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VOL XLIII. NO. 13. NEWBERRY. S. C. TUESDAY. FERRUARY 13. 1YEAR LIST WEEK OF THE GENERAL ASSENBLY MAY BE NO ACTION ON DISPEN SARY. General Review of Situation as It Now Appears In Columbia. Columbia, February 12.-The gen eral assembly starts today on the last week of this session. That is to say that the pay limit for members is on Saturday. Those who have been here for sev eral years say that the work is prob ably worse behind than the'y have ever ignown. at this stage in the session. None of the matters of general inter est have yet been determined. The dis pesary question is still unsettled; the tax, question ha not been discus sed and several other matters which s#ould have attention will have to die wib the session. * * * The whole of lst .eek was practi-A eally ceonsumed with the diseussion of the dispensary. The house has finished the MorganI bill and sent it to the senate with numerous amendments. The debate has started in the senate and it is not known when a vote will be reeed. Mr. Morgan was siek for severall days and was not in the house when ,he amendments were made to his I bill. It was reengressed before it was-semt-i the senate including all the amendments. The debate on the question in both houses has attracted -aueh attention and the attendance -tas ibeen lare. "The two leatg speeches in the sen ate up to this have been made by Senator Brice for the bill and Sena tor Walker of 'Georgetown against, the bill. Mr. Walker made a very fine argument froim his standpoint against' the bill. He is one of the fmnest debat -ers .in the legislature and withal a most excellent gentleman. It is prob 'able that there will be several other speeches 'before a vote is taken. The question~ still is what will be the final result. As stated in this correspondence two or thtee weeks ago the senate has a small majority in favor of the dispensary system " properly managed,'' as they term it; and if they still hold to their view the Morgan bill will be killed. It is said that the senate is 19 to 22 against the Morgan bill. 'It is seen, therefore, that it would take only a change of two votes to change the result, but the senate, as a rule, is not influenced by discussion. If the senate should kill this bill then it would be up to the house to say if it could come to the senate 's' position amending the present dis pensary law as contained in what is known .as the Raysor-Manning bill. This, it is said, the house will not do 'and if that be true, then there will be no dispensary legislation at this ses sion and the people can say next sum mer what they want to do. My opinion now is that this will be the result, and that nothing will be done. The general supply bill has been introduced and.Comptroller General Jones has prepared another supply which has also been introduced by the Wavs and Means committee which does not make any levy for the state or ordinary county purposes and leaves that to be done after the as sessments are all made. This is done in view of the increased assessment which it is expected will be made this year. This bill makes an appropria tion in dollars. The* * The regular supply bill carries a levy of four mills and one mill for pensions. If the assessment should be increased to $275,000,000 this will be $275,000 for pensions. The appro priation bill as it passed the house carries $250,000 for pensions. It will come up in the senate today. There was a fight on the immigra tion department and the appropria tion for it passed the house as report ed by the committee. In fact the entire appropriation bill passed the house practically as-it canie fron the committee and. carry ing the amounts mentioned in my let ter in last Teusday's Herald and News. The bill increasing the salaries of court stenographers from $1,200 to $1,500 has been passed, ratified and signed by the governor and takes ef feet at once. * * * The bill providing for the new court house at Newberry has passed. Its provisions have been stated The Her aid and News. The commission to have charge of the whole matter is composed as follows: Geo. S. Mower, J. A. Sligh, Otto Klettner. C. H. Shannon, Jno. R. Perdew, W. D. Senn, J. Monroe Wicker. The levy for ordinary county pur poses for Newberry county as fixed in the supply bill carries with it a levy of four mills. * * * There was a large delegation here all of last week from Newberry, brought here by the dispensary in estigation committee. One felt al most like he was in Newberry, so many Newberry people were here. But none of them were put on the stand and sworn. It is understood that some of them were taken to pri ate rooms and questioned by the sub committee. Their testimony probably was not of the nature the sub-commit te wanted. Chairman Hay stated that he would not admit any testimony that dealt with the private affairs of the mem bers of the board. The testimony taken by the commit tee has dealt with the lanel purchase and the glass purchase. It looks now that this legislature