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gfe; 3?...' THE PRiVELEGE TAX Reduced from Twenty-five to Fifteen Cents. ! AN INTERESTING DEB? ."E. | I Charges of Extravagance Against j Ciemson Coiiege Seamed to Have Influenced the Result. * * 11 * 1*11 * - ? ,_ *.} tt.A ]>tit-! Mr. AsiiJe.v s oiii 10 au^c^u j at to the fertilizer tax camc up io tie House Tuesday. He urged tl at it was uujust and unfair to tax or.e class to support Cle'iison College. lie knew j tbe argument was that the benciit j ^ --- would not be to the former if the tax j was takej off. He waoted to reduce the tax to ten cents. He knew th it the reduction of the tax in Georgia had beueSttcd the farmers. He was the friend of Clcmsou. If the farmers were getting the bcuefitof the privilege lax he would not complain, if the money went to the public schools he would not complain. The farmers vihu ' * 1 6 -- ** /YAr.AI?,l 1 ! \* t f\r\ pay me privi<egf,i; t;*.*. jH)or to send thoirsoas to Olcmson College. Tnis was an uDjust burden and should he removed. Mr. Biythesaid Mr. Ashley was begging the question. This privilege tax was imposed and collected long before Ulemson College was thought of. The tax was put on fertilizers because the farmers thought it necessary to protect themselves against fraud and deception. The tax wa3 for the protection of tne farmers and no one else. The present law may be amended to advantage. The tax was first imposed by a Legislature of farmers, and since then there have been farmers here in the majority and no change has been made. The argu ment used to bring about Uiemson college was that if the State built the College the farmers would support and sustain it. There was a compact made between the people, so to speak, that the farmers would for all time support Clemson through the privilege tax. He argued to show that the tax, if repealed would do the farmers no good. lie had hoard no complaint from the farmers about the tax and thought tbey wante<Mt retained. Mr. McCullough said that heretofore he had opposed the bill, but after going thoroughly over the situation he ^ thought it best to favor the present bill. Clemson college is now thoroughly equipped and has all the buildings it needs. He was not opposed to a nrivilAcfl tar. but he thoueht such a tax should only be sufficient to do the actual analyzing of fertilizers. The amount proposed by the bill is ample for analysis. The real issue is: Shall you impose more than is necessary for the examination? Theu the idea is that money should be raised from some one to support Clemson college. Now is it right to run the hands of the State into the pockets of the farmers or the fertilizer men to get this bonns for Clemsoa college? Then the Supreme Court has held that such an Act as is on the statute books is unconstitutional The committee tried to patch up a bill ij ? nr inai wouiu pass musier. . ty c uc wiping the hypocrite ia trying to patch up ? a bill that is wrong in principle and unconstitutional. Mr. Stevenson, of Chesterfield, said he was opposed to reducing the tax to ten cents, but favored a 15 cents tax. Clemson college last year got $102,613.08 from various sources: Privilege tax, $60,000; Morrillfund, $.2 000; Act 1887, Federal, $15,000; landscript, $5,0UU; tuition, $2,400; Cierasou be?'pAfr,i AVM?4? y*.v?-j VAWt w. There was no accouct of the expenditure. He said the only institution that could be aod was attacked last year in his campaign was Clemson, because of this apparent extravagance. If the authorities of Clemson do not practice economy there will be a whirlwind and a revolution that will tear a hole into Clemson and possibly destroy it. Mr. E. D. Smith, of Sumter, said this reduction of the tax has been one of his platforms for years. The people who pay the privilege tax are scarcely ev?r practically represented here. The privilege tax is extracted from the buyer and no one else. '?ne iast ?