American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-05

The figures of the expenditures from the
Senate Contingent Fund illustrate the So
called economy of Congress. Mr.. Voorhees,
large number of small Southern Democrats
with the means of making trip to Washing
Iogg investigation, which supplied the rare
mass of perjury on which the present move
$1,000. The investigation of charges against
Senator ingalls,, which seem to have fallen to
the ground, cost $4,000 Mr.. Davis Committee
on the Treasury book eeping, which spent
two years in a vain effort to substantiate vari-
Gus sensational charges made by bin in Sen
quire into and report upon the Rhode Island
clam-bake, otherwise known as the Commit
Rhode Island, cost almost exactly the same
sum. II is saying less than the whole truth
unnecessary, and that the money spent upon
them was utterly wasted.-NeW York Tribune.
In every instance the Committees re-
ferred to were necessary to unearth Re-
publican rascalities. AS to the Exodus
Committee, more Republicans than
Democrats were provided with means
to make a trip to Washington, and in
one instance it is reported that Hon.
John c. New, a distinguished Republi-
can 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" second time. During the
period the Committee was engaged in
the investigation, numerous Republi-
cans asked to be called to Washington.
just to make the trip, for they admitted
that they were not in possession of
important information. The Exc
dus Committee has been of great
service to the State of Indiana,
and to the country, for it has been
proven that the leaders of the Repub-
lican party in Indiana and elsewhere
went into it deliberately to import pau
per negroes for the purpose of voting
the Republican ticket. In the Kellogg
case it has been 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 as
founding frauds have been perpetrated
in the Treasury Department, to cover
up which, erasures, alterations and mu-
were resorted to. One item of
$240, 900, 900 cannot be accounted for.
In the Ingalls, case, it was Republican
fight throughout. He was charged with |
bribery. 1t was shown that he owed |
his place in the Senate to bribery, but |
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 be-
lieve. To raise investigating commit
tees to unearth Republican scoundrel-
SIN has been in order for number of
years, and a good many villains have
been compelled to take back seats.
And still another investigating COM
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of another distinguished
official. This time it is
he late Secretary of War McCrary,
Who left the Cabinet of the Presidential
raud to take upon himself the honors
md responsibilities of a Judge. He is
S now charged by the Chattanooga
Times with the villainy of being direct
v interested in a fraud of 800, 600 upon
he Government. A Chattanooga dis
'atch of a late date says:
The Times of this city will tomorrow morn
ng charge. upon documentary and other
roof, that Secretary McCrary paid 100000 on
fraudulent claim of one Williams, a former
ontractor under the War Department, on
iussel Shoals Canal. The charges are specific
hat the Secretary paid this money against the
rotest of the engineer in charge, after the
'hief of Engineers had disapproved the claim,
nd that he paid it on a trumped-uP report of
hree engineers, who were virtually directed
irers to make each and ali of these allegations
God before competent committee of Con-
ress, and designateS some of the witnesses
nd documents it wishes to have examined.
He further alleges belief that McCrary was
partner in the law firm which worked the
lain through the Department.
There has been very deep and decidedly Z
ellicose feeling here and all along the river on ,
his subject, but circumstances have SO Tar
Dmbined to keep the matter quiet. The occa-
on of the initial ventilation now is wash ,
lgton telegram in the Cincinnati papers of
he 4th, which admits that the claim and its I
ayment were parts of one and the same job, {
nd charges the onus of the theft on the
ngneer's Department., which is purely SLAM
erous-
Just what it will cost to investigate {
lis charge of rascality it would be diff {
cult to name. but the investigation !
ught to be had, and if McCrary is
Utility, as he doubtless is, he should be
to the extent of having his ,
ldicial ermine stripped from him. 1t t
still in order to investigate Republic
IN rascalities, and if the people would ,
e relieved of the burden, they must I
eep rascally Republicans out of office. f
Indiana State Sentinel. S
The Republican Convention of i
lorida, the same body that sent solid i
rant delegation, has distinguished it. c
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