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He Says It is True.
Senai a Falls, Not. 9, 1870.
M R. H It STEVENS :
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nick with about the same complaint, and Was cured.
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H. R. SXKVENB :
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yours, with respect,
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Ve qEjifiE.
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THE KOVAL FEE.
Atlanta, Ga., May 29, 1877.
31 is Excellency A. II Colquitt At
lanta, Georgia ; Sir—A report has
appeared in the newspapers to the
effect that you recently paid to Mes
srs. Alston and Garlington, by vir
tue of a contract made while i was
governor of the State, the sum
of tthirv thousand dollars for
their services in collecting the
claim on which you lately receiv
ed a. large amount of money at
Washington. I have reason to be
lieve that, in conversation with mem
hers of the press and others,j you
have sought to confirm this report,
by attemptingto create the impression
that, hub for my contract, you would
not have paid so large an amount o p
the public money to the gentlemen
liam and.
You have declined to* correspond
with me by letter on the subject
mentioned, and have informed me
that you feel “responsible to the peo
pie of Georgia alone” for your ac
tions. Your conduct leaves but one
course open to me, and that is to ad
dress you through the same channel
hv which the report referred to reach
cd the public, viz: the newspaper
press of the state. It is due “to
the people of Georgia’ as well as to
myself individually, that the injus
tice attempted in that report should
not he permitted to succeed, and
that the responsibility for the pay
ments alluded to should he placed
on your own shoulders, where it pro
perly belongs.
According to my recollection of
the facts, no contract between my
self, as governor and Messrs Baugh
Alston and Garlington, as agents of
the state for the collection of the
claim alluded to was ever perfected.
The joint affidavit of the two last
named gentlemen is on tile in the ex
ecutive office, and 1 will now refer
particularly to the points of differ
ence between my own remembrance
of the facts, and theirs as they have
therein stated it.
They deposed iu effect that tho
unsigned memorandum attached to
their affidavit contained a true state
ment of the agreement referred to.
This statement is not in accordance
with my recollection. The memo
randum set forth substantially that it
was represented to me that Col.—
Alston would visit Washington on
the business of the claim if sufficient
compensation wore allowed to tae
agent. My remembrance is that it
had been agreed between Messrs.—
Baugh and Alston that the latter
should be admitted into the Bullock
contract as one of the agents for col
lecting the claim, and that, at the
instance of the former, I gave my
assent to the arrangement. This,
according to my recollection, took
place before anything was said to me
in reference to allowing an increase
of the compensUion specified in the
Bullock contract.
It is further stated in the memoran
dum that it was proposed that the
fees should be equally' divided be*
tween the three agents, Baugh, Al
ston and Garlington. Ido not re
member that any such proposition
wasever stated to me. The proportions
in which the agents were to share in
the contract amongst themselves
was their own peculiar affair, and it
is m t probable, therefore that the
subject was mentioned to me at all.
The memorandum further sets
forth in substance that I agreed to
allow the agents for their services a
contingent fee of 25 per cent, on the
amount collected. As I remember
the facts, this statement is not cor
rect* According to my understand
ing, the agents were to he entitled
to claim an increase of the conting
ent fee specified in the Bullock con
tract, not to exceed 25 per cent. ;
but the increase was to be ascertained
with reference to the service render
ed and the amount collected. This
increase was to bo allowed because
it was insisted with good reason by
the agents, I thought, that the rate
of compensation specified in the Bul
lock contract might, under circum
stances likely to occur, be found very
inadequate. It was uncertain wlieth
er anything would ever be collected,
but it was very certain that, in order
to collect anything, it might become
necessary, in the then existing state
affairs at Wash iug ton, to offer very lib
eral inducements to expert and influ-
THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. .JUNE !>, 1877.
enf i ; ;l agents there. This could not
lie done under the comparatively
low rate of compensation fixed by
the Bullock contract. While 12 per
cent, would lie large compensation
for collecting two hundred thousand
dollars, it might be very poor com
pensation for collecting twenty-five
thousand, fifty thousand, or even so
much as seventy-five thousand dol
lars. If anything at all were collec
ted, it might be a comparatively
small sum. In such a case, 25 per
'cent on the amount collected would
possibly not be too much. But if a
large sum were collected then the
rate of compensation ought to he di
minished and fixed with reference to
that fact.
