The Greensboro patriot [October 9, 1884]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT. \
ESTABLISHED IN 1825. GREENSBOBO, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1884. NEW SERIES, NO, 928
HI IM 111.14 '.\ MTIUMM
II ] til ' ; c. Moil-i.
Hon. George A. Post,
the Dei i.-iii,- i ,,n
1 uniuittec, I,,,,I, „ir;i.
■ the many s and
- -I the circular
hj Secretary Mcl'hcrsoii, nf
I ttee, in aus-
Mi Post'* speech :ii the lute
itiou in Wash-ii,
ii nivi i,i the ollicial de-anil
is flatly contradictory of all
the reports of the different Secre-taries
ni the Treasury in Congress
mi the subject.
I iir people of tin- United Stales
will ileciile who is to be believed.
ami I cheerfully submit the ques-tion
to them tor decision.
nil; .-I \i; Kuril; PBAUDS.
Itight here I will advert to oue of
the critjeisma made upon my Bpeech
ami which wtisevideutly considered
i masterly achievement. .My critic
dem:MKI.S that : snail not charge
ng~ mider the 'l11' Star Route frands to tin- prcs-it)
national administration. ent Administration because "every-
''^salient ^.^^ "'■'-V'^'1^'1
" »l»«-ecb: A. 1 heretofore remarked, Mr.
my statement, the Coon bad utterly failed to "ascer-
- I have used are copied from tain" this small item nf $5,000,000
i! reports ol the sworn of- under Ilnycs, ami now McPherson
. wlio arc
•v iih tl.t- settlement
.
i ., Imitteil in In- ci
Ii I itatt-ment of
from ill,- I'nited
■ ■• pel mils no appeal
live branch of the
en in ihi- I'r.s
I I have shown
reports H Inch have
'" < : gress, i in bodied
: I lit' finance reports of the Secre-
I'reasury, : lial since
.urn- into
Isiii down to June .".n.
nf I in- Ite-
- :III.miited to$ I,
' tiic uinonuts
llsmi li, whuh
: ted by the solicitor
everj year, ami arc de-
..- m.\ report shows.
• llscal j ears of tins
ti '■> i I ii> tin
maintains that it shall not lie
charged to Arthur: il may. lie that
rather than have this McPherson-
I'oon statement mangled in ihc
leasl and it* beauty destroyed, like
liip Van Winkle, they don't in
lo "count" the Star Itoute frauds;
or. uho knows hut with theriugen
urns method ol' bookkeeping they
in- carrying these Star Itonte
frauds nlong intending to "ascer-tain"
them as chargeable to the
Democratic Administration which
please Uod, will be inaugurated on
the It li day ol March next. It is
just like them. Grievous complaint
is made because I mentioned sever-al
defalcations amounting to about
$450,000 which have been "ascer-tained"
by the public -since June30,
1883, the technical McPheRon,
stonily maintaining that the line
must lie drawn at .lime 30, I ss.;.
aud the statute ol limitation must
inn on anything not ''ascertained''
oi ihc Solicitor of hy the tedious processes of the1
based on I he official
• t'omptroll
i mount stolen by
nllii ilx dm ing that
suit Imd
Ti, asm v Department, any refer-ence
to them being unfair and mi
scrupulous, 'flu- I rouble is I want
to talk about tin- whole business
of defalcations, while mvslyndver-
--, sary wants a paper collar investiga-rln!
the total
. i he bonds,
Si
111! loss lo
tic million Uvc
fifty thousand eighl
ll lw i lily -en ||
7. ;ii il yel
1'CSUll of I
IOW - :i IICl IOSS Of $1,-
tl ll Stlltl •
'I ! !ln! i,e ell
lion—one that will not wash
I assume iIn- statement of the
total iiinouul stolen from Washing-ton
to Buchanan's Administration,
both inclusive, as correct, viz: i?2 !.-
111. 829.31*, although 1 have no
doubl thai that aniout being "as-certained''
iir the purpose of draw-ing
a comparison in favor of the
Republican party, is absurdly large
as the toial loss under the Admin-istration
is ridiculously small, and
Mr. Coon has I have deducted that amount from
|" it. lie pi
lEcpubli-ver.
tii< lie
; epoi i - of I hese ufli
in ide !'.\ law Ihc -o!i
i. anil he asks
the sum the proper officers of the
Treasury report as stolen bj tin'
Republican officials since 1 -"il to
date, aud show that the excess of
stealing dnring twenty-three years
of Republican administration over
ami above ihc seventy -two years ni
iblic 10 SCl ;i-;ile . all he ailnunistratiolis. troni Wash
uts made to ington to Itnchanan, both inclusive,
. ;i office I -.
control oi
: ol accounts, and
is 921,085,705.95.
Outside oi' the feeble effort to
discredit the reports of the sworn
I gcttlemeul is binding officers of the Government to Con-executive
depart grees, and have the "McPherson-t,
ami take as the correct state- ('"'"1 btatcnieiif substituted, the
|i gn circular gotten astounding information is conveyed
publican party use, which that these enormous amounts of
' i ilest iitile sum oi' money stolen by the whisky ring,
II ti,,,) Uas been Star Koute gang, Howgate, Burn-
\l ('„„,, uas been aide, Morgan, Ottinnn, Naval Mtd-
. .,. .■ • ii;,. p,,,, ,,, ical Bureau ring, aud by hundreds
ras eonvcuiciith of other thieves nmounting to at
.,, | wij| rW;all it. leasl $100,000,000, are not charged
i as a loss to the Government because
not judicially "ascertained," when
a- an actual fact the "c ish" is in
the pockets of the thieves, and the
t'nitcd Stales has only old law
suits to show lor it.
