The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-12-15

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NEW ORLEANS JOURNALISM.
4 Legislative Report and A Guncrrato.
rial Letter.
How a Eew Orleans Editor Went for
III" (Eavit; Hospital! Fund, and
a love Letter TO The Pic.
The Nice Journals that ask for the
Support Of Honest t!en!
CoNNIrrEE RuuM or PrHl.lc AND
CHARITABLE IN>TlTlTInNS urTlE \
House or REPRESENTATIVES, !
New Orleans, February II, 1876.
To The Honorable Speaker and Mem
berS Of the HOUSE Of Representatives:
The Chality lIo<p ital board do not
complain of the ilSntl;cicnry Of the
legislative appropriations, but only
of the manner il which these oppro
p'la|iou> have been paid by >hc State
ofliclal> and realized Ivy the Charity
Hospital. The complaint is that the
appropriations having been for the
much greater part paid in warrants
which we've not ca>hcd on plc>cnta.
ton. nor for 4 long time afterwards
Eat all events to the boatd), they were
compelled to borrow money in open
market ulun those warrants us col
lateral security, or sell them outright
and submit TO an excessive discount
thelcflom. The board complain,
also, of tic delays which have occur
red in the delivery of warrants by
the Auditor for certain appropria-
tinns. They called the particular at
tentlon Of Your committee to the de
lay which occulrtd in the delivery to
them Of variants for the approrria-
ton made last year, amounting to
$50, 900. The matter was first called
to the attention of the House by Mr..
Geo. W. Duprrc, Representative from
Orleans parish. This appropriation
was made in February, but the war
rants were withheld by Auditor Gin
ton until late in the month Of Drccm-
Der, a delay of about ten months,
upon what
YOUR COMMITTEE BELIEVE TO BE A
MERE pEETENT,
! viz: That there was no money in the
Treasury that the Auditor was in.
vested with a power or a discretion
to withhold their issue until there
was money to meet them, and that
there were njunctio,s of the Superb
or District Co'rt, parish of Orleans,
in existence, restraining him from
THEN issue. The belief of your com
mite that these we've mere pretexts,
is based upon their general knowl-
edge Of tho inner workings Of the
auditors and Trcasurcr's objects,
and upon the inspection of the pre-
tended injunction order, and upon the
fact, proved to us by incontroveltible
testimony that Auditor CInton's ob-
jcctious to delivering these warrants
we're immediately overcome, and
DISAPPEARED AS If BY MAGIC
the moment that il certain arrange
ment or contract had been made 10y
the Board of Administrators with his
brother. n.law,
MIR. ISAAC N. STOUTEMYER,
one of the ostensiblc propyietoys and
editor of the
NEW ORLEANS TIMES
newspaper. This arrangement or
contract included one onctous condi
ton, which should not have been
imposed upon the board. The facts
touching this contract your commit
tee now proceed to set forth:
The board, fca,ins that the appro-
priation OF $4,000 would he lost to
them by the etliux of time-,hat is to
say, if not collected before the Legis-
lature of 1876 assembled, aud that
tLeir creditors would have to be de-
layed still longer, concluded to try
AN EXPERIMENT
much resorted to nowadays, that is to
offer Mr.. Stoutcmyer (as one who was
supposed to be abe to accomplish
what no one else could, j. c., the re-
moval of Auditor Cliutou's otjec-
tions) fec or compensation, large
cnous | to induce him to
LEAVE HIS EDITORIAL CHAIR
for brief space, tc exercise his emf
uent lcgol ob'tics in the en)jyhten-
mcnt of the audtolial mind as to the
wrongtulncss of his course with re-
gard TO the appropriation for the
hospital. IL was supposed 10y the
board that Mr.. Stoutcmyer won\d
succeed in convincing Auditor Clin-
ton that there were no legal obsta.
clcs in tie way of delivering those
variants, and the result proved how
correctly this was calculated. The
onerous conditions of the contract
into which the board entered with
Mr.. Stoutetnycr,
(FOR He UNDERTOOK THE JOB,)
was their agreement to pay him for
the service Gf he succecded) the sun,
of $500 in cash, or thirteen per cent
on $50, 600. This fee has been paid
to Mr.. Stoutcmyer in warrants of the
Auditor, which leaves the hospital
out of that appropriation just $l3,
500. The board say that
THIS $G5U0
will not ultimately bc lost to them,
as two of the largest creditors agree