The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-19

fan900ents win t0o holders OF tue o0n0o
n ~ Aelaee MAsnsity aa1 stop interest.
] am very truly,
Your obi sesv't, p
jams w. G1inEs.
To this letter nsSsr ssccivedla reply
either verbal or written. Ihave never had
personal interview with the Saperinten-
dent in relation 10 those two 1--WE per cent.
funds Of 15A3A1,b9 and o226, s7sS6, ex-
cert to ask OF him the 100 900, Is contem-
pl,ted By the joint resolutions OF the 18th
July last.
On the 95th day of September last re-
ceived from the Treasury Department At
Warrington letter from which the foliow.
ing 10 . copy.
TREAsuRY DEPARrnRHra
CoxrTRoLLKas OSFIcE, Sept. II, SO. :
HIS ExcELLEncY,
j. w. GxlnIs,
Gossynor Of tks Ntsts Of lospa.
Iowa CIrY, Iowa.
Sir. An account ef the i've psr cent fund
which has accrued to the State OF Iowa.
from the sales Of public lalls within her
limits from kAs 6Est Janualy 70 the 3ist De.
cember lo6k has bsen adjusted At the
Treasury and ! balance Of olot ,5s5 80 found
to be due her from ths United Etates.
II the balance Of said fund shoula be paid
as a former one was. II will ~ % paid when
You shall have certified who now is the Su-
perin,endent Of Public Schools Of the State
of oGa. and he shall have applied for such
pay ment.
lam very respectfully,
Your obi &c.
EIIsHA WnrrLSsEY.
Comptroller.
About one week before the commence
ment ef the present session Of the General
Assembly, the Superintendent Of Public In-
struction called at my house in Burlington
and asked me what kind Of bond would
| approve for him. replied that would APP
prove good bond; but that was at that
time too unwell to talk with him upon bu-
siness. This was the substance Of our con-
i yersation.
Ii wholly untrue tina, he asked me fol
a certificate as Governor, that he wss the
proper officer TO receive the five per cent
now in the Treasury of the United States
and belonging to this State. It is equally
untrue that informed him that if he woult
fill an additional bond acceptable to me in
the amount Of $200, zoe or to any other a.
mount, that would so certify.
The only interview ever had With the
Super ntendent of Public Instruction upon
this subject was on Tuesday the I'd inst, in
this city. He then called upon me "with
the gentlemen representing his securities
and presented . bond for my approval.
| Ii Is unquali6edly false that declared tina,
| the bond was acceptable to me, but that
would not give the certificate before prom.
| ised, unless he would bind himself to loan
me as agent of the State, Sixty thousand
dollars under the Act passed at the extra
session in July last. So far from declaring
| myself satisfied with the bond, at once OBJ
lec,ed to it and refused TO approve it be-
cause il was special bond applying to this
| particular fund only, whilst the Statute re-
quired that the conditions Of the bond should
be general and retrospective as well Is
| pros pectiye in their effect; and because the
penalty OF the bond was not large enough.
| No allusian was made to the sixty thousand
ldollars except that at near the close of the
lin,eryiew put TO him the question why he
| had not paid to Inc that amount or answer
| ed my letter.
After examining the bond attempted to
| show him its invalid,y, and then unhesita-
,ingly told him that although was willing
to approve any good and legal bonds that
he might present to me, yet was resolved
not to be directly or indirectly instrumental
in placing any more money belonging to
| the State or TO the School Fund in his
hands, / very frankly told him the reasons
why | had come to that observation-disclosures
those reasons he will briefly assign.
lst. The General Assembly by the pas
sage OF an Act almost unanimously, which
was lost by the carelessness or frsud OF
some Of its off GERS before receiving the sig
nature ofihe President OF the Senate, suff-
GENTLY indicated the public desire and in
tention, that the Superinte ndent OF Public
Instructions should have the custody Of no
more public monies.
3D. Because he had failed to distribute
the FIVE per cent fund among the several
| School Fund Commissioners as had been
| done by his predecessor in Office, and as he
professed to do With the S54 ,341, SO arising
| from the sale of public Lands from the lst
January to 3lst Dec. 1858.
Sd. Because he did not loan out this fund
to different persons upon such time and with
such security as he saw fr, and as was
convinced holly without authority of laa !.
4th. Because knew that the report made
| by him TO the General Assembly in July
| last OF the distribution of moneys among the
several County School Fund Commission
ers was false, and is now abundantly shown
BY his port submitted 10 the Senate on
the 9Th inst That time he reported that he
had distributed the FIVE per cent fund for
1853 as follows: Oxide appendix to last Sen
ate ;ouruai1