The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-12-07

our financial condition. 1t is simply series
of tables, prepared by the State authorities, and
showing from time to time the statement of
these reliable officials. Our readers will be in
terested in reproduction of the results stated
at different periods during the past thirteen
months. ri 4
1. October 81, 1870, the State Treasurer put
down the liabilities of the State at 81 ,665 90S.9s
On, the 18th of December, 1870, the ComWfol-
Ter General reports the debt the same figures
above given, although stated in different
manner from that of the State Treasurer. 80
2. The debt at the time these reports were
made greatly exceeded the figures reported
Gas no authority had been given for increasing
the debt, it was necessary that the lies told in
the fall of 1870 should be we'll stuck to in MaY,
1871, when the Tax-Payers' Convention met;
so a new statement was made, by which it ap-
peared that the debt was not dollar gTeater
than in the previous fall" The correspoAasat
then gives the Comptroller Generals statement,
as furnished to the said Conventipn1 I'd
8. Gas no increase is mentioned since Nov. !,
1870, the inference intended to be drawn was
that there had been no addition 10 the debt"
Yet, on the Goth of September last, in apHwer
to enquiries from the joint select committee to
inquire into the condition of the late inArree-
tionary States, Gov. R. K. Scott, over his own
proper signature, made an exposition of the
financial status of this clearly beloved" State,
wherein the entire bonded debt is placed at
S9,528,5641O. Here is an increase of nearly
two million of dollars, without any apparent
trouble on the part of his Excellency, in regard
to which the correspondent says: 'This state
ment was more untruthful, if possible, than any
that had preceded it. The Governor, :,as q
member of the Financial Board, (which has en-
tire charge of the issue of bonds, must have
known that over S., 100000 of new Conversion
Bonds had been sold or hypothecated in New
York by the Financial Agent-of which no
mention is made in the above statements.- - He
knew that when he stated that the total issue
of bonds and stocks by his administration was
less than $4,000, 900, he was making gross and
inexcusable misrepresentation for dishohora-
BILE purpose-namely, to deceive the New York
Stock Be I'd and the public at large" ..'
A. The joint labors of the Attorney General,
the State Treasurer and the Financial Agent
are invoked, and after a thorough sitting of
the Treasurer's books for an entire day, the
incubation of this trio furnished the 1ribuaSs
correspondent with statement of the ,phbFc
debt, which has now reached the respectable
figures of 1906, ,9OS.98. This was on the 2Oth
day of November, 1871, less than tMhttteeh
months since it was first reported that the pub.
lie debt was about seven and half Millions 4
Aye, scarcely six months since the Esa p Hpry
told in the beginning, had been feiteA<sdf&
the benefit of the anxious taxpayers in con-
vention assembled More than doubled in
six months IL =
Now, we would not for moment e'the
impression that the debt was actually increased
in the style and manner above stated. The
Radical officials only concealed the truth, and
it was not until the startling expose made by
the New York World that they evinced. the
least desire to recede from former gross per-
versions and misstatements. But the recapitu
lation above made, in regard to- the various
sums claimed as the "total" debt during the
past year, strongly indicates that the whole
truth has not yet been reached. True, it
agrees with the statement put forth last week
by Judge Orr and his associates it coineides
with the figures adopted in the Governors
message, and is Identical with the official dec
laration of the State Treasurer. But when it
is remembered that these statements are all
made upon the data furnished by Niles g.
Parker, we must accept them with due allow
ance. He is more deeply interested, perhaps,
than any other man, unless it be Gov. Scott in
deceiving the public once again. We know
beyond doubt that the truth has long been
suppressed, and that every State official assist
cd in the work of concealment. They boldly
furnish the proof of base deception and trick
cry, and then ask the public to accept their
utterances in regard to the actual debit Their
statements have proved unreliable heretofore,
and in the hour of their discovery, we cannot
place the least confidence in any exhibit from
that quarter Added to all this, we have The
declaration of the Comptroller General that
the Financial Agent and the State Treasurer
have not yet submitted their annual repousstoi
him, and as necessary consequence it,is oft
of his power to furnish the Legislature with q
reliable statement of the public debt or the
financial transactions of the past fiscal year.
1t thus appears that attempts are being made
at further concealment, and it is announced
that the Financial Agent has suddenly depart
ed from Columbia and taken his fight to the
North, refusing and ncglecting to make any
report
= A member of the Boston bar is engaged