The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1864-10-08
Snnervisor Rogers Report.

SupcEVJSUE QVSCIo 4sCpVAts'
The appointment of Messrs Hale and Hig
gins, by the Board Of Supervisors, to exam.
inc the books Of the Central Pacific R. R.
Co, on the behalf of this county, as stock
holder, and the subsequent RECESSION Of the
order, through the influence Of the Railroad,
and The appointment of the whole Board Of
Supervisors to undertake such examination,
are matters familiar to our readers. Since
that time report has appeared, signed by
Messrs. Madden and Scott, protesting to be
the report of the Committee, leaving the
inference that they alone were the Commit
tee. and theirs alone the report to be made
I'LL which they say they made "full, care
fu and thorough examination of the books,
records and papers of the Company" and
find its affairs faithfully and honestly con-
Quoted in every particular.
On the outside of todays Herald, we
print the minority report of Mr.. Rogers,
Chairman of the Board Of Supervisors, who
states the character and extent of the exami
ton, of the affairs of the Company, made
by the committee. His report is plain,
straight-forward and bears every mark Of
candor and truthfulness. If it be true, then,
of necessity the report of Messrs Madden
and Scott cannot be so; and they havs APP
pended their signatures to a document that
is intended to deceive and misead the tax
payers and people Of our county.
According to the minority report, every
obstacle was thrown in the way of business
like investigation, by the officers Ct the
' npI ba Of bo
report neither required insisted upon, or
made an investigation.
The fact will not escape the reader that
the signers of the majority port,-who say
they have made a "ful careful and thorough
examination, of the books records and pa.
pers Of the company, and who are not ac-
coutants or experts in conducting An exami'
nation of the kind, accomplished the task in
the short space of nine days. Without any
statement in conflict with the majority re-
port, there is not business man in Placer
who for one moment would credit the asser.
ton that an examination as thorough as rep.
resented was or could be made in that length
} of time.
The majority report is redolent of "whte
wash" and reads as if our Supervisors had
, forgotten their positions for time and
| imagined themselves officers or attorneys o
, the Railroad Company. The report has moi
been satisfactory, and the one we now prin
! will not advance the first in public estna
ton.
Messrs. Madden and Scott having become
such ardent defenders of the Central Paciti,
, Railroad Company it is not surprising tina
they have committed the indignity upon Mr.
Rogers, (tor no other cause than his minori
! ty report) Of revoking bis appointment o
representative of the county to cast its vote
at the Railroad Company's election. 1t il
surprising, however, that officers of the Rail
= road knew of such intention, the day follow
y ing Rogers refusal to sign the majority le
). port, and declared on the streets of Sacra
d mento that his appointment to vote the stool
| would be revoked.
The Central Pacific Railroad Compan,
controls the Board of Supervisors of thi
# county, and you good people of Placer bel
o yourselves if you can.