■
• • I :i-i Comptroller,
is final ami binding
I lepai tinelil. re-i
' i officers have stolen
ami ihc Solicitor
1. WVS I HAT AUK SOT OliKI BO.
l», ami the Solicitor I.•I•I■c•o■■n.•c■l"u-si-on. I call a■t■t•ention to
rts he Ins settled H';; billow ing law :
l.icves I'm $441,338.78. ,. ""' "VM.. « "'"' " ^'' ,"' .-
,■ ,[ ,log.s,In,lile I, 111 lic,isui'\ is directed by Section ~i2
: lie I luce years of
i, legally sen led
;:i:-i s, ol s 1. 113,081.02,
Mr. I oon has only been
ss n| a mod
gum "i - .. .0 I.U'.I during
linn-. Tie gene s public
; pn ciatc how excessh elj
ml mortify ing ihc "ascer
in thai hull-amount
have been to Mr. <'oon. hut
der now lor Mr. < 'oon to
ind explain by w hai mei hud
in ol bookkeeping he ar-ol
~ .. .i; i.»i'.» only,
- I lie HmOUIll ~ I i
>\ the officers
I l,_\ law \v 11 11 lie- -il tleiiicnt
nits,
dcl'licrsou admits the
Attorney tieneral's
. iMJtl.OOO was stolen
li publican Stai Routers,
. ybmly ki i» - il oc
llayi Vdininis
i'tin-iws
that lie has no
I . fol he re
•., "nscei
: , Hayes Ad
-.Tin vi w|iic!»
Mi. Mil': public to
instead of the
ami At
IV reports lo Con
. on i iie loss, ex-
- being $1,-
. ,. this amount docs
in hull' the Stai Koute steal ol
■
i in. ISKI i; .IHI M n.
between us is very
i,r il,,- Itevised Statutes of the
I'liited. "To make an annual re-port
to Congress of such officers as
-hall have failed to make settle-ment
of their accounts tor the pre-ceding
fiscal year." No such re-port
as is required by this manda
torv law has been made to the close
of the last fiscal year.
The law- has not been obeyed,
ami the officer whose duty it is to
make the reports, Judge Win. Law.
rence, is now. I am informed, ab-sent
from Office "mi the stump" In
Ohio, ia the interest of ihc Itepub
liean party.
My reason lor calling nttention to
tbis'mandntory law. which is ignor
eil by Republican officials, is thai
the 'influence of Mr. McPherson
seems so potent in obtaining state-ments
not authorized by law from
Treasury officials lor political cm
p.nun purposes, I indulge the hope
tlial In- may I"- induced to exert
that powerful influence ami cause
these Republican officers to remain
at their |Misl - long enough to make
the rc|>orts lie.; are required bj
law . ami thus inform Ihc people ol
lln I'liited Slates ol' Ihc names (,|
the officers who have stolen the
public funds during the past twen
ty-thre • years, the nmounts they
have stolen ami whether thej are
.-■ill in nil,re or not, all of which in-formation
is now- studiously con
ceilled from the public by the
Treasury officials ignoring and re-fusing
to obey Section 272 of the
Revised Statutes.
The evidence Bled in the I nitcil
States courtsofthia District by the
■ V ihc reports oi Government officers develop the
•I,,,,-' ,,ttlie Govern- startling ffict that the robbing and
plundering of the 1 inted States
Treasury was pursued for years
regularly and systematically by
Ihc Naval Medical Bureau ring
Hied! ■ ',-,| bj t he law
wiih - iii coin ml of the accounts of
tin- defaulting i fficei - ami prove
bj ii; i' reports, winch the law
11 he lin il and binding on
the Kxeculive departments, th
Howgate in the Signal Service.
Burnside in the Postoffice Depart
Republican officials have stolen, ment, and others, without exposure
„| collections oil ! Is, In r.nriisidc'scas.- accommeiicei
rom Is'U lo .lulie 30, ]-•>'■. $3 '.-
Mi .-, . Mi 1'ln i-nii and
'In- public lo throw aside
these official rcpoi is. ami accept
lh,II .:II circllhir in lien
h il has iiein pre
: ,n compliance w ith no law ,
l,\ .in ullieer Inn ing no coutrol
ranltiug officers' ac
11 l\ in ihe interest and
liu the nseol ihc Republican party,
I
stealing, so say the officers in
chafge, in 1870, and kept il up un
iii 1884. These frauds wen- never
discovered until a change ocenrred
in the head of the department.
This fact suggests the thought how
many similar thefts would be un-covered
could there be a change of
Ailminislratioi d the Augean
s,allies cleansed. Section 3,022 ol
the Revised Statutes directs that
-,-verv officer or agent ol the I'nil-cii
Stalls who receives public moil- ,
■ .'• wbicli he is not authorized to
retain as salary, pay or emolument
shall ii mlia Ins account monthly."
This law is not enforced by the
Treasury officials. Had it lieen.it
is obvious that the cnorniOUB annu-al
stealings ol the Republican offi-cials
would have been prevented.
The flimsy pretext that the pre
sentation of vouchers in balance
accounts is au evidence that uoth- .
ing is lost io tin- Government i
through any give;: transaction is '
trilling w ith the intelligence ol the i
public, 'flu- impudence of sending I
out lo the people ;i euuuiiigi.v ilc j
vised circular, containing figures
so arranged as to deceive, supple-mented
by tin- affroutery of the
originator of the scheme in under-taking
to sustain the statement by
equally delusive sophistries is in
keeping with the whole plan of the
campaign now beinj! waged by the
Republican managers. Never in
ihc history of om country 1ms a
political party waged a contest
with such utter disregard of decen-cy
or common hone ty.
