Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-30
erm;I 8 amour. of money almost reaching

permit an amount Of money almost reaching
Sfia5.shl 10 mas tlifepgt his hands without re-
tanning any vouchers or other evidences showing
the disposition made OF il, rs both the law and
the ylainest requirements of duty would suggest
seems to the minds of your committee most
surprising and extraordinary, and indicates in
their opinion an undtness on his part TO man
age 50 large fund, that must seem apparent
to ALL
Your committee also feel it their duty TO call
the attention of the Senate TO, aud to condemn
on their par, in the most ufequ:vocal manner
the assumption of authority by that officer, es-
ercised even after coordinate branch OF the
legislature had called his attention TO the fact,
aud in the absence OF any positive enactment OF
law, in the loaaiug oat or a long credit and with
reckiessness in respect to security which no
private individual would for moment tolerate, a
large portion of the fund arising from the per
centun accruing to the school fund from the
proceeds of the sales OF the public lands II it
was the duty of that officer TO apportion the
amount of the fund in January, 1885, when it
amounted to only So, "a 80, as he seems to have
acknowledged by his act in distributing as he did
on the lst Of March, So, your committee cannot
conceive why he shonld not have considered it
equally his duty 10 distribute the fund coming
| in his hands, March, 56, when it amounted to
/ S226, 500 so.
Your committee feelit their duty also, to call
! the attention of the Senate to the singular inc
quality shown By that officer in the manner OF
distributing this fund among the different coun-
| ties, so far as any distribution has been made.
I In the disposition of the fund apportioned on
| the 25th OF March, 1885, OF s54,s4l 81. there
| were according to the statements OF the Snperin
tendent paid to Lee county, though the commit
/ tee have no evidence of il except the verbal as
| of hat, nd t,ar nj
| fora small part only, the sum of s2o,7oo SO
while Dubuque and Des Moines received 81, o0C
each and more than half OF the organized coun
! ties of the State did not receive any.
So;witl regard TO the partial distribution Of
1.-the fund received March, 1856 The Superin
Itendent claims to have distributed some s92, 50C
lamong Is different counties, though your com
mittee, as before stated found vouchers fer on
] ly $4,000 so apportioned, but of the sum claim
ed to have been distributed by him, Lee county
is again made to receive $4,000, while Dubuque
Mahaska, and other populous counties receive
nothing. So fragrant violation of fairness and
equality in the apportonment of the school fund
seems, in the minds Of your committee, to de-
mand the protecting arm of the General Assem-
bly,, and demonstrates If any thing were needed
in addition to the facts previously stated in thcil
4 opinion, the utter incapaeity of the present SUI
perIntendent OF Public instruction to manage the
/ school funds with that judicious care which the
interests OF the State and their proper protection
demand. .5t.. St e..,.. ...,1r = a..E
our committee would therefore recommend
that the law authorizing the Superintendent tc
receive the fund now due the STATE from the
General Government accrning on the proceeds
the sale OF the public lands for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1885, be repealed.
| All of which is respectfully submitted,
1 }. NJ. Preston, Chairman o
-s.- Ways and Means.
/ Sd, ......... ~ w. F. CooLBAuGH,
| a.....s. -.. D. ?. BRIGHAM, -s..-
.-- a......... J. c. HILLS
40 -.... A. SANDERS, .,..,. ....
w. W. HAMILTON.
! July 10, 1856. ...