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? * / J F Rick To start < Twelve D In this grand Reductio City. We mean what we sav partial list will be found in We will have no "Salvage the date, February 12-23?just There will be extra salesm get by coining to this Sale. 1 t n n th t7 tiit J. r. ium WORK OF THE SOLONS - IN UNFINISHED STATE. FROM NOW ON THERE WILL BE NO! DALLYING?TBE WHISKEY QUESTION _ THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE. The Capitol, Columbia, February 5:-Only two more weeks and the assembly of 1907 will be at an end. Lots of measures have been proposed and several V important bills have passed one i or the other house, but not a single proposition of general interest has received final and definite action. The house passed the local option bill by a great majority and it is now up to the senate what shall be done with the State dispensary. The senate voted for the bill limiting the day's work in cotton mills to ten hours and sent this to \ the other end of thecapitol. The I house has passed the bill reducine railroad rate to two and one f" ^ halt cents per mile and this is now on the senate's calendar. Adjournment just now would find nothing1 in a finished condition; and yet had the members of both houses left off the multitude of tool bills that consume A lots of time and money in the most reckless manner, and gone ^ to work in earnest to do the State's business--had these things been done, all the work of the session would have been completed a week ago. But this is but a repetition of what goes on year after year. From now on there will be no dallying. In order to make a showing, rush orders are issued. The consideration of the dispensary question, which leads i ? Th< enbakei jn on Tu< ays, unti n Sale we have thrown boi and a visit to our stores m i the circular we issue. Sa Company" to conduct this sal twelve days. After that time ipn th^ trade demand 2 3ear in mind you get anything No goo( BAKERI CI, all other questions, is lixed to begin in the senate tonight. There are some dispensary senators whose good sense, patriotism and broad-inindedriess are such that they have apparently been led to accept the decisive votes as declaring beyond question the true sentiment on this whiskey business to be "death to the State dispensary," and are not disposed to delay or hinder the passage of the Carey-Cothran bill by filibustering or sharp practices. These men are to be commended. Unfortunately, Hnwpver. some of the other kind are in the senate?the kind that will defeat the will of the people, if possible. A few days ago, based upon the report of the investigating committee, a resolution was passed declaring that the State dispensary now has on hand nearly seven hundred thousand dollars worth of whiskey bought by the board in violation of law, that the members of the board should be removed from office and indicted, and calling upon the Governor to take such action as he deems wise. These men ought to have been impeached by the assembly and instead of doing this the responsibility was thrown on Governor Ansel. The law limits the purchases of liquors to $400,000. Yet these men have almost doubled this amount. Too much of it is worthless stuff and soma $150,000 worth was bought by Mr Black alone and without any bid. And this was done right recently. There really seems to be no limit to which this dusiness will lead men and officers. One of the most important questions in all legislation is / s Great* rmm ! ??is IED I S A LI &Co. j At Lak esda^r re 1 Februar th our stocks together and fill convince you. We hav< ive this circular and bring i le but mana.'e it ourselves and g these goods will be sold at the i ind at both stores you will be gi \ in either stcre at cost prices ds charged or s< Ill J. f. Ml almost completely ignored, that of taxation and assessment of property. This is a dry subject and one that calls for much real work and offers a poor field for wind work. Therefore it offers but littie attraction for the poltician and none for the dema-! gogue. The railroads are receiving their full share of hammering and of two kinds, as might be expected, wise and otherwise. No efforts seem to be making to force them to better freight service, less delays and speedier and more equitable adjustment of claims for loss, delay, damage and overcharges. And yet these are some of the things that affect the people generally and very seriously and unless remedied will give a blow to the prosperity of the country. (Continued on 8th page.) h CARD FROM MR B B CHANDLER. Wants an Investigation of Seperrisor's Office. Editor County Record: Will you allow me space through your columns to say to the taxpayers of Williamsburg county that last campaign I made the assertion at all of our campaign meetings that the county was in debt, and that the legislature would have to make | r 1 i j o I provision for payment 01 aeot: It was "hooted at." Mr J J ( Graham, in his card of thanks to his friends, said: "All this j talk about the county being j heavily in debt is mere twaddle. Our finances are on a firm foot| ing and there will be revenue | enough to pay every claim, dol: lar for dollar, and meet all out-, standing