Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24
DAKO TREASURER
IS INDICATED.
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Books Submitted to An Expert
Who Found the Accounts
Straight.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
In,er-Alountnin state Fair Has Many
Attractive t'ca-
lures.

Sl.cial CORRESPONDENCE.
N USE. Ida. Oct. 22,rhp long
lookcd-for report on the affairs
Of the state treasurer's office.
which has been under invest-
cation for over Il month has at last
been made public and ali The funds are
reported intact.
Tho state bank examiner, W. $.
Clancy. was called to the task of maxi
Ing the examination on Sept .. and
he cid not complete the work ana sub
init his report to the governor, until
OCT. s, about one month later. This
report showed certain discrepancies,
which the governor considered should
be either verified or corrected. and he
therefore ordered The accounts re-
checked by an expert accountant dis
connected with the state house. The
second report was submitted last eve
ming and shows that the discrepancy
in the former report WAS due to errors
in taking figures from the check stubs.
which the second accountant found did
not agree in some cases with written
checks.
MANY RUMORs AFLoAT.
Rumors have been at!oat ever since
the investigation began and the Boise
4 Statesman has made them very in
t.ainmatory, reporting ali kinds Of IT.
Irregularities and illegal transactions.
placing the sum of the shortage in the
treasurer's accounts as high as s14, 600
Mr.. Hastings Is accused, also, OF hold
Ing in certai: banks Illegal deposits,
known as collection accounts" which
are unsecured. That certain unsecured
deposits are made In the banks is not
denied by the treasurer: on The con-
trary. he claims thar such is necessary
in his check exchange and carrying
on his daily balances. The whole ques-
ton. however, resolves itself to the
proper Interpretation of the state de-
&Dository law, which is a new feature
with the present administration hav-
ing been enacted at the last session OF
the state Legislature, on the points Of
which minds differ somewhat
GOVERNORS STATEMENT.
When Gov. Gooding was called on
for a. statement In regard to the report
of the accountants. he gave out the fol-
lowing:
THE law holds me responsible for the
condition of the state treasurer,s Of
flee. There has been so much discus
sion of this office that | have felt it
was only proper for the people to know
the true condition and to know it be-
fore election. For this reason l have
made request of Mr. Chaney. the state.
bank examiner. to make an examina-
tion. His report on the 9Th of October
showed that Mr. Hastings the state
treasurer, in his collection accounts
has a considerable discrepancy. This
matter was 50 serious that I felt that
1T necesstated the checking up Of Mr..
+ Chaney's accounts BY some one outside
OF the state house. / employed Mr.. John
4 ii, tl,t. Ty,f H.
investigation it was found that Mr..
: Clancy had taken his figures from
the check stubs. as this was the only
record in the office up to June Of this
year. A comparison, however. with the
raid checks shows that the stubs are in
error. as the paid checks show that
every dollar Is accounted for.
II notice l have come for plenty OF
abuse by the Democratic orators and
some of the papers of the state, charg-
ing that | was holding up this report,
This is not true. Expert accountants
have been working day and night and
pushing this work as fast as possible.
DisabuSe has not hurried this work
ii, the least, nor has 1t deferred IT,
CHAIRMAN tO'NEIL's VIEW.
Republican state Chairman O'Neil's
attention was called to the report in
this mornings issue OF the Statesman
Il MltIl reference TO LIE CONDITIONS III the
office of State Treasurer Hastings,
whsreupon he said.
II attach no Importance whatever to
this report, excepting that 1t shows
that the accounts Of the state treas
urer are absolutely correct. The rumor
in regard to q shortage circulated a
few days ago was occaSioned by an en-
ror in The original report which the
subsequent report of Mr.. EIwalt, the
expert accountant, has rcctiiied. There
isno Disgusting the fact that an effort
has been made by certain people who
are prejudiceq against the state treas
urcr to make 1t appear that he was
short i'll his accounts and had COM
mitted irregular acts in connection
with the administration of his office,
but they have failed to convince fair
minded people that there is any short
age or anything irregular in the con-
duct of the office. Great Importance
is attached by these people to the col
lection account, which it is claimed is
being carried without authority of
law. AS a matter of fact it is imros-
sible for the state treasurer under the
existing law to conduct his office with
out having a collection account, and
Hon. Fremont Wood the district judge,
has recommended to the governor that
legislation be enacted by the next legis-
lature which will obviate the inconsis>
tencies of the law. as they now exist.
J have every confidence in the honor
and integrity of the state treasurer.
TWO KILLED IN COLLISION.
AS a result of the collision between
the regular train out of Boise and the
fair train, on Tuesday afternoon, two
men are now numbered among the
dead, Martin Black and Daniel LAWYER,
and a third, Harry White. is lying in
a hospital seriously injured.
Martin Black was beating his way
from the fair grounds riding on the
blind baggage when the collision came.
and his life was crushed out between
the two cars. LAWYER. whose death did
not occur until yesterday lost his life
from the effects OF scalding from the
boiling water of the engine, on which
he was riding from the fair grounds
with his friend the engineer. The
young man was an employe in the rail-
road shops OF Pocatello. Harry White,
the fireman on the regular, will recover.
though he is suffering greatly from
painful cuts and bruises. Aside from d
most severe shaking up and slightly
bruised bodies. the rest of the train
crew and passengers escaped unin-
jured.
The cause of the fatality was due
TO an unturned switch. The fair train
-1nsar tl-i I'M, tha ~,