The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 24, 1911, Image 1

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& PUBLISHED THJIEE X GOT FA? FEE ? ?? ' Ibose Atlanta Lawyers Made a Good I hing Oat of ihe DisptBsary 9 TflEY WERE WELL PAID Receiving, i<"ifty Per Cent on Over Si^ judgments and "Conscience Mon-'. ey" Collected, AtJlanta Firm Has Tbis Year Been Paid. Nearly Fifty Thousand Dollars. The Columbia corrisspondent of the News and Courier says while the dis pensary commission has saved the . State a large sum of money, the toll for attorneys" fees has been limmense, % though, perhaps, not exorbitant for the class of work done. On over judgments or upon "conscience mon ?, ?y" !the Atlanta firm got 50 per cent ?commissions, wherever such was col lected. ~ ? ? ;.. Ab pointed out in The News and Courier a few days ago the firm got this year about $50,000, *:he exact amount being $45,134.75,' as shown by the official report to the General Y^^Assem'bly. In addition to this the firm would receive half of the Bern helm payment of a few days ago, netr ting the Atlanta firm $17,000, if paid under the original contract. These' are amounts for 1910, and up to the General Assembly's session in 1911. The expenses of the commission for attorneys* fees, ? commissions and salaries are shown by the official re ports of 1910 and 1911 to have been as follows: Report of 1910: | Expenses, salaries, in eluding.attorneys' fees' and commissions. . .$131,015 44 Graft account, (commis sions 50 per cent). . 19,750 00 -Total.j.$150;765- 44 Report of 1911: Graft* account, Atlanta Ann. . '." . .' . . .$ 49484 75 Grand total attorneys' fees, etc..$199?950 19 Up to the session of . the General Assembly in 1910 the following was the cash paid out during the com mission term: Expenses, salaries,, in cluding attorneys'fees. . .. / ' and commissions. . ^$1311015 *44 Supplies/. 16,321 50 .Freights. 1,953 41 Insurance. . ... . . 3,141 55 Graft accounts (commis sions 50 per cent). . 19,750 00 American Audit Co.. . 7,637 54 Dispensary commission's mileage and per diem- 7,087 54 Refund, People's Bank of Union. . .. ... . 674 77 Expenses, J. F. Lyon. . 3,493 49 Miscellaneous (sundry creditors). ..... 261.57 /Total. ..$191,336 81 Since January 12, 1910,the total disbursements by the commission for all purposes was !?'l 78,845.11. In 1910 the commission turned over $275,000 to the schools of the Slats and had a balance on hand of ^80,832.80. . During the year just passed the commission put to the credit of the State in the graft account $30,969.15. The net profits for the year were $7,184.63. SThe commission had altogether a balance of $120,S10.24.. This, added to the amount for this year, makes a profit of $192,094.37. .So that more than $4 75,000 has 'been saved to the State. WHITE MAN TO RANG. Supreme Court Afllrms Verdict in Bates Cose. iJoe Bates, a former policeman of the city of Spartanburg, must pay the death penalty at some futur date, to be assigned/ for killing a young white woman in the city of Spartan burg more than a year ago. A de cision, given by the Supreme Court Friday, affirms the sentence of death of the Spartanburg County Court. The opinion is by Associate Justice Gary. Bates was known as one of the most efficient .'policemen in the city of Spartanburg. He shot and killed a young girl, whom he loved, after she had married another man. He is about fifty years of age. The Umviritten Ijaw. Frank Richard, member of the Twenty-third infantry band, with rank of corporal, was shot and killed Friday in a restaurant at El Paso, Texas, by Henry C. Bermaur, a mem ber of the El Paso police force. Mrs. Bermaur was dining with Richard at the time. Shoots Self While Making a Bed. Miss Emma Bush, a negress, was wounded in the leg while making a bed In a boarding house in Wilming ton, Del. The weapon had been left under the pillow by its owner and, when it fell to the floor, it was dis charged. Two Were Shot. At Danville, 111., J. S. Mead, an ambulance driver, and Robert Shut, a veteran at the Soldieni' Home, were shot and instantly killed by Howard Tucker, another veteran. The trou ble between the men took place in the barn at the home. Met horrible end HEARD MAN'S LEG. THUMPING AGAINST THE WALL. Investigation Revealed the Fact That a Colored Man Had Been Caught in a PuUey. Attracted. by a monotonous thud, which occurred with clock-like reg ularity as the great belt whirled around its pulleys with tremendous