Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-01-27
STATE FINANCES.
Report of Committee That
Examined Them.
Special Mention of Neatness and
System Of Accounts.
Interesting Report from Labor Commissioner
OF kansas-Four New Corporations.

The following is the report of the com
mittee appointed to examine the accounts
of the State treasurer, +. NJ Simpson
State OF, Maine.
State House,
Augusta, Jan. 25, 1896
To His Excellency, the Governor, and the
Executive Council of the State of
Maine:
The undersigned your committee ap-
pointed under authority OF section II
chapter 9 of the Revised Statutes to
| examine the accounts of the treasurer of
State for the year ending December 81,
1895, would respectfully report that they
have carefully examined said accounts
and find the same to correspond with the
amounts as stated in his report. A cor
rect voucher was found on file for each
disbursement
The amount of cash on hand at the
commencement of the fiscal year, January
/, 1895, was S45S, 1895.
The receipts from various sources for
the year 1895, We're 81, 533, 700.15, making
total of 81, 991, S96. The expenditures
| for the year have been 81, 701 655. 30, leav
| ing balance in the treasury on Decem-
| Der 81, 1879 or S2HU, 24U. ~
| The bonded Indebtedness of the state,
January !, 1895, was 1888, 600, as
| follows: S2,0S4 600 bearing three per
cent interest; $3.50, 900 bearing four per
cent interest; Sis, 300 bearing five per
cent interest," 500 due October |, 1889,
and not presented for payment.
| No temporary loan exists.
There has been paid during the past
l
us follows: Registered bond numbered
2lO for $4,000 and registered bond mum
bered 214 for S2S, 600 OF the reissue loan
of June 1864, and registered bond num-
bered 416 for Sl7, 900 of the reissue loan
of October /, 1869.
| Your committee January %, 1896, in
| the presence of the state treasurer, +. NJ
| Simpson, destroyed by burning $50, 900 of
registered bonds. Also $4,000 of regis
tered bonds for which new registered
bonds had been issued.
We have certified to the amount of each
| bond destroyed.
We have verified all trust deposits, a
list of which appears in the treasurer 5
report.
/ We find the books and accounts neatly
and Systematically kept, which greatly
We feel that the citizens of the State of
Maine may we'll be proud of their efficient
treasurer +. NJ Simpson. and his com
potent corps of clerks We take this
opportunity to thank them for their
courtesy and assistance.
Respectfully submitted, A. X. Day, J, W.
Maxwell, James Cunningham, G. II.
Gilbert, Weston Lewis, Wainwright
Cushing, committee.
State of Maine, hennebec ss.-Augusta,
January %, S96.-Subscrlbed and
sworn to before me.
CHARLES J. HOUSE,
Justice of the Peace
Treasurer f. NJ. Simpson, returned
Saturday morning, from Boston, where
he was called on business.
A report of the 18th convention pro
cecding of the national association of
, official of bureaus of labor statistics in
Labor Commissioner S. W. Matthews,
, who Is one of the executive committee of
9 the association.
The written communications sent to
the convention by the commissioner of
Kansas, Is unique and extremely frank.
In part it reads as follows II am
establishing new precedent for commits
. sioners of labor statistics in this state by
, going on the ground where there is
trouble between employer and employe,
and investigating the cause leading up to
= the trouble, and then making recommen
. dation, to one side or the other, depending
where the justice lies. Usually the jus
= tice lies on the side of the employees and
try to assist them in every legal or right
+ ful way to get their demands. This does
not suit the corporationist, who in turn
goes to the Governor and the Governor in
turn goes for me, and asks me to resign,
but refuse for the reasons that First
3 the charges against me are false, and