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TATUM'S SHOWING, , COMMISSIONER ASSERTS THAT STATE DISPENSARY IS SOLVENT. He Says That all Debts Can Be Paid and Have a Balance Left-The Fig ares Given-Gen. Wilie Jones' Statement.. Columbia. July 24.-l!r. W. O. Tatum. State Dispensary Commission? er, today gave out the following state? ment: j ' Recently a number of papers, and Mr. J. ."raser Lyon, candidate for at? torney general, asserted that the dis? pensary was insolvent; that if it were put in liquidation it could not pay its debts. At the time this statement was made, I came out in a card asking a suspension* of judgment, and asserting ihat the dispensary was perfectly sol? vent. I said "I could produce the fig . ' ures to prove that the dispensary was amply able to pay every dollar it owed I have the figures to more than sustain my contention, and will submit them in this statement. It took much time and lots of work to go through the .great mass of accounts at the State dispel. j and prepare a condensed statem .it showing exactiv the condi? tion of the institution. I could not ex? pect the newspapers to publish all the figures in their columns, but I invite any citizen, particulardly Mr. Lyon and the editors of the papers which ques? tioned the solvency of the dispensary, to call at the State dispensary and ex? amine f?r themselves the books and accounts, and so verify the statement I have prepared. Now, here are the :figures, condensed to the point, where .any mind can grasp them and any memory retain them: "On June 1, 19v06, the State dis? pensary owed for whiskey, beer, etc., a total of $735,886.94. Since -June 1st, and up to and including July 21, 1906, there has been paid on the ..above accounts a total of $451,005,.61, leaving a balance of $284,881.33. But of this balance, $197,388.67 is not yet due, which leaves the amount due on old accounts $87,4992.71, and the State dispensary had on hand at the -.close of business July 21st, a cash balance ;of $96,518.76, or $9,026.01 more than enough to pay a 15 accounts, xthen due. ?? , * "However, when the new board Of i directors were restrained by order of the dispensary investigating commit? tee from paying old accounts of the dispensary, instead of letting the dis pensary funds . idle, they discounted a of new accounts, by this ?coarse making an ex:?a profit for the ii tate cf >.ZZ. Of the accounts ao aiscoupted, an aggregate of $79, 119.76 would not lave been due on or before July 21, so had not those ac? counts basti so discontinued, the cash balance on that ?day would have been $175,638.52. or $88,145.81 more than .enough to have paid all accounts due -.st that time.-; "On July 21st, the State dispen ^ =sary owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc., $443,225.34, though only $87, '-491.71 of this amount, as stated above, was due on that date. Any asser? tion that the dispensary is not solvenV and cotfd not pay out every dollar at owes if it went into liquidation, '. seems ridiculous, when the assets of the Institution ,are compared with that total of its debts, v"On July 21< the" total of ita debt was $443*225.34, to- meet which it had easily assets of $900,000 in round figures, n?ade up" of $96,518.76 cash j .on hand, about $665.000 of stock in -the State and county dispensaries, real estate which cost $56,360.56, sup- j plies *>f bottles, seals, corks, etc., ma? chinery, and office supplies. If all its .assets were sold at fifty cents on the -dollar, they would be more than suf . ficient to pay its indebtedness. In the - above I have given the value of the ; real estate at its cost price, but it j must be remembered that it was bought before the tremendous boom of recent years. The opinion of real estate men, architects'-and the comfy 1 auditor of Richland county, is thai a very, conservative estimate of the present value of the dispensary real estate would be $ll0j?0i>. Accepting that figure, would make the dispen? sary's assets a million dollars with j which to meet ' debts of less than : $410.000. Far from being insolvent. . if the disp^^ry were o'osed out it could pay every cent it owes and hun- ( dreds of thousands of* dollars into the i school fund, to which it has con- J tributed in the last ten years $1,351,-J 697.63, besides paying $3,991,325.49. io the towns and counties in that same period, a total of $5.343,032.12. "What is the condition of the dis? pensary today? The facts given -above sustain my contention that the dispensary is in better condition to? day than ever before. When I took charge of the dispensary in March 1904, the dispensary's condition was shown by the following statement compiled on February 2*, 1904: Quarterly Statement of State Dispen? sary For Quarter Ending February 20. 190-1. Assets. Cash in State treasury Feb? ruary 29, 1904.$ 17,680 2Z Teams and wagons.. .. 64 00 i-.?nn? (inventory Feb Machinery and ornee fix tures.. . Contriband (inventory February 20. 1004) Real estate. Merchandise in hands of dispensers February 2 is 1904. Merchandise (inventory of stock at State dis? pensary February- 29, 1904).... - Suspended accounts.. .. Personal accounts due State for empty barr?is, a?cohol, etc. Totals.$1,012,537 9S cities. School fund. .$ 519,664 12 Personal accounts due by State for supplies. whiskies, vines, beer, alcohol, etc. 492,873 $6 Total liabilities.. ..$1,012.537 98 "It will be noticed how 'l-t*ie cash was on hand at that time. The amount of stock was $S90,000 in round fig? ures, or $225,000 more than on July : 21, 1906. Of that stock about $350, 000 was represented by an accumula? tion of hard stock which had not been worked off since the institution began business This has been worked off during my administration, and the present stock contains hardly $20,000 worth of anything except new, fresh and salable goods: This alone repre? sents a tremendous improvement of codition in the last few years.. . "Besides, in the liabilities as repre? sented in the statement of February 29, 1904, there . was over $300,000 of accounts past ' due, some of them as much - as- six months overdue. This condition compared to the-statement for the present day ought io be con? vincing to any reasonable mind of the .improvement of the financial condition of the dispensary. "The school. fund is not a debt of the dispensary, but its profits and loss account. It is ?Jess understood than any^ other feature of the dispensary. This article is too long to permit me to stretch it further by adding an expla-^ nation of^bhe school fund. I will give such' an explanation later in another article," \x: ' V . S- ;'-*^ " . Gen. Wilie Jones also gave out the following statement : "After reading. Commissioner Ta? tum's statement, and after having ex amined the balance sheet of the books .of the institution, I say without hesita? tion, that I regard the present condi? tion of the nnances of the institution as in better shape than at any time dvring n the Hast ten years. I was Chairman of ^the 'Board from April 1st, 1S96, to April 1st, 189-7, and also a member of the Board by appoint? ment of Governor Keyv/ard about six months in 1903, and I feel that I am I tb rt roughly familiar with the affairs !^of ^the dispensary." > v RUSSELL SAGE*S WILL. New York, July 26.-When the will of Russell Sage is read this afternoon it " will . be disclosed that, with the exception of- an insignificant bequest to an only sister, Mrs. Fannie Payne, of Oneida, N. Yv who died two years ago, Sage has left everything to his. WidOW, . ~ 4 *? ; v?^?**. .> Other relatives -will-probably con? test the will on the ground that while Sage was in full possession of his fa? culties he-made, a will providing for all bf his relatives, but that following hi? mental breakdown in-19 01, a new j testament, was made, placing his entire ! fortune at Mrs. Sagels-disposal. It will be contended, by them that Mrs. Sage exerted undtie influence over him in the distribution of his wealth. The will shows, that the estate amounts to $60,000,000. YOUXG MAX DROWNED. Mullins. July 25.-Mr. Fred Scar? borough was drowned this morning in Pee-Dee river, near here, while bath? ing with a picnic party. Mr. Scarbor? ough was on?y about 20 years old. a son of Mr. Thos. 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