The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-23

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We have now fresh illustration of the
beauty of the administration Of our
financial affairs under the Scott and
Parker Radical dynasty. r. @. Shiver,
Esq as holder OF Treasury warrant
for St, 600, issued by Comptroller Gene
Fal Neagle. in April, 1879. to the Super
iutendent. of the Penitentiary. has
brought suit before Judge Carpenter to
compel the Treasurer, who refuses to do
80, to pay the same. @. J. Stolbrand,
Superintendent of the Penitentiary, has
made an'a11davit in the case, which let's
in food of light on the dark transac-
tions of our officials. It will be neces-
sary to give its substance to get at the
merits Of thu case, He aifirms that on
the. 10th of April, 1872, there were Issued
TO him, aa Superintendent, by the Comp
troller- General, twelve warrants upon
the State Treasury, each for. the sum of
$1,000. on account Of aud in part of the
appropriation OF $4,000 made by the
General Assembly for the construction of
the penitentiary for the year 187l-72.
and payable to him as Superintendent.
That unable to procure money from the
Treasury upon those warrants, and being
without funds to support tho penitenti-
ary, he. on the 30th of May. 1872, pro-
cured $15, 600 from Ex-Governor r. X.
Scott. upon his note given for that sum,
payable in ninety days, to George W.
Waterman, endorsed by Hardy Solomon
and Niles G. Parker, and secured by six
of the Treasury warrants as collaterals.
!. It Was q part of the agreement with
Scott. that the note should be renewed,
from time to time. until tho incoming Of
thetaxes. On May 81, he received through
She hands of Hardy Solomon $l4. 295, as
the cash proceeds of the note thus made.
On the 14ths soi January, 1873. upon
learning that Scott had received $15. 600
from O. q. Baldwin. County Treasurer
Of h.ohland, in payment Of three Of the
hypothecated warrants, he applied to
SCOTT aud offered to pay the interest re-
mainipgy due on the note and to.take up
the three remaining warrants. 80 Scott
coolly informed him then, for the first
time. that he had sold them. This
statement he distrusts aud calls pretet1.
sive. If the sale Was made, he declares
shatit IVES without his knowledge or au-
thority, and violation OF the agree
ment under which the warrants had
been hypothecated and that, as Super
intendent of the Penitentiary, or other
wise. he received no consideration for
them. He furthermore AYERS that of the
twelve warrants issued to him, nine have
been paid at the Treasury, five directly
to himself, by the Sta:e Treasurer, one
Dashed by County Treasurer Baldwin,
and three cashed for r.. K. SCOTT by
Treasurer Baldwin. That there are,
therefore. three of said six warrants
which were hypotbeosted to Scott, still
outstanding, and that the one held by
the petitioner in this case, il, one of tba
shree, thus wrongfuliy appropriated rbt
R. x. Scott.
We have revealed herein, first, q
wretohed state OF affairs. which drives
Treasury warrants into the market, to be
pledged for cash at enormous interest, on
only halt tue sum Of their face. The
money duly appropriated and paid into
the Treasury could. not be got out Of ,itjI
and the penitentiary was thrown on its
beam ends. In this, Parker is the wrong
doer. and let him be brought. to tag for
it. Secondly, the uniusti6able proceed
ings of the Superintendent of the Peni-
tentiary. in hypotheoating State war
rants to the amount OF $50. 900 to secure
half OF that amount in hand, and allow
ing three warrants of $5, 900 each to get
from under his control. Under the act
which provides for the governm ent of
the penitentiary, the Superintendent is
himself @'to receive and pay out all
moneys granted by the General Assem-