The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 13, 1906, Image 1
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