Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-05-18

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bowever, is groundless. There is no real diff
ference in the meaning Of the words employ
.d by the Secretary and those of Mr.. Edwards,
IN relation to the letter. II the Receiver had
discontinued the deposites, for reasons stated
BY him to the Secretary, las MIR. K. alleges)
and il he had, in consequence, received a let
fer from the Secretary, directing him to con
tinue the deposites, las Mr.. E. also alleges)
such letter, whatever might have been its
form, was, in fact, an answer to the letter of
the Receiver. The denial Of the Secretary
that any such answer was recollected, or was
on record, so far from being evasive, was d.
rect and explicit, and covers, as was intended,
the whole ground presented in the charge.
But this charge, cOntradicted, as it is, by all
the facts which have been adduced in the case,
il also rendered more improbable by the want
ofany assignabie motive for the Secretary
alleged conduct on the subject. What object
had he to serve, by continuing the deposites
in the Bank Of Edwartlsvie, il he had receive
ed any communications which authorized the
opinion that they were insecure in that Bank !?
Mr.. Edwards has charged him with an inn
proper partiality for the Bank Of Missouri, yet
it was that Bank from which the deposites
were taken, to be placed in the Bank of Ed
wardsve; and it was to that Bank that they
must have been restored, If they were with
drawn from the Bank Of Edwardsville. There
was no other bank within reach. 1.-THE charge
OF fdvOriism towards the hank Of Missouri
were well founded, the Secretary would have
readily avaed himself of the pretext furnish
ed by the alleged communication of the Re-
ceiver, for restoring the depositc to that Bank.
The Instructions given tn the Receiver at
Kaskaskia, to deposie in the Bank of Missouri,
SO Tar from confirming the allegation, that
letter from the Receiver at Edwardsyille, en-
closing the publication Of Mr.. Edwards, had
been received by the Secretary, lead to con-
trary conclusion. The correspondence with
that Hrceirer at the period in question, is
herewith transmitted. II appears that, ON the
18Th OF September, 1919. this Receiver wrote
TO The Secretary. enclosing his account current
'nf me month 81 August preceding and, as
there appeared, by that account, a large hs =
lance of public n,osey in his hands, amounting
~ about $50 1000, hr seems to have consider
eNit necessary 10 explain the cause His ex-
planat'on was the same us that offered by Mrs.
stephenson, for a like reicniion of money. to
mret Tue Indian payments and, in this case,
as III IN" other, not any publication Of Mr. Ed
wards or any circumstance affecting the cha
racter OF the Bank Of Edwards, lille, which, If
such, had existed, he was bound by the Sucre-
farys Instructions 10 commandments I, was
known Z" The Secretary that il was not sn con-
'tnitn' lnr THIS Receiver 10 depusi,e AZ Ed
Warusvlii", between which place d kaskss
ga therr was very little commune alton, as at
St. Louis, with which there WAS frequent IN
tercourse. ID the next letter written TO this
RECEIVER ny the Secretary, which was on the
ist OF Nu'ember, 1919, the Secretary with
out a'nd'Dg I" any publication of Mr.. Ed
wards'or any letter from the Receiver at Ed :.
war'is'l'Ie, which il any had becn known to
nun would naturally have been alluded TO on
snch IN occasion, directed the Receiver at
kaskaskia to drpnstr in the Bank ofEdwards
vile all Toe money IN his possession, at the
close of me month, and afterwards 10 depusite
IN The Bank OF Missouri. The Receiver al
not make this deposits for reasons stated by
him IN his letter of the 10th January, 1890
uniIl the Sd Of that month, as will b. seen by
the list OF moneys deposited by him on tina,
DAY. From his silence on the subject, il is
e''aen' thn' there was nothing in the circum-
stances OF Inc bank to render the deposie
improper.
The accusation Of having pres ented contra
dIc'ory statements of the amount of pnhc
money, IN 'he Bank of EdwardsvilI-, and of
having 'ranSposFd other statements from tina;
bahK, IN the communications made by the Sc
cretary To the House, and Of having done so
Tor The purpose Of Disgusting the truth in re-
iatIon to the drpesites in that bank, with .;
view To their bearing on the charge connect
ed with thes" supposed letters, is altogether
without foundation. The bank statements If
December and November, which are referred
TO- either formed part of, or accompanied the
letters, which they Immediately follow in the
printed papers; the frs, having been writiep
on par, OF ne same paper as The letter of the
.th OF January, 1890, TO Mr.. Edwards, and the
ht'er having been enclosed in the letter of the
6th OF January, aud both The letters and the
STATEMENTS having, when transmitted by Nh
Edwards, in his letter of the 10Th February.
oeen, II IS believed, i'm the same order as that
10 which they appear in the documents. The
treasury Statements. from which the balap-
ces in the Bank Of Edwardsvie. NJ the end of
'ne I'd, Sd and din quarters Of 1919, are qsot-
I'll ny Mr.. Edwards, were prepared, by the
treasurer, from materials in hi. own possess
sion and the Secretary had no more To do
with the preparation of them, than Mr.. Ed
wards himself. They were communicated as
Tie statements of that officer The cause why
Inc statement for the 4th quarter of 1919,
differs IN amount from that rendered by the
oank Tor the same period, is, that in the for
mer, the Treasurer has deducted from the
sum standing to his credit in that bank, the
amount Of two drafts which he had drawn
on the bank. and which had not been paid M
The time, when the bank statement was pre-
pared. The sum stated by the bank is, there
lore, more than that stated by the Treasurer.
hy the amount Of these drafts, This is more
particularly shown in the accompanying note
T9m the Treasurer, all Of whose statements
are prepared on the same principle, and have
always been SD prepared. Ii is considered
unnecessary To dwell longer on this branch Of
the subject. That no such communication,
as Mr.. Edwards alleges, we're made, is belirv-
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