Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-25
THE CHARGES AGAINST Mr.. To-

In its desperate efforts to elect its un-
popular candidate for County Clerk, the
Enterprise has recourse to the grossest
Measurements with regard to Mr.. Tozer.
The real facts of the case to which it re-
fers in its slanderous attack are so far from
being injurious to that gentleman's repu-
tation, that the Enterprise isforced to gar
BILE and mutilate the records which it pre-
tends to publish. We have before US the
journal of the 18th session of the Senate
of California, which contains all the evil
dence and reports upon the matter which
constitutes the subject of the false and
malicious charges of the Enterprise.
The report of the first committee, ap.
pointed for the purpose of reporting the
facts as to the amount Of copying done
and the amount paid therefor, says:
"The committee appointed for the purpose
Of ascertaining the amount Of copying done
and the amount paid therefor, report that
they have had the subject under considera-
ton, and find that there has been paid for
copying done up to date the sum OF eight
thousand four hundred and seven dollars, as
audited and allowed by the Committee on
Public Expenditures Zone Of the standing
committees Of the Senate), and as that COM
mittee is composed of i've honorable gentle
men, we do not deem it necessary or proper to
60 behind their report. Senate JotH7'at'
Ttceifth Session, p. 1S6.
Later in the session a second committee
was raised for the purpose of further in
vestigation of the same subject, and for
the purpose of determining to whom any
overpayment, if any, had been made, and
through what means or by what completely
overpayment was made. The committee
consisted of six members-Vance, Ryan,
Watkins, Williamson, Harvey and Shat
ter. This committee made majority and
minority report. The majority report
flour of the committee) holds this lam
ghage:
From the evidence that has been before
YOUR committee we are satisfied that neither
the Committee on Public Expenditures or
the Secretary of the Senate were cognizant of
the fact that a greater amount had been
allowed for copying than was actually DONE
Senate Journal, page $50.
The minority report 1.-TWO of the COM
mittee), which is the one from which the
Enterprise makes its garbled quotations,
says Immediately preceding the quotation
of the Enterprise, and in the same para
graph:
The undersigned are unable to find, from
the proof, that the Secretary Of the Senate
has in any manner been guilty Of completely
with the subordinate who has perpetrated
the outrage complained of!-Se'tdte Journal,
l2th Session, page $50.
The committee further report, that the
Journal Clerk. although an appointee OF
the Secretary of the Senate, was so cap
pointed upon the recommendation of vari-
Gus members of the Senate"
The Enterprise says The money so over
paid was no part thereof returned to the
State. We are authorized to state, upon
the authority of gentlemen who were
members of the Senate at that tinse, now
in this county, that though the commit
tees both fully exonerate the Secretary,
and only one of the whole number of both
committees recommended that any part of
the payment so recommended of the
Standing Committee of the Senate be
withheld or refunded, the Secretary of the
Senate did, on his own motion, from that
time until the close of the session, and for
several weeks thereaftsr, complete all the
copying and writing of Journals, Appen-
dix, &c., .oitkosst any charge WhGterer to
the State.
It is well known that much of the
writing for the Legislature must be done
after the adjournment and the writing
employed to be done at the sole expense
of MIR. Tozer would fully have reimbursed
the State for any overpayments made.
The Secretary of the Senate appeared
before the Committee, and not only re-
quested but urged that he be aHOtced to re-
fund the moneys overpaid by the Com
mittee of the Senate, not to him, but to
the Journal Clerk appointed by him at the
recommendation of Senators, which the
Committee refused to Glo,o han, to do as
they deemed it UNJUST to him.
The writing actually done from the time
of raising these Committees until the
finishing of Journals, etc., Several weeks
after the adjournment), at the price al
lowed by law, would have amounted to
more than the report of the Committee
showed overpaid.
To show further the lameness Of the
charges made by the Enterprise, it will be
noticed that they have ignored the majority
report, and use only the report of the
minority of the Committee, which is about
as strong authority as proof of fact, as a
d" dissenting opinion" would be in the
way of establishing point Of law before
Court. If the Enterprises only chance Of
electing Driscon to the Clerkship, hangs
upon their success in proving Charles w.
Tozer a dishonest man, it has got an up
hill row to hoe. The late hour at which
we took up this matter prevents a more
lengthy review of the case to-day, but we
believe that we have said and shown
enough to neutralize and show the utter
falsity of the charges Of the Enterprise.
The DIoney Market.