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6 ‘CONCRESS. | Fernando Wood Arraigns the bh for the years named, which conclusively tg Indeed, & general extravagance and waste | pervades each of the executive departinents. The Chair- man, Mr. — has referred to ‘of these, but oniy toa Yew. Thave followed the line of investigation which he but , ANd present & series of tables, care!ully spineced sources, which show and prove this :— STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYES BORNE UPON THK CIVIL LIST OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1559 To 1871. COMPILED FROM THE OFFICIAL BLUE BOOK. 1861.-———— istration.’ pli a atl Adetes parents | we se |, || State . 4 33). 366) 99 Our Vast Army of Civil Servants and pa FA “ial Me ar ry if | Navy. cr 17 98 Publie Extravaganee. | ia: 2 oe aii ogisiative.... ig Sl mit Totala....... ee) AND FIGURES. ee FACTS = i | Righty-six Thousand Six Hundred and ; "4 Fi i Fs Fifty Employes Annually Swallow- | L2vidnuvs... ta] O°] Sts s, 1,167 | ing $14,666,000 of Revenue. | 969, “7 774 ‘ea 1758 rea si si | interior. $ Corrupt Customs Officials and Fi- | are: “a “ei “ig “4 Fy ne nancial Mismanagement. | Howes we Et 239) 423) BO) 41007) 4,345 Totals... a wall sal as waa | FIFTEEN SPECIFIC CHARGES. ,,,... = a ae | fect rel et mmitti fi} So) “ai is Ata] Aaa a he Co: ee » 1 4 Kelley’s Reply for t) eel it) El wbHl ats of Ways and Means. =| 36] 35) | es | 5,513) 92,092) 57,605) 6,025| 80,637) 86,450 ‘THE POST OFFICE. | Comparative tables of expenditures of the public ser- | vice, collated reports of the Secretary of the Treas- The Balance of the Reserved $44,000,000 | trai other official documen uired, i a 720, 1 25,658,102 31 | Urgently Req rd eee SO yer aks CF 3,929,912 00 1871 04 * Estimated. ies report of Postmaster General, 1873. | Peo Office cost $22,730,592 65 in 1868, and in 1874 IFTERGL REVENUE DRDARTHRNT. | Comparative recelpts and expenditures of the Internal Revenue Department, collated trom the reports of the Secretary_of the Treasury — Fisral | WASHINGTON, March 7, 1874. ‘The House met for debate on the tax bills, Mr. Wilson, (rep.) of lowa, in the chair, a8 Speaker pro tem., and was addressed by Mr. Wood, (dem.) of N. Y., @ member of the Committee of Ways and | paces "S SPERCH. Ending— Cost of Collection, Se . ky of 98, or 3. percent | Mr, Woop said :—In rising to address the House pon — jxg3 357 6 oF 43 ber cent tis bill Iam not unmindful of the example set me by | 335): MET OF oF hig Ber cont | the chairman of the Commitee of Ways and Means. He | 132 Pere aerate uss the general wants o oe} us © disease fehicn, i his judgment, should be parsned’in. | ont 97,288 $4, or 4 per cent : 5,357,124 24, or 4X per cent Stuer to create a more approximate equality between | ; “4 rder to create He has thus shosen | 1974 (ostimat the receipts and disbursements, at: ¢ Fae ST FES five, his discussion, & browie®, scope than is compre. | ee ee Hg per cent | ended in the question immediately before us, and in | —nglicuding delalca tons. ye appropriations. tus regard I shall attempt to follow him. For the pur- pose of presenting in a few words what were the sub- stantial points of that gentieman’s speech I group them THE INDIAN BUREAU, | Expenditures on Account of Indians, as follows:— | be eck s pa 7,426,997 a Fira—The present and prospective resources of the a . Me aera 061, 2 overnment. # ‘Second—Means to provide for the alleged deficlency. Third—A reference to the past extravagance, in order to waro Congress and the administration trom like errors. A These, I believe, comprehend the leading points of this | speech, to which I propose to say a tew words in repiy. Let me premise by calljng attention to the analogy be- tween the American House of Eepresentatives ani the ‘Secreiary of the Treasury's Rep: SUDICIARY_ DEPARTMENT, $73,373 57 1871 2,357,601 94 1872. 610,342 53. 1373. ELLANZOU! asc! $53,009,957 67 1871. «++0,83,320,918 93 3,594.0; { Enghsh House of Commons. Our Legistative system, as | 45 56,474,061 53 1H. PE known, was founded on that of England; our 0. + 461 56 | sw ‘ : Se te is the House of Lords. The House is the popalar Secretary of the Treasury's Report, 1873, page 16, branch represented bv the persouschosen by the electors, | SUB-TREASURY. | asthe House of Commons. It 1s true our Cabinet Minis- $260,115 88 1872 $430,835 82 rs do rarely appear in propriie personis on the Hooro! the | ‘272,614 27 187! 8,68) 9) jouse, as in the House of Commons but their representa BUR0TS 06 187; 49477 59 | tives do, especially as to the public finances, In Eng. OTS TS land the Chancellor ot the Exchequer, the chief officer of the Treasury, sits in the House of Commons & expiain and defend the management ot bis, portfollo, while with COAST, svErey. as that officer, the Secretary of e Treasury, isrepre- — $455, 5 Shitmmes ot the Committee of Wasennd | 473,410 72 137: 1373. sented by the © | Means, who has access to the most private of the Treas- ary archives, ana is, by virtue ot his position, the exclu- | £08,279 06 SURVEYING PUBLIC LANDS. Lindh Ive representative of ihat official, ‘Therefore, when | 1368. $375,252 3) ZL $554,940 75 hat gentleman Tises here to. intorm the House upon | 1509. 429,495 73 1872. BS8,5L4 96 these'questions he must be accepted as the moutnplece | 1870: eal.sor S787 1,123,060 13 | sfithe igevornment iuselt, “Hut ia this ease we have an | Ms it authority. He 1s not o: resent- 121,144 05 | tive of te Ministry, but the leading ald mostinduen. | 3953 sera) OF al member of 1370. THE DOMINANT Party in the House, possessing « potent influence over all ques. netade the expen. These do no Ofice at Washington—$2:0,000, dons, and having more power to influence legislation | than’ any otber or any dozen of the leading men, | UNITED #EATES MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICH | being the oldest member in point of continued ser’ | 1873 $762,182 OV 1874". ........ a+ $1,833,195 09 | vice and for many Years chairman of the two great | | *#stimated. Allowea by Committee o: Appropriativn, leading committees—a man of conceded ability, a ready | $1,U2624, RECAPITULATION, And forcible debater, and has had for ten years a tommanding power over the proceedings of this House. Comparative statement of expenditures in the several Thus ciothed with authority, when that gentleman | branches of the public service named trom 1963 to 1575 speaks we should listen, when he counsels we should | inclasi 2 heed and when he castigates we should take admonigon. | 1368, 1873. But from him to whom much is given much will de re- | Indians. sesseeal $7,951,704 quired, and if he tn turn shall be held responsible | Coast Survey 3 852,825, for many of the evils of which he complains Survey of Public Landa... 1,128,050. am sure he will not onject. Nor would | Surveyor General's Ottice. 4 414,135 {impose upon him any individual responsibility. Heand Judiciary... 226.13 the administration of General Grantare the representa. | Sub-Treasury. 493,651 tives of that party—the republican party of the couniry— | ——— id it is that party, more than the able chairman, through | Total..... $14,606,519 | e aid and support of its members in Congress, that has | AT101 Accomplished the unjustifiable measure to which he has | I shall not stop to comment on the remarkal teterred, aud which he has so justiy aad severely criti- | answerable array of facts presented in these figures. It cised. Therefore, I hope [ may not be considered as at- | is impossible that any answer can be made to them. No vempting to introduce merely partisan fonsiderations in | prevaricaton, explanation or subterfuge can wipe them | discussing a measure of this character # I shall atteinpt | outor lessen the force of the damning story they teil. who'd up to the condemnation of the country those en- | But these do not comprise ail the wrong that the people | trusted with power and who have had jhe responsibility | have arightto complaino!, There are others uot com- af the conduct of this government torthe last thirteen | pretended within merely matters of disvursement years. | of pudlic money which may be included in toe | category of republican maladministration. 