Show FOR DEMAND ON WELLING BOND BONO STUDIED State Auditor l Attorney Seek Method to Use Official Utah Sp Split it Wide Open as Cha Charges g s a and d C Countercharges Fly ly in Dispute Dis Dis- Dis Disclosures i. i Over i Presaging possible formal demand upon Secretary o oZ State Milton H. H Welling for a sum shown in-an in audit as as as- short in motor vehicle and other funds a conference confer confer- ence was h held ld Fr Friday day afternoon between State Auditor Julius Ju this lius C. C Andersen and G. G A. A Giles dep deputy ty attorney general No procedure was agreed upon but it was agreed that revised of could be invoked to section 84 4 laws com com- pel an accounting for the sum sum of 2454 which the audit reported re reported re- re ported short Under this statute if a state official charged with collecting state money fails fans t to make proper settlement with the auditor audit r or payment to the treasurer treasurer treas treas- the auditor must place an ac ac- 1 Former Welling I Deputy Defends I Office Methods George A. A Seaman eaman former chief deputy secretary of state during the period covered by bythe bythe bythe the recent audit of the motor vehicle and md nd other funds characterized characterized characterized charac charac- unwarranted as wholly ed conclusions that discrepancies c cies es discovered covered res resulted d' d from I dishonest administration lon i iThe The hazards of error mcdent incident inci mc- 4 1 dent to nish periods during the j issuance of f motor motor licenses li 11 fl censes transfers and other were blamed by Seaman Sea man for many of the discrepancies rep ii- ii cies cles disclosed by D Deputy puti St State te Auditors Alvin Keddington ton and d Terrell Ferren H. H Adams Adam The statement was In lit the form of a. a letter sent nt b by Seam Seaman n nto to Secretary ta of r st State t l Milton H. H Welling I 1 count agai against the official charging 25 per cent of the thes s sum m as damages and 10 lOper per cent annual interest from froni the time of pf failure to remit Empowered to Act If this fails another statute provides provides pro pro- vides that the proper authority believed to be the board of ot examine examiners ers is empowered to make demand the upon the officials official's surety for amount Meanwhile official Utah split wide open as charges and countercharges of or moral t turpitude and criminal statement page 3 libel reverberated through the capitol capitol capi capi- tol over sensational disclosures contained con con- tamed in the recent audit audil of motor vehicle and other funds under the administration ad ministration of Welling Welling breaking a week of silence branded charges of a 2454 shortage and general mismanagement of the funds as infamous slander and criminal libel and undertook to refute re refute re fute lute major allegations allegations' made in the report of Deputy State Auditors Keddington and Ferrell H. H Adams State Auditor Julius C. C Andersen Anders a Continued on Pose Two WELLING BOND BONU MOVE STUDIED State Auditor and Attorney Study Methods Battle Splits Capitol Continued from mesa Pose Faze One OD reiterated charges mado made to Governor Henry H. H Blood that the thc audit produces produces produces pro pro- duces f e evidence of astounding continuing continuing con con- incompetency negligence and methods methods' and the exIstence existence ex ex- of moral turpitude Jn in WellIngs WellIng's WellIng's WellIngs Welling Well- Well Ings Ing's department j Renews Fund Request Bequest ques Andersen renewing his request for fora a appropriation to continue the audit back to 1927 1027 asked for custody of all records of ot the secretary of state stale for fr previous years and urged Governor Gover Cover nor Henry H. H Blood to instruct the proper state slate authority to make demand de mand mend on Wellings Welling's bondsmen for the money due the state Welling dUIng retorted with an appeal to the governor to protect his hia records record Including those which he declared are now held Illegally by the state auditor resenting the Imputation that they would not bo safe in his care S Say San y Authority Lacking Attorney General Joseph Chez Ches advised ad the governor ho has no author ity to order records of the secretary of state removed remove since Ince the secretary of state by law is 13 constituted their custodian Chez Che assured the governor the tho attorney at torney generals general's office will take Uke the responsibility of any legal action necessary to protect the states state's rights reading Andersen request that requisition be made on Wellings Welling's bondsmen for tor the purported shortage The next step it appeared would be an attempt to settle settie the controversy controversy contro contro- versy over whether a shortage actually actual actual- ly exists In the collected by Wellings Welling's office or if accounting errorA errors errors er er- er mistakes mistakes mis mL rorA and other bookkeeping takes as 1 contended by Welling are responsible Wants Question Settled Chez explained the the question must bo be settled before ho will wUl act If It a shortage is found to exist as disclosed by the deputy auditors Chez said he will make demand upon Welling for forthe forthe the fhe money due the th state After a 8 re reasonable time he explained ex cx- if the state is ii not reimbursed demand will be made on the bondsmen bondsmen bonds bonds- men who post posted d the surety for the secretary of state as the thc administrator administrator administrator ad ad- of the state motor vehicle fund Meanwhile Chez had before belore him a It request from Governor Blood to outline outline out out- line Une the procedure which should clarify clan clari fy the situation Chez said the opinIon opinion ion would be forthcoming late Fri Fri- d day Board has lUs u Request The request pointed out the board of ot examiners of which the tho governor ia is chairman had b before fore it a request from Andersen for to continue the audit back to 1027 The governor also referred to the attorney general genera th the suggestion of the Utah Taxpayers Taxpayers' association that if U an audit is to be made it be conducted by an out outside auditor The audit in question was presented to Governor Blood by Ander Andersen en a week ago Wednesday We It covered the period from January 1 1 1933 to June 26 1933 1033 when the motor vehicle and other funds unc were transferred from the administration of the secretary of state to the t tax x commission on I It listed a shortage of 2454 mainly In 1 transfer fees charged that Jack Welling son of the secretary of state worked in h his fathers father's office without proper authorization cited alleged d check splitting check k on the part of university university uni uni- students employed as night watchmen at the capitol by Welling and noted other examples of purported purport purport- ed mismanagement and irregularities in the on of ot the states state's tate funds |