The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-24
Our Washington Special.
.sJUsrICE VS.. JUsTICE.v

Uur washington special,
ssJUSTICE VS.. JUSTICE"
The Brewster and Bliss Ring and
their Doings-s'Dianl ond Cut Dia-
mOnd,'-ROw Detectives ..Shad-
OW'' Around Saloons "A Mares
Nest for Springer.
benton McMiIlIn and Sam Randall
Make important Prophecies.
Special to the democratic Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 1854.
The Congressional atmosphere is Iis-
ing i'll temperature just at present, and
there is no telling just how far up the
thermometric scale the Thermometer
will be driven, or just how much GER
tain government officials will suffer
from the mefaphoricai hot weather
threatening the Department of justice,
the dignity of Brewster's Goat of
Arms" Mr.. Cameron surnamed
Brewster" and dozen or more of
an alleged ring" that have been
feeding on fat fees and isky punch
es paid by the government.
$107, 1856 FOR WHAT?
This is the amount, Secretary Folger
says, the government paid for counsel
and detective fees in the second Star
Route trial. Brewster, the Attorney
General, with salary of $l2 500. drew
S., 900 ADDITIONAL for services already
paid for by his salary. George Bliss
made more money out of the govern
nent than did several of the Star Route
thieves he was trying to convict. Up
to the present time he has been paid
$78, 900 for two years services, and his
account for the first quarter of the third
year, reaching nearly $4,000, is now
pending for allowance. Mr.. Kerr
complacently pocketed $Sl ,877 for his
services on the second trial, and Mr..
Merrick nearly $4,000, or at the rate
of $40 per day. Pinkerton, the de-
tective, and special assistant by the
name eff Gibson, drew $l3. 900 for "shad-
owing" the defendants, their attorneys,
the jury, and many prominent person
ages supposed to have been interested
in the defense. The saloons of Wash
ington reaped their share of the swag
by the patronage of the detectives, who
would follow the supposed conspira-
tors into these places to overhear their
conversation. The name of every
prominent saloon in Washington fig
ures in these detectives expense re-
ports, and they evidently spent enough
money to have kept themselves drunk
the whole year round.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND"
Brewster and Bliss, the two "B' IS"
created hive of industry for unem-
ployed detectives. They began to sus-
pect that those detectives who had
been at work for them some time, but
failed to bring in any evidence that
would strengthen the governments
case, had been bought off by the Star
Reuters, so they conceived and execu-
ted the brilliant idea of employing
another force to "shadown the first
one. and for months this disgraceful
farce was fostered by the Department
of Justice!
MR.. sPRINGER'S COMMITTEE
will now proceed to investigate other
expenditures in Brewster's bureau and
some exceedingly scandalous ex posures
are promised. The case may properly
/ be recorded in the annals of Congress
sioual investigations as Justice Uersas
Justice" and the country will have to
witness The spectacle of "a strongly
odorous grease spot on the robes of the
present administration.
KANDALL'S REPUBLICA NISM,
Speaker Carllele's private secretary
is also the Washington correspondent
of the Boston Post, and was the author
of the statement i'll that paper last
week that Mr.. Randall and his Penn
sylvania colleagues had agreed with
the Republican minority to aid in the
defeat of any reduction of the present
tariff. The article was canard ON it's
face, and Mr.. Randall called on Speak
er Carlisle to know whether his secre-
/
III the maligning of members of the
House. Mr.. Carlisle reprimanded his
secretary, and ia the future the Boston
paper will have to look elsewhere for
It's sensatlo = - = S.iILses1Sondence. But
this tariff .ern promises to be
Aon ERoUS ROCK
upoI. ssHicn the Democrats in the
House are in peril of dividing; a large
nun ber of the leaders favor the SPRING
ing of the issue at this session in order
that the Democratic party may go be-
fore the country during the Presiden-
tial campaign upon its true tariff prin-
ciples. [ talked on the subject with
Hon. Benton McMillin, of Tennessee,
prominent leader On the Democratic
side, and true representative of his
party. Mr.. McMillin said to me:
THAT the present tariff needs mod
itlcation and reduction every man who
is not a protectionist for projections s
sake, must admit. [ know it is said
6 the industries of the country will be
frightened.' Will they be less subject
to fright one or two years hence? We
should attempt nothing but what is
just; and no individual or corporation
mas right to take fright at justice.
We should deal with the question from
apatriotic, rather than political stand
point, if the time comes when the two
do pot coincide. But even from po-
Iitical point of view the Democracy
has more to fear from inaction and
covering, than from taking and main
tanning a judicious but firm stand in
favor of reforming the outrageous enor-
mites and deformities of the present
tariff IF we do this we clearly define
our policy ourselves and go to the con-
test on our own grounds. If we do
nothing our opponents define it for us
and charge more than we desire to ac-