But to fully understand all the
considerations which entered into my
negotiation with the agents, It is ne
cessary that the condition of affairs
at Washington should be borne in
mind. A claim presented in behalf
of the state of Georgia was not then
(some three years ago) likely to be
received with much favor by the party
in power. The political situation
would probably increase the difficul
ty of collecting tne claim. Our sen
tors and representatives in congress
possessed comparatively little influ
ence with the dominant party, and
to overcome all the obstacles in the
way of success, it probably would
be necessary for tne agents to enlist
the services of persons who would
have weight with the government.—
These considerations and others
which 1 will not here stop to refer
to, led me to consent that the change
of the contract which I have men
tioned should be made.
The affidavit of Mesrs. Alston and
Garlington further states in sub
stance that, 1 said to the parties, at
the time the agreement was made,
that I would endorse the same upon
the papers which contained the ori
ginal Bullock contract. Ido not
remember this but I do recollect that
before tiic subject of making anew
contract was mentioned at all, it was
suggested that the fact that Colonel
Alston had come into the ease should
he endorsed on the papers containing
tiie old contract. It was understood,
as I remember that the new contract
was to he reduced to writing and ex
ecuted by the parties, and that it
should then he entered on the min
utes of the executive department.—
i The law required that all the official
acts of the governor should bo enter
ed or recorded in the book of min
utes. The contract, through the in
attention of the parties, was never
executed and perfected, and hence
no record itjof was ever made.
The affidavit further states in sub
stance that the “memorandum”—
was presented to me by Messrs Als
ton and Garlington ; that l read it
pronounced it correct and then stil
ted to them that I would give it my
“official sanction,” Ido not re
member that I ever more than mere
ly glanced at the contents of the pa
lter. It is not in accordanoo with
my recollection that Colonel Alston
was present when the paper was han
ded to me, or that 1 ever stated to
any person that it was correct. Ido
remember that the character oft lie
paper was very briefly mentione:!
by General Garlington when he gave
it to me, and that I felt willing to
sign it if upon examination, I should
find it correct. The purport of the
document was intended he a written
statement by myself as •governor
showing the terms of contract with
Messrs Baugh, Alston and Garling
ton, and it only needed my signature
to complete it. This could have
been given in a moment, and it is
remarkable if 1 took the time and
pains to examine it with sufficient
core to lie enabled to pronounce it
correct, that I did not then also
take that additional moment and
give it my “official sanction.
It thus appears that the facts,
even as stated by Messrs Alston and
and Garlington themselves, raise the
presumption that it was my inten*
tion to take time to examine the pa
per further before I would signed it.
I will state, in this connection, that
the memorandum was not han
ded to mo until near the end of my
term of office. I was busily engaged
in preparing to meet the general as
sembly, and to turn oyer the execu
tive offices to my successor. These
duties were so absorbing as to re
quire my entire attention. I did
not. have any time to give to the mat
ter of the memorandum. I did not
see but that my successor might
complete the unfinished contract as
well as myself, if lie should approyc
it, and Llicnce I did not understand
that there was any very urgent ne
cessity for my acting in the matter
at all.
I never singned ilie paper, or in
any way intended to give it the exe
cutive sanction, ft was never made
an office paper b\ mo, but was left
unfinished, and \\ itimutany validity
whatever.
A few words in regard to another
paper which appears on tile m the
executive office. 1 refer to the af
fidavit of R. A. Alston, appended
to a written instrument executed by
Colonel Baugh, "in December,
1870, m the presence of \\ T John
son. In that instrument the terms
of the contract, it is pretended, that
I had made with the agents are set
forth by way of recital. In the alli
davit just mentioned, it is stated in
substance that the instrument was
shown to me after it was executed ;
that I read it and stated that it con
tained a true recital of the agree
ment ; but that the execution of
such a paper was perhaps unnecessa
ry. because I had already sufficient*
ly protected the right of Messrs Als
ton and Garlington, bv an entrv on
a contract between Col Baugh and
Gen Hemy It. Jackson.
My memory is entirely at fault if
T ever knew or had so much as ever
heard of the existence of the instru
ment referred to in his affidavit until
I was furnished with a c >py of it a
few days ago at the executive office.
I remember that Col. Alston spoke
to me in reference to the entry of
the executive approval on the
Baugh Jackson contract, and that 1
thought ho agreed with me that the
rights were in no way endangered
thereby. But Ido not remember
that he ever spoke to me in reference
to the paper alluded to in the affi
vit last mentioned.
