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E iTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, MAR CII 15, 1901. TWI AWElm, O A YEA SENATOR TILLMAN MAKES A STATEMEN EXPL%JNG PO%I1'ION (F MiNORIT ONi PHILIPPINES AND CUSA. Extra Spssion Would Iurt Them-Pe sonally un No.1ther Gave Nor Re. calved Pledges but Worked for Charleston. [Special to The State,] Clemson College, March 9.-Whei Senator Tillman, who is here attend ing a meeting of the Clemson boar of trustees, was asked this mornin for an interview regarding hi attitude the Senate in reference t the Cubon, Philippine and Charlestoi exposition matters, ho was dispose< to be contemptuous and indifferent saying he was -tiredo answering thi jokes and attacks of those dail: papers which had always oppose< him and whose stuff the people o the State seldom regarded seriously PorhaDs the fact that the man of h< pitchfork had not then breakfaste< had same influence on his naturallj gentle disposition. However, after refivcting that thi people of the State might want somi information the senator consented t< talk though briefly. "The question of why the Demo cratic minority did not resist th4 Cuban and Philippines amendmeni has been set forth very'clearly in th< congrestional record. It is not to b wondered at that these newspapel editors have taken the wrong view as they depand on the Associatec Press synopsis which is very mongr( necessarily, and often colored to suii the Republicans. "In a consulation among the Dem, ocratic senators there was a differenc( of opinion as to the advisability oJ filibustering.. The Philippine amend mont was altered to our satisfactior -as far as any such scheme coul be made satisfactory-by prohibiting the sale of land, lumber, mines, etc. and fordidding any. permanent fran. chises, so that carpet-baggers wh< may be sent thers to administer a so called civil government will be ver3 much hampered in their purposes to loot the islands. "So far as the Cuban amendmeni was concerneo, the minority waF hampered by the fact that our mem bers of that committee, Messrs. Mo ney and Teller, and the latter wai the author of our Cuban war pledge had acquiesced in a large measur( with the proposed legislation. The) had secured a much more moderate and satisfactory programme than had *originally been proposed by the Re. *publicans, and while no entirely *satisfactory they assured us that the Republicans in an extra sessiora where they would have a free hand would be still mere exacting in thoiu demands. "The Democrats and their alliei among the Populists and Silver Res publicans were, therefore, confronted with this situation: The next con. gross, being overwhelmingly Repub lican, with larger majorities in boti branches, could be relied on to dt Mr. McKinley's bidding, and in ad dition to carrying out the origina * programme in regard to the Philip pines and Cuba, there was almost certainty that it would have passoc the ship subsidy bill. For in addi, *tion to this a protracted filibustei causing an extra session would havi given them an excuse to change th< roles and provide for cloture. As i is, Senator Platt has introduced resolution looking~ to snch a change I think it won't he carried now, but it certainly wouldl have succeeded ii we had acted as my critics desired. "So we as a minority had to con aider whether we could ultim'itel~ resist the proposed betrayal of Cubi and exploitation of the Philippinei successfully in the extra session, ani it appeared wiser to fully expose the infamies of the two amendments ani then allow a vote. "I did what I could," Bald the sen ator concluding as the breakfast bel rang, "in a legitimate, decent way to get the oppropriation for Charles ton, and there was practically n< opposition in the senate. The op was in the house." . "I grave no ledges and receive none," continued Mr. Tillman, warm ing up a bit and putting on that fierce look of his "All of the 'hon. orable' and 'reliable' correspondents who have been quoted to prove the contrary are Republicans who are quick to flyblow Democratic senators. Their lies would not be paraded in our papers except that it is done by those who have always hated and lied on me." "Shall I say that y .u are pleased with the turn of affairs in Anderson ?" "Oh, yes. I am glad for the im pression it will make outside the 4 State, to see the brave, firm, sensible 3 attitude taken by the court and the ) jury. For