The American Nation : a History From Original Sources : volume 22 Twenty-Two (22)
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By a special agree- ment with the treasury, one Sanborn undertook to recover certain wrongfully withheld taxes for fifty per cent, of what he should get. Through the care- lessness or criminal collusion of treasury officials he received authorization to collect, subject to his claim for one-half, several millions of dollars which would normally all come into the treasury through the regular collectors. The scandalous character of this affair was fully established by the report of a House commit...tee in March, 1874.^ The com- mittee refrained from ascribing corruption to any officer of the treasury ; but Secretary Richardson was so seriously compromised by the revelations that his resignation became inevitable. He was translated by Grant, though not without strong opposition in * House Reports, 43 Cong., i Sess., No. 559; cf. Nation, March 12, 1874; Hoar, Autobiography, I., chap, xxiii.
242 RECONSTRUCTION [1873 the Senate, to the court of claims, and he was suc- ceeded in the treasury, June i, by Benjamin H.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By a special agree- ment with the treasury, one Sanborn undertook to recover certain wrongfully withheld taxes for fifty per cent, of what he should get. Through the care- lessness or criminal collusion of treasury officials he received authorization to collect, subject to his claim for one-half, several millions of dollars which would normally all come into the treasury through the regular collectors. The scandalous character of this affair was fully established by the report of a House commit...tee in March, 1874.^ The com- mittee refrained from ascribing corruption to any officer of the treasury ; but Secretary Richardson was so seriously compromised by the revelations that his resignation became inevitable. He was translated by Grant, though not without strong opposition in * House Reports, 43 Cong., i Sess., No. 559; cf. Nation, March 12, 1874; Hoar, Autobiography, I., chap, xxiii.
242 RECONSTRUCTION [1873 the Senate, to the court of claims, and he was suc- ceeded in the treasury, June i, by Benjamin H.
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