The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-13
DIBBLE'S POPULATIONS.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF MS AC-
COUNTS TAKEN FROM THE RECORDS.

COMrARATIvEs STATEMENT OF MS AC'
COUNTS TAKEN FROM THE RECORDS.
Trial Balance, Showing his indie bted
ness to the state as Sas,s.s 40.
| According TO the report OF the Auditorial ipves
| LEGATION, published elsewhere In this morning.
DEMOCRAT, IL will be observed that the commit
tee yesterday was furnished by ex.sheriT Wag
gsman with his
| STATEMENT TAX BOOB,
showing the receipts Of Henry q. Dlbble, lat,
| Assistant Attorney General, and Hiram II. Steele
late Assistant Attorney General, for moneys psit
| 10 them by The Sheriff In the settlement Of deln
uuent tax suits, which were brought by the ex
officials named.
Very many-a maiority-of these receipts
signed personally by Dbble and Steele, explain
that they are made payable to the order Of the
various ex.tax collectors OF the several districts
| In the city, and very many OF them show, too,
| that they were made payable to the order RI
Dibble himself while others show that the en-
sheriff made settlements with Dibble partly In
state warrants and partly in cash or checks, and
with view to ascertaning 40 nearly az possible
how much
DIBBLE HAD RECEIVED,
DEMOCRAT expert yesterday examined the
statement book to ascertain whether bis receipts
would balance with the State Treasurer's books,
or whether 1t would show that Dibble had paid
into the Treasury too much cash
From Deeemb 10, 1874. to March 20. 1876 in
elusive, The statement book shows thai Dibbe re-
ceipted in fourteen elements with the sheriff.
amounting to sl0.B55 10.
From April 90 1876, to August q, 1875. in.
elusive, while Steele was The Assistant Attorney
Genera the stat ement shows that he teeei pted
az Assistant Attorney General In twenty g. ven
settlements with the Sheriff, for amounts rang
ing from s66 to 1850, and
AaaRHaArtra IN ALI sB4, 500 rs,
one settlement, that made on June 1, showing
that instead Of receiving all cash he received
1880 Of the amount receipted tor-t 3Gs2 DIN
warrants.
Dbhe resumed The functions of the position
after this. IL seems, and his settlements are en-
tered from september d. 1875, to and including
D 'cember 10, 1876, and between those dates he
receipted 10 the Sheriff for tl47, $3.50 GB, which
makes q total OF si66,0i5 03, and that with
Steele's s84 300 7B makes
GRAND TOTAL OF slD2, 1874 81
received by both IN settlement Of tax suits.
Az stated before, many OF Dbbe's receipts
upon the face OF the bouks when each settsme MT
drawn to the order of the tax collectors, ard q
large number were payable with the Stale war
rants to his own order
The checks made payable to his order In this
way foot up 500, COL ID, and the warrants paid
him amount 10 s5OO7 ID. making the total paid
him s77.50s 81,
The State Tfeasurers books show that Dlbble
has paid into the treasury, ali told, the sum Of
f2s, 9s9 0s, leaving balance due the State
amounting to s4B, SAG az.
In ovviti In Uhar; Ia. cIu
that Dbble received over $4,000 in warrants in
Judgments in tax suits brought In the superior
District Court, as is shown by the Sherlffs book ;
and ID may be noted here. ALSO that certain cases
recorded are those where compromises have
been effected with parties for back taxes. some
dating az far back az 1868, and In some Of these
cases checks were Issued payable to Dibble's
order.
In aix or more cases where one individual was
the defendant II is aeen that
ptBBLE RECEIVED cHEeKs
for t15674 payable to bis own order. and il ma
be that there are other instances Of the same
kind,
II is shown also that in settleme al made De-
oember 10, 1876, the last one entered, Dibble re.
ceived sa5 In Legislative warrants OF 1876 and
&33 80 in cash, anu just about that time he was
hurryiug the Sheriff up for settlements, but he
did not, as the late Attorney General Fields let
ter indicates, endeavor
no DIVIDE THE FEES
with him.
When Kellogg cut Dbble's head off for taking
Warmoths side In the ut. Charles Theatre con.
vention there was oceans of bad talk between
both Dibble and Kellogg. the latter charging to
the writer that Dibbls was q defauter to the
State. and in return Dibble
SAILED INTO KELLOGG,
for his numerous purdering acts, but the mo-
ment the war oeaaed-when Diddle forced Kel-
logg to reappoint him they were both ~ close
az church mice and ne loving ~ turtle doves, and
IL may be for that reason that Dibble, as he says
gave Kellogg the money.
But about this time II appears, or will, from the
testimony Of a gentleman doing business on
Carondelet street, and one whose word
acANNoT BE IMPuGNED,
that on three several occasions he bought and
sold bonds and warrants for Dbbe.
There are those too. it ia said, who know of
compromise loenee tax suits de, and not in
court either, but the richest rumor Of all lie in re-
gard to the compromise with several corporations
in the city for back taxes.
The Auditors books with the court records,
would be convenient to possess now ~ con-
Meeting links in the records but as the former
are still missing the committee or
THE GRAND JURY
will be compelled to content themselves with the
court records and oral testimony