a still better effect along this line I would like to have seen indictments at once handed out. We want the outside world to see and know that we are able atd wi 'ing to deal with the matter. Outside in I terference from the United States r government is ready to come in, if we fail to do our full duty in stamp ing out the infamy and punishing the wrongdoers." W. H. McCaw. Lawa That I Am Going to Pass. [Lexington Dispatch.] If I run for the House the fellow that beats me will have to get up and get for the following laws I am going to pass: The farmer that plants corn on upland closer than four or five feet in the drill, put him in the peniten iary. Any one that don't send his chil dren to school as long as there is a free school, put him to the whipping posL Any one that is not vaccinated put him in jail and vaccinate him with pure smallpox. Any farmer that does not salt his hogs once a week, put him on the cbain gang, for a hog salted once a I week will not die of the cholera. All farmers must raise corn and grain enough to do them, if they don't 1 will put them to work in a blacksmith shop. If any man does not help his wife about the house on rainy days or Sundays, he shall not have any din ner. If any lady cooks a meal of victuals and announces that it is ready, if anyone of the family does not come at once, he shall have his mouth filled with cold mush and a handkerchief tied over it to keep him fiom swal lowing it. If any person complains of hard times, put him in the penitentiary, poor house and chain gang, all three at the same time. No one has any right to complain of hard times. All bachelors over 40 years shall be hung at once. All old maids over 80 years, who have had five good chances to marry and refused them, shall be sent as missionaries to China as a punish ment for not marrying. The man that out talks his wife in a quarrel shall be shot. Any man whose wife has been dead five years and has not marrit d again shall be paid a premium for he has shown plainly to the world that he needs it by not having sense enough to marry again. Every person shall have a mileh cow, poultry, good garden, two dozen or more Japanese plum trees, for they are worth twenty five dol lars a tree, a grape arbor, pecan trees, a good peach and apple or. ehard, if he fails to have them be shall be sent to Africa. Any man that digs a well in his lot instead of near his house shall be made, draw and carry all the water bis wife needs, for he can run a trough from his well to his lot to water his stock. Any one that keeps hogs nearer than 200 yards to his dwelling house shall be made sleep with them until he dies of typhoid fever. Any one that drinks whiskey and don't put 99 per cent, of water in it shall have his stomach lined with copper before he , drnsit, so this X and XX whiskey shall not burr. out his stomach. A nice man will spend his money to make his family happy, but a fool will spend his for dispensary whiskey and let his fam ny mfer.e of the House that is guilty of eating pindars shalt be die. lodged from that body. You have my laws and platform, so help me carry them out. Yours truly, P. J Rncker, I Columbia, 8. C., Feb. 15, 1901. MUCH PLEASED WITH COLUMBIA INSTITUTIONS. WHAT TIE RV5V. MIt OiNE 1AYS OF hIl IMPRESlONs. Careful I niPp,e Ins Made of Vlo"ritable and Vorr.cinal issa,ti,alotut-W..rk in Behalf of 1Is1mtgee41t ai4 Ill. Treated Children. [The State, March (6] Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Orne, who are traveling through the country, in specting charitable and corrvectiontl institutions, in the interest of indi gent and ill-treated children, have prosecuted their "mission of mere%" faithfully during their stay in Colm bia. Upon being Hsked yesterday as to how the institutions here compared with others visited, he expressed himself emphstically: "They all rank very high, and I have fewer suggestions to make thim in most cities and counties. Of course," con tinued Mr. Orne, waxing warm over the subject so dear to his heart, "your most promising institutions tire the Epworth orphanage and Indus trial Home school. "Yes, I do believe prevention is more Christian and much cheaper than poor houses or prisons. I have been a student of sociology for 25 years, and I find that heredity and environments breed criminals-poor houses and prisons confirm them. The offspring of one abandoned girl, trac,ed through six generations, num bxred 