1 propose to refer to some, not all of them. The time allotted to me | in this debate will not ailow a more extended inquiry. and un- | i FACTS AND FIGURES. Now a word as to the gentleman's figures. That part of his speech which Is devoted to an exjow! of the condi- uon of the public Treasury I am bouad to assume as | The laws passed during the war, and probably made strictly accurate, What he says in detail of the receipts | necessary at that time, imbosed extraordinary burdens | and expenditures during the pon the people. But what was excusable then can have | present fiscal vear cantiot be questioned. Taking the total amountof the appropri- | Mo excuse now. Our first duty was to have modified or re ations asked for, for the next fiscal year, as the prubable | peaied most ot them. What has been done? With the amount that will be allowed, he proceels to state what, | exception of a reduction of ten per cent m the tariff and | im bis judgment and that of the Treasury Department, | a trite in the army and navy, nothing has becn done. wilt be, the probable denclenoy unadr existing laws. | The civil lust as already shown, has been enormously in Without following the details by which he reaches the | creased; and as to a return to specie payments, we have | conclusion, and assuming the conclusion accurate, what | been trying tomuke redemption as difficult as po-sivie cau ve sald of the conclusion itseltt He tells and lo continge the taxation created during the war. t there will be a probable balance in the Treasur, | with but @ slight modification, Within the last nine | the close of the year of $20,302,385, as against $00,000,000 years beige which (he government began the year, and further | OUR MINES e . foes on to show that even this small balance of | have produced about $640,000,000, Out of this we have | 000 will iors 4 be drawn against tor other lia- t 395 in gold aud $25,787,331 in silver, a ilities, making about $7,500,000, and finally he concludes | total of $27.138725. Thus it will be seen that but little more than forty-two per cent of the whole has been | coined and the balances have been made into bars and sent to Europe. In addition we have received in coin Guring that period intg the Treasury for duties on im- ports, &c., $1.60, 124,233, Now, notwithstanding the ri | eeiptot so much precious metal into the Treasury, have still maintained aud increased the paper nic ) coinea but $24 at We cannot possivly expect a larger balance at the jose of the year than about $10,00),0W. When asked by & gentleman trom Ohio whether in’ this estimaie he had included anything in referefice to the $44,000,000 reserves, be said that be had not, that this culation was mad without reference to those reserves, which impli¢ glearly that it is the intention of the ‘Secretary of th € vr. reasury to return to the reserves that proportion of the | cireulation. The policy ot the administration in amount which has been already drawu tromitto meet | paying off the larger proportion of our public pressing Mabilities within the last few months. a with these receipts had for its object seli-gloritication. It hug been wedded to a Tatal error, either ignurautot its consequences or willing to fe perpetrate so ureat a wrong simply for the purpose of ie beginning of the fiscal year $99,462,023 50, and the re- | procuring partisan objects. The panic of last tall and ceipts tor the first qaarter were $84,106,310 56; butthe es- | the strain that has been made upon the public Treasury timates tor the remainder of the year were $197,10),00), | Within six moncis, proaucing national dishonor, have making a total avaliable iacome trom ali sources forthe | all been the resnlt of this policy. The government year of $370,665,330 55. This large aggregate increase it would not now be in a dishonored position had not would seem has been totally «xhausted, together with | the fatal policy of anticipating the public debt been about $25,000,000 more taken trom the reserves adopted. j toral of over $36,000,000, although the fiscal DIVING INTO THE TREASURY, gotexpire until the letday of July next, and theretore Three montlis acter the commencement of the present iyonly about two-thirds exhausted. This is, in a iew | administration, on the 4th of March, 1889, the then words, the footing up of the figures as presente by the | Secretary of the Treasury found himself in possession of Chairman as to the present and prospective condition of | a surplus balance, over and above the preceding year's THE NATIONAL CASI INCOME. Now, it will be remembered that according to the re- rt of the Secretary of the Treasury. he hud on hand at the fina: of the government for the present fiscal | receipts and expenditures, of $49,WW0,0W, of Which year, But the Chairman, while properly denouncing | $45,000,000 had been accumulated within three months. extravagance, is as deficient in his remedy as the govern- | These large sums of cash in hand should have been ment has been in creating the disease, After presenting | held sacred «s @ foundation for the redemp- is figures he proceeds to tell us of jon of the legal tenders upon which to begin THE REMEDY. f resumption. Insiead of doing this Le inaugurated a sys he says there are but three ways—first, by borrowing; | tem ota redempiiou of the bonded debt not then due, second, by taxation, and third, by retrenchiment. He | while entirely neglecting the legal tender debt, past duc discards the two iormer of these and throws himselfen- | and insisted upon continuing the ruinous war taxation tirely upon economy and retrenchment as the only | for tie purpose of extending this policy, He bought Mode of extrication trom the difficulty. But that gen- $41,000,000 of bonds the first year, upon which he paid a Ueman appears not to see that all his propositions for | premium of $5, 227%—thus paying a bonus cut of the economy and r piace afier the p nment apply as to What shall take | public tunds for the privilege of doing, not only a con- nt fiscal year and not during it. He | tinued injury to the industry of the country by the enor- very properly deimands eeohomieal reform in the ex- | mous taxation, but also in diverting Its resources frum penditures of the government, and I will go with himin | the Mquidation of demand notes, such as the legal procuring anything desired in that way. But the defl- | tenders. and by the payment of the funded obliga- | cienciesin the Treasury are now pressing and imme- tions having eighteen years to mature, According diate. They lack resources to meet expenditures al- | to the Ireasury statement issued the Ist of March, ready provided (or by the avpropriation bills of the last | 1874, there. was purchased 258.800 of bonds Congress. It is the present moment that is the life | between April, 1499, and September 25, 1874, upon which of the government, and not what may take place | was paid a premium of $3 32 71. It this had not 753, been done thers jd now be’ nearly $59,000,000 in the | hich gp meet the present deficiency and | try trom the impending necessity of in- | ublic debtor imposing more taxation. It ig difficult to tind words to sufficiently express a proper | condemnation of siten # suicidal policy. What would be | thought of a merchant who anticipated the payment of his obligations having a long time to run. wile he, at | the same time, neglected to liquidate those which were | payabie on demand and remained dishonoied ? in the face. I concur with him that the LEAVE SOMPTHING FOR POSTERITY TO PAY. | people wil rno further taxation. [tis already too Tam opposed both to the expansion of the are debt | Suetous for the industries of the country to bear. Nor | as well as the anticipation of its payinent. | This people am [in favor of adding one dollar to the permanent debt. | have endured sacrifices enough already to maintain the I therefore see no mode of relief except in the direction | solidarity of the Union, and itis just to leaye posterity, Of a gurtailment of expenditures, | who will derive the culef advantage from it, some part ‘ REMEDY. } of the burden and not endare it ail ourselves. | Therefore My proposition is that all of the baiances unexpended | 1 wauld not pay another dollar ot the debt arising out of of ihe appropriations of jast year shall be withheld | it until we have returned to specie payment and materi- (only those that are absolu(ely necessury) until after the | aily lessened the existing taxation. | Ii, when that is expiration of the fiscal year or until the resources of | done, the remainder can be advantageously spprept. the Treasury from legitinate sources will enable the | ated to lessening the bonded debt, fam quite willing to governmeni to meet them. In my judgment our receipts | do so. As ilustrative of the evils which flow from the | rom imports will be larger than estimated, and that at | ruinous policy which has been adopted with reference to next year or the year after, while in my judgment the $319,000,00) demanded for the fiscal year end on the 30th of June, 1575, is at least $00,000,000 or 009) to much, and it should be reduced to about $260,000,000. Yet thatis not now the question, which is to supply the | defleit existing with reterence to the demands of the ‘Treasery betore the commencement of the next fiscal | year. Theretore I regret that the gentleman has not pre- Sented to us some practical proposition to meet He DANGER OF BANKRUPTCY now stari us Jeast $15,000,000 of the $23,000,000 of dutiable goods now | the payment of any portion of the public rematniny Warehouses will be witharawo | debt, look at the condition ot the public Treas- ve the Ist of June, and thus add the amount io the | ury at this time. 1 railing off in the revenues growing out of a v jeft the Treasury not only depleted of money insufficient to meet its curient obligations, bat hag ulso compelled | the Secretary of the Treasury to lay his hands, without authority of law, in my judgment, upon a reserved tund which he, as well as his'prececessors, had considered as money ly propriated, especially for public | having been permanently withdrawn from circulation, Works, entirely irom payment until we are in acon- | He Was compelled to do this or to place the goverament, divion to do so witnout embarrassing the Treasury. Bat, | betore the world in a condition of bankraptcy—a state of aside from th considerations, had the policy | things the natural result of a diversion of the surpius of the government been jndicious the Treasury would | revenues of the country to a purpose not necessary at tho not have been in iis present condition, notwithstanding | time, nor consistent with any safe principles of finance. the