Briefly here, in relation to the
Baugh-Jackson agreement, and to
the entry of executive approval
which appears thereby.
The effect of this agreement was
simply to associate Messrs. Jackson,
Lawton and Bassinger with Col
Baugh, as agents for the state in the
claim case. The parties to the agree
ment. \iz ; Col. Baugh on the one
part, and Gen. Ilencry R. Jackson
on the other, desired that some exe
cutive recognition of the right, of
Messrs. Jackson Lawton and Bassin
ger to act as such agents might be
given. I did not hesitate to give the
recognition desired, but inasmuch
as the effect of the contract would
be to let additional agents into the
case, and as the number might be
still further increased by private ar
rangements between parties, I took
the precaution in making the entry
of approval, to specify the maximum
rate of compensation which would
be allowed to all the agents, in the
following language :
“The above contract and agree
ment is approved and the compensa
tion to be paid to all agents by the
state is not to exceed 25 per cent of
the amount collected upon the
claims.”
These words, entered by myself
and appearing on the record, are re
lied on 1 learn to show that, at the
time I made the entry, I considered
the unfinished contract with the
agents perfected and binding on the
state. It is prefer, therefore that I
should pause just a moment here to
comment upon and explain them.
The language employed simply
states t hat the compensation to lie
paid to all agents is not to exceed 25
per centum of the amount collected.
It is so stated nor is the inference
given that the compensation may
not be less than that rate. If it had
been intended by that entry to fix
25 percent, as the only rate, lan
guage expressive of that intention
would have, been employed. It:
would have been stated, for example
that the compensation to he paid to
all agents by the state is to be, (or
shall he) 25 per centum, of the
amount collected. These words
would have been naturally suggested
to the mind as expressive of such an
intention. But when the language
used simply expresses 25 per cent, as
a maximum rate which is not to be
exceeded, the presumption arises
that the intention was not to fix
what the compensation should lie,
but to specify a rate of per cent
above which the compensation should
not go. The proposition stated in
the entry is simply to the effect that
the rate of compensation must not
be greater than 25 per cent, on
the amount collected ; hut so that
it might not be less. It is not in
tended that at all events the rate
must be as high as 25 per cent ; hut
that in no event shall it he higher,
in conclusion, on this particular
point I will add that, it was not my
•intention, in said entry, to fix what
the rate of compensation to be paid
to agents should actually ho ; hut
rather to inhibit them from claiming
that they could under any circum
stances receive a higher rate than
the one therein mentioned.
Having given in substance my re
collection in reference to the maki
ing of the pro ten ted contract, 1 now
invite your attention to the follow
ing brief statement of my objections
to your conduct in setting it and
paying out money under it.
1. The law expressly declares
that among other hooks of record
which shall be preseived in the exe
cutive office, tncre shall he kept a
journal or hook of minutes, in which
the governor shall cause to he enter*
cd alibis official act's.
The law requires that all the offi
cial acts of the executive depart
ment of the government shall be re
corded. When the law requires that
a fact shall he recorded, the existence
of that fact ought, if brought into
question, to be shown by the record.
A judgement of the supreme court
of the state, for instance, is an ofii
cial act of the court, which the law
requires shall be recorded and kept
in the proper office. Could you le
gally set up such a judgement, oth
erwise than by the records of the
court ? If the records were silent on
the subject, might you nevertheless
prove the existence of the judgement
by oral testimony, and then proceed
to give it the force and effect of a
legal judgement ? But if you could
not do this, how could you set tip
and give validity to an official act of
your predecessor, up on oral evidence
alone ? The making of the preten
ded contract, if made at all, was his
“official act/’ and the law requires
that it should be recorded ‘and kept
in the executive office. Alien you
examined the record, therefore, and
found nothing showing the “offi
cial act” had been performed, you
should have paused, Even if ciis
cninstances raised a presumption
that the records were silent when
they ought to have spoken, you
should nevertheless have held the
matter up for the action of the leg
islature. You ought not to have
assumed the power to determine a
question in reference to which no
legal evidence whatever existed.
Tins was apparently your first blun
der.
2. But when you had consented
to make this blunder, and to hear
parol evidence, why did you not call
for all the witness 7 Just in this con
nection you will he pleased to bear
in mind that the amount claimed
under the alleged contract was very
large ; that there were only three
living witnesses (so far as I knew)
Messrs Alston, Garlington and my
self, who possessed a knowledge of
the facts in relation to tlie pretended
agreement. I, it was stated, had
made the contract, and Mocsrs. Al
jstonund Garlington were claiming
thirty thousand dollars finder it. On
the day before you had paid out
the money. Judge Hammond, the
counsel for Col. Baugh’s estate,
went directly from myself to your
office, and, as he has since informed
me, advise! you that 1 was ready on
your request to lay before you all
the facts m my knowledge in refer
ence to the pretended contract. For
several days aftenvards l was within
easy reach of your office.
You did not attempt to obtain my
evidence, hoyvever, but you did hear
the interested yvitnesses, and if I am
correctly informed, you set up the
pretended contract on their evidence
alone. Do you think that this con
duct upon your part yvas eitheir fair
to me, or just to the commonwealth?
Ought you not to have heard me be
fore you decided to place the respon
sibility of making such a contract on
my shoulders ? Before you made
you indecision , you yvero urged by
friends, one of whom occupies a
high judicial position in the state,
to call upon me to furnish my evi
dence. But you declined to make
the request. You gave as .a reason,
I learn, that I was not- your friend.
Was that reason a sufficient one, in
your judgement ? Does a just judge
ref.use to hear evidence because lie
suspects the yvitness to be inimicial
to him.
But did you not also owe it to the
people to hear my evidence before
you decided to pay away so large an
amount, of their money, under such
very questionable circumstances ?
Your administration yvas to be sig
nalized, you yvill remember, by rigid
economy and earnest reform. Ao
yvaste or extravagance would be tcier-
I ated, and all officials yverc put on no
tice at tlu' very outset that you ex
pected that they yvould for exam
ple's sake, if for no other reason, be
very saving of the people,s money.
But here, in tms payment of thirty
thousand dollars of the public money
for service never rendered, you have
furnished to the public your practi
cal commentary upon the principles
so handsomely* announced in your in
augurated address.
•” But when, by the testimony of
the interested yvitnesses, you had set
up, “Alston’s bonanza,” as it has
been sometimes termed by the press,
yvhat evidence yvas furnished to show
you that the claimants had perform
ed services yvldcli entitled them to
the “pot of money,” as Roger Rider
hood yvould have called it. After
you have paid out tlie large sum
mentioned ?
1 called at the executive office and
requested to he furnished yvith cop
ies of any depositions or other wri
tings on file showing that services
had been rendered under the proten
ded contract. Col, Warren, your
secretary, informed me that lie did
not Unoyv of the existence of any
such papers. Col. Alston and Gen.
Garlington, in the affidavits already
referred to, do not claim that they,
or either of them, ever performed
any service under the pretended con
tract. Even in the very deposition
in which they set up the contract,
they do not venture to state that its
terms had been complied with on
their part. Ido not charge that
they did not in fact perform any ser
vice, for I knoyv little or nothing on
this particular subject. My com
plaint is. that after setting up the
contract upon insufficient evidence,
you then paid the parties. It seems,
yyjthout any proof that they had ev
er complied yvith its provisions.
Yon must bear with me here, a
little. It was not sufficient, before
paving the money, merely to know
that the alleged contract had been
made, and was binding on the state.
You ought to have gone still further,
and required strict proof that the
agents had complied fully with its
terms. Before you paid the 25 per
cent, under the pretended contract,
you should at least have known that,
according to its tenor, they had earn
ed the compensation it allowed
them.
But what evidence did you have
to show that the agents had per
formed the alleged contract ? What
witness testified that Col. Alston,
General Garlington, or any other
agent under the contract, had col*,
lectcd tiie money ? The contract, as
proved by Messrs. Alston and Gar
lington, provided that the agents
were to bo allowod ‘‘for tneir servi
ces a contingent fee of 25 per cent,
on the amount collected on the
claim.” The legal intendment here
was that they were to be paid the fee,
as a consideration for collecting the
money. Was it in fact collected by
their efforts ? or was it collected
through tho services of our senators
and representatives in congress? If
the pretended contract was valid,
then the state bad two distinct sets
of classes of agents, each charged
with the duty of collecting this claim.
First, her personal or private agents
under the contract, who were to be
paid for their services according to
the terms therein agreed on. See*
ondly, her senators and representa
tives, who were bound by official du
ty to serve their state in this matter.
If the claim was collected by reason
of th 3 services of these official agents,
then the personal agents, not hav
ing performed their contract, had
no right to claim any compensation
whatever under it. It would hardly
be pretended, 1 imagine, that Col.
