The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-03-02


INK Mr. BiSson a. N. ssys. recegves frsmMr. Bres
40 hut sa5a ss5 a., and then never asks ior Che flsn
Ines pqairy Of what Il cousisis oi where oe!oei
Sat Al oss atss svsry sss in vii Mr Brcs
lin . coneeu fro1n BE Frasr aat critics - vel as
the pnhlc. all kuoHlr e N reaiign ~ lie says bIes
that Ind not the slightest suspicion that any thing was
wrenr That hctgeen Ais ciectson and the time he eu
tesed upon The duties of his olcs no eonnunieaaon
vas nae him any kind. which made him think or
eyeu suspect taai ha vas 10 aid Brcslin IN any manner
In carrying any deas In lis funds, that there woud
be any dieuty In hhclosng bis accounts, and paying
pended debts Bl the Cit Bank OF Cincinnati, CONNER
cial Rank OF Toledo, and VI. w Cones & Co, apd ID.
necksl. sa0ae35 G5, which had been stated by Hresn
n his last annual report, suspended er lost lie says
ha knew te0 outstanding certificates issued by
Breslin . The County Treaurers amounting to sI6O
us 90 included in the sum Of SsS5 eSS ~, above stated
wheh he hound 20 receive scash thcr hna set
llement aud forwhich Breslln liable 20 the state
and yet he demanded no from him upon the
saJ nor did he seek any from other sources lnl
dWIf - ofa statement, he says: ttt
81 neFor asked Mr.. Dresn exhibit TO auy state
nen Or make any Ii 70 WY s SS die s0' Ea
TO tell me were they were, as 70 what kind OF security
paper condition, or In whose hands they Sere iitt
Q5fsf sceat ont ofoce; aud my demanding such
Statemens and explanations be declined making any and
has not made any up to this time and yet IL per
feet ignorance of his Affairs as uasat tst except as 20
haSnl rearence to thu Bless EkhAEsSni GTsenssoough
matters. -. IL
row. and throughout his testimony before us, lie
aes s ente ignorance Of the Of any Of tho funds
Of The State BY Breslin except 10 legitimate official trans
actions, declaring that he implicitly believed Bresiin
shown by the books to be In his hands and because no did
do he not led to suspect he had placed the
funds beyond his reach or control, 3HE
Does any sane man believe that II Mr.. Gibson really
ha implicit confidence In Bresln as an officer and an
honest man. their personal relations having been pre-
yously Of the intimate character, and their official
relations demanding that there should 30 no reservations
in language conduct, when he aseerhued that $751;
y O3 of the moneys due to the State by Mr. Bresn.
to him In his ofoial character were not paid to him
would have demanded word Of explanation any
for the nonpaymen7 II both these had been
honest Of them, the explanation would have
been at once given required No eireumstapce could
In our minds more strongly evidence the possession OF
full knowedge the part Of Gbson Of the ebarSssed
condition OF the Treasury at the time he entered it. The
systematic course in concsament pursued by him during
the whole period he b office, 90 mplicates him
being In collusiou and eoufsderate with Bresn, that
reference to few facts developed BY the testimony may
BE took possession Of his ofcs Jsnuary a. 1856 and
he states, received officially but 1858 SG5. when
he should have received ss5s II no had not before
been concerned privately In the abstraction Of part
| OF it.
official statement the condition Of the Treasury spec
yipg particularly to what account the funds belonged
and Of what they consisted, showing that there was,
that day, an unexpended balance In the Treasury of
25 22 thus, In just two months after he became
Treasurer declaring to the people that there wa7 de-
. f u
On the 29h Of March, 1856 in letter addressed to the
Hon Alfred Kelley, Chairman Of the Senate Committee
Finance he stated that be had received from John g.
Besn, late Treasurer from the l4h of January to tbs
3d of March 1885, 1886 lOl 81 and in his first annual
report Of November Is, 1856 he acknowledged the re-
cept Of the entire amount due from his redecesso Mr.
Bresn except the sum OF S. %, which, however,
| he had charged to himself, .ga,,f1sts. f.-s. H. l.
Previous to the making Of Mr., dibsons first annual re
port some suspicious had been awakened at least
branch General Assembly which led to the passage
resolution in March, 1855, instrueng the Finance Com.
mittee OF the Senate to inquire into the condition Of the
Treasury its funds and accounts. That COMMITTEES made
minute examination po sits In the time allotted
them during session Of the Legislature which resulted
in their finding the Treasury, under the control OF
the Treasurer accounted for by him in satisfactory
manner, all the funds which should have been therein
At that ne Mr. Gibson stated that his predecessor had
placed him In funds necessary to meet his entire liability
to the Treasury, except that In regard to the
drafts accounts, e., reported by him. there
Item upon which the money could not be realized in two
days; and hoping his statement might be satisfactory he
desired the Committee to be assured that 1t would afford
him great pleasure to furnish any information within his
reach or knowledge"
by his fasehood and duplclty and by the aid Of sun
dry banks and bankers, Gibson enabled to deceive
this committee TO The real condition of the Treasury
The funds belonging to the Treasury not in It, nor
within the control the Treasurer and the statement
was false throughout Ni :" @
The General Assembly still Impressed with the belief
that gross fraud was being pacced by Mr. Gibson and
that The funds in the Treasury really endangered,
II not then already lost the llth of April 1856 ap.
pointed Joint Committee Finance, with power to
make faIl EXAMINATION into all the Of the
Treasurers and Auditors Onces, and to examine into
the practices and transactions Of the Treasurer re
gular examination having been had since 1e47 By this
COMMITTEE, the accounts, they appeared upon the
books, were carefully examined and such other evidence
adduced, to subsantate or invadate the as were ne
ce-sary. Witnesses, including both the Trsasurers,
Bresln and Gibson, were interrogaedstatements de-.
manded and furnishedanda personal examination and
count Of the funds actually in the Treasury was ade
but while many evil practices and Illegal transactions
we're disclosed by this committee defalcation In the
funds Of the Treasury discovered which had not been
accounted for which proved there any indebted
ness on the part Of Mr. Bresn, to his sssor or
the State Mr., Gibson again enabled by false state
ments in every FORM to eude the vigilance Of the ex
amners conceal the defacation and to stand acquitted
Of actual abstraction himself aeH.4
The manner in which this fraud, on the part Of Mr..
Gibson, successfully perpetrated Is fully disclosed
In his testimony before us, 1t had been partially in
that before Mr. Sparrow He swears before us, that the
official statement made to Mr. Kelley, Chairman OF the
Senate Committee on Finance, on the Goth of Marcf
1856 that he had received from Mr.. Bresn 1886 81
was falsehat 1t was not made up from any statements
memcrandums, or data whatever, from Mr.. Breslin or
fs any other source but that the sums stated to have
been received on the following days; sa8 @H u
January ~ $247O3 e2