600, and all were either crooks or criminals, insane or idiotic. "A young man married a pauper wife in 1840. In 1880 thirty of their offspring had been continual county charges, and when out of poor house or prison lived by beg ging or stealing. "A father, mother and five chil dren spent the winter of 1880 m the poor house. All are now serving sentences in penal institutions. "From 95 to 99 per cent. of our criminals (and they have increasod 75 per cent. during the past ten years, our population increasing only 21 per cent.) come from this class of children. "One hundred thousand children have fathers in prison; 2,000 person killed by mobs; 20 have been burned during the last ten years. Fourteen thousand murdered in 1899, against 1,000 in 1887, and 0,000 snicides A majority of both classes came from neglected children. Lincoln's and Garfield's assassins, and nine. tenths of 1,000,000 tramps are of this class also. "Not 5 per cent, of the 1.000 poor houses and 1,800 jails have regular religious services, more than half none at all. In places cursed with drink and contagious diseases we have found 500,000 homeless children (80,000 abandoned last year). Born by no volition of their own will, no control whatever over the first tena years of t heir existence in thbis wicked world, no choice whether they shall be trained as Christians or taught as criminals, beaten and banged about in an atmosphere of drunkenness and dishonesty, creatures of circumstances -how can their course be other than criminal ? "It is because of these things that God has sent us out to speak in thun der tones to the people that the per. petuity of our civil and Cbistian in. stitutions plead for prevention. "Children who are born and brought up in the slums are self. raised, and being self-raised, they tend to evil. We want settlements in the by-ways, and by that I mean we want to go down into the slums and teach those of the tenement houses cleanliness and godliness. W'e want to teach the children to use their hands as well as their heads. We want to place them in a position to be able to help themselves. We want to give them an opportunity to bend their inclinations to their wishes, and make of them useful citi zen. and industrious artizans. There. in lies all hope for the reformation of the street Arab and alley waif." Mr. Orne and his wife travel, and have traveled all over t he count ry, for 25 years, working as they are working in this city. While he (lees a great amount of work in all nanner. of prison reform, he and his good wife devote most of their time to elorts to inaugurate movements looking to the institution of "juvenilo courts," aLd the entire separation of juvenile prisoners from the more mature offonders. Tho juvenilo courts are courts where nothing but children are tried, and instead of being con lined in prisons with the older of. fenders are confined in soparato es tablbishmonts, tried seprately and thus onhancing the possibility of re forming them and having them brought up in the right path. 8 UTIJEIN SELEcTEI) As OFFICIAl HOtU V E For Voete'n, to i1mo O,olg to temfleIIA Rt*union artmi to tho cietkimnuga P, ork. IThe State March 11.] The Sonthern railway, with its two routes betwoon the points, one beitig through the nounrtain region of North Carolina, ha1s beevi selected as t he official route for the veteraiis o3(oving to the annual general re. u ;on at Mmphis from this State, for the vptertins an ' d others going to the unveiling of the South Carolina monument t Chickamauga park, and for the movement, of troops ex pected to attend the latter core Monies. The official choico of the route was made by Gen. C. I. Walker of Charleston, commanding the State organization of Confederato vetorans, and a member of the monument commiission, represeinting ilo the military departoont of the State by request. His (lecision in the matter has been announced in the shapo of the following letter to Division Pas senger Agent R. W. Hunt, a copy of which has been sent. The State by Gen. Walker for publication: Charleston, S C., March 9, 1901. Mr. R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent, Southern Railway Co., Charleston, S. C. Dear Sir: From my position as commander of the South Carolina division of the United Confederato veterans it is my duty to select the4 route for the transportation of the veterans to the Memphis reunion. The South Carolina Chickamauga commission, of