Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-13
DELAWARE'S SHARE.
Nearly 100000 Due the State From
the National Treasury.

speci,l Correspondence Of state jour
DOVER, Ang. Sept. 6.-St Auditor
Long WAS In town to-da, aud showed
your correspondent oircnlars ioh he
had received from W. Willol by aud
F. X. Alexander OF Washingto D.. c.,
counsel for the State of Virgin in an
effort to seoure for that State the fourth
quarterly instalment due her under the
deposit act, passed by Congress June 23d,
1885. synopsis of the thirteenth SEQ
tion of the act provides az follows That
the money which shall be in the United
States Treasury on the lst day OF Jan
uary, 1887, reserving the sum OF
$4,000, 900, shall be deposited with suoh
OF the several states, in proportion to
their respective representations In the
Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States, as shall, by law,
authorize their treasurers or other
competent authorities toreceive the same;
the Secretary of the Treasury shall de-
liver the same to the treasurers and other
authorities, and receive from them in re.
turn certificates of fdsposits signed by COM
petent authorities, which certificates shall
pledge the faith of the State for the safe
keeping and repayment thereof, and shall
pledge the faith of the State to pay the
said moneys; aud every part thereof from
time to time, whenever the same shall be
required by the Secretary of the Treasury
for the purpose of defraying any wants
OF the public treasury, hey ond the amount
OF 5000, 900 aforesaid.
The fourteenth section provides that
one.quarter part of said money is to be
paid on the first day Of January, 1887, or
as soon thereafter as may be ; e-quarter
part on the first day OF April, one-quarter
part on the first day OF July, aud one
quarter part on the first day of October,
all in the same year.
Three of the installments were paid
according to provisions made, and Della
ware received her proportion, but owing
to the scarcity of funds in the treasury,
the fourth was Lot paid. The Secretary
of th4 Treasury got Congress, by an
act October 81, 1887, to postpone
pay ment of the fourth auarterly
instalment until 1889. When 1889 came
the same excuse was made "An empty
treasury" Thus from one cause
and another the states have been put off
up to the present time. AS the Treasury
is full to overtlowing some OF the states
thought that nov is the time to demand
the payment OF the fourth quarterly in
stallment. There are rs states entitled
to their proportionate amounts. The
amount due Delaware is $9S, ,5s3 SO. |
Virginia has employed her counsel and is
the matter for all 1t is worth,
sud she advises the other states to join
her which several of them have already
done.
The act somehow has never been re-
pealed, and should proper measures be
taken by the State there is no doubt that
the distributions will yet be made. Mr..
Long said since he had received the cir
cular he had consulted several gentlemen
and they advised him to proceed at once
in the matter. Messrs. Willoughby and
Alexander advised, through their circular
speedy conference among the proper
State authorities Of the several states, SO
that some plan should be reached through
which they might work together.