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ESTABLISHED 1865 NEWBERREY. S. C.. TUESDAY. FEB3RUARY 9. 1904. TWICE A WEEK. S1.50 A YEAR THE WORK OF THE GENERIL ASSEMBLI APPROPRIATION BILL HAS BEEN INTRO DUCED IN THE HOUSE. The Tax Bills-Insurance Bill Passed By The House--The Telephone Bill -Other Matters. Colum'oia, February 8.-The ap propriation bill was introduced in the house on Saturday by the ways and means committee. The bill carries the following appropriations for this year: Governor's office ..............$ 13,100 00 Secretary of State's office 5,900 00 ComptrollerGeneral's office 7,900 00 State treasurer's office...... 7,250 00 Supt. of Education's office 5,600 00 Adjt. and Ins. Gen'ls office 12,450 00 Attorney General's office 5,475 00 Railroad Commissioners... 8,90000 Librarian's office.. .......... 1,400 00 State house and grounds... 1,200 00 State house janitors.......... 280 00 engineers....... 1,350 00 " " Eroundskeeper 20000 State geologist.................. 3,000 00 Judiciary department ........ 63,300 00 Quarantine stations......... 5,923 25 Board of healih................ 10,700 00 Tax department, (salaries auditors & treasurers, etc 60.500 00 South Carolina College.. 31,200 00 scholarships 1,640 00 Winthrop college.............. 52,182 66 " " scholarship 5,456 00 " " painting 3,000 00 " " extra help 800 00 S. C. Military Academy... 26,500 00 " heat'g plant 10,500 00 Claffilin college....... ... 5,000 00 Penitentiary............. ....... 5,950 00 State hospital for insane 142,200 00 Institute for deaf, dumb and blind..................... 27,000 00 Catawba Institute............ 1,706 00 Claims (special courts, etc) 14,600 00 Public printing................ 14,000 00 Improvements and repairs Governor's mansion....... 1,600 00 Water and lights............. 8,000 00 Pensions .................... ... 200,000 00 Supervisors registration... 12,300 00 Elections......................... 25,500 00 Wade Hampton's statue... 20,000 00 Interest on debt............... 285,000 00 Miscellaneous.................. 37,109 55 $1,145,165 46 The miscellaneous item includis about $to,ooo for sewerage and other improvements at the South Carolina college. The various items may, of course, be very materially changed before the bill has passed both houses. THE TAX BILLS. The house on Thursday passed the franchise tax bill proposed by the tax commission. The bill seeks to impose three mills on gross earn ings of public utilities and one-half mill on capital stock of all corpora tions doing brsiness in the State. Thei, on Saturday, the house by an overwhelming ote defeated the second bill proposed by the tax commission, providing for the crea tion of a new board of assessors, to be constituted by the appointment of one member from each judicial circuit, and this board, instead of the present boards now having jurisdic tion over the various classes of pro perty, was to assess and equalize the assessment of all real estate, personal property, banks, railroads, textile enterprises, fertilizer facto ries, etc. Under the present law the banks are assessed by county boards and the railroads by a board of State officers, and the bill sought to bring all classes of property under the control of one board. The bill was strongly favored and advocated by the tax commission as one of the most important remedies to be ap plied to the present financial condi tion of the State. It provoked a long debate. INSURANCE CoMMIsSIONER. The house has passed Mr. Arthur K.ibler's bill creating the insurance commssinerat a salary of $ir,8oo per year, and an insurance depart ment. All the duties relating to insurance companies which now devolve upon the comptroller gen I eral are devolved upon the insur I ance commissioner. $1,ooo is pro vided for office rent, clerical help. etc. The salary of the commis sioner and all the expenses of the department are to be paid from a I tax levied upon the insurance com panies doing business in the State. The insurance companies favored the measure. A bill permitting the return of the Southeastern Tariff association in the Sate under certain restric tions was passed by the house. WINTHROP SCHOLARSHIPS. The house on Thursday passed a bill to create 124 scolarships of the value of $ioo each for Winthrop. The same action, it will be remem bered, was taken earlier in the ses sioe with regard to Clemson. EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS. The house on Thursday passed the DesChamps bill providing for the establishment by Clemson col lege of experimental stations in each county in the State upon the peti tion of fifty bona fide farmers in the county desiring said station. The expenses of these stations were to be borne out of the regular income of the college. The bill was vio lently opposed by Clemson and on Friday it was recommitted, which at this late day in the session pra. tically means its defeat. IN THE SENATE. The