Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-08
THE sGIBsON,, INJUNCTION CASE.

The arguments in this case, before Judge
Willard, were concluded last week, but as
vet no decision has been announced. The
Columbia correspondent Of the Charleston
Neaus furnishes the following outline of the
case:
The case of T. j. & H. NJ. Gibson vs.. Par
ker is ended There is no doubt that the Pc
tition of the plaintiffs will be sustained with
out qualification. The points are: First, an
Injunction is asked to restrain the treasurer
from paying any more certificates for mileage
and per diem of members; because he has al
ready gone far beyond the appropriation
made, the appropriation being for the deficit
of 1901, S230,0O0, and of 1912, $780,
600, making s5SO,OOO, while the treasurer has
paid by his own showing $685., ,423 n, being
a payment beyond the appropriation of $780,
423 II. It is asked that this thing be stopped.
Second, an injunction is asked that the treas
urer be restrained from paying any more
money towards public printing, inasmuch as
the treasurer has already paid, according to
his own showing s113,374 63 towards the
object, when not one dollar has been legally
appropriated therefor. 1t is asked that this
leakage be stopped. Third, an injunction is
asked to restrain the treasurer from paying
anything towards the printing of the tenth,
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth
volumes of the Statutes at Large under the
Joint resolution of 29th November, 1871,
passed over the veto of the Governor because
there has been no lawful appropriation there
for, and it is against the constitution to dele
gate powers to any two men of the State to
make a contract, have the work done, and
then appropriate out of the treasury just what
such two men may choose to pay. 1t has
been estimated that this job will cost, if per-
mitted to 20 on, S300O00 1t is asked that
this fraud be stopped. Fourth, an Injunction
is asked that the treasurer be restrained from
borrowing any more money upon his notes as
authorized by the act Of the 9TH Of March,
1872, and the joint resolution of the 18th of
March, 1872, because both act and resolution
were unconstitutional, having never been
passed by two-thirds vote, and being direct
" in violation Of the seventh and fourteenth
sections of the ninth act Of the Constitution Of
the State, directing, in express terms, how
money only can be borrowed. Fifth, an in
junction is asked to restrain the treasurer
from paying any of the notes already given
for money borrowed upon notes given by him
amounting, according to his own showing, to
$399,31272, because there have been no ap-
preparations made to pay the same, and they
cannot be paid out of any money now or here
after to come into the treasurers hands, unless
there be a special appropriation therefor.
1t will accomplish great deal to stop the
career of the treasurer in the above particu-
lars, and will save the State in the future a
vast amount of money. Messrs. Pope and
Haskell show, from Parker's own exhibits
and from information gathered from the off,
cial records, that Parker has paid out over
two million five hundred thousand dollars for
which there were no appropriations at all du-
ring his term of office. This year all the
taxes have been applied to legislat i've expen-
ses, and the appropriations, amounting to up
wards of four hundred thousand dollars, are
left without anything to meet them.
GENERAL LONGSPREET FOR GREELEY.
AS a significant political event, the deser-
tion of General Longstreet from the Grant
party is noted among the most recent defec-
tions Longstreet, it will be remembered,
was one of the first after the close of the war
to accept the new regime and acknowledge
the altered state of affairs. In 1867 he was
appointed to office in New Orleans by Gener-
al Grant, and until within few weeks has
continued in the service of the government.
On the 2Sth of May letter appeared with
his signature, announcing his resignation of
the position of surveyor of customs in New
Orleans. He detailed at length his reasons
for taking the step, but said no word of break
ing with General Grant. Since then, howev.
er, to the astonishment of many of his friends,
and to the CONSERVATION of the administration
party, he has come out strongly for Greeley
and renounced all allegiance to Grant.
On his arrival in New York few days ago,
General Longstreet was interviewed by a
Herald reporter, and, in answer to question
concerning his declaration for Grant few
months since, said:
81 was approached by two prominent sup.
porters of Grants and my opinion was asked
relative to his reelection. I expressed myself
favorable to it, and my name was used as a
supporter of the administration but did
not give any very cordial adhesion to it as
was anxiously awaiting the result Of the Gin
cinnati Convention, which cordially favored
The result entirely satisfied me, and I had no
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