The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-09-21
SATURDAY MoRNING asPT EndBERs 2r1872r

the Charleston press .Empty state
ments will not do. What the people
want is proof, and not proof from qdey
tionable sources.H ga t1HT SA4TeoH
He said he agreed with the editor oi
the paper that what the .poopls wanted
wasvproof, and proof from =tirssueationa,,
BILE sources, but itawas the firss time he
had ever heard OLA person arraigned
upon any charge being asked tp makes
affidavit that he was not guilty Itwas
not his duty to prove agnegativeas bnt
what the people wantedf and what he
demanded was the afiidayits of those who
brought the charges. i, sSs41 & az
g The second question, which he also
read to the audience. was as follows:
Secondly VIII tho g6pssaisn1all . sS-
plain, and furnish by proof his. inno;
cence of the following, in reference to
the Roberts Arms Company and the
American Metallic Ammunition Conn
pany? 1t is charged that, ssin the case
OF the Roberts Arms Company, though
the company received but $4,000, the
account was made out against the State
FOR S44 ,250. The contract, which was
for the alteration of fvs thousand
Springfield rifles to eecfsloaders, was
made on the part of the State of. South
Carolina by +. J. Moses, Jr.,sas iadju-
tant and nspector-general. Thousands
upon thousands, OF dollars more were
spirited from the State in these arms
transactions, all Of which appear clearly
chargeable to +. j. Moses, and, perhaps,
Il. X Scott. - ..--'s--'' -
In reply to this charge hs-said that
when it was first made in. theSreport of
the JOINT special finsaeia! Z: ::av vsssisstiag
committee he had risen IN his place in
the Assembly and made Ills 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, uud even they had done him the
justice to say that the charge so far a S
he was concerned had been cleare d away
The writer. OF the committees report
q after ward admitted tae Same thing in
e y GeReral Asseas;i ylt-ashaa procee-
dsd with a repetition of tho expla nations
which he made last winter, which were
To the effect that he had been ordered
b. the Governor to make contracts for
tlea tornation 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 ,aIterua-
of 2O9O at 81. each, and for 5000 at
u. ne dollars each that the sum total of
al the contracts which he made icr the
State was Sl23,000, that the amount
charged on the financial agents books on
those accounts was 100000, but that
he had no moreconnection with or respon
sibility for those payments than any pri-
vate citizen, and that the vouchers. con
tracts and proofs of those assertions
We're on file both in the treasurcr's Office
and the adjutaut generals Office, where
any citizen OF the State had right to
20 aud examine them, aud test the truth
of his assertions
he next question was, as follows:
Thirdly. We want to know some
thing about that SILL 900 ou the armed
iorce question. Will Mr.. Moses explain
this ?Will he tell the people that it was
draft caShed by certain parties, 1--WE
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 incontrovertble proof. The
people demand it They have right
to know
In reply to this he said that tho opiu-
ion seemed to De current that the armed
force fund had something to do with the
military purposes, but the fact was that
nobody bad anything to do with the
drafts upon that fund but the Governor
As to the eleven thousand dollars of tn 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 aud fur the use of the
adjutant- generals department in the
summer of 1871, fully one year ago.
The Governor at :hat time gave him
two warrants upon the State treasury,
one for five thousand dollars, aud the