Year: 1879

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0lOvor's Wonderful Discoveries.


Most OF readers will have no diff
eulty in calling to their memory the
wonderful exploits of J. M. Glover who
was a Congressman from Missouri in
the Forty Fifth Congress, and who was
chairman ola committee entrusted with
fishing after Republican frauds. No
man in that Congress caused the Dem
Ocrats more uneasiness than this same
Glover, and Republicans were rather
delighted with his persistency in fish
ing for fraud, for every time he hauled
in his drag net he was almost sure to
pull in some Democratic gullet or suck
or with it. So often was this done that
the Democrats trembled whenever he
spread his net for they were sure that
some Of their own party would be
caught. Glover very singularly liked
this kind of sport though Democrat
himself, and persistently piled his vo-
cation until he had quite long string
of bad smelling Democratic fish hang
ing by his side with here and there
luckless Republican who had been
caught in bad company. Glover hav.
ing a rowing commission fshed in deep
as we'll as shallow water, but the re.
suits were generally ths same, he would
always catch certain species of Demo
cratic fish. The great difficulty with
him was tina. being fond of such sport
he tarried at it so long, that he could
make no report to Congress during that
session, and i'll the mean time another
election being held the amph1bious
Glover was elected to stay at home.
The Democrats were disgusted with him
and gave him wide berth; they were
tired of this fisher who was sure to
haul in some poor luckless Democratic
wight, nearly every pull, to the great
delight Of the Republicans. Glover,
however, though elected to stay at
home, wanted his report printed by
the present Congress and has been
hanging around Congress all the time
during the extra session to try to in.
duce Congress % give his wonderful
discoveries to the public. Only few
days before the adjournment Singleton
a Mississippi Democrat, sat down hard
on Glover's report and proclaimed that
the man was crazy, conclusion which
large majority of the House seemed
to concur in for they .mphatically re
fused to publish his report. Since
then Glover has been discJnsolate. He
looked upon his two years spent in
fishing for fraud as time worthlessly
spent. WHAT was the use he thought
of going to the trouble Of preparing a
voluminous report of the result
of two years fishing, only to be kept in
manuscript and carried about in his
spacious coat tail pocket Something
must be done. He had leen inglor-
iously defeated by his own party in
Missouri for re nomination and re-
election. Hs had come to the extra
session as an ex-memb4r of Congress
with his report, asking the poor boon
OF having it spread upon the Congress
sional record, and his Democratic
friends had not only Indignantly re.
fused his request, but some of them
who seemed to BE- better acquainted
with him than others declared that the
man was out of his mind. Congress





and Glover and his report
were left unpublished to the nation. In
this condition they were picked up by
the New York Star, " the organ Of
the Tammany Democrats, and through
it at last the most important extracts
Of Glover's report has been made more
public than if it had been spread on the
"Record." In this re-.
port as published in the star" it is
charged by Glover that in the Treasurv
department. he finds nothing but
wounds and putrefying sores." A few
If these sores might be named black
nail, rottenness, theft, roguery, coun-
fraud, waste, lawless ness,
alse entries, public plunder, general
dishonesty and stupid Incompetence
We agree with the Philadelphia Even
ng "Bulletin," when it says that "it
will take kind of evidence considera
oly stronger than Mr.. Glover's to make I
he people of this country believe that
,he greater part of the immense sum of {
~, 900, 900, absorbed by the Bureau of (
'rinting and Engraving, was either
Wasted or stolen that the interest of
he United States bonds has been fraud.
llently collected for years by financial ,
.dventurers through favor of and in
eague with Treasury officials; that as s
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