-u\ er who liund'cs ihe guano must pay for it. Ifc is entirely wroug to tax s iiese poor farmers. The tax last year he held brought in $90,000. if thu doors of Clemson are to be open to the State at large let her draw her support as other State colleges do. If Clemson is worthy of support she will get the money, and if not worthy the members will know it. Mr. Robinson, of Oconee, thought the farmers had but little to say on the measure. He maintained that it was wrong to legislate for one class against T f k/v a fol*? f A f QV auuiut^. JLb nuuiu uc juouuiau iu u>a every lawyer's law book as to tax every bag of fertilizer. He asked what would Clemson do if it should be decided by the farmers not (o buy fertilizers for a i certain year? If Clemson has to be supported by this sort of legislation let j her go. Mr. Wingo, of Greenville, as a farmer, said he had heard more against Clemson college on the floor of the House than elsewhere. He yet had to hear the first farmer, not a politician who was oppossed to Clemsom or the tax. All the talk against the privilege tax was here in the House and upon the floor. Mr. Jeremiah Smith said he had heard there were 3 per cent of the eons of farmers at Clemson. Mr. Wingo thought 93 per cent of the students were the sons of farmers. The House had hetter go slow ia making radical changes. 'The farmers want no changes; if they do they will be heard from. Mr. N. Geo. Evans said there was too much money spent at Clemscn. The fanners in his section were opposed to the system. The farmers do not pay all tho taxes. The trustees report a balance of $10,000?actually more than is wanted. A t?x of 10 cents, based on the figures of last year, and the b&l it! :ii v, __ ance unexpeuaeu, auu mere will uc au abundance of money on hand. He, fcr one, was heartily in favor of the State colleges. The only institution that has suffered has been the South Carolina College. It has lived, and will always do so, but do not make one college suffer and the other a coupon clipper. Mr. H. H. Crum, as a farmer said his people were perfectly willing to pay the tax fcr their protection. To day the farmers are all at the mcrcy of a e/wtlloc-f timet Tft trio t2T 0-VCUAV/OU bl *v iVMUw vuv WUA f be merely to help the trust and will do no good to the farmers. A considerable part of the Cleinson fund has gone to the support and building of the tex- : tile school. Clemson college is distinctly the farmers' college and the people throughout the State yant the ! onl'.ocra nrtrtsf. liVxaraliT Riisfainpd. ! i bad confidence in tbe board of trustees, j i Tbe farmers are cot complaining, so be ; ? did aot see why tbe lawyers should I! " "* SS -: I * ir ?U/. txrortf T\e.\J . ootupia.n. i.i luc iaiuitio t.?uv the tax they should be left alone; and J the farmers want to be left alone. Mr. F. H. Gadsden said this bill has f come up year by year and every session j farmers here and their representatives I have killed such a bill. The farmers j knew their rights and if ihey d} not | want this tax they have not said so. I Charleston has always stood by 'Clem- j son college, to any reasonable limit, I since its establishment. This State is j a manufacturing centre. It seems to I " ' ~ xL_ l I be lorgottcn inm uie uujeia ..ia Carolina aud Georgia and other Stages pay a large proportion cf this tax. lie knew of no other scheme of levying I tribute by the State from other States, i He asked for a denial of this proposi- j tiou, but do denial wag made Pass this biil and S;uth Carolina will loose | $30,000 from the tax :t Collects from I other State?. lt'}ou piease, 'urn the money inu> the S:a:o treasury and then decide where it >hali be expended. The more fertilizers told outbiac ot i:ie State the more the State makes Mr. Smiih. of Horr>, said in his *ixteeu years of Legislative experience he had al*a\s voted for the Stale col'eges and at the same time he aiwajs worked for the common schools Clemson is cot a cla>s, but a State, institute; CIciik-ou collcge should he bupp^rtcd out of the jren?ral Stale fuads. Mr. Siovensoo ur?d that the t^x did not apply to fertilizers so!?i outsi.Jo of this State, fbe argument of Mr. Gadsdea was specious and the Georgia, farmery did cot pay the tax, because they wore not exiled upon to do .