Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-14

the Chicago Convention, in referring to
the recently discovered frauds and steal
ings at Washington: 1--WE need to have
the books of the Government offices
opened for examination, he gave ut
terance to one of the most urgent de-
mands of the times.
For more than twenty-three years
these books have been exclusively in the
hands of Republican partisans, who
have manipulated them to conceal the
corruption, the robberies and the rascal
tiles of the their employers. Every
attempt to explore the records thor
oughly aud to bring out into the sun
light the hidden proofs of guilt, has
failed from the opposition, the collision
or the management Of Republicans in
3 Congress aud in Official life.
= Investigations have gone to certain
point, and like thato the Springer COM
mittee at the late session. they have in
varlably stopped. or have been success
fully obstructed when the scent was
keenest and seemingly most easily fol-
: lowed. Some mysterious influence has
always blocked the way to full ex-
.posure.
Hundreds of millions have been
stolen from the Treasury during this
long lease of Republican rule. Counter
felt bonds, false Treasury notes. dupli-
cate stamps, and other fraudulent is
5 sues have bsen partially traced, but it
Isswho!ly impossible to estimate the ex-
tent of the robberies, the forgeries and
the frauds upon any known data.
These charges do not restupon polite
5 al prejudice. Senator Edmunds. when
Chairman of the Committee of Re-
frenchment, made q report to the Sen
ate, March 3, 1869, showing that about
$4,000, 900 in United States bonds, and
SO, c0o.000 in Treasury notes, legal
tenders, etc, were unaccounted for by
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
He ID:
The books and accounts between the va
f1oas ssubiiv SONS of the printing establish
maut hnye been. Until recently to say nothing
or defects still existing). so irregularly kept,
and contain, many of them on examination,
50 many erasureS and alterations as consider
ably 70 diminish confidence in the accuracy of
results derived from such sources
AIr- Edmunds might have added that
ofIginal plates and dies were stolen from
that bureau and furnished to profession
al forgers for issues OF bonds and notes,
some of.which were so we'll executed as
to be used by Jay Cooke IL Co. in the
days Of their great power ut the Treas
ury.
One of the earliest acts of Congress
made the Register of the Treasury the
official book-keeper of the Governments.
1t provides that he shall s'keep all ac-
counts of the receipts and expenditures
OF the public money, and OF all debts
due to or from the United States
Under the admirable system organ
Izedsby Alexander Hamilton, the Reg
lister alone made all the statements of
s1eDeipts and expenditures and OF the
public debt from 1889 TO the advent of
Grantism, when the Secretary of the
Treasury assumed to make publications
OF his own differing from those of the
Register.
These contradictions in regard to i'm
portant facts, about which there could
nave been no proper disagreement if the
true data were consulted, provoked
much comment at home and abroad;
and the Secretary. of the Treasury or
cred the Register on the 9th of No
snaber. 1871, to adopt the formers
cures, and to disregard the accounts
I'd vouchers on file in his Office. which
ere the only authoritative basis for the |
saements in question.
d,1s extraordinary step led to an in |
sigation by the Senate, which. first |
"a last, extended over three wears.
fIglnallY it, was cramped by a Repub-
AN majority. But when the Demo-
9 gained temporary ascendancv
Nat body,.the Treasury officials shut
nc gates down practically while pre-
,ending open them wide.
>Some remarkable disclosures were
s5e in that investigation Hundreds
discrepancies were found that could
st satisfactorily Aexplained. In 1865
Tftary of the Treasury, the Reg
eleci the Treasurer, all agreed that
eounrevenue was 1888, II ts1fO5. os.
Boutwell's new m2astd re-
over aggregate to 1925. ID tn 81.
were os6lsy 9fhrr..a, and ZEN
vice knJw,N VI politician
sort.,, to to make converts aDeQSr
them to the polls. In consequences
il fair to say that not score Of Del
Gratis in that county refrainesi fam:
crcising q freeman's privilege and Q
cutting a freeman's will last Satnrd
The following is thezstickst ehc.
Representative, ]. sx.s ~
Henry spiva; edlsIo r
nan; prosecute aa asarof ac-
wards; treasuce, com u who is
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Downs; countnberinS cnm lumber
Joseph Schultz: rgfh5 and e '1 Weigh H.
on representa- Dion twenty
about 100 majority ideas are the
him. The ticket 90 ooz a9gg,t from ON.
throsgns4 sfyles Is that of a "a
wl& ..aas nevefsdiscovered
o6e Tween sound and sense
pap have the spectacle of q candi-
tr,IfGce PreniGent put forth by the
..t.,ure talking of those who
wescomed TO a home, in. our
sgksf Aaosfe,3f 8 ..stroke o. finesse,s
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office and has been form, and I
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hImseffteo fae understanding, of:l
whose support he covets. The
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