New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-16
PAYING TIE BAILIFFS AND CRIERs.


bv Government officials
PAYING TIE BAILIFFS AND CRIERS
Az uNrOUN NDED ATTACK on MARSHAL PAYN-HIs
COMPLETE AND EFFECTIVE ANSWER TO THE
CHARGES.
TRIBUNE reporter passing through the halls of
The United States Court Building two three
dsys ago met several of the Marshaps officers and
inquired what was going the Marshafs
Office The reply was that the Marshal was pay ing
his 5ailins and crcrs of the courts. The reporter
then called on Marshal Pawn in his private office,
and the following conversation took place:
"Mr. Payn. am informed that you are paying
your deputies and court officers to-day ~
yes" answered Mr.. Pawn. "We always pay
them promptly when the Government sends US the
funds"
How is il that yon are paying at this time of
the month; thought you paid on the first of the
month ~
$50 we do. generaly the men are being paid to-
day the money they earned in May and June last"
"ls tins the money mentioned in Tie Sunday
Mercury a week or two agop
Yes. sir"
When did this money come 7"
Here is the letter from the Treasurer of the
United States 1t is as follows:
TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES. !
WASHINGTON. Aug. z. 1880.
HeTewthI have NE hSp95 a, TO .or "a @ dp HG
10 he order yourself, and accountable for under
the folio lng approprt ions VIZ: support o. prleoner
The courts mcudne hans aud criers, for the months
Of May ana Jane. 1850. $3.50 Very respectfully
JANIS GlIF1LAN TTessurtr if InjtSd ne states.
"To LOUIS r. PAYN, UHfed states MaTshaL"
"a communication in The Sunday Mercury. said
10 be from Mr. Mlliken. chief clerk OF the Depart
ment of Justice stated that $500 had been sent
you for this purpose some time ago."
THAT is not rue" SAID Marshal Payn. Z" The
Government never pays claim more than once
The letter pubshed, puTpOrting to have been sent
TO Washington by some person aggneved. is dated
July 10, 1850. and The Mercury says Chief Clerk
MIhken day or two since replied TO this letter {:
No such thing; money enough $4,000 sent to
the Marshal for this expense etc, etc. Now just
ask Mr. Kennedy to show you letter from Mr..
MIlken. received about the last of July, in which
he audes TO this matter, and which, if remember
nightly disposes of that published letter aud al
legged reply of Mr.. MiliIken'
MI Kennedy showed the following letter to the
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
WASHINGTON July 80, 1880. )
sIR Referring to your letter of the 22d inst. you
been made TO paw the miscellaneous expenses OF the
courts that incurred previous TO July In your dis
ttc inc uding per diem OF bail1s ana criers unpaid
Tne appropriation for such expenses was
exhausted long before July ana you could not nave
nc funds for this parpose could be sent BY the depart
ment Your conduct i'll the matter meets
VIII the approval of the department.
SAMUEL MmLIKES Chief Clerk.
"How then was this story about $3, 800 started''
asked the reporter.
cit was probably based on msun understanding
about the purpose for which Treasury draft No.
1873 on judiciary warrant No. 1,425 was sent to
me on June %. This was specifically appropriated
for fees and expenses of maTshals and not one cent
of II could legally he applied to the baliffs
and The rule is very strict. Here 1t
Is, as it appears In the formal reply OF
the Department of Justice June II to
nv requsition: 'You are directed to use
this money only for the object mentioned in the ac-
companying schedule and You will especially OBJ
serve that the specific sum which Is advanced from
appropriation must be expended for the purposes
OF such Appropriation alone. tach ulVisIoh
OF expenses has Its pecular appropriation.
The account, therefore. OF each Appropriation
must be kept distinct and separate from
the accounts OF another appropriation. The sched'
ue referred states distinctly that the S3,3ou was
appropriated for the fees and expenses OF marshals
and none of it, therefore could bc paid 10 the baiis
and cIierS." 8,
1T was stated also in the articl referred TO-"
taia the reporter that one of the deputy marshals
met with an accident by the fall OF an elevator and
was laid up for some time. and the Marshal de-
ancied his pay during that tune" ,,. n:.o..
- IL Is not true" said Mr. Pawn. ASK MI Plerson'
The person injured. The entire arncle III Inc BT.
eury is false from beginning to the end. Instead OF
the bat~ or deputy-ma rshals-as The nercary calls
tbem-havilg suffered AT my hands, mere mas never
been month or even "a week since i have been III
Office that | have not advanced money to one or
more Of them out of my private funds, ana to-day
there i large amount OF money due me from Ine
employees of my Office for the moneys so advanced
This statement can be confirmed upon induIry OF
any of them. These same men who are said 10 nave
been So cruelty treated by me have paid me to-day
several hundred dollars out of the amount they
have jnst received for money had advanced to
them since the middle OF last May"