The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-21

Did not receive any warrant from the
Auditor for stationery 80 furnished payable
to my order.
| never was the owner of warrant No. 800,
in favor of ]. w. Armstrong & Co., drawn on
contingent expenses Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. regular session Of 1873, for
SO, 1876 IS, and never received warrant
therefor. Knows of no firm in the sta 'ionerv
business in New Orleans by the name Of J.
W. Armstrong Il Co.. the style Of my firm
being johnson Armstrong.
The original voucher being handed to wit
ness, he states that it is not made to him. is
not his initials. was never in his possession
he did not indorse the same, and never re-
ceived warrant therefor.
(Sig1ed) }. ARMSTRONG.
EXHIBIT II.
TESTIMONY OF J. P. MARITCHE.
New ORLEANS, La, February %, 1875.
j. p. Maritche, who being duly sworn,
deposes and says:
Questionable you ever know Charles Gin
ton, Auditor, to make any charge for issuing
warrants?
where he charged fifty cents for each warrant
cut up or divided. know of one instance in
the case of Judge Pardee. A fund of thirty
or forty dollars had accumulated when the
matter was brought before the Grand Jury,
since which time no charges have been made.
1 have made out warrants where it was as
certained the voucher was illegal, or that the
appropriation had been exhausted. In all
such cases where the voucher ia Cancelled, the
cause or reason for such cancellation Is writ
ten across the voucher, and the warrant &C
cordingly destroyed.
was warran. clerk for five years, and am
familiar with that routine Of business.
J. p. MAR1TcHE.
EXHIBIT /.
TESTIMONY OF L. GUICHARD.
Your committee to investigate the books OF
the Auditor and Treasurer beg leave to re-
port that, according to the statements OF tax
collectors, they have found that the sum OF
So, 96O, AL SO was paid to the Auditor from
the LIST of February. 1873, to the 3lst OF De-
cember, 1873, and the sum Of SILL, 666 from
the LIST day of January to the 7th day of Feb
ruary, 1874, and the difference between the
Auditors report and tax collectors statements
up to December 81, 1873, amount to S279,'
1888 SO, as follows:
Tax collectors statements to December, I,
Auditor statement to December, 1873. 3.Gso6ao q
Difference between Auditors and tax
collectors statements s279, 1853 50
Collections after first of January, 1874, .
to February :. 1e.4--........-..... H"oo W
L. GUIcHARD.
February a, 1875.
The above statement is true copy from
the records of the Committee to Examine the
Auditors Office for the session of 1874.
u. GUICHARD,
Clerk of the Committee to Examine the Books
of the Auditor.
certify that this is true copy of the origi
nal in my possession as Chairman OF the Com
mittee on Examining the Books OF the Au
ditor and Treasurer.
E. F. HEGw1G, Chairman.
New Orleans, March 3, 1875.
WHO Arc They
Editor Of the Bulletin
see stated in an evenin" contemporary,
| that the halls of the "House' were crowded
with .'engineers Of bills 2" and spectators.
respectfully suggest you may do the cause
| of reform great service by having reporter OF
hand ut the State House to furnish the names
of these " engineers of bills " to the public
that we may know who is who. >.
The Senate To-Day.
From what could be gathered last night, j
was the general opinion that the Senate haa
weakened considerably, and would do NOTHING
about adjournment to-day. Their action yes
terday was considered rather in the light o
little game Of bluff, and it didn't take. The.
still assert, however, that they will stick t.
their resolve, aud do to the Conservative
what they in the House did to the Republi
cans. To-day will settle all doubts in tn
matter, however.
Procrastination In ihe Ring.
| IS &1;lrctorsrn woc ovhShifo.
by the Radicals yesterday on the question g
adopting the report of the Committee O.
Elections and Qualifications. One motor
after another was made having the effect G
delaying the vote and showing coDsiderabl
ingenuity, some Of them, in their invention
1t was fit display for first class circus, bu
did not compare tavorably with leadin
variety troupes. They knew the end was il
evitable, but sought to postpone it to the yer
last.
At the Rotunda.
The gathering at this center Of the pol
ticians after night-fal was last night quit
large at the st. Charles Hotel, Clinton and
host of lesser lights being on hand. tn
principal topic Of their war talk was the actio
Of the Senate to-day and the impeachmer
of the Auditor. Clinton is beginnin
to weaken considerably, and he was lo'
living in order to secure himself, br
Judging from his care-worn appearance,
feels now that something dark is rising on til
horizon. He is calling in his friends to b
support, and if he works as assiduously as
did last evening, he will have chance
pull through, for he was pouring forth b
piteous tale into every ear. Will Clinton 70
low Wickliffe
Pimples disappear by using Marsden's Ia
, saparilla.
Phabil Pasha claims, says one OF b
friends, who has just returned from Consta'
tinople, that he has discovered means
suppressing polygamy in the East; ut is
l. SsEUorC fv0r