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PUBLISHED THBEE T?
jp BIG SUM
Congress Appropriates Over One Billion
Dollars Last Session,
NEAR THE ESTIMATES
?,?
According to Both Tawney and Liv
ingston This Exceeds President
Taft's Fi)!Hires by Only One Million
Do/Qars When Ho Estimated
'Amount to Bun the Government.
Appropriations at , the last session
of congress aggregated $1,025,49$.
S62, according to the statements Is
sued Friday by Former Representa
tivev Tawney of Minnesota and Liv
ingston of Georgia, who were re
spectively chairmen and ranking
Democrat of the house appropriations
committee In the last congress. Mr.
Tawney uaying this is less
than $1,000,000 in excess of the
total estimates of President Taft on
which the appropriations are based,
oays high tribute to the executive
:!or good iaith in scrutinizing esti
mates and computes that the sur
plus of revenues next year will be not
less than $26,542,000, which, with
any part of the treasury cash balance,
may be applied to the sinking fund.
Against this Mr. Livingston says
the last se&fllon record demonstrated
that when, the Democratic party
comes Into complete control of the
governmen t, "this billion dollar mark
for a session's appropriations estab
lished four years ago at the first ses
sion of the Sixtieth congress, can not
be substantially lowered, if lowered
at all."
Mr. Tawney renews his recommen
dation for the consolidation of the
appropriating jurisdiction of the
house under a single committee oi
sufficient fite to be representative of
all sectionu of the country and of all
branches of the public service. Eight
committee:; now consider and report
appropriation bills and Mr. Tawney
says no reform is more important.
The committee on appropriations,
which reports more than half of the
total appxoprlations of congress, re
ported during the first regular ses
sion of th<!> last congress $16,933,925
less than the estimates, while the ap
propriations by all the other appro
priating committees, according to Mr.
.Tawhet^tere-"$27,S31,4<)2' in excesb
of the estimates. Mr. Tawney claims
that if this consolidating reform had
been effected, it would have saved
$62,000,0)0 at that session alone.
Mr. Tawney says one of the evils
Incident to this divided appropriation
jurisdiction is the practice of making
appropriations immediately available,
large port ions of many appropriation
? bills being In fact designed to cover
up deficiencies in the preceding year.
He points out that the aggregate for
the past sssslon, which includes $4,
000,000 lor the Appalachian forest
reserve, is $2,500,000 less than the
aggregate for the preceding session
of congress and that the aggreate
of the entire last congress, which ex
act aggregate is not given in his
statement, is an increase of $600,000
over the preceding congress.
Mr. Tawney says that in the six
years of his chairmanship of the ap
propriations committee the estimates
have amounted to $6,061,257,132, of
which congress granted all but $165,
662,264.
Declaring that the Democrats want
to save the people of this country
from the danger which threatens
them because of the rampant expen
diture of their money that has been
.going on for the past 12 years, Mr.
Livingston in his statement contends
that militarism is a menace and that
Democratic accession will prevent na
tional bankruptcy. He says it is a
superhuman task to restore expendi
tures to a normal level because of the
enormous liability fastened upon the
treasury "by the statutory increase of
the enlisted strength of the army and
navy four-fold since Mr. Roosevelt
was so unhappily called to the execu
tive office of the republic."
Sounding a note of warning
against "threatened onerous" direct
tax with all its inquisitorial features,
Mr. Livingston said that if that day
comes, "the people will rise In their
might with a cry that will oe heard
to the remotest corners of the earth
and shako from themselves and their
posterity the manacles of burden
some taxation fostered by the Repub
lican party. That day is not distant
unless we stop instanter in this pre
cipitatiouB, money wasting race wo
are now engaged in."
Mr. Livingston says the nations of
the old world stand agape and won
der over the magnitude of appropri
ations and increased federal activity.
He compares appropriations for the
Fifty-third congress, the last Demo
cratic one, aggregating $917,013,523,
with those of the past congress for
the twe fiscal years of 1911 and 1912,
aggregating $2,053,391,291 and de
clares that in 12 years there has
been more than 500 per cent in
crease in. all expenditures, the army
and navy each increasing more than
400 per cent. He bespeaks for the
incoming Democratic house economy,
particularly in those government de
partments relating to the enormous
expenditures for war purposes." *
Gets a Big Slice.
