Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-27
The Defaulting Treasur-
er In Canada.
HIS ACCOUNTS FOUND TO BE
100000 SHORT, ALREADY,
AND THE INvEsTIGA-
TING COMMITTEE
STILL AT WORK.
Judge Sharp Will DO rendered the
Treasurers Office by the Gov
ernoT.

The committee appointed to inves
tigate the Treasurer's accounts al
still at work on the books. The spir
it of investigation is upon then
and their disposition seems t
go straight to the bottom of every
thing in sight.
The main facts ascertained up t
the present time show nothing NOR
than a shortage of money that SHOULD
be deposited to the States account t
tally with Treasurer Tate's accounts
The exact amount of defalcation i
yet unknown, and will not be known
until the rigid Investigations hav'
been completed. No doubt much o
the rumor afloat connecting othe
prominent officials with the defalca
ton is without foundation, merely
based upon slender information, a
there is no charge of serious nature
against any one but Treasurer Tate
and the facts so far developed do no
Justify such reflection. What furth
er development may bring is yet I'M
known.
A special to the Times, from
Frankfort, dated March 90, says:
"The talk about Auditor Hewitt
having constant access to the Treas
urer's office is the merest bosh. Sec
rotary Adams has the key, and he
will hold on to II until the Leglsla-
tive Committee asks for the same. a
large share of the attack on Gen.
Hewitt is a manufactured article,
with a design that is easily discerni-
BILE. II is not intimated that any of
the bondsmen are personally respon-
sible for this, but the stink smells
from that direction. 1t will be no
excuse in law, even if the Auditor
was not more severe in his con-
struction of the statute relative to the
monthly settlements between hir'S9,rIl
aud ,I,o zss--uror. Gen. Hewitt
said to-day that he did now, as he |
rad always, courted an investiga-
ion. All he asked is that he be not |
ldiudged guilty without trial"
Capt. L. d. Holloway, who was
clerk in the Auditors of
Ice for eight years, said to-day that
n all the monthly settlements that
lad come under his observation, he
lad never heard of the cash being
Mr.. George Robinson, now an Of
fcer of the Court of Appeals, has
served two years in the Treasurer's
office and the actual handling of the
cash at the end of each month is some
thing he had never heard of before
in settlements.
An investigation of the Treasurer
accounts, and a comparison of his
balances, show discrepancy of about
100000. This deficit will be en-
larged by Treasurers checks which
have been mailed from the Auditor
office to claimants throughout thu
State and which have not yet beer
returned for collection to the bank
upon which they are drawn and, oil
the other hand, it may be diminished
by assets now in the vaults OF Treas
ury the Secretary of State and Aud
itor have thought best not to max,
an examination of the papers ant
evidences of debt on file there unit
the sureties can have Representative
present.
The following Is a copy of the Con
stitutional provisions for filling va
cancieS in State Offices:
"When a vacancy shall happen !
the office of Attorney General, Aud
tor of Public Accounts, Treasures
Register of the Land Office, Pres
dent of the Board of Internal In
provement or Superintendent of Pull
lie Instruction, the Governor, in tn
recess Of the Senate, shall have pow
err to fill the vacancy by grantin
commissions which will expire at tn
end of the next session, and shall fl
the vacancy for the balance of I'll
time by and with the advice and col
sent of the Senate"
When this vacancy has been d.
clared by The Governor the office wi
then be rendered by him to Judg
Sharp, who has decided to accept.
TATE HEARD FROM.
1t is known that Mrs. Allen, ii
daughter of the missing State Treai
urer has received letter or papC
addressed by him in a disguise
; hand, said to have a Montreal pos
mark. Mrs. Tate, who at first SUI
posed her husband had committee
suicide, entertains no more doubt o
that score. Notwithstanding the II
peated denials, the family has hear
from him, and this has at last brougl
a ray of sunshine to that desolat
household. 1t has also been reporte
that ST. Louis man saw Tate /
Canada last Thursday.
Joint resolutions have been frame
by the General Assembly, offering
reward of 5000 for the capture an
delivery 10 the State authorities, bu
has not yet been acted upon.