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DEFENDS OLEMSON. Major A. T. Smythe Writes That the Members of the Board are Men of Probity, Intelligence and Oharacter. The News and Courier has received the following correspondence, wlich will explain itself: To the Editor of The News and Courier: For the information of all persons interestedl inl Clemson college and its inanagenent please publish the enclosed letter written by Major Augustine T. Sinythe, of Charleston, S. C. Major Smythe is a distinguish ed lawyer, a practical bookkeeper and successful "man of affairs." He was a member of the senate and took part in the debates when the Clemson be quest was accepted and the college es tablished. He is not now connected with Clemson, but has served the col lege as a state trustee for six years with fidelity and efficiency. For the above reasons I think Major Smythe's letter should appeal with great force to all fair-minded men. J. E. Wannamaker. St. Matthew's, September 3, 1906. Hon John E. Wannimaker, St. Matthew's, S. C.-Dear Sir: I have read your letter of the 24th instant and noted its contents. Yes, I have noticed the discussion in reference to Clemson college, and the editorials of several of the leading papers of the state, and I have been struck with the lack of correct information as to the true condition of the affairs of the col lege as exhibited therein. As you know, my colnection with the college has been intimate, though rather pectliar. I was associated with the late Col. James L. Orr as counsel for Mr. Clemson's executor in the liti gation bwore the supreme court of the United States, is to the validity of Mrs. Clemson's will. undeir the terms of which Ifhe Fort Itill properly passed to Mr. Clem-4n. The validity of the will was sulstinied by the Su prWemei couri1. As a (WI- Ow shate senate. I opposed Ile necepitaice OfII Nir. Clem son's bequest, on he gvownd that it was not. wise policy for tle state to accept. a bequest wlicl would require the use of state muonev, when the ma jority of' tile board (of tru1stees was appointed by Mr. Clemson and was a self pel)rpetu1atfing boy. To meet the objection so raised by others as well as myself the legislature provided that the vote of nine trustees out of thir teen, being t wo more than the seven life trulstees., should he necessary to elect any professor or instructor or to appropriate any money. When the legislature decided to ac cept. the bequest I eensed any factious opposition, and did what I could to make the new college sueeassful. Six years ago, without knowledge or any notice to me, Ilie legislature elect ed me a truste of the colle'. and I served as such for six year's. 1 am ino longer a trunsteec nor hav'e [ any cont neet ion withI the coillege, direct or' in dir'ect. I have, hiowev'er, an int iite k nowl edge of' t he a ifairs of' thle ciol1 lege, and( amt sorry that anting is being sid or' done to injurie an ini Rtitution which is doing su1ch a marked amount ot' good( to t hie younig meni of the state. For inst ance, it is charged that the life trustees pract ically run the col lege, and that because they aire in the majority they act, together as a close corpjorat ion. This is entiirely a mis take. Duiring the entire time of my service as trustee I never once sawv the line dirawn between life trustees on the one sidle and1( state triustees on the other. Our dliscussgions were ear' nest and1( frtiiient, and, as in all dei liblerat ive bodies, there were dlifferene es of opintioti, sincerely and honestly cntecrt ainted. rThe vole ('wer(ie soimet imeCs close, hut I neer 'saw thle cleavage along the line of state or life tius tees, in fact, I never saw a dlividhed vote ini whiichl there were tnot state and life trustees on each side of the ques tion. In fact, I knmow~ that no trius tee ever stopp)ed to conusidler whether his colleague sitting alongside of him hold his olliee for life or for a term of years. A gain it is charged thtat until for bidden by the act of the logislature the trustees wvere in the habit of re eeivinug, besides their actual expenses, a per diem of $4, atnd that this tended to keep them banging around the col lege indefinitely, on the pretence of serving on committees. This is entire ly erroneous. When I was first elect ed trustee the law allowed members of the board of fertilizer control, con sistinrg of four trustees, a per diem of $3in lieu of expenses, but it was found that this did not cover the ae ~ytual expenses of the members of the board attending its meetings. Wheu the laws were recodified in 1002 in Ssome way this provision was omitted and, therefore, such payment way -.nod. \n other per diem was evet allowed or charged. All that the trus tees ever received was their actua expenses in attending the metings oj the board. There has never been an: legislation which I have ever knowi directing that the trustees should no receive per diem, and I don't thinl there is any such. I renlember that at one meeting thi question of per diem was discussed and it was decided almost unanimous ly that it was not an open questiot and that no per diem could be paid and none ever was. It is charged that all the choice pro ducts of the dairy, horticultural de partment and other supplies go to tho professors and not to the students The professors are not allowed to bui any supplies from the butcher or ca terer during the term. In fact on rnte of complaint among the profes .r.s is