Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-19

Balance to credit OF state, 800 90
Amount of work done after, Sl,24O 70
Credit by balance, 400 90
Balance due A. J. Cameron, $40 u
In Dec. 3ist, 1879. advance, $1,000 90
For work done legitimately, l,24O az
A. J. Cameron is in debt to State
of Maine, overdrawn, &759 %
The fact is Mr.. Cameron had the States
money in his hands he had been made the
repository of $1,000; he did not want to
release his grasp upon it, hence his deviation
from the straight path OF rectitude. You
will bear in mind Mr.. Cameron got his pay
in 1879, for binC ing l0. .067 Oft the Agricultural
Reports, and for 5000 of the Abstracts or
Society reports, which should have been
included in the Agricultural reports, but was
not, and he now comes before the House and
asks YOU to pay him for them again. But in
this paper hold in my hand, in the evidence
he introduced before your committee, and be-
fore the Council, you find that he does not
claim pay for stitching and binding these
abstracts. He tried to deceive. He con-
cealed the truth in his subtle and blind state
ments, and claimed that the SS40.77 was
balance due for legitimate work of 1879 or in
other words, q part of the Sl09l.55 which
was for work of 1879 though done in 1880
Yet he tells you now in your seats, Finding
that his former statements and written
problems have proved fatal and Intellectual to
HIM as understand from many members OF
the House, that he wants his pay for binding
the abstracts, saying he has never been paid
for them. He not only has received his pay
for them. but they have never been delivered
or offered to be delivered to any officer of the
State. if he is to be believed.
But in his testimony, figures and state
ment of facts filed in the case he claims, not
pay for them (the Abstracts, but for balance
of good and honest labor which he actually
performed. taking and appropriating to him
self the $1,000 and giving no account of it to
any one except in the manner stated.
Now, then, you have here his printed state
ment as part of the minority report and which
you all have before you, which Mr.. Cameron
made. But when the committee made their
| report there was an entirely different state
ment from this among the papers presented
by Mr.. Cameron. | took copy of that
statement, there was no other with the pa
pers, and was astonished when that printed
| statement was placed upon my desk and
| found it so different from the first. 1t looked
as though it was prepared to meet the present
emergency and some important facts were
admitted therein that did not appear in the
| first statement.
In court of justice, when a man surrep-
| ti.iousiy substitutes report for one already
| in the case, or abstracts an important paper
\ from it or changes any material facts in the
case bearing upon its merits unknown to the
opposite side, we should characterize it by a
| very harsh name, and that man would be
worthy of expulsion from the bar of the
court
think I have already presented enough
| to show the crookedness of this whole matter,
and the injustice of this claim. will how
ever call your attention to one or two facts
shown here in this paper. Ard if you should
examine it yourselves, Il believe the original
is now on file) you will find that almost
every word and figure it contains is intended
to deceive. to blind and befog this whole case.
You will find that he has included in his
arithmetic stitching and binding for the last
eight years and by divers different persons,
he having no connection with it. and so mix
ing up the figures that it would puzzle the
most sstate mathematician to solve the prob
lem.
What has al this to do with his claim for