The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-04

at this consulate IN nearly seven |
years. From the evidence be sui
mits nine propositions:
One-The number of shipments /
actually reported by Bailey is 30 out
of proportion to the number of dis
charges, as to create OF least strong
presumption of fraud.
TGo-A comparison of the accounts
of extra wages returned by Bailey in
about seven yeaIs-$5, 254 from 652
ships-Titb LoriDgs, in sixteen
months. s5,99247 from 1876 ships,
and under the same rule, create a
presumption of fraud confirmed by
evidence.
Three-BaiIey's annual average of
extra wages is only about
500; mine up to September
the S0!h, less than eight months,
s1,016. Bailey's rule Of extra wages
ought to have produced five or SIX
times as much as mine-yet mine
produced more.
Four-The number of men re-
ported as shipped and discharged,
when compared with the number Of
vessels entsred and cleared, is too
small.
Five - The principal source of
revenue ct this consulate being the
shipping and dischsrging OF seamen,
invoices and Chinese emigTents, OF
which Mr.. Bailey had a great many
more than 1 have, had his surplus
balance been paid into the treasury,
ought to have been proportionally
larger. In less than eight months my
surplus balance is larger than any
annual balance before paid by this
consulate into the treasury, and this,
in spite OF the fact that owing to the
decline in business, and the reduction
in charges, the amount collected by
f me, both in feea and in extra wages
is far less than that cole ted by MY
predecessor.
Six-Mr. Bailey has charged gov
, eminent $500 for relieving dis
tressed seamen, OF annually ahou
81. 200-5n- L lave charged nothing
/ Seven-My attention is called t
t the fact that in about seven years
| Bailey's total surplus balance was
500, 565; Lorings, so, 1873; nearly one
, half OF Bailey's total in sixteeI
! months. Mine is about one-tbird il
g less than eight months.
5 Eight-A comparison OF Bailey
8 annual total reported with his sur
: plus show the purely artificial char
:. acter of his returns-thst is, tn
= surplus amount was net regula
o ted by the amount collected, bn
q by the exegencies. From a total c
:. $12 311, collected by me since Febru
! airy 4th, 70, [ pay surplus {
a 81, 9lS. In the same way Bailey
d returns may be compared with them
q selves, to show the annual balsnce
d paid into the treasury, dependent o
q the annual amounts collected. /
q 1876, with total OF $14 ,018 reported
o his balance was 81, 29l. so; while j
). 1872, with, a total OF SO. 341 81, b
/; balance wac 81 S03.78. So in 1873, b
+ total was greater than in 1872, but b
!. surplus less. The surplus l pay owe
q into the treasury depends upon til
,e amount I collect.
IF Nine-Mr. Bailey must haV
u discharged at least 2.60S soame.
q and at least four fifths
d those, with extra wages. and shippe
a shout 4, 564 seamen. His defslcatic
?: on this account must be between $50
Is 900 and $4,000.
y In conclusion, as the Chinese en-
b grafton was the original subject
e; inquiry, is submitted the followil
le extract from letter just received fro
+ the collector of customs, at San Fra
re cisco, dated August %, 1879. l co
OF graduate you on your success in yol
le effort to prevent the shipping of lev
to women to this port. The fact th
lie you have succeeded demonstrates Il
70 truth of my theory hitherto express
~ to your predecessor, that vigilsn
al and activity on the part Of the cons
n at Hong Kong, was the proper way
rs enforce the law.
to 1 have the honor to be. sir, 70
lie obedient servant. JOHN S. MoSBY,
Ia United States Consl