Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-05

Detroit Free Press.

Regarding the charge made by +. NJ.
Carroll, Of Grand Rapids, that A. p.
Swineford, of Marquette, late United
States Commissioner to the New Orleans
Exposition. embeZZled $1,000 Of the
amount given to Michigan by the Gov
ernment, Edward Ksnter. of this city,
yesterday made the following state
ment:
IL observe in this mornings paper
that Mr.. Carroll had another interview
with the Free Press correspondent at
Lansing. Like his former attacks on
individual members of the Board of
Commissioners, and particularly on Gov.
Swineford and Mr.. g. c. Goodwin, il is
full of misstatements. Mr.. Carroll's
bill for imaginary services was rejected
by a full board, and he was consequently
removed from the commission by Gov.
BICYCLE, for sufficient reasons urged by
members Of the Board. Since that time
he has frequently appeared In the De-
troit and Grand Rapids papers With
malicious articles containing untruthful
charges against Com missioners Goodwin
and Swineford. Mr.. Carroll was pres
eat at meeting of the Board at Grand
Rapids, at which Governor Svineford
stated that $500 was allowed to Michi.
eaH and would be paid to him as Uni
ted States Commissioner; that be would
pay over $1,000 to the Michigan State
Commission towards an exhibit from
the Lower Peninsula, and would retain
$1,000 for an exhibit of the mineral re-
sources Of the Upper Peninsula. This
proposition was accepted with thanks,
and the Board considered shat it was
literally dealt with.
The Hon. A. @. Davis, Governor
Svineford and Mr.. T. W. Noble, who
made special efforts to draw attention
to the mining resources of our State,
deserve great deal of credit for having
made such = fine display with the
amount retained by Mr.. Swineford for
that purpose.
Mr.. Carroll knew all thsss facts
from the start, and his statement to the
Free Press correspondent at Lansing
that the Commissioners supposed that
$4,000 WAS all that Governor Swineford
mad received from the Director General
for the Michigan exhibit is absolutely
false. aud, in fact, | reminded him of
these circumstances only few days
ago, and several of his former attacks
on the Commissioners, aud particularly
on Governor Svineford. show conclu-
sively that be did not know all the facts
about the Upper Peninsula exhibit. for
which $1,000 was retained by Governor
Swineford.
" The final accounting of the Board
Of State Commissioners with the Board
OF State Auditors Yesterday Was merely q
financial statement. and the auditing
OF the voushers, for the purpose Of hav
ing the COMMISSIONER nonds paid and
IL - xusek
the exhibit of the resources of the Up
per Peninsula. A full report Of the
State Board will be made to the ne It
lie islature."
Carols hill" said one of the Com
missioners yesterday. was for services
alleged to have been rendered before
the commission, of which he Was once
q member, was organized, before it
ever had any existence officially. The
commission Vas organized in july or
August, 1884. and be claimed to have
done the work In the previous Septem-
Der, October, November, December, and
alspg there"
what excuse did he give for having
began work 50 early?"
"He said that Gov. Beeole hired him
TO do IL, and promised 10 see that he
vas paid. The Commissioners said all
right, get your bill %. Nd by Gov. Be
gole and veil pay II. or bring any proof
whatever OF such an agreement and
we'll pay it; bot be never did. He also
brougst in . bill for services at ths
Louisville Exposition. with which the
commission had nothing whatever 10
do"
when Vas Mr.. Carroll down here
lAstg''
About q week ago. He tried then TO
get us TO pay those bills, and ve re-
ferred him 10 the Board OF State
Audttors."
~Did he go before themf"
sYss. and they refused TO pay him. %
n don't look very much as though he
Vas entitled 10 anything"
why was Mr.. Carroll bounced from
the comnissioag
sReoause he VAS on the make