Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-03-16

made the investigation and reported
TO the President through the Sec
rotary of the Interior. Their re-
port has been in the hands of the
President for more than a month.
and some three weeks ago the
House, 10y resolution. asked the
President for the report. At that
time the Indian appropriation bill
was under consideration, and the
House wanted some information
on the report that there was rot
tenneSs in the Territory. They
got none and the bill was passed
by the House and then passed by
the Senate and has been signed by
the President. Now. after the
thing has become the law, the Pres
ident sends in the report of his
agents who Investigated the stories
of corruption, and the report cor
rOberates every charge that has
been made concerning the Dawes
Commission and the men who rep
resent the governmental the Indian
Territory. If that report had been
before the House before the Indian
appropriation bill had been passed
the appropriation continuing the
Dawes Commission in existence
would have been knocked galley
west. The President, by holding
that report. has continued the very
men in Office who. his own agents
say, are. corrupt >nd venal and
should be driven from the public
service The people may draw
their own conclusions.
The administration has cot the
daylight scared out of Wall Street
and the big business interests of
the country because it is going To
withdraw the money from the
banks of the country. deposited
there by the government, to pay
the opera bouffe republic of Pan
anna for the canal strip and the
French people for the canal.
Everybody seems to be mortally
afraid that it will create such 4
stringency in the money market
that it will precipitate panic.
The money sharks and trusts are
lying awake nights now wonder
ing what will be the next move of
the political acrobat i'm the White
House. Well. they put him there.
now let the CALLED jade vince.
Lay on MacDuff,
There was a small sized sensa-
ton in the House last Monday
morning when the committee to
investigate the report of Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow made
Its report. IL was rumored that
mot less than $50 of the House
members were implicated in the
report as having violated the law
and there was considerable doing
about until the printed report
was brought into the House. II
was eagerly seized and scanned
with much fear and trembling by
the members until they were salts
fed that they were not in the list
of alleged evil doors. Those inn
lplicated were charged either with
renting buildings owned by them
to the government for postofiices.
or else that they had been instu-
mental in getting the allowances
of the postofiiceS in their districts
increased. the inference being that
they had done so with some utter
Tor motive and not for the GOOD of
the service. This whole thing is a
case of great cry and little wool.
The members who have been thus
publicly charged by Mr.. Bristow
with violating the law have only
1 done so technically and for no graft
or loot. They haye simply writ
ten to the Postoffice Department
authorities whenappealed to by their
constituents or by the postmasters
in their districts for greater facil-
tiles for handling the mails. Many
of the cases of increase have been
justified by the increase of bust
ness in the offices asking for it and
perhaps not one per cent. of the
sO-called Offenses have been com
mitted with guilty intent. The
whole truth of the matter is that
the report was started by the Re
publican postal authorities to hide
the real culprits in this disgraceful
lust of loot and distract the atten-
ton of the country from the head
devils and center of this volcano
of venality. They are trying to
do tho cuttlofiob act ,,.L;l -