Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, Vol. 2 of 2: 1832 1895 My husband had suggested to General Grant the advisability of making Benjamin H. Bristow, who was then United States District Attorney for Kentucky, Solicitor of the Treasury. General Grant liked General Bristow so well that he first made him Solicitor-General and afterwards, in 1874, promoted him to be Secretary of the Treasury. Major Bluford Wilson, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, was, upon the request of General Bristow, appointed in June, 1874, Solicitor of the Treasury. Major Wilson was the brother of Major-General James Harrison Wilson, who had been in the early days of the war on General Grant´s staff. During the days off from court my husband made trips to Washington. Long before they became public he heard the rumors about Secretary of War Belknap. Belknap had been his friend in the field. In April, 1875, Bristow told my husband that extensive frauds had been discovered in the Internal Revenue Department, which were then being secretly investigated. General Henry V. Boynton, of the Associated Press, and George Fishback, one of the owners of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, brought to Solicitor Wilson the first evidence of the existence of the "Whiskey Ring." Major Wilson immediately took General Boynton´s and Mr. Fishback´s evidence to Secretary Bristow, and with the sanction of his chief pressed the investigation and then the prosecutions. Aggressive and fearless, Major Wilson was a man after my husband´s own heart. The distillers and rectifiers of whiskey and high wines at Cincinnati, Evansville, St. Louis, Chicago, Pekin, and Milwaukee had for several years been defrauding the government of much revenue by a systematic system of bribing revenue officers, many of whom were active associates in the wide-spread conspiracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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