Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-23
THE BOOKS OPENED.

An Incomplete Table Of Declarations Sincl
1851 shows That tine Republican PART
Owes the Governments Nearly Thirteel
Million Dollars.
One of the most striking chapters d
| the Democratic campaign book will b
| that which is devoted to the defalcaI
lions of Republican office-holders dun
| ing Republican sway. 1t has been pre-
pared with great care and much laboI
from official figures, and makes NOR
damaging showing than was ever an
ticipated. The chapter is heade| .
Opening the Books" and vindicateI
a promise long made by the Democrat
to the people of the country. It say
the democratic party, through its pres
and by it's speakers, declared for tn !
past ten years publicly that If it coul
turn the rascals out and get at thj
books they could demonstrate that tn |
Republican party, in its long lease d
power, had, through its various Off
| GERS, by defalcation in collections AMI
disbursements, stolen millions of TIL
peoples money. Mr.. Tilden. in 1874
claimed the amount to be over $4,000
900. The amount will reach $50, 0OO1
600 or more.
Under a resolution of the Housd
passed January %, the Acting Secre|
tary of the Treasury transmitted a LEI
ter to the House of Representatives il
which it is shown officially that thI
balances now due the Government oj
account of Gefalcations in disburse|
ments and collections since 1861
S12, 1913. 40. In this document each id
linquent is named and the exact ami
cunt due the Government stated. Th1
does not include the overhauling of thu
accounts of the Post-office Department
The Sixth Auditor says that the and
cunt of work would be so enormous I'd
get up the accounts of all the officer
under the Post-officc Department.. AMI
get at the balances due from each d
them, that it is impossible with thu
present force to accomplish it. SO it
found from an examination of TIN
books in part, showing only about hal
of the disbursing and receiving officers
accounts, that the balance due by thesl
receiving and disbursing officers, I'D
which they have defaulted to the Gov
eminent, is over $12,000,000 Th
balance due from the others amount
by the same ratio to a larger amount
The foregoing statement and the tabl
which is hereafter inserted does no
include shortage, as has been said, i
the Sixth Auditors office, which ha
charge of the vast expenditures of tn
Post-office Department. 1t was Their
that the star route thieves figured
Nor does it include the shortage i
the Third Auditors Office, whic
embraced the expenditures of the Wa
Department, where Howgate, Hodg
and other kindred spirits had their day
Nor does it include the shortage in tn
Fourth Auditors office, which ha
charge of expenditures in the Nav
Department, where the Robson gan
paid more for the repair of old ship
than they originally cost. and had II
ships left
The records will show that since tn
Democratic Administration took hold
, as is heretofore shown in the report c
the First Comptroller of the Treasury
an earnest effort is being made to CO
lect all these balances, and with niue
greater success than could have bee
, anticipated, owing to the long lapse {
: time. This is simply partial pee
+ into the books. The short time ths
the Democratic Administration he
been in power rendered it impossibl
at this time to give full exposure {
all the delinquencies and defalcatior
of the Republican office-holders VIII
s were not prosecuted for their rObber
L and plumber, but kept in power by tn
s Republican party. The branches {
= the service in which these defalcatior
e occurred are shown by the followin
e table: