Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — OFFICIAL RECORD OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR. [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL RECORD OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

Republican Candidate for Vice-President. He was Collector of Customs for the port of New York. He was removed by President Hayes in 1879, and the following Reasons for the removal were given by the President and Secretary of the Treasury to the United States Senate, in official letters. Upon the strength of these charges of cforruption and dishonesty in his administration of the office, the Senate assented to his removal. « With a deep sense of my obligations under the Constitution, 1 regard it as my plain duty to suspend you, in order that the office may be honestly administered.”-— R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthut, January 31, ißyg. “ You have made the Custom House a centre of partisan poli deal management.”— R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Jan. ?/, i 87 9. . . “ Gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during your incumbency.”— John Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31, ißjg. “ Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no service; the expenses of your office have increased while the receipts have diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subordinates in several branches of the Custom House, and you have in no case supported the effort > o correct these abuses.— John Sherman to Collector Arthur.