The Forrest City times., 1891-02-20
MONEY TALKS.
Ex.TreaSurcr WOOdrutf's Short
 age Made Good by Sureties.

Thursday afternoon the ex-Treasurer of the State and his bondsmeu made good the cash demanded by the treas urer. Maj. Woodruff then left the office with a clear receipt for the moneys entrusted to his care during the past ten years, and walked slowly out to the home of his family, which had been transferred to his bondsmen to protect them from financial loss in case deficit should be discovered in his accounts.
 Several days ago the bondsmen rais- ed about S7000 in excess of the reported amount of the shortage, and announce ed their readiness to turn the same into the treasury whenever it suited the pleasure of the Investigating Com mittee. On "Wednesday afternoon the committee notified the bondsmen that they were prepared to receive the money and suggested that o'clock on tiiS l'iiONiiIS NOttIQ Ut good hour for transferring the funds. To this the bondsmen readily assented. At 1 o'clock the bondsmen held d meeting in Col John M Moore's office, where the necessary papers for the transfer of the money were prepared. This required only a few minutes. and then the bondsmen went to the Ger man National Bank, where the pack ages of money had been placed for safe keeping. and repaired with them to the office of the State Treasurer. Among the packages was q sack of gold amounting to Sl0 900, and another sack containing several hundred silver dollars; the remaining packages were filled with currency, each one of the bondsmen carrying one of tho pack ages.
 When the party arrived at the treas urer's office, Treasurer Morrow and his clerical force, Senator Tillman and Representative Dickinson, of the Joint Investigating Committee; Mir. J. C. South, of the Committee on Auditor s and Treasurer books, and Maj. J. L. Bay. Clerk of the committee, were on hand to receive the delegation, winch consisted of Col John C. Fletcher, Col. J. II. Mccarthy, MT. D. G. Zones. Col. John NJ. Moore and Mfr. Geo. II. San ders.
 About five minutes after the arrival of the bondsmen Maj. ". F.. Woodruff stepped into the office, lit cigar and took seat near his desk. The bonds men were given chairs placed at the side of a long table, upon which they laid the packages of money, and with the assistance of Col, Hinton, con- menced counting their contents. In few minutes Coy. Eagle drop ped in, and approaching Col Fletcher, remarked:
 Well, see you've got to work" "Yes,' replied Col. Fletcher. "There's no shortage in this oftice.' 'Rather quick work, isn't it?" said the goveraor.
 That is because Woodruff had some good men on his bond" answered Col. Fletcher.
 By o'clock the count was finished and Maj. Woodruff was given a re- ceipt for the money, which amounted to $63.740,57. Of this amount Ss- 71s.27 belonged to tho sixteenth sec tion fund, S13,6o272 to the swamp land fund, $4l ,274 42 to the internal improvement fund, S726.7l to the county interest fund and $6.65 to the city interest fund The total of these amounts is $64, ,322 or, but it was dis covered few days ago that Maj. Woodruff had heretofore overlooked the amount of S5s2.50. which reduced the shortage to So3, ,740.57, the amount paid yesterday. Of this sum $7,Oo0 was derived from the sale of piece of Woodruff's property, the residue being raised on the credit of the re- mainder of his property conveyed to Messrs. Mccarthy and Zones, as trustees for his sareties several weeks ago.
 After Treasurer Morrow had receiv- ed the money and given his receipt to Maj. Woodruff, MT. South informally notified the House, and Senator Till man informed the Senate in the same manner of the transaction, reports of which will be found in the proceedings of those bodies.