*?>. it jou breed extravagance it will bring trouble to Clem-on. The frieniu of Cleiuson had belter beware or i? will fare far worse than is now threatened. If yon do not do something now the floodgates of opposition will be opened. He urged that 15 cents a ton would giveCiemson $78,000. Mr. Ashley accepted the 15-cent amendment. He urged that the larger portions of the Hatch and Morrill e? 3 4 .u. * ??1_ IUDUiS WCUL i-U llie U1 wuv KU1lege proper. The expenditures went directly to the support of tbe college. As a friend of Clemson he pleaded to hold the appropriations below the $100,000 mark. To save Clemson the best thing will be to plaee the institution on an economic basis. Mr. E^tiidge, of Lancaster, said his people were expecting him to protect their interests, and he wanted the tax reduced because too mach money was being raised to defray the expenses of examination. It was unfair to tax one class of people to support the college. - - * 'ti 1 l ;>lr. Uosgrove, or unarieston, Kuew that Charleston shipped large quantities of fertilizers outside of the State. Poor teachers, he urged, are very much like poor doctors, and he was opposed to pay for teachers. While it may look a little extravagant the results at Clemson are well worth the money spent. Mr. W. H. Thomas warned the House that the moment Ulemson 3 income is lessened it will come here for appropriations and whenClomson comes here every State college will suffer. Pass this measure and Winthrop, and Clemson, and the South Carolina College, and the Colored College wiil all suffer. Leave the colleges alone for at lea*t a few years. If the farmers are complaining let the complaint come from them.. Mr. Stevenson then moves to fix the royalty at 15 cents per ton and offered a substitute bill for the whole measure. This was adopted. The bill was then given iti third reading, it simply amends the Act of 1899 by changing the inspection tax from 25 cents to 15 mi_ . r j cents per ton. me iuuu cuuuuujo cu go to Clemsoo College. BLOODY SMlEEr TRAGEDY. Two Men Killed and Two Wounded in Macon, Ga. Two negroes shot to death and two white desperately wounded, were the causalties in an attempt to arrest a negro murderer at Macon, Ga., "Wed TUP lit] a** 1Q fVlA I UCtU?,V. O. 11. Kliiicij W1UI?, MO VUW man who did the most of the shootiDg and who was himself shot to death. His victims were Armstead Bryant, colored, shot through the heart, and instantly killed; B. Seltman, white, shot through the stomach and will probably die, and John Reed, white, shot in the neck, in a preoanous condition. Butler threatened to kill a negro woman and when Patrolman Pearce attempted to arrest him, began to shoot. The negro ran up Fourth street, one of the busiest streets in Macon, pistol in hand, shooting at everybody in sight. His first victim_was I Seltman, then Bryant, and last Jtteed fell beneath his deadly aim. In the meantime the sound of the shooting attracted a number of policemen and citizens. When Butler fell mortally wounded five policemen and fifteen citizens were shooting at him When examined it was found that three heavy pistol bullets had -gone completely through his body and there were other wounds. A is ambulance was summoned and the wounded men were taken to the city ho>pitai, while the bodies of the dead men were taken to au undertaking establishment where the coroner held ?u inquest. Butler came to Georgia form North Carelioa eight years ago, and was employed on a South Georgia tupentine farm. It is said that about a year ago he killed two negroes at Pinehursc, Ga. She Could Not Practice. In Delaware, where they flog petty criminals at the whinninz Dost, a woman ha3 been denied the right to practice law ia the state courts. A well known woman attorney of Philadelphia applied for the privilege of practicing in the courts of Delaware. The chancellor of the supreme court replied that while it was desired to show every courtesy to members of the bars of sister states, the constitution of Delaware did not permit a