Alston or Gen. Garlington ought to
be paid for services rendered by .Sen
ator Gordon or Mr. Hill, as repre
sentatives of the state in congress.
Then what service did our official
agents render in collecting money ?
Did they or either of them, attend
to the duty of introducing the bill
to pay the claim ? Did "they watch
and attend it in its progress through
committee, and did they finally
seize upon an opportune moment to
press its passage and thus secure
the collection of the money?
If they did, then the personal
agents were not entitled to compen
sation under any special contract
whatever. If * Col. Baugh had
worked up the evidence in the case ;
if Gen. Garlington had drawn a me
morial, and if Col. Alston had giv
en the influence of his presence at
Washington to aid our members of
congress yi performing their duty in
the premises, then these gentlemen
should have been paid whatever their
services were reasonably worth, and
no more. They were not entitled to
be paid under any special contract.
Even the Bullock agreement itself
was out of the question. Xo Con
tract, either written or unwritten,
had been performed by them, and
they were entitled to claim, only ac
cording to the value of the services
they had actually rendered to the
state.
Other grave objections to your con
duct exist winch I shall notice onlv
briefly at present.
You did not require the accounts
of Messres. Alston and Garlington,
to he audited by the comptroller
, general, as the law directs, before
you paid them.
The payment was not made under
a warrant but was drawn by your*
self directly out of the treasury ; the
treasurer, as i learn, simply taking
your receipt therefor.
The money was not paid to the
parties by the treasurer, but, after
being drawn from the treasury, was
paid by yourself. The money so
paid was no part of the fund receiv
cd by you in payment of the claim
at Washington. That fund was, as
f learn, placed to the credit of the
treasury in New York ; whereas the
money you paid was drawn directly
from the treasury in Atlanta. Xo
money had been appropriated by
law to yay Messrs. Alston and Gar*
lington. The constitution of the
state inhibits the payment of money
out of the treasury, unless by appro
priation of law.
In conclusion, permit me to inquire
why were you in such a hurry to pay
Alston and Garlington? Thcro were
grave obsticles in your way, but you
resolutely surmounted them all.
Friends advised you to wait. I have
been informed that you weie even
counselled by a friend in high posi
tion to submit the whole case to the
judges of the supremo court for their
opinion. Bnmor says that you
would not even wait until your rc
turn from Columbus, where you in
tended to remain on a visit u day or
two. Now, why this vc.y great
haste to pay these enormous fees,
under circumstances of such doubt
ful property ? What necessity were
you under to pay them m such a
hurry ? Ought you not to have de
ferred payment, even until the meet
ing of the legislature ? Was it not
worth while to take the advice of the
representatives of the people in so
important an affair ? It was the peo
ple's money it was proposed you
should pay away : ought you not to
have given them an opportunily to
say through their representatives
whether their money should be
spent in this way ? Did the fact that
you thought I had made the con
tract lead you to be so prompt to
pay ? You also thought that I made
contracts with the counsel in the
Jones cases, but you declined to rec
ognize those contracts so far as to
pay any money on them until the
legislature had taken action in ref
erence thereto. Now, why this dif
ference ? It was alleged that I had
, made the contracts m both instan
ces. You were \ery cautious in the
one, even going to the extent, of
taking mv statement in reference
thereto. But in the other you de
clined to either hear me, or to lay
the matter before the legislature.
i Many statements in reference to
this affair have appeared in the
newspapers—at whose instance, it is
not for me to sav. I have not re*
j plied to them, and shall not notice
j any such hereafter. If you should
ever think fit to relax your official
j dignity so far as to explain directly
to the people, over your own signa
ture, the grounds of your action in
this matter, you shall haye my no
tice. But in the meantime you may
undestand that all attempts to in
volve me in the discussion of side is*
sues with other parties will be una
vailing. I am, very respectfully,
j your obedient servant,
James M. Smith.
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NO 2(5.
DrcMKing Lrlfurc Salad.
I see many receipts showing how
wc arc to make a good salad from
lettuce. Some of them arc good
enough, but I prefer the old methods
of making these salads which I will
give you in brief. The llrst requires
some time and cac but it will doul -
ly repay for both. It is this for a
small family. Boil two eggs hard,
mash the yolk m a plate, adding the
yolk of a raw egg, then pouring
over a little vinegar and some inn->
tard, which will cause the volks to
become i>erfeetly smooth and with
out a lump ; salt and pep]x?r, not
forgetting to use the cayenne article
exclusively ; add all the olive oil ne
cessary, that is according to taste,
but I like a good deal ; and then
having the lettuce heads in unbro
ken leaves, ready in a deep dish.
l>our over, mix and eat.
