The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, December 12, 1895, Image 1
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.