The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-01-30

ssgraft'' account, sale of stock, sup
plies, etc., to be $401,105.82. Deduct
ing from this amount the cash on
hand or received shortly after the Or
eanization of the former commission,
and the interest received, We find that
the net result Of all the cash realized
from the sale of the assets of the State
dispensary, graft account, oVerjudg-
nents, etc., has amounted to only
s131,583.92, the said amounts deducted
not being realized from the sale of as
sets, but was already on hand or earn
ed as interest on deposits.
Exhibit 'C'' is a statement Of the
disbursements of the fcrmer commits
sion.
According to the report Of the
American Audit company, there was
due to distilleries, liquor dealers,
brewers, breweries and for supplies,
s737,5e243.
The former commission paid on this
account in cash, as shown b. this ex-
hibit, $38S,640.23 to liquor dealers, $15,-
5O6.34 for supplies, and sold to or re-
turned Whiskey to dealers valued at
s124,161.63, making a total of $685.
308.20.
We find that the reports Of the for
mer commission show that $151, 1,685.93
was received on the graft account,
and that $13,292.O3 was refunded to
those who had paid it, leaving as the
net amount collected and turned over
to the former commission from that
source s13S,se3.9O.
Fifty-one thousand, one hundred
and seventy-four dollars and forty
cents was deducted from the amounts
Of claims due by the State dispensary
on account of oTercharges on those
claims, and s122,297.72 was deducted
from the same claims on account of
overiudgments found against the
claimants in the matter of old and
prior sales made to the State dispen-
sary, as is shown by settlement vouch-
er No. 8S1, of Anderson, Fielder, Roun-
tree & Wilson. Adding these three
last items together, we find that the
entire and gross amount recovered for
the State on account of graft" and
reductions of accounts amounted to
,S66.02, plus S23,013.75, amount of
claim of Carolina Glass company,
making a total of s334,879:77. The ex-
penses of the former commission, as
shown in Exhibit c." amounted to
$28O,981.83. Among these expenses,
as shown by the reports, resolutions
and books of the former commission,
there was paid as attorneys fees and
expenses and detective services $751;
1887, and in addition to this amount
$4,000 of this fund has been appro-
priated and placed at the disposal of
the attorney general by the general
assembly for the prosecution of viola
tors of the dispensary law, making the
total for attorneys fees, expenses and
detective service to be S196, 1887. OF
this amount it appears that the firm
of Anderson, Fielder, Rountree & Will
son received from the commission and
retained from collections made by
them as fees for their services the
sum of s145,338.29, of which $780,
e83:43 was paid by the commission in
cash and the balance, s20,254.S6, was
withheld and retained by them as fees
and commissions On amounts collected
by them.
It appears that some part of the
amounts paid to attorneys other than
Anderson, Fielder, Rountree & Wilson
we're afterwards collected from the Ii
cuor houses engaged in the litigation
in the United States court, by certain
amounts being deducted by the former
commission from the claims due these
liquor houses by the State, but we
have been unable to find anything in
the books or records of the former
commission that would show what
portion of these amounts was for at
torneys' fees and expenses and what
portion was for costs and disburse-
ments properly allowable and taxa
BILE in the United States Courts against
the liquor houses. It appears to us
that, under the terms of the contract
with Anderson, Fielder, Rountree &
Wilson ( cony of which contract is