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Show MARSHALS ADD D-SPOTIES. The abuses of power and tho law, by United States marshals in the matter of fees has resulted in the committee com-mittee of expenditures in the department depart-ment of juatico fixing tho compensation compensa-tion of these officials and their doputica. Tho limit of the marshal's salary has been reduced from $6,000 to 5,000, and that of hia chief deputy is not to exceed $2,500 per auoum, while other deputies are to receive Jo a day while actually employed, their annual compensation not to exceed $1,500 ayear. An important clause in the commitlee'ci bill reads: Any marshal who shall procure from his deputy a receipt fur a larger amount than Lo pays said deputy, or shall receive re-ceive from a deputy a receipt in blunt, find shall till the same alterwurH. ., uti ti sum larger llian he in foot pays such deputy, and tiles said receipt and procure, pro-cure, a credit for Joe same in tho settlement settle-ment of hi3 Account with tho proper authorities of the United falatos, shall ba lifiia to indictment therefor, and upon . conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less thtin 100, nor more than 81,000, or confined at hard labor for the period of not I era than one nor more than live yours, or both fined and imprisoned at hard labor, in the discretion of the 1 court. Combinations of tnis character be tween the principal and subordinates were frequently made. At one time" it became notorious that auch was tho rule and not the exception in the marshal's office of this territory. It even went beyond the marshal and i deputies, extending to witnesses, guards and the furnishers of supplies, who were required to sign vouchers for larger sums than their legitimate ' bills called for. Not a few of these Bame ouchers remain uopaid, and it is exceedingly doubtful if tbey t will ever be taken up. The new bill proposes to hold marshals to the in - ) tent aa well aa the spirit of the law. ( If that official takes from bia deputy a receipt fur more than he pays, and tiles it with his eni'tlum'.nt account, lit becomes guilty of a penal offense and makes himself liable to fine and imprisonment. The necessity for the ' new law was made apparent by the manner in which the affaira of mar- - ahal'a offices have been administered. It is a fact that some of tho moat corrupt cor-rupt men in the government service were marshals, and their stealings steal-ings have cost the country e-oimously. e-oimously. Fast local experience haB demonstrated this in a Bmall way, but while certain of the Utah marshals mar-shals have not been over-scrupulous in regard to making up their accounts, ac-counts, those of othtir district have developed into gross and bare-faced thieves. By presidential pardon a Colorado marshal has recently escaped from the penitentiary, where he has been serving his country as a convict ed thief. Toe marshal for the western district of Arkansas cost the treasury $.325,000 a year for one district. It is also stated that during the year 1S7G, the marshals were piid by government govern-ment the euormous aura ot $2, OGO,C0X This did not include the vast amount collected by these individuals, in the shape of fees legitimate and otherwise from litigants. In dia:ussing the bill Representative Hanna ot Indiana tated the case of many marshals, like this: ' An execution comes into bis hands for the sale uf a railroad or eoine other laro amount of property. In buci ewes wu soruotimes find that, histoml of soiling the properly as marshal, he is appointed a commi-sioner to pell, rul the feoi wnich he makes b such ooinmisjioncr do not enter into hia emolum.n", acomats. Tnia ought to be remedied by a lw prohibiting prohibit-ing it; ard tho fault is with us unless pail such a law. The judge Das thf power to allow it for th rtia'on that no exiting law p-ohih:ts iL Again, the comes before the jud?8 a cas involving mailers of detail, which he does Et caro lo incur the Uhor of examining, tie refers iho cas to whom? To tho clerk as mailer. 1 approheod that tho com-iiiitled, com-iiiitled, if thoy have been diligent in their investigation., bttvo aaceruin-'J that large sums ihuf find their way i tbe pocLots of the clerk for alleged service as master. Now I submit th it there ought W bo a law ab-V.ut.Iy prohibiting pro-hibiting any clerk, marshnl, or di-lr el alton oy serving as coinmiwioner or muter, and thus indirectly making fr-ar which he i not required lo account fin ia his emolument account. In othjr word, bruak up the 'ling-' The law might with season go further, and make it obligatory open the judges to examine the accounts before they approve them, and hold them criminal.) liible for approving account f.il wa. fraudulent. |