Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-08
Senator Billiard Replies to the Tx
perts' Statemen

way remains in office until January 4,
=. inclusive. From that date he received
in collections $4,000 in round figures
aud disburscd $3.50 600 in round mum
bcrs rs follows: Bonds matnred Jan
uary /. 1860, $4,000; coupons, S2l,5oo,
! warrants, Sl5,500. This would cut
Senator billiards. figure Of $21S,4G9,15
as excess receipts oyer disbursements
down to S13S, 600 in round numbers,
And as ex.Treasnrcr Hemingway has
: turned ovcr to his successor S2ah,00o
{ in cash. he has by Senator billiards liz.
i, urcs. turned over $4,000 too much,
which only goes to show how iarclcal
! the figures of that gentleman are. We
have made no further examination
since that referred to in the minority
report of the committee, but the tig-
. ures there given are correct. The
item of S2l2.500, referred to by the
Senator as old bonds, is as mnch a
part of the treasury balance OF $685.
Q 450.02 rs the cash"
! All business is moving along rs
smoothly as it was before the treas.
Jury affair was mooted.
In that interview Messrs. Waite and
Griffith have been guilty ofthc unpar-
!: donable u~nfairness of considering and
mixing up with my figures tho re.
= ceipts and expenditures for the four
DAYS in January, which | have cX-
pressly pretcrmit,ed-not then hay
! ing the figures before me. For gen
tlemen who speak so glibly OF "tarci'
I cal figure" this is q grave blunder.
They are guilty of the gravcr blnndcr
in treating in that interview the S27S,-
469.7 rs rs the only amount the cX-Treas.
urer was accountable for, rs If | had
only contcn1cd for that amount, when
had added to the above anon,
- balance in the treasn""huary !, 1883,
to.wit 1926, $50 q.
Why did they not, as | did. add
these two sums together, and figure
on January l, 1890, to-wit,,: $555,440,-
OF, and make their deductions from
that ? Those cuslicrs do worse still
they bank on the gullibility of the
public when they credit the cX-Trcas-
urpr in the interview with $4,000
paid on bonds, and do not charge him
with Sl53,000 insurance deposits, as
they did in their statement to the leg
~islativc committee. Did they intend
to mix things up? You may depend
on one thing, and that is, that every
thing in jackson is trying to begnilc
the public. They need not do this to
save the credit of the State for there
was received, outside of what the late
Treasurer paid over, the handsome
sum of $4,000 into the treasury up to
February 20, The State asks nobody
any odds in matters of finance.
TO crafty those experts (who were
sent to the treasury by Col. H., and
not bv any committee of the Legisla.
turcJ | will bring the figures down to
the date of Col. lis ext, from the treas
nry. will take the experts figures
for what was received and paid out
during the four days in January:
DENTS:
January l, 1890. cash balance. S5j5.45O ~
Insurance deposits ......,..... l53,O00 90
Cash received in January 1908 02
Total to aspo1nt for J ...., s72o,5sa Oh
CREDITS:>
Cash paid Evans \ S25o, 1928 00N
Cash paid coupons, 2l.al2 90
Cash paid warrants. 1904 90
Cash paid bonds. 10000 w $iO4,9le s.
Net defalcation ....,..~. ...S3l5,6l2 -
There is no wayI6 escape the above
result. that the x.Trcasurer owes
$3l5,6l2l9. The figures are all agreed
on; aud the matter is not mySiiticd
with the "lost art OF bookkeeping" it
is only simple addition" and sub.
traction"
We'll, how do the cx.Trcasnrcr's
friends and the experts propose to
offset the suin of $3l5,Gl2.l9? Why,
by n process which | would blush to
propose for any friend. That process
involving, as it does, the ~felonious act
on the part of the late Treasurer of
stutling the treasury with money to
be counted by the legislative commit.
tees in 1884, 1886, 1887 and 1888, as well
as clear back TO 1876.
How do they do il? They say that
$2l2150 agricultural bonds" and
$lO2.5 $50 coupons paid but not credited
in 1876, making S3l7,700) arc part
of the Treasury balance of $555,45002,
and have been part ofTrcasury balance
called " cash in Treasury" since 1876.
Now, having been part of the cash
balance since 1876, 1t was, or course a
part of it on January /. 1888. But on
the last date, the cash balance was on
ly $276. 9S0.27, which being less than
the amount of the bonds and coupons
supposed to be part of the cash bal.
ancc, il follows tina, there was on Jan
uary |, 1888, no money in the Trcasu.
nv. only those bonds and coupons; and
besides, that $40, 1873 had been paid
out Of Treasury more than was in il
However, there was money in the
Treasury. though, Jan |, 1888, to.wit:
$276,9 8 81, the late Treasurer counted
out that sum out of the vaults OF the
treasury, IN tho presence of u lcgisla.
tive committee IN money, and that was
the treasury balance as shown by his
expert.
Now. on January 1. 1888, the treas.
ury balance was money, and no bonds
or coupons were in 1.-THE cx.Treas.
urer said so, and presented the money
to he counted, and it was counted and
found correct. That was the States
money, else the Treasurer had stuffed
the treasury with money to be counted,
Gentlemen, you see the dilemma you
are in, Before ! would make asuppo-
sition as argument involving q friend
IN such outrageous criminality, would
90 around among mutual friends aud
make up the paltry snln OF $315,6l2.l9
and pay il over for him.
| will close by saying | do not be-
licye the State will lose one dollar by
Col. Hemingway. lie can easily pay |
that sum. If he does not " that
sum he is n miracle Of stupidity.
GEO. &. DILLARD.