falling off in revenue. If the whole ot the receipts THE MOIETY SCANDALS AND if ABUSES, | for these last seven years had been devoted to its legit- Public attention has recently been ate purpose we could have been in no such distraint | ject ot moieues, which are the perquisites of government YY of circumstances, has of the goverment. and with the r trade (here can be no reason wh, @ much larger inc appear to antie!pate, eviving spring | But whether these expec may be realized or not, I think there can be no doubt as to the ! holding & Very Jarge proportion of the as now. No people have borne so much taxation within, | officials employed to protect the Treasury outside of their the sare riod with so little resistance or objection, | regular salariés as a compensation or incentive to them | About $1,000.00) every three years has been absorbed | to pertorm the duty which they take an oath to pertorm by the government irom the industries of the country, | to the best of their abiltty when receiving their appoint. whereas about $60,000,000 should have been sufficient to have defrayed the necessary expenses and meet the in- terest on the public debt. Whgt has been the policy ? ‘The readiness of the people to bear taxes has invited exe travagance and profiigacy here. As they responded to the cails of the Treasury, #0 have the government and Congress been eneoaraged to parsue a system of lavish expenditure and the creation ot a large retinue of un or of the Port of New York, noi including * Lecessary officials, The gentleman trom Massachusetts ures and other perquisites, may be trly stated told us in his speech thee there were 2,300 persons em- | $2.00) 4 year each. ‘Ihe duties devolved upon these ployed in the reams Py teks ais on Pee, t | officials are mostly pertormed by subordinates. A leave thorized bj A eand of absence tor s " id be to either of | aw hve he cheney cotahiiira, A hes sivas tor six months could be given to either y im without any detriment fo the public service. In- necessary increase of patronage In the creation ot un. | ¢ itis quite practicable and conmstent with the pub ments. There is ho other bpoay 84 that pays its leading custom, house officials anything like as much as we do, nor is there any other commercial or maritime nation that affords to those officials the same facilities tor mulating enormous wealth as the United States. In Europe the moiety system has been abolished altogether, ular compensation ot the Collector, Naval Onicer, us a necessary officials of every grade and char he good to comprehend the duties of the three into one, | throughout the United States has been the chief oc: Unfit recently we paid the Peosident of the United tates tion of Congress at every session, unul to-day | Dat $46,00) a year, and £ Ho reason Why & Custom THE AGGREGATE CIVIL LIST OF THE UNITED STATES House gimeial, with litt sponsibility and no lab comprebends a larger number of persons than isem- shouldbe paid Nearly ay much. tis true. there ployed in Germany, France and England put together. er than official” duties expected of the Incu TABULAR KM MIBIT. hen these offices, They have onerous po: J present herewith a tabie, gathered from te several jiuca! Rot oMeial. dutes to vertiorm. They | | THe and should be af once er | tricks atdeception bad not been thought ol. | mi | Appropriation | pom the secretary of the Tre | them, inaking with them « coutract al NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 187 4—QUADRUPLE SHEET. are maqe re; sible by the its friends im Washington ‘for the of the State. They are expected to preserve the State (o the sation of their ron the dominant party age into the interior and a liberal distribution of money. They are made resp le tor political results. Bene in addition to their fixes the enormous opportuni ties for a, Deve Deek power throu; ac! owed oue-sxt polities! condition anc to thei b; min Congress. thes are cach th of all seizures, fines and penalties de- Fived trom goods attempted to be iinported in disregard of the duties imposed by law; whilst It ts true that tis jeature of the reyenue law is bot of recent introduction ; Yet it is equally true thatit has never before been car- Tied to the extem to which it has been under this administration, Botore the advent of General Grant to power, in no one year history of the during the governinent would the aggre: income of the vc lector of the Port of New York exceed $20,00) to $35,0: 4 year, including salary, and yet the importatio defrayed more than two-thirds ot the whole expenses of tLe government without any internal revenue what- ever, But now, napelled by avarice or partisan inter- €s18, scarcely ai importer of the city of New York bat what is subject 10 espionage, surveillance and oppression. Under the slightest pretext whole cargoes are sought to be couliscated, and. the greed of the inforiners aiid spies of the government, who act as the agents of the oilicials, appears to have no bounds, It is true the complicured ma- chinery created for the collection of the revenue aud ‘he crude tari! laws, and the many amendments conunually made to them by Congress appear w invite this course. Tne errors of hasty legislation and the crude manner in which we o that of colle revenue are radically detective and should be amended or repealed, or that the government has placed men to earninisiar those Jaws which are a disgrace to the counl- Ys wvit 0 TRRRIBLE cuted. It is well to under- stand that this question in no way involves the tariil, though it may emanate from it. [Vis tmmatertai tor the purposes ot its consideration whether tue duueson im- ports are high or low. The evils of which we complain are in the collecuon lawa and in their execuvon by officials and agents subordinate to the Treasury De- partment. Nor is it necessar make impuiations agains: any political p: In my experience I have found that’bad Law: men are evils ior which no party shouid be held responalbie. Ln saying this, how- ever, let me not be r aa iniending to Meve the present ad ation of its responsivility ior the shamerut increase ia the oppressive exactions made upon the merchants of New York since it has held te reins of power. The system of allowing moieties to informers and spies is not a new thing in country. It has existed as lous as the government itser, It was incorporated into the second Taruf act, enacted March 2, 1799, ater the organ\- ation of the governmeat, At that time there was yood vASwn for its adoption. We had no revenue cutter sys- tem, (hé inp hauscs wore Poorly organized au out au establs p Gollecilon of the « ol 8 W. Ly upou imports. The evi ty 4 3 Confined exclusively fo smuggling. TAP Was e only process at that ume sdopted by those who fought to defraud the government by the introducuou ot foreign goods Without the payment ot duty. undervaluation of invoices and the more moceen euce there was good reason for the allowance of a liberal perquisite to those who underwent the hazard and ex- perienced the danger aad difficulties. of seizing smug- led goods, The coast was wild, Custom House officials ut few in number, andthe goverment very properly took this means of indusing others to exercise a vigi- lance. by offering them & moiety of the seizures. This law, drawn by Alexander Hamilton, originated in this country the system of moieties which has existed ever since, “The sabs-quent laws of 1863 and 1367 have but agsravated the citficulty without aiding the revenuu The law of 1807 changed the moreties allowed and pr vided for the seizure ot sand papers. The histor) this law of 1567 is that one week betore the adjourunient ot Congress on the 4th of March. 1837, such a bili had not been introduced into ¢ither House.’ It made its first appearance in the Senate en the 25th of February, 1837, and was rushed through the House, asit passed the senate, ‘at midnight of Sunday, Match 3, ring moments, with two minutes’ debate. sy tis provisions of several preceding acts, intended for the protection of an hoxest Importer, were repealed, and most extraordinary powers conferred upon tie col: | lector and his subordinatesin the prosecution of import- ers, in the collection of fines and penalties, The couector is made the judge as to the inient of the importer in all although he is at the same time an inter- ested party in the contscaion of the goods alleged to ve undervalued. In order to tully understand how inno- cently any man is Hable tobe entrapped and ruined in reputation and ioriune by te Custom House process in New York, it is necessary t¢ ILLUSTRATE BY A IRPERENCE TO FACTS. A merchant is charged with @ violation of the law, as, for instance, that he has presented to the Custom House an invoice ‘stating the costot his goods at a less price than some other merchant, or his correspondent abroad may have omitted some of the usual or unusual charges, or there may be @ mistake in the addition or subtraction ot his invoice, or some irregularity or error of a clerk in — copying; or it may have been it the cost of his iner- chamdise may have been made under circumstances that enable him to what others had to pay, or taat he had, by superior abil and moueyed tacilities, obtained some other advanta: which enabled him to lay his goods down at the port of New York at a slight reduction under In either of these cases, however innocent intention to detraud, however truthfully his in- voice may state the as<tual cost, he