Debauched by , au continuance
in power, dismayed by ihc visible,
signs of public condemnation, des-perate
because of the prospect of
betllg hill led in.in power as un-wort'-
y servants, the managers of
the Republican parly hesitate at
nothing, scruple al no deception,
lint with frenzied abandon they
misrepresent facts, slander the
character of honorable men and by
tin basest means seek to distract
the pulic mind from the true situ- '
at ion of all.in.-.
flic issue is fairly joined. Honest,
economical Government in the in-terest
of the whole people, as rep-resented
by tin- men and measures
of the Democracy, a.- against the
party in power, drunk with sp 1-.
handicapped by its record ol pro-fligacy
controlled by monopolists
ami speculators, whose monopolies
ii has fostered, ami whose schemes
it has sustained, aud w liicli bold,
defiant, and impenitent for its of-feuses
seeks :■ perpetuate its pow-er
that ii may gorge itself »ith
plunder.
The - ' .ir 1.- i Hltloll.
lory A
The event thai calls us together
today will hereafter ;i le ol the
most important iii tin- aiiualsofi in-state,
i Ictober the 1st. 18.S4, will
evei In- om- of North Carolina's
memorable da;, s—and this day oc-curs
in the ti i ccnteillii il year ol
Ihc landing of the colony of S i
Walter Raleigh upou our shores.
l-'ioin where Ins lonely little colony
was planted and perishrd, onr
Slate .stretchesaway westward live
hundred miles ami more, li was
then the home of Ihc sa\agc. il is
to day peopled with an industrious,
thrifty, intelligent, progressive pop-ulation.
It is this people that have
brough I here specimens of the
resources ami industries of each
and every section of this vast terri-tory,
and have arranged them in
one spacious bedding lor the in-spection
of ourselves aud our
brethren ol other siaios. Some
have been brought here from the
very spot where Raleigh's little
colony was planted ami where Vir-ginia
Dare was bun. The moun-tains
likewise send exhibits of their
wondrous sion-s nf wealth. The
seas, the sounds ami the rivers
have also given up their stores of
li-.li as well as their curious animal
life to form a par" ol this great col-lection.
The artisan am! the me-chanic
have sent their best work,
ami tin- manufacturer, the labr.es
of his loom-. The fai mer pi
here, on exhibition, the greal rari
etv of products of the soil produced
in the Slate, ami these embrace a
widei range than can he produced
in any Stale of I he I num. The
earth has been opened and iis iron
on--; its copper, its gold ami silver.
its gems and marbles, its stones
and its hundred of other things,
both useful ami ornamental, are
hen- displayed, 'the lorest has
bun explored and its most useful
ami ornamental woodshere brought
in different form to tell of tin- greal
source of wealth. 7ViAyii altogether,
J iln HOt Itrsihttt (it xitlj. tllilt ,l" SIII-II
exhibit him IHI II uiatlt by a ninijle Statt
imt/irhereon thin continent. All hail
In nil irhokati Uikeitpart in this great
•■•in '..'
We w mil on: ow II pi ople to conn
ami see it. 11 w ill make them love
i lie ir State better and laboi mm •
fni ',n r prospe: ity and glory .
w mil oiirbrethreu from < 'onnecticnl
ami M i-s ichiisetts. from all S'l
Kngland ami t; e oil,, i sections of
our great country, i" come and be-hold
it, in study ii. and become fa-miliar
w il h ii. We '.\ an' ; i
come w ii h their cap,' ni anil invi I
in these resources. We want them
in conic themselves and bring their
families ami make tin . homes with
ns. We will receive them with
open arms ami make I Item feel al
home. All questions which once
divided us having been forever set-tled,
they will find hen- a people in
full sympathy with them in their
loyalty to the flag ol our fathers,
ami in earnest in their labors to
build up Sorth Carolina as one of
the greai States of this greal I'n
ion, whose men shall Forever mole
live iii peace with each other.
This is a great day lor the people
ol North Carolina i:i their indus-trial
development, ami us such I
have sought lo invest it with all
the interest in the power of the
State.
Iii- IH II Slionlei-.
••Why is ii thai the employes in
telepho Iliccs arc all ladies?"
Mrs. Brown made this inquiry of
her husband. "Well," answered
Mr. Brown, "the managers of the
telephone companies wen- aware
thai no class of employes work so
faithfully as those who were ill love
with their labor, and they knew
that ladies would be loud of the
work in telephone offices." "What
is ihc work in a telephone officef
Mis. Brown further inquired.—
"Talking." answered Mr. Brown,
and thccoiivers:iiioiicainetoanenil.
OVER MJIIKKIIIII STOI.r.V
Hcpon orthe SprtngCT CoM»lt>»e■Hlrong
and CMKIUIVC E*Mfnee Afatattthe
riii.ii-.. t,t \, Person Caavlctaa: and
Nil I i»il Mui:„ lu.liluU-d I.. Ili-rion Ihe
Money.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The
Committc on Expenditures in the
Department of .lustice, which dur-ing
tbn lust session of Congress in-vestig
ited the Star route prosecu
tions. has completed its report.
report is signed by Messrs,
Springer [ChairmanJ, Van Alstyne,
Ilcmphill. l'yan. and Crisp. Demo
erotic members ol the committee.
It says: -'During the Hayes Ad-ministration
certain contractors in
the Star route mail service entered
into conspiracies to defraud the
Government in tin- letting am! per-formance
ol mail contracts. The
contract division of the Post Office
Department is under the supcrvi-
■;i of the Second AsMstcnt I'ost-irGeueral.
During the letting
am! performance of tin-fraudulent
mail service Thomas .1. Brady tilled
this office. Frauds upon the ser-vice
could not have been committed
without his knowledge, co-opera-tion,
and assistance.
'•The exact amount out of which
the Goveruineul was defrauded in
the Star route mail service during
the Haves Administration can
never be accurately known. Mr.
