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of each article shall be so and so? A. What is the intrinsic value? The actual minimum intrinsic value is what it says here (referring to the firenlar he read.) Q. The intrinsic value shall be not less than $1.50 and he could sell it for $1.40; isn't that what that means? A. It means this: that the board instead of allowing competition to work Q. The committee will construe this as the judges (the circular.) A. Let me give a little word or two -on intrinsic value. Q. If the board desires to hear from you, all right. Senator Tillman, addressing the chairman of the committee: May I' have the permissiun to do so? Chairman Hay-You can explain your testimony, senator. Senator Tillman-Some years ago' we had a great discussion throughout the United States as to the intrinsic value of gold nd silver. The sena tor then went into a discussion of the issue in polities some years ago as to the intrinsic value of gold -and silver). Q. What does one X mean' A. I have told you. Q. That was of your creation? A. Yes. Q. One X as it means among the whiskey dealers A. It is a common kind of whis key, of the cheapest sort. Q. As compared with two X, three X and four Xt A. -Yes. that is it. Q. That is your only objection to this, that it does not require competi tive bids? A. That is a ,reason. and that these men have broken their oaths in office and have disobeyed the law and have bought whiskey as I have -de seribed. - Q. Haven't you always contended in liquor hwouses allowing on liquor that the rebates belonged to the state? A. No, I never said anything about i* Ibnever said a word about rebates on whiskey in my life. Q. I understood you, with refer ence to your arrangement between Hubbell and yourself that there was a reference to a rebate of 7 1-2 cents n the price3 A. Seven and a half cents per gal lon. Q. And von told Hubbell he could ave it? A. I said you take it, because you are crediting the state and I don't want to bother with it. Q. What would you say if these di retors had done the same thing? A. If they had given the people as good whiskey as I did and bonght it n credit, I would say nothing. I had no law requiring me to have whiskey bought by competitive bids. Q. I am talking about rebates gir-: en in consideration of purchases.; Didn 't you admit that the rebates be longed to the state and not vou? A. It did not belong to me at all: did not toneh it. Q. Now. as I understand it. I tried to follow you. you spoke of dishon-! esty and mismanagement in the same breath. Has this board violated the. law in not enforcing the requirements that no man could purchase liquor without a written request ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Don't you know that the state board of-control has got no more to lo with that than yon have as United: States senator? A. You have got the law, so don't ask me. You are a lawyer and can interpret it. Q. You have stated that this is, evidence of the mismanagement, if ot of dishonesty A. Not dishonesty, but. nisman agement and neglect of duty. Q. Have you read the dispensary C' law within the last two years? A. I think so, but not all of it, because it has got so awfully long and lots of it ought to be cut out. Q. Do you not know that it is re ,.uired that the auditors shall be fur nished with these request books and. turned over to the dispenser, by whom it is required to be signed and f4terwards returned to the county au-' -tor? A. I think that is the law. t . Pray tell me at what time the te board otf contro! has ever had onnection with these request blanks. The state board of control has ab solutely nothing to do with the ac in of the county dispenser. A. That is your aSSertioD.' Q. That is my afsettioD).1 A. Who appoints them ? Who up points the county board? Q. I am not talking about the county board but about the county dispenser. A. Who appoints the dispenser ? Q. The county board. A. Who appoints the county board? Q. Wait a moment. give me time. The county board is appointed by the state board upon the recommendation and by the consent of the members of the legislature from the various coun ties, that is so? A. Yes. Q. And the law expressly sayvs that the county dispenser cannot be discharged. appointed or suspended except by the county board. Now how in the world do you make out that the state board should have en forced that provision, that no man should buy liquor except upon a writ ten