Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-11

municated tothe Board hispurpose Of Issuing them
Its regular meetings were on Tuesday Of every
week; the Last meeting prior 70 tho pretended
election had been held on Tuesday, the goth Feb
ruary, and the Board then adjourned 20 meet again
on Tuesday, the 27th OF that mcnth. In conse.
quence of the proceedings OF the 22d, special
meeting was called on the Gath. "0n reading, &C
cordiog to usage of the journal Of the last proceed
ing meeting il was found TO contain minute i'm
porting thai the Board authorized the holding OF
The election on the 22d. This false entry was, 10y
its order, expunged."
The journal Of that Board Of the Goth February,
1855, 10 verbatim as follows;
WAsHiSoTos NAT. Mon. oEyIcE,
Feb. 30, 1858.
Board Of Managers met, pursuant to adjourn.
ment. Present. Mcssrs. Henderson, Carberry,
Crawford, Fendall and Brent
Proceedings of the last meeting read and APP
proved.
!, Applications for agencies Warren w. Wing,
for Portsmouth and Norfolk, Va; w. II. Remper,
for Cincinnati Ohio which were laid on the table.
The President and Secretary were informed that
the annual election Of officers would be held ON
tho 22d inst.
A communication was then received from Mr..
Whittlescy. The Clerkwas directed to proceedto
the Capitol and furnish such information as was de-
sired by Mr.. May. On the return Of the Clerk no
quorum was present.
Adjourned.
At their meeting on the 24th, most Of the mem
bers of this Board wero present, and We (such Of
us a. were there, and one of Va made memoran-
DUN Of the facts az soon as they had been acted)
state the incidents Of that part Of the meeting az
follows, and challenge contradiction:
As soon as the journal was read, Gen. w. Jones
fwho hal attended but one meeting OF that Board
for more than year, as appears by their journal,
aud who had been summoned to attend, and whose
arrival was waited for by that Board) asked by
what authority tho clerk had made that entry
about the election and, without waiting for reply,
daSounocd il as fraud. Mr.. Carberry, Dir. Fem
dali, Mr.. Smith aud Mr.. Brent, all, as We under
stood, declared II had not been done by the author
ity of the Board. Mr.. Eckloff, the clerk who made
the entry, and who had just read the journal, re-
piled. Mr. Kendall, you were at the meeting for
short time only, and Mr.. Smith did not come in
until the Board had adjourned But before the
Board met, mentioned to Mr.. Carberry, and to
Mr.. Brent, and afterwards 10 Gen. Henderson, that
next Thursday, the 22d, would be the election
day." Mr.. Brent, in our presence, frankly ad.
initted that Mr.. Eckof had said 30 to him, and Mr.
Carberry admitted that something had been said
about it Gen. Henderson was not then present
Dir. EckloR then proceeded: After the Board
met, ! was sent to the Capitol with message to
Mr.. May; and on my return, not finding the jour
nal made up, r did, az usually did, make the en-
Va
and asked him if ] ought rot to give the notice,
said. Certainly, it's all right" We make this
statement in justice to Mr. Ecklof, who has for SO
many wears been the clerk Of that Board, and il
retained by us. The Board did not wait 10 learn
whether Gen. Henderson would confirm or con-
tradctMr. Eckloff, buta once and by an unanimous
vote, ordered the entry to be stricken out We
infer that Gen. Henderson would have corrob-
Grated Mr.. Ecklof, or he would not have attended,
pursuant to the notice. and presided and voted at
that meeting.
II Is quite clear that the attention of the Vice
Presidents and Secretary called to the fact Of
the approaching anniversary and election that
the late Board deemod a notice, signed by their
Secretary necessary and proper, andyet thsyissued
no notice Was 1t not time for the Society to take
the matter In hand Did the late Board suppose
they were forever to meet as on former occasions,
and some Eve or six OF them re-elect themselves
And did they, for that purpose (for Messrs. Hen
dsrson, and Force, and 'Fendall, and Seaton, were
not the only officers about there that day. come
to that meeting, expecting the old farce 10 be
played over, and that they would again, on the
9th Of February, to which they stood adjourned,
organize themselves into a boardg
But there is behind this graver charge, which
we will state in their own language:
This election was carried on certificates of
membership, (Which can be obtained by the con-
trbuton Of one dollar for each issued Vithout the
authority or knowledge of this Board; and 1t Is
now beyond the power of this Board to ascertain
by whom they were respectively issued, or What
money, II any, was paid for them. But IL ia Ger.
fain that no payment on this account has reached
fhs haads of the treasurer Of this Society, the off,
GER scho ought to have received t."
The italics are our own. We have found great
diniculty in depressing the indignation aroused
by this passage, and to reply In manner becom-
ing ourselves
Mr. r. w. Eckloh, the person thus assailed, has
been for years thcircon6dentlal clerk. He has for
years been fully authorized by that Board to Issue
certificates 10 each person paying him one dollar
for then; he has, icih the full knowledge Of the
Board, a. We infer from their Journals, and he
asers, ha5itnaiiy done so for years past. His men,
orandum shows that during the week ending the
Goth February he had received twenty dollars, and
on that day received two dollars for certificates
Aud Mr. Smith, the treasurer, receipted to him that
for s4o IA including as he states the s22 thus -e
ceived by him for certificates. And now, in the
face of these facts, these gentlemen would have
YOU believe that the certificates were issued NTH
our their authority and that "n 10 certain that
no paymcnt on this account has been received by
TIE treasurer Of the Society.
Again On tho goth, 2lst, and 22d, large num-
hels OF certificates were sold, General Henderson
kinself bought one on The 22d and there has been
paid over 10 Mr. McCalla, the present treasurer,
money paid TO Mr.. Smith on the goth. Add to
this the fact that large number Of voters on the
22d, and Colonel Force among them, voted upon
certificates some Of which were issued many years
ago, and the allegation Of fact is fully met and
dsproved.
The impuiations are, that the notice was fraudu.
iently procured 70 be given by Ecklof; that the
certificates on which the election carried we're
frsudulenily ssucd that the men who voted on
them paid no money for them, or If they did, that
money has been withheld from the Society.
We have not the advantage Of the prominent
position in society, which is held by those men
whosc names are appended TO that paper, as con-
stituting the late Board Of Managers, by whose
authority Il is published. We aware that some
Of them never sap il till IL ras IN print, and we
have waited in the vain hope that some one Of
them would have the mapliness 10 step forward
and say he did not authorize II. Their names give
weight to these accusations grave, whether lev
elled at MS or their former clerk, those who vo-
ted for us. We arc comparatively humble snd
unknown men, but we have characters as puro and
as valuable TO us as the loftiest Of these lordly
men, who from time to time are asking, who
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