The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-06
CAPITOL GOSSIP.
HOW COMPROMISE" TAX COLLECT
ORS SETTLEMENTS ARE NOT
MADE NOW.

Republicans Claim Burch's Arrest An
other Violation of That Agreement
Hayes to be Appealed To.
The 81 cond quarterly settlement OF the tax col
lectors continues, and the attendance of brokers
about the Treasurer's Office indicates that the
States creditors are fully prompt in calling for
little balances as they were in ante bellum days.
In the other State offices routine matters only
occupied the attention Of the officials and EN-.
ployes, all Of whom
SEEMED MUCH INvTGoRATED
after one days rest from their labors.
One OF the District Attorneys, Steele, of the
Thirteenth Judicial District, made application on
Thursday morning for a requisition for fugitive
from justice from Tensas parish. which will be
issued upon the arrival Of the Governor.
An examination Of the books of the present
Auditor shows that A. LIE Blanc. the extax col
lector of st. Bernard, has settled for his def
cheney Of 1876. lie received orders from John
son, it seems, to pay his money into the Treas
ury, but did not do 80, and, after Auditor Jumel
obtained possession OF the office he presented his
johnson orders, and duplicates were issued
upon which he paid into the Treasury the
balance charged against him by the Auditorial
Committee 3 testllnony.
Kerrigan, Of st. James, claims to be in the
same list as FIR as the published amounts are
conce rned, and exhibits thu Treasurer's receipts
for the amounts specified. He does rot state,
! however, how
CERTAIN COMPROMISE
was arranged about the time the State Auditor
got after him, and at which time he was landed
in the Parish Prison here, after the Auditors ex-
aminer had gone through his accounts
The compromise tax collector question
would, in the opinion Of some of the ex-Republi-
can officials, be fit one for investigation, as it
might be shown by critical search that almost
worthless warrants or those that could be pur-
chased at from twenty-five to thirty cents on the
dollar
WERE RECEIVED AT PAR
in these settlements, whereas the defa7lting tax
collector should have been forced to settle with
the money that he received from the taxpayers.
Propositiong OF this kind have been made
rspeatedly to the present Auditor by the fiiends
of the ex defaulters of the Kellogg stripe, and
cases are known where, in the efforts at con-
summation of these schemes,
HANDSOME FINANCIAL INDUCEMENTS
have been held out in an indirect way, his reply
invariably being of such character that his
visitors vacated his Office IN short order.
In other cases propositions looking to COM
promise have been by hing referred to the Attor-
new General, who insists1that there shall be no
compromises in such cases unless the defaulters
nav to tie State every COLLAR that they owe, he
assuming that their sureties can be compelled to
make good any losses that the State may have
an ffpred from their thieveYy.
The meeting OF the State Board of Canvassers,
which should have taken place to-day, has been
DOS poned until the 10Th inst, at which time
Senator Robertson is expected to be in attend
ance.
Adjutant General Patton having received a ten
days
LEAVE OF ABSENCE,
will take himself ous of the city az room as his
Office is removed to the lower floor of the State
House.
Yesterday afternoon the wife OF J. Henri Burch
called at the executive Office to see Gov. Nichols
on behalf Of her husband, but the Governor
being absent the desired interview was not had.
In connection with the arrest of Burch il was
stated by Repub lean, who visited the Treas
urer's flee yesterday morning, that the general
impression among Republicans was that the ar
rest was
A VIOLATION OF THE AGREEMENT
made re. ding the flibustering in the lower