which I am secretary also directed me to make the same arrangements for transportation v4eto rans and visitors to the unveiliig ceremonies; and Adjt. Gen. J. W. Flo d also requested me to arrange ithe route for movement of the State volunteer troops to the unveiling of the Chickamanga monument. I have duly considered the advant ages of the varions routes offering their services, and I am sure that the greater facilities to aill co[ncerneed going and coming, for both events, are offered by your route (Southern railway), and I beg to advise that it has been selected as the official route to carry the veterans to the Mem. phis reunion, May 26, 1901, and veterans, State volunteer troops and visitors to the unveiling ceremonies of the South Carolina monument at Chickamnanga May 27, 1901. 1. will confer with b ou further as to the time of the leaving of trains, so that you can announce the same. Yours very truly, C. I. Walker, Commander S. 0. Div. U. C. V. Coin. S. C. Chickamauga Mon. Corn. The Southern proposed to arrange every detail for the comfort of the veterans on this trip. The best c>aches in the service of the system will be furncished, and representa tives of the company will accompany the veterans and troops on the ont ward trip. Arrangements will be made for a stop i f at Chickamauga park. so that th)e largest number possible may attend the unveiling ceremonies there. A schedule wi.l be arranged keeping the veterans and all others who go on the road the shortest possible length of time. The Southern runs all the way through to Memphis, Tenn., where the reunion will be held, and the trains can thus be handled with greater dispatch than if they had to move over several different roads. The Southern officials promise to do all in their power to mako' the trip as pleasant as p)ossible for t be veterans, thn soldiers and the civiliansanike. North Carolina Mills Compromise. TiIEY I4NTFIC INTO AN AGRIEEMENT AISOUR C11' 1,I) I,1101t, 1.111n1t01 U ngo% 11114 111ur14 of Wis,lk No child 1, M 'I hin 1'4 too 4- Em, pho. ed luring seiol Trnctt- Nim. Un11cer 10 at Iiiy im. Charlotto, N (., March 10.-The proeseit SpHsiol of tohe Ciarolitin leg islaturo has1 <lovi(lo(l riot to vnact an1my logislation r#gulatinfg work ini any of tho C'Itiol milil of tho Sato. The opbrativis iis well as tho mill owners %vero anxiouls to avoid a1i-y legisli ion, preferring to work ont the problem in 1heir own way. An agremiont signed by nearly all the mill owner of 1t StatO was tlbmilitted to the legislature, an(d this igreoment wis aiectptei iin liil. '(11lOwing is th ngrrmnit. entred into by the mill owners of Ile State: First. Thiat on woek's work shaIl [lot exe-d 66 liours. Second. That no chIld lvss than 12 ye*ars old hall work ini a cotton mill (iring Iho torm of an available public school Provided, This shall riot apply to childrn of widow4 or ph)sicially disilmd parents. Pro videdl, further. That 10 years shall be the lowvest uit. at which children may be worked tinder any circum stlinceos. Thiir(d. That wo will cooperato with any feaiblo plan to promote tho iducation of the working people in (ti Stat, tie and will cheerfully sub mit to our part of the burdens and 111orm to atlvianico tho causo of gen oratl eduention. Fourt I. On tIho battsis of the - bove aigreemeits of cotton mill owners and m011niligers wo hereby petition the log iflinro riot to pais any labor laws ait this session of the legislature. c: -A. i T" O3 X-. X.A.. Boars tho Tho Kind You [lave Always Bougd Signature of a1 LAUtIN NO 510tt IN TIIE 'A1Y Ifat linoelf t-im( o1 (t ofthe Emnneramic 3Iarty-Xphana~t3i of thn Actioi of thoi Jonm4r *4oat(or frimi Scouthj Carolina uN Givitn by.Jcs. Ohl. [T'lie State, March .12.] The following article from the pen of Jos. Ohl, aiId (ated Wiashington, appearing in the Atlanta Constitu tion of yesterday, wvill be of pecnliar interest to the peOoll of South Caro 1ina: "S.'nator McLaurin of South Caro lina is no longer a Democrat. His name has benr stricken from the Democratic cauens roll, and1 this has been dlone with the endorsement of the gentleman himself. "'Senator leL~amrin haus, in fact, virtunal ly readi( himself out of tihe party which elected him to the posi tion he now holds. Whet her he is to be classed as Independent or lRe puiblicain, or whether lie wvill prefer to retain the title Demiocrat in the ofliciail congressional dlirontoiy is some thing for the