75

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 January 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

75 - L. Jan. 21; ed: 2/2 - The WORLD and imitators were getting ready for an
onslaught upon the government in consequence of discoveries of frauds in
the Custom house, when a nest of frauds was exposed in their own municipal
administration. The Democratic manager for the sanitary department of the
city spent $600,000 yearly for street cleaning, when the work could have
been done for $215,000. Clerks were getting $600 to $2,000 a year for
BRIBERY & CORRUPTION (Cont.'d)
doing no work. Forty-eight health-wardens were getting $18,108 yearly for
work which can be done by ten men. - - -
"Let the administration administer punishment to its own bungling swind-
lers so that the bad breed cannot be propagated." (6)

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*Bribery & Corruption; Cleveland sanitary department; U. S. custom house; WORLD (newspaper)

76

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 June 1864 (ed; 2 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

76 - L June 21; ed: 2/2 - "There are some Congressmen whose readiness to
vote away money to a contractor who finds his work don't pay quite as well
as he expected, is so bare-faced as to disgust the whole country. If therc
are any men who need bleeding, they are the contractors who hang like
blood-stuffed leeches upon the body politic." (2)

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