will have to elect a state board of di rectors which will be done just as soon as the discussion ceases andf final action is taken on the several dispensary bills. Senator Tillman has been su.mmon ed to appear before the investigation committee on Friday. In case a board of directors is elec ted it is pretty generally conceded that Mr. H. H. Evans will succeed himself as chairman. They All Saw It Move. Mrs. Burton, with her husband, Sir Richard Burton, the famous trav eler, and two ladies, had driven out of Triest to a village dance and were sitting in the carriage listening to the band. In telling of it she said: Suddenly, at the top of a roof, I caught sight of a rat, wvhich appeared to me to be spellbound by the music. ''Look!"' I said. ''Don't move, but watch that rat fascinated by the music So we all sat and watched it and thought it most interesting that rats should be susceptible to music like liz ards and snakes. We all saw it move. We all saw its head turn and its tail move, and we kept still, not to frighten it away. The next day, feeling so much interested in the affair, we sent to inquire about it. The rat, it turned out, was inade of painted tin and fixed to the top of the hs. So much f'or imagination. CAN PROVE THE TRADE SAYS SENATOR TILLIAN DECLARES BARGAIN MADE WITH CHRLESTON. How License Clause Got Into Consti tution-A Reply to Capt. Ham el's Statement. Senator Tillman denies the state ment given out by Mr. Hamel coil cerning a. trade Mr. Haniel says was! made in the donstitutional convention with the Charleston delegation, and he tells bow the Clayton substitute, striking out the power of t1 - state to license the sale of liquor. was kill ed by the convention, says a Wash ington dispatch to the ColuMbia State. He also said in conversation that so far as the "dirty bargain" charged in the previous interviews is concerned, he has evidence to prove that it is true that a. specific bargain was made. He says that he now has information that certain of the Char leston delegation are kicking because the bargain has not been kept, for the terms of the bargain, he is in formed, were that Charleston should have also the right to license whole sale liquor dealers ap well as retail ers. Says he: "Mr. - Sinkler's disclaimer of the bargain between the Charleston peo ple and the prohibitionists no doubt applies to himself only, but at the proper time there will be other evi dence adduced, if needed, to prove the fact that there was such an agree ment. Concerning Mr. Hamel.s remarks'as quoted in the State of last Wednes day, Senator Tillman says: "The interview or statemenT given out by Mr. Hamel in regaid to the origin of the clause in the constitu tion governing the sale of intoxicating liquors is erroneous and does me and himself great injustice. I have re freshed my memor~y by an examina tion of the journal of the constitution al convention of 1895. The commit tee charged with that article of the constitution reported a section which was practically, if not exactly, thej one which was finally adopted, with the exception of the proviso at the! end. After considerable debate ex tending over several days Mr. Clay-I ton., of Florence, offered a substitute in whieh the power to license was stricken out and the legislature al lowed no power except to prohibit or sell under dispensary regulations. This excited a deal of debate in which I took no part until I was upbraided by Mr. McCalla; of Abbeville, with not standing up to the dispensary. I then pointed out the danger which would arise in case the federal courts declai-ed the dispensary law uncon stitutional, to wit: That w'e would have prohibition and the legislature would be tied so that it could do nothing without amending the consti tution. At my suggestion the body1 adjourned discussion and when the matter came up again the conventioni by a vote of 102 yeas to 32 nays kill ed the Clayton substitute. Then by a rising vote of S7 to 26 the proviso was added: as follows: . " 'Provided, That no license shallI be granted to sell alcoholic beverages in less quantities than one-half pint; or to sell them between sundown and sunrise: or to sell them to be drunki on the premises; and. provided, furth er. that the general assembly shall] not delegate the power to issue li eenses to sell the same to an~y munici pal corporation.' "Mr. George .Johnstone had moved to strike out the dispensary part of the section and this was killed by a vote of 105 to 24. These 24 votes showed the setrength of the license people. The dispensary advocates were always in an overwhelming ma oritv-ini the. convention and Mr. famel s statement that there was any deal. bargain. or caucus between the dispensarvites and the liceuse men is wholly without foundation. The dis pensaryites of their own free will and acord provided for the issuing of li censes under the conditions imposed in the proviso because it was felt to be unwise to incorporate in the con stitution a provision that would not leave the people and their represen