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t tI NO. an Am. VOL XLIII. NO0.12. NEWBERIRY. S. C. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 190-', TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR**** IORGAN BILL HAS PASSED THE HOUSE FINAL VOTE WAS SIXTY-THREE TO rORTY. Salaries of Court Stenographers In creased-Reformatory Bill Discussed. The Morgan local option bill on Tuesday passed the-house to its third reading by an increased vote and on Wednesday passed its third reading and went to the senate. The final vote on the bill was 63 to 40, with Mr. Morgan hiraself and other staunch friends of the bill absent. The friends of the bill have never had any doubt since the first vote what would be the final result, but the dispensary advocates only had 40 votes against the Morgan bill, and with this vote the bill was ordered to its third reading. The bill has been ordered to its third reading without the dotting of an "i" or the erossing of a "t" ftrm the manner in which it stood when the house directed that the bii be printed for the information of the members. There were efforts made to kiH the bill, then to amend it, but Mr. Sanders, who was the floor mana-. ger, kept the bill intact, and Mr. Whaley, together with the other mem bers of the Charleston delegation, kept the Charleston clause intact, al though there was a fierce onslaught on-the license clause. Mr. Sinkler, at the conclusion -of the vote, arose and in a manly, dignified and eloquent speech repudiated the suggestion that he,r Charlestn, had made a ( dirty basgain" with anyone,. as had been ggested by Senator Tilman. Pay of Court stenographers. -The first bill taken up for consider iUon in -te hmise on Wednesday 'as' Senator Stakhouse's to increase the salary of court stengraphers. . Mr. Oe moved to strike out the enacting Mr. .McColl spoke in favor of the bill] He urged that the ten circuit actAiad not diminished the area of the for'rth circuit and had increased the wz)rk on the stenographers. When the bill was introduced it was to get the salary of that stenographer in creased, but it had since been decided to make the bill general and to make the salaries of all stenographers uni form. At least $400 of the proposed $1,600 must go to travelling expenses, in the case of the stenographer of the fourth circuit. Mr. Ootts declared in reply that he believes in paying men enough. But he recalled that at the ,last sesssion the legislature two additi'nal circuits had been created, with an increase of $22,000. This bill would give the court stenographer more money than the circuit solicitor. The stenogra pher also gets fees. Mr. Nash, Mr. Beamguard and Cap tain Sellers favored the bill. Mr Cloy, who is a stenographer, de clared that this bill would be a mat ter of economy. He told of the work required of the stenographers. It re quires a good man and a smart man for stenographer. * Mr. Gaston favored the bill, but of fered,.an amendment to the effect that the stenographer be required to make certain transe.ripts without pay if they fail to make the tranceripts with in the specified time. Dr. E. J. Etheredge opposed the bill on the ground of economy. Mr. Ashley offered an amendment to reduce the proposed salary from $1,600 to $1,500. Mr. McColl moved to table. The vote was 61 to 45 in favor of $1,500. The bill has already passed the senate. Passenger Fares. The Toole bill to make rate of pas senger fare on railroads 2 1-2 cents nlo.jsed third reading without a tight. The committee hill on salary of magistrates and their eonistables was sent to the senate. as was Mr. Otts' bill to make an i(lditional ap propriation foir the dispensary inVes tigation. The first third reading bill tihat caine up on the senate ealendar on Wednesday was that of Senator C. L. Blease to provide that nio payient be made to a person acting in the place of a state officer, judge or solicitor. The bill was killed. The Reformatory Bill. Senator Blease, of Newberry. urged his amendments that the reformatory be confined to white criminals and to eliminate women from the board of trustees. The standpoint of Sen ator Carlisle was that the expense of conducting the institution was justifi able and that a reformatory was not intended for criminals alone but as the name indicated to "reform" way ward boys. The motion to recommit the bill was withdrawn to allow amendments to be voted on. On motion of Senator Carlisle, the provision that three women be on the board of trustees was struck out. The committee amendments were then adopted. Senator Hardin's amend I ment was that the appropriation of $5,000 he substituted by an. appro priation of $3,000 and per capita as sessment of the counties for their re spective inmates was adopted. Sena ator Brice's amendment that the re formatory be restricted to white boys of any age who are committed by their guardian, or voluntarily enter, was accepted. This strikes out the pro vision that boys between the ages of 8 and 16 who "because of their con duet or surroundings are likely to be come base or eiminal or hurtful to the state or to the best interests of society" may be committed by a judkg or magistrate. Col. Dan Lamont's Diplomacy. Washington. Correspondence in New York Suni: It would, of course, b)e impossible for the president-for any president -to greet all the peCople, some of them obviously queer, and others sim ply pigheadedly~determined, who ap pear at the White House and an nounce to the attendants that they are going to "' sit right there till the pres ident does see them.'' The late Col. Dan Lamont, when he was secretary to President Cleveland, was a great hand at gently nudging the insistent and impossible ones toward tae outer door. He was once passing out of the1 main White House door when his at tention was attracted to a colloquy between a couple of doorkeepers and a sharp voiced spinster of most severe aspect.