The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-02-10

What money remained. he SAID tnaC tue
m6uey in Crawford & Slocum's safe was
Government funds"
Itappears from the testimony OF Secretary
Gibson, Judge Kelly J. S. Reynolds and MIR
A. G. Rodney, the clerk of Crawford, Olo-
cum & Co. tnat within one week after this
conversation between Secretary Gibson and
Mr.. Alvord, and about two months before
Mr.. ellison forwarded his bond as Secretary,
to the proper Department at Washington
City, Secretary ellison did in connection with
Judge Milton EelleE and j., s. Reynolds re-
move from Crawford, Slocum, L Co.'S, all the
effects left with them by Secretary SmltA,
before going to Rocky Bar, being two pack
ages 7 one sealed, and one OF papers and
vouchers, AMI trunk which the evidence
shows thatSecretary Smith was very care
full of and that he had at least twice before,
placed in the fire-proof cellar of Crawford
SIocum, & Co., for safe beeping, and the
money reported. by them as~being found at
Crawford, Slocum, & Co.'S was returned by
administrator ellison as private funds Of
Secretary Smith deceased, and four hundred
dollars $500 00) of it used in settling up
his affairs, as shown by Mr.. Gibson
No reasons have been given for the course
pursued, except that Secretary ellison was
acting under the advice and directions of
Judge Kelly and the mystery which hangs
around the affairs of the late Secretary and
the unaccountable disposition, or disappear
ance of the public funds deposited with
Crawford, Slocum, & Co. is in the opinion of
your Committee, much increased by the
| fact that the examination of Secretary
Smiths effects was carried on in private,
with doors locked, part of his papers burn
ed as worthless, the result of their examlna-
ton not made public until long thereafter,
and no report made by the Secretary to the
Department at Washington City, until re-
quired to do so by Governor Lyon, and the
conflicting testimony of ellison, Kelly and
REYNOLDS who alone conducted the examlna-
ton, and more especially the following tes-
timony of A. g., Cook Esq, of Boise City,
which we quote as follows
81 desired to see Judge Kelly on business
pertaining to his Office as Judge, and having
1 seen him go into the Secretarys office, went
there and found the door locked. shook 1t
for some time and Mr.. ellison came and I'M
locked it, and stepped in, stating that de-
sired to see Judge Kelly. Ee. statedthat he
and Judge Kelly were examining Secretary
Smiths private papers and matters and were
busy, and the Judge would see me soon, AND
DESIRED ME- TO SAY NOTHING IN REGARD TO THE
WITH JUDGE KELLY, AS THEY DID NOT WISH II
KNOWN. I stepped to the inside door 10 see
Judge Kelly; saw papers in a state of con,
fusion; Judge Kelly stated substantially
what Mr.. Gibson had said | went out and
they LOCKED THE DOOR,"
Mr.. Cook further testifes that "Gilson an0
Kelly's manner was repulsive, and they ap
peared to be anxious to get rid of me" anc
talso,. !" hatthe. papers were on trunk anc
mattress or bed and on the floor"
The Committee have. had. their attention
particularly called to the POSSIBILITY thai
: Secretary Smith MAY HAVE used the PUBLIC
FUNDS for his private purposes to the amount
: of the deficiency known to,exist,
By an ExPARTE statement placed in thu
hands of the Committee from the Hon. Mil
ton Kelly, one of the appraisers, and who
with Secretary Gibson, removed the trunf
and packages from the custody Of Crawford
Slocum & Go. to tine Secretary's office, ant
by the testimony of J-e S. Reynolds. as to
private conversation held between ellison
Kelly and himself, after the examination a
the Secretary's office, and also by the testi
mony of Mr.. ellison as to business transac
tons between Secretary Smith and frient
. Of his named Peter Hannah, late of Wash
ington City, who accompanied Secretar,
Il Smith to Rocky Bar a short time prior to hl
death, your Committee was thereby led t
: make careful and thorough investigation a
to the possibility and probability of tn
: funds being so appropriated
Upon this branch of the subject, the Com
: mittee would report that from the tesimon.
' of Dr.. Cochran, U. S. Army Surgeon, an
> Mr.. Field, connected with the commssar.
department at Fort BOISE, it appears tha
: during about one month that he spent at tn
6 Fort, his expenses were quite limited, an
from the testimony. of Dr.. Ephraiin- Smith
4 who was on intimate terms with Secretar
Smith, that he was careful about his persona
expenses, among other things pasturlng hi
: team instead Of keeping them stabbed, an
= the testimony of Judge Gilmore Hays, Aud
: itor and Recorder Of Owyhee county, as t
the correctness Of his habits while there, oc
= cupying the Office of Judge Hays, and subJeC
to very small expense, and the testimony c
; Major A. G. Brown, Auditor and Recorder {
n Alturas county, as to his habitsand the sma
= amount Of his expenses there, show that 81
q usual habits were those of economy, and tha
: he was firmly fixed in his purpose to restrai
r. his expenses within his personal income, an
. we are satisfied that if his personal expense
were Contrary as it is to every concluslo
:. we can draw from his habits, character an
= principles governing bis conduct paid OF
= of the funds placed in his hands as disbugi
ing officer, they could not have exceeded tn
: sum of twenty-five Hundred Dollars, as b
"a very seldom visited saloons, never gambleC
and was a very reserved and strictly mora
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