rapidity in the saw mill of the Bur ton Lumber Co., Dr. T. M. Schar lock.residing on Carolina and Com ing streets, in Charleston, cast his eyes: .upward as ,. he was passing through rne room Thursday ? after noon at about 3 o'clock, and to his horror' found that the noise Was caused by the leg of a man beating against the .wall. Further investiga tion disclosed the fact that the* whole body,.ofvthe man was caught up in the pulley. The machinery-was im mediately .stopped, and it was found that life had been extinct some time. , ^Examination brought, forth the fact'that the man was Benjamin Grant, a mulatto, a tender in. the sawmill: Just how the accident oc curred will probably never come to light. It is probable that the negro had 'died some time before his body was discovered dangling from the pulley, because of the horrible wounds found on his body. Grant was'19 years "of age and was unmar ried. \ .Dr. Scharlock had just entered the Burton Lumber company's premises after a visit to several patients in that locality, when he was immedi^ ately -struck by the tact that the sawmill, though all the machinery was whirling, was without an atten dant. He spon became conscious of the monotonous thuds overhead, and knowing of the damage a brok en belt may inflict on the machinery of any plant, made an investigation. The belt was found to be working smoothly, with .the exception of 'the soft thuds which came with regu larity from one corner of the room. It took but A few seconds to find out the cause of the singular noise which had first attracted his.attention. Dr. .Scharlock immediately had the ma chinery stopped and the body. of. tr.e unfortunate negro extracted. The body was suspended about ^en feet from the floor and was fohnd to be horribly mutilated. ' ? GIRL SHOT BY A BOT. t Girl Is Seriously Wounded and the Boy is in Jail. Carl Haynes, a boy only eight years old, is a prisoner In the coun ty Jail at Spartapbur.g for shooting and probably fatally wounding Lois Wright, his playmate, just nine years old, at Drayton mill village early Friday. The little girl is at' the Spartanburg hospital; and the phy sicians say there is little chance of her recovery. The boy used a shot gun, the entire load from which took effect in the girl's left shoulder., . The children were playmates, but' it seems that following a childish quarrel this morning the boy threat ened ' to shoot the little girl, and, though she ran and was in the act of crawling; under a bed^to escape In jury, he followed her and carried out the threat. ?. , (The parents of the children are good friends. Lois is a daughter of J. Fred ; Wright of Drayton mill, a niece of J. Walter Wright of the Wright-Scruggs Shoe Company of Spartanburg. Carl's father Is W. D. Haynes who 1b an operator in Dray ton mills. The children had known each other for years, and so far as is known were devoted friends, com panions day by day while their pa rents were at their duties, and con stantly in each other's presence. Following the shooting the boy was carried before Magistrate Kirby and committed to jail. He told the offi cers he didn't mean to do it." Every Dog Killed. Every dog in the village of Durkee, Ore., was killed by the town's po lice Friday night. Earlier In the day a band of mad coyotes charged into the place, biting many people and dogs. The settlers armed and waged war against the intruders for many hours. They then turned their guns against the dogs, fearing that the rabies, which is rampant among the I coyotes in the district, would spread. Caused by Gasoline. At Evergreen, Ala., fire which originated in a garage Friday night destroyed every building on the North side of Court Square with the exception of an Infirmary. Explo sion of gasoline caused the blaze. The loss has not yet been established. Don't forget that to lose in loving is better than to gain by self-sebk ing. Fired All of Them. Gov. Blease Friday issued a pro clamation voiding Saturday the com missions of all constables and detec tives in the State appointed by his predecessors under the dispensary act. This is a sweeping and striking action interesting Richland and Charleston counties particularly. Forty Lives Lost. A news dispatch from Sosnowic, Russian Poland, says that 40 miners i lost their lives in a fire in the Casimir j colliery near that place. Three hun dred and sixty others escaped. AMOUNT NEEDED I TO DEFRAY EXPENSES OF THE STATE FOR THIS YEAR. Comptroller-G