that they are not allowed t< get their meat from the purveyors oj the institut-An. It is uiged again that the privileg4 tax which was pledged to Clemson col lege for its support at the time th Clemson bequest was accepted shouli now be diverted and paid into th state treasury, and so much as the leg. islature saw fit should be appropriate by annual act of the legislature There are two answers to this propo. sition: First. The legislature at the tim< that the Clemson bequest was offered and accepted, and as part of that transaction, pledged this privilege ta: in good faith without limit as to timc or amount to the support of the col lege. It was a contract entered iitc b) y the si ate for valo-able coiisideration receive(l. Wliether wise or not was a (iestion for legislative determination, and the legislature, after full discus sion and considerable opposil,ion fle eided file question and cntered into the contract. As I have said, I op posed it at, the tim, still I always felt and do reel that it was a contract whi"'h tihe leg'islature had power to make, and when il m11ad.e it andl receiv ed the c,1nsideration tile state was b nd in ).11 4 .rl faith (f, ear % ut her. ,d ' o t ie coIlltact. I 11i 1nt 1ink tle state ha1s In(ow, eitiher a le.nal or mora11l. i.ht to go back upon her agree Ient. Second. This privilege tIx Cannot hegally be paid into the treasury of the state as part of the state income, 11nd appropriate( as proposed. The idenii(cal question as to the constitu tionality of such a tax came before the United States Supreme court in the vase of Patapsco Guano company vs. North Carolina, and American Ferti lizer company vs. North Carolina. The first reported in 171 United Stat es, 255, and the latter reported in 43 F. R., 609. The court sustained the validity of the'lax only on the ground that it was an exercise of the police wwcr of the state, and if it was paid into tle treasury as part of the income f the state and applropriated out, the ta\ wouIld be unconstitutional and in v-alia. The facts were identical with lthose a f the preset case. T'ae demoand for lie paymenat of t his tax inito the trceasm'ry and( its appropri at ion'i out hyv special act is based aupon lie igat ion of ext ravagance on thle part (of thle managemen t oif thle col lege. It is only3 proper to say that I was ''n the finance commit tee and I never sawv any evidence of such ex ravagance. The affairs of the college we're conduct ed in a thorong.hly busi ness like manner, hooks (of double en try kept by a thoroughly competent bookkeeper and regularly audited and examineid, and( every expenditunre thoroughly scrutinized and examined before it. was made. The fact that the~ college is requir ed byv special acts of the legislature toi coniduct no(t only t he inspect ion of feril izers, hut also to maintain veter inary anda entomological dlepartmecnts foir thle state, mnaintaina 124 agricul tural scholarships, coast experiment sta[t.lions anid other matters, all of which serious1.y deplete the income of the college, is lost sight of by those wvho onily regard the aggregate and compare it wvith thme necessities of oth er. institutions of infmnitely more re strcicted lines of duit ies. The hoard of trustees of Clemsoin college compares favorably with any other hoard of which I have been a muember, and I have had the honor of being on quite a number of them. Th'le members of the hoard ar-e men of intelligence, character and probity, and the best answer to any and all criticismis against the college is the fact that tfter thirteen years, se treat has been the recognized merit of lie institution, and of its curriculum,1 hat hundreds of applicants are turned rway annually because of lack of ac ommodations. If the college were a ailure and managed by a set of fos ils, the fact certainly would have eaen discovered ere now, and we .vould not find its halls erbwded by -munng men from everg part of the ate, without distinction of party or atlon. With every opportunity of knowing I thoroughly the affairs of the institu tion, I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion that the college has proved L under the management of the board, 4onstituted qG it is, It great success, and one which the state cannot afford to do without. Pardon this long letter, but al though, as I have said, I have no long er any connection with the college, I am most deeply interested in it, as one of the most important educational institutions of the state, and I cannot but regret the misinformation which seems to prevail so generally in ref erence to it. With kind regards, I am your truly, Augustine T. Smythe. Pendleton, August 29, 1906. NEGRO COLLEGE OLOSED. President Advised By Citizens of Ab bevillo to Resign to Prevent Trouble. To prevent actual bloodshed and the possible dynamiting of school pro perty some of the best citizens of Abbeville took a hand in what they feared was a grave situation and as a result iarbison College at Abbeville is closed and the president of the in stitution has gone to other climes. From what little can he learned in Columbia, says a 'dispatch to the News and Courier, the notice of the actual resignation of the p)residlent was reC eeived Monday. It is a somewhat long storY, the details of which are not all relevanit. Ialrbisol College has been in a flourisling condiltion in Abbeville for some tile. ft. gets its money largely through hIlle Nolethern Presbyterian Chlrchl and all of its