woman to exercise the functions of an attorney, since it was provided in that instrument that all officers of the courts must be males. Lynched in Colorado. Sexs reached Denver, Col., on Fri day of the capture of .Reynolds and Wagnsr, the escaped convicts, and the subsequent escape of Wagner. Reynolds is charged with killing Night Captain Rooney of the Colorado penitentiary, at Canon City, Wagner with holdinsr Rooney. A special train with several guards and a bloodhound were dispatched to, the sjene from Canon City, while officers started overland with Reynolds. At Canon City fire bells began to ring and the town is out en masse. Reynolds was taken from the officers when they reached Cainn City and hanged to a telegraph pole just outside the penitentiary walls. Killed by a Bicycle. Henry A. Hazen, one of the chief forecasters of the weather bureau and well known as a scientiest, died at Washington "Wednesday night as the result of injuries received by a bicycle fttillisinn tvith a npprn npH^strian. His ~ ? ? ? r- ? skull ^as badly fractured and he continued unconscious up to the time of his death. *v STATE DISPENSARY. The Profits of Cities, Towns, Counties and Schools. STATEMENT OF PURCHASES. The Financial Statement of the j State's Big Liquor Business. j i Large Payment to the School Fur,d. The annual nnaucial statement of the Sotilh Carolina State dispensary for the year 1S99 was completed Wednesday and a copy sent to the eovernor. The report will show that during the vear the amount of profits going to the counties, towns and cities footed up $220,492.35. The net profits to the State, which go to th* credit of the school fund, are $193,689 49, milking the total net profits $414,1S1 84. The total gross profits for the year were $485,524.79. The total receipts for the year were $1,033,939 26, including the $16.073 24 surplus brought over from i&st 5ear; the total disbursements were $1,495,818.26, leaving a bilancc of $143,121.00 in the State treasury on December 31. The aggregate purchases made during the year were $1,158,0S1.39. At the first of the year the State superintendent of education informed the board of control thai the school fund would need $100,000 as soon as possible. About two weeks ago $30,000 waa paid over to the credit of the school fund and Wednesday another payment nf ?70 000 was made. Here are the fig ures of the annual report: Th) comparative statement of assets and liabilities for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1899, reads thus: ASSETS. Cash in State treasury Dec. 31, 1899 $143,121 00 Merchandise in hands of dispensers Dec. 31, 1899... 255,025 74 Merchandise (Inventory of ftock at State dispensary ^ Dec. 31,1899) 175,927 26 Supplies (Inventory Dec. 31,1399) 1?SJ88 05 ' Tesms and wagons, (Inventory Dec. 31, 1899) 64 00 Machinery and office fixtures, (Inventory Dec. 31,1899) J,578 64 Contraband, (Inventory Dec 31, 1899) 136 93 Real estate 36,319 64 Suspended accounts 3 399 26 Personal accounts due State for tax advanced on bonded spirit^ empty barrels I'A/T?J At/ * I 157 auu aggsj ?iwuv<j . ? Total assets $635,588 13 LIABILITIES. School fund $514,379 95 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer, alcohol, etc 121,208 18 Total liabilities $635,5S8 13 ^' ? WWA h AT>1^ 1 ACQ OZ?_ i. lie SLilLe Weill U1 ^JIUUI auu jvoo ttvycount for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1899, is as follows: PROFITS. GrosB profits on merchandise sold during year.. .^$452,074 49 Discounts on purchases... 