The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-28

w cEAttS, C8pteS, WaSnEtanQS ana Ged-
room sets. Some Of the rooms thus firn-
ished were occupied by w. J. Whiyper,
W. ii. Jones and James A. Bowley. He
does not know what became Of the furu-
iture, but endeavored TO collect It, and
was told by j. B. Dennis, James A. Bow
ley, Benjamin Byas and Charles Minorl
that be had nothing to do with 1t; con.
sequently he troubled himself no mere
about it. He says the rooms over the
South Caroline Bank and Trust Company
were furnished also, and Were occupied
by Senator Y. j. p. Owens, T. Hurley
and w. H. Gardiner, and that he also
furnished Speaker Lees room and
OTHER PRIVATE RooMs
at the boarding houses of members r ;sh
line carpets, stoyos and other furniture,
and that they were claimed as committee
rooms. He says: ~ cannot undertake
to explain the accounts of Mr.. Berry. /
know that large quantities of furniture
were furnished by him every session. and
that as coon as the General Assembly
adjourned IL disappeared, and l was COM
PEELED, 'nder the order of the Speaker,
or some committee chairman, to refurniah
all the rooms IS coon as the Legislature
49, @~~~~O eoSAAoI nhaE, NGI0
OUTSIDE OF aHE CAPITOL
building, and he believes the furniture
was stolen by thosc who hao charge OF
w. X. Greenfield testified that the
rooms he rented were newly, thoroughly
and, in some instances, most extraya-
gantly furnished every fall, about the
time the General Assembly convened,
and that the furniture was removed by
different persons, and not by regular
dealers, and looked as if it was being
divided Up among them that no rented rented
the rooms with the understanding that
they were for public business, but they
may have been used otherwise, and that
ne was generally paid for them with leg
islative pay certificates.
JOHN B. DENNIS
testifies that he purchased furniture for
forty rooms, including the offices of the
Governor, Attorney General Comptroller
General, and tho Hall of the House of
Representatives. His evidence proves
most ,conclusively that q majo:ity of the
members OF the House combined against
the persons who furnished these goods
and demanded to be paid for voting for
the claim. The. bills were more than
doubled and certificates issue. for them.
The New acrk firms and Mr.. Berry re-.
ceived only the amounts due on their ac-
counts. BENZ. Byas, chairman of the
committee. who; reported fayorably on
the raised claim, received pay certifi-
cate TO the amount of S12,319.5O-the
remainder was divided between
FIFTY OTHER MEMBERS,
as follows: w. r. Jervey had 92,lO0,
which he was to divide between himself
I. A. Davis, w. @. Glover, J. J. Hardy.
2. p. Hedges, Abram Smith, J. w. Lloyd,
j. A. Bowley and Orlando Levy, all
members ff0in Charleston County County, except
Bowley, who represented Georgetown
County. 'taa '%i..s
Humbert, of Darlington, received q
certificate Of an even
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS,
which he was to divide between himself.
Alfred Hart, S. j. Keith, 8. Sanders, j..
Long, Frank -Adamson, John F. Hender-
son, Hastings CAN'T, r. Tarletou and
Fortune Giles.
Asbury L. Singleton, of Sumter, re-.
ceived certificate for $l,150, to divide
between himself, y. Cain, II. @. Corwin,
=: Ferguson, r. Gather, 8. Carey, A. 8.
Holmes, Barney Humphries, s. Melton,
VIM. Littlefield, j. P. Singleton, Alfred
Moore, +, nj. Sumpfer and J. Warlev.
H. H. HUNTER,
from Charleston, demanded and received
for himself g certificate for $3.50; J. n.
White received certificate for, $3.50 for
himself; w. F.. O. Gardener one for
81 800; w. j. Whipper one Tor $3, 900 !;
B. @. Yocum one for 81 900; "a. o. Jones
one for $1,000; W.. II. Jones one for
81 600; Joe Crews one for $4,000; Law
renee Cain one for $500, which witness
says he bought from Cain afterwards, and
Cain, in his evidence, admits receiving O
email consideration on account of this
matter; p. J. O'Connell received one for
81 900; B. A. Nerland one for 500; O..
S. Andeii, one for $500; D. T. Berry one
for 800; j. D. Boston one for $3.50 !;
VIM. Dannerly one for $50; Mitchell
Goggins one for $100; 8. j. Keith one
for $i00; VIM. Kennedy one for $100.
f. j. MOSES
had one certificate for $1,000, and does
not know how many more or exactly the
amounts.
We have not lowing to the waas Of
utuOl elo(Skt<SiiCQ WIN COltSCUCu Sll sQ0
certificates referred to above, but find
that B. Byas, B. G. Yocum and T. Hurley
collected theirs, and that the FIVE thou
sand dollar certificate given to Moses was
exchanged for State Treasurer's duo
bill for that amount. Accounts Nos. 8S.
"a, 80 and 35 refer to this claiin, and are
referred to in "a. O. Jones' evidence,
when the hevouchers prove that more than
I1T nm 0srycp ol ol1nSr-aA oa sr%to
for seventeen months. Most of the GER
tificates thus issued are in the Treaanrer,a
Office, and have been paid, but they do
not bear the endorsement of either OF, the
firms named in them, to Wit: Nicol, Da-
vidson & Co., or Stewart, sutphen & CO.
g Gen. Dennis says that more than $12,-
between Speaker Moses, Clerk A. O..
Jones, Niles G. Parker, Tim Hurley and
himself. -
Your committee find that q large por.
ton of the fraudulent certificates issued
to pay the difference between the leeiti-
mate amount due for furniture and the
amount for which it was raised have been
paid. FG
WHAT Is LEFT.
After q careful examination of the
furniture in the State House by General
Dennis, nc amrms Lnap tnerc il nor ieft
there moro than one.half Of what was
purchased, and very few of the clocks,
which were Of the finest quality, costing
from $3.50 to $500 each, and that out OF
several mirrors which cost 5000 each,
only one remains.
From the report marked No.73, "Ex-
hibit A." TO which we referred in the
evidence of A.. o. Jones, 1t appears that
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