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Vol. II. FLORENCE, S. C., THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12.. 1895. t No. 110. DISPENSARY BOOKKEEPING. AN EXAMINATION BY A LECIS LATIVE COMMITTEE. A Discrepancy Found That is Overbalanced by Another on the Other Side—The Error to bo Ad justed. Columbia, Dec. 11.—Special to News and Courier: Under a reso lution of the Legislature a special committee, consisting of Messrs. Efird,Thomas and Wilborn, were appointed to inspect the books and operations of the dispensary every quarter. The committee issues re ports about the same time that the commissioner gets out his state ment of the dispensary operations. Naturally the report is largely made up of what is contained in the commissioner’s statement, but some of the additional matters re ferred to in the committee report will be interesting. The report is for the quarter ending October 31. The committee announces that the examination of books continu ed six days, and it found the as sets and liabilities as were pub lished in Saturday’s issue of the News and Courier. The commit tee states that it has checked off all purchases of merchandise, checked off the receipts of county dispensers and the vouchers for disbursements, and found an origi nal voucher for each and every disbursement made. The committee report: “We have not checked off every item as entered in the books, but we have given as close an examina tion as our time has permitted, and we report the books in good condition.” The report, after giving the statement of the receipts and dis bursements, profits and loss and statement for the last quarter that have already been published, goes on to say: “The State Treasurer reports to us that the balance to the credit of the State dispensary on October 31, 1895, was $73,076.58. The dif ference between this balance and the balance of cash upon the State commissioner’s books is $31,345.96. We have gone over the books of the State commissioner and have checked off the warrants paid by the State Treasurer in order to re outstanding warrants $34,360.77 we have concile these two balances, with the following results: The State commissioner reports to us that he has made cash collections of the last quarter’s business for several days in November, amounting to the sum of $34,360 77. His books show that these collections were made and deposited in the Farm ers’ and Mechanics’ Bank and the Carolina National Bank between November 1 and November 9, and between said dates paid over to the State Treasurer. We found that a number of warrants drawn prior to October 31 had not been paid by the State Treasurer on that day. A list of unpaid warrants, aggre gating $3,491.57 is appended. Deducting the aggregate of these from the $30,379.20. We also found that the Comptrol ler Gen< rai had issued warrants for saierif.-s of dispensary officials, whicii the State Treasurer had paid, to the amount of $374.99, and that these warrants had not on October 31 been entered on the books of the State Commissioner. By adding this amount, $374.99, to the $30,879.20 we get $31,254.19. As mentioned in our last report, there was an error in the State commissioner's favor in* Warrant 627 amounting to $4; subtracting this $4 from the $31,254.19 we have $31,250.96. This difference between $31,- 345.96 and $31,350.19 is $105.77, which represents the present dif ference between the books. Tak ing into consideration the discrep ancy of $105 21 previously re ported, we now report upon above reconcilement that the discrep ancy between the State Treasur er’s hooks and the State Commis sioner’s books is 56 cents. We recommend that the State com missioner be authorized to adjust the above discrepancy of $105.77. In ordi-r to simplify the books of the State commissioner we again recommend that the law be changed so as t<* permit the salar ies of the dispensary officials to be paid by warrant of the State com missioner, approved by the govern or, as other expenses of the dispen sary are paid. “We also recommend that it be provided by law that the State Treasurer furnish to the State commissioner a monthly itemized statement, giving the number and amounts and payees of the dispen sary warrants paid by him during the month. If this bo done it would vastly facilitate the work of anv committee which undertakes to reconcile the books of these two officers. “In conclusion we would state that in our opinion the financial transaction of the State dispensary are economically and efficiently conducted under the supervision of State Commissioner F. M. Mix- son. We would also state that WORK OF THE SENATE. Thre« Proposed Monunridnts-Cu* ban Belligerency Discussed—Ex- eoutive Session. Washington, Dec. ll.-r-The Sen ate was in session to-day for only an hour and a quarter, and it then adjourned until to-morrow. Three propositions were introduced in the large amount of bookkeeping | h onor Q f distinguished men of the for the pur- necessarily involved in conducting the business of such immense pro portions is ably and creditably performed by S. W. Scruggs. We have been given courteous assis tance by the officials and employ ees of the State dispensary in our examination.” The first was .e past. chase of a $2,000 statue of the French novelist, Victor Hugo, to be placed in the new library build ing in Washington, now almost finished. The second was for a $50,000 monument to the naval herp, John Paul Jones, to be sreot- ed in Washington. The third was to authorize the placing of a status of President Franklin Pierce upon the grounds of the public building Crave Robbers. Topeka, Kas., Dec. 11—The cent revolting grave robberies j xr w this city have aroused the people at Jr oncord ’„. n ... - to the highest pitch of ludigoa-1 henator DuBois, Repitbl'Cttn, of tion, and at 8 o’clock to-night , Idhbo, made a shuit argument in mob began forming in the streets, 8U PP° r ^ 118 P r0 P 08e d amend the avowed purpose being to burn * ne nt o. the rules so as to yetfl- the Kansas Medical college, in the g'r neral appropriation which, during the past three days. b 1 ,H8 am ?‘'K the committees having 1 1 charge of the various subjects to which they applied. No action the bodies of two well known wo men have been found. Both bodies were stolen from their graves soon after burial The police learned this after noon that there was a movement on foot to assemble a mob to sack tbe institution, which is located at Twelfth and Taylor streets. This evening the faculty of the college called upon the police for protection. The students were all sent home and a large squad of policemen were detailed to guard the college building. A detail of militiamen from Battery B of this city is stationed at their arsenal to prevent a capture of arms stored there. The Populist Ticket* Washington, Dec. 11.—The Pop ulist Senators held a final caucus to-day and decided to place a full ticket in the field for the Senate officers, for whom they will vote once and then step out and allow the Republicans to proceed with the organization. They will nom inate Senator Kyle for President pro tempore; Hon Thomas 'Wat son of Georgia for Secretary of the Senate, and Hon. H. E. Taube- neck of Illinois for Sergent-at- Arms. at $1, Beautiful line toilet sets at Sligh & Rucker’s, cash. Too many pants, they must go and the public gets the benefit, at Sligh & Rucker’s. was taken, as Senator Hill signi fied a desire to speak oa it, as well as on his own proposed amend ments to the rules in regard to cloture and-the counting of quo rums. Senator Allen, Populist, of Ne braska, spoke briefly on his reso lution for the recognition of Cuban belligerency, which also went over without action. He declared that the Populist party was ae thor oughly committed to the Monroe doctrine as either the Democratic party, ok the Repulicm party and he scoffed at American citizens who were so ready to be come “English lords or lords m some ocher country” and at the American women who wore “will ing to waste themselves on titled mendicants from the East.” A resolution calling on the Sec* retary of War for copiAewf all re* cords in his office relating to rail* roads in Tennessee seized by the military authorities during the civil war, was offered by Senator Harris and agreed to. Senator Cockrell presented a memorial of the Kansas City (Mo.) board of'trade asking Con gress to grant belligerent rights to Cuba, and it was referred to tbe committee on foreign relations. At 1.10 p. m. the Senate proceeded to exeeutive business, and five minutes later the doors were re opened and the Senate adjourned until to-morrow.