eneral. Gives a Detailed Account of Money That Might be Spent by Departments. A tax levy of five mills will be necessary for the State government of South Carolina, according to an estimate prepared and sent to the general assembly by Comptroller General. Jones. This, estimated levy for this year is three-fourths of a mill less than the levy for 1910. The five mills levy will be sufficient if the estimated expenditures are not ex ceeded. The estimated expense of the gov ernment of South Carolina for 1911 will be -$1,642,000, according to Comptroller General Jones. This Is an increase of $94,549.84 over 1910. J He saysHhat Jlt will be necessary for1 the' State "bo borrow the sum of $550,000 for running expenses for 1911. i ? . The following are the estimates of the various departments of the State ] government: Governor's office. . . .$ 16,230.00 Secretary of state's-office 6,820.00 Comptroller general's of fice. . .. 11,700.00 State treasurer's office. . 7,600.00 Superintendent of educa tion's office. .... 7,000.00 Adjutant and inspector general's office. . . .? 16,820.00 Attorney general's office. 7,845.00 Railroad commission's office. . . . . . ". .. 11,570.00 State librarian's office. . 1,700.00 Public buildings. . . . 45,255.83 ?State .geologist. . . . . 3,400.00 Game protection. ? ? ? 2,900.00 Department of agricul ture. i. . . . . .. 19,220.00 Judicial department. 95,670.00 Health department, . . 16;'200.00 Tax department. 86,833.14 University of South Car ? olina-.fS n . . 5-7.183.19 Winthrop Normal andjn- . dustrial obliege. :. s. . 113,102.40 South Carolina Military academy. 25,000.00 Institution, for education of deaf, dumb and I blind., . . 29,100.00 South Carolina Indus trial' and Mechanical college. . . J. . 19,000.00 Other educational pur 'poses.. . . 68,039,65 State Hospital for In sane. .. 311,968.56 South Carolina Indus trial school. . . . . . 6,000.00 State penitentiary. ... 6,550.00 Other charitable and pen al purposes. 760.00 Pensions. . . . . . . . 264,000.00 Historical commission. . 2.550.00 Interest on bonded debt 295,886.22 Elections.. 13,050.00 Miscellaneous. 62,740.00 Total.$1,642,243.99 blease Announces staff. Takes Gentlemen From Different Parts of the State. Gov. Blease announced Friday af ternoon the personnel of his official staff as follows: . With the Bank of Colonel?Marion Davis, Newberry; Judge Advocate General, John M. Cannon, Laurens, commissary general, Ivy M. Mauldln, Pickens; surgeon general, J. Wm. Wessinger* Lexington; chief of or dnance, Alfred M. Richardson, Barn well. Aides, with the Rank of Colonel? Charles Newnham, RIchland; John Maxwell Richardson, Aiken; Charles J. Epps, Horry. Aides-de-Camp, with the Rank of Lieutenant Colonel?John P. Grace, Charleston; James G. Long, Jr., Un ion; Clarence e. Tolly, Anderson; John G. Barron, Chester: Wm. A. Klrby, Dorchester; J. P. Carlisle, Greenville; B. G. Landrum, Spartan burg; Taylor Lewis, Marion; Isaac Appelt, Clarened'on; Walter 0. Srubbs, Sumter; Graydon Bamberg, Bamberg; Victor B. Cheshire, An derson;. J. P. Henagan, Marlboro; John K. Aull, Ne* berry. Renegade Democrats Scared. IThe Montana legislature In- joint session at Helena Friday condemned the action of certain "socalled Dem-[ ocrats" In the legislature of Massa chusetts in voting for the reelection of United States Senator Henry Ca bot Lodge, declared that the reelec tion of Lodge was, on its face, the result of a corrupt bargain and de manded rigid investigation of the method by which Lodge obtcined his election. Gets n Life Term. In the court of general sessions at Greenville on Wednesday a negro man, Clee Harris, was convicted of murder and recommended to the mercy of Mie court. Judge Gage sen tenced him to the State penitentiary for the balance of his life. Harris killed another negro, Jim Williams, in Greenville on the Bth of last No vember. A Cow Did It. At Monroe, Okla., four persons were injured, one seriously, Friday afternoon when a Chicago, Rock Is land & Pacific passenger train struck a cow. The engine was derailed and J. L. Curry, engineer, badly injured. Two passengers and the firemen were slightly hurt. S. C, TUESDAY. J ANITA Supreme Coori Decides That Having Li quor for Pt -rsm\ Use DOES NOT VJOLATE LAW In Passing on a Disputed Section of - the liquor Law the State's High est Legal Tribunal Reverses a Circuit and Gives a Man a New Trial. . j ?Holding that it is not unlawful to have whiskey in possession for personal use, and