New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-21
NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS.
PARTY TRICKsrERs IN HIGH PLACE.
FALSE AND DEFAMArORY LIsr-MR M'PHER ,oy's
CHARACTERIZATION.

| AFALsE AND DEFAMArORY LIsr-MR- M'PHER,oy's
CHARACTERIZATION.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (SDeciaD. There "a
trouble the Treasury Department Acting Secretary
Fachd angry and dsgusted. and Register Ro,ecrans
u dsgusted worried II all account Of that List
OF "defalcations" OF public officers issued by tho
Register for the benefit OF the Democratic COngresso
Committee. In tho statement published thsrs was
list OF balances due from the United States 10 nd-
vduas IL appears that many OF those individuals aai
their attorneys are beseens the Treasury Department.
for payment OF the due them respectively ,snd
the Department. Obliged reply that these bal snces
are not actual" but only zap vrent.". One day last
week the widow OF an army offer whose name wa, I'm
he list as creditor of the Government amount OF
several thousand dollars applied In person to General
Rosecans for payment OF the amount due TO her late
husband The General had to confess that this was an
apparent" not al actual balance and in order 10
convince the applicant he said: why take my own
It IA only by the merest accident that my own
name does not sppear In this puhlis ed statement
30 bos bs o1 seS on
and hunted up my vouchers and had the account bal
anced."
Edward Mcpherson in a letter to Joseph Nmno IT,, OF
Huntington, L. refers TO this list of balances ia
Bu now able 10 state that. after duly pondsriug
these proofs the Register has determine To admit In hi,
Forthcoming report to he printed next December sub
and to lay the blame OF u on the imperfect manner In
October
10. paper friendly TO the Administration:
Register report will be ready few days 10
shown in the book recently issued ey gives only TO
balances parties who found In that book
OF due them from the Government have
applied the Secretary for settlement In these IL
has generally been found that in reality there nothing
due them from the Government On the other hand those
aretly IN debt 10 the government IN many have
really settled their accounts honestly This grows OF tho
imperfect manner OF keeping accounts Of this SOFT
Ihs paragraph admits three tainEs Frat that the bal.
be due from the United states delusvc
hat IN he tn The Tn
States being persons who many
Registers books p DO not disclose the truth
FIX. Doc 1913 confessed 81 be
figures without verify II palmed the House Ot
Representatives and the public having verify. The Regis
possible tho document misleading ia
81 parts In its 2O2 printed
OF almost 5000 creditors OF the United States who
informed that tloy creditors In the
admitted be DEBTORS Thousands OF innocent
Justly branded defauters. falsely certified
aeiable official print having the Governments money
thelrpurses are IN 10 nj " fart anil by the Governments
tary and enforced Confession neither debtors defasr
and have time been either unscrupulOusy
Registers office AMI The Acting secretary %
Treasury welded irpOwer 10 harass and defame
at app aren't, II doubtful, that tho
preparation OF the list partisan trick The regis
office the tool of the Democratic
reacted II has been discredcd And II has taught tho
hereafter without question the ceftn
statements OF the ices which involved In this deanL
tory peTve oi public acts Id'not apprhend that tho
pa except with the derislon
which /; Justly tKcites."