The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-02
TIE TESTIMONY AID REPORT On
THE DEFALCATIoE OF THE STATE
TREASURER.

de.alcation OF the late Treasurer is
published in another column. The
testimony upon which that report is
based accompanied the summing up
If the committee, and will tie pub
iished in . pamphlet form in q day or
txo.
This testimony d~iscloses n state OF
affairs which is positively sickening
10 read. II j. enough TO make one
thank cod that the state escaped with
rs little loss rs il has from the rotten
ness and rascality engaged in SWEAT
ISG the treasury, through all tho chan
ncls which the possession Of place and
power and hungry genius could bring
to bear. u is only hereand there that
ray Of light is thrown upou the rcCk-
less carnival, finally silenced and
darkeued by untimcly death and de-
~falcation: but sufficient glimmers in
the darkness 10 furnish an outline for
the Imagination TO fill up without
much probability Of doing injustice to
any one connected with the scene.
The testimony shows the completely
Of the late Controller in the neiarious
operations OF the Treasurer-,hat the
State fuads were drawn OH for the
personal necessities of both. Ii shows
tina, Mr.. Rhoades was engaged in
specializing in state warrants, through
the agency of outside parties, these
agents receiving from "a TO 3 per cent.
on their purchases. I; IS shown now
Mr.. Rhoades kept tine state money
and drew IN it IN conducting his per
sonal business, as upon an individual
special deposit. The states ISL paper
was from year TO year bought mp with
the public funds on q personal ,pecu.
la,ion; and when, through losses az
irregularities the Treasurer found
himself short when called on by ;hc
Board Of Examiners for the public
moneys, that official knew where to 20
for temporary loans for amounts IN
TO Sl5.G0o, unsecured and unnoted.
In reading over that report we are
not surprised that GOV. Blasdel wa,
not at all times popular with some
men elected on the tickle: with him,
and many others of his own party who
occupied no Office. While some were
using their offices in a vain endesvor
10 make good their past dcialcation,
and to hatch present nest eggs inta
profit, the Governor had the reputation
and success Of his administration a,
stake. His well-known ideas OF doing
business were scarcely in accordance
with the intriguing aud the reckless
projects of the political gamblers,
whose fortunes were siaked on the
perilous card they were playing. II
was not surprising therefore that the
Executive should have been found
occasionally very much in the way:
I'D that he IA made the target of q
great deal of abuse and misrepresenta.
lion for performing the disagrecable
duty oil demonstrating, and frequently
ihterposing, for tho suppression Of a
course which would otherwise eventu.
ally bury him, as well as them. un.
der r general Hood OF popular indig.
nation-and which did finally bring
about the result Of the November
election. Anyone occupying that DO.
sition under like circumstances ma
expect TO have his own motives mis-.
represented and actions misconslrued
Reclamation j. the politicians strongest
weapon, and GOV. Blasdel has had oc.
casion 70 learn the fact, As we'll as bet
ter aud worse men before him.
This report OF the Committee dis
poses of two Of the points which hav,
heretofore been raised against GOV.
ernor Blasdel. First, - to his alleged
default as a member Of the Board O
Examiners, in not continuing to max,
the monthly examination Of the fund.
on hand, as required by the statute
Gen. Clarke, in reply To the question
why they had not counted the moncy
in the Treasury regularly, stated tha.
''They found the public moneys wer,
not kept at Carson, bur in banks else.
where, in Nevada and California.
where / had no right to seek them.
because from the fact that the publ,
accounts were settled only annually
l found the Controllers books Sc.
forth false balances, not disclosing tn,
credits to which the Treasurer was en-,
titled during the current year, moi
charging him with amounts named fol
sales Of lands, stamps. and sums called
in from County Treasures in advance,
For these reasons / found il impossi.
bic to ascertain the amounts which
should be in the Treasury"
We illustrated the miserable inef-
ficiency OF the law regulating the de-
posit of moneys in the State Treasury,
in an article a fsw days ago, in refer.
ring to the case OF the last examina-