The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-01-01

If Nothing was Stolen there
was Mighty Loose
Bookkeeping.
Good Reading for the New
Year.
Editors or1the Register.

NV statement, often made and again
reiterated, that the books of the Auditor
and Treasurer do not account for" $S8,
6O5. 81, is true, less, perhaps, the clerical
error made at that time of So, ,399 80, OF
which / have before spoken.
This will leave still . sum Of $29,
5OS.37, in which is included the 1902. I'd
received from some source not shown by
the books.
The ar,lcie over the signature Of III" ."
in the Inteit,gencer, some time since,
proves that "H." thinks l am right in
my statement, for he, at once sets himself
to account for that exact sum, and seems
to have done 50 to his satisfaction, but
not to mine.
have never said, nor do now say
that sum was stolen out of the Treasury
of West Virginia, but ] do say again
that, as far as can see, it, or most OF 1t,
ought to have come into that Treasury
and did not, and furthermore
the books of the offices mentioned do not
account for it or tell where it went; and
"H." proves me correct in that statement,
for after having had tull access to both
these sets OF books, he is obliged to go tc
Journals of the Legislature for an exp!a-
nation, which explanation, to my mind,
only makes confusion doubly confounded.
Let us examine this explanation and
the documents connected Herewith and
see If they admit of the turn my much
respected friend H" desires to give
them.
He copies from the report of 5. p.
Hildreth, Esq, made at that time, l
think in place OF the one required by the
law to be made by the Auditor; which
BY the by he never made for some reason
best known to himself; which report
shows that he then estimated, say
estimated, because his figures do not
quite agree with the books, the amount
which had been paid into the treasury OF
the re-organizsd government of the
State of Virginia, from the
four counties under that rule, outside Of
the boundary of West Virginia, to have
been S24,574.59, and from this amount
mad been paid out in those counties the
sum of Sl4 6367S, leaving all that, by
the utmost stretch Of justice could posi-.
bly, belong to those counties to be
SO, 937 SO, for you will notice that the
$l4,63673 was not the amount paid out
for those counties, but IN them.
They in justice, should have paid thel'
share of the expenses of the whole State
government, not merely the amount pal.
| IN their border.
But as if not content with this gener-
ous settlement, they go much further and
give up their right to further sum Of
sl9,570.7l, which my friend "H' wa:
kind enough to find out for us from TINS
report, although the report itself wouio
not show it, unless you took the
trouble to add up the col
umn of unexpended balances II
the treasury; but "H." wa'
kind enough to help us along that much
and give us the amount. which he IL hi
report did not do.
1t does seem to me, sirs, that ii tina
amount was intended to be a part o
that settlement it ought at least to hav'
been footed up.
In speaking of his report do not re
fer to the report which he is said to hav
prepared for the minority OF the com
mittee of seven, but his report to tn
Hon F. II. Pierpont, from which he de
rives all his information in this matter
and l am sure he must think he is righ
or he would not have referred to so gooC
an authority.
However much l am willing to sub
nit TO the opinion Of my friend l mus
still beg leave to differ from him as Il
the facts or justice, if true, of this settle
ment.
The phole State including the foul
counties, made appropriations for th'
wear 1868, of Sl47. .40S 80, 80 says th
Hildreth report, and paid out of that al
but the Sl9,5707l which was SO kind.
footed up for us.
This money was furnished to pay thes'
appropriations by all the counties, in
ciuding the four, but the part furnished
BY the four, was all paid back or retained
BY them, and, therefore it is plain that al
the balance was furnished by the coun
ties within the boundary OF West Nir
ginia, and therefore that all the saiC
balance was due, and belonged to Wes
! Virginia and not to Virginia.
| arn sustained in this view by the Au
di,or in his report for 1862, who says
that the new State as entitled to, ant
ought to have aliths
snail be in the treasury at the time
its admission.
| And also from statement OF Gov. r
II. Pierpont in communication iron
! Wheeling, when he communicated tn
report f-"m which this very ststemen
fom H WAS taken. He says
There are but tour countle
in the State of Virginia from which any
rever ue has been derived. There are n
unsettled claims from that section that
am aware of fthere are any, l can
have them arranged, if it be by furthe
legislation. But as the money which
now IN the Treasury derived from tn
counties in West Virginia will be hand
ell over to the treasury OF the State &c
And am still further sustained b!
the statements made BY Gov. Boremar
when be sent the above referred 10 com
munication to Gov. Pierpont and repor
of Treasurer 5. P. Hildreth to the Legis
lsture of West Virginia wherein be says
"The report Of S. P. Hildreth conta rs
statement showing, as nearly as be coui'
ascertain, the balanee IN the Treasury or
the 18th day of June, 1858, ichieh IS 10 b
transferred 10 this State under the pro
visions of the Act OF February 4,h, 1868
und also q statement showing tn
amount of money paid int
,he.trsasury by the counties Of the Stat
of Virginia outside the boundaries
| this State, and the amount drawn there
from for those counties, ana the 6alanc
in their faror," to-wit: the $s,9Sl St
which will be seen by reference to @H'
article, was the amount belonging I
those counties, ascertained IN the yer
liberal manner above referred 10.
But to 90 on, Gov. Boreman furthe
says: The report also shows that som
of the appropriation made by the Ger
erai Assembly Of Virginia have bee
over drawn, and, - the money IN ID
treasury after paying the appropriation