senate, after considerable discussion, has passed the house bill to provide for a special town ship road tax. TEE TELEPHONE BILL. Probably the most important ac tion taken by the senate last week was the passage of the Hydrick telephone measure. The bill as amended by the senate places tele phone companies under the juris diction of the railroad commission. The bill as at first introduced pro vided.for fixing rates. The telephone companies held that it would be a death-blow to them to fix the rates as at first proposed. The senate has passed the bill creating the department of com merce and immigration, and it has been sent to the house. CoLLEGE TRUSTEES. Mr. 3. E. Tindal has been placed back on the Clemson board of trus tees and Senator B. R. Tillman has been plac& back on the Winthrop board. It will be remembered that at the time of the regular elections by the general'assembly these gen tlemen were left off the respective boards through mistake. Advertised Letters Remaining in P. 0. for week ending Feb. 6, 1904. B-MissEmily Barns. C-Edgar Cromer, Thomas Cook. G-B. F. Gotch. O-Mrs. Iaene Oby. P-Washington Pitts. S-0. 0. Smith, Miss Janie Sease. W-Miss Laura Wright, Mrs. A. C. Williams, Mrs. J. R. Wood. Persons calling for these letters will please say that they were ad vertised. C. J. PURCELL, P. M. Policeman Johns, of Whitmire, is attending court. REGOIENDATIONS OF NEWBERRY DELEGITION DISPENSARY BOARD OF CONTROL RE MAINS THE SAME. The County Supervisors of Registration New Magistrate in No. 6 Township. Special to Herald and News Columbia, February 8.-The Newberry delegation met this after noon and made the following recom mendations: For Board of Control (Dispen sary Board)-Jacob Senn, J. P. Harmon and J. R. Scurry. As will be seen, no changes were made in this Board. County Supervisois of Registra tion-S. N. Noland, Thos. J. Wil son, and L. L. Dominick. J. B Smith was recommended for magistrate in No. 6, vice Magis trate J. H. Williams, resigned. The recommendatiuns, which are made to the governor, are practi cally the appointments. SENSATIONS IN CONGRESS. Alterations In the Senate Recalled by Deaths of Gen. Gordon and Gov. Brown. Washington Special to New York Evening Post. It is an interesting fact that though one of the two prominent southerners whose deaths were an nounced this week, rested his fame on his military services to the Con federacy, and the other on his suc cessful career as a lawyer, both are best remembered at Washington for personal altercations in congress which at the time of their occur rence threatened to lead to the du. elling field. Gen. John B. Gordon had his quarrel with Roscoe Conkling. It occurred in a secret session of the Senate, and the remarkable feature of its sequel was the deliberate pub lication of an entry in the journal respecting it. When Mr. Hayes became presi dent by grace of the support he had received from the south, Gordon, who had been instrumental in work ing up sentiment for him, was anxious to help him also with his ap pointments in all parts of the Union. Conkling, however, proved an obsta cleas regarded New York. He had been accustomed to distribute the patronage of his own State without hindrance under the Grant adminis tration, and had no notion of sur rendering his prestige even to a new president. Although a bitter Republican partisan, Conkling ad acquired in some way a good deal of influence over a few of the Democratic senitors, and when Gordon came to drum up recruits for the support of some of the New York nominations sent in by Hayes, he found his efforts blocked, obviously by the New York senator. This nettleti Gor. don, and set him on the watch for personal affronts from the same quarter. One afternoon, in executive ses ion, the clerk had been calling off one nominatien after another for action, in the order in which they stood on his book, when Gordon moved a departure from the lineal list in order to reach a certain Ala bama case in which he was inter ested. Conkling, who had been buried in a newspaper, called out, without looking up from his read ing,- "Go on with the calendar." Gordon stopped short in his mo tion, and, addressing Senator An thony. of Rhode Island, who was presiding, said with biting delibe ration: "Mr. President, the Senator from INew York is not in the chair but he orders the chair to go on with the calendar." Coakling appeared not to notice the remark until a brother senator called his attention to it. He then rose and demanded that Gordon re peat it. This was done, and Conk ling responded fiercely: "If the ienator from Georgia says I ordered the chair to go on with the calen dar, he states what is not true." "Very well," retorted Gordon, "we'll settle that hereafter." "We will settle it now and here," said Conkling. "We will settle it elsewhere,' Gordon persisted. Other senators interfered at this juncture, and the trouble was re ferred to Senators