money comes from tihle North forl the education of tle color(ied youtlh. It is so-education al or ratlher it was. Boys and girls have beenl 'iiig to the so-called col 14-e fot .sle Wie. T ol ias II. Anllos. tile pre.i (lelit, is a N(irtei orn cllred nmal. He is al) plremtly a liall o e(dIlation aid was picked ill froml tile Nortl by thel Friends of the college from the ranks of tile Colored people to le placed at tie h(a(j (if Iarbison. Ile was there for soml1e time. Amoq seems to have been talking too munch, or at. least he is giveln eredit for too much talk. Tle trouble which has just culmi nated in his enforced resignation was a statement lie is alleged to have made to the graudating class at thc close of the college last spring. He is then al leged to have told the classes that tile comduct of the colored race so far had brought the white women to the kitchen and if they kept up the good work of independence that it woub' bring them to the wash tub also. Ie hoped thiat nioie oF his graduates would work for white people in sub oirdiniate or meniial cap)acities. T1his seems to have started t he trou ble and Feeling against President Amos(1 and thle college have been grow in. The repo(rt is that there was a c. ls. or ahn114ost onec. ''n thle occasion of the unveiling (of the ('oinFederate monliumlenlt at A hbeville, wichl appearOls to haive birouighit matteris to somewhat of a crisis. Mr. Gleorge White, a well known livery stable man, and subst an tial citizen, was attacked and this was followed by many of the white (citiz emns getting themselves ready for troui It is said that many of the best cit izens purchased supplies of rifles and ammlunlitionl. In these circumstances and1( in order to prevent bloodshed and the dynamiting of the College pro p)erty, which had been threatened, about a score of the cooler hleads got tolgethler aiid app)1ointed a committee of three, which waited on Amos and told himi that while they camne to himn with 114 thlreats, they wanted to strongly adlvise him that it would be best for him, the College, and tIhe community if lie would resign and leave tile state, otherwise thecy cold not assume reC sponsibmility for hlis safety or the pro tectioni of the College property. lie dlenied1 the st atements accredited to him, but thanked the committee for coining to lhin and advising him. HeI said he did not wvant to precipitate any trouble and was glad to get away. lie left Abbeville for Baltimore and is supposed to be there now. The notice of his resignation wvas r'e eeivedl amnd a reciuest~was made that one of the board of directors of the College be given a hearing in the hope of establishing a better feeling. It is understood that the sentiment of many of the people of Abbevilie is that Northern aid should be with drawn from Harbisbn College, because it is believed if this Is done and the Northern Presbyterian Church with drawvs its aid, that the College wvill go into decadence and close its doors for the class of work it hmas been doing. Amos telegraphed from Baltimore Monday that one of the didectors The Smith We have opened up a building just below our We have made a succ giving good weights an< We know that we will make a su tem to wit: First class goods, full dead dollar. We have a full line of Oliver 0. Smith and Mrs. Fred. I We will continue our Grocery Sto Mr, Lawson Bobb will rave charge Come where you can get what yo here than any where else and know Yours I take charge of the institution. Ex-Speaker of the House, Frank B. Gary, a resident of Abbeville, is auth ority for the above statement. A LADY LAWYER. Secures Release of Lad Under Age Froni the Navy. Richmond Times-Dispatch. For the first time in the history of Norfolk a woman lawyer, Miss Mary Filbert, of Washington, D. C., ap peared to-day at the bar in one of the courts of the city to plead a case. She was here as the attorney for the uother of Alfred S. Bawely in habeas (r4111u1s proceeding-s institiuted in the Vinited States District Court, to Bawr ly out of the navy. He is but seven teei years old and enlisted without his imother's conseit. Lawyer Filbert handled her ease as well as any other lawyer could have been expected to do and secured the b.y's release. althliough the govern men4:1t. with tle assistance of District .\ttorley Talley, of Richmond. made a I rn figlit aga inst his release, on tie ground that court-Iartial pro vVildinl-s had been instituted on ac count of the boy's frauduilent enlist m1enit. The appearance of the lady attor liey il court. attracted many men of t-h local bar to the court room. The Latest Glove Fad. Philadelphia Record. Garters for gloves are tlie4atest, being the natural sequence of the long glove worn with the new short-sleev ed shirt-waists, for certain styles of which it is imperative that the glove t be as free from wrinkles as the stock ings. There are two kinds of these glove garters. One is for display and is made of gold, so fashioned as to be flexible and elastic and looking much like a bracelet. The other kind is made of ordhinary elastic like a stocking garter, but without the fancy buckles sometimes seen-at least wvorn -on the latter. This kind of glove garter is not4 meant to be seen and the. sleeve comesiW dlown o4ver it. For out door wvear these garters are generally dispensed with and the gloves arc allowed to wrinkle. His (Thicken Proposition. Denver Post. Col. John S. 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