The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-17

endorsed by }. Z. Richard
son to orderofJ. Crawford
Nelson, aud endorsed in
blank by J. Crawford Neil -. 49,
son. ,UUU w
| ~ Draft, March 2. 1887, to Or
der of J. G. Nelson, en-
dorsed by J. C. NeiIson-... sol 10
( 81 Draft, March 2, 1887, to
order of. G. Knipp & Bro,
- and endorsed by J. G.
Knipp & Bro-."........-..... $40 70
Total. ,S7l IS
The only remaining item pointed out
by Governor TillmsD as being without
vouchers is the above stated item:
| az October 81, 1885, J. P.
Richardson, no voucher...$ l9S ~
This amount was drawn by me and
expended by me personally in the city
OF Columbia in the purchase at differ
ent places of sundry articles for the Ex-
ecutive Mansion. All the bills making
up this amount were receipted and
were filed as vouchers in the Comp
troiler Generals Office and should be
there now. The articles purchased
were left in the Executive Mansion
and are now, I presume, in the use of
Governor Till;nan and his family. Ny
private secretary. Mr.. w. E. Gonzales,
has furnished me with his affidavit to
the effect that his attention was par
ticularly called to those vouchers by
his predecessor. Mr.. L. r. Chaza!, and
that he filed them with the Comp
troller General.
AFFIDAVIT OF W. E. GONZALES.
State of South Carolina, County Of
Richland: Personally comes w. E.
Gonzales, who, being duly sworn, says
that he succeeded L. r. Chazal IS pri-
vste secretary to Governor John P.
Richardson. That among the papers
turned over to this deponent by the
said L. r. Chazai, pertaining to the
Governors Office, were vouchers for
$19S 40, moneys expended by Governor
Richardson for the Executive Mansion.
That the said L. r. Chazsl called this
depopenG's attention especially to these
vouchers. stating to him that they
were the paid bills for q warrant that
Governor Richardson had drawn 10
settle up all claims against the Execu-
tive Mansion fund; that all other voueh-
ers pertaining to the appropriation for
the furnishing of,the Executive Man
sion had been fled with the Comp
troller General by him, and he, the
said L. r. ChazaI, asked this deponent
to- file these vouchers for the sai0
$l9S 4Qwith the Comptroller General.
That this deponent did file the said
vouchers in the Comptreller Generals
Office. w. e. GONZALES.
Sworn to before me this End day of
August, 1882. J. G. MARsEALL,
Notary Public.
ALI the. papers aud documents re-
ferred to above have been placed by
me in the Office of the Clerk of the
Court for Richland County for public
inspection. -.--. ~. 49,
WHY THE MANSION NEEDED REPAIR.
There is one other fact to which I
would briefly call sttentioa-the con-
dition of the Executive Mansion when
Twas inaugurated Governor and the
circumstances under which the various
appropriations for its repair, furnish
ing, lighting, ETC., were made.
It had been rendered almost unin-
habitable by the damages consequent
upon the earthquake of 1885, so much
so that had decided not to occupy it,
as its condition would likely render it
precarious to health. Without any
solicitation or suggestion on my part,
however, at the session Of that year
the committee on public buildings,
whose chairman was DR.. George E.
Dean, of Spartanburg, made an exam.
ination of the Mansion and reported
| its condition to the House, with the
recommendation that sufficient ap-
preparation be made for its thorough
ref ting, repair, furnishing, lighting,
| ETC., which was promptly adopted by
| the Legislature, and contrary to my
wish the whole sum and its .expendi-
lures was placed under the sole control
Of the Governor, to- whose order was
made payable.
The dutytkds imposed by Legisla.
tvs Sct had to discharge to the best
| Of my ability. AS I remember, with
out the record beng before me, the
| first appropriation was $500, the Sec
ond 81 500, the third $3.50 and the fourth
similar amount, I think-thus dis
! tributing the whole amount for these
| varied and costly purposes through the
| four years of my Administration. The
| result was that, instead of finding a
| much dilapidated house almost bare Of
everything, Governor Tillman could
on the day of his inauguration have
dined at the Mansion in all the COM
fort afforded by eonpletely-furnished
establishment, in excellent order, by
simply taking his servants and proVi-
siops with him.
JUST LIKE TILLMAN.
Governor Till:nan's attack upon me
is characteristic of the man and his
disreputable methods Itis utterly in
excusable. It is not the result Of an
honest mistake into which he has
fallen. He is a man in public life, fs-
milisr with the course OF official busi-
ness, and presumably, to say the least,
acquainted with those laws of the State
regulating the conduct Of the Execu-