Hamlin of Maine and Howe of Wisconsin as friends of Conkling, and Senators Ranso , of North Carolina and McDonald of Indiana as friends of Gordon, to straighten out if possible. The conference began almost at once, and stayed substantially in continuous session till i o'clock the next morning, then adjourned for sleep and breakfast, and at zo o' clock began again. At one stage of the proceedings there seemed to be no way of averting a duel, and Senator Lamar of Mississippi un dertook the duties of a second for Gordon, while Senator Jones of Nevada and Gen. Philip H. Sheri dan were called into consultation by Conkling. Finally on the afternoon of the second day, a truce was ar ranged and a report made to the senate in executive session, and the following minute was entered on the journal and thrown open to the public: Whereas, a misunderstanding having arisen between the Hon. Roscoe Conkling and the Hon. John B. Gordon in the course of the executive proceedings of the senate of yesterday, and mutual un derstandings thereon having been arrived at as set out in the follow ing pper,it is ordered that the said paper be entered at large on the legislative journal of the sen ate. During an executive session of the senate held yesterday words were uttered both by Senator Gor don of Georgia and Senator Conk ling of New York which were mu tually felt to be unkind and offe : sive. Reports of the incident ap pearing in the papers of this morn ing which are inaccurate and un ~just to both speakers, upon a care ful inquiry as to what was under stood to be said by the otber, it is certain that the first offensive words were inspired by an honest mnisun derstanding of what had been inno cently said by the other speaker. One harsh remark provoked another as so often happens, but all that was offensive was the out growth of misapprehension. Since such was the fact, we who are mu Itual friends of both senators, are of I heoinion that it is due alike to GREAT CONFLAGRATION SWEEPS BALTIMORE ABOUT FORTY MILLIONS OF PROPERTY DESTROYED. Fire Swept Through the Business Section. One of the Most Disastrous Fires In History. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 7.-The fire which broke out at a few min utes before ir o'clock this morning in the wholesale dry goods house of John E. Hurst & Co., has raged with unrestrained fury continuously ever since, and at midnight it is un checked, but is steadily eating its consuming way eastward on Balti more street, after having destroyed almost all of the large stores and warehouses in the wholesale district around Hopkins Place and all the buildings on both sides of Baltimore street, from Howard to Holliday streets, from Charles and Baltimore street to Charles and Lexington, and on Fayette street from Charles to Holliday, including a total of about twenty blocks of the most modern and substantial business buildings in Baltimore, involving a loss which caunot now be estimated but which has certainly already reached thirty or forty millions of dollars. Ever since about 6 o'clock, when darkness came, the fire department, although aided by engines from Wasuington, Philadelphia, Wil mington and the surrounding coun ties and suburbs, has been utterly powerless to make any effective re sistance to the consuming element, though for hours as many as 4oo streams or water were thrown into the flames. Indeed, so terrific has been the heat ever since the fire started and so dense and suffocating the volume of flying sparks and burning cinders that it was difficult for the firemen to stand long within fighting distance of the flames, while early in the afternoon several trucks and engines were hopelessly disabled by flying timbers. At 7 o'clock the situation was so des perate that Chief Horton decided that the only thing left to do was to dynamite at threatened points, and thus prevent, as far as possible, a further spread of the flames. In pursuance of this plan a number of buildings on South Charles street, between German and Lombard. were blown up. Subsequently the splendid structure of J. W. Putts & Co., notion dealers, at .Charles and Fayette streets, was dynamited and then the Daily Record building, Ross' drug store, and others. But this heroic remedy merely delayed, but did not seriously impede the onward .march of the conflagration, and for two hours or more the fire department has stood practically helpless and resourceless. the senate and to the speakers that whatever was felt to be unkind or offensive in the remarks of either should be treated as if never utter ed, and, we are now authorized to state, are mutually simultaneously withdrawn. H. Hamlin, Timothy 0. Howe, M. W. Ransom, J. E. McDonald. December 1 , 1877. This entry was the first of its kind that had been made since the celebrated affair between Senators Poindexter and Forsyth, similarly arranged through the agency of Henry Clay more than 40 years before.