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From The Hamilton hteiigcHcer.
JOhn u, XEcIIcr's Defa!CnIiOm.


John II. WCIIcr's DeGalCatiOn.
We have several times called the attention Of
Mr.. Weller and his friends TO this subject, in .
hopes that full statement Of the facts would !
have been made~by him or his authority. In |
this we have been disappointed. We now pro.
pose to give a succuct statement Of facts
The facts stated in our paper Of the 9Th Ju-
" have not been denied. We then said in sab .
stance that Mr.. Weller and his associates had .
failed to deliver over to the county Auditor the .
notes, bonds, mortgages and evidences Of debt |
for Surplus Revenue, and the vouchers, papers, |
books and properly belonging 10 their office as
required by law; that bill had been filed in .
Butler common pleas in chancery, against Mr.. |
Weller and his associates, to which he had de- /
INJURED, that the Court had ovcrrulcd the de- |
murrer, and ordered that the defendants should |
within forty days deliver to the Auditor of But |
Ter county all notes, bonds, mortgages and evil /
denccs of debt for the Surplus Revenue, and
vouchers, papers, books and properly belonging
to their office, with the schedules required by
the act for the better regulation Of the Surplus |
Revenue, passed on the 9Th January, 1916; |
that this order had not been obeycd, Mr.. We'll /
Ter and his co-delendants being again in default.
We stated further, that the Surplus Revenue in
the hands of Mr.. Weller and his associates, a.
mounts to twenty thousand two hundred
and ffty-nve dollars, siYty-One gents, exclusive
of ten thousand dollars borrowed by the county;
this sum being also exclusive Of the interest in
their hands, that it appears by the record that
Mr.. Weller has himself used at least eiereR
thousand d0liarS of this fund; how much more
cannot be known ua'i he shall be compelled to
render proper statement of the lund--and that
another commissioner is debtor for four thou
sand dollars, making between these two wor-
Ithies, ftieen thousand dollars. We said that
Mr.. Weller had since his nomination us can
didale for Governor, executed and placed on
record mortgage for this eleven thousand dol
lms. These facts are not denied; they stand
on record.
The Surplus Revenue Fund was received by
the Fund Commissioners of Butler county in
1887, and n rule was then adopted, "but not
} more than $1,000 nor less than 500, should be
: loaned to any individual" This just aud cqut-
l able rule has. we believe, never been rescinded
: or annuIod by the board. These regulations
may be seen by referring TO the Telegraph OF
. the 4th of August, 1887. 1t appears by the re-
= mort made by Mr.. Weller and his associates in
. January, 1916, that the principal of the Sur
- plus Revenue had been distributed among the
70 several townships of the county, $4,000 being
$ loaned in Fairfield township, the residence OF
c Nh. Weller, and 50, SIG l6 in Lemon, the resi-
J, dencc of Mr.. Ward, another of the Commits
= sioncrs. 1t also appears by this report that in
1 addition to the principal of the fund, the Com
0 missioncrs had in their hands on lst January
\ 18l5, 1886 46 of interest, being the two pei
+. cent received by them for the benefit of the
Y county. The five per cent interest due to the
State for the year 1916 and l847, which should
y have been paid over to the county Treasurer
II was we understand paid to the State out of the
it funds OF the county, amounting for the two
e wears to the sum of $0,725 So. These sum,
@ with the principal Of the fund amount to ESQ,
}. 1888 63, iorwhch MIR. Wellerand his colleague,
is are accountable. See report of Fund Commis
e sioners, State Documents of 1856, Doc. 90
}. page 8l8.
ID By the seventh section of the act 10 provide
e for ,he payment of the domestic creditors o
10 the State of Ohio, passed 18Th March, 1913
,. vol. 40, page 82, it is provided "lhat all pay
i. mens of all moneys or bonds received by tht
l. Fund Commissioners Of any county, or coIlec
Is ted by them from any person or persons, bo
III dies COfpOGulc oI pohhSS nun o"lu pu P'uo NV
l. enue fund shall not be reoaned, but shall be re
ID tained by them to be paid into the State Treas
e, ury in the manner hereinafter provided" Fh,
D. 18Th section provides "that all money, bond
certificates in the hands of the Fund Commits
&c sonors Of any county, under the provisions o
IN this act, and required to be paid into the Stat
or Treasury, shall be by said Fucd Commissioner
n, paid to the county Treaserer on or before tn
r. 3lst day of December in each year, TO be b
,n him paid tc the Treasurer of State"
ep "The act for the better regulation of tn
II Surplus Revenue, passed eth January, l84t
&c vol. Al, page 60, requiring the Fund Commi:
III sioners on or before the first Monday of June
e. 1916, TO transfer and deliver to the Auditor {
IS; the county, all notes, bonds, mortgages and ev
OF dences of debt for Surplus Revenue, and u
MS papers, books and property belonging to the
on Office. and SAID Fund Commissioners shall max
1e out duplicate schedules of all such notes, bond
mortgages aud evidences of debt standing
ny separate columns the date thereof, the amount
It's principal and the interest due, upon which dl
r. plicate schedules the Auditor shall give his n
Is cepls."