tatives in the legislature the power to deal with the question as they saw fit with the essential features of the dispensary law as embodied in the proviso controlling the sale of li quor. Another Interview. The following interview with Sen kor Tillman was printed in the Co lumbia State of Friday: Senator Tillman has seen "by the papers'" that certain legislators and others are disposed to resent his re marks upon the dispensary situation and lie makes another remark or two. He insists that when he character ized the method by. which the Morgan bill passed the house as a. "dirty bar gain" lie meant *just that word and no other, though he says he did not mean to reflect in any way upon any of the Charleston delegation. Says he: "I said there was a trade by which Charleston's nine votes were cast for the bill in consideration for making that most remarkable excep tion for Charleston, allowing it the privilege denied all the rest of the State of having license if it wants it. "There may not have been any ac tual overt trade, there may not have been any formal agreement, but the thing is so -self-evideit that it isn't worth while for -anybody to denyit. Charleston has always been in favor >f local option, by which, of Course, it is meant that it wants saloons, and its representatives in the leglislature saw that the only way to get it was to vote for this bill. "Likewise the anti-dispensary mem ers from other counties knoW that he only way they could get Charleston mpport of a so-called prohibition neasure would be to except Charles Lon from its operation by giving it the! hird choice of high license. ' Else why did they except Charles Lon, and why did they not except Co umbia also. or Geenville, or Spar anburg, or any other town. "Why, it is plain as the nose on your face if they had not given this special privilege to Charleston they1 would not have got these nine votes and the bill would have been defeted, nd they know it. 7 A few w.eeks ago. it will be remem bered it was .reported in this corre-; ponence that Senator Tillman said lie had nothing to say on the . South Carolina situation, considering that in a general way it was not his business to interfere and that he had his hands full here. His Ear to the Ground. As a matter of fact, there can be io doubt that he has his hands full here, about as full a,s any man in the senate, but lie instinctively keeps one ear to the ground for what is going on in South Carolina and it is as i possible for him to keep out of it as it is for him to sit quietly in his seat in the senate when a spirited debate is going on. I would be a fool.'' said he to day, " to sit here in Washington, how ever much I1 am absorbed with affairs here, and see-the people of South Car olina tricked without at least making my protest. And by people I. mean the real majority of the white people for whom I have struggled.'' The senator was once called down in the senate for using the word " triker ' when referring t o the pesident, so I asked him what he meant byv it in this 'onnelfct1in. '' say tricked.'' he replied. ''because tht is what it appears to me. The Brice low difrnnehises one-third of: the mite nen in the state who can vote in the Democratic primary. The Management Corrupt. Flesides. the enemies of the dis pensary, who for years have control led the State, have been putting men in charge of it who have mismanaged it, stilen from it, brought it into bad order, and the newspapaers which are and always have been bitter against the dispensary and against me, and which make a practice of sup pressing whatever is favorable to the dispensary and loudly vaunting what is - unfavorable to it, are the ones which have the largest circulation and the ones which -these 'driftwwod legis lators' read and look upon as the law, the prophets and the gospel so the people are hoodwinked, but there is a time coming. "The people will get a chance to express themselves next summer and without any Brice.law to disfranchise any of them and bottle them up. All they need is somebody to stir them up and let thqp know what is going on. The dispensary will be the deciding issue in the whole campaign, not only in the election of members of the leg islature but in every election in the State, for governor, for State officers, for county officers, for my successor in the senate and all." Tillman for Governor. Something was said last summer about the senator running for gov ernor instead of for the senate and there has been some such talk here, though perhaps emanating from some ambitious representatives not averse to being called upon by the people to take a more exalted seat. Asked the direct question today, Senator Till man said:: "Yes, I have thought many times of doing that. The only condition that would induce me to consider it, however, from a personal standpoint, would be the fact that ny health should be such as to make it unwise for me to remain in Washington and attend to my duties here. But some body ought to take up the fight in South Carolina