The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-05-08
FILES PROTEST AND HIS
REPORT OF TREASURER'S OFFICE
Court SustaIns GGpner'S COnten'
lion Thai State Has Funds 10
Retire Warrants =
speclal 10 the paIly Leader

Special to the Daily Leader.
Oklahoma City, May S.-Actins
state inspector ant examiner won a
signal victory In district court here
last evening whcn Judge WI. X
Taylor. lenied the application OF
the state to Issue $2,S70,j04.62 fund
ing bonds to take up outstanding
state warrant Indebtedness.
Gerner entered a sharp protest
aimed directly at State Treasurer
Robert Dunlot and this protest the
judge upheld The attorney 5ener-
al took an apeal to the odpreme
court. Gerner's protest was found
ed on the assertion that the state
has funds to pay at least portion
of the 1911 warrants sought to be
funded ana supported MS conten-
ton by showing that there was I
surplus Of $l,l6h ,17G.3S in the
hands OF the treasurer when he cX-
amined the bOG1s ON March / The
decision of Judge Taylor was
against the issuance, on lega
question raised By r. j Edwards
and also because the books showed
the state had money VITA which TO
meet some of the warrants incud
ed in the proposed issue which was
Ge1ner's cunlentfon4 iThe state
claims that the issue is not only
legal but necessary that the best
interests of the state may be con
served.
Gerner claimed that an examina-
tiou of the state troasurers Office,
conducted 10y him on Marca !, show
ed a surplus Of $lJlGl,176.3S. which
could and should be used to take
up state warrants number 21fI5 to
54i39. The report made to the
state examiner by Robert Dunlop,
state treasurer. on March 80. also
shows that amount now on hands,
Gerner says
Gerner did not deny the legal
right Of the state to .ssut the fund
ing bonds to pay its Indebtedness.
but asked that the $L1G1I76."S
now in the hands Of the state
treasurer be deducted from the
amount Of the bond issue asked by
the state officials
The difference amounts to ST.
709,32S.2l. an Gerner claims that
the s'ate examiner office WGud
not seek to interfere with the issu-
ance Of funding bonds Tor that
amount.
Judge W. r. Taylor opened the
hearing of the petition for bond
issue in his division Of the dis
triCt court TUESDAY. The question |
of whether the state really is with |
out funds for the payment Of the |
and Corner at once produced the |
books &C the state examiners office
in proof of the fact that a recent
examination showed more than ST.,
100000 in the possession Of the
state treasurer
Mr. Gerner's report ON the treas
urers Office is elaborate. He lists
all the warrants and shows that
Iunlop has made a good many mis-
takes. Not only are all the war
rants registered in regular order but
Gerner shows the list of warrants
that are registered in the treas
urers Office for an amount differ
ent from that for which said war
rants are shown by the state audit
or's records He enumeraies the
:. aims that have not been compared
with the records OF warrants drawn
and likewise lists the warrants er-
roneously registered in the treas
urer's Office as general revenue war.
rants, which are not such in fact.
but belonging 10 special funds.
This report is highly interesting
when taken in connection with the
application to fund The treasurer
denies the allegations of Gerner.
but Corners report is in black and
white and thus far the reports OF
his office have never been ques-
toned.