Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-24

firing Treasures turned over the special
| deposits to their successors the same as the
State FUNDS When he went out of Office
he turned over to Mr.. January $4,000 of
special deposits. He thought the depositors
ought to have been consulted but as it had
been the custom all the way through to
turn the funds over he did so, too, as he
disliked TO cast any reflection upon his
| successor.
The Controller said that there is an excess
of $3.50 in the cash on hand at the present
time. The mistake of $4,000 previously
announced had been recyitied, it having
been merely a clerical error. He expected
they would soon find an error which would
J clear up the excess of this $3.50.
The Committee adjourned until $3.50 \.
NJ. to-day.
! THE CHARGES AGAINST SUPREME COURT
CLERK MCCARTHY.
The Assembly Committee appointed to
investigate the charges against j. w. Nc
Carthy, Clerk of the Supreme Court (pre-
| ferred by +. E. Leake), met yesterday at 8
A. NJ. All the members of the committee
were present-Messrs Motfitt, Ellison,
Jones, Hazard and Goucher. Grove L.
Johnson appeared as counsel for the prose
cution, and ex-Attorney- General Hart for
the defense. The specific charges, twenty
four in number were read by the Clerk of
the committee. Mccarthy admitted GER
tain charges embracing matters contained
in the supplemental report flied some time
ago by him when he returned certain
sum of money to the Treasury. All the
other charges wero denied, in 4 general
way, counsel for the defense stating, how
ever, that further on in the investigation
! they might admit certain other things
The tircf witness f.alta1 was Control or
| Dunn, who testified to the filing by Nc
| Carthy of his supplemental report on
I March TO- 1884. The office of Mccarthy
| was investigated prior to that time, and it
was found that the money and fees that he
! had collected had not been turned into the
| State Treasury Mccarthy was told that he
must make good the S2,I0f which was
short. bicCarthy fled a supplemental re-
port and made good the deficiency. Wit
ness stated that his investigation of Me
Carthys accounts had been caused by Il
statement by one of his (DunnS) clerks
that he did not think that evcryti ing was
right in the office. Mr.. Dunn then talked
with w. 5. Leake, clerk in McCarthys
Office, who gave him information relative
to the affairs of the office, and assisted in
the investigation.
Counsel for the defense objected to the
| line Of testimony, and the committee held
that it was irrelevant.
The counsel for the prosecution put in
evidence McCarthys report for May and
other months of 1883, TO show that the
items OF the supplemental report were not
contained i'll them, and that IIany fees
collected were not reported, nOtwithStanti-
ing each report WAS sworn 10 by Mccarthy
as full and complete. Clerk ki'sby made
rough draft OF a report for the Los Angeles
ana San Francisco Offices There were no
errors, strictly speaking, i'll the accounts OF
the Sacramento Office. The errors were
those made in the entries under instructions
from Mccarthy. One was the matter of n
fee of SO, which Mccarthy had ordered
entered up as 81 There were one or TWO
other items which witness did not recall
Mccarthy, in the presence of the Governor
and the Secretary of State admitted that
Clerk Leake had turned over to the State
all the money he received. Mccarthy made
up the reports OF the Los Angeles and San
Francisco offices in his own handwriting
The committee then went into an invcs-
tigation of the details of the different
charges. In regard to the allegation that
Mccarthy had charged the State 50 for the
RECORD UNION, and IS for two Stanislaus
papers. the same having been furnished the
office free, vouchers for the same were pre-
sented.
Sergeant-at-Arms Porter stated that he
had visited Los Angeles, but failed to find
Deputy Clerk Gafiey.
Z. 7. Gaffey testified that according to
statement made to him by Mccarthy. his
brothers accounts were all correct.
At 1880 the committee took Il recess till
pm
The committee resumed the investigation
at 2:30 p. NJ.
j. L. Jackson. mailing clerk of RECORD
UNION, testified that, i'll return for favorS
extended TO the news department of the
paper, he mailed ore copy OF the paper
daily to Mccarthy in San Francisco. The
paper was on the free list. Mccarthy had
been on the free list about one year Wit
ness did not know how the paper was fur
nished Mccarthy in 1888.
Mccarthy was asked by Mr.. Johnson to
produce the reports made By clerk Gatfey,
from the Los Angeles office and for which
he had, us charged, substituted reports OF
his own.
Mccarthy said he did not keep the re-
ports rs records of his office and he
thought most of them had gone to the
waste basket. He kept cash book. upon
which was entered only the totals. There
were manifold copies OF these reports.
which he thought might have been pre-
served.
w. A. Lnake was sworn, lie asked that
the cash book of the Sacramento office and
the desk blotter of the San Francisco office
Tor 1888 be produced.
Mccarthy produced the cash book, and
said he had telegraphed for the blotter.
Mr. Leake then testified that he had been
n deputy in NcCarthy's office up to the
10Th instant 1t was customary to file
monthly reports of fees collected, but of
the reports from Los Angeles, but two were
in the handwriting of Clerk Galley. The
others were in McCarthy's handwriting,
and were not correct reports of the fees
collected in the Los Angeles office: Rela-
tive to the fee of SIS collected by Nc
Carthy in the matter of writ of error in
McKune vs.. George, and of which but 81
was entered in the cash book and the bal
ance of $14 kept by Mccarthy as his per-
quisite. witness testified that Mccarthy had
certified to the correctness of the papers
without comparison with the original.
He f.barye1 S1S foo mt S14 in his own