is liable, his goods are conflacated, including ‘a whoie invoice, covering a Vast amount of other articles, to which & siinilar compiaint cannot be made, The whole feited to the government, and he is muicted In heavy liabilities and costs, and questions are the parties who have a large pecuuiary ici in Goan 50. Th ng th e another cuse, The informers, who get such a large proportion OF the péhalties and forfeitures, bribe a merchant's clerk to betray the secrets of bis books an papers, and, indeed, as has been alleged, to make him self errors in the Agcoutms, upon whieh eviden frauds are proved and the merch: under tear of moral, or, it however, the merchant, ¢ iniues to resist this outrag lie! o atlempt to com vi forms his counsel. He is Warned, however, that the Court itselt 1s made the judge of the intent. It issaid that recently the Judge of the Southern Dis- trict declared in relavion to cases pending tn that Court jor seizure that the government cases appeared to have coilapsed. Of all that were on the calendar only five or six have been tried. It seems that when a little squeez- 2 tor- of ant made to disgurge, se ber Requnlary. rain. If, lou: innoceuce, deter- d his conscience acquits | { it fraud, he seeks lega he is willing to test the case in court, aud so in- ing is brought upon the detendants in these cases they | disappear, What this “squeezing” is may well be imag- ined. An inteligent writer in one ot the leading papers ot New York thusreters to it He says that “che squeezing my be the handcuff process of Detective Jayne or the high morai pressure of District Attorney Bliss, whose finer intelectual principles would scarce stoop to the coarse process of the professional informer. Whatever it is, it has always proved effectual, as hundreds of plun- dered merchants could testify.” ‘THe COST IN THE COURTS. The Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a resolution or the House of Kepresentatives, has communicated the amount of money paid from Jaly i, 1862, to November 50, 1875, in the setticment of suits, judgments or clalins made by or in behalf or the United States tor the vio.ation of the revenue laws at the New York and Boston Custom Houses (Executive document No. 14) For New York he states it to be from March 1, 18%, to November 3), 1373, AI AE ud from July’ 1, 1562, to March 4,’ loud, 1,745,503 29, making a total of $3,755,512 75. Ot this sum. there was disiributed to the informers $1,835,765 26. The amount disiribuied irom March 1, i 1573, being a period of four y $957,152 49, while from July 1, 1962, to March 1, a eriod of six years and eight months, it was if ing proot of the superior activity of the present offi- Cials over their prececes:ors. Of these amounts the Col- i of the Port received $407,245 97; Naval Officer, $34.05 64; Surveyor, $391,213 61, leaving the remainder to the informers, most of wuich’ was received by B. G. Jayne, the special agent of the ‘Treasury Department. These sums do not include the interest which these oft- cials have in the Court. I have t cases pending in the United States u turnished by official statement of the custoins seizure cases on the calendar of that Court February 4, 1:74 They are twenty- nine in number, for about $10) in| smount, Which, together’ with a suit to’ recover $100,000, ¢'an aggregate ot about $20,000, of which these officers and the informers would be entitled to one-balt 1N Case the prosecutions be successful. I have reason to believe that since the agitation of this subject other suits, covering much larger suins, are in contemplation by the government otficers in New York. FOR Boston the Secretary gives # statement only from March 1, 1869, to December Sf, 1573, What his motive was for having included tor New York the amount for a period anterior to the 4th of March, 16), is not given. ‘This was all he Was asked for by the resolution of the House of Rep: sentatives. And why he should have gone back as tar a 1303 for New York and not tor Boston is also unknown. But bis statement ior Boston. in principle, is very much like that tor New york. His 1eportor fines, penalties and forfeitures trom March 1, 1509, to December 31, I for the port of Boston. shows tue whole amount received Was $60,401 23. of which $35,217 92 was divided outside ofthe Treasar: Ot this the Collector received $5).$16 49; Naval Officer, $50,187 74: Surveyor, $51,717 60—tius leaving $153,423 18 fo ‘the ‘informers most ‘ot which iound its Way. into the hands of the inevitable B. G. Jayne. Comment upon these facts, thus otfficiaily communicated, is unmeces- sary. ‘The enormous sums received by those who have been clothed with official authority by the Treasury Depart- Ment as spies and iniormers is proof of a detect in the Jaw as well as in its administration, Tt certainly cannot be necessary in this free government that 4 system 80 antagonistic to our institutions should exist. Where the | inducements are so great for men to prey upon each other jit is expect too much of them to be withneld by uny merely moral considerations. | Clothed with the power of the Government and incited by avarice, that class ot men Who may be called professional spies’ and iniormers are notrestrained by @ny considerations whatever. Thus the worst passions of bud men, for itis ouly such who would accept these positions, are made active in the pursuit of gain. No though? of the reputation of others, ho restraint of conscience and uo fear of consequences betray themselves, The enlightened governments ot | Europe have long since abandoned this mode of secar- ] ing revenue, whic Even Paris has discarded a practice become repulsive to Frenchmen. In these days of progress, intelligence and high moral e hasie Principles, this country, of all others, should ‘0 rid itself of evils Pubtic opinion ‘Will not Jon; Tt we cannot collect our reve- Dies and maintain the expenses of the government with- out resorting to practices which are darker. than any- thing Wiuch occurred duriny the days of the Spanish Jn- quisition, there niust be something radically wrong. We had better instivate Gespotism aconce, and give it unlim- ated authority over the lives aud property of the people. THE SANBORN CONTRACTS, When the General Aporopriation bill was before Com- gross, in the spring ), the houses disagreeing upon some’ of its provisions, appointed made to insert as an provision authorizing the ap- persons, but railed. eres we Assistant “ecretary of the Treasury—suc itadopted, ‘The bill becay 1872, In June of the same s ized an appropriat on of 3i0),W), cretion of the. secreiary of the and bringing to trial and punisument pe violating the internal revenue laws, and peo ae Won Was given tor the sumo purpose in the. regUIBE bill, Thus $15,000 was placed at ry, for detecting the disposal of the secretary, besides the power of making special arrangements with the three persons bow employed under the Sanborn contracts. These large opriated, and the power pobsible persons, it will yon ne 91 the bureau ior whe 4s te nue. in that office proper! * longed everything apper‘alning w this branen ot the public service; yet, for some mysterious opject, the head of that depurtinent was nut only deprived of all power, but ofall Knowledge of what was going on throu! secret agency. Under tl at rages have beep committed upon private tha suiue species of intimidation and oppression adop! ail Custom Monge officials and their spies and informers have been adopted, and large sums have been collected, one bali of which have gone into the pockets of these persons. Tt will thus be seen that the authority really conferred ry has beeu abused. The Jaw authorized hii to eimploy three persons to assist the he goverain hich ad hereto pre been @ fined to the tion and in consultation with the exis stead of which he conierred indepen par cent of the amount recovereJ, and giving them secret instructions outede or and ubkuown Ww even the administration and | the party im | The | Jt passed the House at | romise them ata slight reduction trom | | and general instability pervade me whole body ~ of | f the Judges to determine the | = bh this | out: Commissioner of Inte: oat upon the com f jpumidating banks, railroa: cha | Feast somethin | cormorants. wrsons cannot be known. | know, and, or course, Congress cannot know, Consider- | every goverment in seasons of war aud national ex- | ing haracwr of the men employed, directly amd ine | citement. The people. must theretore take affairs into | Uifectly the probabilities are that not one dollar in five | their own hands and if possible, resture to activity the of the amount recovered has ever found its way to the gappresesd ims by whieh the Treasury was replen- Treasury, But enough has already been reported which | ished trom she close of 1861 til the Treasury Depart- shows that these three ns have pocketed within | ment and Coagress suppressed and sealed the sources | three years at least $500, jece. The Commissioner of | trour ich dar abunJant revenues had come. Internal Revenue says that, in his iudgment, not one dol CORRECTING GARFIELD. | lar has been covered tnto the Treasury trom these sources | | After a review ot the fnanctal history of the country | that could not have been as well collected by the regu. from the openng of the war of the rebellion he said he lar officers ot his bureau, without any cost whatever so doing ; that be is alread, to have recovered every