Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-06-15


any communications, which authorized the OPT
mon that they were insecure in that Bankp
Mr.. Edwards has charged HIM with AN nm
proper Partially for the Bank of Missouri, yet
was That Bank from which the deposites
were taken, to be placed IN the Bank of Ed
WausYllie and 1t was TO that Bank that they
must nave been restored, if they were with
draw1 from the Bank of Edward,riIle There
was 10 other bank within reach. If the charge
OF t.vontsm towards the Bank of Missouri
weie well founded, the secretary would have
readily awaited himself of the pretext furnish
ed oy the alleged communication OF the Re.
cieer, for restoring the deposte 10 that Bank.
Inc instructions given to the receiver at
k'skaska, to deposte in the Bank oil Ms
s6drl, so TAR from confirming the allegation
Nat letter from the receiver at Edwardsville,
enclosing the publication of Mr.. Edwards, has
been received by the secretary, lead to con-
gary conclusion. The correspondence with
t@t receiver, Al the period IN questions, is
herewith transmitted, II appears that, ON the
sh ot December. 1919, tins receiver wrote
u The SECRETARY, Enclosing his account current
Tor Vie month Of August preceding; and, as
Were appeared, by tlis are0nat. 4 iarE. bA-
knce Of pubic money in his haads, amounting
TO about 4, $4,000, he seems 10 nave consider
edit necessary TO explain the ca,ise. His ex-
pm'atlon was the same as hat offered by Mrs
Stephenson, for like retention of money, to
meet the Indian paymeniss and, in this case,
as IN the other, not ahy.puohcation OF Mr. Ed
wards, or any circumstance affecting the cha
ra4,er Of the Bank of Edwardsville, which, if
sidn had existed, he was bound by the score
tery's Instructions to communicate. 1t was
knownt o the secretary that it was not SO conve-
nient for this receiver to.deposte AT Edwards
was very little communication, as at st. Louis,
with which there was frequent intercourse
In the next letter written to this receiver by
Tue secretary, which was 90 the Isl Novem-
ber 1919. the secretary, without abiding TO
any publication Of Mir. Edwards, or any letlsr
from the receiver at Edwardsyille, which, if
ANY had been Known to him would naturally
have been alluded 10 on such AN occasion, di-i
rected the receiver at kaskaska TO deposite
IN the Bank OF Edwardsvile all the none, in
his possession, at the close Of the month, and
at erwarels to deposte in the Rank of Missouri.
Tue receiver-did not make this deposite, for
reasons stated by him in his Letter of the 1Oh
of Jan0ars, 1920, until the Sd of that month,
as will besseen by the list Of moneys deposited
by hum on that day. From his silence on the
subject, il is evident that there was nothing in
the circumstances of the Bank to render the
depos'e Improper.
The accusation Of having presented contra
dictory statements of the amount of pub ic
money, in the Bank of Edwardsville, and Of
having trapsposed other statements from that
Bank, IN the communications made by the Sc
cretaIy TO the House, and of having done SO.
for tie purpose of Disgusting the truth in rela-
rvon TO the deposltes in thai Bank, with view
to their bearing on the charge Connected with
these supposed letters, is altogether without
foundations. The Bank statements of Deem
Der and November, which are referred to,
either formed part of or accompanied the
letters, which they immediately follow in the
printed papers, the first baving been written
on part OF the same paper as the letter cf the
7tl' "sJanu4ry, 1926, TO Mr. Edw ards, and the
iatter having been enclosed in the letter of the
ON OF January, and both the letters and the
statements having, when transmitted by Mr.
Edwards, in his letter of the i6 h February,
been, it is believed, in the same order as thai
III which they appear IN the documents. The
Treasury statements, from which the balances
nthe Bank of Edwardsyilie, at the end of the
"a, "a, and 4th quarters Of 1879, are quoted
by Mr. Edwards, were prepared, by the frea-
surer, from materials in his own possession
and the secretary had no more to do with the
preparation of them. than Mr.. Edwards him
So So. ~. VI ooh'hn II. as me stale
a 80 VI ,na, o,lieer. ne cause why the
rao,,nt VI 'ie t'' lu'r!er q iois' aifers IN
~ - I'm u'i'' rendered y me Bank t"f
,"o san Pet,o5' ~ VA, IN me former, the
',e.s' rs mas aeuuctea ron me sum stand
~ ~ nis oreu't ~ 'na' bank' me amount OF
~ "','.p ne naa Drawn on tlie ifahk,
any, any, au l,ot peeh pa'a at ,ie tune when
49, ' 10, , .h n was prepared. Inc sum
~ ~ 'he nar' p tnerefore' more than
nl ~ .re ireasuref' oy 'he amount OF
n,"'ss a:s Is more pafhcoiariy shown
-, r ',o'e from ule treasurer,
al vi whose statements are prepared on the