The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-07
Cost of printing per capita in Ohio
Cost of printing per capita in South
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Cost of printing per capita in South
Carolina about. ut........................... 63f
Ohio, with nearly four times the pop
ulation of South Carolina, and over nine
times the capacity to pay, obtained
| her printing for SEA, 900, whilst it cost in
free South Carolina $450,0OO. In addi-
ton to this, our comparison of the class
of printing paid for in Ohio, we find that
S27, 900 of the expenses charged was for
kind of printing not required in this
State. For further comparison ne re-
fer to paper in the evidence marked ex-
hibit "a. 81. d." in which it is shown
that there was appropriated during the
session of 1928, by this State, S17S,-
O94 more than the cost of printing in all
the thirteen Southern States for the last
fiscal year. 1t will also be seen that
there was. appropriated S9S5,OOO at the
sessions of 1S74-75 for printing in South
Carolina, making total of $685., 600
within two years, or an average of Sl45,-.
| 594 per annum over and above the cost
of printing in all the Southern States for
the past fiscal year. In proof of these
statements we append letters from off.
cials in the other Southern States, and
derive grim satisfaction from the appall-
ing figures presented from Louisiana,
rivaling her sister in calamity and put
ting to the deepest blush, even to the
shame, of Radicalism in South Carolina.
Your committee herewith submit
portion of Mr.. Woodruff's testimony
bearing5upon this subject, so that some
idea may be had of the system and re.
suits of this stupendous plundering of
the treasury Of tile State. Mr.. Woodruff
swears that he was elected Clerk of the
Senate in 1861 ]. w. Denny was then
State printer. Senators composing the
circle of friends became dissatisfied with
Mr.. Denny's close manner of conducting
business, and his failure to meet their
expectations in the division of the profits
arising from the public printing. In the
fall or winter of 1870 the Carolina Print
ing Company was organized by Messrs.
J. w. Denny, R. X. Scott, n. G. Parker,
D. Fl. Chamberlain, ]. W. Morris and L.
Cass Carpenter. This company owned
the Daily Union, of Columbia, and the
Charleston Republican. Senator Leslie
told him (Woodrufl that the "triends"
in the Senate thought that as this was
matter of Senate patronage they should
have percentage of the profits from the
printing. In order to carry out the
wishes of the "Jfriends," Mr.. Leslie pro-
posed that pay certificates for various
amounts, ranging from three to FIVE
thousand dollars, for current printing,
be drawn, and one-third or onefourth of
the amount realized be given to the
chairman of the Committee on Printing
| for. division among the friends, includ-
ing some fifteen or sixteen Senators.
This system was carried out as long as
moneys could be paid out of any sums
in the treasury not otherwise appropri-
! ated and was only checked and stopped
when the law for specific appropriations
and payments was enacted. Besides
this, Woodruff testifes that vast deal
of unofficial and dead-head work was
done by the company for outsiders,
| friends and members of the General AS
sembly; that certificates were usually
discounted at the South Carolina Bank
aud Trust Company, Of which bank Gov.
R. K. Scott, Treasurer Niles G. Parker
and Attorney General Chamberlain were
stockholders. The checks in the hands
of the committee are but portion of the
amounts paid during the. time of the
above arrangement. The money was
deposited to the credit OF the Printing
Company, and sometimes, according to
the witness, division or qualification"
checks were drawn against deposit in
the Carolina National Bank, which
checks he supposes are still held by these
| banks.
The testimony Of Woodruff, corrobor-
ated by the checks in the hands of your
ommittee, show that the following
named persons received severally the
amounts annexed to their names, under
said arrangements:
Senator Y. J. P. Owens, 5 checks,
s., 900 each.
Senator Y. J. P. Owens, check, $4,000.
Senator James M. Allen, 2 checks, $500
each, 81 900. .
| Senator James n. Allen, l check, 5000.
| Senator L. Wimbush, 1 check, $500.
| Senator l.. Winbush, l check, 5000.
Senator L. Wimbush, check, $3.50.
Representative 8. A. Rpsemon, l check,
$3.50.
Representative B. A. Bosemon, l check,
$100. 49,
Senator E. E. Dickson, 2 checks, $500
each, 5000.
Senator B. F. Whittemore, 5 checks,
$3.50.
Representative James N. Hayne,
checks, $500.
Senator J. Holliushead, l check, $50.
Senator w. B. Nash, checks, $3.50.
Senator Fl. w. Duncan, 8 checks, $3.50.
Senator r. Smals, 2 checks, $780,
Senator J. l.. Jamison, 4 checks, S375.
Senator John Wilson, J. check, S74.
Lieutenant Governor A. j. Ransier, l
check, $227.SO.
Representative ]. B. Dennis, checks,
| $3.50.
Representative w. Fl. Jones, 2 checks,
$3.50.
Representative 7. A. Davis, l check,
| $50.
Senator J, A. Green, l check, 800.
Senator S. A. Swails, 8 checks. 5000.
Representative A. L. Singleton, i check,
| $50.
Representative w. ]. Whipper, 1
check, 5000.
Senator G. P. Leslie, check, 5000;
Senator J. F. Beckman, check, S25.
Thus, before the organization of the
Republican Printing Company, fifteen
Senators and seven Representatives re-
ceived the above sums under this "di-
vision and silence" printing arrangement.
Your committee also call your atten-
ton to the evidence of Woodruff, wherein
he reveals the combination of Governor
Scott, Treasurer N. 6. Parker and
Comptroller General Neagle, whereby
| $45,0OO printing accounts were sold
to Neagfe, afterwards raised and re-
ceipted for on Treasurer's books at $780,
600! thus defrauding the State out Of
$45,O 900 at one stroke The accounts
when exhibited, contained charges for
discount on former bills, as if State
should pay a discount on raised anG