11.064 93 Contraband seizures 5,395 83 Permit fees 25 50 State's oce-half share of profits from beer dispensaries from Jan 1, 1899, to June 12, 1899. (Af tcr J une 12, lbyy, profcts from b^er dispensaries iceiuded in gross profits on merchandise, except the profits on beer sold by the Germania Brewing Co., Charleston, S. C... 14,177 75 State's onehalf share of profits on.beer sold by the Germania Brewing Co., from June 30, 1899, to 1 T\_ _ Ol 1QQQ > OCt7 71 JL/ev;. OX, JLO?7C ? , a. Shortage of ex-Dispenser G. 1 W. Busbee, Wagener, S. ( C., which had been passed to profit and loss account collected by solicitor of the Second Circuit with < in^rest 235 63 1 Old balance due State by ^ Georgia Brewing Asso- 1 ciation. which had been < passed to profit and loss 1 account, collected Aug- 1 ust31, 1899 248 95 1 i Total gross profits... $435,520 79 ' losses. j Supplies, bottles, corks 1*- i bels, wire, tinfoil, lonii I seals, boxes, nails, seal ] icg wax, etc., etc., used l duricg 3*ear $134,15:} at) j 1 Depreciated value of teams ' t and wagons 30 1'U i Depreciated value of a>a- j chinery and office fixtures 417 85 xo aq? 7fi *jUUuLftUU*ai^ ..;vv. v I Breakage and leakage 898 41 Freight and express charges 69,588 22 ( Labor 16,585 03 * Insurance 2,036 59 i License ......< 125 00 q Expense account?salaries, j expenses of inspectors. j per di^in and mileage of members of legislative i | examining committee. ( office supplies, lights, , telegrams, postage, stock i feed, ice, printing, reve- t Due stamps, telephone 1 rent, etc., etc., 19.2G7 61 ( Per diem and mileago of j members of State board of control 4,152 O'J t Litigation 503 65 ] Loss by robbery at Salkc- ( hatchie dispensary Pec. < 30, 1898 14 72 ] Loss by fire at Jacksonboro dispeosary Jan. 6, 1899, ? $426.86, less insurance A on saaio, $200.00 226 86 WnrtTilp^s wines at, VV .1 Mott's dispensary, Charleston, destrojtu |,y i county board of control 59 10 ^ Under credit in reduction 1 of prices of good* ai the 1 Manning dispensary, i Aug 15, 1S39 100 00 i Unpaid license by DispeDS- t erat Ulmers, the profits I of that dispensary not e being sufficient to bear s. expenses : 50 00 c Amount of liquors taken - _ c from the Blacksburg dis- " 1 pensary ou April 4,1899, c by soldiers 30 5fr c Amount of whiskey taken i from the Varnville dis- t pensary on April 11, t 1899, by soldiers 8 37 i Worthless ale and porter at c j Von Santen's dispensary, Charleston, destroyed by county board of control 23 65 Loss by robbery at the Kishopville dispensary April 28, 1899 143 84 Loss by robbery at thi; Wincsboro dispensary May 15, 1899 198 98 Amount of empty boitles shipped to D II Trailer, commissioner, in 1894 and 1895, by T B E-irle, dispecsrr at Andersor. ar.d not credited on his account, until July 1,'99 luy 72 Amount of enpty bottles shipped to Commissioner Mi son in February, 1896, l?y A M Ronntrec. dis penser at Williston, and not credited od his ac count, until .July 11,1899 tiii DO Loss by rubbery at th<Jacksonb'iro dispensary Sept. 3, 1890 3i> 70' j Balance due State by P K Bas?er, beer dispenser ai Newberry, for royalty on unsold beer when his beer dispensary was elastd June 20, 1899, credited his account by order of board i? 10 Worthies* malt tonic at W T <Ve*s'beer dispensary, Laurens, destrojed Oct. 2, 1899, 30 t?0 Loss by robbery at M 8 Stoppclbein's dispensary. Charleston, Dec 11,1899 20 12 'f. i.i ?..~>e\i ooi oa i oiat expenses ?-*7i.ooi ou Net profits for year, passed to the credit of the school fund 193.689 49 Total $485.52) 79 Here is the cash statement for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1899: RECEIPTS. Balance in State treasury Dec. 31, 1898 $ 46,073 24 Tann-iru rpnpint;* Ss 13?) 740 Tfi February receipts 117,747 19 March receipts 120,116 29 April receipts. 98,945 52 May receipts 108,114 71 June receipts 87.311 54 July receipts 90,100 72 August receipts 324,492 08 September receipts 130.360 60 October receipts 182.198 55 November receipts 169,51186 December receipts 215,226 20 Total receipts for year.. .SI,592,866 02 Total $1,638,939 26 DISBURSEM EXl'S. January S 151,596 14 February 133.568 95 March 106,073 48 April 95 868 72 May 112.402 43 June 55 489 36 July 103,981 79 August 78.426 74 r? . 1 1 AT AO *7 1 O oepcemDer 10 October 126,221 74 November . 214 973 93 December. 1?9,287 85 Total disbursements for year $1,495,818 26 Balance in State treasury Dec. 31, 1899 143,121 00 Total $1,638,939 26 PURCHASES FOR YEAll. January............ $ 71,784 04 February.'.:.'. ! 81,509 13 March . ... 