Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-09-09
eureka Dailp 6antiuel.
.sEPTEMBER o, 1886.
MANY mTLLfONs STOLEN.

the defalcation of Republican ofice-hold.
ers during Republican sway. 1t is said
to lave been prepared with great care
and much labor from the official figures.
The chapter is headed "Opening the
Books" It is as follows: "The Demo.
cratic party, through it's press and by its
speakers, declared for the past ten years
publicly that if it could turn the ~rascals
out and get at the books they could de.
monstrate that the Republican party, in
its long lease of power had, through
it's various officers, by defalcation
in collections and disbursements, stolen
millions of the peoples money. Mr..
Tilden in 1876 claimed the amount
to be over S., 900, 900. The amount will
reach $40, 600, 900 or more. Under a
resolution of the Democratic House
passed January 2S-and which was called
up again July 27 by Nj. Benton Nc.
MILAN, of Tennessee, just previous to
the adjournment of the first session of
the Forty-ninth Congress-the Acting
Secretary of the Treasury transmitted
in a letter to the House of Representa-.
tives Executive document No. 1863,
Forty.ninth Congress, first session, in
which it is shown officially that the bal
ances now due the Government on &C.
count of defalcations in disbursements
and collections since 1861 is So, $780,.
476 4S. In this document each delin.
quent is named and the exact amount
due the Government stated. This does
not include the overhauling the accounts
OF the Postoffice Department, of which
the honorable Sixth Auditor reported to
the Secretary Of the Treasury in a letter
March 10y as 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 mount
involved, $l85, DOC, 600 last year, requir-
ing accounts with over $1,000 receiving
and disbursing officers, who employ or
supervise and pay an army Of en-
ployes.'"
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 impossible with the pres
ent force to accomplish it. So it is
found from an examination of the books
in part, showing only about half Of the
disbursing and receiving officers &C.
counts, that the balance due by the re-
ceiving and disbursing officers, for which
they have defaulted to the Government,
is over $l2, OoO, ZOO. The balance due
from the others amounts by the same
ratio to a larger sum
The foregoing statement and the table
which is hereinafter inserted do not in
clude shortage, as 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 Depart.
ment, 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 ex-
penditures in the Navy Department,
where the Robson gang paid more for
the repair Of old ships than they origin.
ally cost aud had no ships left.
The records will show that since the
Democratic Administration took hold, as
is heretofore shown in the report of the
First Comptroller of the Treasury, an
earnest effort is being made to collect all
of these balances, and with much greater
success than could have been anticipated
owing to the long lapse of time.
This is simply a partial peep into the
books. The short time that the Demo.
cratic Administration has been in power
renders it impossible at this time to give
q full exposure Of all the d~elinquencies
and defalcations of the Republican Office
holders, who were not prosecuted for
their rpbberyand plunder, but kept in
power by the Republican party. The
branches Of the service in which these
defalcations occurred are shown by the
following table-and the figures are Of
fetal:
DIsBURsEMENs.
Customs. .......s.. .n..... -. 1912. 1874 SO
Internal Revenue............,.. $500 90,
Diplomatic. ....... S24, SCI 40
Treasury ....... .,............. $500, 42l o5
Judiciary. -. .............. 800. 064 SO
Interior, civil ............ 1856, $50 Is
RECEIPTS.
For customs, ............... 1915, 266 80
Internal Revenue. ............. 3,424 ,57l 50
Sales public lands ........."... 274. sos "a
Internal Revenue stamps........ 32l, lit 81