Henry D. Dyinan, the present Sec-ond
Assistant t'ost-inaster-Ceueral,
submitted to your committee a
statement show ing the number ami
termini of forty routes, the names
of the contractors, and the amount
jiaid tor expedition, less lines aud
deductions for failures to perform
expedition. The expedition on
these forty routes was obtained
through fraudulent representations
or false affidavits, and the aggre-gate
amount estimated to be due
the Government on account otover
payments on fraudulent service
was $1,172,132. The whole number
of routes upon which fraudulent
service was proven amounted to
ninety three. No estimate has been
made by the Post Office Depart-ment
oI the amounts due upon the
fifty oilier routes implicated in
fraudulent transactions. The whole
amount of which tin Government
was defrauded in the Star route
mail service during the Hayes Ad
ministration will exceed tour mil-lion
dollars."
A number of mules— eighteen —
controlled by the Dorsey combina-tion
arc cited showing the amount
of increase secured. The report
says:
The evidence showed that the re-ceipts
from officers on these routes
for mail matter carried over them
were inconsiderable in comparison
with the vast amount of money re-quired
for the service. On the
Mineral Park and 1'ioche route.
which was expedited so as to cost
about $50,000 per annum, the emo-luments
of all the officers on the
route were tint $701 per annum,
aud this amount, after the expedi-tion,
ran down to $597. During
thirty-nine days it appeared that
not a single letter or paper passed
over this route, although the Gov-ernment
was paying near $50,000a
year for carry the mails.
On another route it appeared
that the contractor carried the en-tire
mail in the leg of his boot over
the mountains, and received $50,-
iioo a year for the service. The
original pay of the contractors on
all of these routes was $41,135 a
year. It was increased so tin.tit
became $448,070 a year. The rev-enues
from the officers depending
solely upon these routes amounted
the first year to $10,297, in the sec-ond
year to $13,108, ami in the
third year to ?l 1,622—actually di-minishing
dining the third year,
when the pay for the service was
the greatest. The Government was
paying ;it that time nearly $450,000
a year for carrying the mails to
officers that yielded less than $12,-
nun of revenue.
Other expeditions arc cited, on
one of which "the speed at which
the service was let was 1.03 miles
an hour, a time much .slower than
a ho: se could walk." Relative to
the route from Las Vegas, N. M.,
lo V'iuita. I. 'I'., the report says
that the pay. begun at $0,330, was
increased to $130,888 per annum;
thai Post Office Inspectors reporl-ed
some of the offices could not be
found, and that several others
might ;is well not have been found;
that Mr Bliss testified that these
offices were all established on the
recommendation of esSenator Dor-sey;
and that Mr. Woodward testi-fied
that the net revenue derived
from all the offices which depend-eii
exclusively for their mail sup-
I i on this route reached the sum
in -l.il for ih" \ear ending June
30. IS79. $210 for the year eliding
June 30, 1880, and $232 for the
niue mouths ending March 31,1881,
in offset mi annual expenditure ol
$150,592.
After reciting the eft'orts of Mr.
Bli«S to arbitrate the Salisbury and
Parker cases, after the Grand Jury-had
failed to indict, the report con
tiliucs:
Il appears from the evidence that
the two most powerful combina
I tions of post route contractors were
known as the Salisbury and I'ar-
• ker combinations. All efforts at
procuring indictments against these
parties tailed. A material witness
against the Salisbury's was one
Thomas A. McDevitt, a nominal
contractor for principals, who held
a large amount of expedited ser-vice
It seems thai McDevitt had
been indicted in Philadelphia tor
fraudulent biddiugou certain routes
in Texas, a matter quite distinct
from those in ""Jrhich his evidence
was chiefly sought. Mr. Woodward
was directed by Attorney General
MaeVeagh and Postmaster General
James to procure an affidavit from
McDevitt as to his knowledge of
! frauds in the Salisbury cases. Mc-
Devitt made a full statement of all
| lads within his knowledge, and
I was given bv Mr. Woodward an
implied promise of immunity in Wh»t the I-'.IIIUUII.K IIIII Mean*.
consideration of his making' full
disclosures. The binding force of, A negro walks into a white
implied promise was recognized by school. The teacher says, the law
Messrs. James and MaeVeagh. makes a distinction between voti
Notwithstanding this full disclo- .and the white children, because of
sure on the part of McDevitt, and ] race. That is the truth. The teach-the
implied promise of immunity I er refuses to let the negro be a pu
which he had received from Wood ' l>il- The teacher is sued in the
ward, the Philadelphia indictment State court by the negro who at '
was pressed to trial, aud McDevitt ' once removes the case to the Fed-was
convicted and sent to the pen- end court. The Edmuudsbill says
itentiary lor one year. Mr. Wood- that the law making the distinction
ward protested to the President I because of color is void, and that
and the Attorney General that "in ' judgment must be given as if no
the trial and conviction ot McDev- | such law existed. The court would
itt the solemn pledges of the Gov , he bound to issue an injunction for
eminent have been broken," and bidding the teacher from rejecting
urged the Executive clemency in I the negro pupil I
his behalf, which was not granted. The bill is intended to force mix-
Mr. Woodward testifies also, that tM' schools.
McDevitt was the witness he should Seethe record when Simmer's
have relied upon to break into the civil rights bill was before the Sen-
Salisbury combination, aud show ' ate. Edmands was iis especial
their methods of doing business, i champion. Mcrrimon ami Ransom
ami that he was the only witness and the Democrats fought it inch
acceesable to make proof against I by inch.
this powerful combination, but ; Mr. Sargeant moved an amend- i
that the Government took thaC|meut—''Providedthat uothiughere
witness aud sent him to the
tentiary. It is due to Mr.
pem-
Mi
III contained shall be construed to
prohibit any State or school district
Veagh ami Mr. .lames to state that I 'rom providing separate schools for
the pledge of immunity to McDev
itt was violated alter "their retire-ment
from office.
After referring to the San Anto-nio
and Prescott route, the con-tractor
of which was John A.
