The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-11-18
to which they elaine and were allowed
false and fraudulent credit as Aforesaid

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nature of the evidence upon which it has
reached tho conclusions as sta ed.
Your committee In closing Its report would
recommend that action be forthwith taken by
the Levy Court,in order to have the accounts
of the said George w. Mckee aud John j.
DJugherty finally settled AID determined in
accordance with the findings of yonr COM
mittee DAVID z. HUTCHINSON,
JOIN W. JoLLs,
JAMES III. CLARK
Mr.. Hutchison moved the adoption Of the
re- orr.
Mr. Hickman arose and said: 1.-THE minor
ity msmbsrs Of the committee do not agree
with that report, and we have here report
which will present"
Ho presented the following report, which
was read:
To THE LEVY CoURT OF New CASTLE
County
The undersigned, members Of the commit.
tee appointed to INVESTIGATES certain charges
against George w. Mckee aud John j
D5ughsrty. collectors Of taxos for the city Of
Wilmington, respectfully beg leave to report;
That while we are In fullest sympathy
with the objects sought to be attained by the
investigation and admit thai the partial ex-
amina IN shows that improper and corrupt
practices in violation Of law were entered
into by the said collectors in colulion rith
other parties, some Of whom We believe ap-
peared before the committee, yet We consider
that fuller inRestgation should have been
made aud therefore present the following
minority report;
The importance Of the matter and the
public interest," it has excited seems to US to
call for The fullss. and most complete ex-
animation into aud presentation to this
court Of all the fac.B and evidence obtain
able in reference to it, To this end we have
uniformly and peFsissently requested that all
the evidence upon which the charges against
said col ectors are bas ID should be submitted
for our inspection and criticism This
evidence was shown to be principally COM
posed OF Ger ain tax receipts held in large
numbers by certain persons oth:r than the tax
ables for whom the receipts we're ell gsd to
have en- obtained. Oar demlnd was bAsed
upon thn rule that the best evdsnee that
case admits of should bs produeed L. seems
to us that beyond question papers themselve
which are claimed TO be the evidence Of the
fraudulent scsion Of the said collec ors should
have been presented to your committee. The
length Of tins required tor such an exanina-
tion should not have been allowed to prevent
such an Investigation as the seriousness Of the
charges demanded,
IL ID not within the province Of The commit
tee or any members theFsof to impute any
partisan or improper motive for the T. fusal TO
80 produce these papers. Il is admitted that
they woro hold by others than the par ifs
whose taxes they were alleged to be the evil
dence Of the payment of, and partial exami,
nation of q few Of the sail pspar- rHgealed
such inaccuracies and differences that
thorough exam nation Of the who'll mass
OF receipts in question was imperatively d i
mauded
II may not be out Of place to refer to the
methI employed by the mai lrity Of the com
mittee in arriving at their conclusion. A
committee, representing the managers of the
Republican party of this city, appeared
before your committee with list called
List No g." containing the names Of
those persons who were alleged to have
been returned as delihqusnts from a part
Of Wilmington by the said collectors, and
whose receipts they, the said managerr,
held. From this liat, in answer to our per
sistent demand. fity names were selected
at random and tho rscsipts for the pa5-
ment Of taxes snught f,r ,hnm rhlI
one receipts were produced, Then the
undersigned agaia reqles I'd thai p 1auo-
tion of all the said receipts as Mr. Henry
G, Nah fly had said previously in the
Levy Courl room in the presence VI the mon
bers Of ths Lsvy Court, that he had them
with him then in the room. This request was
refused, and at nts squent meeting of the
committee, when we repeated the demand
which wa had tefaistentlg made We wera 10
| formed that part Of the reepss bad been
distributed. Why they were Distribute
pSnding this investigate we do not know.
0ae hundged names were selected from th,
| list of dslitqnAnts returned by John j
DoughertJ by the Republican m mbsrs ot
this committee. These names were rnt into
hat from which forty names were selected
At random aud receipts afterwards sought
therefor thus by method of chance mot
recognized by any court with which we are
acqu linted was it sought to determine ths
liability OF tho men Whose acts wers 10 quas-
tion and govern the committee in the inyes-
tigation,
The resolution appointing this committee
| directed us TO inyes;iga,s the chsTges a. a ns.
these collectors aad to proceed without delay
to collect all moneys franduisntly a. d unlaw
fully retained We think thai the inv .atigA-
tion has not been as full apd final as it should
have been, but in viaw Of whas the partial in.
yestigatiOn has shown We recommend that
steps be taken to hayo the fullest and stricttst
| justice meted ont TO th5sa Go4a csgrJ ana ..
connected with them in thB nefgrilus trans
actions which We we're appointed to inVes.i-
| gate, which transactions Wa believe to have
been the result Of conspiracy entered into
between the said collectors for the furnishing
of irregular and fraudn Ont evidences II The
right to vote HESRY D, ilIcKNAN,
ANDREW S ELIAsoN
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