Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-12
MARION HOTLY
DENIES CHARGE
Of NEGLIGENCE
State Treasurer Replies to the
Governors Veto Message
and Charges Chief Execu-
tive With InSiDcedty

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Santa Fe, March ll.-Statc Treas
urer Marion last night addressed
sulphurous rep. To Governor Me
bonalds message votoing H. 3. S5S,
which was transmitted TO the legisla-
ture Yesterday and in which the chief
executive charged Treasurer Marion
with having neglected his official
duties. The letter. copies Of which
were furnished the representatives. Of
the press by Mr.. Marion, was as fol-
lows
Hon. William G. Mcdonald,
Governor of New Mexico,
Santa Fe
Your EXcellency
Your message containing your veto
of house bin No. 35S appears IN tins
evenings newspapers and notice
that YOU take occasion To use the
following language in special iusti-
fication Of that veto:
Both (auditor and state treas
ureD have their business and
various employments that appar-
entity are necessary for them
selves TO the neglect OF their Of
fetal duties, or. at any rate,
seem To be responsible for the
necessity as they see 1t for extra
clerk hire in their offices. lie
tauditor) has not spent, in my
opinion, from observation, at the
outside to exceed two hours a day
i'm the capitol during the past
year and the state treasurer has
been here less.
Rcsents Imputations.
would be false to my family and
myself,and to the office which / hold
ard to the people who honored me
with that office did ! not resent the
false imputationa contained in that
message If 1t is your conception OF
the duties of the state treasurer that
he should do the mere bookkeeping
and be the clerk. your conception OF
the duties of that office is false.
MY conception of the duties of the
state treasurer is different and that
those duties are higher and greater
than that Of being clerk. | am not a
clerk and when you say that ! have
neglected any duty imposed upon me
as state treasurer that statement is
false and you know was false when
you penned it,
You know that as state treasurer
had ON deposit with the First state
bank of Las Cruces $4,000 of the
peoples money. True, that deposit
was protected by a bond, but when il
came to my notice in December. lal 3,
that there was some question of the
solVeucy of this bank in the perform
ance of my duties as state treasurer
which you say 1 neglect, ] did not
temporize and put off indefinitely
the withdrawal of that deposit, but II
was done then and when this institu-
ton was placed in the hands of re
ceiver he did not find any funds of
the people. which the state treasurer
is charged with conserVin" d" that
institution.
Recalls Mandamus Case.
Too, when you attempted to force
me to invest the sacred school mon
eys in an investment that meant the
loss of thousands and thousands Il
dollars To The schools ana | success
fully resisted that attempt in the SUI
Tremc court of the state, ! was per
forming what | conceived to be my
duty and was not neslecting the du-
ties Of my office.
I'm numerous other instances tnat
it is not necessary for me here to IL
rect your attention to, known by you,
! have performed my duties and not
neglected them, resulting in saving
to the taxpayers of the state and when
YOU cry "holier than thou" do not de-
CeiVc yourself In the belief that you
are the only honest man IN the state.
Yes, il is true that ] have other
business than that of state treasurer
but in the care of my business and
profession have not neglected the
duties OF my office as state treasurer
and will not