government, and, therefore, brought nothin, e, considerably hinderes agents in the Gischarge of taluly there must whic! has © so successiully been matttal isa secret influence somew say Who and what itis law clothed with absolute authority over every! orn, Kel munity. They ons right and lett, bailying, nts an! others, The innocent and guilty alike were brought before their ministerial power and le compromise, under fear of prosecution, and yield up at to swell the pockets o t amounts have been received by these ollar really ‘h could have originally officially crea’ Revenue himself, who is by | means p: ap- | leu rocks snd sources of supply accomplished their ‘object. th to | profit by their example ? nearly empty, ( achiner’ id factor br mn coaxing, threatening and companies, bankers, mer- the unempbyed engineer, Means, fa’ sour of sul ping of a at these Treasury wovernment fineed’ not Ks produced clothed with ample power longing to the Appropriation) 1s motionless, an appeals forcharity startle the people of al cities of the country and proclaim w work and removed - Tish ‘hat had mertcee a by which simple, nea our! nancial Teservolr is ry d4 of our sho dearest: ani widespre workil ple are enduring. And oui itestoeee” cae nani "ear ver any quicke! PLY, suggests no other remedy than the sto by the vermin who in 0 would here correct a error. into which ihe geutleman from Olio (Mr Garfield, chairman of the Comuittee on has falien, and which should not pass the great e terrible sufferings Xi “4 BOGUS CHARITIES. a Sentiments of the Religious Press on t Exposure of Charitable Frauds. -Thia week's tasue of the New York Observer, one of the leading Presbyterian papers of the United States, denounces in no stinted terms the frauds which have been perpetrated upon Christianity, Upon credulous donors and upon the deserving poor alike under the false pretence of charity. In its secular department it thus comments upon the newly established Bureau of Charities :— We gave last week a brief account of the meet- ing at the Cooper Institute, called to near tue re- port of the Committee or Nine, composing the Bu- reau of Charities. We now publisn their report in jull, and 1n doing 80 take occasion to say that they have already rendered service alike to all , that the creation of this au- | without correction. In the course of his able speechon | who give and all who have occasion to receive thority, outside and independent of him, has, while it | Thursday last he ( rileld) had presen tes | aid—a service lor which the whole community 1s in ‘that would not have otherwise | ment which seyms to have been prepared with sufficient | pjaced under great obligation to the gentlemen who 1d and embarrassed hisown | care to give t authenticity, It is as follows:—By | have voluntarily undertaken the task, We carnesti their official duties, Cer- | the act of B31 customs dutics were | hone that they Will go on with th re is have peen some imysterious power | repealed “amount of, , y | hope that they ie work, Tuere 1s ed these per- | the act of March 2 1867, customs ‘duties were | nO greater restraint upon the charitable contribu- sons or clothed them with such authority, and which has | further reducel by the aum ot $4,000,000. nt tsof | tious of those who have means to give than the ‘ning them ever since. There | February, Marh and July. 1868, customs duties were | fact that sbere are 30 many unwortuy recipients, here, and it is not for me to | still jurther reduced. by the sum of $63,000.00 By the | go many who obtain help by fraud w they do “sufficient for the day is the | act of July 1, 1870, the reduction was—on customs, not need it, Numbers of persons would be indu Fa eae ney asite | Souaonain “meant auernal revenue, $22 00; 10191 | 49 give hundreds ofdollars in charity where. they | and si orm our duties as edy ab . a jay Land June - SC 60 BOFIAERY OF od duction, as staed by the chairman of the Comuittee on | BOW give tens, If they could be assured that what character, Upon my motion the Committee of Ways and Means | have unanimously agreed section of the law to which I have referred, which au- | thorized the Secretary to make these appointments, | When that bilt is before the House for discussion, 1 shall have something more to say upon this subject, which I thout tear, though it may be some meubers of this House. shall say wi TUT IND In the Department sole control ot the Indian to be bamboozled by the some other sickly philanth! | the Lord and the aevil at th ‘moral suasion” dodge in | Finding the freedman as @ source of profit and philan- thropy no longer available, these people have essayed the poor \ tt | game peor ANG INR | that eminent soldier, Chri lected to do up the moral cratic Congress, because it is not at all eee the exhibit ot the Freedmet administration, we shall be cise cost in dollars and cents of the conversion of the In- dian to th this policy, and that the; reconelied by that proce’ that mode of Rolicy atid its alloged success ‘ Je rawn nor a troops in the well ag the Indian depredations whether the humanitarian money of the governinent ‘or ihe Interior # struggle for the President, a military commander, ui details of this effort at Christianizing the barbarians have not as yet been furnished. This must be le farsand satvadon’ We d | dollars ant vation, lo tt {aFiancad his contreres Were. eepecial favorites with ' ‘are vouched for as havin; ‘and as examples of the © treatment. to report a bill to repeal that of the fiscal year 1366, Sir, ut aaa ee atte which came i La: fhe country sare than force of stateful to EACK HUMBUG. question is manifested. The as is Dow takng p! has allowe* himself treating with the Indians. | try, butall the dependent forrevena ack ot June 13 1366 Maron, Soy ots for eleven Cepremeer & tornado, and Ly direct and palpable as to have excluded. the de had of leg head ot that department and | rency adequaie to the legitimate wants of the country. ropists, who desire to serve | As to the caase of the recent crisis, it would not only e same time by affecting the | have closed all the factories and workshops of the coun- customs houses also, tor it would have abolished the tarift system of the ‘country and lott Oe ne internal taxes alone. months last, year—o ‘on internal revenue, $17,695,156; aking & total reduction, since t! of $39,827,290, e close the, com x sine 1 Hnangjal cras! a ‘tte ‘ortaken. four years axo. It would have causes 80 bate such lace between the friends of contrac- Hon and those who desire to maintain a volume ot cur- they give would be judiciously administered and honestly received, This 18 the very work which this bureau has undertaken. It is sifting out the ov from among the charitable institutions, and sifting out the fraudulent recipients of charity. 1s Toate caus abe only ior tio reli of the, descry- must be done not only tor le ing poor, but ag fundamental to the political, morat and religious wellare of society. In its religious department it speaks of so-called Christian societies which are simply swindling conspiracies, + It says :— Some disappointns nt was felt when the great meeting to consider the city charities separated itke purposes, 50 the Peace March, 1867, February, March and ; as publicly stated be.ore the meet- and Gehetal’ . Howard, daly 1868, are said to Been eee led. duties ‘sufticient to ed Reigate i Yate societies which jan and statesman, was se- | yicl id $17. 000.00 per Sanum, and those of July 14, 187 | are imposiiig igh ¢ tomtngn ity would be exposed, asion business. The @nancial | and May 1 and July 2, have added to the repeat Fac b @ Socimnant Roving that stad? others which. rielded $99,00,000. To show the grossne: a Eas Wea. Os ftto a demo- | of this error I point to the fact that we derived trom cus- | nominally Christian societies are simply Cees, that aiter | toms 179,046, | ; im 1867, $176.417,810 conspiracies, Their names should be mentiones n’s Bureau, un the same | 1868, $164,464,50 36. If, as the gentleman says, we hi by authority, with the evidence of their duplicity, allowed to look into the pre- | those three ware repealed duti enough to yield t they may be avoided, if their managers can- $173,000, wt Would have remained of our customs t be bi ‘ tice. ‘fhe bureau bas taken to iow (he repaid doth im | system? We would then ; DOL be bpoughs bo Justis, ode of ry howevér, that Ca HAVE HAD FREE TRADE legal counsel as to the safest and surest mode ol in ahigher degree than ver been practised bya | making these exposures, and in due time we shall commercial najion, and its : ee icacy | only widespreal be observed Tt may The Would have been not 1 bankruptcy, but widespread anarchy. ‘entleman’s figures may not be correct. I know hear from them. ‘ { preliminary operations Mr. the report 0! pabvevels tatd:—"'Some societies” have. beett wever, that notwithstanding the cost of the peace } that the act ot me 14én of July, 1870, did repeal $55,000,000 - pateg anki gine Mot a reyiment was with: | ol customs dutiga and those of 1972 $i,00,000, but those | Drought to Our Loyoe udworthy of support, con- Bot ‘abandoned that was occupied by our | repeaied tn 180 were chiefly duties on raw ma- | ducted for the purpose of putting money in the ndian country before it took place. The | terial enter: our food and manutac- | pockets of those wao asxed fof itin the name of cost of the army jor that purpose is on the increase ay | tures, and — whic! mpeted in