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Show THE HOWARC DEFALCATIONS. ! Chicago Z, Tho Times Washington Washing-ton special says the letter of the Secretary Sec-retary of War, arrainging General Howard, late, commissioner of the Frcc'lmen's 'Bureau for fraud nnd malfeaoiuico iu office, together with voluminous official documents hearing hear-ing on the case were submitted lo Congress to-day. The total amount of money missing is f J7Js,0ou, some of which the w;ir department thinks c;ui be recovered by units aainr-l tbe Howard chi.rch and the Young Men's Christian Association here, who have received conio of the money. The official investigation of the adjutant general's office shows that most of the money taken belongs to the colored col-ored bounty funda and that the claimants claim-ants neither got the money nor can Howard produce a vouchor. His only defense srent.s to be that tho go-.tiumeut could not hold him responsible res-ponsible for money sifter it passed into his lu.nds, and ho selecting a di.-biirsing agent utterly unknown to . the law to stand between him and the sottlcmcnts at the Treasury. Howard's papers are in such endless confuoion that the government can only -toll Jiow much money it has lost by tho amount appropriated. How-ard is to bo prosecuted civily, criminally and by court martial, under the Infill article of war. |