- This woman had just been removed from her post as a school teacher in Washington for criticising the public school system of the Dis trict of Columbia in a series of extra ordinary letters to the Washington press. She had developed an acerbity of temper which made it impossible for her to get on with anybody, including her pupils, and so she had to go. She had come to the White House that day to lay her case before President Cleveland. "I 'm going to see him whether you want me to or not,'' she was say ing to the doorkeepers as Mr. Lamont. passed by on his way out. ."He's noth ing but a servant of the.people, and I'm one of the people. I 'l see him if I have to stay here a thousand years and wait,''and she- plumped herself into one of the big chairs..in the out er corridor and arranged her skirt with great elaboration. Mr. Lamont walked over to the spinster with the grievance. "I'm sorry, madam'' he saidl. "that it isntossible for the president to Isee you because lie's not in the WThite House, nor, in fact, in Washington. H. wen dwn C'heasapnke bay this1 11Wi111" ol a little unling trip, and win 't be back for two oI three days, which was the truth. " All right. then." sail the deter minied spinster. never budging from her chair, " I'11 wait right here in the Whiite 1iouse till he gets back." "But," said Mr. Lamont rubbing his ciiii thoughtfully and smiling, "woild that be exactly proper, do you think? f sleep here nights dur ing Mr. Cleveland 's absence, and there is no lady staying ia the build ing at present. A nd I observe that you are unchaperoned, are you not?" "The goddess of justice will be sifficient chaperon for me, sir,' re plied the spinster, although she was plainly modified by the secrethry's eourlteous tone and deferential man tier. "True, true," said Mr. Uthont'. " but-er-who could I get. to-er chaperon me, I wonder?'' This in a thoughtful tone. "Oh, well, never mind-I'll return Ayhen Mr. Cleveland gets back," said the spinster, rising, and the trick was done. The woman went away almost smil ing. Oni another occasion he was called from his office by the sound of 'a wordy conflict in the corridor outside. People visiting the White House did not have to run the same long gaunt let in those days that they do now, and the woman making the noise in the corridor had got thus far by stat ing with great propriety upon her en trance that 'she had an appointment with the president, and it was near the president's hour for receiving general visitors with appointments. Once in the corridar outside 'the president's offices, she had become vi olently angry when restrained from walking right in upon Mr. Cleveland, and had turned loose upon the door keeper the stream of denunciation which summoned Mr. Lamont into the hall. Her husband, a postmaster, in a little Maryland town, had, it seem ed, just been removed by the remorse less axe oft Hea.dsman Adlai Steven son, who was thien in thie postoffice ded partment, and had conme to see the president about it. Mr. Lamont found her in the hall tossing her arms wildly and shooing the somewhat alarmed looking attend ant into a corner. " Madam," said Mr. Lanmont:. sooth ingly, "will you kindly tell me what I can do for you?" "And who are you, runt?" aashed out the womani, regarding Mr. Lamont contemptuously. Mr. Lamonit wasn't a.ny son otf Analr; in stature, but a little thing like that was never any sore point with him, and he~ laughed pleasantly over the angry woman 's shot. "Well," he said good naturedly, "I1 work here, and it 's part of my job to do anything I can to oblige visitors. [f you would be good enough to state your case I 'd be obliged, and "' Well, I came here to tell Grover Cleveland what I think of him, that's what," broke in the woman. Mr. Lamont tugged reflectively at his grizzled, chopped off moustache. "Madam," he said, "tell me. Tell me what you think ot' him. Between you and me. hre-gets me guessing often. enough." -- The good natured tone of the ban+ tering words appeased the -woman in stantly, She -elimbed right doWn, and. in a few words, when Mr. Lamonat had: informed her iho he was, she:narra ted her grievance; and the secretary promised to take it up with the presi dent. There was justice in her husband 's caseat that, and Mr. Lamont did take it up and the president restored the woman's. husband to' his little post mastership. But Mr. Cleveland, from his office, had heardl the little talk between