75,141 66 April S8,069 79 May 52,044 24 June 72 305 60 .Tulv _ 62.685 58 August 109,550 29 September 85.253 56 October 184 273 15 November 137,345 43 Deceruber 134,118 92 Total ?1,158,081 33 Killed and Eaten. Details have been received of the killiDg of the crew of the schooner Nikamarra on one of the islands of the Admiralty group by the natives. It is Baid ail the victims were eaten. The Xikamarra was owned by E. K For sytbe and bad Jeft New Britain early in October on ber trading cruise -to tbe Admiralties. On arrival there sbe was boarded by number of tbe natives, with whom f!apt. Balthe was unsuspectingly ioiDg business, wben be was set upon by his treacherous customers and killed, bis fate being shared by the mate and sis New Britain natives, all jf whom were cut and backed with knives and tomahawks. The natives Lhen plundered the vo^c'. Nothing ;ras known of the Juiiiug until some Lime afterward, ;vhen Mr. For?) the arrived on the scene with his other schooncr, the Nagara. He was accompanied. by Messrs. Bullock and Douosey, and they, too, were set uj on by :he natives i'rorn ambush as the white Ben rowed shorewards, using the rifles ^ken from the Nikamarra. Bullock >vas badly wounded with a shot through ! o thigh, but the boat partly regained :iie .N i.'sra, which, with her cus engine, reached open waters. Garden Work for February. Sow in hot b. as or cold frames early jabbagc, cauliflower, hect: onion, let:uce, radish; and in hot-beds sow egg plant, tomato and pepper. The last of ihe month sow in opeu ground early eas. spring kale, beets, bpirm-.h. e*r- j ot, ccit-ry, radish and parsley. Set j :ut onion sets, horse radish roots and iardy iettuce plants. Early plantings )f potatoes can be made. Hardy flower seeds can be forwarded either by sowng in hot-beds or in pots and boxes in .he house for later transplanting. Sow Wood's Evergreen Lawn Grass, the iarlier in the spring this is sown the setter. For the farm.?Prepare plant bedstnd put in Tobacco seed. Sow Canada ?ield Pess and Oats, and towards the ;nd of the month, Grass and Clover Seeds can safely be put in. Sow dwarf Sssex Rape for sheep grazing. Hnv Tnur seeds from T. W. T>V,v <J & . ?odp, Richmond, Va"., whose now ad- I rertisement appears in stjo'Iht co'usjq abiiiy Lamps.?To fill a burniDg :i it,, is a work of idiocy. Almost as iiuch so is it to leave a burning lamp viih thetiame low down. Explosions lave often fol-lowed such carelessness. Besides that, if left that way in a sleepng room, the burns of the lamp arc nost iiritating and unhealthy. Night apers have been introduced for this jurpose. The wick, after it once burns svenly, should not be trimmed with the 1/iicortt.Q nTiirn if Tin own with tfvn )t the tube, and Tubit lightly .with soft sloth or paper or an old tooth brush, then see that no bits of charred wick >r matches have fallen into the cavities >f a Roohester lamp, as they may flame ip aad'dkngerously heat the oil. When he lamp is first lighted, the wick, paricularly in cold weather, must be turned ip slowly, 01 it will smoke or break the ibimney. Despotism n Idaho. The New York orld has been printing a series of letters from the Coeur d'Alene mining district in Idaho, which, although obviously retained and conservative in tone, tell a story of official despotism worthy of France in the midle of the Dreyfus agitation. This is the story told without color and without enthusiasm: The Coeur d'Alene is one of the richest mining regions in the world. Its mines, discovered by struggling prospectors, have, after the usual course, passed into the hands of millionaire corporations. of which the Standr>Tr\wA fnrm o rlA_ I C11U. V./1A V-l V ?? u, i-Viiii cc v*,v minant part. Profits are liuge, and out of the rugged hills men who never go into the gloomy confines of the cany ons at Burke or Wardner draw enormous profits. The miners have for years been organized into the Western Federation of Miners. The men who work above ground?in concentrators, mills and the like?affiliate with the Knights of Labor. Union rates of wages were for underground men, $3.50 and for surface men, $3 a day. Perhaps the rate seems high to workers in other sections, but conditions of work in the Coeur d'Alene are difficult and dangerous, and the cost of living high. One mine "? 