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Show THE SANBORN CONTRACTS. New York, '2. Tho Tribune thin morning, publishes five columns showing the alleged history of tho Sanborn contracts, which it calls the biggest conspiracy uf tho age. It al-leiic-j that the conspiracy involves George tf. Boutwell, W. ti. C. Ban-field, Ban-field, . A. ltichardsoii and Fred. A. Sawyer, uf the Treasury department; depart-ment; Gen. B. F. Bube,' John K. dauburn, and Geo. K. Bliss, jr., U. S. district attorney fortius district. It is shown that the whole scheme planned year; ago; that a special law was smuggled through 'ungrcss to cover the swindle, and that to carry car-ry it out the whole force of supervisors supervi-sors and collectors ol internal revenue and U. S. courts machinery have been used by Sauliorn and his confederates. con-federates. Tho special act was attached at-tached to the Legislative, K.xecutivo and Judicial appropriation bill of 1872 as an amentiinent iu the Senate, being introduced by Senator Sa'vyer and hurried through the House by ButU i', although Varnsworth, of Illinois, Il-linois, denounced it as a corrupt measure, contemplating great frauds on the revenue. It authorized tho employment of three persons to assist as-sist the revenue officials in discovering discover-ing and collecting taxes due the government. gov-ernment. J. U. Sanborn, John Clarke and Malcom Campbell were employ cti, but Sanborn soon got a monopoly of the business, and instead in-stead of assisting the revenue officer to discover the tuxes due, Sanborn soon began usincr the revenue oificcrs to assitt him and this was done under an order from Boutwell in his own handwriting. This rctnarkablo ' letter, which places all the assessors' ' on a collect: rj' bocks in tho country at Saul "tii's disposal wan written |