Walsh, the report continues:
The manner of procuring expedi-tion
was reduced to a science. The
affidavits of contractors and others
were used as the foundation upon
which expedition and increased
service were allowed. The brazen
effrontery and perjury of these af-fidavit
makers is without a parallel
in the history of criminal prosecu
tions. Affidavits signed and sworn
to in blank were kept on hand by
persons of different sex or color.
Where such separate schools are
equal in all respects to others of
the same grade."
Mr. Edaidnds asked for the yeas
and nays. Twenty-one, mostly
Democrats, voted •yea" oil the
amendment. Twenty-six, all Be
publicans, voted nay, among them
Edmonds
He is lor mixed schools—mixed
not only as to color, but mixed as
to the sexes.
Mr. Kdmumls said page 4,171
Record of May 23, 1874, "what the
constitution authorizes us to do is
to enforce entire equality." The
bill provided for mixed schools.
the contractors, just as they laid j Mr. Edmonds was the particular
up supplies of (train for their
horses. These affidavits were the
sole measure of the cost of expedi-tion,
and no other evidence was re-quired
by the department for grant-ing
increases of service and in
creases of speed, which cosl the
• lovern ment hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Relative to the compensation of
attorneys the report says:
The total amount paid to the at-torneys
for services in these cases
was $144,846, of which Geo. Bliss
received the greatest amount, his
compensation being $37,732. In
champion of that part of the hi
The bill passed, twenty nine Re
publicans voting for it—Edmunds
among them ; and sixteen Senators '
voting against it, all Democrats we
believe.
Mr. Kilmunds is the advocate of
mixed schools— between the races
and between the sexes, and his new
bill now pending provides for just
that. Any negro boy under that
bill Can force a public school teach- ,
er to admit him to a public school
in which white girls are taught !
Mr. Edmunds and the Kepubli-cans
have voted for that before—
addition $0,721 was paid to Allan | they will vote for it again.
Pinkerton for the services of de-tectives,
$350 for other detective
work, and $1,579 toJamesM.Sem-pie
for services in summoning wit-ncsses.
lu reference to contractors not
indicted the report says :
From a tabular statement fioui
the office of the Second Assistant
Postmaster-General the amount
which it is claimed would be re-covered
from the Salisbury s and
Parkers is estimated at 9603,403,
while the record evidence in the
Postoflicc Department at the be-ginning
of the investigation by the
department was meagre against
the Salisbury's and Parkers, yet
the evidence subsequently procur-ed
through special agents sent out
for the purpose showed that the
operations of these parties as con
tractors were glaringly fraudulent,
and that they should have been in-dicted
and convicted, and prosecu-ted
in civil suits for the recovery
of the large sums illegally obtained
from the Government. Some mys-terious
and powerful influence must
have operated to secure their im-munity.
After a review of the efforts to
indict Senator Kellog, which were
finally successful, notwithstanding
Col. Bliss' opposition to the accep-tance
of James B. Price as a wit
■less, and of the failure to convict
on trial because the offence was
barred by the statute of limitations,
the report concludes as follows:
Your committee is of opinion
that there were many causes which
operated to prevent the successful
prosecution of Star route offenders.
Whatever these cause may have
been, it is doubtless true that those
who will take the pains to read
carefully the testimony taken by
your committee Oil the subject,
comprising nearly a thousand pages
of printed matter, will reach differ
cut conclusions. There was great
diversity in the testimony, and
many contradictious will be found
wholly irreconciliable upon any
other' theory than that of wilful
perjury. It is sufficient, however,
for the pin-poos ol this investiga-tion,
to state that while the evi-dence
against Star route contrac-tors
and public officials was strong
and conclusive as to their guilt,
and thai the Government was de-frauded
of large sums of money,
and that large .sums wen- also ex-
[tended to secure indictments and
convictions, yet no person was ion
victed or punished, and no civil ml
suits have as yet been instituted to j
recover the vast sums illegally and '
fraudulently obtained from the pub
lie treasury.
The bill is pending. It is on the
calauder for action. The issue is
again raised. It must be met.
The bill reads as follows:
A BILL
fur i!i< further pruCc -
the I'niteil SUtW :,l,.l..|l„.r- :,t.iin-i III,- li. 1:Ui.,!i
ofeerutin rifhtu eecnruil tu Iheu by UMI Cunntitu-tion.
il lh, United Suite*.
Wherm.*. In tin- iwbrmenl ol Cotnrrajw, by the true
intent end nennini <•! tin- Conrtitutiun ,.! l'„-
I'nited Siii-.- no >ii-tii„ii..ii .I.II be made in re-
-I--.I nfUioeivil rishU of perwn or rirutiiol pro-perty
l»J lnw. curtolu. II-.IJ:, . |.r ,-Iu>\ nilr, ,ir ,1,'-
,i-i.>i» ,,l any depertinenl of ilia norerninenl „f
uy si.-,!,- or oi Ihc United State*, tamed upon
rare, color, or previous coniliti i ivrTitmle ol
dthwnnol lln-I mi,,1 Stale: and
Whereais -u -!< ricut*ol ill -u ii riuecn* areprotcct-nl
bv the Constitution of the I'nited St.,!,- asainri
eneh crael and mijii-i daitiuctkinsi an 1
IVherea*. ■!■ u'.i- hare ;,ii-i-ii whether the lawful
the t'nitcd State* now in force ;it.- in all Kwpectn
ii.|i-,|,i:ii,- to li proto li.in : and
Hheri'ii- i. i« .IK <lu,- I IIM ■ iei-i |, -. ,1.-
fur the protection of(itrxerai of i!,,- I'nitcn State*,
again*! nil *uch unju*l <ii.-!iii<-li>»n-; therefore,
BK IT KSACTKO ai HI Savvr*. .-..■ Il..i ~i .-,
RRPRKSKKTATIVR* ,,I no. l'\io:> STATE*, OI
AHKRICI IN CosuKKs*. laaniiRLKD, Thai when-ever
in any ca*e now i ending or »l,i 1. aiay here
I it, r be pending- in any ,.,,111*1 ,,i any State an i**nc
-ti:iil,\i-t .,r !„■ made ,-r any matcriui >i,i,-n..ii
nhali orine concerning, any civil r!-.-!ii nf per*on ,,r
righto! property which shall be aaaailed or main-tained
1 H 1, I in any cuch b>ue - 1
■ iiH-ii.ii on the ground thai mich i--n, or question
,ii-i-n,l- ni-,ii „r i- affeeteil by the raceorcoloi "i
in \ ;•■,:- omtiti, 11 of imrvitude ol
earned in and I party; lo *ui li bwuc or.queetion, the
per* peraun* again*! whom rach i--
il,,11 -Imll („• made, ., rtetl. or maintained, >,r
om any- -11 li denial nhall be 111,1,1 Ihc
ground aforesaid, -lull be thereupon entiUed to re-move
-n- li cause !■• Hie circuit court "t Ibe I'nited
State* 1 . the -iiin. t wilhin Ihc terrtbirial limit- »i
whi li Mich ca* Khali be 1- nding. lin 111
trial.and judgment in Ihe manner and with like
1 . : : j . ;i- n,.,rii. DM) ' „ . iM are provided by
i hundred and thirty-nine of the Rovi*efl
, of the United Slate*, but without reganlto
tin--in,1 in eonlrover*y.