his secretary and the angry woman, and Mr. Lamont was twitted for soime days' by his chief upon the NEWBERRY AFFAIRS WERE NOT DISCUSSED COMMITTEE OVERRULED LYON AND CHRISTENSEN. Sub-Committee Submitted but Indi cated That It Will Not Stop its Work. The displensary investigating eom mittee on Wednesday overruled the motion of the sub committee which had been examining into the financial standing of members of the state board of directors says the Columbia State. Messrs. Christensen and Lyon announced that they were ready to proceed along this line, but the com mittee as a whole overruled them. It was a rather tense situation-. The air was charged with electricity and a thunder cloud might have appeared at any moment. Mr. H. H. Evans, tbe chairman of the board, had an announced to his friends that he was willing to be investigated, that he would go on the stand at any time, but he protested firmly against the committee going into what he consid ered to be his private affairs. Evi deutly the majority of the committee felt the same way about git, and Senator J. T. Hay, the chairman. made the announcement. However, as the line of demarcation between private and publie matters is not so easily distinguished, Mr. Lyon announced that the sub-committee would be unwilling for the Newberry witnesses to be exeused Wednesday afternoon. Mr. 0. L. Schumpert, ofte of the at torneys in the ease, asked for one of the witnesses in the case to be ex ensed. Mr. Lyon moved that the wit ness be excused if he would make affidavit that he was called home by necessity. This was done. The supreme court .room was crowd-. ed. There was quite a crowd of wit nesses from Newberry and it was ex peeted that there would be some live-. ly talk. But the committce. the en tire committee. deliberated for some 10) minutes or longer, and then the announeement was made. Messrs. Christensen and Lyon appeared tof take the ruling of the committee wihout protest, although their de elining to excuse the Newberry wit nesses indicated that there might be some plan of theirs yet to be un-f folded. The subsequent proceed ings of the investigation were along the line of the "labels"' transaction.. Following is a stenographic tran script of what transpired when the comnmit tee was publicly convened: Mr. Lyon-Mr. Chairman, in the course of our inquiries as your -sub committee we have been endeavoring to find out the amount of property owned by the various members of the oard of dispensary directors. We have witnesses here to go into that matter and to show to this committee just what we have discovered along that line, and we would ask the corn-[ iittee to -give us an indication as- to its pleasure in regard to this matter. The witnesses- are here and we are ready to submit their testimony. Mr. Bellinger-Mr:.. Chairman, we understood. that the label question was up and that the testimiony would be introduced- on that question. We-have a good many .witnesses from a great ~distace- and we simply Svant -to put ordesire 3before you.. .Chairman Hay-In the t-ratisaetions that this committee has had from time to time of the matters they have had in charge certain investigations were directed to be made by Mr. Lyon: and M.. Christensen, constituting a sub committee. The committee requested them to make investigations along certain lines. Those investigations have been~ made andl the witnesses have been summoned who, these gen temen, think, would establish the mate to whi-h this investio'ation was directed.but upol considering the r probable evidence and upon reconsid- I ?ring the scope of the inquiry confid- t d to the committee and the duty im posed upon them. the committee have i come to the conclusion, while endors ing in every respect what has been lone by Mr. Christensen and Mr. Lyon's sub-committee. that the com mittee will not go into anything of a I private nature-any transactions of anybody, whether connected with the I dispensary or not, especially conect- t ed with the dispensary, any transac tioni further than ex-officio will come I within the scope of the inquiry, but x nothirg of a personal nature, nothing going into personal affairs would be ] feasible or desirable, and, therefore, that the committee will not pursue i that line of inquiry. Mr. Lyon-We would like for the committee to pass upon the question whether gifts from liquor houses are such personal matters as this com mittee should not go into. Chairman Hay-No, sir; I would not think so. That would be a pub lic matter in the scope of the commit tee, because that would be something in connection with the inquiry. It was then announced that the Newberry witnesses were not permit ted to go home on the afternoon train but would be notified today whether or not they would be needed. President Harrison's Secretary. New York Sun. Hardly less capable as a diplomatic handler of difficult White House visi tors was Elizah-"Lije"--Halford, Harrison's secretary. He was swooped upon in his office on. day by .a middle-aged man. of nat urally violent temper who had recent ly been dismissed from one of the government departments for what used to be called pernicious activity in polities. The man