Another mode, which is very old
fashioned but preferred by those
who do not like oil, is to take slices
of bacon, without any fat, cut in
lengths and these in half inch
squares, and fry out the fat in a i'rt
ing-pan, which cracklings and all
pour oyer the salad leaves, not head
ed, adding the required quantity of
vinegar, salt, black pepper, but no
mustard or egg. Some persons pre
fer 't sweetened with either sugar or
molasses, and in that way one may
get to like it very much. In my
younger days 1 have often eaten it.
our people making it in no other
way, and such a thing as head-let
tuce Was not dreamed of.— Ex.
IftCMllUiptiOll.
Gradually silver comes into circu
lation. The New York World, in
speaking of resumption, says :
The Resumption act of .January
14, 1875, has now been in operatioii
for about twenty-eight months, and
there remains nineteen months in
which the Secretary of the Treasury
is to prepare for the duty of redeem
ing legal-tender notes in gold on do
mand. Under the provision ol the
Resumption act which requires the
retirement and cancellation of legal
tenders, in the proportion of SBO to
eac*h SIOO of new bank circulation,
the Treasury lias cancelled $21,527,-
420 of legal tenders, reducing the
amount outstanding to -$200,412,580.
Under that provision, which substi
tutes small silver for the fractional
currency, there has been retired aud
destroyed, without counting what
may have been destroyed during the
month of May, the sum of $22,850,-
499, in fractional currency, all of
which carried the right of conversion
into legal-tender notes. There has
been, therefore, a cancellation of up
wards of $44,000,000 of legal-tender
paper, without naming the $6,000,000
of legal tenders received in exchange
for small silver, aud held as a special
fund for the redemption of fractional
currency when presented. To pro
vide means for the retirement of these
$44,000,000 of paper Treasury has
drawn upon its ordinary revenues to
the extent of about $25,000,000 rais
ing the remainder by the sale of sl7,
494,150 of 5 per cent, bonds and sl,-
000,000 of per cent; for it will bo
remembered that only $1,000,000 of
the gold procured by the recent sale
of $5,000,000 of | per cent have Won
announced for sale for currency.
There still remains $22,187,575 of
fractional currency, under date of
April 30, to be replaced by small sil
ver, which may be called $16,000,
in view of the silver now r represented
by the special fund of $6,000,000, in
view of the silver now represented by
the special fund of $6,000,000 lcg.il
tenders. There will be no difficulty
in this beyond the difficulty of dis
covering the fractional currency, a
considerable but uncertain part of
which has passed out of existence.
Revenue can be used or bonus be sold
to purchase silver bullion for coinage
as heretofore ; and we mentioned the
matter only on account of the legal -
tender quality which the fractional
currency possesses by virtue of its
right to conversion.
It remains to provide the means
for redeeming in gold the legal ten
ders which may be outstanding on
January 1, 1879. This is the w hole
of the task assigned to the Secretary
of the Tieasury. He has nothing to
do with resumption by the banks.
His business is to make the tree good
aud the fruit will then be good with
out his care. The banks must con
tinue to keep themselves solvent with
gold at par, just as they did with
gold at 285, and as they do now with
gold at lOf, by keeping an adequate
reserve of legal tenders to meet their
demanded liabilities. The important
thing is that the Secretary should do
his best to prepare for performing the
duty imposed upon him by the law.
Asa specimen of the fraud which
flourished under the Chamberlain ad
ministration in South Carolina, which
I Hampton is discovering and extinguish
ing, the job in the public printing is in*
teresting. The amount of the job was
$250,000, for work which the new gov
ernment gets done for §10,000; and the
political speculators engaged in it could
well afford to pay §50,000 to various
officials in order to bribe their influence.
The immense thefts of preceding liepul)
lican administrations have gone un
punished because justice has been fet
tered in that “prostrate State;’’ and
Governor Hampton now has the oppor
tunity of proving the strength of the
law to exact penalties for crime, as well
I as to preserve peace and order.—Sav
j News.
Judge Underwood of Atlanta., Ga,
always wears his hat while on tie
i bench.