Sec. 2. That whenever in any ca*e now pending
or w-bii-li may hereafter be Mthling in any eonr! in
any Slut, n ruling <>r daemon, inlerlocutor) >,r
other. -Imll be made advenely i„ lln-,-i.il ri-jhl or
i-lniiui,|"an> penon on the ajroaad ,<l lu- raceor
color ,,i prevmu* condition of lervltndo. ,,r the race
,,r,-,,l,,i- ,-r prcriaoa condition of ■ervhude of any
wiuHeaor juror in snbh eaae, the penon li-incn
party to *afd cau*e again*! whom >ucn ruling, or do-
,*i.-i,,ii ahall i,-.- made -Imll l«* ili-nuii-ui entitled lo
t, move -ii- li ,-.,u-' tothci ircnil courto! tin.-1 mted
State* for ili-'ii-iri, t within the territorial limit- ,.1
win. ii -.11 i court ahall he held. f<>r proceeding*.
irinl. awl final iu*tgnwnl in the game tnanner and
»itli bk,. proeneiliDga, n- mar al mar be. a* are
i,r..%'i<U'-l by lection -i\ humlreil and thirty nine •■!
the l!,-u-,-l Slatuteaof the t'nited State*, but with-out
ri'gTinl lu 1I1-' -urn in --"iiti"" •'
Si-.'. .1.'I'liitt whenever in any cau r nutter
in,-iiii,.ii,',l in th,- pn-veding -,',ii,.i,- tl„',l •"!-. 1
■udgim-ntol il,- State court in which
-Imll lie iKialiua -lull 1 •'•■-I upon or be alTcrti 1
..: ih,- race orcoloror pn--
\i,u., iilioool «crvitudc "l any pemon being a
nartvtotirwitni-s-or jnmr in rach cg*e. andthc
do-iri .11 ,.| -i..l, mo
mm upon tiny "'■ the -1 «wh "i matten afon -ai 1 I -
rea*nti "' In- raccei ■ ilor r previou iHlitmn ol
-, i\ Ini-l.-. ti,- .-. r—.11 being.a party to*m-h caili-c
. ...in any ruch -i ill lie 1 Ic -',.,.1
I ml"! 1 viea .■• rach dechdon I
pn ineOairtof 1 I ted sial , 1 :.i- »n »l
. -ii.-t not i.'l i'i, - II, I iii il,'- *uiuc
manner a* i*uow proviile.1 by law for writ* of ern»i
..,.! ;:, n
,';,-,• - i. li wril ■'' iii"' may ,»■ , -I oul I -
, ute 1 i right. .111,1 with
f ll.-- .--upreiue
Court "i ii,-- I 1 1. I -• ,!■ - olio 1 K ni li "in ol
error,, 1 ••>'• court it-. If. nhall , ■ ■ : ;
,1.. | iHic intere*l
-,- i. 11 ,-, 1.0- 1 . ■ ■ ' mi. ami no
; ' I ' ' "
^,,.,,,. ntofMny .-ii- whh-h ,,, ,> noworhero-iill,
i , lift whi h -li.tll in ni.- ma
betwi-t-n the right-, "i pi-r-ou or i propcrO upon
1 l*of race, r ,r. ,.r previou*-r.in.lii t
ideal IH "hall be lie
■ rv ,,,urt. whether 4 Sul roll
1 , i , -• tie*. 1,' .-ti , .my -11,-ii iniiii-'i
shall li-di■ "
tin- maUer in eontrovar*i ir il" snaK 0111 1* al 1
ll, 111.--,iiu,'.'lk" 1 ,' 1; -11 li In". " '-•'• ••ii-i"in.
prad "i ■!" i-i '-.-ni I. 1 eai*t.
A Plavid Kill Hid Gals
.-long' K. WeoaUac »t Sholba-villo.]
There has been much in the Re-pablican
iiarty to admire. 1 have
myself admired her. I knew her.
AIIIIIIH r Kipiihlirnli CiilainilJ.
Charlotte i rrer.
