New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-19
KANSAS.
TIE AUDITORS REPORT.


LECoMPTON. X. T. Feb. :, 1857.
Among the latest items | have to note is the
Report of the Auditor OF the Territory OF Kansas,
Ny. John Donaldson. Il has Just been read aud
referred to the appropriate Committee. 1t Is q
most unique financial document.
BY the report it appears that trihe over $4,000
Is the amount Of bogus tax collected IN the Ierri-
tory. The fiscal year, We learn. was to close last
August, but the account il stated to be carried up
TO Dec. 81 and there is strirg Of accounts from
Captain Hampton. Master Of the cOnvicts, lugged
in as sort of addenda, which brings il up to the
present writing. There does net appear to be
very close affinity between the amounts given aud
the adding up. Thus, it is stated that Leayen-
worth yielded 81, l09. The Clerk read Doniphan
Sl'2O, which, suspect. was S23O-for that was
about the amount really collected in that quarter.
Douglas County yielded fraction over $500;
Atchlsop, $3.50. There is only one other county
that yielded over $500. johnson, 500; Shawnee,
S44; Barbour, S44; and Jefferson, $40. The
other counties have, it appears, yielded nothing.
A large number of the counties from which there
are no returns find an apology through the want
Of county organization" An immediate organize.
tion appointment of county officers and location
OF county seats) is urged. From the OrgaGized
counties, which are yet like the barren fg tree,
the common scapegoat, Z" the difficulties, answers
the purpose. More stringent laws for the collec
| ton Of the revenue are urged. The result as
summed up is stated, as above, at 1920. The
expenses Of collection have been nearly 800
leaving upward of 81, 500 as the net product.
This sum was the produce of the capitation tax
The figures given throw little Light on few mat
tiers. The tax collected at the October election.
1855 is included when the tax was 81 for each
voter, and Whitfield WAS said to have got 5000
votes. 1t also includes the ffycent election last
FALL when some $500 votes are returned. That
il is not all attributable to the counties from which
there are no returns is evident from the fact that
johnson County polled upward Of 800 in 1855 and
40 in 1850, and only reports $50 in all. SO it is
with the other counties from which there are
returns. This will show how far Pro Slavery men
have paid their own tax, which was intended as q
bar to Free State men.
If that portion of the report referring to receipts
is not very clear the portion relating to disburse-
nents is still more puzzling. Among the expenses
audited and allowed but not paid, is some
81 coo for constructing road from the Missouri
frontier TO +. A. Atkinson. This bill the Auditor
ssys be has allowed after consulting the best legal
adv ice but adds that if there is any way TO avoid it.,
il might be possible by the aid of the revenue of
1857 to make the books balance. He recommends
the payment of some bills which seem TO relate to
the furnishing of his owl Office the largest item,
sol, being the principal and interest Of account
with The Missouri Republican for books. As much
more is charged for stationery, and there is an item
TO the said John Donaldson of storage of books.
He includes a strrg Of accounts from Mr.. Hamp-
ton, Master of Convicts, aggregating Sl,O67 40.
He makes no report about this, and suppose ig-
nores it. Such the general features of this Gu
rious document.
Kansas has double treasury system, although
the Territorial fnanclas are not in too prosperous
a condition. Uncle Sam is expected to keep the
machinery Of Territorial Government in motion.
This Territorial auditor is purely bogus Off
cial aud created for the occasion. There does not
appear to be a very we'll defined rule as to what
each shall pay for. Thus, if the accounts of Dir.
Hampton are to be allowed, it would seem ridcu-
Ions that the General Government should have to
pay for keeping the prisoners before they we're con-
yicted, and the Territorial afteYward.