request? A. My understanding of the law is that the county board is appointed by the state board. upon the recom mendation of the delegation of the legislature from that county' and I would suppose it was removable by the same instrumentality which ap points them. And if a county board disobeys the law is it not. the state board's business to remove them? Q. How would you suggest that the state board should ascertain in stances of the violation of law? A. Has not the state board got in spectors traveling from county to county to make examinations and look into the work of the dispensaries? And of its system of bookkeeping and the correctness of the bookkeeping and don't they report to the state commissioner? Q. You have made no attack upon the county boards as you have made upon the state board? A. I have not made any attack upon the county board except in my speeches I have called attention to the disappearance of this requirement of the law. Q. Where .do you gather this in tormation to which von have refer red and upon which you have based your conclusions? D)o you do SO ex lusively upon this circular? A. That advertisement has been unning in the papers for I do not now how long. Q. You get your information chief y out of the newspapers. do ,you not?i A. I have gathered most of it from the newspapers and a great deal >f it by talking with men who travel about the country, who say what is ~omn on... Q. Don 't you know that not a sin-. gle member heretofore of this board as appeared before this committee Beginning Frida) est feast of valuE Newberry. The White Mercerized Waisting, worth 1.2 cents, our price 9 cents the yard. White Mercerized Waisting, worth 5 cents, our price, 10 cents the yard. White Mercerized Goods for Waist md Shirt Waist Suits, worth 25 cents, ur price, 19 cents the yard. White and Colored Mercerized loods, worth 35 and 40 cents, our rice, 24 cents the yard.I Silk Fafie for Shirt Waist Suits, orth 50 cents, our price 34 cents. White Mercerized French Waist ng, worth 65 cents, our price 49 cents. White Linen, every thread linen, Forth 39 cents, our price 24 cents. White Linen French Century Cloth, orth 15 cents, our price, 10 cents. White and Colored Lineene, worth 1.5 cents, our price 9 cents. 36 inch Linen, worth 50 cents, our! rice. 39 cents. Big lot of Brown and Colored Dress inens at 19 cents the yard. Plain English Nainsook Dress Linen 0 cents, 12 yard-pieces, $1.49. Positively no goodg ch~ hA i]in exoneration against himself? A. I have never seen or under stood why they don't appear before the committee to be catechised and it is a mystery to me why they don't. I do not intend any discourtesy to the committee but it appears to me won derfullv strange that tis committee should have skipped the head of the machine to ao and look after the lit tie fellows. I do not know why the committee has not probed into the Richland distillery, who are its mem bers, who are the stotkholders and what are the contracts. I presume you gentlemen will get around there af ter awhile. They have got nothing but the glass works and they have broken some of the bottles. Q. Now, senator, you also make the statement that the present board has bought. glass bottles at a highcer figure than they could have boughtI elsewhere? A. That is the evidence I have read. Q. That this present. boarl has Idone that? A. That is what I understand. Q. Suppose it will be shown t) this committee by recoids in their possession that ever since Mr. Towill and Mr. Boykin have been on this board there have been competitive bids, and that the Carolina Glass factory was the lowest bid. what would you say then? A. I would have to go and see what was done before. If there has been competitive bids and an honest award of contracts and the law com plied with, I would say that this board is not responsible. As to the glass bottles; I do not see how glass is cheaper in North Carolina and Au usta, Georgia, than in Columbia. I would go to Augusta, Georgia, and buy the bottles and slip them through if necessary. Q. As to the growth of the dispen sary: It has exceeded your expecta tions? A. I have said that if the law could be enforced and if the people lend it their support, that the state would make a million dollars profit on the whiskey business and have less drunkenness in the state than they ever had before. I believe that QOX. In reviewing~ the situation as you have seen it today, do you think it is fair now, not having seen the full statement or testimony of any one of them, to continue to charge that the:e is dishonesty and mis management. against these men when they have never had their da.y in court: do you think it is right? A. 