our mar | charity, These it will be our duty to expose.” themselves, Iidoupt | Kets, with nc Americ productions, | Thereiore. | ‘There are dimiculties in the WAY of makin such system of dealing with war- | while they relivved the people of taxation, they did not We had some expensive ex- like trives who are filled with the whiskey which the | impair the prowction to our labor afforded by our tariff | ¢Xposures. We nave had e exp A gives them, and armed with | laws, as did the ten per cent reduction of 1872. The pre- | perience in the line of fidelity to the public, au them, can produce the truits | yious repeals were not of customs, but of internal taxes. | that experience has led to some caution. We may the rifles kindiy ‘urnished of peace and loveliness. been made than ever. to the walks of civil lite the Lase instincts and his love o! It is true that money may have They lightened the burdens of our people, and in some have good reason to believe that the “New by this mode of treaument, although | degree compemated toe producing classes of the countr: ” s | they appear to. “be more bloodthirsty and” belligerent | for the contracton of the curreney, which was compol- | {STK Saboach Mission School Agency’ is a See: The nearer the Indian appromurates | Hing them to borrow capital, to sell on credit, to pay in- re Hr i more clearly is developed his | ordinate rates of interest upon the capital they bor- | 1t8 only the prolidc brain and f all that ts Odious in our own | rowed; and 1 take occasion to remark here and | heart of “Rey. omas Chest’em, Secre- It is only in his wild barbaric state that he | now that the repeal of these internal taxes did | tury,’ and his collectors, But it may be characters. | is noble, Take him from hi: becomes the most miserabl all the vices and without any o} er my views upon this question are cor- rect or not, it is quite certain thatthe policy of the gov- man. But wheth ernment with reterence to expensive, ineMcient and p: | quences. "stim art give them all # day’ enumeration. To that tion and paralysis of trade. CONCLUSION, I have thus briefly presented some of the errors for which the republican party is res; ministration it has created may be charge evils of the times as well as the genera! the nation erroneous and pernicious ideas of the nature of our government and taught the rising # native fastnesses, and he Ae specimen ot a loafer, with P the virtues of the white | ployers to nay higher rate ave done had these ta: enabled the people, both ca sume more freely of taxable they otherwise Yould have the Indians has been alike roductive of the worst conse- repeal, RoRRE Le. Were Ito e would be consumed in the ry and the Congress and ad- d all the public private destitu- ditfused throughout time elaborate the point. Tt has 4 the receipts of eneraiion that | between 1 not essentially diminish the revenues of the country. ‘dhe repeal stimulated its industries. They enabled em- 3 of wages than they could been maintained, and thus 4 laborers, to con- able goods than The repeal of these acts thus more tian compensated the current revenues for the apparentloss they were to sustain by the direct ut as this is @ divergence from the thought and illustration I am pursuing, | will not at this an and duti done. PICTURES ON ParER, Mr. Kelley proceeded to illustrate the progress in weaith and population made by the country since the government issued its first pape: line of r money, and stated that pe | RCrSRAmaHIE GUriNg the Glover WeRes, 873, inclusive, were $3,628, be- very diMicuit for us to prove the tact if we state i and whether we could or not, we could not stan @ trial ior a libel, 1f the swindler should bring an action, without being subjected to nundreds, per- haps thousands, of dollars in expenses, even if we escaped conviction, But there can be no doubt that the association bow formed for consolidating the action of city charities owes it to the public to be faitbiul as a “clearing house,” and reject from the list of re- sponsible institutions ail those whose Management is jiabie to suspicion. The care of the poor, the support of various objects of Christian benevolence, are enough for the ability of the people without the additional burden of these bogus charities, 3,010,000, extravagance and not economy is the road to wealth and ing twice as much had been received in the pre- | WhOse Managers are the most despicabie of ali the | happiness. It has depreciated public morals, and taught | ceding seventy-two years, and that for the four | swindlers not yet in the Penitentiary. hianthropy, Christianity and tem- } years of 1868, B67, “1868,' 1809, the sate in- | Wehave the history of some of them, and it | that by a pretext of P | perance, the greates publi @ sound principle of produc! Everything is artificial and in property. ‘e have neither permanency nor safety. 633,404 con The earnings of a life of probity and purity offer no | sider and digest these facts. They were worth all the security as against the avarice of the officials it has | dogmas of sophists and doctrinaires that had laced in office. To satisfy its thirst for gain and to con- | ever been ico eke and demonstrate the | tinue its partisan dominancy all men and all things | wicked absurdity ¢f those who accused the government must fall. if necessary, the great leading object being | of main’ ming 4 forced loan, and characterized | power and plunder.’ These two worgs comprise the | the currency as lying and fraudulent. In conclusion, he Motto on its banner under which it fig! and receive condonement in consequence. By tts policy our great national resources have not been developed on EXTRAVAGANCE, PROFLIGACY, DEMORALIZATION i¢ crimes could be committed | come of the mvernment than the total ium _ tha’ tion. the foundation of the polith hus Ic. From the oganiaat Nothing is stable ion uncertain. and by which the specie basis system ot currenc; free trade which lad prevailed wi 6 government 293,545 66; durin; 18 1 404,709 05. Be rusted anat gentlemen would said :—Gentiemen who are ever read was not $21, less has been collected under ‘and the operation of brief intervals trom stood 1809, The account of the government to a to ignore facts would gratify our sense of justice to put their’ Fecord dn the | co!umns of the New York Observer. Men who make a thriving trade of charity and religion, while the ‘‘misstons” they pretend to rep- resent are simply fictitious, are similarly scourged in the following paragraph from the Examiner and Chronicle, the prominent Baptist paper :— New York has great reason to be proud of maa religious cuarities. There is probably not a city in the world where more is contrivuted for the cause } itexpects, to maintain power, which cannot be reconciled with the theories they have | 0 sudfering humanity than in our city. The rich | arts O1fC ‘ouahons AGAIRST THR GOVERNMENT. inherited e&v gay this ‘wealth preah tyst i was | and the poor are abundantly cared jor. It is very. ++ Th cofclusion I present a series of allegations imptie Bae uet at it will melt-awé) fon out cirency is | populgr to be connected with tue 10) dois, ing this party. 1 defy contradiction, as to the AGGUFACy | brought dawn io the “hatdpan’’ of s And Yen who wil doftribdes Hothlug tS support and trut ut every one Oo! anh 01 0 tae Marvellous growth o! Fir: A the government of its creation ithas | of tae gountty io New York Philadel nas rae puseiaHons ar renga Will geeeu erally: aoe | maintained a free sanding army at greatexpense dur- | lyn, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore and st yu enevolence wale: gles ¢! ‘y hes ing a time of peace. point ie myri of beautiful towns | Wacts and sermons, Tle attention of the benevo- Second—It has issued and continued a depreciated, irre- | and thrivisg cities that have sprung up | lent has been called recently to the great waste deemabie paper currency calied legal tenders, without | in every part of our country, of funds in these voluntary associations—those taking one step toward rede: Third—{t has usurped by several States, producing sons in 1860 to 86,660 whicn, untl its advent to p this country since the close Seventh—It has stealthily upon its will. te industries are oppre: ing through our streets. Eleventh—It has interest of a class, to the de’ th—It has, since 1869, Br the government were dis! Dow exhausted. expenses of a ‘ourteenth— vert publi service reform, which it, had, but ignores elsewhere reward for office is requires Fifteenth—\i has ditfused e ANOTHER ATTACK ON TH of the Treasury an fot, sate about the | had’ that repudiation of their moneyed obli onrth—=It has increased the Cty a ersons ma U37 Fifuh—{t bas instituved a system of sentonage. and op- pression in the execution of the revenue | resulted in enriching Custom House and other officials without aiding the public Treasury. Sixth—It has created and maintained direct taxation | mental power of the country at the federal capital. until ail State interests are made subservient and dependent #ighth—It has driven trom circulation gold and silver, Tenth—it has increased the salaries of all officials, in- cluding that of the President, which it still maintains, maintained a not due for twenty years, and paid rivilege of doing so, although the immedi Lhirteenth—It has inaugurated a fatal policy in its treat- ment of the Indians—part peace and part war—by dealin; out moral suasion to the most warlike and certain deatl to the most peaceful, thus adding to the difficulties and Foret, settlement of this serious question. 