The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-16
rus Auprrcn,AL rrauisrrrcN.
Testiaeny ssiven Before the ."'".'''ee'
Yesterday Bevel"s's,ents.
Evidence by Experts @zeo, 900 wort"
ef s,seot. edness Ia one b"se'

L ~
/ rna r.u,.,,,euts Against ES@Auaitas
et,.,on transferred ~ Garrolst'n
| ana Dismissed.
r,,s tiammittee tioInt) on the Auditors and
1,aas,yt,s once met yesterday At The State
House.
M, +. II, Gardner was fret placed Upon the
| sand b. testify
M.a,piped the sAudito,'s beahs for former
aa,ptnjtte! think | could identify the bouAs III
The gilice, and Would Identity Then. now. made
report once, which, when published, was garfield
know Mr., Ebelts. chief clerk: have not seen hin,
| for several months. IN former examination 81
The beoks found thai the Auditor had made set
| Elements with
rHH Tar COLLECTORS,
! IN violation Of the laws found The books badly
kept. Obas. CLINTON was Auditor At The time. :.
The appropriation book kept is one pt record,
but IL By no means reliable, changes and erasurss
having been made. Doh't knew that Mr.. bholts
has left the city with any records.
| +. j. Uoburh called Was In the Auditors
office 40 an expert. The books are kept lepsely.
one warrant shown was irregular 10 the amount
In LAVA The settlements with tan collectprH
| were very irregular. One Item OF 1906.
600 that went TO the general fund WAS not
properly aecountea for. II vas stated that these
| Vice or opinion Of the Attorney General. The
| settlements were made Ia sUine eases In State
| warrants. Thpse things we're going on all the
time In The Auditors office, .,,,.
When I examined the Office, found the tar rolls
all In the back Office Think the $4,000 irfeguA
| iariiy was Under uraham's administration.
| Weymouth made two reports; one was par
tal report, aud wac published, and the btbef the
There was no regular system Of book keeping IN
the office OF the Auditor when examined ~. Tie
warrant ledger especially Was badly kept Maue
| the laat examination Of The Auditors books In
| 1876.
Mr.. J. NJ. wermputh esllea-uave as an expert
| examined the Auditors books on several oeca-
| siens. don't believe the trfers In the books less
than Thousand inr each year, made two reports
| the inal report the con,nittee held beck,
| A counter report was made by Messts. Phelp
ard Gardner 10 the partial report. Think tha
| committee made an arrangement With Mr. YIN
| ton To hold the report back. Senators Hefwig,
Gage aud wkartan and various Representatives.
we're Oh that committee, ays n al o. we nonsa
had some hold on Clinton, The committees held
| secret n,eetiuRa at which / Was present.. they
asked me not 10 use any Of The proceedings.
politically, against the Republican party.
| Az chairman OF The committee. HerwlE de.
manded the report Of me, And gave II 10 him.
Az one Vt the eshibite In thai report, 4 list 81
warrants WAS given ss collected, which was not IN
MIR. ulintpb's report. a. was claimed by the
l PHnpn- ltAtunpf annual reports HhN uhns W
| 1900 200, which Clinton had bought and had no,
reported. These we're warrants Issued for two Q,
three yeArs-somp golBg back A. far NJ 1870 and
then to 1876, and thoee which Mr.. Clinton
bought. presume he tbenght he had ss much
/ fiaht 30 speculate M any body else. There were
| no great discrepancies between my report and
| that or Messrs, Phelps aud Gardner. theirs WAS
a rehuttsl report, however. So,
Was paid in vouchers for my last report. The
appropriation for the ntst was enjoined. and he
t,fs
or $4,000 and never got any of ~
Judge Lynch raised the Injunction.
During my examination | examined she TAX
ledger and never saw anything 90 ifregulsrly
would balance. Found extraordinary dinafepan-
ces In the NJ Elements OF tau collectors.
The investigation, one Of The committee told
me-, was 10 ''make olinl Ion behave himseM'
Did not make an extended examination OF the
Treasuret's books, "a far M / went the bpoks
were, however, correct. there were, Of course, IT.
reguiaritiep, but nothing serious.
The report which was suppressed, on that
think indictments were found against Mr.. 0n.
ton. and after Mr.. Fields death, last spring, !!
the indictments were there dismissed WITH. |
think, aov. KellogRs sanction. Clinton bought
t4np. 900 Of warrants which he received from the
tax collectors and reported but t2o0 ooo but paid
these warrants into The treasury AZ cash.
examined those warrants, new In the Treas
user's office, and all bear Olinton's Endorsement
on the back. The substance is that he bought
the warrants al Atty cents on the dollar. aud
they went into the treasury, he receiving cash
therefroe,
There was alao military investig alton. and
Mr.. senator Wharton has the papers,
James Graham called-Waa Auditor prior TO
MIR. Clinton. took an inventory OF everything
delivered to Clinton made an inventory re-
gently for Mr.. Jumel one book, an important
one-~the tranefer books, ] understand, miss
ing that In tho only ono that is mentioned now
Il wuaId be impossible for me now to state what
books are missing.
Ex.senators Il. Z. Herwig ana W. W. Wharton
we're summoned to appear before the committee
aud TO produce certain papers Ia their posseR-
aion.
After arranging with che winners TO furnish. ne
near ~ possible from the data in hia possession.
a duplicate of the report that Was emothered by
The former committee. the joint committee ad-
,ournad until Thurnday At l O'clock =. m.