indebtedness." This' ' word twaddle means "you talk I 3St Of , 1 S HE CLE I E OF and JP ]\ A City, bruary \i y 23. every article in either stoi jn't space to enumerate t t with you when you come 'ive you the benefit of so doi e^ular price. ven a hearty welcome and ret for twelve days. ent out an appr fTHEffS IC too much and foolishly." I would like to know who has talked too much and foolishly? The settlement is over and I find the count}* $10,000 in debt. I see there is a bill introduced in the senate by Mr Bass for Williamsburg to borrow money from sinking fund to pay this debt. There is also a bill in the house by Mr Bryan to borrow money to pay this debt and the interest. Mr Graham borrowed $7,000 from the bank for roads; that is why the bill Mr Bryan introduced includes interest. I know there are differences of opinion as to whether Mr. Graham or the county is responsible to the bank for money borrowed for roads. Mr Graham borrowed $1,200 under special legislation to pay Williamsburg's half for building steel bridge at Black Mingo. The money was put in ordinary county funds and spent. Under the law Mr Graham had no right to expend the $1,200 except to build Mingo bridge. Neither could Mr Graham borrow money to work roads. If the supervisor can misappro --1- KrtT-rn-iuprl for a priatC 1UUUO IA/A A V T? VV? .v. special purpose, and borrow money to work roads at bis discretion, which is a violation of law, I think it is time for the county to know these facts. I think there should be an investigation to see who is right? If one supei visor is allowed these advantages, I think all should be. Therefore, let the matter be investigated. If this matter is not looked into it will establish a precedent that is very dangerous. Respectfully, B B Chandler, gggaaBiBgp IRAI latthewj and con *e will be marked down to p \ he many bargains we offer : to the sale. ng in giving'you more goods fo urn home with glad hearts over obation. n . - U., Lake L SORT OF CHARLESTON OF | BOTTLED UP BY RAILROADS. DISCRIMINATION MAKES DIFFICULT EE- i FORT TO GET CARGO FOR THE i WITTEKIND. < Charleston, February 3:?Ef- i forts are being made to secure a , cargo for the North German Lloyd steamship on her return voyage, but the discrimination of the railroads is working 1 greatly to the detriment of the 1 port. j Without some co operation on the part of the railroads, the cotton people can not hope to I make up the cargo for the vessel ] back to Bremen. Inman&Co., ] through their Charleston rep- f resentative, Mr John F May- , bank, assisted by Middleton & \ Havenel, furnished the cargo of j nearly 12,000 bales of cotton which was sent across the water f last November, but these firms i and the cotton which is strictly ' local look to their interest J in transporting the cotton, , which is across the water j in this way, especially when . they are offered as low, if not a . lower rate by the big Atlantic liners out of New York. The . shiDment of "local" cotton does , not benefit a port. It is the business which comes from the , co-operation of the railroads , which does good to a port and . with the railroads refusing to issue bills of lading through the , port of Charleston, the business of the port is made to suffer. In the endeavor to make a , favorable showing for the port, it is understood that the cotton . people did offer to furnish onehalf of the cargo of the Wittekind if the railroads would furnish the other half, but not a Kd> m ?' V. i ICE 5 & Co., ^ j tinue for 4? rices unheard of in Lak& r in this great sale but a r your money. REMEMBER the great bargains vou will # v / ity, S. C.' Dale of cotton could be gotten, :brougb the spirit of unfriendiness which the railroads, and jspecially the Southern railway, evidences towards Charlesion. If the railroads will yet ecede from their position, the :argo may be gotten. ** All the cotton which is brought :o Charleston is the staple. < which the Charleston people, **( their agents aDd correspondents >end here. It has been a long time since Charleston has been the recipient of any business at the hands of the railroads. In : the days of the old South Caro- M lina railway and the South Carolina and Georgia railroad, which ^ lad connections with the Geor- t jia road, Charleston's receipts- M were several hundred thousand | bales greater tor the reason that through bills of lading were jiven and the railroads showed some consideration to the port, No w, howrver, the roads display 1 a. distinct unfriendliness to the o Vi i nr\i n rr rrtffrtn tr? other * k J Wb?VM ow ? ? ports, and refusing1 bills of lad- ? ing through Charleston, even Ji where it is desired to ship the 1* fleecy staple through this port. The Charleston cotton men do aot ask the railroads to build op their port by any favoritism, but are only asking for fair treatment, being content to do without their full share in the promotion of the public welfare but with existing discrimina* Hnns tViPv have a hard fitrht on thier hands which has never been more plainly demonstrated^ ^ than in the present case of try-/ ' ^ ing to secure a cargo for the Wittekind and helping the immigration movement so happily inaugurated by State Commissioner Watson.