Show r er JI TURN THEM OUT ul 5 y the a few days since gave an account of the robbery of in tho sub treasury in new orleans it appears from inthe S S aa ih aa this was only a small item of abe lings which somo body baa got away with in the state of louisiana where the federal offices have been under tho control of the republican party in the united states sub treasury T P VV who were the first two holders 0 this office after the war are short in their counts on the sub treasury books to day the amount lost by them ag i gre gating gaorge S walton Whit takers successor did better the government only being out abe amount of a forged check which he paid his successor charles clinton was robbed of only which congress remitted mr P F herwig latest incumbent and who has received notice to quit lost through his confidential clerk aufdemorte Auf demort making a total loss in that department since 1866 of the internal revenue department makes an equally bad show ing general benton the first ap in the office after the war was short all of which the government Govern meni lost it being impossible to collect a dollar from his sureties gen J B steadman was short and the Govern ment again quit loser Ste admans bondsmen living in the state of ohio neighbors and friends of that good man hayes admans successor charles smith was short james S chapman also in the internal revenue office was short which was made good by his bondsmen oscar rice his successor waa a defaulter to tho tune of rice was in bad luck he was arrested tried found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary tent iary from which he was released about two weeks ago the one solitary instance of punishment inflicted upon a federal official thief in the state of louisiana the others were only fined in small sums nothing approaching the amounts which they or their subordinates had stolen rices punishes ment did not serve as a warning to his successor R T beauregard who got away with which sum was collected from hia bonds men in tho assessors office A W norcross was a defaulter in the sum of every dollar of which was a loss to the government as nothing could be collected from his bondsmen in the post office there ia an equally bad showing though it is not the postmaster who was defaulter but some inferior clerk col W B smallwood bod a former postmaster waa victimized to the tune of which he made good though it ruined him his successor euc cessor taliaferro was out which was made nood by his bondsmen C W lowell formerly speaker of the house in louisiana was out a large sum but hit bondsmen persuaded tho government to compromise it for both of his sorg parker and merchant had on several occasions to make good the shortages of their employees peter fuller the first collector under republican rule emigrated to new orleans from some far away indian territory in which bis bond was made ha turned up a default erand never came to tho front so fullers lings were credited to profit and losa tho total of these defalcations amount to of which the government loses about this is in new orleans alone tha returns aro not in from the small precincts but the above will serve for a sample of federal official defaulters default ers for the last eighteen stars As most of the scoundrels who did the dirty work in the louisiana and florida election steal of 1870 are well taken care of that ia to say rewarded with comfortable offices the amount which they have appropriated for their own use and benefit can only be measured by their opportunities for plundering when responsible positions aro huckstered off as convenient premiums for political cricca an honest officeholder office holder is simply phenomenal from illegal voting false registration issuing false certificates and making bogus returns to robbery and grand larceny is but a step election fraud are only a preparatory course for the plain blunt crimea which when justly dealt with are liable to land the perpetrator in the penitentiary there are other augean stables besides louisiana which need cleaning and their turn will surely come the mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine |