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tOL tLHI. NO. 6 VOL XLIII. 0.64. NEWBIERRY. S. C. FR[DAY. JAXNVARY 19. 190;. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS NEW LAWS BOTH HOUSES HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY THIS WEEK. All Elections Except Dispensary Elections To Be Held Next Tuesday-Dispen sary Agitrtion Continues. Columbia, January i8.-Tomor row is the anniversary of the birth of General Robert E. Lee, and a le gal holiday in South Carolina, and it is expected that the general as sembly will adjourn over until Monday. Both house have been busy this week, and the various committees are hard at work. There is hardly a more important question in Sou'th Carolina today than that of good roads. The house yesterday adopted the resolution in troduced by Mr. Cothran, of Green ville, indicating its approval of the plan of federal aid for road build ing. The resolution is as follows: I "Section i. That the general as sembly of South Carolina com mends the efforts of the junior senator from this state in the con gress of the United States to pro cure federal aid to the erection, con struction and maintenance of pub lic highways, bridges and post roads. - "Section 2. That national legis lation in favor of such improve ments is approved." Next Tuesday has been fixed for all the elections except the _dispen- i sary elections. It seems to be the desire of both houses to get. the elections of judges and trustees, etc., over, and then, when these are settled, to take up the dispensary elections. The bills fixing the hours of la bor wvhich are up for consideration at every session, are being discuss ed, and a number of cotton mill presidents were in Columbia last night, having been invited to be present befo,re the committee at the hearing on the ten-hour labor bill proposed by Mr. Toole and Mr. Johnson. Among the number was Pr,esident Z. F. Wright, of the Newberry cotton mills. New bills continue to pour into both houses, and many of them relate to the dispensary, but so 'far no action of either house gives an idea of what will actually be done with the system. Senator Raysor's (dispernsary bill has the following featuires: A board of directors consisting of three members. to be appointed by the governor. for two years. is provided for the governor to have power of removal. The salary to be Si,5$oo, the members to give bond for $10,000. They must meet once a week. The dispensary commis sioner to be elected by the legisla ture for two years. He must ad 'vertise in Louisville, Cincinnati and Baltimore papers for sealed bids to furnsh liquor for the year to be or deed out as needed. Bids to be opened by the commissioner in the presence of three citizens to be ap pointed by the committee, members of which shall be paid -dollars per day. All whiskey must be bought from g-overnment bonded warehouses, at wholesale prices current in the va rious cities designated. WVhiskey must not be less than one year old. Bidls for beer must stipulate amount of malt and hops used, alcoholic strength and show that no salysyhec Acid or other adulterant is used. Identity of all bidders to be kept secret and bids y be sent to the goeror. Any person soliciting Iusiness through any dispensar employe by personal solicitation C otherwise shall be guilty of a mii demeanor and shall be fimied not le than Si.ooo or imprisolned for i less than six months. No ca. os may be purchasecI at all. An dispenser violating any of the prc visions of the law to be suspende for one month. A second offen( will cause removal. No change made in the manner of selectin county boards. It is interesting to note that mo: of the bills looking towards tl improvement and perpetuation ( the system, provide for an increa in the salarv of directors . Ther are a large number of bills to ki the system and to wind up it affair Several of these bills have alread been referred,to in this corresponc ence. In the senate yesterday Senatc Talbert wanted to know why h bill to abolish the system had n< been reported by the committee. an some discussion was provoked, being claimed there had been r unreasonable delay. The senate has passed a bi equalizing the salaries of cou: stenographers, making them a $i,6oo per year. As it stands no the salaries range from $1,200 r< ceived by some of the stenographei to $1.6oo and $i,8oo received b others. The bill will be considere by the house next week. * * * The bills giving the dispensat investigation committee addition; powers have passed both house In the house Mr. Higgins oppose the bill and moved to kill it. A ve and nay vote was taken, only .