Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-28
NONE Of YOUR DAMNED BUSINESS
That is All Treasurer Banbury
Has to Say About Exchange.
He Refuses to Allow Wells Fargo's
Books to be Examined.
He Declines to Give an Explanation of
His Charges to q Herald Report
er-Some More of His
Thrifty Demands.

have been made against him, to the ct
feet that he has made a claim against
the county for moneys he never ex-
pended, and that the board of supervis-
ors has approved and paid those claims.
1t will be remembered that yesterday
morning the HERALD printed detailed
statement of the amounts of money Mr..
Banbury had taken out of the county
treasury for Exchange" on moneys
sent by him to Sacramento in settlement
with the state treasurer. The total
ranged into the thousands of dollars.
The facts of the case are that the evil
dence 80 far brought out goes to show
that the exchange never cost Mr.. Ban
bury anywhere near what he charged
the county, If it cost him anything.
In order to give Mr.. Banbury ample
opportunity to explain himself, he was
called upon by HERALD representative
yesterday morning and asked if it was
not fact that the exchange he had OBJ
tanned from the Los Angeles banks dur
ing the last four years had not cost him
a dollar.
THAT is none of your damned busi-
ness. SIR"
''If the exchange cost you nothing,
colonel, why did you charge the people
OF this county for it to the extent of
thousands of dollars?"
II made no charge that was not legal.
sir. At the proper time will fully ex-
plain this matter. My predecessor in
office received more for exchange than
have"
"Your defense, then, is that because
~, ~4sa nI, kho
people for something that cost him
nothing, you were justified in doing
likewise"
"No, sir. l do not. 1 will make my
defense in due time"
"Will you give me note to Wells
Fargo authorizing Mr.. Pridham to indi-
cate to me what amount you have paid
the express company for the transmits
sion OF money to Sacramento since your
induction into Officer
''Why should 1, sir?"
"Well. you have charged the county
several thousand dollars for expressing
money to Sacramento since January,
1889. and it is reliably stated that you
never have sent any coin by express
from Los Angeles to Sacramento. This
can easily be determined by an examin-
alton of the books of Wells-Fargo. But
you must first give your consent"
II do not propose to give you any
order OF the kind, sir. You are alto
gether too fresh and impertinent. When
l first went into office Wells-Fargo gave
me special rate of $l.75 per $1,000 for
the shipment of coin to Sacramento"
Eyes. but you never shipped any
money by Wells-Fargo to Sacramento,
did you? And if you did get rate OF
$1.75 per $1,000 why did you on February
5, 1890, charge the county So 30 per
$1,000 for the expressage on $525. .256 86
to Sacramento. How about that little
piece of thrift"
"About that know nothing. That
was done while I was sick"
"But, Mr.. Banbury, you got the
money-$1305 ga. You must know that
it was more than you were entitled to
and more than you had previously been
getting"
81 have no desire to prolong this in
terview with you. eir."
"Do you keep cash book, as required
by law ?"
II do"
By request. what Mr.. Banbury claims
is cash book was shown. 1t simply
consists of ledger, showing the total
cash received for the month on one side,
and the total cash paid out on the other
side. 1t is question whether the sys-
tenn of bookkeeping in Mr.. Banbury's
Office can be regarded as complying with
section 20 of the county government act,
which says that the whole receipts and
expenditures of the Office should be
shown in one general or cash account.
Mr.. Banbury's chief deputy stated
that to keep cash book would require
the services of two more deputies.
These the board of supervisors will not
allow.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Banbury is going to
explain these charges for exchange sat
the proper time" the HERALD will add
asfew more charges, which the people
would like to know about, in addition
to those printed yesterday morning.
How about the claim he put in Au
gust 25, 1891, for $66.66 for transmitting
$44 ,444. 40 from Sacramento to Los An.
geles, and whish claim the board of su-
pervisors hung up until September 81,
1891?
How about the claim for $54 40 he put
in for the transmission OF $31 ,14l 81
from Sacramento to Los Angeles, which
the supervisors paid September 81, 1891
Did that exchange ever cost him dol.
lar?
How about the claim he made Novem-
ber 16, 1891, for $36 81 for transferring
500, 1866 IS from Sacramento to Los An
geles, and which the supervisors allowed
December s, 1891. Did he ever pay out
cent for that exchange?
How about the claim he made Novem-
ber 8, 1891, for 500 for transmitting 20
court house and Jail bonds to Sacra-
mento?
How about the claim he made Decem-
ber 28, 1891, for 1888 63 for transmitting
$2l9, n to Sacramento? Did that
exchange ever cost him penny?
How about the claim he made March
81, 1892, for $1,000 for transmitting
$50 900 worth of court house bonds to
Sacramento and then returning the pro-
ceeds OF their sale to Los Angeles, $780,
681 95?
How about the charge of $116 95 for
transmitting $66, 1882 55 to Sacramento
May 27? Did this exchange cost him
cent?
Mr.. Banbury is foxy. July 20, 1892,
he transmitted $73, ,753 68 to Sacramento
and he put in claim for $129.06. To
that claim was appended the receipt of
the First National bank for the money.
Now, will the books of the First National
bank, which is one of the banks holding
county money by the grace of Jabez
Banbury, show that the bank received
tbo poopay a allowed for EXCHANGE?