0 of the profligacy and extravagance of its horde of | officials it pretends the establighment of a rule of civil clerks in Washington, where there are no votes to be of onr government to the youthful and uninformed, and taught by example ageneral looseness of public and pri- vate morality which tends to subvert the permanancy of our institutions and loosens the toundation stones of social order and public well being. Mr, Beck, (dem.) of Ky. another member of the Ways and Means Comittee, criticised the course of the Secre- 4 ridiculed him for the panic he ina) ere Was no occasion for that panic, and he had no itation in avowing that he would never yote, in the mption. ej force the State authority in anarchy and despotism and Tist rom 44,500 per- been reared and endowed ower, has been unknown in of the American Revolution. absorbed the whole govern. pee vare repenads ~ | any additional taxation. ssed and poverty gues starv. o 1 ho anhevent proteottve tariff in the triment of the whole people. anticipated the pubite debt $40, i htor dat obligations honored and the Treasury is heir expenditure: made & lic attention trom the extent appiies altogether to atew | point. 9 meet current expenses did where party services as a ig aiid to the current revenue public librari since 1360. iM one port y the further contraction of our currency the buildings, the roads, tbe workshops and the fields may be trans ferred from the men of energy, who have owned or cultivated them, by the process of sherifls’ or marshals’ sales to the men whom we have invested with the power of making the money of the country and of con- | racting it when they feel ‘that it will be well to sell in | that I hope it will reimpose none of the war taxes ‘there is no necessity tor Embarrassed as we are, such ower and the resources ot the American people that welr current revenues will not only meet but will, betore the year closés, have generous contribution to the staking fund, and should Congress in its wisdom detern RESTORE TO CIRCULATION THE BALANCE OF THE FORTY-FOUR ine to MILLIONS RESERVE Now held by the Treasury. and to release the greenbacks now held as reserve by the banks, our industries will be | so far reanimated as to enable us to begin at the next session, or the first session of the Forty-iourth Congress, | to reduce the internal taxes which now burden with Such grievous discrimination the grain flelds of the | West and the tobacco tlelds of the South and among the | People ‘ot the whole country, by Inade through the stamp system. “The history of the past | eleven years precludes the possibility of doubt on this | ‘Nor, sit, would consent to itseem to be necessal would retuse to make @ T point to the pny: tutions of learning, ¢ es, ce and temples of worship, which havé T point to the railroads connectitg States and cities and oceans with each other, and leaving the products of our workshon: our fields, our mines and our fisheries of the peity exactions borrow a dollar to | that have no church at their back and no responsi- bile board to control expenditures, It well Known that there are men in the city who have made for years a confortable living for themselves and faznilies out of contributions made for mission | the country to the other, andes eur seaports forexpor- | wor! avs which tias | tations to, all” parts’ “ot “ille” World, and ase | wipes ate piccreeeeren re ar aie a rpms ig got Dh ec. Gh ME TER | Prominent liberal Christian men have warned the ‘oria. They are sabstantial and enduring. But | public recently, torough the columns of the secu- lar press, agaist parties who by personal solicita- tion and by circular are soliciting funds for so- called missionary work that is clearly bogas, Prominent ministers of the city have held meet- ings for the purpose of erecting a barrier to this Toss iraud and imposition. The attention of the | the only constitutional medium, and notwithstanding its | order that they may buy in again when they shailhave | Legisiuture hus been calied to the subject, and it Jarge receipts in coin from customs duties and mines | produced the next financial crisis. But thisis not the | jg probable that all the charities of New York, docs nothing toward its restoration. | ime to discuss the question of | banking. be | State, county, denominational and personal, will Niuh=tin “dlerexard of the policy adopted by other | bill, before, the House is a revenue il a ill | nove’ thorough overhaulin | Yeading ‘nations, it has permftted the export to foreign | Proposing to. repeal taxes, and 1 have | alread fs > | countries ‘or abéut $1101.08) of the precious metals, | said that in the peculiar condition of our country f tun! instead of retaining It here for its necessities and the | it Would be injudicious to give it the effect of law. a Featoration of a sound currency. Tope the Houge will reject fy buvin saying. this let me MASKED MEN. Light Thrown on the Mysterious Hank Robbery at Last—An Luteresting State- ment. The police are at last convinced that a robbery did really take place at the jewelry store of Adolph | Hank, No, 327 Ninth avenue, on the night of the 10th of January. Mr. Hank, in reporting the case at the time, said that ow the eveuing in question two men called upon him and represented that they were detectives. They wanted to see himin relerence to two watches that had been stolen irom him on Christmas Day. He invited them into | @room behind the shop, and they were no sooner rroneous ideas of the nature | pan ie pane pathos or \ 5 Ener ad ‘ei siromeied in the place than one of them struck him on the f | the burdens borne peo vile | refuse to" give then ae Peedat we oe head with a piece of lead pipe and knocked him change by which the laborer ma} em- oy ° ang rea Dat eemiibets: | down, The other then set about binding and ~ TREASURY DEPARTMENT. The loan f would nees, He (Mr. Beck) thought them on call, and tween the rate tor call present condition of things, either to Increase taxation or ; to add to the interest-beariag debt of the country. The and mortgage or iong | Secretary had seen fit, in palpable violation of fuw, to | $500,0W.00 can be had iu a issue $5.00,00 of the $: 000, which he fuce- of 30 | tiously called a “reserve. (Mr, Beck) —in- 3, | tended to insist that that act should be legalized, e Would not hide the fact that the Issue was illegal: but h It was no wonder, howevel the | United States was seen to tal the throat and by traudu tained from drunken judge: neck of that people. He qu had never put security. Mr. Brox. that house danger. plese security. Mr, Becn—W! the Treasury over $5,000,0u0 in @ dangerous piace, an house of the Bar, frotn the foundation ‘of the Was no longer sa: svfe, and that was paler, their bond for years atter Bi have been sued now, bec is Pefiter a discussion with M the reduction of taxes, Mr. mous fees paid to Custom and Boston, and stated that Navai Officer of New York, boxes, had received, since tl ny with tue tik about an | hie currency could nol be | ernment collected taxes 461,009,000, aud which, by jatues in currency, backs in twelve inonths | and stated ut committee (Mr. Dawes) ti | abolish the duties on maton, | garded such propositions revenue from those sources he agre but = from for (Mr, the the the Kell taxes; Mr. Dawes Treasury he He — illustrated Treasury by the | one by one, the sources of | was thought by a skilrw | tailare of the supply of ¢ ot @ Fes su People, however, discover ecutive Department, when the President of the ment in reference to the deposit ot the Naval Fund with the house of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & O; and to the taking of a lot of railroad Mr. HAL#, (rep.) of Me. remarked the money for the pay of the navy had been lost, orin danger ot pen and that the Secretary of the Navy the money anywhere without the amplest ‘Was not railroad iron taken as security trom Mr. Ha.e—Never on account of any apprehension of | Mr. Beck—Was it taken atallt Mr. Haur—I do not know tary of the Navy never deposits mouey without the am- ‘Does the gentleman complain that the cretary did take security? hat 1 do.coxplain of is that he drew out of have warrant tor saying that the government money was taken by this Cen a pers awa, who h political partisans, such as I es nd where it was known not to | tools of the government. These very men—Henry Clews and George Opdyke—were the the defauiting Collector, and were never sued on ‘was to control primary conventions and stuff ballot ower, more thav would pay the whole Senate ol the United States tora year and a hall. id absorb every dollar of green- d with the chairman of that his opposition to the bills to lected, and cost the government a smaller percentage than any other equal amount derived trom internal | present ter WAS Bp ye aw Lo) grade parents of the reservoir, sl, gested was the st o and the destruction ot the vermin. ile Nisiple winded see, is again r, to find insubordination in | | by buying up greenba ike the State.of Louisiana by lent opinions previously ob- S$ put the federal root on the joted trom the Tribune a state- in London, iron as security. 