The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-03-31

Treasury. The funds belonging 70 tho
Treasury we're not IN it; nor within tho
control Of the Treasurer, and tie state
ment was false throughout. r. q.
An examination made byvR Joint
Committee on Finance, selected a month
later by both branches Of the Assembly,
resulted in the same manner. Both
Breslin and Gibson.oppeored and testi
fed before this Committee, ..- ...t..
He admits, In bis testimony before
The Investigating Committee that the
"ofiicial statements" which he made 10
these Finance Committees were false.
and that the real cond tion of tho
Treasury at that time was concealed by
loans, fictitious credits, aud funds real
ized upon drafts upon County Treasu-
rcrs.
WHAT He TOLD LIEUT.. GOV. roar.
The testimony Of Lieut.. Gov. Thos.
A. Ford furnishes the most conclusive
evidence that Gibson possessed perfect
knowledge of the real condition of the
Treasury before he became Treasurer,
and that there was a community of in
torosts and a mutual desire for self
preservation subsisting between Brcsih
and Gibson 1t being so direct and
pointed, VIC give Gov. Fords own
language:
"Gibson told me, at or about the time
Of his resignation, while he yet had the
key Of the Treasury, that the Treasury
had got into great embarrassments, and
that a good part Of the load they had
been carrying arose from Bliss, who bad
got the advantage Of Breslin in his set,
clement with him. that Bliss's actual de-
falcation was much heavier than it had
been represented; h0t he (Gbson) and
BresFn had taken the hundred thousand
thousand dollars oW Of the Treasury,
and INFESTED Il West, for he purpose Of
making IL a fe,0 gears, enough to pay
the defalcat'on Of Bliss
Mr.. Ford states, in his own language,
that 'in other conversations after his
resignation, Gibson repeatedly express
ed his great regret that he had given up
the keys as Breslin was then coming or
from the West with more funds than
necessary to carry them over the July
interest, the amount needed being only
about $4,000, and that if he had held
on few days longer he would not have
resigned at all. ."
| The Committee conclude that com
bination between Breslin and Gibson
for illegal operations commenced at
very early period in Bresin's admins.
tFatioD, and assert further that each
worked earnestly, through the Treasury
influence, and personal friends, for the
nomination Of the other, BY the re-
spective political parties to which they
belonged
HOW BREsLfN AND GIBSON SETTLED.
Breslin's settlement with Gibson,
when he assumed the duties of his Of
6ce, On Jan. 1856 like tie former one
b tween Breslin and Bliss, was private.
Gibson, it will be recollected, in his Of
fetal statement to the Finance Commit.
tee a few months later, stated that Bres-
lin at this settlement paid h N $780,
853 81. Uo states before the Investi-
eating Committee, that he aciuah re.
Ceived from him but S303,865 81. But
W. A Hershiser, Of Tifin, who was Sc
lected by Mr., Gibson as his chief
clerk, testified that he entered the ofico
January IA, 1856, that he found 5000
er G 900 dollars in currency in the draw
or, but from what source it came, or who
paid it in, he did not know That he
neUersalo Brestin pay Gibson dollar.
ASKED NO QUESTIONS s--How qHE IN
TEREsT WAS PAID.
In his sworn statement Mr. Gibson
says;
"I never asked Mr.. Breslu to oxhib-
! it to me any statement, or to make any
! explanations as to why he did not pay
over to me the moneys due from him;
nor did ask him to tell me where they
were, or as to what kind Of security, or
paper, or condition, or in whose hands
they were, until after I ,5ont out of Office;
aud on my demanding such statements
aud explanations, he declined making
any, and has not made any up to this
time; and am yet in as perfect ignoT
ance Of his affairs as I was az first ez-
| cept as TO my eonjootures heroinbeiOre
stated these coniectures having ref
ereneo TO the Bliss, Eckhart and Green's
borough matters.
He further stntos that ho had trouble
TO meet the July interest Of 1856; that
he had relied upon Breslin. 10 furnish
him with some funds for this purpose,
but was disappointed; that b. %. Smith
advanced him $4,000 with which to
pay the interest, said to have been bor-
rowed of John Thomps on, Of New York.
CONFLICT or TESTIMONY, II
Gibson swears that Breslin had moth
ing whatever to do with this borrowing
transaction. But Smith testifies that
Breslin conducted the whole operation,
and that Gibson had nothing whatever
TO do with i'll And Breslin states that
he, Gibson and Smith all oo-operated ia
Iit The testimony also oonhieta IN 9th
or points, giving at least a suggestion
that there must be hard swearing on The
part Of some of these witness g ....
The Committee report chat Kimball 81
| Co the Springfield Bank, the Piqua
Bank, and Bartlett 81 Smith, Of COlnms
bus, were parties TO the transaction by
which Gibson defrauded The Legiaqtiye
Committees and The people, by exhibit
ing funds iu the Treasury which dia
not belong 10 the State.
GIHsoN'E HXCUsE ron CoNCEAL1N0
BRELIW'g 'gDEFhLCAqIoN.
I Gibson states hat 81 Do had not