Of the $790,000 inheritance tax
paid to Utah by the Harriman estate,
$750,000 will be appropriated by the
legislature for a State capitol. The
decision was reached at a caucus.
DEES A WEEK.
BLOWS UP THE TOWN
DYNAMITE SHOCKS WRECK VIL
LAGE IN WISCONSIN.
Nearly Every House in Vi JIage of 700
Inhabitants Carried Down by Force
of Concussions. >
Smouldering ruins and the wrecks
of cottages strew the uite of the
little village of Pleasant Prairie, Wis.,
where Friday night the magazines of
the Dupont de Nemours Power Com
pany exploded, killing at least one
man, injuring 200 persons, causing
damage of $1,500,000 v.:th a\radlus
of 100 miles, and rocking seven
States.
While the officers of the comp.my
assert that all the employes except
E. S. Thompson, a-foreman, were ac
counted for, three of the men could
not be found after the explosion.
Pleasant Prairie is ten miles west
of Kenosha, Wis. The powder mill is
a mile north of the village. The force
of the explosion completely demol
ished the houses on Geneva roao,
which were nearest the mill, and
every house in the village was wreck
ed. Almost equal damage das done in
Bristol, four miles west.
Blown from their beds and with
the wrecage of their houses tumb
ling about them the residents of
Pleasant Prairie loaded their half
clad families on far:. wagons and
moved in a long procession in search
of shelter in Kenosha.
The escape of Supt. Clarence Brady
was remarkable. He was in the soda
house with Engineer Flynn at the
time pf the explosion. The men were
blown through the building and land
ed on the roof of the ad joining maga
zine. This exploded instantly, and
Brady and Flynn, the Titter badly in
jured, were thrown a hundred feet
from the building. Flynn Buffered
internal injuries and inhaled poison
ous fumes. His condition is precari
ous. Brady escaped practically un
scathed.
Brady's wife of th; a months in
his residence a mile from the works,
was badly cut (by broken glass and
bruised by falling debris. That the
powder in the plant was being rushed
through on a hrrry order from the
government for use In the Texas
frontier was denied Friday night by
Supt, Brady. When daylight gave a
clear view of the ruip.s it was seen
that the fire was out.
_ Three-... .hp!ep_ marked the ^ alten
where three of the Magazines hau
stood. The holes were each moro
than fifty feet across and as deep.
One had broken into a epring and was
half full of water. Part of the en
gine house and" the hundred foot
brick chimney of the p'unt still stand.
The village was almost completely
deserted by women an.* the men here
went hungry. Not only are most of
the stores blown down and broken up,
I but the supply of food is so scattered
I as to be of little use.
The* district school house near the
village was wrecked. Tit was not nec
essary to dismiss school, however,
for of the 45 pupils all but a halt
dozen either were too Injured to at
tend or had moved with their parents
during the night to p. aces of safety.
A steel cylinder, thought to have
been used in the glassing room, was
hurled through the air and crashed
through the roof of the general store,
two miles away, tearing a hole five
feet in diameter through the roof,
the first and second floor and into
the earth. H. A. King, In an adjoin
ing room, was thrown to the floor
unconscious by the shock. Roads and
fields In the vicinity are strewn with
boulders, some of wt.:ch weigh sev
eral hundred pounds.
In spite of tremendous force of the
explosion and the fact that nearly
every one who was within ten miles
of the factory when it. took place was
hurt, in no more than a half dozen
cases were the injuries severe. *
THERE MUST BE A CHANGE.
Republican Party Must Progress or
It Will Die.
Gifford Pinchot, speaking at Ak
ron at the banquet of the progressive
Republicans of Ohio, said the Amer
ican people had devoted the last
third of the nineteenth century "to
the great task of material develop
ment," He continued:
"When the great combinations of
capital found that monopolistic con
trol of the natural sources of wealth
could be secured more easily through
politics than in any other way, they
went into politics. Using |corrupt
commercial methods with the tire
less efficiency they had learned in
theii legitimate operations, they set
out to get political power, and they
[succeeded. Political power opened
an easy way to use money to get
more money, and they clung to it
till they wore their welcome out. The
Payne-Aldrich tariff was the last
straw.
"Whatever rs right and vital in
the Republican party today is pro
gressive. Whatever is unprogressive
is dying or dead. The Republican
party cannot, live half dead and half
alive."
