The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24
JACKSON, Miss. Januar

JACKSON, Miss, January 81, 1876.
Committee pursuant adournment quorum present
and after having beeg rs Worn teeG as n lows
am Republican, Have been Festden # tis STATE three
am Superintendent and Business Manager of Tougaoo Nor
NAL School am acquainted with T. w. Cariozo. AS Bust
with Trustees OF that
School Cardozo Treasurer drew the warrRpts Qm The
Auditor Of Public Accounts which appropriated the
support of the School for the 1874 and 1875 Leg
islature He paid the the School, 80
1874 the of Thousand hundred dollars ($2 5O0)
he having drawn, Treasurer the full the appro
lars The Trustees my reeoection
ordering the balance be paid nstalments $500 e
ceaher 1874 $AQH April 1879 ana he remainder July
l. 1875 The December Variants were not paid when pre-
sented him the receipts and demanded payment of
This payment due the lst day of December 1874
This not paid because lie nprepared
DID not know was due at that time as he 50 stated These
warrants that Is the balance IN Caozos hands sold
the Capital State Bank in the fall of 1874 learned my
anyesation with Caozo that the warrants deposit
a. Tue Catal Atte 4'ant an upon lnF1s94tloH oy eapain
Lowd and myself found that instead of being deposited
they had been sold in the fall previous to that bank
eighty the dollar On 18th December
him, and he settled with paying
hundred and fifty dollars $35O
at SI3o, which was given to solicitation I did not
tae fG fGe IN preference the hundred and fifty dol
of r F se s sad 9S Sse ssapfe did
S9ald H9 get the s3O at all unless took the horse
these warrants with other his raise money
TO pay MS lawyers fees arising out of the persecution of him
rants had been actually Sold When inquired with Captan
1T the time of this conversation was absent
Jackson although engagement with him to meet
him here and reported that he absconed The
first trouble had with him. in December 1874 He was
until December IL in making settlement although Board
Of Trustees held meeting October 1874 changed the
scholastic em January 1S74to July 1874 and order
ed the insalments to be paid quarterly lie paid April
nstament on April the 6 and the July alment July
the 10th, after had demanded times When
him upon the basis upon which he had sold the warrants
about eighty cents the dollar claiming he had
other State Institutions settle that lie also claimed
hive per cent commissions as Treasurer stating that
propositions refused to aecede because outside parties in
Guiding myself offered the Board advance
money the their full
the teachers their salaries when due Cardozo member
the BOARD OF Trustees and was eognzaat of these facts
before and after this occurrence In giving the receipts
when the insalmen fell DUE and when making demand
usually presented the receipt and when the nstament was
paid did change the receipt although the
not paid until several days after they fell due The
Board of Trustees of the Normal School had Caozo
sell the warrants under the appropriation the
July nstalment of 1874 paid least Cardozo in
ormed me-
Sworn TO and subscribed before me, -
J, B. YEE1owLEr Chairman.
r4r JANUARY IS. 1879.
Committee met this 2Sh day of January, A. 1875 pur
uant to adjournment
Mr. H. Musgrove having been first duly summoned came be-
pre- the Commeethere being quorum of Committee
resentand after being testified follows to-wt:
reside IN Jackson my business is that of banker;
beral Republican in politics. know nothing of nv own per-
ona knowledge derogaory to the character of Cadozo
'r of Public Accounts of this State January 1870 to
anu9y 104 during the year 1873 Carozo presented
sualy large amount of witness certificates
ounty all of which made FORM and ndorsed
by mark and Witnessed by himself suspicion being
In reference the suspended the claims for
time being and called the attention of Mr. Lea who
as then District Attorney and Judge Browns attention to
matter and furnished them with lists showing names of
ch witness and the in which they claimed
requested them investigate the
tate Cardozo at that time Circuit Clerk of Warren
nny not being able to ascertain that certificates
actually fraudulent they afterwards
issued for them The together with the
cepts for the warrants file in the Auditors office
st Inn
mus, to compel to issue claims his favor then
nding For further particulars this refer to Mr.
Ike Lea the District Attorney that time During the
ar had occasion to call Cardozo some four or five
nes by letter. requesting him to make report moneys
p MN as ceFk IN the case OF redemption and sale Of
IDS held by but failed what
er up 70 the expiration OF my term of office afterwards it
knowledge that there were several hundred aars
from Mr. Cardozo to the State, account at
at tme and in In which Mr. Hcklin and myself
attorneys he had charged the some four OF ave
nes as much as Eas due on ths aRds paid
M py ME- hoacn, OF theV aiey Bank, Is agent