defining the pow ers of the Act of 1909 with refer ence to the sale of whiskey clearly, the Supreme Court reversed the Spartanburg County Court, in the case of Elias Rookard, who was con- j victed for violation of the Act. The opinion is by Associate Justice Woods and construes clearly the. several sec-| tlons of the Act, which have never before -been reviewed by. the Supreme Court. . The defendant was convicted in Spartanburg County in January of last year, on the charge of,having whiskey lh his possession and was in dicted under the section of the Act of 1909, which ends: "And which if drunk to excess will produce in toxication, except as hereinafter pro vided." No question as to the con stitutionality of the Act was raised in. the appeal, but the defendant con tended that the Circuit Judge erred in" his construction of the statute, when he charged the jury in effect j that the statute makes the mere' keeping in possession liquor by a private individual a criminal [offense;* and that,, therefore, the [jury should convict ' if they found that the defendant had liquor I in his possession, even if they should [find that he had not unlawfully re ceived nor accepted'" it and- had hot kept it in possession for an unlawful use.- ?' ? ' The decision of the Supreme Court says that the question 'is whether the I Circuit Judge was right 'In holding the Act of 1909j to prohibit and make criminal the keeping in possession of liquor in this [ State under all cir cumstances, without regard to the manner of acquiring possesion or I the purpose for' which the liquor was ac.q'uired.T "It ^eems clear 'that the statute cannot be so construed," says j the opinion. The- Court continues: "Such a construction would make" the Act itself destructive, for. other sec j tions of this Act, as well as portions 'of the dispensary statute of 1907, I recognized by'this statute as1 still in ! force,'provide for the sale'of liquor !by the county dispensaries, and cer | tninly a legal sale and purchase car ried- the right ;to 'the purchaser- to ikeep in his possession the liquor he has purchased, provided he does not apply it to an unlawful use." ? .-The Court continues that one may lawfully keep In his possession liquor purchased for personal' use under the protection of the Inter-State com merce clause of the Federal Consti tution. "Any attempt" says the de cision, "by, the General Assembly to interfere with this right would be futile and the presumption is very Strong against th'e legislative Inten tion to make such an attempt In deed, the right to keep in posses sion liquor so purchased, is expressly recognized in Section 28 or the Dis pensary Act of 1907, which has not been repealed." The Court says that it follows that the provision of the Act of Ift09,l making it unlawful "to keep in pos session" in "Chls" State," intoxicating liquora "except as hereinafter pro vided," means that it should be a misdemeanor to keep in possession li-: quor which had not been unlawfully obtained, that Is, obtained in a man ner not recognized-.as lawful by that Act or the unrepealed provision of the Act of 1907, or to keep in pos session for sale or some other use forbidden by the statute liquor law fully obtained." The conclusion Is reached that a new trial Should b?; ordered. Both Are Dead. Mattle Hand las was shot and killed on the sidewalk at. Gay and Exeter streetB, Baltimore, Md., Fri day by Herman Ensor, who after wards turned the pistol upon him self, inflicting a wound from which he died in a hospital an hour later. Each of the victims was about thirty years old. A lovers' quarrel is be lieved to have been the cause. Fell to Their Death. At Seattle John Anderson, * a sa loon proprieter, and Ben Christen sen, a bartender in his employ, were instantly killed. The men were en gaged in a friendly tussle. The room had been cleared to make way for them when they suddenly fell to ward the window, the sash gave way, the men balanced on the brink a mo ment and then plunged head first to the cobbles'ones from three stories above. Commutes Sentence. Governor Blease today commuted the sentence of death of Jobn Pen dergrass, who was to have been hanged in Williamsburg county, to life imprisonment. Pendergrass was convicted of the murder of H. Harri son last ye<ir. Execution was stayed pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. .BY 24, 1911. DEADLY HOT SUPPER THREE NEGROES KILLED AND EIGHT ARE WOUNDED. Some Were Shot, and Some