After praising progressive legisla
tion by State legislature, which he
said was not reactionary, Mr. Pin
chot ?aid, "In the Held of national
politics the situation Is less clear."
He said the Republican candidate
for President In 191- must be a pro
gressive and have certain qualities,
for the party could not risk its
chance of victory on the hope of
Democratic blunders.
0RANGEBU1
PASSING OF BAILEY
REGARDED IX WASHINGTON | AS
POLITICALLY DEAD.
His Hope of Ever Standing at the
Head of the Democratic Party is
Dead.
Senator Bailey seems to be looked
upon in Washington as a dead polit
ical duck. This seems to be the
opinion of both Democrats and Re
publicans in Washington, woere all
the facts in the case have come out.
They seem to think that Bailey's
connection with some of the trusts
has done the .business for that gen
tleman, and that he is no longer
looked upon as a Democrat who ca/i
be trusted ?with the ledership of the
party. Here is what the Washington
correspondent of the Charlotte Ob
server says about Bailey's standing
in the Democratic party:
"Since the exposure of his deal
ings with the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany there has remained in the
minds of many persons a lingering
suspicion that as a Senator, serving
in Congress net only in the interest
of the cne State from which he
comes?but in the general Interest
of the people at large, he should sev
er any legal connections that he
might have which would conflict with
the higher duties as a member of the
Senate. Since the oil case was
brought to light Senator Bailey has
made no concealment of the fact that
he had\and would represent certain
cases in the United States Supreme
Court.
"The Texas Senator, if general
gossip here is worth anything, has
ruined all hope that he might have
had of again securing and holding
the high position he had won for
himself -before the Waters-Pierce
matter came to light. If he meant
his resignation to be accepted, it is
claimed, he knew that he could nev
er, in all the years he might continue
to serve in the Senate under present
conditions, unite with or co-operate
with the other Democratic members
to the best interests of the Demo
cratic party.
"Did he mean it to be taken seri
ously and accepted or was he mereiy
playing for position, making a
"stage play" to feel of the Bentimeni
of his colleagues and the people of
the country by which he meant to
profit politically for his own benefit
should" there" nave been a sudden and
spontaneous demand that he become
the leader in the upper House or
Congress for having made himseh
a martyr to his own whims? What
ever may have been the cause that
actuated him in showing his desire
to immediately quit the Senate, one
thing is certain:
"Senator Bailey will never again
be as big a man as he was prior to
March 4, 1911. There was no spon
taneous and frenzied appeal to Bai
ley to recall his resignation, though
It is true that, naturally, a few of his
colleagues, surprised at what he had
done, expressed their surprise and,
as his close personal friends?and he
has many of them?wanted his ac
tion rescinded.
This correspondent seems tu think
that John Sharp Williams, who suc
ceeds Maney from Mississippi in the
Senate, will be the Democratic lead
er in the Senate. He was for a long
time the Democratic leader in the
House, when he was a member of
that body. "Who else has the Sen
ate to depend upon on the Demo
cratic side who could so ably handle
the Republicans as John Sharp Wil
liams?" asks the correspondent who
says "to follow Bailey is out of the
question because, to use his own
wordi3, he would not stand for initia
tive, referendum and recall, which
was a policy advocated by some of
his colleagues." "
I FREED OF MURDER CHARGE. J
Mrs. Rosa Hayes and Her Husband
Are Acquitted.
As the finale to a sensational trial
in the superior court at Whiteville,
N. C, the jury late Saturday after
only brief deliberation returned a
verdict of not guilty both as to Mrs.
Rosa Hayes, charged with being
principal in the killing of Robert M.
Floyd, a medical student of Charles
ton, S. C, on the night of February
4, and as to her husband, Neill M.
Hayes, charged with being an acces
sory before t.ie fact. Lloyd Hayes, a
younger brother of Neill Hayes, aisii
charged with being an accessory was
discharged earlier in the week on a
nolle prosse. Mrs. Hayes admitted
the killing of young Floyd, but plead
ed that she shot in defense of her
honor.
Morses Killed Enroute.
Eight horses were burned to death
when a stock car attached to a troop
train on the Missoui, Kansas and
Texas railroad, was destroyed by fire.
The train was enroute from Fott
Lea'venworth to San Antonio. None
of the soldiers were injured. The
journey was continued. A hot box
ignited the stock car.
