Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-02-23
LOCAL N EWS.
,pr,CE OF TERRITORIAL CON.
TROLLER.

IN WopID.-Whi|e it is not my
.ustom to take part in newspaper con.
.oy.rsies. several items that have re-
peu,lv appeared in your Journal need,
think. slight correc ion. AR. Travis
,xnlanaton, as published in your last
Gene Of to-day, regarding the amount
Inc from the Secretary for Notaries'
ops is in the main. correct, excepting
hat It was not upon the Treasurcr's
reouest. bnt at my own suggestion
Mat the amount offered Ivy Mr.. Sin
ciser was no, at the time paid over.
suggested that he defer payment to
the Treasurer until the latter had pat
lin his quarterly report to this office;
be (,he T,easnrer), having just made
his biennial report to the Governor.
and i, seemed advisable that the bier-
NAL rrport from this office should con-
form-otherwise there would be an
Il apparent discrepancy in the reports
from the two Offices. The law rrlat-
i inc to Notaries provides that leach
aprontee shall pay the sum of ten
dollars to the Secretary, aCho shall keep
an account of the same, and pay one
i half to the Library fund, and may app
81 ply the residue as his fees.' AS the
NJ law prescribes no specified time in
which the fees are to be turned over
81 to the Treasurer there seemed to me,
81 under the circumstances, no impro
8 priety III deferring the payment AS
@ suggested. 1t is to be presumed that
~ person occupying Mr.. Singiscr's po-
# sition, is endowed with at least an or
# binary amount of Common sense. III
81 seems to me that if he was the con-
# summation of villainy that some OF
~ his enemies are endeavoring to paint
III him, he would hardly have kept pub
81 lie record Of all appoiutces, something
81 which appears never to have been
81 done by any of his predecessors, sim
@ ply to write down his own condemna
# ton. There is still an unsettled &C
a coun, between the Territory and tn
M Secretary moreover, for cash advance
M by the latter in dist ibuting the law
& and journals of the llth session, an
III the Supreme Court Reports, as direct
cd by law; and until the account
adjusted, it hardly comes with goo
grace to set up tie ciy of deIau'tcl
W Such is the sum and subsi ance Of thi
EN Not9ryship matter, about which S
8 much seems to have been said an
3 written and so little understood. III
committee, during their star-chambt
W Investigation, never troubled then
selves to ask for any explanation, all
# 1T seems slightly ungracious, therefor
IA for Mr.. Reagan, in his recent comm'
# nlcatlon to the Mormon newspaper
this city, to make his insiuuations, b
cause "neilher the Secretary nor b
M deputy appeared before the comm1
a tee." If the majority Of the comm
tee had been half as jealous in a
tempting to ascertain the truth
they appear to have been to smir
the character of man behind t
back, much of the wind of the "Sen
tor from Owyhee" might have he
spared. More than this, | care not
# say at preseut--less than this, cot
not say in justice to one whose a
III sence renders it impossible for him
rs defend himself from the cowardly
1t tacks of character-smirchers who
"a sole aim seems to have been to str
at and villify one who has been ele
Isl 60 ny the people of this Territory
81 'he highest position in their pow
and whose every personal interest
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