown that he owes his place in
the Senate to frauds and perjuries as
infamous as those which seated Hayes. The
Davis Committee has demonstrated that the
most astounding frauds have been perpe-
trated in the Treasury Department to cover
up which, erasures, alterations and mutila-
tons were resorted to. One item of $780,
600 900 can not be accounted for. In the
Ingalls, case, it was a Republican fight
throughout. He was charged with bribery.
1t was shown that he owed his place in the
Senate to bribery, but technically it was not
shown that the money came through his
hands, and so the Kansas man escaped by
the skin OF his teeth. That he was guilty, a
large per cent. of his constituents believe.
To raise Investigating Committees to unearth
Republican scoundrelism has been in order
for a number of years, and q good many
villains have been compelled to take back
seats And still another Investigating Com
mittee is demanded to overhaul the crook
edness OF another distinguished Republican
Official This time it is the late Secretary oil
War McCrary, who left the Cabinet of the
Presidential fraud to take upon himself the
honors and responsibilities OF a Judge. He
is now charged by the Chattanooga Times
with the villainy of being directly inter
ested in a fraud of 500 900 upon the Gov
eminent. A Chattanooga dispatch of the
9Th says:
The Times of this city will tomorrow morn
ing charge, upon documentary and othel
proof. that Secretary McCrary paid 100000 on
fraudulent claim Of one Williams, q former
contractor under the War Department. or
Mussel Shoals Canal. The charges are specific
that the Secretary paid this money agains
the protest of the engineer in charge. Ate
the chief of engineers had disapproved the
claim, and that he paid it on trumped-uT