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VOL XLLV. NO. 4 NEWBERRY. S. 0. FRIl1DAY, JANUARP,,Y 11. 1907. TLEAWE.$ 0 ER RICHARD 'S. WHALEY ELECTED SPERKER OPENING OF SESSION OF GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY YESTERDAY. Withdrawal of Mr. Nash From Itace Simplifies Election-The Other Officers. Speaker-Ricliard Smith Waliley of Cliarleston. Clerk-Thiomats.C. llamner, Jr., of Bennettsville. Reading Chlrk-John S. Withers of Chester. Sergeant-at-arms-John S. Wilsor of Lancaster. Chaplain-Rev. R. N. Pratt of Co. lumbia. Contrary to general expectatior but two ballots were held for speak, er when the house of representative. met Tuesday at noon. On the first ballot the voting was for Messrs Richard S. Whaley of Cabrleston, D D. McColl, Jr., of Bennettsville and J. W. Nash of Spartanburg. On th result of the vote being announced and there not being a necessary ma joirty to elect, the name of Mr. Nasli was withdrawn and Mi. WhNaley was elected by a vote of 64 to 55. With all that, however, it took th( body three 'hours to finish the elee tions a,nd select their seats and il was necessary for the reading of the governor's message to be postponed until today, noon. A part of this time was spent ill discussion over the adop. tion of the iuls for'the session and it took the house 15 minutes to decide whether or not the election of a chap. lain should be postponed. - Mr. Gary Presides. The gallery and floor were crowd. ed wiien Mr. Thomas C. Hanier, ac't in- Clerk. rapped for order at Iioor and asked for the election of a teli porary chairman. "Mr. Join . Richlards, Jr., .nmnae Mr. Franli111 B. Gary o4 Abbeville. Mr. Gary was uy elected ald onl takinI hie chlair ordered the calling" of thle 'oll. Messrs Courtenay of Aiken Doar of Georgetown and Gause of Willianisburg' were absent. Tlier< v onle ra11y of' hoiinior in the other lvise routine and dull proceedings. [r. IIamer called the roll from tl ewspaper. list printed some time a1g ud wlien Clarendon was reached reatl tame of 1). L. Green. There Was no nswer and he was about to be mark d absent when a iemlber. of, the dele. ation informed tile clerk ilat MIr rcen failed of reelection. Election of Speaker. The election of speaker came next Ir. J. P. Gibson of Marlboro, in a hort speech nominated Mr. McColl. t was seconded by Mr. Croft of Aik e~n. Mr. Glveorgae F. Von Koillitz of harleson placed before time assem ly the naie of Mr. Richard S Vhaley, which was secomnded by Mr' r'aser' of Sumter. Dr. J. H. Miller of Laurens nomi-11 ated Mr. J. W. ,Nash, which wvas see nded 'by Mr. M. W. Walkei' ol partanburg. The nominations their losed. Messis. Von Kolnitz, Richiards mud Miller wei'e appointed tellers On the fiirst ballot the vote stood as follows: Whaley. Aull, Banks, Beattie, A. 0. Brice, Bi'yan, Carey, Carrigan, Clinkseales Cosgrove, Coth rau, .Cox, DeVore, '1. B. Dodd, Th'aser, Fr'ost, Gr'eer, G'yles Hall, Harley Hemlphill, Hinton, Hy diik, Kel lahan, Lawson, Legare Manmi, Marshall, Nesbi tt, Nicholson, ivem, Parker', Patterson, Rucker aye, Scarborough, Sellers, Shipp, P. ~mith,~ K. P. Smiithi, Spivey, Still eli, ThIom as, Todd, Vander'horst rner, von:Kolnitz, Wade, Wallace ite Wiggins Wimberley, Win' Yeldell, Yotians-55. 6 McOoll. er,' Bailey, Ballentine, Bethune ,Brantlpy, T. S. Brico, Cannon / Carwile, Crof t, Cullei', Der. Diek, Dingle, Dixon, Douglas.s bg, 191pa, Epting, O'rris, J. P , Glasseock, Hairris, Hughes Kersha w, 'Kirven, Lane, Los. itner, Little, McKeowvn, McMas ley,/Norton, Richards, 146hiard Rosai; - avIyer, Serd4gs *5 ngi e Stubbs, Tatum, Tompkins, Woods, Wyche-49. Nash. Arnold, Clary, J. H.