Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-06
Col. P. D. English Admits Errors in Records and
 Makes Good Deficit.
COMMITTEES WORK
 WEARS COMPLETION
Auditors Discharged, and Findings Ire to Be Reviewed in General Re. port to Be Made SOOn-Last Re.
 port Criticizcs Supreme Court.

Little Rock, Aug. 5.-TomorroW is the last of the special Investigating committee, which has been in inter- mlttent session since several weeks before the adjournment of the legis- lature which created it. The ac- countants have been discharged, and the final report Submitted. The com- 'nite ee will later submit general re- port summing up the results of their various investigations, and making recommendations for the remedying Of faults that have been found But there will be no expense to the state after tomorrow.
 The last report submitted this af- ternoon, is that on the office of tho clerk of the supreme court. Col. P. D. English from the beginning showed willingness to make good any shortage that might be found due 10 errors in bookkeeping. On Aug ? he wrote Governor Hays concerning the work Of the accountants, and said:
 "They found many errors, omis- sions and mistakes in debits and some to my credit. I settled with the state July 90 by paying in about $721, all MT. Russell had found to that date. q settled by his figures. The largest was a mistake in addi- ion, one whole page of my fee-book and report to Auditor being omitted or skipped. That was corrected and paid into the treasury.
 "They also found some serious er- TOTS in my library account, the largest of which was an oversight in charging or failure to charge the library tax of $1.50 for a whole year. amounting to some $700 or $500. This l desire to make good at once and de- posit it to the credit Of the supreme court library. I desire to settle in full before, the report is published in the papers. I will make good all er- TOTS. omissions and irregularities. do not desire to be published as a, defaulter, until I am advised of what I really owe and have Ga chance to correct any errors of the auditors"
 This was handed the committee and acknowledged by them in the saine friendly spirit. Since then MT. English has gone over the reports and paid over $1,3S3.92, the amour, he was shown to be short. It is recommended that the legislature pass law requiring the Library fund, now held in bank, to be kept in the state treasury. The report con- cludes:
 "This report is certainly not cred itable showing for the supreme court or it's clerk, but the court, through Justice Kirby. has been so pleasant and reasonable in discussing the matter with the committee, and the clerk hag shown such readiness to make good the shortage. that we can not refrain from saying that had sciT's other departments shown the same spirit and the same readiness to pay into the treasury the money due it. the state would be much bet ter off financially and the work of this committee would have been rendered much easier and more pleasant, and that the public might not have been so confused as it may have been by some in their denials and by their acts in an effort to pro- tect their political interests by dis crediting the findings of the com mittee or by refusing to allow the committee to do the work that the legislature directed it should do."