The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-26
Ar WASHINGTON.
That Mean Man Murch md His Big
Budget OF Charges
lie Endeavors TO Implica'e Shining Re.
publican Lights, and UnfOlds
A Tale of Corruption Calculated to
Create CONSERVATION.
The Way Uncle Sam is Bled by His
Boys.
Ker Still Harping on Routes in the
Far West.
The Hill Investigating Commission at
a Stand.still.
The Hill Investigating Commission at
q Stand.still.
Some Other Capital News Items

WASHINGTON, April 23.-[special.l THE
latest instance of liberality in the dispense
ton OF the loves and fishes where they do
the most good, as well as of the pliability
of Mahone's fgurehead governor of Vir-
ginia Cameron, hasjust come to light. John
Paul, who represented the Seventh Nir-
GINA district in the Forty-seventh congress
holds certificate of election to the Forty
eighth, issued by Cameron, although IL Is
conceded that he has no shadow OF title
to tue seat. He draws his $50 salary as
congressman, however, with great com pla-
cency, and has just been appointed Fed
eral district judge at salary, of
So 500 per annum. Here is where
the finesse comes in. He gets one Reeves
to hold his court, while he clings to the lar
ger congressional stipend until December,
when Oferall will supplant. Mr.. Paul will
gracefully resign and ornament the Dench
of the Old Dominion. He is now In the
CITY trying to persuade Attorney-General
Brewster to consent to this clever piece OF
picayunish financerIng.
Anxiety, feverish excitement and ap-
preaching blindness have unsettled the once
vigorous mind ofEx-Senator Dorsey. He has
an amepuensis busily engaged in prepar-
ing duplicate copies-for fear OF spies steal
ing the original OF papers winch
he will shortly tender for ,publica-
ton. In them he will dwell upon
the late presidential campaign, drawing
aside the curtain of secrecy and allowing
the public to peer into the arcana OF the
republican machine. He tells how Kelly
sold New York and Hancock; how Kelly's
friends got fat offices in Washington how
much was paid tells how Garfield was
forced to obey Gould and Reid retain
Robinson in the custom house; Reid hold
ing Garfields receipt for 100000, paid TO
the campaign fund by Gould to get Stanley
on the supreme bench; Reid threatened to
print receipts if Robinson was removed,
when Garfield surrendered to Gould, Conk-
ling resigned and Guiteau's bull dog pre-
vented exposure.
Sunset Cox has Just lectured in Rich
mond, paying $4,000 to charity. He GOES
to r ileigh, thence south, and will lectureln
Dallas for an asylum for busted" printers.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-[Special.l-It
now transplres that the charges preferred
by Congressman Murch, of Maine, against
Supervising Architect Hill implicate the
son of Acting Secretary of the Treasury
French. 1t is alleged Mr.. French, junior,
contracted with the department to furnish
the statuary ornaments for public build
ings at Philadelphia for $4,000 and then
sub-let $50 600 OF the contract for $4,000.
Secretary French has notified Murch to APP
pear before the commission ofenquiry, pre-
sided over by him (French), and unbosom
himself. Murch thinks the commission
wish to whitewash the defendant, and pre-
ferring that the grand jury, Crap
pie with the charges, declines
to "see" the commission. This is shooting
a little too high and near, and whatever
may be the outcome of the enquiry. many
persons will insist that the commissions
report reeks with kalsomine.
The conviction of ex- Marshal Russell, at
San Antonio, is deemed an outrage by his
friends here, and is universally deplored.
IT, is not although improbable that Judges
Wood and Billings may remand the case,
Do not infer that because counsel.in the
star.route case have reached the summing
up stage that the end is at hand or is veil
ed In the immediate future. ker
and Bliss, employed by tie gov
eminent at the princely salary
of $50 per day each, will certainly dwell
upon the case in all its bearings, silt and
resift the evidence, spin out legal subleties
into almest imperceptibility spar with the
opposing counsel. and in short exhaust
every device for prolongation, until a
wearied court and disguised press ana
public shall thunder louder than at present:
II is a safe prediction that lngersoll and
his colleagues will not be as prodigal OF
time and words, for the "bar'" OF the de-
PENDANTS has been pretty well scooped out.
WASHINGTON, April 25,-[Special.l-Con
gresham Murch, in full war paint and
feathers, is determined that the ring he al
leges TO exist within the treasury building,
with supervising Architect Hill and Assist
ant Secretary French as the directing spir-
its and centres, shall be thoroughly yentil-
ated. This augean stable may exist only
i'm the mind of the brainy representative
from Maine, but his persistent attacks up
on these high officials have excited public
attention aud the proceedings OF the in
yestigating commission bid fair to
eclipse in interest all OF the
many departmental circuses and side
shows now exhibiting la this most fruitful
of new centres. Having crossed the Rabbi
con Murch will carry the war into Gaul;
He contends that the corruption charged
eYtends beyond the precincts OF the trea-
sury. and includes in its Shiny folds many
men OF national reputation, some OF whom
have already passed through IKE ordeal,
10 be one be proposes to submit them, not
without the smell OF fire on their garments,
and others. whose official lives have hitler
10 been irrenroschable. He accuses
Ben Butler %, ex-senator Blaine,
Eugene Hale. senator Dawes, and Others
of less prominence, having Interests In the
stone quarries of conspiracy with French
and Hill 20 rob tue government OF enor-
nous sums through contracts on buildings
in Boston. Philadelphia, Gil cinnati, New
YORK, Hartford, Memphis and s.. Lonis.
These contractors. he alleges, under differ
ent names srindled the goyernmentin many
ways. AsfOr instance, they hired 10 boys
at 81 day and charged the government
AZ 50 for the services OF each; they furnished
Chicago with GOO tom DstODes and also
charged the government therefor; mede
the government pay Sls0. 900 for build.
ing, which when the government sold they
bought IN for the Tittance Of sl,1O0; The
government allowed them - 90 for tools
which they bought ( ? SGD, and in turn
sold them 20 the government for S1,OO0
Where Murch viii stop in bis sweeping snd
startling assertions il Il impossible 20 indi-
cate. ~ be solemnly asserts that certain
national banks stand IN with the play,
and furnish some Of the siDeys Of
this "piraticsl and rapsciOus band"
star-Roste Trial.
WSsHrEsTor, April Z5.-Ksr began the