1 V - "I - 1 1 only in tne cusxnci. nas iung resisted the union influence and refused to pay the union scale. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, owned by the Standard Oil Company, stood for years as a menace to all other corporations that paid union wages. The story of the difficulties which grew out of this situation is a loner one and need not be retold here. They culminated in an outbreak of miners, who blew up with dynamite the concentrator of the Bunker Hill mine. In the turmoil two men were shot and killed. The correspondent whom the World sent to the scene reports that in this opinion the outrage on the company's property was perpetrated by union mines principally, but not by the union as an organization. Be that as it may?and the facts are much disputed?there can be nothing "Kn+- TonrnKatinn fnr t.ViP fint VU.U , which was lawless and murderous. But the state of Idaho aided and abetted bv the federal authorities and the war department, has since that outbreak adopted measures of representation so much more lawless, so much subversive of the principles of .American constitutional liberty, than anything the miners in their most lawless moments did, that the crime of eight months ago is forgotten in contemplai tion of the crime which is in progress today. On appeal of i the owners of the mine, the state declared martial law. Federal" troops?negro soldiers, as it happened?were rushed into the district, and arrested men by the wholesale. In the little town of Burke two companies of dismounted cavalry swept up and down the single street that, ran between the beetling hills either side and | caught all the inhabitants as in a drag-net. Some three hun dred men were thus caught, among them the commercial travelers who had just arrived in town, and all were put in box cars and thus imprisoned for periods ranging from two to three weeks. In time, as the number of prisoners increased, a stockade like that at Andersonville was built for their incarceration. Mark you, not one of these men was indicted, ? ^ ^ ^ 1-vtt -fvm iiU li UX1C CLi 1 CO ICU <JJ uilv x *-J constituted county authorities. All were taken in charge by federal soldiers, and some of them stayed in the stockade, or b bull pen, ;as it -was called, for r seven months, without trial, and were discharged without vindication.. Today in . Soshone . county, Idaho, no man can seek for employment without a permit issued by a state 'deputy whose authority is backed by federal bayonets. If his later actions offend the deputy .who gave him permission to look for a job, he will be turned out, however satisfactory his work be to his employers. The authorities say that martial law will be maintained for a year at least. This is the situation in a sovereign state of this American, union?not in Russia. It is the outcome of the militarism which has seized upon the ruling classes in the country. It is as the Massachusetts Democratic platform 'well said, a fitting corollary to the effort to shoot freedom into the Filipinos. Sueing Uncle Sam. A suit for $10,000 againpt the United States government was begun in the United States circuit court at Charleston Thursday by Arthur Lynah, and others. It is alleged by the plaintiffs that the improvements made in the Savannah river in deepening its channel and otherwise, resulted in flooding a rice plantation belonging to ihem. 3ir. Lynah is president of the Merchants and Miners bank of Charleston. A Horrible Place. Thoma3 J. Hunter, the former auditor of the Atlanta and West Point rail- ! road, brought back here from Morocco, whence he had fled, passed through Washington with his guards Friday en j route to Atlanta. Hunter says the j prison where he was confined in Morocco j is the most horrible place imaginable, j and he was glad to get away from it j alive at apy cost. - , . Local Option Bill* j The Appelt local option bill was j reported unfavorably in the senate | last night. The