Others Were Injured by Running Into Barbed Wire Pence. \ ?? Jerry'Preesly, Will Watt and Alice Bozeman, all colored, are dead, and eigh t others are more or less serious ly hurt as the result of a general row at negro dance 12 miles south of Anderson/ The injured Include Charles Hall, who has a shattered hip, and Sam CUnkscales, shot through the leg, just below the thigh. Both are seriously hurt. ' Several of the others injured were hurt by contact with barbed wire fences in getting away from the gen eral, fusillade of shots fired at tte house. The shooting occurred on the plan tation of J. L. Jackson and seems to have been due to the presence of a negro woman from Atlanta. She was dancing with Jerry Pressly when the couple was fired on from the outside and mortally wounded. The light was extinguished and a general fusillade of shots followed? more than 100 shots being fired. When iho smoke had cleared the thrse named were found fatally wounded, dying, the latter two in Ab beville county. It is yet impossible to get full par ticulars of the shooting. A coroner's jury was empaneled, but was dis missed until Monday afternoon to await possible developments. The house where the trouble oc curred is riddled with bullets and shot. It is understood that one arrest has been made. MAKES DEADLY THREAT. Col. Tillman Issues a Statement De nying Reports. A dispatch from Ashevllle, N. C, to the New York World says exhibit ing his old time fire and showing that his bitter hatred has not abated even though he "is wasting away under ravages of disease, Col. James H. Tillman, former Lieutenant-Governor of' South' Carolina; anil, slayer of N. G: Gonzales/editor of the Columbia State, has issued a statement char acterizing as lies stories ? sent out from Edgefleld, S^ C.,.that he was de serted by his family and was dying in poverty. "When I have recovered my health,' then as in the past, no quarter will be asked and 'none allowed." From a 'etter from Gov. Blease, just inaugurated in South Carolina, Mr. Tillman quotes: "Don't lose your nerve. Be what you have always been, a brave man. Take courage and win your fight. Get well and come back home and be here with me in my fteht to redeem South Carolina from Cuban and ne gro domination." Col. Tillman has dlscftarsed Mra~ Mary D. Schofield, a trained nurse, becasue she made an appeal to his uncle, Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, for funds to get necessaries of life for him. According to the nurse Sena tor Tillman's letter says: "He is reaping what he has sown and wheth er he realizes it or not, Nemesis Is dogging his footsteps and will to the grave." Tillman Is now attended by a ne gro woman. His physician says he is Improving somewhat. Within his reach he keeps a loaded shotgun. THIRTY DAYS SESSION. Senator Lide's Bill to That Effect i Passes Senate. At .the afternoon session Friday I the senate decided for a 30 day ses sion. Not without discussion, much of it, for some of the senators, at least sixteen of the forty-three^ 'do not want to adjourn sine die Febru ary 10. After many of the senators had spoken on the bill the concur rent resolution, Introduced by Sen ator Lide of Orangeburg, providing for a thirty day session' was passed by the senate and sent to the house. . ^Senator Appelt moved to strike oiit the resolving words of the resolution. The motion was lost by a vote of twenty to sixteen. The resolution was then passed. The vote on Sen ator Artpelt's motion to strike out the resolving words was: Yeas?Ackerman, Appelt, Carlisle, Christensen, Grosson, Earle, Epps, Ginn. Green. Hardin. Johnstone, Lawton Stuckey, Waller, Weston, Young?16. Nays?Bates, Black, Forrest, Hall, Johnson, Laney. Lide, Manning, Mars, MaulUn, McCown, Montgom ery, Muckenfnss, Snivey, Ralnsford, Stewart, Strait, Sullivan, Summers, Wharton?20. Bull Causes Suit. Because he alleges he was gored by a bull owned by the professor, G. M. Sheppard has entered suit in the district court at Austin, Texas, ask ing that L. M. Keasby, professor of sociology at the Texas State Univer sity, be required to pay him $40,000. Insane From Blow. A raving maniac from the effects of being struck in the eye a year ago by a snow ball thrown by a boy, Herbert Porter, a professional baseball player, was placed in the asylum for the Insane at Poughkeep sie, N. Y., m Friday. THEY TALI IT OVER BLEASE'S ACTION CAUSES MUCH I DISCUSSION. His Removal of the Notaries Public and State Constables