Bodies Were Found.
After an all night #search of the
ruins in the basement of an eight
story building under construction on
East 87th street:, New York, the up
per section of which collapsed, re
sulted In the recovery of four bodies
of workmen buried beneath the mass
of concrete, steel and timber that
crashed into, the cellar.
?G, S. C. rUESKDAY. 3kL
WANTS BAILEY
Tillman Says Texan Ought lo be Senate
Leader for Democrats.
BUT HE WILL NOT BE
The Senator Has a Chat With Gover
nor Blease, Which is Said to Have
Been Brief But Fflendly?Will Not
Attend Special Session When It
Meets.
Senator Tlllman says that the only
thing that can carry him back to
Washington for the extra session Is
to see a Democratic senator from
Main sworn In. Senator Hale, who
is to be succeeded by Senator John
son, speaks very highly of his suc
cessor. The Columbia Record says:
The senior senator from South
Carolina is looking very much better
than he did a few months ago, but:
he has been told that it will be best,
for his health not to return to Wash
ington and enter upon the activities
of the special session; still, it may be
that the call will be too strong for
him, when the fighting begins. There
is nothing new in a tariff fight, how
ever, says the senator, and he has no
appetite for gnawing an old bone.
In the opinion of Senator Tillman,
the minority leadership in the senate
ought to be conferred on Senator
Bailey, for whose ability he has a
very considerable j admiration, but
there is, as he expresses it, a coterie
in the senate which Is jealous of the
Texas senator and it is not likely the
honor will go to him. It would be
unprecedented to make a new sena
tor the leader, the "pillars of the
temple would fall about our ears,"'
says the senator, if that were done,
and It may be that Senator Culber
son will be again made minority lead
er.
Some Appropriations.
Senator Tillman succeeded in hav
ing an appropriations of $60,000
made for the dredging out of the
mouth to the dry dock of the Char
leston navy yard. The navy depart
ment experts have been claiming that
there is a deposit of silt in the river
opposite the dry dock's month which
prevents large ships going into the
dock and the purpose of this appro
priation is to have the silt removed.
Inasmuch as there was no river and
karbor bill passed at the recent ses
sion, there was no appropriation
made for the general Improvement of
the Charleston harbor, and this will
not be available until the next regu
lar session, when a rivers and har
bors bill will be brought In.
Senator Tillman, however, had had
put in the special appropriation bill
an item of $17,000 for the Port Roy
al station and he Intended to look af
ter the Item when the bill went to
conference, but the conference com
mittee met late at night when the
South Carolina senator wa3 absent
and the item was lost in that way.
For the marine barracks at Fort
Moultrie the senator had put in the
bill an appropriation of $6,000, which
remains and will be available arter
the first of July.
A new thing for South Carolina
will be the fish hatchery which is
provided for by an appropriation of
$2,500 In the sundry civil appropria
tion bill. It will be left to the of
ficials of the department to determine
where this fish hatchery will be lo
cated, but it will probably be in the
coast section of the State.
Senator Tillman is very much
pleased on account of the election of
Prof. Riggs aB president of Clemson
College. He attended the recent
meeting of the Clemson board and
was gratified that the board unani
mously came to his opinion that Mr.
Riggs Is the best man for the presi
dency. The senator considers that
his long familiarity with the condi
tions at Clemson, his magnetic per
sonality and his youth and energy
will enafble Mr. Riggs to accomplish
a great deal as the head of the insti
tution. He has been acting president
for some time and things have been
moving very smoothly during that
time.
Senator Tillman keeps thoroughly
posted on South Carolina affairs aad
readily discusses the fine points of
the recent controversies which have
been going on in the State. He is
strongly of the opinion that there is
no violation of the constitution in
any one holding the position of State
college trustee and another office, but
Is glad that the matter will be set
tled.
At the request of Governor Blease
the senator called on the governor
when he was In Columbia a few days
ago and they had a brief but friendly
chat about current events.
The senator was accompanied
home from Washington by Mrs. Till
man and it is their expectation to
remain at Trenton during the spring,
as their two daughters are to be
married within the next few
months. *
Miners Buried.