unfavorable report ! looked ai if it would be adopted at j once. Senator Appelt was otherwise j engaged when the report was made and j didn't hear it, but just as the vote was j about to be taken the senator asked j that the bill go on the calendar, and - J tms was aone. A Ario'l Cnan/lol A kjwaiAuaiThe case of Senator Clark, of Montana, who is charged with buying his seat in the United States Senate, is now being considered by the Senate committee on elections. It seems that j a lawyer of Butte, Montana, | named Wellcome was the manager of Clark's campaign in the Montana Legislature. State Senator Whiteside, of Montana, convinced that Wellcome was a Clark lobbyist, and present for; thft nnrrinsp of irrmronfirlv ob-! taining votes, set about ingrati- j ating himself in his confidence. | He succeeded, and ere long had j promised his vote to Clark and! agreed for $10,000 to aid Well- j come in securing certain other j votes. Whiteside thereupon j took into his confidence two! other members of the Senate, j J* ~ i? xl ~ ^ miorcmng xnem ui uie gauie iie was playing against Wellcome. He got these two Senators to agree also to give their votes to Clark for $10,000 each. Wellcome to deposit the $20,000 for the two votes in the hands of Whiteside as stakeholder, the money not to be paid over until the voles were delivered. A member of the house was also found who gareed to vote for Clark for S5,000, and this sum was also placed in Whiteside's hands as stakeholder. When Whiteside had first agreed to co-operate with Wellcome for $10,000 he had received $5,000 on account. This, with the other sums which he held as stakeholder, aggregated $30,000. It was at this stage of the game that Whiteside thought everything was ready for his coup before the Legislature, and so he arose in his place, recited the facts which have already been ffiven. denounced Wellcome as the financial agent of Clark, and as evidence of the truth of his story, sent up $30,000 in cash to the president of the Senate. A tremendous sensation followed. But if Whiteside's story is true Clark's agent had already fixed a majority of the body and they were obliged to stand together. As soon as the first shock of Whiteside's disclosure was rallied from, the Clark contingent in the Senate turned the attack upon Whiteside, declaring that this $30,000 had not been received from the agent of Clark, but it had been furnished by Marcus Daly, the copper king? who was a bitter opponent of Clark?for the purpose of making this grands a,nd play before the Senate in the hope of eliminating Clark from the senatorial race. They then proceeded to convict Whiteside of falsehood and expelled him from the body, leaving Clark master of the situation and proceeding with his election to the United Stnroc Spina to TV) A Alienists Chronicle in commenting on the case says "it is one of the most remarkable cases which have ever come before the public, and if the facts charged by Whiteside and sustained by the supreme court of Montana are satisfactorily proven before the United States Senate, they should not hesitate to expel Senator Clark from that body.'-' South Carolina Weather. The following data, covering a period of 29 years, have been compiled from the weather bareau records at Charleston^'. eriig the month of February: Temperature?Mean er normal tern-1 perature, 53 degrees. Tbe warmest! moDthwas that of 1884, wi:h an aver- j age of 61 degrees. The .coldest moDth was that of 1895, with an average of J 41 degrees. The highest temperature was 80 degrees, on February 18, 1891. The lowest temperature was 7 degrees, on February 14,1899. Average date on which first "killiDg" frost occurred m autumn, November 30. Average date on which last "killing" frost occurred in spring,- March 20. Precipitation (rain or melted snow)? Average for the month, 3 45 inches. Average number of days with .01 of at; inch or more, 10. The greatest monthly precipitation wasjl0.45 inches i.o 1874. The least monthly precipitation j was 0.51 inches, in 1898. 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