Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-12

vouchers office of
the State Auditor.
From my office, general given.
On the 4h day of May last drew from the treasury
of said fund.- of S10000 of this $4,000 i'm
medatey paid H. Vaen, Quaemaster General account
of debts already s616 63 paid telgaphng; the
balance 80 $50 81 deposited the credit of the State
reserved contingent fund and is still unexpended Since that time
have passed vouchers the amounted S33
rs OF $4,000 paid by loan made from the
bank before meeting the Legislature The
all expended subsistence, clothing equipments anpora
ton of the troops raised this State for State and Federal
poses, and incidental expenses connected herewith wHb
fund troops
hand and had provided for and the second APP
preparation made until the 3oh Maytwo days
All of which is respectfully submitted.
O.P NORTON Governor
Here 1861 less thirty passage
the granting hundred thousand dollars Governors
contingent officer reports the Senate that "e
erausd leaving the impression that had been all paid
obedience the which the contemplated
This received WITHOUT doubt of
and especially the House of Representatives sent to the Senate
90 day May 1861, bill appropaing further
twenty-five thousand dollars for the Governors contingent fund
Assembly had already passed approprang
million of dollars for the general purposes of the organization
of troops this body did the poprey granting fur
special fund the Governor the bill the House failed
receive the sanction of the Thus stood the
the session. and the further history of the Governors
contingent fund disclosed in the Auditors report the first of
November, 1861
In that report Auditor LANCE says:
would that Governor Morton labod under the impression
that the first 100000 charged the military fund.- had been
charged "mtary contingent fund.- Twenty thousand dol
lars of this being loan the General Government for The support
troops the Governor properly charged the mil
ay fund" The properly charged the mil
ary fund.- will appear from the vouchers file at this office.
will be discovered in the above the Auditors
port speaks of the "mtary contingent fund
"Governo contingent fund.- This should be
order understand the condition these several funds
the time to which this investigation refers There has been
irreguary drawing separate
and the Governor and State officers do not seem to comprehend
system regularity essential conducting properly
affairs of the State time like this We will cite briefly
these Irregularities sample of Others For instances War
294l 1912 1913 and 1914 drawn upon
contingent fund 2Oh 21 and 22d days of May,
day May, 1861,
rant 1897 favor of W. S. T. Morton, who had furnished
coutremen the Governors contingent fund for So
$50 Is All these payments charged this military fund"
and not to the fund upon which they drawn This shown
by the books of the Auditor and Treasurer of State The mill
did the date of the and
which pay Them for the law appopratng the of
million of dollars for this military fund.- did pass till the
approved only 31s
By authority the change made for what purpose the
of knowing, but the whole operation
to be both Irregular and The statements OF the
Governor hand and the the Auditor and
Treasurer of State the other do not harrnonize.
The Governors report TO the Senate of June l. 1861 the
contingent fund exhausted" while says
$4,000 dollars of that fund expended and that
the Governor himself The Treasurer of State in
reply resolution of the Senate under date of January
1863 "thee has been paid for purposes between the
specified 18th day of April and Both day of May 1861
out of contingent and military contingent funds S470 So
out of military $49S19 95 the State
S12232 of knowing the precise
purposes the above s4770 So
the contingent fund and the military contingent
fund were blended together"
testimony the Treasurer of State; and the
ne believe that blending together funds specifically
Appropriated and for objects dmr is liable great abuse
and should be- ireguaty
the very the expenditures The bank debt made be-
fore the assembling session S25O0O) and which
drawn the Governors contingent fund.-,
charged to that has been transferred general
military the paid of the
ceiv without the warrant law. To decide this point only
necessary the Governors fund such
state that this could be paid of remaining
expended!'
The committee authority of the Governor, the Auditor
and Treasurer Of State unhesangly declare that able to
discharge that debt.
Auditor LANCE says his report of November 1861 that the
Governors contingent had but for $4,000