The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-06-25

as the American people must have
been when Benedict Arnold be-
trayed their cause. I feel sure the
people of Arkansas will be slow
make such an affidavit, and then
remain in the office as traitor
err words, until the night when the
affidavit was to be made public. I
must emphatically state that any
inference that 1 had any deal with
Mr.. Thomas for a good report on
my office is absolutely false. Why
should l have done so when I had
been in the office only three
months, and the accountants have
been in my office practically all
that time? Certainly, if l had any
crookedness in mind, I would have
waited until after they left. 1t was
simply a question of whose OK
was gored. 1t was all right for
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dorsement of certain state Off
Gals, and that, before their de-
partments We're audited, yet it was
! all wrong for me to indorse Mr..
| Thomas note after his report of
my office had been written up.
Certainly it was worse to indorse
one of the committees notes than
: to endorse one of the accountants
notes, because the accountants
/ merely check figures that may be
re-checked by other accountants
and are subject to the directions
| of the committee. On the other
hand, the committee may draw in
, ferences and make charges with
the assured knowledge that there
! is no one higher up to call them
to taw or modify their reports.
MIR McAmis has known for
some time that he could not stay
here very much longer, as I had
tried him at different places in the
office and had found him very in
competent In fact, I have talked
with some of the other men in the
office and asked them to secure
the easiest place about the office
with the hope that we might be
able to find something he could do.
He has been disgruntled from the
beginning because | reduced his
salary from $125 to 500 a month,
and also refused to employ his
niece, telling him at the time that
could not use two from the same
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incompetency, l suggested to him
that if he could get a place some
where else | would employ the
young lady, realizing that she was
much more competent than he.
This he declined to do.
WIDOWS AIDED.
zone of the first things I did
| to instruct all the employees that
they must not deal in warrants,
telling them, if they had a special
friend, who had a warrant, l had
no objections to their assisting him
in getting the cash on his warrant
In fact, we have assisted many en-
ployes of the various institutions,
and have taken special care to try
to assist some of the low-salaried
widows who have children that
they are supporting away from
the institutions.
at came to me that Mr.. Nc
Amis had cashed several thousand
dollars worth of warrants for some
wholesale commission house, from
whom he was supposed to be buy
ing goods for his house in Boone
vile. AS this happened before I
came into the office, 1 took no
cOgnizance of it, but news of the
proposition he made to Mr. Wilson
came to me a few days ago and I
asked Mr.. Wilson if it were true,
and l was assured it was. Yester-
day. Mr. Wilson was kind enough
to file affidavit certifying to same.
The knowledge of this possibly had
something to do with Mr.. McAmis
permitting his affidavit to be made
public and filing his resignation at
the time he did; otherwise he
might have remained in the office
until the end of the month as
traitor and a spy, as he did the
time he was here, at which tiUe
he was billed to go because of his
utter incOmpetency to do clerical
work and the various reports about
the warrants. I say spy because
no other term could express his ac-
tiOns, inasmuch as I have always
extended every courtesy possible, as
borne out by the wording of his
resignation printed in the Gazette
yesterday.
DUE FOR REWARD.
81 never before had any definite
knowledge of his discounting war
rants, and do not know he dis
counted the $1,000. I simply have
his statement to Mr.. Wilson, that
it would be worth a months salary
to him. Whether he meant in act
ual cash or in favors shown in
some Ot her wav not abIo -