M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-08-06
The Way our Republican State
Officials Manage the Treasury
Extraordinary Negligence.

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Z. We take the following interesting
! article from the Newark Adcocats
, which is edited by Ex-Auditor Nor
gan, who says:
D There is no end to the proofs tha
present themselves to confirm and fast
! en- upon the Chase Administration the
most shameless and criminal neglect
in their guardianship and control over
the public money. In Kelley's new
} Treasury law, passed April 8, 1856
the following important, though i'll,
guarded section has a prominent
place:
"Section 18. 1t shall be the duty
of the Auditor quarter-annually, on
the 18th day of March, June, Sep
tOmber and December, (or if any such
day should be Sunday, then on the day
previous to ascertain the amount Of
money in the Treasury belonging to
the Sinking Fund, and draw on the
Treasurer therefor in favor of the ac-
ting Commissioner ofSaid Fund, spec
flying in every such draft the source
or sources from which the money so
drawn for was deprived"
Now, mark the duty imposed by
the above section, and the consequen-
ces that would have resulted from its
prompt and faithful performance;
First. 1t was made the duty Of
the State Auditor to ascertain "quar-
ter-annually" from the books Of his
office, the exact amount of money in
the Treasury belonging to the Sink
ing Fund, and to drGw the same there
from on behalf OF the acting Com
missioner Of said fund. Between the
date of the passage of this law aud the
time ofwhich Gibson delaulted, the
DUTY imposed by the eighteenth sec.
ton (above quoted) on the State au-
thorities should have been performed
at each Of four distinct quarterly peri
DDS, to-wit:
|. On the 18th day of June, 1856;
2. On the 18th day of September,
1856;
8. On the 18th day of December,
1856;
4. On the 18th day of March, 1857.
Let the reader mark that at each of
the above dates the law (Kelley's ne'o
law Of April s, 1856 made it the du-
ty ofthe State authorities to ascertain
the whole amount of the Sinking
Fund in the Treasury and draw IL
herJfom. This duty was not option
al, but imperative. Had it been
faithfully performed, the whole
amount Of Sinking Fund rightfully
in the Treasury at each oflhose dates
would have been withdrawn from
the Treasury and applied to the
public debt Of Ohio.
Second. The SUN of $547 900 &C.
knowledged by Gibson to be missing
on the day he resigned his Office, aOa8
money belonging to the Sinking
Fund, and is alleged to have been
lost or used by Breslin and never
paid over by him to Gibson. Now,
presuming for the sake OF the argu.
ment, that this allegation is true, why
has this immense delinquency, charg-
ed back a gear and a halt on Breslin,
been SO long covered up by the con-
current knavery and neglect of the
Treasurer, Auditor and Fund Com
misSionersy 1t will net do to offer as
a sufficient apology the alleged fact
that Gibson fooled the Auditor and
Investigating Committees by produ-
cling, for their inspection, moneys and
drafts which he had borrowed for the
sole purpose of deceiving them. This
humilating plea may suffice to show
why they reported that the money was
all in the Treasury, but it does not
captain why the 18th section of Kel-
ley's new law (above quotod) was not
promptly and fully carried into effect.
II does not Explain WHY the State
Auditor and the Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund neglected to ascertain
the safety OF that fund by drawing on
the Treasury for the full amount that
ought to have been there on the 18th
day of June, 1856, five months after
Mr.. Breslin retired from Office. II
does not captain why this duty was
again omitted on the 18th day OF De-
cember, 1856. 1t does not egpIain
why it was stiUneglected on the 18th
day of March, 1851. At each Of
these four distinct periods, it was
within the lawful power-nay, II acaS
made the Imperative legal duty Of
the State Auditor and Sinking Fund
Commissioners to have applied such
a test to the condition OF the Treasury
as could not have failed to bring to
light the alleged defalcation of Bres-
lin, now claimed to have been screen
ed and covered up by his successor.
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