senator himself to do termiine. As hans been stated, howv ever, lie is nio longer on1 the Demo cr atic caucus rolls. "F"or some timo the junior senator from South Carolina has been voting with the ltl'publica1ns on every occa sion where there wats a division on aniyt hinig like political lines. To D)emoc ratio friends who have spoken withI him on thle subject he has con te'nted( hitmsel f with detclaring that his votes were in accordance with his consHcienitis 1 id8ea04 of what was correct, arid hats said1 thant lie would continue to vote as he thought right, despite the criticism of all his Dem ecratic colloagnues. Indeed, those crit icisms from other D)emocrats seem to have aironised his resentment to such at detgroe as to make him vote with the itepublicans oftoner, per hap)s, than lie would otherwise have done, lie hias up to the present de clared thmat he was a Demorat, and that it would be foun,1, when the matter came to a test, that his votes mret the ap)proval of the most pro grossive elemnait of Southern Democ. racy. Now, howeaer, he has fo. mally soparated himself from hisi party. "When Senator Jones, as chalirnum1 of the Democratie stooring commit too, begani sending out his noticos for the cauus of Democratic senattors held last wook, ho ws u1lndecided as to whether he should send a notice to Sonator McLaurin or should not. The South Carolina sonator ha(] so completely broken off his relations With his fOllow Democrats Anld hadfil Ho eonsistently':voted with th loptib licans, even supporting the Philip pilno a11ndment to the army bill, tha,t Sonator Jonea wsi doubtful of his status, aid accordingly consultod sevoral of his fellow Democrats, libk ing them What courso ho should pur. suo towards Senator Me Laurin, The mattor was dismissed at somo length, and it was finally dcid(ld that the best possible wiy to solvo the prob. loin would be for Senator Jones to consult the wishos of Senitor Mc. Lauriti. "This the Arkaneas sonator did, making it plain thitt the matter of party affiliations was ontirely ill the South Carolinian's own ihands. "Sonator McLauriin asked that his name be stricken from the caucus rolk. He said ho did not care to go into Democratic caicusos inl the fi. turo, and that he would broak off ill associations with his Into party asso ciates. "This act on his part will probably mako a lot of diflermoe in Senator McLaurin's political futurv. li) ha doterninod to ho i candilato to sue coed himself in thle sOUrnate, 111l lha been expecting to milke the race in) the Democratic Prinmries, countin" on securing the support. of t he inminn facturing cities and towns of hit, State, and blioving lhat this tuitpport would be sufliciont to bring abont his election. As a R--publicnn lie could have absolutely no chanco of election at the hands of ihe logisla. ture which will be overwhelmmngly Dinocratic; and as an Inidopenent he would stand little or no show in the Democratic primaries. Practi cally all of th whito peoplo of Sout I Carolina are afliliated with the Dom ocratic organization, and thore is ap parently no place on tho list of oflico holders for either Republicans or Ii depondonts. "Senator MuLaurin's act in disas sociating himself from his party places him in the same category wit i Senator Jones of Nevada, Senator Toller of Colorado and Senator Wel lington of Maryland. Senator dornes is a Republican oni the tariff aind on almost everyting else except the money question, but lbe profors to array himself with the miinority. At. the same time be has uiever uono mnto a Democratic caucus. When it comes to the make up; of t he comn mitteos under the last organizatmoon there was a sort of compromise with regard to Sonator Jones, accor'ling to which his status upon thoe existing comimittoos was not changed. Sen ator Teller votes and acts with the Democrats on all questions of a po litical nature, but because of politi cal conditions in his own State lie prefers to be known as a Silver re publican and not as a Democrat. Senator WVellington loses no oppor tunity to criticise the acts of his for mer Republican associatos, but he prefors to be classed as an Indepen dent. "Of the other western senators who have been more (or loss uincertain in their political fliliations s ice t ho silver (inestion changed palrtyI lines in~ 1800, Senator Stoewart has1 gone back to the Repulicanis, wvhi1e Sen atora Dubois, HIeitfold, TIurner, Hiar ris, Patterson andI Allen now aflihiate' with thin Democrats and go into Derm ocratic carllses." Apropos of the above, thle Pee Dee Advocate, of Bonnettsville, hias this editorial statement: "It is reported that McLaurin wvill be appointed a fe'deral judge i the District of Columbia. Won't some of his enemies drop their feathers if ho gets where they can't hit him in the next election P And if he don't run for re-election to the senate, wvon't it be a tame affair, with all the candidates on the same side of the great nat.ional qnauentio COMTRODLR W0N'T DRAW HIS WARRANTS, AN" T1il: 1 o's lI I, UN IC T illi I NsANK I 'N IN N IIt I 1). Anothor I.,xim t Itar e H an .