The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-30

and IL about a month did not GODDARD
profit by this information and unknown
to Kelly get the option on the bonds
himself2
1s Did not GODDARD buy the s123.oo0 of
these bonds at discount Of $4,000?
Answer-Yes.
l9. Then did not GODDARD obtain or
county for refunding these bonds by
sale to the school fund.-
AnsWer-Yes.
20. And to obtain this contract did he
of Comanche county, $1500 out of the
S,O00 to help him obtain such contract
from the Comanche county board2
Answer-Yes.
for several years been personal frlends2
AnsWer-Yes.
%. Did not both Of them live in Clay
Center. Kan, previous to the time
GODDARD moved to Topeka2
Answer-Yes.
%. Did plaintiff ever make any in
vestigation whatever of the bonds
bought?
Answer-He did not
"a. If he did, state in detail what
investigation he made?
Answer-None.
25. Did not the plaintiff vote for the
purchase of the bonds without knowi-
edge of their actual market value?
Answer-Yes.
2s. Did not the plaintiff establish
new rule as to the valuations in their
purchase by taking the state board
valuation
81 Did the plaintiff at any time or
place take any personal step or action
on his part as attorney general or as
member Of the school fund board to
protect the state in such purchase as
to finding out their actual marker
value. as to the legality of the bonds,
as to the showing made by the county
of their indebtedness as to looking at
the bonds, or anything else?
Answer-No.
28 If he did so, state in detail
what he did to protect the state in
their purchase?
Answer (Blanl).
%. Did not GODDARD obtain from
Kelly. the state treasurer. s123, 600 to
pay for these bonds on July &C. 1904?
-nswer-Yes.
80. Then did not GODDARD get from
the board, plaintiff voting therefor, out
of the school fund, the interest on these
bonds for 16 days, from July 26, 1904, to
after the state had paid the full face
value of the bonds, in Kelly advancing
the money to Godard2
AnsWer-Yes
81. Did the plaintiff as a member of
the board or as attorney general. ever
to recover back this amount?
Answer-No official action
32- At the county valuation for 1904,
what was the extreme Is per cent limit
Of bond issues by Comanche county
that could be purchased by the board?
Answer-s95, ,71S.
SO. Was not the outstanding in
I debtedness of COmanche county at the
time these bonds were purchased as
follows: Refunding bonds $4,000;
Ta4 h0r7
1000; the debt 1t owed GODDARD, IS. 600.
Total, $164, ,00O2
Answer-It was.
"a. Was there not in addition to the
above amount about $4,000 more of
the bonds owned by the state, which
| Comanche county had repudiated as
fraudulent, and which had not been
| paid?
/ 35. Were not these bonds in disre-
/ pute, and without standing as reputa-
BILE. marketable bonds by reason Of
their disreputable and fraudulent his
/ tory, and by reason OF their having
/ been issued without consideration?
Answer-Yes.
36- Were not the s per cent $123,-
/ 600 of bonds offered by Kelly to the
board and each member of it2
+ AnSWer@Yes.
81. Would not these bonds in 1s
years. the time they had to run. pro-
/ duced altogether as interest the sum
of S11S,O80?
Answer@Yes.
8S. Is it not fact that the bonds
bought in sixteen years will only
bring SS8,560?
Answer: Yes.
SO. What day were these bonds
bought?
Answer: July 81. 1904.
40. Were they bought before Cod
ard went to Kansas City on July %.
1904, to get the bonds?
Answer; Yes.
Al. Did not GODDARD appear before
the state equalizatio board to have
4 the valuation raised so as to Increase
/ it enough to let the permanent school
fund buy these bonds2
/ Answer: He did.
AZ. Did not GODDARD go down to
Kansas City and complete the pur-
chase of the bonds after he knew that
the board had accepted his offer?
Answer: Yes.
4s. Was not Godard's offer ac-
cepted on July 21, 1904. before GODDARD
went to Kansas City?
Answer; Yes.
a. Quite soon after the state board of
equalization had made its raise. did not
GODDARD offer these bonds to the school
fund board?
Answer-Yes-
uatiOn Of Comanche county. returned
by the county clerk, the sum Of s6sS 81?
AnsWer-It was
46 On July 2l. 1904. did the state board
1 of equalization. for state purposes. raise
e41, III?
AnsWer-They did.
~. Was such increase by the state board
Of equalization made at the instance of
A. A. Godard7
Answer-Yes
4S. Shortly thereafter and on July 21
1904. did A. A GODDARD submit his OFFER to
the board of school fund commissioners
for the sale Of S122.O 900 Comanche county
bonds?
AnsWer=Yes
4e. Thereupon. forthwith. did said c. c.
Coleman. as attorney general. give an
opinion that such state board of equah
cation valuation was the proper basis up
on which said bonds should be purchased2
Answer-Yes-
%: Did said Coleman, Burrowz and Day