\l 1-iggins and four others voting kill the bill. When the bill was b< ing discussed in the senate Senat< Blease wanted to limit the commi tee by the\ rules of court in its tal ing of evidence, urging that as ti committee has worked heretofor the characters of men have been a sailed on hearsay testimony, wvhic ought not to be. *~ * * The various county delegatioi are meeting and looking after coui tv affairs. The Newberry deleg; tion have chosen Messrs. I. 0. Bu ton. E. Lee Hayes and J. H. Do roh supervisors of registration f< Newberry county. There we many applicants for positions< the board. Among the Newberrians in C lumbia yesterday wvere Hon. Fr< H. Dominick. Mr. P. F. Baxte Mr. T. G. Williams and Mi Knight. The Legislature Yesterday. Columbia. January 18.-In joi assembly today the two houses the general assembly are holdii memorial services in honor of tl late Hon. Altamont Moses. of Sur ter. Representative Moses was valuable member of the lowver hou for a long number of y-ears, and w chairman of the ways and mea committee, the most important a signment in that body. A ur ber of appropriate and eloquent a dresses were made today in whis 1tribute was paid-to his memory, at his worth as a man and his servic to his state given fitting testimo It is hoped to have ratified tod; the bill wvhich has p)assedl both ti senate andl the house conferring a ditional powers upon the dispe sar investigating committee. T bil has b)een engrossed and ready for ratification. Both houses wvill adjourn tod until Monday. "He is always braggin g that Adnt owe anybody a dollar." V A New Card Giame. r A forlorn individual with a "tele ScOpe" grip in one hand and an s11empty pocketbook in the other re >t cntly enlig"htened the dete i e at the Ulnion depot concerning the l !atest wrinkle in confidence games. -;ays the Kansas City Star. The F 1 melancholv one hadc just been re : lieved of $3o by a couple of chance IS acquaintances oii a train. This is how it happened." said the traveler. "I was coming fronit t Oklahoma and after leaving Fort e Scott sat in the smoker with a man ICl who got on at that station. We e chatted a bit and were watching a e game of cribbage aiong travelling men across the aisle, when a man came through the car with a pack y of playing cards in his hand. He - stopped by the cribbage players and asked them to buy the cards. They ' >r refused, so he turned to our seat. si "Gentlemen," he said. "I'd like to y sell these cards. They are of un d" d usually good quality and I will sell it them for the price of an ordinary a deck." "Let's see," said my seatmate.. 0 taking the pack. "I don't see any 1 thing remarkable about these: they rt look like ordinary 25-cent cards to 11 me." "All right." replied the owner of a the cards in an offended tone, .If! - you can't distinguish the difference in the quality -of cards there's no C d -use wasting time talking to you. - "He reached for the pack and as t< it was handed back to him one of cl ' the cards fell to the floor apparent- p lv unnoticed by the owner. My e s. -seatmate. hkowever. saw .the card h ( fail. and said banteringly: P I b 'Those cards may be extra fiio t r bt 'll bet there's no a full pack e :o there.e' ~ "The owner of the cards glared indignantly at my seatmate. r 'You say you will,' he exclaim- t ed, 'now what will you bet on that ?' S eI "My companion had already coy- e e credl the card on the floor with his c s~toot. " Oh. I'll call anything you've gK got. he laughed. "WVithout more ado the card sales- r 1man lugged out a bundle of bills r ~and announ.adl that he didn't like s ~to take candy from infants, but that e -1e would bet the hundred. even a rmonev, thiat th~e pasteboards in his t >r hand comprised a full deck of 52 1 ecards. not counting the joker. This- -s of course, looked like Thanksgiv- I ing expenses to us. who knew that one card of the pack lay on the floor. "i'll let y'ou in on half of It dthe bet.' said my seatmate.. gen- I r. erously,. and of course, I jumped at t the chance. t "The money was lposted and the e cards wvere counted, and the deck i foundi to beC compllete. My seatmate < n and the card salesman left the train at the next station. Of course. I see it all now. that is. all but one a Why did it not occur to me that ~ e there was something odd in a man as having $100 who had a moment be- ~ s fbre been trying to peddle a two .s- bit pack of cards?" d-. Tess-I certainly was .surprised :h to hear that Maud was married. id Jess-Yes, it was rather unexpect s fed. Tess-Her family's quite? i n Icensed,. I hear. They say her hus band is a man of absolutely no a family. Jess-That's all wrong. hie He was a widower with -four chil - lren.