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lILLIAN BLAE SUPREME GORT SAYS f HAS TI D TO SHIRK DISPFS 9"RY ISSUE Als After Board of Control-Cbeif Troublc is with That Body, e Says -Ex pt LgisatWretO Mandle Whole Matter. -Senator Tillman was in Augusta ion Thursday afternoon for a few hours, on his way home fron Washington for the Christmas hol Idays, and to a reporter for Th( Augusta Herald he made some in. teresting observations on the dis pensary situation in South Caro pina. Senator TilIman's expres ions were made before the Su preme Court had given its decisior :,the Farnum case, which estab F--lishes. the authority of the investi gating commission to compel th .estimony- from unwilling witness in this ruling the court find. Contrary to Tillman's views. The Herald reports the interviev k Senator Tilman as follows: Senator-TiUman was asked as t .dispensary situation in Sout] na and he said that in hi oo the recent voting out of th an mthe various countie Nbut an expression of the peopI ssatisfaction with the preser .ard of directors of that institt "Sepator,..what. do you think- C ;-recent actions by the Suprem t of South Carolina?" a3ke r'reporter4 1n my opinion :the Suprev Court is endeavoring~ to shirk ti mty uposed upon it by law. The 4aye tried every means to avoid ti Xsse mnd the people have the rig todemand that these questions 1 ettled at once." 'j What do you think of the inve etgatng commfissionl?" 2"The commission started rig ~adas yet, have only scratched t 'srface of the rottenness of t $spensary, and if they had be .mpowered by the legislature ~authorizel by the courts to impr on witnesses for contempt, doubt they would have accomplis ed much. "But as it now is the commissi is under the concurrent resoluti passed by the legislature, pow less to compel the witnesses to t tify, and, while I doubt very mi if the commissioni can legally so, the Supreme Court ought to N de the point. If the court. say that the commission has right to rule witnesses in conter then they can accomplish much 'This point should be decided :~the court without further delay, the court now has the entire co deuce of the people, but if t1 shirk their duty this time, their t fulness to a large extent will at an end." Senator Tillman here went or say that the action of the couri dodging the issue will have the het of ending the work of the vestigating commission, for the:] islature meets on the ninth of .J uary and at the present time ~court. would not have decided ~question by that time. The s< tor said that- the commission done good work and if it had been hampered by the defective olution it would undoubtedly I ~been able to show to the legisla at the next session something would have enabled the legisla to take some decisive action. "I can not understand," said senator, "how the lawyers in legislature could have perm such a resolution to pass. It onl a cmneurrent resolution did not receive the Signature of the governor, at d I do not think that the commission thus created can rule a witness in contempt. But at present the commission is bound and unless 41he court grants the power sought by it the members will only ha-. e scratched the rotten ness." "What do you think of the re cent voting out of the dispensary in the various counties and espec ially in Edgefield, your home coun ty ?" asked the reporter. "Well to start with, the Brice law only allows about one-third of the people to vote and I take the voting out of the dispensary by these counties as a protest against the manner in which the present board of directors conduct. the busi ness." "What about the board of con trol now in office ?" "I understand that at the next Dhressn,t S e IT There is one ti always count on nished by us, ani Our FurnitUre is the Our StyIes Our Pri SNow is your time t new stock. We have moved our nto the double granite i ni ams, on upper Mail - opening the most cor h ever opened in Newbt othe celebrated H amilt SheIei~ to Leme il n DISTILl n- Finej|Wines, WI1i - Ialityland Fl the Mail ordbrS prompi asupervision of our M not receipt, es- Remit with all ordei ure decline to receive WI i Establish( L OmIUx Di was 24 Soutl AnAt neeting of tle legislature the pres- a !nt members will stand for reelec tion, using this as a means to get vindication from the charges that have been so sweepingly made. If they do stand all that I am going to do is watch and see the men who vote for them. Then I can tell the honest men in the legislature from the dishonest ones." From the senator's manner at I this juncture it was easily seen that the present board would not get his vote if he were in the legisla ture. Senator Tillman said that in his mind there is no doubt that the leg islature will at its next session dis cuss the dispensary matter thoroughly, and but for the com mission being practically powerless, the legislature would undoubtedly had some definite information to work upon. ing that you can in the homes fur that is."Comfort." Newest, Ire bS Best, ces Are the Lowest, o buy. inspect our big, entire stock of furniture ront store of R. C. Wil i~ street, where we are nplete line of Furniture irry. We are agents for on Pianos and Organs. SSummer tilling Co., .LERS OF 1kies, Brandies, Etc. avor Guaranteed ly filled under persona r. D. C. 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