Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-08-14
TREASURER MACKEY.
A Denial Of the Charges that have been
Made Concerning his Administration Of
the Treasury department.

A Denial Of the Charges that have been
Made Concerning his Administration OF
The Treasury Department.
Treasury DLPARrMExr. HARRIS
BURG. August 5. ls72-To the Editor
o the Press :-SIR: The persistency
with which you reiterate certain charges
affecting my integrity in the manage
ment Of the State Treasury induces me
to think that you credit your own ale
cations. and to apprehend that you may
induce portion of the public to believe
that these charges are founded on fact
to the manifest injury Of the public
credit
The charges repeatedly made i'll your
editorial columns aud through your cor
respondents are in substance as follows
Frt-That there is large amount
Of worthless notes and checks in the
vaults of the Treasury-so large that
in the language of an editorial in the
Press of the Cd instant, "lf the Treasury
were to be transferred to-day into honest
hands, it would be Impossible for the
Ring, even with all their wealth and re-
sources. to make good all the worthless
paper now in the vaults
S,cond-That the securities in the
sinking fund are used for the purpose oI
speculation.
Tirl-That the money of the State
is used by Simon Cameron and his son,
J d. Cameron for their own private
purposes. or deposited in banks under
their control, where it can be made avail.
able for their use, and that their names
appear on the bond given by me to the
State for the faithful performance of my
trust.
To all these charges | wish to enter
an emphatic denial, and my object in
addressing you this note is TO invite you
and any competent and respectable
bankers or business men you may select
to make an examination of the condition
of the Treasury.
To your first specific charge answer
that it is not true that there is any worth
less paper in the vaults of the Treasury
To your second charge, that of specu.
lating in the securities belonging to the
sinking fund answer, that the securi
ties were given by the purchasers of the
public works; that they are now and
always have been in the vaults of the
Treasury; that they are not of nego-
table character, add could not be hypo
thecated for one dollar. even had / been
disposed to convert them to the improp
er use you allege.
To the third charge that the Gamer
ons are using the public money immc
diately or through their banks, and that
they are on my bond-I answer that
neither General Cameron nor his son
have at any time during my administra-
ton borrowed single dollar of the State
money, nor have they in ny-instance
attempted to control its disposition and
the only bank having a deposit of the
public money in which they are stock
holders is the First National Bank of
Harrisburg. The amount on deposit in
this bank is comparatively small, and
and less than it was under some of my
predecessors Neither General Cameron
nor his son are now or ever have been,
upon the bond given by me to the State,
which fact you can easily verify by ap-
plicaiion at the State Department, where
my bond is on file.
by an act passed in 1870 am re-
quired to make monthly reports to the
Auditor General, under cath, showing
the several banks and bankers with
which the public moneys are deposited
and the amount with each. These re-
ports are open for your inspection. to-
gether. with the reports of the banks, in
verifeation ofmy statements
Now. sir, have entered specific
denial of your allegations affecting my
integrity and the public credit.
The vaults of the Treasury are open
to your inspection, and l invite you to
make good your charges
Respectfully yours,
r. W. MACKEY.