' The Kepublicans in Salisbury, ii
would seem, rind ii mi utter impos-sibility
io accomplish ihc greatly
desired end of erecting a pole from
! which they can tloat a flag. After
securing a line pole two weeks
ago. they tried to raise it, ami
though then young myself, when while doing so, it fell aud broke
she was a beautiful maiden wiih , into three pieces. Alter waiting
rosv cheeks ami I esty in the for another issue of the Examiner
L-lane.es of her bright eyes : when 1 to brace them up and sortei raise
be, form was comely and her heart their spirits, they wenf to work
aUnnrity. Then she had at her and got another pole. It was land-side
a Lincoln, a Sunnier, a Wen ed into Salisbury on l=t-t Monday
■K-11 Phillips, a S-ward and a , and that night they proceeded to
Ureeley Anon I saw her upon raise it. Before they got it into
the streets ia bizarc attire, sneak- an upright position, something
ing from the presence of the good, j slipped and down it came being
but winking at and keeping com- shattered to pieces as in the ease
panvwitha Stephen A. Dorsey. a I of the tirst flagpole 1 hese cir-i
Steve Elkins, a .John A. I.ogan : cumstances arc regarded by the
1 with star route thieves and Credit darkies as an evil omen, ami as the
Mobilier thieves. And now- we Hag pole earn.- .low n Monday night
have seen her glide into and go one of them was heard to exclaim
skulking down a dark alley, ami ! in all seriousness: "lie Lords
sav that today she is a creature ■ against us sholy and list's what
, whom no respectable man cau af I we get for lettm' a man like oul
I ford to associate, with. I York -sociate wul us.
Hun For All II Ma. Morlh.
Extract fr"in Spriltfer''' Kei«irt.l
lu the western district of North
Carolina the testimony while not
developing such glowing faults,
certainly shows that Boot M.
llouglas as marshal and some of
his deputies have run their offices
with a view of making them pay
all that was possible. During six
months of the year 1881, oue I'ui
ted States commissioner issued in
a single county ninety-four war-rants
against persons residing
within a radius of30 miles, all up-
00 the affidavits ot two deputy-collectors
who made them at the
solicitation ol a commissioner and
deputy marshal. Of these defeud- I
ants forty were discharged, live
tried before a commissioner anil
only twenty-six sent to court.
As the result of the operations
of this commissioner for six months
in one county there was a cost to
the government of *4,L'7!>. without i
furthering in any degree the ad-ministration
of justice.
An examination of the accounts
of two deputy- marshals revealed
that at least seventy per cent, of
them were fraudulent.
I!r«nil. oritrimMii-ioi Pttllry.
Factories me closing: furnaces
are blown out; shops arc silent, ',
men are standing around idle and
anxious ami hungry, tloods are
down; stocks are down) wages are
down: everything is down but tax-ation.
That is high enough to
make glad the heart of monopoly,
and the cry of Blaiuo and Logan
is—more taxation, higher taxation.
Their doctrine is that the road to
prosperity runs over the hill tax-ation—
that to bleed the people of
§KW,tKMI,n(M) annually—*100.lHMi,-
000 of which shall he surplus—is
the sure way to make the country
prosperous. And still down, down,
down go Ihc prices and out, out,
out go the workmen, turned out to
idleness, because there arc more ;
goods made by double than the
country needs.— Wilmington (I'll.)
Slur.
Twenty thousand men are out of
work in Cincinnati, of whom 8,000
are members of trades unions— '
painters, carpenters, cabinetmak-ers,
tanners, printers and shoemak-ers.
The cotton mills in Biddefork
will again shut down to-day.
Thousands of coal miners in Ohio
and Pennsylvania arc idle. Be
sure and vote to continue by |
voting for me, says dodger Blaine. I
—iShelbgville lh mocrat.
There is a greal deal of enforced
idleness among the printers, cigar- 1
makers and shoemakers ot Balti-more,
and wages in some branches
have been reduced.—.Xnr York
Truth.
A Sen-re Droiiglil.
Wachinclon P -
The last down pouring ot the
rain recorded by the Signal office
occurred on the :.*!ith of .luly—two
mouths ago today—when Ihe rain
fall measured 1.17 inches. Since
that time a few showers of almost
inappreciable extent, the heaviest
only incasiiriag twenty live htm
ilictlis o! an inch, have fallen. A
few occurred in August, oue tenth
of an inch fell on September II'. a
slight sprinkling was n rded on
the LTtb.and yesterday a few drops,
too slight to be worthy of record
even in uuiidreths of an inch, rais
IMI a false hope that the long pray-ed
for rain had come at last. For
it taxes the memory of those who
note the weather to lemember such
a period ofdrought for many years.
Lcports obtained yesterday by I'ott
reporters, in conversations with
fanners at stations along the rail-roans
running into this city, were
monotonous m their similarity.
Everywhere the same complaint of
drought arouse. The country pics
cuts a dried up and burned appear
■ i ii<>-. and the ground is caked hard
in the fields or ground into ilnst on
the roads. Springs and rivulets
which have never been known lo
fail, arc now as dry as chips. The
haves are dropping lioin the trees
for lack of nourishment ami the
corn in the fields is shrivelled and
parched. The damage sustained
by the faiincs. and especially
market gairdeiiers, is very heavy,
although it cannot be calculated in
dollars ami cents. Sot only docs
the drought have ii seiious effect on
present vegetation, but it prevents
the plow ing for I lie fall crop-, i
m.it ;<i which is of considerable im-portance
and likely to entail even
more loss than can be at present
realized.
i'rof. Cleveland, Abbe, the me
leorolgi.-i, in conversation with a
reporter last night said : "These
severe droughts, like the one from
which we are suffering, occur per
haps eight or nine limes in a cen-tury.
The present oue is probably
caused by the unusual extension ol
the Northeast trades, which, al
though their limits are "Of station
ar.v. generally prevai' between lati
tudea 7 degrees and 1'C degrees.
We cannot, however, be sure that
is the case until we receive the oh
si-rvations from Ihc Pacific coast,
winch will probably not arrive fol
another month."
A (-holed Tragedy.
A tragic incident has resulted
from the cholera plague in Naples.
