Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-09-18

$1,000 900, which is properly
to the Arthur administra-
ton; the steal of Burnside, disbursing
officer Of the Post Office Department in
1884, $50, 900; defalcation of Morgan,
officer of the State Depart
ment in 1884, $4,000; Navy Depart
ment Medical Bureau frauds i'm 1884,
estimated at 100000; defalcation of
United States Marshal Hall, of Pitts
burg, in 1884, and reported by Attorney
General to be Sl53,0O0, we have the
amount stolen under Arthur S5,OO4, 800
q instead of s., 1874 90, as stated by Sec
retary Mcpherson and certified as cor
rect by Acting Secretary of the Treas
ury Coon.
The falsity of this MCPHERSON Coon
statements is still further proven by the
following statement, the figures of which
are taken from the annual reports of
the Solicitor of the Treasury to the At
torney General, who reports the COM
promises of official defalcations for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1881, 1882
and 1885,
For the year ending June 30, 1881, defal-
Compromised for....................... los 05S is
Loss to the government ....... ....-. s510,00i So
For the year ending June 30. 1882. defal-
cations of.,........... .. - ssI4,52i 60
Compromised for........ ............... 22t2l5 6s
Loss to the government ... .......... $500 s05 "a
For the year ending June 30, 1883, defal-
cations of . .... 49,. s423,sl5 Os
Compromised fOr.......... 1t2.064 92
Loss to the government MINIMUM. S3II,s5 I6
Total amount of defalcations compro-
missed during the fiscal years ending
June 80, 1881, 1892, and 1883 81 S5I, 1899 so
Compromised for r.........-...-........ 4ii,33S IS
Loss to the government.. ......... 81 1890 O2
LOSSES UNDER VARIOUS ADMINIsTRA-
TIoNs.
Assuming that the McPherson-C Coon
statement is correct as to the loss to the
government by reason of defaIcation of
United States officers from the COM
mencement of Washington's admins
tration down to 1861, which they make
$24, AL ,829 32 for period embracing
seventy-twO years, we will now show
by the reports of the Solicitor of the
Treasury, which have been transmitted
to Congress by the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Attorney General in
their annual reports, that the McPher-
son statement is fatty contradictory of
the reports of those Cabinet officers from
Lincoln's first Inauguration down to
June 80, 1888. These reports show q
total loss under the eight years of Lin
coins administration from official de-
falcations, after deducting collections,
of 1924, ,657 ,972 IS.
Stolen under Grant first tern) IS, 765, ,729 II,
Stolen under Grant (second term), $4,374, 500 26.
Stolen under Hayes, $l,724,523 81,
Ttolen under Arthurs three years, S6, ,004 800 2T.
Total loss, after, deducting collections, $15.527
626 81.
1t is thus shown by the official reports
to Congress of the different Secretaries
of the Treasury and Solicitors of the
Treasury from 1861 to 1888, that during
the twenty-three years of Republican
administration of the government the
thefts of public money aggregated S45,-
527 ,625 q, while from Washington's
administration down to Buchanan's
both inclusive, o period of seventy-two
years, there was loss of but $24 Al ,S22
80, an excess of $21 ,065, ,765 95 stolen in
l-twenty-three years of Republican adj
ministratiOn over seventy-two years OF
| previous administrations, covering ev-
cry President from Washington to Blu
chanan, both inclusive.
LET THE BOOKS BE OPEN.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
having lent his signature to the Nc
| Pherson statement as correct, and thus
certified to a fragrant falsehood, as is
shown by the reports of the comptroll
ing officers, the law officers and the Sec
retaries of the Treasury, including such
men as Salmon p. Chase, William Pitt
Fessenden, Hugh McCulloch and Lo
M. Morrill,, it furnishes another strone
reason why the books of the Treasury
should be opened for inspection by new
parties.
to refer to the following fact:-Fou
years ago Senator Davis, of West Vir
ginia, when Chirman of the Committe,
on Appropriations of the United State
Senate, overhauled thoroughly the &C
counts of the Treasury Department
He forced from unwilling witnesses
all of whom were officers of the Treas
ury, the testimony that there were ,30
erasures on the Treasurer's book, ant
millions of dollars entered so as to max,
the books balance without a singh
item to show when the entries were 81
made or what had become of the mon
ey. This extraordinary showing dit
not receive proper attention at the tim,
because we were in the midst of grea
prosperity.
MAGNITUDE OF THE THEFTs.
The magnitude of the amount stoler
in the twenty-three years of Republican
administration can be estimated in th,
following manner:--if the amour
stated-namely, $45, ,527 ,625 27-was in
vested in standard silver dollars ant
stored in the Treasury, subject to tn,
order of the star reuters and the othe
Republican thieves who have taken it
calculating that one thousand pound.
would make q fair load for q horse ant
cart, and that $16, 900 weighs one thous
and pounds, it would take two Thousand
eight hundred and forty-five loads O.
SIG, 900 each to haul, it to Republican
headquarters.
Estimating cart and horse to b.
fourteen feet long, and allowing foul
feet between each cart, if placed in sin
gle file this Republican stealing woulC
make q procession nine miles and three
quarters long.
Estimating the procession woult
move at the rate of three miles an hour
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