The Lamar register., 1910-07-20
THE MULNIx REPORT
Famous Document Now In Course
Of Publication. No Arrests
Yet

The Lamar News is now pub
fishing the Mulnix report as con-
tinued story without cost to the
county, it says, but there is a
large bill presented by Mr.. Mulnix
for a copy of the report and the
News has the copy. The Register
has not been favored with copy.
but expects as soon as possible to
publish the main portions OF the
report and we expect to print the
REAL FACTS alongside the Null
nix fiction, so that all our readers
can take their choice.
Mr.. Mulnix has distorted his
comments so grossly and sprinkled
in advice on so many subjects that
he knew nothing at all about to
every officer from the district
Judge down, that his report needs
no answer at all to those who are
informed on the subject of the
county's business for the past ten
years, but some of the newer citi-
zens of the county are not SO we'll
informed and for their benefit the
actual state of affairs will be pub
.lished.
Mr.. Mulnix complains that he
was not received with open arms
by our officials. but does not ex-
plain that he had just previously
completed an absolutely farcical
examination of the Lamar city
clerks office, and had only a short
time before told some of our coun-
ty officials that a real expert could
find an officer long or short Just
as he was paid.
The matter is not political one
at all as every official holding a
fee office for the past ten years
Is made short for some amount or
other. These men mostly live here
yet and are honorable citizens.
who will settle any time they are
proved by a reliable audit to be
short. They have settled already
with the county on the audit Of
men more competent than either
Mr.. Mulnix. his son or hired man.
who had previously been fired from
a minor position by a Lamar busi-
ness concern.
Mr.. Mulnix lies outright in
his statement that he examined the
affairs of the county from the be-
ginning of the organization. as he
never called for or had possession
OF most Of the early books. In
many other cases he DISCUSSES the
truth so completely as to make 1t
impossible to even guess at the
actual state of affairs from his re-
port. He states that saloon IL
censes are paid into the school
fund instead of the ordinary coun-
ty, but fails to mention that neither
the present board nor the one elect
ed i'm 1904 ever granted a saloon
license. The county has never
granted a liquor License since the
town of Holly was Incorporated.
He tries to confuse the people on
the subject of fees. charging the
officers with collecting fourth class
fees when the county is in the
fifth class for fees. These fees
are paid largely for recording
deeds trust deeds, mortgages. and
releases etc. and fall largely on
the class of people who can least
afford to pay exhorbitant sums.
When the county was made fourth
class for salaries the Officers here
also made 1t fourth class for fees.
saving hundreds of dollars to cit-
zens building homes and raising
funds for emergencies. as the fees
are from 20 to 35 per cent less.
The surplus of both the clerks and
treasurerTs offices for a number of
years shows that 1t should be still
farther advanced to the third class,
and make the fees still smaller.
Again he tells the Judge that
he should see that the county treas
urer uses duplicate tax receipts in
stead of stubs. The county treas
urer had ordered these from the
Register long before Mr.. Mulnix
was appointed. and was using them
while he was here and Mulnix
knew it, but makes it appear In
the report that the treasurer is
still using stubs and the duplicate
receipts are his own discovery.
There are SO many and such
glaring misstatements and inaccu-
racies in the report that we will
take them in detail and give the
taxpayers an insight into Mr.. Null
nix and his bunco method of
handling figures. which he seems
neither to be able to add. or even
copy correctly. The report is vol
luminous and costly, and there is
no hint of a method in any of its
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