Was Not Ex pected by Any. Governor Blease's action Friday in "firing" all notaries1 public In South Carolina and giving notice that he would also turn out the dispensary constabulary, waH the subject of com ment in State circles Friday evening. Several reasons are assigned as pos sible for the action with regard to the notaries public. The first is that there are a number of negroes who are notaries public. Observant persons about the State House have noted the large number of commissions Issued within the last two mouths, In the closing days of Governor Ansel's administration, to those wanting to be notaries public. There have been 'probably 200 no taries public commissioned In the i last few months. The frank reason was given by some that'they "want ed to get In before the new admin istration." Governor Blease, it Is suggested, may have Celt this. There was an essential difference in the message of Governor Blease i and that of Governor Tillman, the j latter 'having done somewhat the same thing during his admiuistra-| tion. Governor Tillman said he wanted to be rid of the carpet-bag gers of the lime. Negroes have been appointed notaries public since the days of Hampton. Governor Ansel appointed several. Governor Tin man's proclamation did not do away with all notaries public, but oniy those appointed during certain years. ''" 1 In the Senate Friday the reading of Governor Blease's message at first created some consternation. It was! read twice and. then, after discussion ' of a few minutes, was referred, to the committee on judiciary, afterward being recalled from that committee. Senator Weston suggested the danger to many bank officers, of which are notaries often. The announcement later to the effect that the proclama tion would n'ot go Into effect until February 10 e^sed matters. The message was received as information. The fee charged for a notary com mission is $3.25, although the orig inal statute made It $3.21. The 25 cents Ib to cover cost of postage, etc. Thus, for 7,000 notaries, new com missions would be $15,000, if that many are reappointed, which Is doubtful. ACID. FOR HER CHILD. Mother Gave Poison When Her Son Asked for Water. '' Her desire to become the i Ife of Howard Kirk, a draughtsman, is be lieved to have caused Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow of Schehectady, N. Tv to kill her five-year-old son. To day she is in prison in Albany on charge of murder in the firBt degree and ?ne confesses that she gave her child carbolic acid when he asked for 'a drink of water. Asked why she committed the crime, Mrs. Melber declared he was In "everybody's way." j After being placed in her cell Mrs. Melber failed to show any grief or jconcern over the death of her'son, Geor'gie, who was four years of age. [She did not desire to see his dead body nor did she take any Interest in the funeral arrangements. She did ask that she be furnished a black dress. Specialists in mental diseases who have examined her declare she Is rational and was rational at tne time of the murder. Young Kirk, who had been paying some attention to" Mrs. Melber, de clares that ho engagement existed between them and' that the subject of matrimony had never been men tioned. BLEASE NAMES DELEGATES. Represent State at Southern Com mercial Congress. Delegates to the Southern CoraniPr clal Congress ro be held lu J "'anta cn Congress to be held in Atlanta on March 8, 9 and 10, were appointed Friday by Governor Blease as fol lows: Geo. F. Von Kolnitz, Charles ton; Thomas F. Brantley, Orange burg; Jas. Stackhouse, Marion; Sam J, Nichols, Spartanburg; H. Endel, Greenville; Otto Klettner, Newberry; Dr. H. K. Aiken, Laurens; Jno. J. Seibels, Columbia; Thomas B. But ler, GafTney; C. J. Shannon. Jr., Cam den; D. S. Henderson, Aiken; Henry G. Tillman, Greenwood; J. Arthur Banks. St. Matthews; Jas. P. Carey, Jr., Anderson; Thomas Wilson, Sum ter; J. W. Gibbes, Columbia. Prevent Disaster. Prompt work by firemen and at tendants of the Susquehanna Valley home at Binghampton, N. Y., is thought to have saved the lives of all the 155 children inmates when fire broke out in the boiler room of the dormitory building at five o'clock Wednesday morning. New Food Law. The enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act has commenced. The law will be enforced in conjunction with the feedstuffs law. The en forcement of the law will be under the direction of Dr. A. C. Doyle, who was recently appointed to the posi