New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-11
REMOVALS. BY THE CONTROLLER.
THE RESIGNATION or TWO sUBoRDINArEs DE-
MANDED.


THE RESIGNATION or TWO sUBoRDINArEs Dr.
MANDED.
Controller Grant late yesterday sent to Daniel
Jackson, auditor OF the Finance Department and
David +. Johnson assistant stock and bond clerk,
letters requesting their resignation. Mr.. Grant
SAID that be had contemplated making changes Tor
some time. but hr doomed It bcst 10 wait until
the report OF the Commissioners of Accounts had
been cutCd TO the Mayor The report had merely
confirmed HIN Ia MS opinion that these Official,
syOud have prevented The frauds IL was neon
csIvablr that they snou ii have gone on 50 many
years undiscovered If those whose business 10 was
10 prevent them had not performed their duties in
yeIIuuCtuTy sort of way II those officials declined
10 forward their ryslguItlCus, step, viii Dr taken tO
remove them. Nj. Jackson was appointed an cI-
auiucr o. ply-TOll- on september 4. 1872, 10y Con-
tTOIlcr Gre0u. On August X, 1874, hc was promoted
by Controller Green 10 DC auIitor and lac has been
the CHICl oil that division ever since. HIS salary
$1,000. David J.. johnson was appointed a clerk
10y Controller Richard H. Connolly u October,
1870, and was several years ago promoted 10 be-
ASSISTANT stock aud bond clerk. His salary II
G2IOO. lie was IN the same division with Will
lam d. CauUii, the dead dciduilcI, aud occasionally
performed the duties the attcr.
The report OF the Commissioners of Accounts has
been severely criticised. The TACT Is pointed cut
that M their former report, extending back from
the date OF the report 10 carly 1879 they placed
the amount stolen by Carroll at SlG04GO. The
last report covering the same period and IN addI-
ton IRON 1872 10 1879, during all OF which years
some losses were discovered, makes tho total
amount stolen SlGi, 500. TINS discrepancy is not
explained. uc OlnClaiS IN inc FINANCE Depart
ment made the amount taken during the period
Grst mentioned Sl4S,G3O. IL Is alleged that the
Commissioners forgot TO include III their report the
Sl0.s3O Of uucancelled coupons found in CAROLS
desk alter his death,
The Commissioners, in their report, say that Ger
tain schedules are missing from the ChambcrIaiu's
Office, and that they arc important showing the
names OF persons who had presented coupons twice
for payment Chamberlain lappan said yes erday
that there no doubt that certain sChedu Cs were
missing lie denied, however, that they were I'M
pOTtaut How they were taken, Or what had become
OF them, he did not know.
At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen Mr..
COchraue presented series OF resolutions setting
forth that the report Of tho Commissioners of AC-
counts tue Finance Department confirms the
position previously assumed by the Common
Council IN the report adopted by 1t OF the special
committee appointed To examine the alleged frauds
in the coupon interest account and the accounts of
the Controllers Office. IL further resolved that
the Common Council authorize and require the
Mayor to cause Immediate lega! action to be taken
TO compel restitution TO the Treasury OF all sums
fraudulently taken therefrOm, and to Proceed
az Inst all persons through whose neghg nee or in
strumeutaIty the city has been delrdudcd. Inc
resolutions were unanimously adopted.