The weekly clarion., 1873-04-03
Campbell and c. A. Brougher at the bar,


!! As LAWYERS:
which of the two had the most experience
+ and which Of the two IS regarded as th'
+ ablest and most learned lawyer; if yoU
/ answer that Judge Campbell Is more dis
+ tinguished and more able a. a learned at
/ torney than Mr.. Brougher, please state why
+ lt was that You employed Mr.. Brougher Al
/ twice the sum you paid Campbell; state, il
you had reason to believe that he could eX-
erclse more than ordinary influence in re-
/ moving the objections TO the issuance of the
warrants. and ii that was the reason for
paving him the largest fee. Please answer
this interrogatory in all its bearings fully
and particularly.
A. | was not acquainted with Judge
Campbell. and of my own knowledge know
! nothing of his ability a lawyer; and in
| the employment of Judge Campbell, acted
on the advice of Col. Hardee. l did not
employ Col. Brougher on account of his
legal ability, but done so because | thought
he
COULD HAVE INFLUENCE
with the Attorney General. Mr.. Brougher
had been a citizen of Ripley, and knew the
desperate condition in which we were
placed. aud | expected him TO make all these
facts known to the Attorney General. |
agreed to pay the two thousand dollars only
on condition that the warrants should be
obtained.
O. If you state that the Attorney General
had grave doubts as TO the constitutionality
of the Subsidy Act, state, if you please, ii
you employed Col. G. A. Brougher as AN
able constitutional lawyer, or did you EN-
ploy him because he was law partner of
Attorney General Morris?
{ A. ! thought that Mr.. Brougher, being
- PARTNER
Of the Attorney General. could have some
influence in procuring the warrants, and
consequently employed him.
u. Please state what fees YOU paid. If aUy.
you regarded as illegitimate?
A. do not regard any of the fees paid
lawyers as iliegitimate.
Q. When YOU found that the Auditor was
not permitted to issue the warrants to your
railroad, did you or not believe that you
We're to be
BLACK-MAILED,
and was or not your financial condition as |
President, such as to force you to submit to /
heavy and serious loss, and did you or not /
expend through Capt. Hardee, large sum /
of money besides the $1,000 paid Campbell /
and Brougher?
A. | was under great pecuniary trouble /
when | went after the warrants, and was
forced to submit to such terms rs was deem
ed necessary to get them. | have various
and different kinds of thoughts passing |
through my mind as to the motives which /
actuated the officers, but cannot say that | I
have any fixed and definite opinion as TO
their motives. | did spend considerable
,um of money through Col. Hardee, in adj
1ition to the amount paid Brcugher and
Campbell.
O. Please state. rs near as you can, what
t cost you. as President of the Railroad
Company, to get the warrants issued that
we're due your road, agreeably TO the terms
If the act?
\. 1t cost me about
SIX THOUSAND
lollars to get the warrants issued
n ...-k.,r IL 1 Il.
suggest 10 any person or per
0ns, that the Attorney General could be
approached directly or through other per-
on or persons. and his opinion modified or
ntluenced with money. and was or not that
'Our object in the disbursements made bV I
1oI. Hartlee aul the fee paid Col. Brougher: /:
Answer fully and particularly.
A. | do not remember of doing so don't
hnk | did. ,
Q. State whether or not, whilst you were
L Jackson, and pending the issuance ofthe
you saw. or read, or heard read
IN opinion Of the Attorney General in re-
gard 10 the constitutionality OF the Subsidy
Act, and if such an opinion held that the
lct unconstitutional. state ali you
know about said opinion.
a, The Attorney General handed me a
written document or brief, with many ref
Tences 10 points of law. which he Informed
ne was his opinion as TO the subsidy Act.
Hhc points made in the brief or opinion
vent to sustain the eopinion which had been
previously expressed to me by the Attor-
.ey General. / do not know what was done
With those documents. This document is
lot the one upon which the warrants were
ssued.
@. Did Col. Brougher ever intimate that
le could render you any assistance in the
natter, except in a legitimate way?
A. He did not. | approached him, and
OFFERED HIM $4,000
o get the warrants. He promised to do all
le could.
@. Did any other person in whose hands
vou placed money. intimate that any State
'fficer could be influenced by it?
A. They did not.
Q. Did Col. Hardee account to you for
unds placed in his hands, or tell to whom
lie had paid them?
A. He did not tell to whom he had paid
t. He returned to me "A small sum-a.:: cunt
not remembered.
Q. Did you pay money to any one else
besides Hardee, Campbell and Brougher?
A. | paid some small sums, such as eX-
1enseS. of Major Wicks, and others.
q. Were you ever told or led To believe.
BY any one in whose hands Jou placed
unGs that any part of the money was used
lirectly or indirectly for the benefit of any
State official?
A. l was not directly told that the money
vas paid to any State official | supposed it
vas paid to attorneys.
@. Have you any reasonable grounds for
that any State official was bene-
tilted directly or indirectly by any fees you
)aid if SO, state your reasons for such be-
ief?
A. / have no fixed belief as to what was
lone with all the money, but | supposed
hat as | have given the facts connected
with the transaction; it would be improper
or me TO state what impression these facts
make on my mind.
And further this deponent saith not
w. {. FALKNER.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
10th day of March, 1873.
Ii. NJ. STREET.
Member Investigating Committee.
Important COmmumfc fcaGiOn from
Distinguished Engineer.