The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-04-22
Don't Want the People TO Know
too Much.
Cbickassv Messen ger.

Cbiekasav Messenger
With 8 view to furnishing the tax
payers With Information IS regards
the state Of our finances monthly, $
bill was introduced and passed both
Houses requiring The Auditor and
Treasurer to cause 10 Be published
IN the official journa. each mooth an
iieniz-d statement Of tie receipts,
showing amounts, by whom aid
and upon what account and an
tented statement ~ tie exPeuji-
lures showing upon waose order the
mo1ey was drawn, upon what fad
and TO whom paid.
Tie strict enforcement Of this &C.,
if it had become law, would have
furnished tie public much valuable
Information All would have enabled
all Who wished to keep posted with
our States finances to know exactly
VIA: vas going On st jackson. i;
would. too, have enabled the auditor
sad Treasurer to have their report.
ready - submit - The Legislature
~uea * net. Or ia very lev days
thereafter. which would have been
al immense improvement O. de
az Of seven Neeks s. was the case
this yesr, with the Treasurer's re-
port.
II This bill had become q law.
there would be 10 such tbiag a. tue
Governor drawing sI229 out Of the
contingent fu1d and keeping it il
MS possession fJr many months,
without the tax payers knowing il.
There would be no such thing as the
authorities Of the Eas: Mississippi
Insane Asylum extending two years
appropriation Ia one YEAR and ge.-
ting eleven Thousand dollars 10 debt
besides, without the people being
apprised Of tie fact. The State
would not he robbed through the
Instrumen:ality Of marsh iaGd sur
yevs on the coast Or anr where else.
and duplicae and tripIicate &C
counts paid t. favosite toaiies, with
the approval # the Governor. with
gu. the public being fully posted %
! the subject. The Governor himself
could not draw money cut of the
State Treasury except upon the
auditors warrant. and then there
would be 10 more orders from His
Extravsgancy on the Treasurer to
pay money to DR.. Crissy and others
out Of the swamp land fund. brgin-
i ming April l0,h Of one ear and
ending Oct. 18th ut the next year.
sad emhodyiug amounts aggrega
ting more than $l2, nor would
We be likely to find any more deli
cate little messages similar to the
/ following, hid away among the pa
pers fled as vouchers
State Treasurer
will YOU give me twenty five
dollars on account or Swamp land to
visit island now being surveyed on
tie coast. July l9, 1854.
ROBERT Lowry.
Governor
Contracts male hv The peaiten-
tiary ring for more than double the
value of the work proposed to be
done, and settlements wherein the
Governor recoguized sail contracts
and gave credit on approved est
mates" when a large amount of the
work was either Incomplete or I'M
touched, would Uoder the operation
Of this law have become obsolete;
but It seems the head of the al
igarchy don't want the people 10
know too mach about cAtse matters.
at least We draw that iuferen &C from
the following reply of the Secretary
of state TO our letter. iuquiIing
whether or not this bill has been
approved
JACKSON, MISS Ayril 81, 1886.
HoN FRANK BCRKITT
Dear Your favor Goth ult
TO hand. The bill requiring the
auditor and Treasurer l. MAKE
monthly reports OF receipts is still
in the hands OF the Governor, and
has Tot YET been approved hy him.
Yours truly,
GEO. II. GovAN,
Secretary STATE.
( The saloon Ike, pers Of Lauderdale
county have gruwn scared and aban