The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-14

-- 81, JAG, eel SO
B. @. SHAW, treasurer OF state.
E. Henderson, auditor oil state.
THE LAW OF THE CASE.
The law authorizing the preparation and
publication of this paper seems to have es-
capped the attention of your Republican
auditors and treasurers of state. Lest you
may think that you have made an unsu
thorizsd publication at my expense,
quote the law for your information:
"SEC 9. The treasurer of state shall
keep a cash book in the treasury, and
shall enter therein, on the day when
any money is received or moneys paid, in
a fair legible hand, the several amounts
received, with the number, date and
drawee of each draft, and the several
amounts paid out, with the number, date
and psyee of each warrant, Specifying the
particular fund for which each amount is
received or paid, and shall, at the close OF
every day, carefully balance the book so
as to show the exact amount OF cash on
hand; and shall also keep a ledger by
double entry, into which he shall post
from such cash book to the account of the
several funds the various amounts re-
ceived or paid, and at the close OF every
month shall take trial balance of sucn
ledger, so as to show the exact cash
urer, with the auditor of state, shall
make out, sign and cause to be
published once, in two newspapers of gen.
eral circulation, at Indianapolis, q state
ment of the exact amount OF money in the
state treasury at the close of business on
the last day of each and every month,
specifying the amount belonging TO each
particular fund.-"
A CAREFUL EXAMINATION
OF the statement published will convince
you that it is exactly in accordance with
the law. Those prepared by your Repub-
1can treasurers and auditors were not.
They were sbams, frauds and decisions, of
no value to anybody, and their publication
occssioned q great and needless expense.
You will observe that 1 am now in a
healthy condition. My credit balance in
the treasury at the close of last month
was 1866. ass 81. Under the administrs-
ton of your agents in the treasury, j
was a pauper, burdened with grievous
debts and charged with extravaganza and
unlawful expenses. Under the present ad-
ministrstion, am performing my duties
as fiscal agent of the state, My net in
crease during the month of May was
$544, gu 80. During that month I was
making large and lawful payments of nee
essary expenses incident to the transaction
of the business of the state, the support of
existing public iustitutions-pensI, refor-
mstory, benevolent and educationsl-snd
the construction OF new and costly ediices
for the comfort of afflicted humanity. You
may wonder why / was able, during
all this time, when so occupied
with the important financial trans
sctions required of me to make
this series of statements, however crude
aud provocative of your uncomfortable
laughter. / have repeat eddy told you that
L am an artificial person and am invisible.
| labor with the assistance OF Others.
have neither voice nor hands. 1 speak
with the voices OF others, and write with
the hand of friend. Having
ALMOST UNLIMITED REVENUES
at my command, 1 am able to employ and
lawfully pay an smsDuensis. This have
done. At the close of business hours, and
during the silent watches of the night, l
have dictated to my friend, and he has
written. A friendly composition and a
friendly press have aided me in communi-
eating with your unwilling mind. What
have said has met your gibes and jeers.
laughed. These communications have
been, of necessity, brief and imperfect,
constituting but mere outline of the SUBJ
ject which / am about to leave with you.
They were given to you at your special in
stance and request, bat without charge. j
now submit another brief outline, whether
or not it contains charges, you may judge.
The Democratic auditor of state, in leaving
to his Republican successor the
responsible Office which he had held
| showed in his report for the year
ending October 81, 1864, that there
was q balance remaining in the treasury al
that date of 81 ,24l 1888 81. and that there
WAS due the trust funds $3.50 372 rs, leaving
the sum of 1854 .5l5 81 in the general FUND
after providing for the entire aggregate o.
| the balance due the
SEVERAL TRUST FUNDS.
In substantially this condition he anc
his associates in the treasury department
left me, and your "men of '65" took me. Ii
1865 the war ended. Military servic,
should have given place to civil service
pure and simple. Unfortunately 1t did not
Fer ten years 1 struggled to free mysel
from the confusion into which / wa
thrown by Republican incompetency
ignorance, unskillfulness, bad pre-
cedents and bad practices. While you
agents to whom / was entrusted were un
able to deal fairly by me, and did not rec
ognize me, except as scape-gost to bes
off their sins, they unconsciously LETT foo
prints by which their tortuous course wa
marBed. The report of your auditor o
state for the year ending October 81, 1873
assumes In statement F" to show 18th,
relative position OF the general fund to th'