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