4 that nota dollar of will throw no workmen would the suspension of buildings. It will leay in each of our great cities, ple. Mr. Borowarn, (rep.) of Lil Committee on Ways and but I know that the Secre- | upon the necessity of maintal | lowest sum to which nd $251,00),000 as the fiscal year, there would of his $6,250,000, and put it | be a d that he has had to take | | security trom ms that were supposed to be | crease. Importations tor th | insolvent and which the creditors of these firms are now | largely in excess of the ave | asking for, I have warrant for saying that the firm | balance of trade had been a | of Jay Cooke. McCalloch & Co. was belicved to be in tail- | one, for, ten years. | During | ing circumstances for weeks after September last, and I | | | foveroment fe t, and given to onry Clews & re ii done because they were Dawes’ specitic measures of official securities for tor 1873 were only $1,079,743 ailev's flight, if, indeed. they | tions, while inl ause they were government r. Garfield on the question of Heck reterred to the enor. | House ofticials in New York | paying pensions would not Proposed consolidation of, n ; 16, 000, the Collector, Surveyor and | $000,000.00 of six per cent bonis w whose principal business it | due. The sinking ‘fund required ments, The national faith required th his administration came into | the amount of the sinking rninent, tn mal pledge. economy, an He had no sympa: | rredeemabie paper curren irredeemaple while the gov. averaging for some years | ti taking payment of its own able rate the go fuinl every ni quarter to hve P, M., adjour The merchants would have men on the Sth inst. esand bank checks, He re- as Injudicious, because the Was easily and taithtuliy col- ceased, remedies suggested by embarrassment’ of — the ey) eannestiy dissented. condition of the servoir of water {rom which, upply had been out off, and it eer that the cause of the number of leaks ef. Licences granted, 2¢ he wim; i the al the Re big anwar’ 15a | 929,070 aug the jpaurance ployed and earn, tis dauly e revenues of the goverment by his expenditures, ceeded the exports, including com, by $426,251,099. 450,000,000, and during | vy . He | been $! notes Wus not paying the debt. OITY MARSHA. The following is the business transacted at this office during the week ending March 7, 1874: amount received, $391 50. make Would be in the direction of economy. It would be to borrow temporarily such iunds as our own people may be able to lend the governmen| on the condition that their money should be poate a it was received on this consideration. | I would make the distinction in the rate of terest that is now made bee loans and loans on bond in” consideration ote. From $30,000,000 few momths at SUPPLYING ENGLAND WITH GOLD Were he required to accept foans on such terms as Jindicate be might reduce the interest account by calling six per cent gold bonds and | paying for them at par. Tois process myolves an econ- | omy greater than any or all of those proposed by the distmgulshed gentleman trom Massachusetts (Mr. Dawes), the chairman of the Committee on Ways aud Means. It as public no unfinished buildings standing 4 mouument of our incom- out of ‘employment, work upon our potency to manage the aliairs of this great and expand | ing country, but will give us a full Jreasury, ampiy re- plenished by the tree contributions of a prosperous peo- MAINTAIN PUDLIC CREDIT. , another member of the Means, addressed the uae le argued that, accepting the estimates of the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of $270,.0),00) as the expenses could Tobable receipts, for the present the revente for tuiure years could not be expected to in taree years had Deon ‘the verse tor every year but That thine the imports ex. he ining the public credit. deficit of $18,000,000. age ot former yeara. irom the old | the it fiscal year they were $042,000.00. d served the country well | argued that they must tall off; for’ they were more than $200,00,000 in excess of the averave exports, and that the customs revenues were not likely to increase. He argued that if the expenditures cannot be reduced further new taxes must e imposed. economy woul on lp the avy yards sur ould In fund year To relund ata rea ust maintain its credit ‘There was no resou d even then possibly tax on. At the close of Mr. Barchard’s speech the House, ata MUNICIPAL DOINGS. Mayor Havemeyer has signed the warrant of Thomas McCormack as City Marshal, his nomina- tion having been confirmed by the Board of Alder- Mr. McCormack takes the place of his brother, Nicholas McUormack, de- | been gid o: it, but the bondholuers aemurred, the pro- | tected monopoliste demurred. If Congress would abolish the national banks ant make banklug tree, or, better — | aul use the governinent currency, it would ali come | | right: } s ANOTHER VikW OF THE TROUDLE. | Mr. Kevtey, (rep.) of Pa., another member of the Com- | mittee on sand Metns, next addressed the House, | L'8 OFFICE. U8 REPORT, palin ebansisbcrn Scsse ate FIRE MABSHA! Fire Marshal Sheldon reports eighteen fires for , upon which the estimated is ast week, Updo’ g198.000, loss 1 vw ne low rate 10) in paper with which gold bonds bearing six per cent interest may be bought in open market or called yy the Secretary of the Treasury, who, 1 am sorry to reduced, Mr, not meet the defici The expenditures tor collecting the customs $042,136,210 of importa. 0 they Were $6,287,137 on an importa. tion of $45,958,403. The proposed change in the method of and the save but | The government has to meet current expendi. | ures and a maturing indebtedness, ssuing new | Gagging him, and while this was going on turee others entered the shop, and all five ransacked the place. When Mr. Hanks was able to disengage himself trom the cords he raised an alarm, but ‘the assistance he obtained was unavailable, for the thieves had fled. Since then Captain McElwaiue, ofthe Twentieth precinct, has been hunting the robbers. He has arrested nearly all the members | of the several! gangs of thieves that infest the up-~ town districts, No conclusive evidence could be procured against any of them, and each was in turn discharged. Finaily a hack driver named | Patrick J, Failen, alias the “Duke.” got mixed up im the matter, aud aiter a week’s imprisonment he | Made the Jollowing statement of his movements on the night of the robvery :— On the night of January 91 was owner of the coupe No. 420; 1 was sober thatevening. Between seven and | eight o'clock I went up to Boshvtt’s lager beer saloot No, 209 West Forty-tirst street, and had a cigar, “Johnny” Gaivin was not there, Alter 1 got the cigar 1 went ote | side, and was followed by “Eddy” McGino, who got im | the ‘coupe. He told me todrive to Forty-second street and Tenth avenue, where he got outand entered t | Hquor store on the northeast corner, remaining thei | three or four minutes. He again got into the coupe and told me to drive w “Patsey” Johnston's, in Sixtis {avenuc, I drove up to Ninth avenue, through Ninth “avenue to. Thirty-third — street, Sixth aventie, And stopped in front of Johnston's. McGinn and myself entered Jahuston’s, where we met Galv! with three or tour others whom'T did not know. We alk had a drink, after wluch we remained there untti about | hail-past eight or a quarter to nine P.M. McGinn told me to drive to Thirty-first street, near Broadway, which Idid. MeUinn, Galvin and the others entered the cou at that place, and told me to drive to Twenty-seventh | streer and Muth avenue. As I was crossing Thirtieth street and Ninth avenue they told me to drive down to Twenty-ninth street, between Ninth and Tenth aven where’ they alt got out on the right hand side, and tol me to drive up between Kighth and Ninth nues and | wait tor them, which I did. 1 remained there about halt | an hour, and’ the first one that came back wid me to drive to ‘the corner of Twenty-nintn street ana Lighth | avenue, they came back one at @ time, and ail en- tered the coupe except Galvin, who got up on the seat with me, ane me’ to drive quick. £ drove through 'Twenty-ninth street to Sixth avenue, below Jefferson Market, to a lager beer saloon near Eighth street. We all went into the saloon and ha drink. Mcuinn gave me $5 and promised me $5 apiece. L thought lt strange that they should give me so muck Ta! left them in the saloon and drove to Nivio’s, | where I got a cail to Twenty-seventh street, between | Sixth and seventh avennes. On the uext evening I met ® | Galvin and Medina. | They, told, me, there was nothing | new. 1 thought by that that they had not yet divide | the swag. . They told me to go dowi next night (Sunday) ’ | to Ryan's liquor store, in Wooster, near Bleecker strest. | T called there and ‘received $10 trom the vartender, | which he said Galvin had jeftfor me. | 1 make this state- ent without aby promise of favor. I also believe thac will have to leave the city, as f consider my lite in trom the gang to which these men belong. Lil PATRIUK J. FALLEN. Fallen is now in the Honse of Detention await- | ing the result of the investigation, He will be used as a Witness against the thieves when they are discovered. SEVENTH REGIMENT REVIEW. The inspection and review of the Seventh regi- ment by Inspector General Morris will take place at the Union square plaza at eight o'clock om ‘Tuesday evening next. in case he weather Vd | unfavorable the inspection will be at the regl- mental armory. A LECTURE TO LADIES, On Monday afternoon, at three, # lecture will be Oelivered by Mrs. Walter 0. Lyman, on the circa. flustrated by stereoptican Laon Of ene cure ‘wi bo delivered exclusively