- Philadelphia P ress. he .onisville Courier-JTournal. I is cHrc's a girl changedl her- mind at the last mnoment and r-efused to a marry the 1propo)~sed( groom "I've read about such cases. *gloomily remarked Mr. Henry he Peck. "Sonic men, are too lucky to ILLVAN BITTERLY ARRAIGNS ROOSEYELI E DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION 0] THE MORRIS OUTRAGE. erce Denunciation of the President b: South Carolina Senator-Senate Ab ruptly Adjourned. The recent forcible removal fron ie White louse of Ars. Mino: lorris was made the subject o nphatic denunciation by Senato: illman in the senate on Wednes av. His remarks called out re onstrances from Senators Hak opkins and Daniel. and led to th ery abrupt closing of the door id the sudden adjournment oc th nate in the middle of the fore oon. The speech abounded in Senato illman's peculiar expressions an< as characterized by many sever nd exceptionally personal thrust the president. At times he wep ver what he regarded as the indig ities to Mrs. Morris and his eye -ere full of tears. when he declare< i the face of protests from his fel >w senators that he would deman< ni investigation of the Whiti [ouse incident. With reference to the Morris oc irrence, he declared that the pres lent had been derelict in failin. > punish his subordinates for thei urse and quoted statements fron ersons said to have been witness s. to show that the proceeedin. ad been inhuman. le informall resented and said that he woul >niarrow formally present a resc ition for an investigation of th nitire incident. It was the introduction of thi esolution which called out the prc st from Senator Daniel. whil ienator Hale objected to the pres ntation of the matter at all, e: ept upon proof. Senator Tillma eclaredi his determination not to b uided by their advice, and close ith the reiteration of his deterni ation to bring in the resolution tc orrow. The announcement occa ion a number of hurried confei nces, and it is understood that a result Senator Tillman wvill t iged not to carry out his purpos' ' rominent senators on both side aid that the resolution would con iand few votes. SUPPR ESSIXNG T HE PRESS. Senator Tillman's reference t he Morris incident was precede iv some remarks on the power c 1e press, in which he charged the he president had gradually assun d to direct the efforts of the pres intil White House news has b< ome colored and doctored in ti nterests of the administratiol Secretary Loeb is the apothecary, I said. "andl pills on Panama. pil >n Roosevelt, pills on railroad rate: .nd pills on everything pertainin o public affairs are administeredi hs way. The newspapers have bee he funnel through this quack phy! has been sent abroad, and whe ome newspaper man refusest mrint that which the presider ants. there is great wrath at th2 xecutive mansion. Illustrative of some stories wvhic rop out "over or through the bars, enator Tillman said that "the sac est and most p)itiful example c *nthing that has ever been ass. iatedl with the name of a p)residlen a the recent outr age on Mr: inor M orris at the WVhite Hlouse. le (saidl that because onlyV of ti nan sitting qjuietly ini the office ha >een Iragged rud(ely away. h< :lothes torn, an earring torni ou o1( thrust into a carriage and take Lway. Sear mTle:- "I do not cred the exaggerated statements of the newspaper press about this inci-1 delt. I believe they are all extrav agant. swollen and not justified by 1 the facts. but whenever any Senator liponl his responisibility declares that there should be an investigation I and asks for an investigation so that we may have. not statements, not virulence. not denunciation, but facts. nobody on this side will ob- 1 ject to that resolution. Senator Tillman: "I will offer it and put you to the test. Senator Tilhman then quoted the official statement concerning the -lorris incident. and that in ignor ing the matter the President had practically endorsed it. He added that he had been told that another lady had been treated at the White House very much as Mrs. Morris had been. Senator Hale again remonstrated with Senator Tillman for making the Senate tle arena for the dis play of his personal prejudices. He declared that it is not true that the t Senate is inclined to bend the preg nant hinges of the knee to the Pres ident and that the President had al ready learned that the Senate is an independent body. He added that Senators consult most freely with him and advise him if they differ with him. "None of us'hesitate to tell him if we do not agree with him," he added. "The Senator is wrong in undertaking to create the impression that the Senate is sur rendering its rights. I will not - submit to this arraignment." 