The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-05
DEITER'S DODGE.
WHAT THE BOARD OF CONFUSION.
ERs RBPORI.
MAlEsasanee In once Alleged by ths
COmmItIeO-Ihe Report, However,
ISIneOmPleIe, bot Shows that
there Il Grounds for Sc.
FIOuS Complaint.


When the matter oil the report Of O. h.
Deiters, charged with mallsalancs in Of.
fee, was brought up before the Board Of
Commissioners yesterday, Mr.. CANADIAN
moved that the report be read to the
Board alone,
Mr.. Caldwell objected for the reason
that the report would be magniaed, and
said that II the report was not given 1t
would revert to the discredit Of Mr.. Detters.
Mr.. CarnRhRn spoke In favor OF explud-
Ing everybody except the Commissioners,
Mr.. SpeidRl, the President, said that he
thought the public ought to know what
was done by the COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Caldwell called the yeas and nays
on excluding the reporters, with the fol.
lowing result;
YEAs; Atkinson, Carnahau, Stein and
Terrill-4.
NAYS: Caldwell, Nichols, sChultze,
Sweeney and Speidel-5.
The President then announced thai the
motion was lost and the report should be
read, and 1t was accordingly read, as fol-
lows:
WHEELING, W, Va, April 4,
To The Committee on Finance and AccounLs Of
The Board Of Commissioner;
GESTLEMEN;-At your request the I'm.
dersigned examiners OF the books, papers,
and accounts Of the Board of Commission.
ers OF Ohio county, submit for you con
siderRtion the following:
As to the books and accounts we find
that thsre has been no posting or entriea
Of the account In the regular ledger, or
any ledger, since June ], 1878, nor any
entries In the regular journal since June
/, 1873. This Is the book from which the
postings to the ledger are made. But we
do find In journal marked Petty JouTn.
al, 1873" accounts entered up TO May 81,
1880, and In another journal, marked
"Pstty Journsl, 1880" accounts entered up
TO February 7, 1881,
We have made no particular examina.
tions OF any OF the books or accounts ex.
Cept the entries In said "Petty journals"
for the purpose Of sscertaining their origin,
from which we find they originated from
the stubs OF the orders drawn upon the
sheriff, the assessors' returns, etc,
Acting on the advice OF your committee,
we began our examination with the foun.
dation OF the accounta, starting with the
order book for 1854. We compare the re-.
ports OF the various committees with the
itemizsd bills, then the bills as accepted
with the orders issued on the sheriff then
| Tho unUoh ara yatu HnaI hu tho al apIR .t,t 10 h
his (the sherid's) statements; then the
vouchers as returned with the entries on
the stubs Of the order books.
We have not completed our examination
Of the order books, but 30 far as we have
gone we find hatthere have been great
many bills paid for which there are not
proper vouchers.
For instance In the coal bills charged to
the account OF the contingent poor fund Of
the city, We find that there have been q
great many more weigh bills furnished
than there were proper orders from the
Commissioners. And, In fact, coal has
been furnished and charged 10 the county
uron orders that were not Issued by any
Of the Commissioners, and the bills sent
Ia and paid by the county. In justice to
the coal contractors we will say that in
their bills we have found clerical errors 10
favor OF the county, in one bill for $40, and
In another g.. In the matter Of different
merchants bills charged to the same &C.
count we find there has been great irregu.
lArity In the payment OF said bills, some
having been paid too much and others
not enough. In one case merchant has
been charging almost regularly In his bill
an item Of S. per month, for which there
10 no proper voucher.
We also find that order No. ISL, dated
January 30, 1881, was issued for $l27 ~,
when the Board only authorized the pay:
ment Of $105 70.
We find there have been orders issued
10 various road supervisors In payment for
money due different parties for work
done under their direction, which we
think should have been paid by separate
orders, In order for the county 10 have
proper receipt for the amount paid and
the taxes would then, II any, be deducted
by the Sheriff.
We find there has been number Of
orders issued for which we do not find
any authority Of the Board, The bills for
such payments, however, seem 10 be regu.
larly receipted for the order as drawn on
tho Sheriff.
In the case Of order No. 6S1, May Slst,
1880, charged TO the account Of Wheeling,
West Liberty and Bethany road, the order
has been drawn for SAT- 90, we find an
error Of $40 against the county In the bill.
When we began 10 compare the bills
with the committees reports we fnd that
figures have been changed and bills inter
lined on the reports.
In the report OF the Committee on
Printing, dated March 9Th, 1881, the fig.
ures showing the bill OF the Saturday Even.
ing Journal seems 10 have been altered
from 50 25 30 as to read $l2 Is, and the
amount OF the two bills Of the Wheeling
NetU, LetLer Company seem 10 have been
changed, one from some figure TO read
80 90, and the other from SO 90 10 read
81 %. The aggregate Of the bills as per
statement In the report as changed 10
SOL 40. The figures 1876 seem to have
been written on the same place as the az.
ures SOL 40 In such manner that ct ffst
glance It reads $47 40. With the bills
against the county accompanying the re.
port there were two bills against the Elm
Grove Town Hall Association for printing
amounting to IS 90, one Of The Saturday
Evening Journal for SO 90, and the other Of
the Re1rs Letter for $500.
As will be seen. the amount Of the bills
against the Elm Grove Town Hall Asso.
citation, 10 the difference between the bills
againBt Ohio county accompanying the re.
port, and the aggregate OF the bills as per
the report, as changed.
When we came 10 check OF the order