The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-21
MORE EVIDENCE.
Continued from Page Nine,

Al should say they were not drawn
upon any particular fund.
Oft included funds for the deaf
and dumb asylum, didn't it, ordinarily
collections of taxes made for that
fund, and for the blind and for all our
charitable institutions, for salaries OF
officers. for the hundred and one difrer-
ent appropriations that had been made
by the legislature, as it was collected in
the bank? Is that correct OF not?
-A.-As 1 said before, think that any
advance made to Mr.. GODDARD by Mr.
Kelly would be made in the line of a
private capacity and not as state treas
urer.
Q.-Do you know of any authority for
his doing 500 You know of none, do
you?
A.-No, sir.
Q.-Is it not the county valuation
that is taken in levying county taxes
A.EThe valuation of the county as
reported to US by the county clerk is
the valuation which the county clerk
uses in extending county taxes
Off the county valuation is one
million dollars, and they levy for the
purpose OF paying interest ~ county
bonds, is not such county vaIuatlon
taken in determining the amount to be
raised to pay the interest on SUCH
county bonds?
Ayes, sir.
Off the state raises the valuation,
does it not relate wholly to state
taxes?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-And if any county used the state
valuation in the levying of county tax
es, would it not be merely and wholly
for convenience?
A.-They could not do it.
Q.-Would the state valuation, as set
by the state board of equalization,
make any difference as to any county
taxes in the amount to be raised?
A.-No sir, it would make no differ
ence. You mean county taxes?
+ At would make no difference in
the tax for county purposes.
Q--Then as to any tax levy for
alton that has to be looked to?
Ayes, sir.
Q-That determines the amount of
security back of any bond, for which
taxes are levied to pay interest. does
it not?
Ayes, sir.
o. mean the valuation set in the
county determines the value of the Sc
curity on those bonds for it's taxpaying
purposes?
Ayes, sir.
TO-And the security is in no way
enlarged or enhanced on any bond, that
is payable by a county or township or
school district of the state, by reason
of any valuation being made by the
state board of equalization?
Al think not.
O.-Dfd you know that State Treas
urer Kelly had financed this deal for
Mr.. GODDARD?
Al did not.
Or that he had loaned GODDARD
money belonging to the state. to carry
this deal through?
Al did not.
Q.-The same law applied in the case
of the Dodge City bonds as in the case
of the Comanche county bonds, didn't
it?
A-The same law. yes sir.
Q.-With what members of the school
fund commissioners did you discuss
the Dodge City case?
Al discussed it only with Mr.. Cole
man.
remember it? Give us the substance
of it.
to what valuation should be consider
ed, whether the one returned to US by
the county clerk or the one fixed by
the state board of equalization, was
not raised. The discussion was enure-
ly in relation to the genuineness of the
certificates which had been presented
by the county cleIe. -
Oft was a city law and did not
come in under that limitation law ana
for that reason was not raised DID
Mr.. Dayhoff talk to you about that?
A.-About what? |
Q.-About the Dodge City bonds.
A-On the day the bonds were reg |
istered or the day the bonds were Of
fered for registration, rather, l had
talk with Mr.. Dayhoff in regard to the
bonds.
talk with Mr.. Coleman regarding these
Comanche bonds, as nearly as you can
fix it?
Al think it must have been about
the 3rd or 4th of August.
Q-when did you leave the Office OF
auditor?
A.-On the 9Th day of August.
O-You were there to watch the funds |
of the state and prevent depreciation |
11non every fund, weren't you!
Ayes, sir
90 let no man get the edge on
the state or to get advantage OF 1t!
Al think that the question would |
have been simply whether Mr.. Kelly |
had ample security in his office to war |
rant a private ~loan
O-You call it a private loan?
Al so understand it.
O.-As you said once before, he was |
exercising the functions of banker?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-Who was dealing with his own
Al would say so.
Recross Examination.
Questions by Mr.. West.
O-When a private party owns an |
original issue of bonds and the munich
paiity refunds those bonds and the re-
funding bonds are b1Dught to your Of |
flee for registration, so as to become Sc
curities you or the state haven't any |
interest in those bonds except merely |
to see that they are properly registered, |
have you?
A.-To be registered as bonds?
Q.-Yes-
A-The law requires us to certify as |
to the legality of the issue, and we in
vestigate the proceedings relating to the |
issuance of the bonds, and if we find |
they have been legally issued, We GER |
tify to that fact on the bonds; and that, !
together with the entry in our bond reg
lister, constitutes the registration of the |
bonds.
O-Do you have to certify to the |
legality of the issue as we'll as the gen