Daily Republican., 1882-06-08
WHOLESALE DEBAUCHERY.

WHOLESALE DEBAUCHEBY.
A Little Inside History or IN
Manner I'm Which the People,
Money was spent for she York
town Celebration.
The exposure Of the Yorktown de
bauch was made public some time az
but was denied at the time. Yesterday
however, the general deficiency bill
came up in Congress and the facts cam
out about the Yorktown business, whicl
are not very crsditable to the partie
concerned.
The bill for wines, liquors and cigar
had been made out with unblushinj
particularly and appeared approved BY
Senator Johnston and paid. The mana.
gers of the affair had worked it yer,
shrewdly. They had paid all the ques
tionable bills out of the $4,000 appro
priation for the expenses of the Centen
pial, and had left such expenditures tt
be met in the deficiency bill as they
knew Congress would be obliged to meet
Thus the whisky bills had been paid
while the hotel bills and other legiti
mate expenses Of the French and
German visitors had been saved tc
present as the deficiency. In this way
the deficit was run up to over $32, ,00O
The items that actually caused the de.
ticiepcy should never have been in.
Cured, and for the most part had little
relevancy to the entertainment of the
descendants of Lafayette and Won Steu.
ben
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| 1t came about in this way. There was
not the slightest trace of the boasted
hospitality of Virginia at the celebra
ton. Virginia was represented by a
solitary lunch basket. TO make show
of entertainment Senator Johnaton
opened large hotel on the Commission
boat and ran it regardless OF expense
during the celebration. For the 1our
day $ the boat lay there 1t was thronged
with the invited guests of the Virginia
Senator chiefly. Some five hundred
people were fed at long tables that
groaned with all the luxuaries that
money could procure. A free bar
we'll stacked, was run below day and
night, where the bast of wines and
cigars were dealt out for the asking.
The President and Cabinet and the
| French and German guests were never
on board this boat. OF those who were
there less than hundred could by any
possible construction of the invitation
have been considered legitimate guests
of the Commission.
There were some fifteen or twenty
Governors Of States and their families
and many of these came with ample ap.
preparations from their States to pay
all their bills 1t was the reckless eff.
fort to conceal the absence of means of
ente ntertainment By the State OF Virginia
that mulcted the government out Of
over $4,000 for The benefit of the junk.
eters.
THE LIQUOR BILL.
The following is a correct copy Of
the liquor bill for the free bar on the
Commission boat:
Yorktown Centennial Commission,
1881, 70 R. w. & FL. l.. Smith, Dr.,
October 49,
Nine gallons Madeira, at Sc, $500;
Two dozen cases Madeira, at II, "A 90;
Eight gallons Sherry, at 6, 48.00: Two
dozen sherry, at II, "a 90; Ten gallons
Amontillado sherry, at 4, &c, $4,000.
Fifteen gallons 1880, at $40, 1926, 90;
five gallons pale brandy, at $40, 90 90;
i've gallons dark brandy, at 10, 5000;
one case brandy, al 10, 5000; FIVE gal
Ions port wine, at 6, 5000 two cases
whisky, at 12, 24.0O; 130 cases cham
paigne wine, at 80, 100000; twenty
Ave cases French claret, at 10, 250.00;
fifteen cases P ciaret, at 10, 600;
three cases Burgundy, at 10, 45.0o; five
cases Rhine wine, at Is, $500; seven
cases Sauterne, at 10, 20 90; sixty.eight
gallons whiskey, at 5, $4,000.
Five barrels of bottled beer, 81 80
Five cases, quarts, Apollinaris, 1900;
Five cases, pints, Apollinaris, 62.5O;
Two barrels Of Bass ale, bottled 1000;
Three bottles Amontillado bitters, 800;
Two kess Cnracoa,3.0O; Two cases at
Congress water, 1900: Two cases old
gin, 25 OC: 8, 200 Reina cigars, 400. 900;
1000 Conchas, $4,000; 1000 Londres,
$4,000; 1900 domestic cigars, $1,000;
Five gallons of rum, 450 90; One gallon
of A brandy, 90; Four cases of Scotch
whiskey, 80. 90, One bottle rum, 2.50;
bottle of Scotch rum, $50; Three boxes.
of lemons, 5000 Fifty pounds of sugar
1000.
Mint. s.; ice, Sl2; glassware, 1880;
seven pounds g tobacco, II, 20; one gross
fine cut, 800; 1000 Lone Fisherman
cigarettes, 600; 1000 Richmond Gem
cigarettes, $50; two bartenders, five
days, SO each, 5000; one bartender, five
days, s., $500; two bartenders, five
days, 50, 20 90; three barrels ginger ale,
at $3.50, $3.50; total, 81, 7,460,70; contra,
by goods returned, $3.50 76; balance due,
$6, $40 a. Approved. JOHN w. JOHN
STON. Chairman.