The Cairo Bulletin

If Secretary Richardson is an honest man, circumstances have conspired to place him in an unenviable position. The continued examination of his report shows that more than six-sevenths of the whole amount represented to have been collected by Sanborn has been found to have been really collected through regular salaried officers of the government, including the secretary of the treasury, United States district attorney of New York, Bliss, and the present collector of Boston, Simmons, then supervisor of internal revenue. There is nothing in the report to show that Sanborn collected the remaining one-seventh, but it is shown conclusively that Secretary Richardson, in several cases, ordered the half of the difference amounts to be paid to Sanborn, and this was done in more than one instance where the collections were known to have been regularly made by the proper officers.