The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-11

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The Governor lodged this issue for three
weeks, and then came to New York and pu
d. q. Klmpton is two.thirds owner,) untilht
quarrelled with his colleagues and was almos
Kicked out of the hotel. Then he came to tht
committee and left the st. Cloud Hotel, saying
he was coming to South Carolina. Instead Q
coming down to South Carolina, be came hal
The committee went there at nine O'Clock tina
evening to see him, at his invitation, snC
found him-but he wouldn't speak dIsreputa
bly, even Of Governor Scott-he found MIN
1 lying on sofa. He was asleep, and nc
l:couldn't be awakened. gentleman vel
Hardy Solomon, in short-was sitting by
| him, taking care of him. Of course an
interview was an imp0ssibility, and the
committee departed. The next morning
they were informed that Ktmpton had
agreed to make settlement at four O'Clock
that afternoon. They went back at that time,
and there found the Governor back in the
Then the Governor said to the committee,
"Gentlemen, Mr.. Kimpton Is willing now to
show me his books, but you cannot see them "
Upon this he (Bowen) had said to General
Dennis that that was as much as an Invitation
| to leave, and the committee withdrew. They
were tQeu tdlkluS duouL SSluuS uP q SotU Ii
| contradiction OF the statements IN the New
| York World, and Parker said, II think Har-
| dys head is level. Put the debt at 5000, 600.
and give It to the World. The Governor said
| in his message that under the act OF August,
| 1868, to redeem the bills receivable, the 1nan-
seeag IN New Hesss s @
the coolest proposition he had ever heard
It was cool enough to take In July
without !ce Any school boy would laugh
at the idea that the Governor could under
this act sign up any number OF bonds ior
Nmpton TO hypothecate. The conversion act
only allowed bonds to be issued for a SPECIFIC
purpose, and upon the demand of creditors
who had securities to be converted. On that
proposition the Governor could not stand five
minutes In any court Of justice. The Govern
or stated that he had proposed to. run the
bonds down to five or ten cents on the dollar,
and then have them bought up by commit
tee. He denied the assertion, but even that,
he said, would be better than the Governors
fifty cent scheme, which said, in effect. to the
holders OF good bonds, ''You must submit to
sacrifice OF ffey per cent. for the benehc OF
the holders of illegal bonds." What ne had
proposed was this: 1t was clear that there
were large portion of the bonds that were
illegal. The only question was as to which
bonds were illegal, and he proposed that
committee be appointed to decide between
them, that the payment OF interest De ~eus.
pended until the committee report, and that
then the illegal bonds be repudiated and the
balance paid.
MT. Hurley continued the cannonade,, ,,rislng
IKE his colleague to question of privilege.
he sald he supposed the Governor had not 10.
tended to assail the personal veracity OF the
members OF the committee, but OF the commit
tee as 8 whole, and he was prepared to swear
that every fact In the report Of that com mmittee,
as far as it related to finances, was an exact
transcript from the books of the treasurer and
financial agent. If The facts were missiated, It
was for them TO prove ii, for they were taken
from their books. AS to those members OF the
committee who had recently deserted to the
enemy, he had nothing to say-he would leave
them to their own accusing consclences. ne
supposed, as to the question OF yeraclty. mat
there was not sane man 10 the STATE OF SCUM
Caroliua-Republican Radical. Democrat or
Ku-Klux-whe would for one moment weigh
the word of Governor Scott with that OF any
member of this committee. Some OF them
we're not afraid to 60 before any court OF JUS
tice and have their records shown, but let
the persons now accused be arraigned
before any jury and the verdict would De
"Gulty of thet." They were being engulteo.
expels; and their destiny was drawing them In
until the public sentiment would brand them
so deeply that no amount Of whitewash could
conceal the stain. He thanked God that ne
was born among honest people; bis boyhoed
was spent among Them, and ne was not
since. Let some of those who were branding
them with falsehood show where they had
been. BE remembered when certain sena-
tor (mentioned in the message) had spent
months in trying to prove that John Smith was
not John Smlth-that Robert Kingston Scout
was not this R. K. Scott. He remembered
when Scott was standingNhe @ didn't know low
ali q
side "Six miles to Salem," and on the other
side ssSix miles to nowhere" Talk about the
land commission The Governor says ne de-
Glued to approve certain purchases until De
Large inspected and certified to tn. n: Would
his Exceency like to write an affidavit TO tnat
effect and ask DeLarge to sign 1t? NOT much.
It was mighty hard to educate some people up
to The poiRt Of telling the truth; but there was
q way of getting them up In such way as 70
make them tell the truth. There was truth In
that report and when 1t struck 1t had hit like
q pestiience; the men 1t had hit had scattered,
had vanished, and no man knoWeth Whitner
they had fled.
action on the message until General Whlpper,
who was also attacked, conld be present TO
say something upon the subject, and, upon
his motion, the consideration of the message
wasa0sde the special order for Monday next
at one P. N. :.
In the Senate, Mr.. -WnltCemOre introduced
his bill to prevent certain officers from buying,
dscouutIng or shaving teachers pay certih-
Gates, or other orders on school funds. The
bill declares 1t unlawful for any county audi.
tor, treasurer, school commissioner or schoo!
trustee to shave, or In any way be Interested
in the buying or shaving Of such Certlncates,
under penalty Of fine not less than i've
hundred dollars, or more than two thousand
dollars. aud imprisonment 10 the discretion OF
the court.
A novel smelling committee is proposed In
Joint resolution introduced by General Smalis,
which recites that there is reason to believe
that the Marine and River Phosphate Com.
pany has failed to make just aud full returns
to the State auditor, and, therefore, provides
for Joint committee of five members to In
vestigate and report upon the returns OF that
and all o;her phosphate companies and report
as to what right and under the authority OF
what statute or statutes such companies are
working.
The special message from the Governor was
received in the Senate at about half-psst
twelve read In full, and set down for constde-
ration on Thursday next at P. NJ, at which
time the financial committees report will also
come up for disposition, and lively time may
be expected.
Comptroller.G General Neagle, to-day, officially
informed the Legislature that he had received
the State treasurer's report for October, 1871;
also, his annual report for the fiscal year end
ing October 81, 1871. and the four quarterly
reports of Mr.. 81. b. Kimpton, fnancia! agent