The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-10-13
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leeD!2 IS can e22s.rS 20 your honor.
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as iaise ard UTjSGe, AID speak 10.
a.y colleagues IS vel! IS YnvSsii, taat
he charges OF conspiracy between ths
officers OF the Safe III South Carolina
are absolutsly ard u. qaai:fieCly false
state tc your honor now, as have
alaays stated, that the ttfi-eg CT the
Stale h2Ve endaagcr-d IN every in
s;atce in these proceedings to ebay
every order issued by this honorabI
court, aud If this man VINO makes the
charge against Us Of conspiracy and
financial irreSponsibili:y, to which ne
Swears, II ne mas in MS POSSESSION Any
proof, l ask your honor to force bim
to produce it at once in open court, or
hereafter stand toe consequences OF
false Swearing.
On behalf OF myself and the other
gentlemen who stand b2fora this court
l ask permission to make al immedi
ate returG. st the earliest possible mo
ment, and that your honor will At
once grant to Us right 20 clear our
selves of the charges that r-i-ct
against all of Us as ciiicers and as in
GlvjGual citiZ9ns CT the State.
Now l haze Gaugh: to say which |
truS! the f&cts would not entirely sus.
tain, nor would state anything upon
mere suspicion bat there IS now pend
ing proceeding IN the Unlted States
court OF Georgia, Instituted by the
same complainants as IN this case, ln
which it is sworn that there is con-
spiracy between the governor Of the
State Of South Carolina and the South
ern railway to suppress what they say
is their legal business. l think they
magnify their importance when they
suppose that the State OF South Caro-
Ina is aiming all its guns at their rum
business IL Atlanta. This bill cannot
With my consent stand upon this rec
ord, aud together with the rule issued
thereon possibly be used in the hear
inc before Judge Newman, the district
judge IN Atlanta, upon hearing there
liked fer the 9.h instant. | earnestly
ask your honor 20 hear our testimony
in open court, and | am ready to tes.
tify, and my assistant on ny lei. and
the two gentlemen on my right, who
are parties to this bill, stand ready 10
testify. We take this bill 10 be insult
ing and ats olutely untrue, and the
oath thereto IS false. We ask your
honor not to have Us forced to submit
to these things.
Upoa the conclusion OF the remarks
OF the attorney general, Mr.. Gadsden,
OF the firm OF Mordecai & Gadsden,
stated that upon the fling OF the
amendment aud supplemental bill OF
BIushenthal & Bickart against J. G.
Long and others on yesterday after
noon, that ne arranged for confer
erce between himself and the attorney
general late On Wednesday afternoon
q. the Charleston hotel. That at that
conference the question OF the charges
OF o2soiracy made in the bill was
fully discussed, and that the attorney
general mad stated fully to him the
facts and circumstances connected
with the matter. Tha. he had con.
yinced Mr. Gadsden that there had
been, as 3 matter Of fact, no precon
sideced arrangement or combination
or agreement between the State 9th
cia!s TO seize the goods Of BiCthenthal
& Bickart, and that owing to the close
personal relations which existed be.
tween Mr.. Ga3sden and the attorney
general ne Was satisfied that sucn
statement made oy the attorney gen
erai vas IN every particular correct;
and that at that interview last night
he stated to the attorney general taat
upon his statement of the t;,c!s he was
satisfied tnat the charges made IN SAID
bill were incorrect and uufounded,
ead that he would this morning move
the court to STRIFE from the bill the
names Of himself, the governor, the
assistant attorney general and MIR.
Vance; and TIA. he now begged TO
say that, having been thoroughly sat-
isded by the assurances of the attorney
general that the c2arges in said bill
we're incorrect. the complainant asked
leave - Withdraw said bill from the
& .es O! this court.