Thirty men were caught In a great
slide of earth at the Norman mine,
near Virginia, LMinn., at 6 o'clock
Saturday night. The shaft is 166
feet deep and was filled more than
half-way up by the slide. There are
only four known survivors, all in
jured, three of them probably fatally
crushed. Three bodies were recov
ered by rescuing parties at 9 o'clock.
UiCH 14. 1911.
STARTS A RACE RIOT
ENTIRE POLICE FORCE OF GAL
VESTON CALLED UPON.
The Wounding of Winfield" Joel, Ar
?
tillerymen From Fort Moultrie,
Precipitates Race War.
At Gaiveston, Texas, a race riot
was precipitated early Sunday by the
stabbing, of Win field Joel, a soldier
from the camp at Fort Crockett, by
an unknown negro. One Mexican and
four negroes were severely beaten
|aud the house in front of which the
stabbing occurred was set on fire
and burned to the ground.
The entire police force of the city
was called out to quell the disturb
ance. Joel, who is a member of die
One Hundred and Forty-fourth
company, coast |artlllery, stationed
at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. C,
lies in S-ealy' hospital, seriously
wounded with a deep knife wound in
the chest just above the heart. He
will recover.
An invidious remark made by one
of Joel's companions about the color
of the occupants of the house where
the trouble occurred is supposed to
have caused the attack. Joel was
about to open the door of the place,
It is said, when some one leaned out
of an adjacent window and stabbed
him.
He fell into the gutter unconscious
and immediately a great crowd gath
ered, composed of soldiers and civil
ians of both colors. The soldiers
and white civilians attacked every
negro in tight and set fire to the
house. The solitary policeman who
appeared and attempted to restore
order likewise was set upon and
wounded.
Realizing his inability to cope with
the situation single-handed the offi
cer sent in a riot call, and in a shoit
time every available policeman in
Gaiveston was on the scene. The
fire department had great difficulty
in fighting the fire on account of the
crowd.
Order flaally was restored ana
the soldier who Is supposed to have
wounded the policeman was arrested
oh the charge of assault with intent
to kill. His name is Alfred Burk
walter, a private in the Fifteenth
company, from Fort Barrancas, Flor
ida.
Col. Bailey, who is in command of
the provisional regln? mt to which
the soldiers are attacled, is investi
gating the affair and a courtmartial
probably will be ordered.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
Specific Remedy May Be Announced
in Six Months.
The Rockefeller Institute in New
York believes that its search for a
cure for infantile paralysis is abouf
to be rewarded. Within six months,
according to Dr. Simon Flexner, defi
nite announcement of a specific rem
edy may be expected.
'We have already discovered how
to prevent the disease," says Dr.
Flexner in a statement published in
New York Saturday, "and the
achievement of a cure, I may con
servatively say, is not now far dis
tant. We have 'been working on this
problem for a year and a half. The
germ has been known only that long,
and, advancing from that point, we
have learned where it resides, how
the disease is spread, how the germ
enters the body, the main sources of
Infection and the means of combat
ing the disease.
"The germ is so excessively mi
nute that the most powerfulj micro
scope falls to reveal It, yet there are
accurate methods by which its na
ture and presence have been deter
mined."
WOMEN GIVEN BEATING.
I White Caps in Kentucky Apply Buggy
Whips to Them.
Garbed as "white caps," a score
or more of women joined with a mob
of 10? men In whipping two women
in Morgan county, Ky., Saturday.
The victims of the mob were sisters,
Nannie and Mary Combs.
The beating was the most severe
as attested by the fact that two new
buggy whips were worn out on the
backs of the women. After that they
were forced into a vehicle, sent to
the nearest railroad station and put
on a train for their former home in
Breathitt county, under orders never
to return.
The Combs women were accused
of operating a resort in an isolated
section of Morgan county. They had
been warned frequently to leave but
they paid no attention to the orders
and feeling against them became so
intense that when the whipping was
decided upon many women insisted
upon being allowed to join the
"white caps."
Jealousy Causes Bloodshed.
At Baintridge, |Ga., |Grace Wil
liams, a white woman, Saturday shot
and instantly killed another woman
in the same house with her, and then
turned the pistol on herself. She
died instantly. A coroner's jury said
jealousy was the motive for the dou
ble tragedy.
Died From Shock.
