The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-21

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age of other bills which he was interested
in, to wit: The Sterling loan bill, the
bill to authorize the financial agent tc
pledge bonds for State loans, the Sinking
Fund bill, bill for payment interest in
gold, and bill to issue bonds for the relief
of the treasury. ] know, also, that he
paid out of the proceeds, of the sale of the
Stass bonds the money for share and 9
half, as it was called, of Greenrille and
Columbia Railroad stock; share, in.
cluding assessment of $4,000 Immediately
payable, being $4,000. This was fol
Neagle. Another share was for Joe
Crews, chairman of committee on rsil-
roads in House of Representatives. also
Sone-foGrth share, being $1,000, for Gar
dozo, which, however, Kimpton subse-
auently took for himself, as he did Crews :.
BE also paid for two or two ard q half
shares for Geo. w. Waterman for Gov
5ernor Scott of like value. He paid for
two shares of like value for himself, and
so far as I know and believe he paid for
one-half share for d. 81. Chamberlain, OF
the value of $4,000. I paid for one of
them myself. 1t was understood by
lzimptori and the financial board that the
amount of these expenditures and many
others should be realized from State
bonds, and covered by the difference be-
tween, the actual amounts for which the
bonds were sold by Kmpton, and the
amount which he should report that ne
had sold them fol-. G. P. Leslie had q
share paid for In the same manner, which
he afterwards sold to Kimpton for $685.
600 cash.
Kimpton also advanced money out OF
the proceeds of the State bonds to assist
the Greenville and, Columbia Railroad,
hut I think he held second mortgage
bonds of said company as coiiaterai seco-
rlty for Al! the advances ne maze a. iGp n,,. ..
RIDGE Railroad Compaay about $500, 900
ontof the proceeds of the State bonds /;
these advances were made BY, witness
adyice and consent of the financial board;
$500 600 of the bonds of said company
were placed in his (Kimpton's) hands as
collateral. but he always reported that
he could not pledge them for any money,
and that he never raised any money on
them, nor did we ever know that he had
pledged them until after the passage of
The Blue Ridge scrip bill; then, when it
became necessary that we should have
them to turn into the treasury, Kimpton
renorted that thew were pledged. He
oIso aSvanced ont of the proceeds of State
bnnds Nm hy and with the consent of the
f,anc;ai hoard money. used for the land
commission: also balance claimed by.
him as due on the sinking fund account !;
also expenses of the high joint commits
sion; also what Was known as State arms
account, on the order of Governor Scott,
but without the direction of the financial
hoard.
rurr.xpAvpps, CONVENTION.
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Question. In anticipation OF that Con
yention OF 1871 was there any Preoe,
termin alton on the part of the financial
board and agent to mislead and deceive
the Convention in relation to the State
debt?
Answer. There was.
@. What was done?
a. We agreed to conceal the 1acts OF
the issue OF tho conversion ponds, 70
make the issue o. otnet Donos as slnaii %
possible. With this latter view We rep
resented to the committee OF the lax.
payers Convention that the S9O0,000 OF
bonds had been redeemed from pledge In
New York and returned here for the pur-
pose, of retiring, and should be no longer
considered q part of the public debt.
@. Was it With view to carrying out
that purpose that g. committee of the
Taxpayers Convention was invited to a
conference with the State officers and ex-
animation of the State Offices? a.4
A. It was.
O. Where was the conference held?
A. think in Gov. Scott's Office. Sub
sequently committee examined my
Office and the Comptroller Generals
Office.
@. In the conference IN the Governors
Office, who represented the executive de-
partment, and what representations were
made by him or any other persons to
that committee?
&. Gov. Scott, and he told them that
no other bonds were outstanding except
those represented by statement there
and then exhibited, schich 'oa' prepared
by Chamberlain, the Attorney General,
for that occasion; ana, II tnere were any
other bonds cut, GoV; scots salo. ne . .9io
not know anyen2ng apou' Guem tas. aau .uas .h:
he signed none others. just after the
conference broke up, Gov. scott came
into my Office and | upbraided him Tor
telling such direct lie to that commit
tee, VIXEN he knew that very soon the
fact must be made public that he had
signed millions of other bonds and that
thew were in the market. The statement
referred to as prepared by Mr.. Chamber
lain suppressed all information as to the
Conversion bonds which had been issued
and were then OUT, amounting W aoou1
s5,0OO,O 900 or more. The statement was
prepared in my office by chamberlain,
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