The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-27
ROBBED
HOW THE STATE HAS BEEN
PLUNDERED FOR THIRTY
YEARS,
God and Humanity On Their Lips
and Theft In Their Hearts.

AdCUS, JOuu II. DuIAcs Ids VI AON
the following terrible arraignment.
showing how the party which carried
the state last fall by 10000 plurality
has been for the lifetime OF genera
tion making great fortunes out of the
taxes wrung from the hard-working
people of the state.
Read and hand to your neighbor!
Early in the present session, (says
the Penny Press, committee was
appointed by the house, in accordance
with a resolution, generally conceded
to have been drawn or instigated by
Robert Enegren and John H. Burke
to investigate the amount of interest
collected, but not accounted for by
the various county, state and city
treasurers.
What the committee is doing the
house and public are not advised as
yet, but John II. Burk has prepared
statement of the history of the state
treasurers, and the probable condition
of their accounts, which is given here
in, and he will later prepare like
statement On city and county funds
as shown by the public records. Mr..
Burke's treasurerS' investigation
AAdhCS UuC 1OllOW1uS CAI1lUlU.
The total payments into treasury
QS5S to 1894 were $40, 1882, ,25316. In
as much as the balances in the treas
ury throughout the year are presumed
to be about half the total annual COL
lections, and it being shown that at
times the banks agreed to pay per
cent, the interest thus due on one-half
of the total collections should be ST.,
$50, ,645.O2.
Deduct amount shown to have been
collected, one year Qs79), estimated,
1887, 1922: possible balance due state,
81, 1919, ,626.75, assuming that not more
than 4 per cent has been paid for
funds.
The following is the treasurers'
statements in detail:
In 1859. g. w. Arm
strong collected. ...... $3.50, ,294. 38
Interest on half. f......... 1865. SO
Interest accounted for. none
From 1860 to 1867, Chas.
Scheffer collected. 49,. $3,433, ,9l9.71
Interest on half. ...... 68,67S. 40
Interest accounted for. find none
In addition Mr.. Schetfer was heavy
borrower of state funds during term
Of VIM. Seeger, and according to Sen
ate journal for 1876 guaranteed GER
tain land accounts of Emil Munich.
From 1868 to II. Emil
Munich collected. $3,429, 359. 20
Interest on half....... 6S.5S7. .18
Interest accounted for. find none
On leaving office he was found to
have embeZzled, but later repaid $l12,-
900. See impeachment case of William
Seeger, journals of 1873 He also
bought lots of state timber at low
prices, while Munich & Barrows "bor-
rOwed" lots more, without permits.
See House and Senate journals 1876.
In 1872, w. Seeger collected 1919, ,661 .65
Interest on half. 10, 500. %
Interest accounted for. Find none.
Was removed from office by Cover
nor Austin, on facts as follows, found
| in legislative journals 1873:
| He was impeac he'd in 1873, and from
those proceedings we gather: O That
| he loaned the states money to the
First National, Second National and
Merchants National Banks. of ST.
Paul; First National. of Saltwater:
Auberbach. Finch & Scheffer, Munich
Brothers & Co., for his own benefit
(2) He allowed Emil Munich, his pre-
decessor, to retain $4,000, and con
cealed the fact of Munch's defalca
| UlOu, dIu, dlUGI UIlS SduIO Hdu O0CL
collected, he failed to enter the same
from the treasurer of Ramsey county
and failed to credit same on his books
He also borrowed large amounts from
others without any entry on hi
books, and borrowed large amounts
from Maurice Auberbach and other
to have funds on hand to show tht
| legislative committee of investiga
tiOn:
From 1873 to 1S75-Edwin
w. Dyke collected. $3,S79,07S.5 s
Interest on half. ........ 1851. 5
Interest accounted for. q, 7SS. 5
Balance. ga, 1880
From 1876 to 1S79-Wm.
Pfender collected. -. $5,500,014.2 2
Interest on half. ....... 110,O0O.3 3
Interest accounted for. %, 6
Balance. $50, 57O.6
From 1880 to 1SS6-C. Ket-
tleson collected. - $19,O15, 1872. l
Interest on half f....... 3SO,315. 8
Interest accounted (lS79
estimate0. .......... e3,272.o
Balance. $317,O43
Mr.. KettlesOn was elected from
FreebOrn county where he had bee
county treasurer and in moderat
business. On leaving the office he be
came connected with the st. Paul {
Minneapolis Trust Company,a and late
. became president Of the Columbi
National Bank of Minneapolis.
In the same manner Mr.. Burke goe