St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-06
REPUBLICAN POCKETS
Peathered With Something Like
$20,0O0,000 of Uncle Sans
Legal Tender Notes.
Senator Kenna Opens the Books and Points
Out the Gigantic Steals of
Two Decades.
Straits Better-Half Wants Him to Go
to Congress Again -Gildl1an
Drone.
Malone Predicts That Sherman or
Allison Will Be the Republic
can Nominee in 1883.
Some Choice Reading.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Ex-senator Kenna
of West Virginia, the chairman of the
Democratic congressional committee, has
been kind enough to furnish very striking
chapter, in advance, from the Democratic
campaign book. 1t is that which refers to
the defalcatiOns of Republican officehOlders
during the sway of that party. 1t has been
prepared carefully by mathematicians and
statsticians from official figures, and makes
showing which is more damaging than
had been anticipated. 1t will be rememb-
cred that the late Vice President Hendricks
during the heated campaign in Indiana in
1884, said that I'VE need to have the books
in the government offices opened for eXami-
nation" In mnemonic significance the adj
vance chapter from the campaign book,
now in press, has received the caption.
OPENING OF THE BOOKS.
The Democratic party, throug it's press and
by its speakers, declared for the past ten
years publicly that if it could turn the raSeals
out and get at the books it would demonstrate
that the Republican party, in its lease Of
power, had, through it's various officers, by
defalcation in collections and disbursements,
stolen millions of the peoples money. Mr..
Tiden in 1876 claimed the amount to be over
$4,000, 000 The amount will reach $40, 600, 900,
or more. Under resolution of the Demo-
cratic house, passed Jan. g. and which was
called up again July ~ by Hon. Benton
McMillin of Tennessee. just previous to the
adjournment of the first session of the Forty
ninth congress, the acting secretary OF the
treasury transmitted in letter to the house
of representatives, Executive Document
No. 1868, Forty-ninth congress- first session, -
IN which 1t is shown officially that the bal
ances now due the government on account of
defalcatiOns in disbursements and collections
since 1851 is $12, $685. 76.4S. In this document
each delinquent IS named, and the exact
amount due the government stated. This
does not include the Overhauling Of the &C.
counts of the
POS TOFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
of which the honorable sixth auditor reported
to the secretary of the treasury in letter,
March 10, rs follows; "You are aware that
this office adjusts the accounts of over half
the officers and employees of the government
in the civil branches of the service as shown
by volume 2 of the biennial official register,
the amount involved ,000,0 600 last year
requiring accounts with over 56, 600 receiving
and disburs1ng officers. who employ or super
wise and pay army Of employees" The
auditor also says that the amount Of work
would be SO enormous to get up the accounts
of all these officers, and get at the balances
due from each one Of them, that it is impoS-
sible with the present force to accomplish it.
So we find from an examination of the books
in part, showing only about half of the dis
bursting and receiving officers accounts, that
the balance due by these receiving and dis
bursting officers. for which they have de-
faulted to the government, Is over ST., 000,-
0G0. The balance due from the others
amounts by the same ratio to a larger
amount. The foregoing statement, and the
table which is hereafter inserted does not in
clude shortage. rs has been said in the sixth
auditors Office which has charge of the vast
expenditures of the postofice department.
1t was there that Dorsey, Brady and the star
route thieves figured. Nor does it include
the shortage in the third auditors Office,
which embraces the expenditures of the war
department where Howgate, Hodges and
other kindred spirits had their day. Nor does
it include the shortage in the fourth auditors
office, which has charge of expenditures in
the navy department, where
THE robson GANG
paid more for the repair Of old ships than
they originally cost, and had ships left.
The records will show that since the Demo-
cratic administration took hold, as is hereto
fore shown in the report of the first comp
troller of the treasury, an earnest effort is
being made to collect all these balances, and
with much greater success than could have
been anticipated, owing to the long lapse of
time. This is simply partial peep into the
books. The short time that the Democratic
administration has been in power rendered it
impossible at this time to give full exposure
of all the delinquencieS and defalcations of
the Republican oficeholders who were not
prosecuted for their robbery and plumber, but
kept in power by the Republican party. The
branches of the service in which these defal-
cations occurred are shown by the following
tsble-and the figures are official: