National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-23

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q. Well ak you the question whether you
bad seesss . al ths oooks sud pspersI A.
s ~ ! hsEs snsrssed sha; question. ! said
some prfynte Dzpsrs. nsyss examined to see
I dn not look ihto bis private masters e. an.
Q. q II or q 4 not the fact that there wer,
! papers there TO which you did not have access
A. There were papers there that ! never looked
9. Why did you not look at themi A. Be
cause had no occasion to, 9ss ]
@. Were there books and papers Their
which n was Intended you should not meddl,
yourself With, A.. I never was told 90. die
not know anything of the kind.
Q. We're there books and papers locked d,
| In place which you did not have access to
A. believe there Is q cash safe-a cash lock-
lock In the box, but 1t Was not 80 as to be used
1t could not be locked. I think there wa
another little drawer that had private Of m,
own. tTfsA cssse,.
Q. am not speaking Of those private {,
yourself, but Of those from which you were ex
cluded. A. The private cash-box had q lock
and we had never been able 10 Use Il at all
There was one In the new safe. But we had
safe, and the books were for few days kept n
the desk-the books and all the papers tha
were there. E
Q. Do you know what the whole amount Of Mr.
Evans wood pavement contract amounts to
A. No, sir. .-&si -
Q. Did Mr.. Evans sub-let the pavement, A
I have no personal knowledge ofit
Q. Look ct this book (handing the witnes,
one Of the books) and see n that contains al
the journal entries made on account Of wool
pavement laid by John o. Eyansi
The Witness. Up 70 the time this book b
closed. 90 Won meanf
Mr.. Wilson. Yes.
The Witness, Yes, SIR.
Q. From the time he commenced laying tn,
wood pavement until that dayl A. So far ss
was connected with It. As said before, hi
connection with Mr.. Linville is another mat
ter. I had nothing to do with that. I do moi
know anything whatever about It,
Q. That contains all the Journal entries Will
reference to the wood pavement laid by Johr
.. Evans, except In connection with Mr. Lin
villei A. Up TO this time.
@, Those are all the transactions OF which
you have any knowledge A. They are all or
there.
Q. Is that footed up so that you can give us
correct footing of that book herei Have you
transferred the account to a ledger A. Yes
sir; everything Is on here that d on the ledger
Everything on the ledger is on here. do moi
think the ledger Is here. The cash-book 4
here. 1t Is all on the cash-book. Itshows th,
whole of the payments up to that time.
Q. Why did you not bring the ledgerf A
Mr.. Christy only asked for the blotter and jour
nal.
Q. Has that a ledger separated A. Yes, sir
there is q ledger for this book.
Q. A separate cash-booki A. Yes, sir; The
cash book is here. {Whness produces IL, and
hands it to Mr.. Wfison.) There are two cash
books, the one for asphalt pavement and ons
for wood payements.
G. Is there anything unsettled with reference
to these pavements, excepting the lumber bill
A.. Yes, sir; think there are some other bills
not settled.
A. / think there Is some little material for the
asphalt pavement and some labor at the ma.
chine shops here, or something of that kind
preparing the machinery, boilers, &c.-Quite q
large bilI, 1 believe.
9. How did you know what work came under
your supervision
The Witness. What, work on the street,
@. Yes, sir. A. know the men who are
employed there, and knew where they were OF
work. They were In the Office. +
Q. Then / viii ask you to give me q state.
ment of the work and the accounts you were 10
keep A. They are siiincluded In these books
The Witness. Do you wish me to name the
streetsl
l. Q. Yes, sir. want to know what contract
1t was you were keepingthe books fori A.
For tho general asphalt work, wherever 1t was
Q. Well, the wood pavement A. And that,
wherever it was in connection with that CON-
pany.
QWhere was III A. It was on Pennsyl-
vanis avenue; think some OF II from Eigh-
tsenth street out toward Georgetown-into
Georgetown.
Q. You had some mode of knowing the par
ties that you had right to settle with, did not
youi A. Yes, sir; l kept the time-book and
made out the pay-rolls and paid the men.
Those books are in the office.
@. Did you have the contractsl A. I did not
have the contracts.
Q. Who kept thosel A. never saw them.
do not know anything about them.
BY Mr.. Jcwett: Q. When was the work on
Pennsylvanis avenue completed-in wood pave
ments-the pavement accounted for in this
ledgeri A. / do not recollect exactly when
they did finish It. think 1t was commenced
about the LIST OF July, 1872, and finished in a
month or two: I do not know exactly when.
That is, as far as Rock Creek sbridge, and
finished it all over to Georgetown that fall
the whole distance.
0. Docs this cash book show the entire
amount of money received on account of that
pavement A. Yes, sir. As far as my knowl-
edge extends 1t is all entered there.
Q. You received nothing, then, after Septem-
OcIi 1919 n. II INC DOoAs shoM' tHat ~ 70 So
@. Your payments continued until July,
1871 A. do not recollect the date. If the
book states that Il is q fact.
Q. You have no knowledge but what is on
these booksl A. In relation to whati
Q. To these accounts, A. No, sir.
Q. And in relation 70 that pavement! A.
No, sir.
Q. Were you keeping any other accounts at
the same timei A. Only these books that are
before you.
Q. Did that take nearly all your umsi A.
No, sir; Il did not.
Q. What proportion' A. could not tell
that.
Q. There is no difficulty in your telling that
a. / think there is. could not undertake 10
tel! you what proportion Of y-time 70 took to
keep these books. All I can say about Il lie,
had no other books to keep except those con.
nected with this pavement-tfme-book,le ledger
journal and blotter. These are all the books
there are, to my knowledge.
Q. What salary were you receivingi A. dc
not know that have any particular objection
TO stating, but don't know what that has 70
do with this investigation.
Q. We will Judge Of that. What salary
were you receiyingi A. was receiving 500 a
month. zts7
Q. You received 800 month for making
fer one year, entries on one side of I've pages Of
A. l
besides those five pages. a,
Q. asked you If you had any other work,
and you said no. A. had no other work be.
sides these books. 1 had other work besides
those five pages.
Q. What A. The rest of the books before
you.
Q. IN making the corresponding entries IN
the blotter and the journal and the entries In
this cash bookl A. No, sir. Dust keeping all
the books connected with this business-time
book, blotter. journal, ledger, &C., writing cor.
respondence,
Q. What DO you mean by &c,i A. &c. refers
TO any other writing might do in connection
with it-correspondenc perhaps.
Q. Where is the other writing that you did
in connection with 1T A. have written letters
TO parties In regard TO material.
@. But according to your statement this
work was completed on the 3th of August,
1s72-on the 22d Of August, 1879. Prom the
22d Of August, 1872, to July 1S, 1873, you
were not buying any materialf' What work
was then done? A. do not know that. dc
not know as was buying any then.
Q. The work was then done7 A. do not
recollect the time the work was completed; the
books show about the time.
Q. ] am speaking now OF your book. During
that eleven months you made these entries &C.
cording to your booksi A. Yes, sir. .5s
Q. And nothing elsel A. Eleven months
from what tmei $50 -; = 4.g S4fs
Q. From August %, when It seems the work
was completed-August ~, 1879. / do not
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