510 



MISSOURI. 



K,.r 1-70. 

 K..r !.<!.. 

 K.r l-;4.. 

 For 1S7S.. 



Total 



Total excess of war- 

 rant! llll 



SI...-.1 -Jin ;i 



liua 



l,5U6,t864 



I.I:<U.T.' -ii 



$1.088,*49 85 



i.-:-.-j.lM :.T 



$4,965,808 49 

 $871,047 19 



The following is an official statement of the 

 debt at the beginning of 1874 : 



DEBT STATEMENT. 



Above total excess $871,047 19 



Warrants outstanding Jannary 1, 1870 411,735 88 



State Indebtedness to Cblckasaw School 



Fund 814,74823 



Warrants canceled by Treasurer, now rep- 

 resented by State bonds 634,fi50 00 



Warrants canceled, represented by certifi- 

 cates of Indebtedness 294,150 00 



Warrants canceled, for which the State Is 



Indebted to the Common-School Fund.. . . 615,958 49 



Total liability of the State $3,448,188 



The amounts above reported as belonging to 

 the Chickasaw and Common-School Funds, 

 together with $218,150 in State bonds, which 

 belong to the Agricultural Departments of Ox- 

 ford and Alcorn Universitiee, are held as trust 

 funds, the principal of which the State is not 

 required to pay. Deduct these items from the 

 total liability, and there remains a State debt 

 of $1,794,332.57, distributed as follows: 



State bonds $416,500 00 



Certificates of Indebtedness 894,150 00 



Insurance companies, deposits 280,100 00 



Warrants outstanding 808,682 67 



Total $1,794^6T 



All the public institutions of the State nro 

 represented as being overcrowded. In 1873 

 there were 804 inmates of the Lunatic Asylum, 

 25 of the Blind, 50 of the Deaf and Dumb, and 

 288 of the penitentiary. The penitentiary has 

 not the capacity for one-half the present num- 

 ber of convicts. A large portion of them, 

 therefore, are worked outside of the walls. 

 Besides paying all expenses during the year, 

 this institution reported a balance of $4,000 

 In favor of the State. 



MISSOURI. The first session of the Twenty- 

 seventh General Assembly, which had con- 

 vened early in .January, adjourned on the 24th 

 of March, to meet again in January, 1874. One 

 hundred and forty-four acts were passed and 

 signed, but most of them were of a local or 

 unimportant nature. 



Soon after the assembling of the Legislature 

 in January, Louis V. Bogy, the candidate of 

 the Democrats and Liberal Republicans, was 

 elected to the United States Senate. The con- 

 test for this position occasioned a high degree 

 of excitement, and immediately after the elec- 

 tion it was publicly charged thnt money had 

 been improperly used to secure the election 

 of the successful candidate. These charges led 

 to the appointment by the Legislature of a 

 committee of five, " with power to send for 

 persons and papers, and report to this House 

 at as early a day as practicable if there has been 



money used to advance the interest of any of 

 the senatorial aspirants. No name, however, 

 was mentioned in the resolution. In accord- 

 ance therewith a committee was duly appoint- 

 ed, and at once entered upon tin.' iiivf-.tij.MUon. 

 About the middle of February a majority re- 

 port signed by four members, and a minority 

 report signed by one member, were submitted 

 to the Legislature. The former said : " We rind 

 that there is no evidence either directly or in- 

 directly to criminate tho Senator-elect, Hmi. 

 L. V. Bogy, and fully exonerate him; " ami. 

 secondly, "we further find that George P. 

 Dorris, of St. Louis, did attempt to bribe two 

 members of this General Assembly, by the 

 otfer of $1,000 each, to wit. Hon. \V. S. Pope, 

 of Wright, and Hon. Charles H. Morgan, of 

 Barton, to induce them to vote for him (George 

 P. Dorris), in the Democratic caucus for Unit. (! 

 States Senator ; and we also find that said 

 Dorris placed money in the hands of other 

 parties who are not members of this Legisla- 

 ture, to advance his (George P. Dorris's) inter- 

 est in the election for United States Senator." 



In the minority report it was stated that " it 

 also appears, from the testimony taken before 

 your committee, that n large sum of money, to 

 wit, the sum of $15,000, was brought to Jef- 

 ferson City shortly prior to the election of 

 Senator as aforesaid, by one Thomas Dorris, 

 and that a considerable portion of that amount 

 was used, or offered to be used, to advance the 

 interest of some candidate for the office of 

 United States Senator ; and tli at the testimony, 

 in part, goes to show that said money was in- 

 tended to advance the claims of one George 

 P. Dorris, and in part goes to show that it was 

 designed to be used to advance the claims of 

 L. V. Bogy; that on this issue tho testimony 

 is not satisfactory, and tho undersigned 

 that, against his consent, a majority of said 

 committee decided, on the^ 8th of February, 

 1873, to close the doors against further inves- 

 tigation by said committee, and make report 

 to this House, by reason of which the under- 

 signed was unable to obtain testimony clearly 

 showing by whom said $15,000 was furnished, 

 or for the advancement of whoso election it 

 was intended and partly used." 



It appears that Mr. Dorris had not been 

 examined by the investigating rommitti -e, 

 owing, it is said, to his absence from home. 

 In consequence of the statements contained in 

 the minority report, Mr. Bogy publicly re- 

 quested that the investigation he reopened, so 

 that Mr. Dorris might be examined, ami that 

 his (Bogy's) bank account might !>< in\.-ti- 

 gated. The investigation accordingly wns re- 

 opened, and Mr. Dorris testified, and the bank 

 account of Mr. Bogy was examined. The 

 committee thereupon made another report. 

 unanimously reaffirming their first report, and 

 asked to be discharged. This report having 

 been submitted to the House was adopted l>y 

 a vote of 61 to 22, and the House resolved 

 " that said investigation fully exonerates Louis 