7 Senator Tillman said in reply that he thought Senator Hale I should not. in- view of his own (disavowal. have repeated the state Sent that he had spoken as he had because of person'al feeling. s Senator Tillman stopped abrupt - lv to move the appointment of a e committee of investigation. He - suggested that five Senators be I named for the purpose of inquiring into the incident.. eSenator Hale suggested that as the proceeding was informal, the motion should be withdrawn and brought in proper shape to-morrow, and Senator Tillman consented. Senator' Daniel then took the Sfloor and entered a most earnest plea with Senator Tillman not to present the resolution. SSenator Tillman declined to ac cede to the request. declaring that Ihis r-esentment of the mistreatment of a lady was such that he could not reconcile silence and inaction 1with his idea of propriety. Refer '~ring again to the testimony of wit tnesses his eyes filled with tears and Shis voice was almost choked with emotion when he quoted one of the newspaper men who had been pres ent, as saving that "he had since up - braided himself with the tears in his eves, that even at the risk of pesoal injury, he did not rush to ~'the rescue of Mrs. Morris." And what are you going to do about it. he asked in a voice now attuned to a high key. "Let these imperiahis tic practices continue ? Nothing.? nThen, indeed. wvill the senate sink 0into contempt, into a contempt that itwill be deserved, the contempt of eevery good man and woman in the Icountry. I cannot be a party to Iisuch a course. b)ut I will take the consequences. I will offer the res - olution and the senate can do as it pleases with it. - Continuing his remarks. he said t. hat "these poor. pitiful liars, the newspaers." h1ad rep)ortedl that about the time the Mlorris ejection Ccccurredl the president had written -a letter toI Prize Fighter Fitzsim 4mons. showing that his dignity had not beern so great as had been rep t.resentedl. Nor hadI he been too dlie nnified to engage in a trial of the iiuitsu system or to put on the it, 1 boiggoe.In yview of these re )orts, he had waited in the hope hat "the president would take some iction apropos of the brutal treat nent of Mrs. Morris that would do -re(it to him as a gentleman, and it Vas onIy after he had shown such )esotted indifference to public opin on that I felt called upon to pre cnt a true statement of the inci lent and ask for an investigation :o disprove the falsehoods and arbled statements given out by ,Mr. Barnes." Senator Tillman closed with a leclaration of his high regard for ,vomanhood, taught him by his as ;ociation with his mother and wife mnd said that they had "taught him to love women, and when I see a nan ignore his plain duty to right . wrong to the sex I would be false to my nature if I remained silent." The South Carolina senator clos ed abruptly and was evidently eeply affected as he took his seat. It was understood that Senator Spooner and Senator Lodge were to make reply. But neither rose. Instead., Senator Hale again ad ressed the Chair. The Chair was asking, "what shall be done with the resolution" when, ignoring the query, the Maine senator moved executive sesion. The motion prevailed and in less than two minutes the doors were losed and one of the tensest days in the recent history of the senate :ame to an end. THE COTTON ASSOCIATION At Meetingt of the Executive Board of Southern Cotton Association OfficerS are Elected and their Salaries Fixed. The executive board of the Southern Cotton association held its annual business meeting in New Orleans on Monday with almost a full board sitting. Harvie Jordan was reelected president and Richard Cheatham was reelected secretary. F. H-. Hyatt, of Columbia, S. C., was elected treasurer and George T. Jester of Corsicana, Texas, was chosen vice president in place of* Mr. Peters, of Texas. The salary of the president was fixed at $5. ooo a year. Secretary Cheatham's salary was raised from $.2,500 to $3,000 a year. The salary of the treasurer was fixed at $500 a year and the vice president is to serve without salary. The salary of the general financial agent and orgamz er E. D. Smith, who was elected, accorig to the suggestions of the mass meeting. was fixed at $5,000 a ear. - GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con dense~d Throughout the World. Elmer Hlitzel. a child six years of age. jumlpedl from the second story window of a public school in Buffalo on M\onday. The little fel low was accused of sattempting to steal a dime from a fellow pupil and was taken to the principal's office. In the absence of the prin cipal the lad attempted to escape by jumping to the ground, and was was probably fatally injured. Football has been abolished at H-farvard university, pending a re form in the game that will be ac cptale to the board of overseers. Senator 1. T.'H-ay, chairman of the ipensary investigating com mittee, has p)resented to the general ssembly the itemized report of djsurSemnts made by the commit tee. The total amount expended is Only one kind of women do not are oite clothes-dead ones.