A girl, seventeen years of age was
seized with the dread disease, anil
her lover, anxious to be by her
side, attempted to enter the
room where she lay. The girl's
mother, who was attending her.
demurred and prevented his en
trance. The young man thereupon
drew a revolver ami in mad frenzy
shot the mother through the heart.
Advancing to the bedside of the
girl he sent a bullet into her fore
head. He attempted to end his
own life with a third shot. He
succeeded only iii wounding him-self,
anil was carried to the hospi
tal.
— In lS-il the value of the cotton
mills in the I'liiled States was *4U.
000,000; in 187" it was #141,000,-
, INNI. and in 1880 «'.'li,S.L'L',"i,ulHI.
Tilt- CM lime Dwindled to a /.C|ili\r.
' X.-v. .1 ,.,., il,r.M
The Bat hurrah is now about the
volume of a consumptive s wills
per.
Wkal lir Taught.
. Hurling),>u Frae I'i, --
The young man who was jilted
remarked lacctiously to a friend
that he "guessed he had caught a
tft-ta that time."
Kvrn the < lillili in C'r\ lor Aiut-rira.
* B<>-t->ri .1,-iun.il
The youngest immigrant* that
ever crossed the ocean alone ar-rived
on a German steamer at
Castle Garden, and was only two
years old.
Tit lor Tat.
I alafl-
The New York Tiihum calls
Governor Cleveland "a greedy of-lice
seeker, who holds onto one fat
place while he runs for another."
When tlitl John \. l.og.iu resij
the United stales Senatorshipl
ngn
J. v. Tamer.
The Democracy of Guilford coun-ty,
N. C. has nominated onr Form-er
coiiiiiyinan Mr. Julian A Turn-er,
for the House ol Itepreseutitivos.
We are glad to see this recognition
of true merit, Mi. Turner is every
inch a high toned gentleman, able.
faithful and worthy the support ot
any people.
Thirl) Panama Killed kj ■ t'loaaVBarat.
A cloud burst occurred at I'.i
chuca on the afternoon of the -7th
nit., causing a terrible inundation.
The Amalgamating Works were
destroyed anil considerable silver
which was under treatment was
lost. It is estimated that thirty
persona were killed. A great deal
of property was destroyed, ami
many cattle were drowned.
I-' I lor Thought.
CotamMa S !' Regiatai
When a gambling speculator like
.lay (loiild supports an uuscrnpn
Ions political adventurer like James
G. Blaine, and cooly tells us that
"the country needs rest," and that
nothing ought to beilisturbed.il
ought to set the people to thinking
aud bring about amort- vivid reah
/ation ol th.' peril in which the
country stands.
Till- Cnri". ol a Mmli'i II (t-ii'Mm.
New York millionaire—"Are Ihc
girls locked up for the night, wifer
"Yes."
■•! 'oaciiin.in chained*"
" Yes."
"Has the patent butcher catcher
in the 11■mi yard been oiled so that
it works well!"
"Yes."
"Well we might as well chloro
form the garilcner ami go tu sleep."
si. Jiilin'. Vt Inl.
[Baaaw i "un,.'
It is reported that a day or two
ago Mr. St. John went into a
Kansas drug store ami called lor a
glass of soda-water. His hit eye
accident!}' twitched as the clerk
gaxed at him inquiringly. Ihe
mistaken clerk, not knowing the
gentleman, gave him a liberal al
lowance ot the usual flavor deman-ded
on such occasions, ami Ihe
glass was drained lo Us dregs.
*'My goodness, gracious un ," said
the candidate, smacking ins lips,
•I don't see how men can drink
liqnor when thej can gel soda-water
like Ihal."
—The rice crop ol ihe country
will be llfly per cent, over thai of
last year.
—Since the outbreak ot thechol
era at Naples there have been 10,-
i a.-es and l..iillldeaths.
—Tomatoes are 50cents .1 bushel,
ami hall us 111:1m eaten at om- sit-ting
Will give a fellow a pick of
I rouble.
—Hog choh'i a is repot led as pre-vailing
to an alarming extent in
every county of southern ami west-ern
New Jersey.
—There weie made ill this coun-try
dnring Ihe I isi fiscal nai ',. 177-
860.0.>2cigars, alioul forty im everj
pound of tobacco used.
—ll is mentioned as a singular
eolliclilelice Ihal ihe l'l'ei-lileut ot
Harvard college and Itotiner's bos'
host hi. received Ihc same salary.
—Only the defalcations ,,l such
bungling thieves as cannot lix up a
\ oiicber are unbilled ii : he official
repoii> ni It ---i - sustained by the
(iovt'itimcut.
—A Dulutli mail n ho was jealous
of bis wile hid l.er lui-il, su as 1,1
keep liel a' I ic, and the papers
speak of it . - "-in outrage worthy
of the dai I. ages."
—A druggist in a new tow 11 in
Wyoming advertises- a good open
ing for doctor who knows how in
lead, write and spell. Any otln-l
soil will hi- giien Ihe cold should-er.
—'fhe damage done by tloods in
the Cbippewa Valley, WiMcouaiu,
is estimated lo reach over 11,71*1,
• SKI. 'fhe village of llurainl ia re
ported wholly swept away.
—Over 150,000,000 i~ said lo
have been spent in the attempts lo
solve Ihe problem ol perpetual
motion, ami yet we Ilia) seen
solved any day by watching Ihe
movements of a county candidate.
— A crowbar wasjammed straight
through tin- body of .lames Mais
toll, of I.ynehburg. Va.. but James
had set his heart on voting lor
Clover Cleveland, and is likely to
do il as he still lives and is slowly
gaining strength and health.
Blaine dodged Prohibition on
the tiilnsiest pretext under abieh
moral cowardice ever sought lo
disguise itself. "This is a local
question, and I am a national can-didate;
therefore 1 must not ro'e
on il," was the substance ol his un-explaining
explanation.