The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-24

VIZ! ':!:' :'itt 81 l!.f' ti''iitt~Sl''!l, ana
with tn" limitations .'h"N' "Xrr""s"d j
haze signed myself as rvspunSihl"
m"mh"r "f tn" commission
X. II. Jennings
Under the resolution passed by the
rnncrn assembly of south Caroline.
hous- commission 10 file such state
nnntS as th"N respectively desired -
MAKE" submit the following:
That in the election OF architect 10
max" lluns ANA specifications for the
cOmUlrtion Oi III" work on the state
hnuS. | did not VOTE pr Mr. Mi!bur'
for REASONS sntisfaotnr% 10 myself. In
IL" acceptance for tn" completion Nc
Iiyam-l'nkrtrr 80. "HS IT," only on"
hat came within III" limits -! the ap-
preparation. and II resolved i's"li mt"
tho acrcpthn'" Ut 10" sam" ~ post
pou"Incnt al n" VuIk until the pro-
visions should l." MAI" by til" stat"
Legislature. When | went out Of oilic"
as stat" treasurer nay connection WITH
tn" commission "raScl ana ! am III nn
way r..SI,Onsiil" for the completion or
acr.,taIic" "t the work az the "oI!-
tractor. | did no; pretend 10 hay" any
knOWl"dg. Of architecture. and could
therefore have easily ."-rn imposed
upon as To the beauty aIh thr finish o!
, the architecture.
Very respectfully submitted.
W. n. Zimmerman.
f.NIIIHIT a.
} Personally appeared q. duncan !'cl-
/ lingcr. whr being duly sworn. says.
rhut IN tn" lat" fall Of the year 1903,
4 uunn casually meeting the Hon j. ..
Patterson. Il member of the joint in
y.siirating committee. ana Hstrrtain-
ing accidentally from him that he had
just returned from Columbia where
ne had been In nttenduncc upon said
committee. ! asked him II the com
mission would be accorded q hearing
b"furr his committee. In reply to this
MIR. Patterson stated that MIR. Aldri"h
; WAS tn" chairman OF the 'oinilitt'"
and advised me that il such request
WAS I,:adr uf tn" chairman ii would
? be granted Drponrnl referred tn rnn-
sons mutually known I" him and to
! Mr.. Patterson why such request would
h" unpleasant {" d"pon"nt. upon which
Mr.. Patterson assured III" tina I
hr would himself notify the chair
man Of the desire nf the members Of
( the commission To- b,. heard This CON
i vrrsatinn occurred in the town Of
Hnrnwrl on Il Saturday night. within
80 feet Of tn" pn!ing of Mr.. l'Hiters"ns
+; front yard.
| Subsequently nnl before the nrcns
( ion next To ln' referred To in ihr same
/ town. and near the same lncali,y. !
! recalled 10 Mr.. Patterson our previous
! conversation ai.l asked him il the
right which we had demanded would
be accorded tn uS. ana he assured me
! to the chairman on tn" subject and the
| probability was that Tn" illness from
! which Mr.. Aldrich WAS then suffering
was the reason why I. ana Other mem-
hers of the commission had not been
notified. / again impressed upon him
that this request was made on behalf
| of all nf the members of the commits
sion.
! These are the occasions to which
referred in tn" communications which
| recently published concerning this
request made upon Mr.. Patterson. AMI
at that time J had LO reference to any
other; but his published statement.
said to have been in defense of his
conduct, while explaining upon the
floor OF the house Of representatives.
the injustice done by his committee
to members Of our commission reca He'd
10 III" another and third occasion when
this demand for justice was repeated.
In the city OF Columbia, on the night
Of the nth Of December. just passed.
one Of my pnriners. the Hon. l.. w.
Haskell wi5 * a member III the iiG;:"&
of representatives., and myself went by
appointment to the Columbia hotel to
meet some clients from the city of
Augusta. with whom we conferred un-
til about II o'clock. After this confer
ence and when about to leave the hotel
; uuestcd us to go to his room, AS he
would hnve to sit up To catch n late
train While in this gentleman's room
the subject Of the Investigating COM
mi'tce arose and learned accidentally
that n meeting Of this committee had
been very recently held. Becoming
thus convinced that the promised hear
Ing wns in fair way never 10 be ac-
corded To us. l most earnestly nttemp-
ted to Impress him with the detcrmin-
alton on the pnrt Of some of uS to
appeal to the legislature were we so
unfairly treated as not to be accorded
an opportunity to be heard. Again l
received empty promises und vain as
surances. A very recent conversation
with Mr.. Haskell warrants me in the
assertion that he was present and re-
calls that the request was most earn
estly made
G. Duncan Bellinger
Sworn to before me this. 18th day OF
FEBRUARY. 1904. J. II. CAN'T.
Notary Public. S. G.
i EXHIBIT r.
State of South Carn!!na--County of
Richland.
Personally appeared w. J. johnson.
Wh" being duly sworn. says that dur
Ing the present session of the legisla-
turc the depOnent had an intimut ution
. that the commission for the compile
tion of the State house were going to
be. severely criticised by the committee
, appointed TO Investigate the several
|
, deronent Immediately looked up Repre-
sentative Rawlinson, who was a MEM
l ner OF the investigating committee. and
INFORMED him OF what deponent had
heard. and further Informed him that
3 II the reports Of severe nrraignment
or criticism We're true that the COM
mission had Il right to be heard, and
that an opportunity should be given
them. That Representative Rawlin-
son assured deyonrnt that there was
nothlnS III the ru,rnr and that the COM
MISSION would not he harshly criticis-
ed ana that his committee had not
fully made up its report: thnt they
would have another meeting and nil
the members OF the old commission
could be heard: further stated thut It
was his impression that all the mem
bers OF the commission had been IN
vted to attend their meetings; de-
ponent Informed him that none Of the
members of the commission had been
invited to any Of the meetings 80 far as
dcDOnent knew. certainly deDoncnt
. had not been.
w. j. Johnson.