Chapter XXIV: Grant's Administration

General Grant's habits and training were not well adapted to
civil and political duties--He was nominated for President on
account of his military success--Rottenness in the New York
Custom-House--Trumbull moves a general investigation of the
waste of public money--The Senate decides in favor of a
committee to investigate only matters specifically referred to
it--The Leet and Stocking scandal--Colonel Leet found to be
receiving $50,000 per year from the "General Order" business of
the New York Custom-House--A Senate committee reports the facts
to Secretary of the Treasury, Boutwell--The Secretary makes a
new investigation and recommends that Collector Murphy
discontinue the "General Order" system--Murphy allows it to
continue indefinitely--A second Senate investigation
ordered--The Leet and Stocking mystery explained--President
Grant not a participant in the profits--The "General Order"
system broken up--Indignation among Republicans resulting from
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