tion by Commissioner Watson. m GENTS PEE COP Y WILL LOSE JOBS Governor Bleas e Tains All! the Wotamv Poblic Oat of OTice. TELLS WHY HE DID IT Commissions First Declared "Noll and Void" January 21, but Gov ernor Blease, at Suggestion of .Mr. Stevenson, Makes x'roclamatiott Effective February 10. There was much consternation Friday when the first message of Gov ernor Blease was sent td the House; says the Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier. Under the terms of the message, Governor Blease notified the House that he had issued a proclamation "declar ing null and void all commissions of notaries public, within this State, bearing dates prior to the 21st of' January, 1911." He then went on to give his reasons. There are a number of bank of ficials and lawyers in the House, and they immediately took alarm, over what they considered a wholesale re vocation of the rights of the notaries' throughout the State. They felt that" many notes and other papers might be protested today, and with a revo cation of their rights that there might .be trouble. Some of the at torneys , for banks were starting to telegraph their banks to have notes and other papers protested before' the Clerk of Court and to have, the same done as to other notarial duties. Mr. Stevenson volunteered that'he' would go down and see Governor Blease and suggest that this was too sudden and that some time had bet ter be allowed to have new commUK elons Issued. Mr. Stevenson returned' to the hall and announced that-'he' had seen Governor Blease and that he had consented to have the procla mation go into effect February 10.% This would' indicate that all ? who' hold commissions as notaries public will have to get new ones. The mes sage of Governor Blease reads: r State of South Carolina, Executive Department, Message No. 1. ? Gentlemen of the General Assem bly: 1'this day issue a proclamation declaring null and void all commis sions of notaries public within this' State, bearing the dates prior to the 21st day of January, 1911. I desire to call you attention'to the fact that this is a very important' position, carrying much more power than Is thought. There Is no limita tion to the term of office and gen-' erally the appointment is made without'the persoi.al knowledge of the Governor of the appointee. I think some' qualifications should be necessary in order ? to hold this office, and I also think that some term should be fixed' by law for the holding of the position. I recommend that you pass an Act along the lines herein indicated. ; f shall make no appointments for this' position until I have given you op portunity to act. Very respectfully;' ; Cole L. Blease, Governor. The supplementary message" ot Governor Blease, changing the date,' reads: Gentlemen of the General' Assembly: Upon further considera tion I have decided to make the date of expiration of all commissions of nortaries public expire February 10,' 1911, Instead of January 21, as stated in my previous message of this date. Cole L. Blease, Governor.. Columbia, January 20. Governor Tillman, in his revoca tion, made these terms: I hereby declare that every commission is sued prior to January 1, 1889, shall expire on January 1, 1894, and said offices shall become vacant. New Orleans Win. By a vote of n'ne to six New ON leans was selected Friday by the house committee on' expositions as the' site for the Panama canal expo sition in 1915, says a Washington dispatch. The bill giving recognition to. New Orleans was referred to a subcommittee for slight changes. It Is expected an appropriation will be granted. Desperado Lynched. Oval Pouilard, a negro desperado, who shot Chief Deputy Sheriff Edgar Lefleur, of Evangeline parish, was lynched at Ville Platte early yester day morning. Officer Lefleur, who was shot while attempting to arrest the negro on a charge of discharging firearms in the town, received only a flesh wound. Died at the Opera. While witnessing the play at lh? French Opera at New Orleans Mon day -night, Mrs. Edmund Cabiro, a member of one of the most promi nent Creole families in the city, was stricken by death. The audience thought Mrs. Cabrio had fainted and she was carried out as the play went on. Check for $1600 Found in Old Desrr. While cleaning out a desk that be longing t:o the late Simon W. Greg ory, in Hartford, Conn., Frank H. Crygier found a check for S1.60Q. It was hidden in the crack of a desk that had not been used for twenty years.