'lI do not see any impropriety in my having an opinion. I base my ~Morning 9:30 o a .In White Gooc se prices for Thr Check Nainsook, 'BIG VALUE, our price, 4 1-2 cents the yard. 1 lot English Long Cloth, worth 15 cents, our price, 10 cents the yard. Linen Finished Chambray, worth4 12 1-2 cents, our price 9 cents. 1 lot India i4noni, worth 12 1-2 ents, our price, 8 cents the yard. 1 lot India Linon, worth 15 c,ents, our price, 10 cents the yard. 1 lot Check Nainsook, worth 10 cents, our price, 7 cents the yard.. 40 inch India Linon, worth 15 cents,! our price 10 cents the yard. 46 inch Persian Lawn, worth 39 ents, our price 24 cents the yard. READY TO BE MADE SHIRT WAIST THAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS BUYING. 100 ready to be made Embroidery Shirt Waists the 50 cents kind, for 29 cents each. 75 ready to be made Embroidery Shirt Waists, worth 60 cents, 39 cents. j rged, no goods on appr THE RIGH belief and my criticism upon the mis management and corruption in the state dispensary upon the failure to have competitive bids. Q. Going back to the hard stock question. Suppose it is shown that when these men took charge, this present board. that the hard stock amounted to $204,261.25 and that to day that amount has been reduced to $18,334.75 and all of which came to them from previous boards, and they have accumulated none, suppose that should be shown by the records, what would you say on that point, as to their management and misconduct? A. You will have to tell me how they got rid of the hard stock. Q. As to the Fant letter: You re ceived that letter five years ago? A. If I had not seen a copy of it in a paper I could not have recollect ed when. I believe it is dated the 29th of December, 1901, practically the 1st. of January, 1902. that is four years ago. Q. Governor 1IsSweeney was gov ernor A. 1 think so. Q. I was attorney general, Mr. Gunter was assistant attorney gener al, Mr. W. W. Harris held position under the governor. Now the names of Governor McSweeney and Mr. Gunter are mentioned in there: that is so? A. I think so. Q. Did you take any steps then, senator, about these matters to look into them! A. I was in Washington at the time upon senatorial duties. I might have my secretary to look at his stenographic notes and to look up a copy of the letter I wrote. So far as I- recall, I wrote this: "Dear Sir: I am sorry that you find that you think there is something wrong in the dis pensary management alid corruption in the appointment of constables. As Governor McSweeney is responsible for the constabulary. it is his busi ness to look after you. and you as his subordinate ought to report them to him.' That is aboult all T recol lect. Q. What did vou do with that let ter? A. .1 have no more recollection of what. I did with it than the man in the moon. My son, who was my sec retary, may have sent it to Col. Jas. Tilman., but I have no recollection and do not know. When I get back to Washington I will make inquiry. .By. Mr. Welch. Q. You base your charge of fraud, dishonesty and collusion upon your construction of this circular that it does not allow for. competitive bid clock we will Op s, Embroideries, e Days: Friday, 50 ready to be made Embroidery Shirt -Wait, worth $1, for 69 cents. 50 ready to be made Embroidery b Val Lace Shirt Waists, worth $1.50 or 98 cents each. For Three days we will Give each Bady buying $5.00 cash, a Subscrip bion to The Designer, for One Year. Standard -Patterns for sale here. 10 md 15 cents None Higher. rO MIDDLE MAN'S PROFIT HERE Bought from the Importer, direct, his big Lot Embroidery containing L,200 yards. Everybody knows they ave advanced 10 to 20 per cent, but o give our trade larger value than aver, we will give the profits away. Lot No. 1.-Containing 3,000 ards of 4 and 5 yard pieces Lawn, id Cambric edges, worth 5 and 7 1-2-1 ents, our price 4 1-2 cents a yard. Lot No. 2.