- pem! Akt -chil 'rteViii l 3114t lIm I'mi1 iil A l1pip rI,4IIet ii Avt I)oe i't Provae forIt. [T'ie Sit oe . arch 12.] Things look very glootmy iidler tho Stlto 1111rihe nc net for tho in uInIce Of t hi-St a a los pit i for tho I lmiano. AV; tho thing now stAnids, .)Wing to an oversight. or t ho neglect Of tlh0 legislIturo to hlI10111 1h 1 mat ter thoroughly practically aill of the va1a111bi property of th insintititlution, worth libout $20,0100, is an(d has bovin without iniurance of any kind HinlCO March 1. Tho Stato sinking fund cet'llilision las unWder theo im pressioll that tho libskncle of tho coml ptoller g..n a fr >m tho city was tying 111) tih mitittor. Yesterday morning, 110wever, tho comptroller wis back ill hlis ollico, and it did not ako him long to 1h,o1110 the position that, his chief clerk had tIretdy taken -that, tho comptrollur had no right whatever to issuo t warrat for tho msiraico fees oi tho hospital prop erty. Tlis seems to bo aiother blundor of tho legislaturo ill pssing i tstpocilic alet requirintg tho 110hpital to tako Stato ins1nllc(el 11n14l vet, not 11111ki prm on Iin the apro pri'lt ionl bil i, r[ k.., pay) ninent of tho priliti1n. Thl% compllrolbl. geIoril a ;H imt h11 11 -1 1 tll)' 111111na h ity 111 th0 no11th l t 1r h ( I- w 1111hVO i,1hued h1i \%arralt IiIIIh 1 1ago lund tho wiholo 1 L11411r w"k)4l14 llatV1 Iho'n1 ad It now luijo w; if i lie ily romody is for th rentish of tho hIospitI to lmeot, mld borrow the mone fron onw11l bulnk onI kitld ain gt. 3tho log. i.-batu1rt o rillW1y its overigt,whot n When11 it riJeIUiMoV ilnX Januay nt. The following1 i-i Uho letter from I ho b.tatfiIioirtsr ii dhw comptroller in regarl Io t ill Inalter: lion. J. '. Dercam), coIptroller g(meri, city. Dear sir: I handyoum horowith tip. plivition for insIrnceo to aiount $272,780 of invurtiaico uipon sundry a tyl1m buildings, under provision of I act ontitld "an lcl to provido for Stato ilnlinilco of piblic builings," aM am10ldmi F rury 21st, 1901. Section -1 of iid nct. riuliiros m to pay to t commill Ili issionlers of tho siilk inzg fund 1one hal3 111f of th amount10111 annlually pauid ini preimu111s for in paymient, iln this caso amoun)1ts to $1 ,-1 190 63. Unde31r soctilon i8 of the geneoral stt.u3tes, 11he Stalte t reaisuror is reqired'( to paty ou1tiall mionieys only onl warratiit of thel comtU11roller, excep1t ill (cas11 of "muturost on1 pulic deb1)1tiand 1110 payi of memllbers, ollicors and11 einll)oy*S of the general tiaem bly."' I therefore, as8k that you3 issue to me13 your wa4rraint :or the0 paymeint by me1 of said amnounit over to the sinikinig fundl OU l cm ission1, no0 tat I maly comply with the requziromont of section 4 of said tict. RA. IL. Jenings, St ato Tr~easurer. Tb'o comptro'lor's reply to t,his was as follows: Colombia, S. C., March 11, .101 lHon. R. L J(onn1ings1, State Treas. uror, Columlbia, S. C. Dear Sir: lieply ing to yours of this diato 0* cotiingI~ te alienlltionl of of thu St at o hoospit ail for the inistane, for 010 o I ea' inirance, w ithI the ro qnest4 that I dIraw a wairranzt ini your favor for bd f tho am-mnt111 of the $1,51 9.63. Thero is no0 provision in the aippr~opriat ion act for the insutr ance on tis propert)'iy, anld in the permanlohnt tact. providling for tis in suirance, to whichl you i r(lrr, tiboro us 110 authuorit y contife'rred( 011 thle 'omp-~ Iroller geinral to draw 1his wairrant. T'horo being no app)hropriaitionl anld no warranit. :,f Ilaw for too to do other wise, 1 must01 d'chnLo to issuet the war rant anid hereb)y return y'our applica tion. Yours very truly, J. P. Durham, C'omptaollor Genueral. The13 only pr'oviin made~i1 in the aippropriatio act 40 for inlsuranoco on this p)roper'ty ill 107 for the insurance of the nroduct of the farm.