At Kenosha, Wis., William P. Rob
hson, assistant cashier of the First
National Bank, died as a result of
the shock produced by the explosion
of the powder plant at Pleasant
Prairie, Thursday. r^jta^j^ '
T
NAMED AS JUDGE
ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT ON THE
ELIGIBLE LIST.
Got. Blease Says He Considered the
Wishes of the Bar and Not the Su
preme Court.
Gov. Blease announced Sunday
that he had commissioned F. L. Will
cock of Florence as special judge for
the Florence county court, which
commenced yesterday, thus following
the recommendations of the supreme
court. He issued the commission, he
said, upon the recommendation of
the Florence County Bar Association.
Mr. Willcox was not on the "eligible"
list.
"Did you regard the recommenda
tion of the supreme court in grant
ing the commission to F. L. Wi'.l
cox?" he was asked.
"Xe, I commissioned Mr. Willcox
upon the appeal of W. F. Clayton,
the chairman of the Florence County
Bar Association," he replied.
F. L. Willcox is a well-known at
torney of Florence and was indorsed
by the bar association for special
judge to Chief Justice Jones, who
sent a recommendation to the gov
ernor.
A special judge was reeded for the
regular term of court.
Gov. Blease takes the position that
the law requiring the governor to
commission special judges upon the
recommendation of the supreme
court is unconstitutional.
There are 16 prisoners in the
Florence county jail awaiting trial.
Gov. Blease has ordered a speclar
.term of court for Horry county to
commence on April 3 to taki the!
place of the.court that was not held
on account of the need of a judge.
Gov. Blease refused to commission
C. P. Quattlebaum as special judge
for Horry county, although Chief
Justice Jones on three occasions
called his attention to the fact that
there was not a disengaged circuit
judge. The special term of court
was ordered upon the request of So
licitor Wells.
COURTS MUST DECIDE.
Governor Blease Satisfied With His
Stand in Fight 1
"The matter is for the courts to
decide. I made the appointments
and chey stand."
This statement was made Saturday
by Gov. Blease when asked concern
lng the injunction secured against
certain of his appointees in Beau
fort county.
"I know the law and have made
the appointments," he continued,
"and it Is for the supreme court to
decide. I have nothing more, to
say."
Gov. Blease said that he wopld
have been glad if A. H. Kirby o;
Spartanburg had retired, as he had
seen a long service. He also said
that S. M. Wetmore and Robert
Gantt, two attorneyn, had been rec
ommended to hinp-'by the Spartan
burg county delegation for appoint
ment. He appointed Robert Gantt
and J. M. Bowden. Gov. Blease said
that when Maj. Kirby refused to turn
over the office of magistrate that
there was nothing left but. to recall
the commission.
The governor returned Saturday
from Atlanta, where he has been a<
tending the Southern Commercial
congress. He attended the meeting
of the State board of education, as
ex-officio chairman, during a greatei
part of the day. *
Gov. Blease said he had not yet
decided as to the dispensary Investi
gation act.
BARS POWDER WORKS.
Late Explosion Causes People to Out
law Industry.
Writh the country immediately sur
rounding the wrecked DuPont De
iNemours powder factory, which blew
up Thursday night, a waste of dis
mantled homes, the first action of
the residents was to seek the elimi
nation of powder works from their
county. Indignation meetings, at
which this demand was voiced, were
held in Pleasant Prairie and at Ken
osha, Wis.
The effort to safeguard their
homes is to be taken before the Wis
consin legislature, according to pres
ent plans. The destruction of the
victims' houses in most instances is
a calamity, although only one life
was lost. No attempt was made to
accomplish anything beyond tempo
rary patching of shattered houses.
There have been nine explosions in
ten years at the powder works, but
no disaster has compared with the
present one in the extent of property
damage, although more lives have
been lost. In the explosion of 1906
nine .en were killed.
The financial loss to the company
is roughly estimated at $500,000,
but the total loss due to the explosion
is too widely distributed even to be
estimated. Powder men today began
Hooding the ruins to safeguard the
community against further explo
sions. ?
Robbers Killed Trainman.
Robbers slew P. J. Cahlll, a Bur
lington brakeman, and threw the
body from a moving freight train
early Sunday morning at Larlmore,
Mo. Cahill Is believed to have dis
covered the robbers looting one of
the cars on the train which was
found open. They escaped.
WO CENTS PEK COPY
WAR TOTflE END
Magistrate Kirby Writes Governor Blens?
