The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-09-21

the Charleston press. Empty state,
ments will not do. What the people
want is proof, aud not proof fiom qdes.
tionable sources, 13 es4S sftH
He said he agreed with theseditor Of
the paper that what tho people wanted
was proof, and proof from stnnnestiona.
BILE soul ces, but it was the irst time he
had ever heard of a person arraigned
upon any charge being asked % make an
affidavit that he was not quilts. It was
not his duty to prove alnegatives but
what the people wanted and what he
demanded was the afiidavits Of those who
brought the charges. A3u /. ci,e
The second question, which he also
read to the audience, was as follows:
Secondly, Will the ges..iea,@a ss,
plain, and furnish BY proof. his limo.
cence Of the following, in reference to
the Roberts Arms Company and the
American Metallic Ammunition Com
pany? 1t is charged that, 'in the case
OF the Roberts Arms Company, though
the company received but S2500, the
account was made out against the State
for S44,25 The contract, which was
for the alteration Of fv6 thousand
Springfield rifles to reect.-loaders, was
made o;i the part of the State of South
Carolina by +. J. Moses, Jr., as iadju.
tant and inspector general. Thousands
n Il Al
spirited from the State in these arms
transactions, all OF which appear clearly
charseablc to Il. j. Moses. aud, perhaps,
K. K. Scott" go '''- ---------'-s--'--~-s-s-
In reply to this charge he-said that
when it was first made in. thesreport OF
the JOINT special financial Investigating
committee he had risen In his place in
he Assembly and made lis defence. He
had then demanded that the Assembly
should if they believed him guilty, take
immediate steps to investigate his con-
duct. That defence had been at the
time published in the Charleston daily
papers, und even they had done him the
justice to say that the charge SO far a S
he was concerned had been cleare away
The writer OF the comm ittees report
a aftergard admitted the .same thing in
g y Gepernl AssemhiiS .l,+-athaa procee-
dsd with repetition Of tho explanations
which he made last winter, which were
To the effect that he had been ordered
b. the Governor to make contracts for
tlea tcrnation of IL, 200 guns: that he had
absolutely nothing to do with the trans
action except to make the contracts, the
financial agent being directed to pay the
bills: that he contracted for the alterna-
oi' 2O9O 1T 81 each, and for 5000 at
ne dollars each that the sum total of
all the contracts which he made for the
State was Sl23 900, that thc amount
charged on the financial agents books on
those accounts was 100000, but that
he had no more connection with or respon
sibllity for those payments than any pri.
vatc citizen, aud that the vouchers. con
tracts and proofs of those assertions
Were on file both in the trcasurcr's Office
and the adjutaut generals office, where
any citizen OF the State had right to
20 and examine them, and test the truth
of his assertions
lie next question was as follows
Thirdly. We want to know some.
thing about that Sll 900 OH the armed
lorce question. Will MIR. Moses cx plain
this NV i'll he tell the people that it was
a draft cashed by certain parties, (wc
know who,) for certain services rendered?
No dodging OF this. Let it bring into
dis.eputc whom it may, give us the facts
backed by incontTcrcrtible proof The
people dcmand it They have right
- i:ow.
In reply to this he said that the opin-
ion seemed to be current that the armed
force fund had something to do with the
military purposes, but the fact was that
nobody had anything to do with the
hIdits upoh lIlil 'uHu put Iiic OoEcluoT
As to the eleven thousand dollars Of th C
armed force fund which were charged to
him between November, 1871, and June,
1872, it had nothing to do with any
transaction during that period, and was
not paid out out at that time. That
money was paid to him for legitimate
military expenses AID for the use of the
adjutant- generals department in the
summer of 1871, fully one year ago.
The Governor ut shat tune gave him
two warrants upon the State treasury,
one for five thousand dollars, aud the
other for six thousand dollars, bat there
woc M ,uonnv in tha frnocu-r 30 ~ a,