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11. The t'usr of Jwi.n G. Hum 15 w.is next t xamluedThe condition of the Treasury management Whimuch Khe Mtni' tinder this glt; nllenun'* administrationThe report says of IlixaiiH's previous character, thai( had fallen U) the lot of few young men In the State to attain the prominent ami Influential position occupied by turn previous 10 his election a» Treasurer of Mate. lit had her n Speaker *d the l!iui«e of Repre-MiintiHft upon his fu«*t election to It . and no man, however ambitious, could have desired a brighter future UiRii lhal opcnim: before him.The report fays of Raisij.n's operations Mr. BxzsLtir. at the time of lih settlement with Mr. Buss, received from him a certificate of depositor W. E. Cmttzmh?*, banker, Nea Vor«t. for $4 *,461 70, as money, which was in violation of law and of every just rule of oflit lal conduct, and either by hltoara re-inifbncss, or by the advice of Mr. Buss,the larger portion of it was lost to the State. Iu our opinion, in Is sum was not In fact available to Mr. Bliss as money when he sought to transfer it to Bretdin, and hence Ms solicitation thui it should be permitted to remain unrilMuibtd In Mr. CniTTiaDZjTri hands until the Julyfollowing, inducements to withhold a demand, wereundonbU dl held out to Mr. Brxslin. nui disclosed In the tc 511 moiiy, for, unfortunate Iv fur the reputation of 1I11 re rr.tn, as well a* for the interests of the State, they arc unwilling witnesses.IB Mdes the gross v iolation ofoffitl.il duty on the pari of JMr. Bixsun. on his agreement to conceal the tic fab ath n of Mr. Buss, he still further aggravated It b perimitlr k the sureties to glvt their checks for $A3,-OUO, paynble in two years, without Interest.The report dclalls the financial operations of llus-un . lua connecUon with the Akrou Branch Railroad loan, the City Bank of Cincinnati, the Central Bank of Indianapolis, the firm of VV. V\ Coins Co., and numerous “outside operations” by nearly all of which the State was a loser, OaasLijr having «m-ployed the Stale finances for his financial schemes. The Commissioner a aLso state that the propositions were mode to them, on behalf of Humjs, having In view his return to Ohio, and appearance before Iho Commission, to give hla testimony In leiation to the defalcation. Upon consultation with the Attorney-General, It waa deemed advisable to make the effort to procure Mr, Brxsuh’s attsndanrc, inJ one of the Commission went to Canada, wbliher Bxmliji had fled, in the expectation that he would Immediately return to Ohio . but on the presentation of the papers to him he peremptorily declined to return.Brwliw acknowledges he has yet under his control, ami In ih»* hands of parties whom he declines to name, tfO.iHJO of the abstracted raonevs. Jt is probable that a part of tills sum Is made up of the gatherings of disclosed investments, to which we have just referred.Mr. Bkxsun has assigned, at length, the reasons controlling hira In his present determination not to make any further disclosures In regard to ihts sum , but they are, as we have stated, unsatisfactory in us, and we beneve they will be to the public. As this sum is col in money, If a proper watchfulness Is observed, it ran In part be obtained, for It h Impossible for Mr. Bais-uft and hts three jiarllrs lo close all the doors of tL-servatfon and discovery.
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Sat, Mar 12, 1859
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