The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-15
CAPITOL GOSSIP.
A FEW NOTES REL ALIVE TO ABsCOyB.
ING TAX COLLECTORS.


A FEW NOTES REL ALIVE TO ABsCOyB-
ING TAX COLLECTORS.
nubucIet Denies FuIton's Assertions rs to
His Readiness to Receive Packard
Warrants.
Csnez,, Theophilus r. Adams ex- Radical tax
collector for the parish OF Ibervilie, has made
his appearance at
THE AUDITORS OFFICE,
and squared his accounts to the tune Of $4,000,
which he has paid into the treasury, preferring
that course to civil and criminal trial VIII ich
was about to be brought against him.
Interested parties wanted $500 or SO Of his
moneys "beld back" by the Auditor, but he
wanted the full amount paid into the Treasury,
and in it went without any holding back or time
deposits. Other ex-collectors are expected to
scrape together such funds ss they can COM
mand, and "walk up to the Captains office and set
tle shortly, as the fling Of suits against them
will be commenced at once and while some may
wait until the district attorneys got after them,
others will not run the risk of prolonged visit to
the big hotel at Baton Rouge, and will not be back
ward in coming forw I'd.
time now in scanning
THE MILITIA LAWS
of Eastern, Middle and Western States, with
view of preparing bill to be presented at the
next session OF tho Legi.ls ure, and which ii is
expected will, if passed, p ace this State on an
equal militia footing with sny State in the Union.
Considerable was said about the Siate-House
during the day about ez-Tax Collector Ful'on's
case and his claim that he owed the State but
s2f, 600 instead Of $50, 600.
In connection with this claim, ii was said by
some that the warrant stub books found in the
the Auditors Office could not be wrong, and it
was thought strange, too, that Fulton took the
trouble to have
HIS owE BOOKS REMOVED
and put away ont of sight the moment there was
q prospect of success for the Nichols govern
ment.
r 10 books referred to have not yet been pro-
duced. and showing, they muet, Fultons &C.
counts, it is q. serted openly that there must be
crookedness in them somewhere, else he would
not have taken the trouble to smuggle them out
of the way, as was Johnsons.
It is limited, too, that James s. Clark, or "Big
Six as he is called, might figure in way in
the books with his friend Kellogg, and to cover
both, the books of the Fret District as well as
the Auditors are retained.
KellOgg's operations and functions were not, as
has been repeatedly asserted by the DBMoCRAT,
confined TO executive duties, but he made himself
THE BOSS BLAoKMAIBEH
to make "calls" on tax collectors for money, and
in one known instance compel cd Carey. OF the
Third District to give him $500 cash, which Ia
only an isoated instance.
IT hanrr FkNrt las ,n,Iott
that, too, and would use his power tn rake in
8 amps, one OF his intimate friends offer pg at
one time to secure q free and full pardon OF q
convicted murderer
FOR THE SNUG SUM OF TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
in greenbacks. This proposition was made and
the pardon guaranteed upon payment OF the
money, and the circumstances attending are we'll
known to at least hall dozen persons now in the
city.
ff Kellogg would pardon murderer for $40, 900
he would undoubtedly divide profits with the
average tax collector and thai il the argument
used by those who seem to think that Fulton is
endeavorjng to cover Kellogg's operations. In con-
nection with Fnlton's assertions relative TO tue
State Treasurer, thai official denies that he ever
said to Fulton that he would receive his warrants
as cash. but says that he told Mr.. Fulton that he
| would receive SO cash only such warrants az were
legally receivable for taxes that be was ap-
preached time and again to receive similar war
rants in settlement and refused, and that he
| rirades were taken from his nffice doors.
Packard, he says, offered to remove the m long
enough to permit Fulton to make settlement
| but the treasurer refused, unless they were re-
moved permanently.
Mr. Fulton has already been subpnnaed to ap-
pear
BEFORE THE AUDIToRIAL COMMITTEE,
and will have an opportunity to explain the whole
matter, and Packard may also be summoned at
an early day, L. is said by those who ought to
know that fulton is mistaken when be says no
iptsnds to return here from California. or would
return if telegraphic summons was sent him,
and the records Of the telegraph Office might. il
produced prove that the contrary was the case.
He contemplated at one time
A TRIP TO EUROPE,
and was to have gore from San Francisco to Nav
York, where he was to meet "BIg Six" and after
beng joined by his family. was to have left the
country and remained until the "storm,' as they
called it, bles over.