The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-17
The second Auditor vindicatcs Him.
self.
SECOND AUDITORS OFFICE,

september 10, 1919. J
Editors of The Dispatch: I have to beg
the favor OF you, in order to the Yindica.
ton OF my official reputation, to insert in
your paper the following correspondence
in relation to certain charges and insinua-
tons which appeared in the columns OF the
Whig of this morning in respect to the
funding OF the public debt:
RICHMOND, September 16, 1879.
Charles U. Williams. Esq, agent for The
Syndicate's DepositorieS at Richmond:
Ny Dear Sir,-In the Richmond Wing OF
this date there appears the copy OF letter
written by the Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter,
Treasurer OF Virginia, dated from the State
Treasurer's Office September 8, 1879, in
reference to the funding OF the public debt,
&c. The headlines over this letter, which
/ do not suppose are attributable to Mr..
Hunter, are as follows: " Hon. Il. NJ. II.
Hunter Tells the Truth as Treasurer-1m-
preper Funding-TDo Many Peelers Steal
ing H."
In the same paper is the following edto-
rial comment:
"Thc communication OF Hon. r. NJ. r.
Hunter, State Treasurer, to Judge Stevens,
gives some OF the true inwardncss' Of
the funding. The little episode Of over
s27. 900 in peeIers getting in ahead OF time
is very Suggestive; and 1t seems not impro-
bablc, to infer from what Mr.. Hunter di-
yuIges, that, by conaivance in the base
ment,' SS.000,000 may be 'held,' con-
structively, rs funded by the 1st OF next
January, although a much less sum in The
proper proportions Of Glasses l. and ii. be
actually funded. THE Mysteries OF the
Basement are profound and past finding
out"
Mr.. Hunters letter and the comments OF
the EVhiq are calculated to produce false
impression, for the reason that the letter
upon which the comments is made, so FAR
as it refers to what is styled in the head.
tines "Impropcr Funding" "Too Many
Pcclers Stealing ID," whileit contains facts
enough to produce the impression OF great
careIessness in both his Office and mine,
omits to state facts which, ii stated, would
show that no blame whatever properly at
taches 10 my office.
You know the fact that in your presenta-
ton to me for funding under the act OF
March %, 1879, there has never been day
since the iunding began when | have not
held for your account an excess OF Glass |.
You also know the fact that SlG0, 100 OF
consols presented by you for funding had,
instead OF regular coupons belonging TO the
bonds and bearing the same ntimDef Win
the bond, the coupons or the same charac'
ter and amount exactly, but taken from
other bonds.
You maintained that q conso presented
for finding which bore 4 tax receivable
common for the right amount maturing on |
the 1st of July, 1879, entitled you to lund
if. Notwithstanding the coupon originally
ho1onred 10 some other consOl bond. con-
cnrred with you in opinion, and caused to
no carried into the office Of the Treasurer |
more than enough consolS OF the Sl60, 100 |
in nv hands, placed there by you, to fund
the Glass H., which passed through my |
office into the Treasury for funding, and
which is the same S27, 900 alluded to by Mr..
Hunter as the amount funded in excess OF
its legal proportion.
These conSols were rejected by Mr.. Hun |
ter because the July coupons with them did
not have the same number with the BONDS,
and sent back into my Office, while the Class
III. 1.-THE $4,000 was funded into new bonds, |
when, if he was right in sending back the |
Glass l., he was bound, in order to pre-
serve the proper proportions, to have re-
turned also the Class II.
AS soon as I reported Dir. Hunters deci- |
sion to you, you said that you would see
Mr.. Hunter about the matter, and you SUBJ
sequently told me that you had seen him
and that you had seen the Attorney.Genc-
raj, and that while the latter fully concur
red with you in the opinion, the former adj
hered to his refusal to receive the conSols
unless the coupons bearing the same num-
Der with the bonds were attached.
I did not then send any more OF the con-
soils into the Treasury OF that description,
determining to wait until / could have the
legal question settled. With that view l
addressed the enclosed letter, dated August |
%, 1870, to the Acknowledgement, and on
The 9th OF this month he made his endorse |
ment thereon, which, you will see, sustains |
your own and my view OF the question.
When this official correspondence was
brought to the attention OF Mr.. Hunter,
understand that he notified you that he
would receive the consolS which he had re-
iected. but that you declined to fund them
as OF June, and returned Dir. Hunter the
new bonds for the S27,000-excess Of Class
H.-made an excess by his own erroneous
decision--and took back the Class II. for
that amount.
am sure that your own sense OF justice
will, even without request from me to do |
so, prompt you to give me for publication
such a statement as the facts within your
knowledge will warrant.
Very truly yours, ASA ROGERS.
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