and straighten things in the interest of the people who are being hoodwinked, put the dispensary in good shape and otherwise give an example of honest politics.'' Those who think he contemplates running for governor say that in case of election, after serving one term he would again seek election to the sen ate and thus break all previous rec ords in his or any other state. Of course he would lose his prestige on committees and* his recognized place as one of the leaders in debate and so forth. He says, however, that should he ever leave the senate to become gov ernor he would never return. "In that event,'' he observes. "I am donme. I 'm getting too old. Not Like Hampton. "Now another thing,'' said Senator Tilmani. "I see somebody is getting off that old jibe about my having crit icised Hampton. for meddling in state affairs while he was senator and charging that I am dloinig the same thing. The difference is just this: Hampton took part in a personal con test between candidates, engaging in a fight between one man and another running for office. I a.m taking no part in any personal contest, but in the discussion of great issues. which it is my duty to do so long as I am a itizen of the state, especially when I see an institution which I created and fostered attacked. and attacked in such underhanded, such a cowardly, way with every conceivable political trick and( with a lot of hlypocrisy."' An Atghan is bound byV eustom to rait a stranger who crosses is tiresholdl and clainms proieeC(tion any favor he may ask, even at the risk of his oivn life. Yet apart fronm this lie is cruel and revengeful, inever forgiv in a wrong and retaliatinig at the Revivals By English Evangelist. Chattanooga, Tenn., February 10. Dr. J. W. Dawson, the famous Eng lish evangelist, arrived here today to conduet a series of revival meetings in the City Auditorium, which series is to extend over nearly two weeks. Dr. Dawson will preach his first ser Imon tomorrow afternoon at a meet ing for men only. At night service tomorow he will preach to a mixed congregation. Beginning with Monday he will preach every afternoon and evening until February 20, inclusive. The lo cal pastors are greatly pleased over the coming of Dr. Dawson and will do all in their power to make these revw. al meetings a great success. A Helpless Woman Shot to Death. San Francisco, February 9.-Ebb Coley, who lived near Macon, Geor gia, and who was formerly a- sergeant in the Sixteenth company of the coast artillery, having also served in the Twentieth field artillery, shot and killed Josie Labat of Santa Clara, Friday and then shot and killed him self. The shooting occurred in a room at the Grand Pacific hotel. Coley, killed the woman as she lay in bed, sick and helpless. The couple had lived together for some time. Anderson, February 9.-Ernest F. Cochran received his commission as district attorney for South Carolina Friday and left on the night train for Charleston where the formal transfer of the office will take place tomirrow. An Economical Official. A representative in congress, who was formerly a judge on a circuit in eluding the state of Arkansas, relatm. an amusing instance, retold in an ex change, of the free-and-easy adminis tration of justice in that section in the old days: "On a certain occasion," says the former judge, "I had sentenced a man in one of the smaller towns of Ar kansas to three months in jail for lar eny. A few days after the trial I was on my way to the station in com pany, so it chanced, with the sheriff of the -county. when I passed a man busily engaged in sawing wood. He greeted me most politely with, 'Good mornin', jedge.' "IE returned the man 's salutation, and continued on my way. There had seemed something 'in his face- that was familiar: so I asked the sheriff who he was. That official hesitated a moment before replying. Then he saids 'That 's the fellow you senten ed to three months for larceny the other day. "Seeing how astonished I was that a man sentenced to three monts im prisonment should in three or fouir days still be at liberty, the sheriff hastened to explain. "' Yes, jedge, that' 's the same man. The fact is, jedge, that we don't hap pen to have anybody else in jail jest now, so we thought it would kinder be: a useless expense to hire somebody to look after jest this one prisoner. Consequently, jedge, I gave the fellow the jail key, and told him that if he 'd sleep there nights I reckoned it would be all right.' The North Star. The north star is exactly in line with the poles of the earth-that is to say, it is exactly north of the earth which is the reason why its positioR with reference to us does not change by the revolution of the earth upon its axis. The reason its position does not seem to change by the annual rev olutioni of the earth around the sun is that it is so many billions of miles away that the difference in direction from different points of the earth's' orbi isimperceptible.. People do things in broad daylight to make themselves ridiculous and