-Containing 2,000. ards, worth 10 and 12 1-2 cents for cents the yard. oval. Please do not as T PRICE S~ ding A. That is one basis. Q. Since that time you have read as to the purchasing at higher prices by the dispensary of liquor than could be purehased elsewhere: that is an additional reason? A. Yes, sir. Q. And on the ground of incom petency, you base that on the failure to,use request blanks? A. And various other things. Q. I want to be frank with you. A. I want you to be. I am going to be frank with vou. Q. These gentlemen on the state board, they want to clear themselves. There has been no formal indictment against them and the only way they know of to prepare themselves to meet the issue when it arises is pub lie opinion. The committee charges nothing against them. If you have any other grounds upon which you could base incompetency or fraud we would like to know it; and for the reason that we want to clear the repu tation of these gentlemen. That is a reasonable proposition and request. A. That is a reasonable proposi tion. As to the disobedience of the law in regard to biis, in my opinion is so clear and plain it. is not worth while to consider that. The disobedi ence of the law in regard to the re quest blanks is so clear and plain, but we are mixed a little on account of having the legislative delegation mixed in it. Mr. Welch then carried Senator Tillman through a very rigid exami nation on the following points, sta ting the figures and soliciting answers to the following questions: First, as to the amount of accumu lated hard stock at cost price to the state (inventory at state dispensary 1904), $102,261.25; second, the esti mated amount of hard stock in local dispensaries at the same time, $102, 000.00; total amount of hard stock inherited from former boards, $204. 261.23: and claimed that the above was reduced in price and sold at a loss to the state, making a small profit for~ towns and counties, showing that the amount of lhardl stock still on hand at the state dispensary was $18,684.25, all of which was inheri ted from former boards. And lie carried Senator Tillman through other figures showing esti mates in favor of increase over for mer administrations for the same time of $29,180.66 and that the total net earnings of state and county dis pensaries for 1902 and 1903 were $1,205,380.68 and that the total net earnings of state and county dispen saries for 1904 and. 1905 were $1, in our doors for < Laces and Ribbc Saturday and Mc Lot No. 3.-5,000 yards Swiss, Lawn and Cambric Edges and Inser tions, worth 15 to 25 cents a yard, for 10 cents, your choice. TORCHON AND VALENCIENNES; LACES PRICED RIGHT. 1 lot Linen Torchon Edges, worth 10 cents, our price 5 cents a yard. 1 Lot Wide Torchion Edges and Bands, worth 10 cents, our price* 5 ents a yard. 1 Lot Wide Val Lace and Insertion, worth 15 and 20 cents, our price 10 cents a yard. A Pretty Lot All Over in Lace and: Embroidery. 1 Lot Dainty Val Laces and Inser tions, worth 10 cents, our price 5! ents. 5,000 yards all Silk Ribbon, Nos. 0, 60 and 80, all colors, at 10 cents a yard. Big Lot Persian Ombrea and heck Ribbon, for all uses. k for a memorandum to ['OR E 645,694.02, or a difference of $441. 000 in favor of the last administra ton. Senator Tillman warily replied that the lawyers were trying to get him to endorse the present administration but lie wasn't going to do it. The investigation TIhen c0nIluded for the day and Senator Tillman re turned to Washington. NEW SPRIN GOODS I desire to call your attention to the New Spring Goods we are receiving. A beautiful line The Regent Shirts in all the new colors and patterns at $1 .00 and $1.50. Anewsup ply of Corless, Coon & Co. Collars and Cuffs. James A. Banister's Fine Shoes, and Ral ston Health Shoes for Men, and the Excelsior Shoe Co.'s line for Men and Little Gents are already here, and oth ers are to follow. New Clothing, New Neckwear. New Hats, New Pants, and other Men's Fur nishing Goods expect ed daily. Come and see them. Tell your friends about my store. A. C. JONES, Newberry, S. C. Feb. 14, 1906. BON SALE )nd.of the great >nls ever given in >nday. Big Line Children's Underwaists from 10 cents up. A PBW TUG OF WAR PRICES. 50 Large Honey Comb Bedspreads, worth $1.25, Price 89 cents. 50 Large Marseilles Design Bed spreads, worth $2.00, Price $1.39. A. C. A. Ticking for feathers, worth 20 cents, Price 12 1-2 -cents. 2nd to None Bleaching, worth 7 1-2 Price 5' cents. Lonsdale Cambric, worth 12 1-2 cents, Price 9 cents. Shirting Prints, best, worth 6 cents, Price 4 3-4 cents. Good Check Ginghams, worth 6 1-2 cents, Price 5 cents. 10-4 Brown Sheeting, worth 25 cents, Price 19 cents. 10-4 Bleached Sheeting, worth 35 cents, Price 29 cents. Pride of Virginia Bleach, worth 10 cents, Price 8 1-3 cents. be made, RD,