had got by the doorkeepers by exercising the cr'afty eoolness which in the old days enabled many of the most impossible visitors to make their way almost to the door of the president 's office. As he stormed into' Mr. Halford 's office the typhoon of wrath that was raging within, him over what here garded as his un.just dismissal broke forth. "Xou 're Haltford. ain 't you-the fellow Lije tefat we read so much about ?" he opened up upon the ex ceedingly mild mannered~ secretary, who beamed upon him from his desk chair with great cordiality. "Me-me-that lightweight ?" was the secretary's instant disclaimer. "Me Halford i Where did you get~ that idea? My niame's Spinks, and I 'm just a clerk here. Halford 's out of town. Say, don 't call me Halfordi that way again. I don 't like it." "'So you, too, k,now what an ass he is. hey?"P chimed in the wrathful vis itor. "I camne here to tell him what I think of him. He 's the scoundrel who 's beeni laying hold of all the pa pers in my case that I 've been sending the president, so that the president has never seen one of them.'' "That so '"' said the secretary inno cently. "WXell, that 's Halford, for you. He 's doing 'that all the time. Lot of complaint about it. Thinks he 's the whole works. Makes a spe cialty of holding things back fro1i the president that the president onght to know about. But, man, don't tell me your troubles. 'You come back whien 1 Halford's-in-he'll be back week af ter next-and tell him. And, say, let I him have it good. I'd like to be'by when you give it to him. He and I,: don't get along a little bit. Meantime tell me about your papers, and I'll i look them up. and write to you about I 'em." The violent man quickly settled down, and "'Spinks"' made a few notes on his blotting pad, and the vis itor departed appeased. Mr. Harrison< looked into his secretary's otlice a couple of minutes later, andl there was ~ a smile ou his face. I '.'HmIo , ,b aid. "' herw do; vonm econcile it with your conscience wbeil ,ou tell those brazen ones? You told hat man your name was Spinks." "Why I thought I said Sphinx," re )lied the secretary bending over his r'ork. Reffections Of A Bachelor. A girl hardly ever likes a man un ess there is no reason why she should. No matter how good a woman is at igures, she can never learn to count he years of her age. A baby will get awfully fooled if jlwU hinks he is going to have all those iice elothes all his life. When a man stops smoking two del ars' worth of eigars a week it al.. ways surprises his wife that he cam'# nerease her allowance a hundred dol-e ars a month out of the saving. One .time when Joaquin Miller was in Chicago he was interviewed for one >f the newspapers. While telling -o ffie progress of things western the re-. porter interrupted him with an inquiry about the numerous city 'confagra dions out west. The poet of the Sierris instantly replied: "Oir fires are eaused by the friction of rapid rowth.' Cynical. Washington Star. "Curious idea, this transmigrationf, Af souls," said the man* who reads profound things superficially. "Yes,'' answered Miss Cayenne, - 'if I thought some human beings 1 know could possibly be transfgure& into animals I shouldn't be nearly ", rond of pets as I am." NEWS FRo[ CHAPPELS. 4 Whist Club Entertained-Many Coup* les Attend Dance In Saluda Personal. 'Chappells, Feb. 8.-Mrs. Mary Hatthews, of Williamston, is visiting ier daughter,. Mrs. B. W. Watkins. Mrs. Annie -Maulden, of -Nortli arolina, is spending some time with j ei sister. Mrs. Geo. T. Reed. - Mrs. J. R. Shelor, of Anderson, qent several de, s in Chappells. Mrs. I. C. Lee has -returned to New )rry. Miss Ollie Miller, on her way hoice to Pomaria, stopped over several days with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Glenn. Miss Lidie Keith, of Anderson, and Miss Frank Holloway, of Greenwood, will leave for their respective homes in a few days. Mr. L. B. Lee, of Columbia, spenfr several days with his friends. *Several nights ago Miss May Ree& lelightfully intertained the- Whist Cub. Recently, the following couples rom Clieppels, attended a dance at he residence of Mr. and Mrs. Julian R. Webb. in Saluda county, about two niles from Chappells. Mr. L B. Lee nd Miss Mfaymne Boazman, Mr. WV. E. Reed and Miss Eunice Williamson, Mr L B. Boazman and Miss Marion Wil .iamson, Mr. WV. B: Smith~, Jr., and Hises Frank Holliway, Mr. Archie ill and Miss May Reed, Mr. A. MilR id Miss Julia Smith, Mr. Jno. B. seurry and Miss Lidie Keith. The night of the fifth Miss Julia smithi intertained some of the young >eople. Dancing. whist and other ames oif amusement were enjoyed. elilitful refreshments wire served. The farmers ai-e more determined han ever to hrold their cotton for the .5 ent notch. It is talked around mohg some that before ~they would el 'at present prices 'they would nortgage thieii- land. No more cottorz o be giuined ~it this point this season, n fact, the ginneries closed .dowW ome time ago. A rich heiress once said, compla ently to a very beautiful but very oor girl: "I had five offers of mar -iage last week.'' "You are more for ;unate than I,'' said the pretty girl; n.I0ld ote!ratiins of lve.''