The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-16
WASHINGTON.
Charges Against McGraw Re-
fufed,


morrow, Is the way telegram read,
received by a Register representative
last night from Grafton. Being
aware that there was to be further
effort made to secure the re-appeint
ment of John T. McGraw. as Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue, and also
that the commission of the United
States District Marshal would ex-
pire on Monday, the pointer thus re-
ceived was not unexpected. There
fore the first place that your cores
pendent called this morning was at
the National Hotel, where il was as
ccrtained that the West Virginia del
agation had located, it having arr
rived there at I o'clock.
THE PARTY
consisted of the following named
gentlemen: Senator Camden, Senator
Kenna, Hon. w. NJ. Clements. ex
Master Of Transportation of the b.
q 0. railroad; Delegate Wilbur f.
Dyer, of Grant county; Major Ed.
Mcdonald, of Burton: Hon. John
Basel, of Clarksburg; Hon. David
H. Leonard, Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee; j. Z. Elem
ing, editor of the Morgantown New
DOMINION; Hon. Charles +. Wells,
late an aspirant for the Marshalship;
ex-State Superintendent of Schools
Butcher; Prof. John NJ. Birch. Of
Wheeling; Supreme Court Printer
O. S. Mckinney, John L. McGraw,
VIM. Jennings, John j. Gilligan and
Editor Huntington, of Grafton; Cap
tain Cal. Stone, of Martinsburg, and
Congressman Wilson and a few 9th
ers. 1t was ascertained that the del
egation came here principally for the
purpose of calling upon the Presi-
dent and Secretary of the Treasury
to impress upon them, as representa-
tive Democrats of the State, the ne
cessity of re appointing Mr.. McGraw
to the Collectorship
CHARGES AGAINST M'GRAW REFUTED.
1t was ascertained that there have
been charges filed with the Treasury
Department by some of McGraw's
enemies to the effect that in several
instances he has been guilty of ir-
regularities in his legal practice,
and also giving other alleged reasons
why he should not be commissioned.
Affidavits have, however, been Sc
cured from the parties interested in
the cases in which it was charged
that McGraw had been crooked, ut
terly refuting the charges, showing
that they were without foundation in
fact, but were originated by certain
parties having a personal grudge
against him.
About ten o'clock the West Vir-
| ginia visitors assembled in one of the
private parlors of the hotel and ar
ranged
A PROGRAMME
for the day. All present were in
vited to accompany the party on
their visits to the departments.
At half past eleven o'clock the
party, headed by Senators Camden
and Kenna, and accompanied by ex-
Senator Davis, who had in the mean
time arrived from Baltimore, started
up Pennsylvania avenue, en- route for
the Treasury Department. Arriving
there, it first proceeded to the office
of the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, where they were cordially re-
ceived by Commissioner Miller.
From here the party moved over to
the office of the Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr.. Camden having gone
in advance to arrange for recep-
tion, and as the party filed into the
office of the Secretary, each gentle
man was introduced by him to Mr..
Manning. Senator Camden explain
ed the object of the visit, and said
that the gentlemen present were rep
resentative Democrats of West Vir-
GINA, and would speak for them
selves. Whereupon Mr.. Bassell, of
Clarksburg, acting as spokesman for
the visitors, in neat modest, but
pointed speech,
URGED THE RE-APPoINTMENT OF M'GRAw
He said in substance that the
Democratic party was a unit in re-
questlng this appointment. That
the retention of Mr.. Mccormick and
number of his subordinates vases
peciylly Objectionable and damaging
to the Democracy of the State, and
his removal would meet with the APP
probation Of a very large per cent. Of
the Republicans in West Virginia
Senator Kenna also spoke, taking up
the argument apparently where Mr.
Bassell left off, and related how some
of McCormick's deputies, one in par
ticular, had been in the habit Of rid
ing over the country and
STOPPING PRIVATE CITIZENS,
swearing them on the public high
way that they did not know Of illici,
distilleries, &c. He told the Secre
-tary how one poor old woman had
been conspired against and dragged
hundreds of miles to court, charged
with crime which she had never
been guilty Of Mr.. Kenna said thai
this was not an isolated case, but
there were many outrages of a SINH
lar character which had been com
mitted by internal revenue officials
in West Virginia. Senator Camden
assured the Secretary that McGraw's
: appointment would be acceptable tt
the united Democracy of the State
as we'll as to large majority Of the
most respectable element of the Re
publican party and the citizens O
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