Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-01-20

nifty among mis- iarlner friends OF this coun-
~ by esehewing ihcir consi ltrations Iur APP
pontment to oiilct, and favoring newcomers
into the party who are without influence.
A special dispatch to the Baltimore 1meri-
can from Annapolis, under date of the 10th
instant, says: Comptroller Heating has put
on his war paint. He demands an investi-
cation, and insists that the legislature shall
at once order the Constitutional Committee
TO send for persons and papers and examine
into the charges made against him by the o.
l.. DIS during the last campaign. He is now
AT work preparing communication 10 the
General Assembly, in which, after reciting
the charges made against him by the Com
mittee OF One Hundred and the o. l.. ID. IS
generally, he calls attention to the fact that
his official acts us comptroller OF the treasury
had been attacked, and he considers it due
TO him and his office that these charges
should he thoroughly Investigated, either by
special committee appointed on the sub
jei, or by the committee regularly APP
pointed under the Constitution. He states
that he is ready to produce before the COM
mittee all his books and papers, as well as
the laws under which he acted, as one of
the fiscal officers Of the State, and is willing
To abide by the decision of the committee.
Comptroller Heating will 60 further in his
communication, and will defend his action
by quotations from acts of the General AS
semby, and will argue that the practice in
augurated by the Republicans Of 1864 in
canceling the debt by the destruction of the
securities in the sinking fund was good
one, and that the authorities have done a
wise thing in relieving the people of the
State from the taxes which the maintenance
d IA sinking fund would impose upon them.
He will then give figures to show that if the
legislature intends to keep up this fund and
levy the necessary tax to redeem the various
loans at maturity, the State taxes, instead of
being 1885, cents, would reach the figure of
nearly 30 cents on the 800 of assessable
property. He will remind the legislature
that ii is for them 10 say whether the sink
ing fund is to be kept up and these taxes
levied. AS comptroller of the treasury he
proposed TO obey the will of the General
Assembly, and If ii decided that tax should
be levied for these purposes, he would be the
first 10 cheerlulIy execute the mandate. But
he insists that the legislature should investi
gate the charges against him, which he
claims will be found after thorough scru.
tiny, 10 be mere vaporing, and that it will
be found that the Comptroller acted strictly
within the law There is no doubt that the
two houses will order an investigation, and
that the Constitutional Committee will be
entrusted with ii. The various speakers
who, during the campaign, made charges
against the Comptroller, are 10 be sum
moned, among them being Gov Hamilton,
DIR. Eli J. Henkle, Gen. Bradley I, johnson,
Mr.. James Hodges, Col. Charles Marshall,
Judge VIM. i. Merrick, Mr. r. I. Merrick,
and large number Of others, while there
will also be an array Of witnesses on the
other side The investigation will doubt
less be interesting