Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-02-28
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IL wou'o oo an lrksono task to cnumorato
all tho accounts rendered for repairs on
committee rooms. 1t is sufficient to saw
that they amounted to thousands of dollars
annually, whom it is wolt known fact that
nttor the State House was fitted up not a
committee room was repaired. SEQ evidence
OF Robert Scriven and others, who state
that they were in constant attendance and
that no work was dope, except placing the
two wooden partitions. No transaction was
allowed to pass without paying tribute to the
inordinate greed which characterized the
majority of the members.
"sTATIoNERY.
Mr.. W0odruffs evidence on this subject
is follows. "During Mr.. Parker's term of
office and part Of Mr.. Cardozo's up to the
time of specific appropriations, pay oortifi-
oates for "stationery," which inoludod
almost everything, aud for othor accounts,
were issued to such an extent that thew
sold on tho streets for from ten to twenty
cents on tho dollar" Tho evidence shows
that the average momber mover received
ovor ten dollars worth of stationery; but the
bills rendered and paid BY tho State in Quo
session amounted to $6S,000 for this com.
modify alone.
Clerk Jones, 10 his evidence, says: "Sta-
tionary included refreshments, dry goods,
groceries, carpets, furniture, horses and
carriages, and miscellaneous articles of mer.
chandise, and the names used in the
accounts were
GENERALLY MYTHS.
To further illustrate the frauds committed
under this head, we refer to vouchers in
evidence Of a. 0. Jones, designated as
Nos. st, 53 and 81 amounting 10 the ag-
gregate to $3,6 ,666. Mr.. Jones says: cit is
asserted that these accounts were for books
and fine stationery furnished the members"
Attention is called to accounts numbered
from lG2 to ID, inclusive, whoie it will be
seen that in January alone one firm fur
nished 6,683.29 worth of f'stationery," or
moro than fifty dollars worth per month to
cach member. In addition to the above,
the accounts of Mossrs. Bryan & MoCarter
and Mr.. Stokes, we'll known dealers, who
reside in Columbia, and who furnished
stationery to the House and Senate, are
itomized, and from appearances, include
most of the stationery actually used.
Clerk Woodruff says (and the vouchers
proveiD that during one session oaoh Sena.
tor received copy Of
wEBsrER's UNABRIDGED
cost s25.
The accounts of the Western Union Telc
graph Company, together with Mr.. Wood
ruff's evidence, will show that even the
private kilograms of tho Senators were paid
for by tho State
According to evidence and accounts, the
Senate often used $40 worth of postage
stamps per day. Gold pens at $40; ink
stands at S25; Webster's Dictionary aud
fine stationary certainly afforded our estates.
men" every facility for an extensive CORES.
pondenoo
Wo cannot refrain from commenting upon
tho largo accounts of Mr.. Isaao Sulzbachcr,
well known jeweler Of Columbia; aud call
especial attention to the auoounts designated
as "No. 81" and "B s." mentioned in
Woodruff's evidence where jcwelry was
furnished to Senators Whittemore, Max-
we'll, Hayno, Rev. Wm. Johnston and
Representative Tim Hurley. lie also fur
nished fne gold pens costing as high as $40
apiece; and judging from the bills rendered
from five to ten pocket knives to each mem
bcr during the session.
The accounts of Mr.. Hayden, "a jewcler
Of Charleston) designated A l, by Wood
ruff, clearly demonstrates the mannor in
which bills we're raised, the amount being
for Eve call bells, $l2, and raised to SIP
by inserting the figure one D. We quote
from Mr. Woodruff's diary in reference to
on account of Mr.. Hayden for watch for
Senator Whittemore: "W edncsday, January
Is, 1873, collected certificate for S945, aud
paid Hayden for Whittemore's watch.
GRACIOUS GOODNESS!
Whittcmoro must have somewhere about
ten thousand dollars this sossi,n. That
ought to be satisfactory. lie is always,
though, after one more."
1t has long been mystery to tho uninitiated
where the matohless diamonds which flashed
their rays of light in the halls of the Capi.
tol, the snowy watch chains and expensive
watches came from; but an inspection of
Mr.. Sulzbaoher's accounts and those of a
similar nature, will reveal the startling fact
that they were furnished by an impoverished
State.
We submit portion Of Mr.. Sulzbachor's
account for
REPAIRING CLOCKS
Nos. 253 and 262, and referred to in A. O..
Jones's evidence, which will show tho
amount to be several hundred dollars. Mr..
Glaze, another jeweler of Columbia, has
several accounts, some of which are desig.
mated as Nos. 81, 62 and 63, by A. o.
Jones. Instead of jowolry We now have
gorgeous military trappings for our legisla-
tive heroes, who belonged to we'll equipped
but badly organized militia. These
amounted to something over twcnty-ono
hundred dollars. In connection with these
accounts, see evidence of y. Simkins, (undcr