Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — Swindling in High Places. [ARTICLE]

Swindling in High Places.

On last Frhiay the House of Representatives having under consideration the Indian Appropriation Bill, Mr. Lawbknce, ot Ohio, took occasion to denounce the wheie-policy of dealing with the Indians- as a vast system of fraud aad* eorroptipn, and characterized the Indian Bureau as a den of thieves. In the coarse of his remarks he said': “Treaties have been put through the Senate when there were not six , Senators present Every' ilian who participated in a fraud ot that sort is unfit to occupy a seat in a deliberative body. I wish to God that J could reach the Senate, and the ears of every man jn the country, until j the Senate should be compelled to pay some heed to the voice ot the, people, and have some respect for thi interests of the people, iustead mm 1 11 1 11 1 :

| Now, if this |s nbt all buncombe,! .){». Laivkkvce can easily reach the i psople. And if be really has the J , good of the country at heart, lot him ; name the Senators who havo been j guilty of the charges he prefer*. General Grant was elected upon a platform pledged to economy and j retrenchment. lie reiterated these pledges in his inaugural, and the people will sustain him and ail oth-) ers in all measures looking to such result*. ‘I General Butler took occasion the other day to unmask the thieving operations of certain members of the whiskey ring, by vrhich’one hundred and fifty miliums a year was stolen front the Government. ! The on , j- way thefce gross frauds 1 can he prevented is to expose, re* i move from office and punish those : who arc guilty of them. Let Mr. Lah kk.m i; follow the example set by General lini.icu, and fearlessly ! name the guilty parties as the latter 1 <lid General Ssiiiknok and Judge] Holman, of the whiskey thieves :ir»4j he will not be harmed by the result. I 1 ——'!!