Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-17
The january Matter.

In speaking of the shortage IN the once
of the State Treasurer, the San Jose Mer-
c,ary of November 18th says Arthur jan
uarv is well known in this city, where ne
has resided from infancy. He was Deputy,
under his father, in the County Treasurer
office of this county for several years, and
was dismissed from that position, 1t is said,
at the instigation of one OF Mr.. January
heaviest bondsmen, for approprlatlng some
81 100, which his father replaced 1t was
generally known that OF late years ne mas
manifested disposition to lead last me
a fact that was much commented upon III
connection with his appointment as Deputy
State Treasurer, and which, surely, could
not have been wholly unknown to his
father. We deeply ..sympathize with his
family in the shame and disgrace he has
brought upon them. His father, whose
personal integrity no one has ever ques-
TONED. failed to exercise that watchfulness
over his son that his fast habits OF life de-
handed For it is as true now as ever that
no man who CANDLES, who drinks to ex-
cess or has vicious associations, Is safe to
be intrusted with the custody of the funds
of another, and especially not OF those be-
longing to the public, concerning which
there is apt to be laXity of moral respon-
sibility in the minds of many not observ-
able in their dealings in private life. There
can be no two standards OF morality He
who steals from the public is as great
thief as he who picks pocket or robs a
till; and often greater, Tor greater conf,
dence is BETRAYED. 1t is the old, old story"
1t is stated that bondsmen to the extent
of $50, coo have gone off the State Treas
urer's bond, and some doubt is entertained
of the possibility of his replacing them. N.
Greene Curtis and Henry Edgerton have
been employed to defend young January,
and he has by them been advised to steer
clear of newspaper reporters.
Archibald Yell, member of the last
Assembly, and an attorney OF Mendocino
county, arrived in the city last evening to
look after the interest of the County Treas
urer of his county He is of the opinion,
or at least intimates it. that the bond of the
State Treasurer is liable for his sons pecu-
lations. He says it is stated that all the
losses made by young January, so far as
has been ascertained, was paper money,
while the deposits of the County Treasures
were all in coin. 1t would look as though
State currency had been taken and the
same had been replaced with special deposit
coin.
In this connection it is to be added, that
according to young January's own state
ment-and it agrees with popular obServa-
ton of his career-he has been gambling
with other than his own funds for eighteen
months Now the County Treasures are
required to settle with the State semi-an-
nually AT such times the larger part, if
not all, these special deposits must be drawn
out or at least ascertained. The County
Treasurer must carry back sufficient funds
for the needs of the schools. 1t not infre-
quently happens that Treasurer does not
bring enough to complete his settlement
with the Controller, even when using what
he left over with the Treasurer, and he is
compelled to draw upon his own office for
more funds. 1t must have been then at the
time of settlements that the special deposit
fund was in such state that it had to be
temporarily replenished from State funds.