He Will Not Give Up.
MAKES A PRETTY MESS
The Governor Tells Bowden, His Ap
pointee, to Sit Tight, and That He
Will Attend to the Matter "At the
Proper Time and in the Proper
Way."
"Having been appointed for' two
years or until my successor is ap
pointed by and with the consent of
the senate, I regret that, under the
existing circumstances, I do not J eel
authorized or duty bound to surren
der the office of magistrate," saia
Maj. August H. Kirby, magistrate at
Spartanburg, in a letter which he
wrote Gov. Cole L. Blease Friday
in answer to the executive's letter in
forming him that his commission was
null anci void.
"Go ahead and perform your du
ties as magistrate, and pay no atten
tion to Mr. Kirby," is the advice re
ceived from Gov. Blease by J. Mal
colm Bowden, who was appointed by
the governor to succeed Maj. Kirby.
j Another magistrate, W. C. Harri
son, of Readville, who was recom
mended for reappointment by the leg
islative delegation, declines to sur
render his office to the governor's ap
pointee, T. 0. Fowler.
These were Friday's developments
In the magisterial muddle in Spar
tanburg county, says The State.
Maj. Kirby's letter to the gover
nor follows in full:
"Hon. Cole L. Blease, Governor, Co
lumbia, S. C.
"Dear Sir: I am In receipt of yours
of the 8 th Inst., in which you say
'your successor having been appoint
ed, your commission as magistrate is
hereby revoked and made null and
void.'
"Having been appointed tor two
years or until my successor is ap
pointed by and with the consent and
advice of the senate, I regret that
under the existing circumstances, I
do not feel authorized or duty bound
to surrender:the office as magistrate.
"I was prepared to turn over to my
successor the office of magistrate, had
he been appointed and commissioned
as the law reuires, as per civil code,
section 982.
"You having ignored the recom
mendations of the Spartanburg coun
ty delegation and the senate, I am
advised that I shi ild hold over as
legal magistrate.
"Yours respectfully,
"A. H. Kirby,
"?Magistrate."
Mr. Bowden wrote Gov. Blease that
In compliance with the governor's in
structions he had made formal de
mand of Maj! Kirby, in the presence
of a witness, for the books and pa
pers of the magistrate's office ana
that Maj. Kirby had refused to give
them to him. Mr. Eowden has re
ceived a letter from Alexander Row
land, private secretary to the gov
ernor, stating:
"The governor is In receipt of your
letter of March C and directs me to
advise you to go ahead and perform
your duties as magistrate and pay
no attention to Mr. Kirby, that the
matter will be attended to at the
proper time and in the proper way.
"Yours very truly,
"Alex. Rowland,
"Private Secretary."
There is considerable speculation
as to what "the proper time and the
proper way" will be. It is said that
If the governor should now attempt
to remove Maj. Kir.by "for cause" It
would be a virtual acknowledgement
that he had no authority arbitrarily
to revoke the commission as he has
done.
It is expected that the matter will
be adjudicated when the rival mag
istrates present their claims for sal
ary.
Both are doing business, but not
nearly so much as if there was no
cloud on their titles of the office.
The other Spartanburg magistrate,
Robert J. Gantt, whose right to the
office is not disputed, Is being
swamped with business. Many liti
gants are fearful that decisions or
judgments rendered by either of the
other two might not hold.
Magistrate Harrison of Roidville
was In the city Friday in consulta
tion with Maj. Kirby. He was com
missioned as magistrate in 1910 by
Gov. Ansel to fill out the unexplred
term of R. L. Pearson, resigned.
The delegation recommended him
for reappointment. Gov. Blease
ignored the recommendation and ap
pointed T. 0. Fowler magistrate. Mr.
Harrison has received a demand from
Mr. Fowler for the official books. He
has declined, however, to give up the
books and is prepared to conduct all
business that may arise. *
Will Lose His Job.
Cornelius J. Murphy, clerk of the
I'nited States court for South Caro
lina, has been legislated out of a
life position by the passage of the
bill during the closing hours of con
gress abolishing the United States
circuit courts.
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Slide Kills Three.
There was a big slide of earth at
the north end of the Gatun lock of
the Panama Canal Saturday night.
The mass buried a steam shovel and
caught a gang of workmen, killing
two Spaniard and an Italian. j