- Dodd, W. J. Gibson, Goodwin, 1-arrison, John stone, McArtihur, Miller, Morrell, Nichols, Reaves, Walker-13. Not voting-Harmon, McColl, Nah,li Whaley. Neessary to a choice 59. The Second Ballot. Mri. Walkier thien, ,withidrew thec inaie of Mr. Nash and the -second 'ballot resulted as follows: Whaley. Arnold, Aull, Blanks, Beattie, A. G. Brice, Bryan, Carey, Carrington, Clary, Clinkscales, Cosgrove, Cothlran, Cox DeVore, J. B. I)odd, J. H. Dodd, Fraser, Frost, W. J. Gibson, Greer, OGles, Hall, Harley, Hemphill, Hinl ton, Hydrick, Johnstone, Kellahan, Lawson, Legare, McArthur, Mann, Marshall, Nash, Nesbitt, Nichols, Nicholson, Niver, Parker, Patterson, Reaves, Rucker, Saye, Scarborough, Sellers, Sihpp, D. L. Smith, Kurtz P. Smith, Spivey, Stillwell, Thoinas, Todd, Vanderhorst, Verner, von iKol nitz., Wade, Walker, Wallace, White, Wiggins, Wimberley, Wingard, Yel dell, Youmans-64. Mcoll. Ayer, Bailey, Ballentine, Bethune, Boyd, Brantley, T. S. Brice, Cannon, Carson, Carwile, Croft, Culler, Der ham, Dick, Dingle, Dixon, Douglass, Dowling, Epps, Epting, Garris, Gary, J. P. Gibson, Glasseock, Goodwin, Harman, Harris, Harrison, Hughes, Jones,.Kersliaw, Kirven, Lane, Lester, Leitner, Little, M'eKeown, McMaster, Mliley, Miller, Morrell, Norton, Rieh ards, Ricliardson, Robinson, Sawyer, Seruggs, Sh ape, Slaughter, J. E. Smith, Stubbs, Tatum, Tompkins, Woods, Wychie-55. %/. Not voting-Whaley, McColl. Total vote 119. Necessary to elect. 60. The aivc vote, takenl fr',mIII the of fieial journal of the house, does not give A1r. F. B. Gary's vote. Mr. Gary voted for Mr. MeColl, wliih.changes Ihe vo(te, received by Mr. McColI from 49 to 50. As stated above Mr. Gary wai tle temporar-chiran at. the timle. Mr. MclCt)lI was coi-ratulated uponi the lar-e .( vote which he received. His 1'riends now Claim t1hat. he was a win ner i) to 10 o'clock yesterday morn in,. Mr. Whaley's friend colmted 53 viotes for him Monday niihi and Ite received 54 oil the first ballot. II m1 it be hard to say to wlat ex Iiii flite dispensary issue was worked. Boti sides used it. and neither side claiis to have raised the list urbance. Messrs. Ilemphill, Johnstone and Carey were appointed a Committee to ecoirt Mr. Whaley to lie chair and ile house arose as the newly elected speaker came down the aisle and took his seat'. Mr. Wlaley's remarks were '.hort but the thanks lie gave were sinceere. The Other Elections. The othor elections were nnanimous, lbut uder the law the roll had to be called in each ease. Mr. Thomas C. Hamer was nominat ed for clerk by Mr. J. P. Gibson and seco)nded by a number of members. Mir. I-amer is cormpneing his ninth year as clerk anid dnrimg that time has given universal satisfujction and sel dom has op)position. During his ser vice lie has never lost or. misplaced a p)aper or' hill despite the constant de mand on his time.. Mr. John S. Withers of Chester wvas nominated b)y Mr. J. B. Wingard. Mr. Wither.s is the oldest attache of the house and this session is the,beginning oif his 15th year. Mr. JTohn S. Wilson was unanmmous ly reelected sergeant-at-arms, this be ing his fifth year. He has never been opposed. Rev. R. N. Pratt, who was reelected chaplain, is the pastor of the Second Bpaptist church in this city and is wvell known, to 1)0th the old1 and the new Imembers of the house. It was thqn after 2 o'clock and sev eral of' the mnembers wanted to ad journi. A mnotion11 was made to that ef fect when some one ca.lled the atten tion of the body to. the fact that the governor and senate had not been no tifie~d of the organization of the body. 'f'he senate had adjourined aji hour previously-and the governor h &d been .ygidIng on $he- message from the' h4puse ill his offlee dowistairs. Messrs. Harrison, Fraser and Walker were ap pointed a commuittee to wait. on the governor and notify him. Tules Remain the Same. Before going down stairs Mr. Fras er called atteition to the fiet that the house had not yet adopted the rules anidl he moved that the rules of the previous sessii be adopted with the elanlge, that I(no member of the ways aind Imleanls committee or judiciary committee be re<uired to serve in any. Fraser thtought lie duties of tihese two Comm1111ittees vere suchl1 ats would re qjuire the entire time of the members except when in the house. The pro position was opposed by Mr. Rucker, who held that the present rules had been in force for 15 years and that. should any changes be desired they should be teferred to the committee on rules after their appointment by the speaker. Mr. Nash agreed with Mr. Rucker and thought the work of several good men, who would be ap pointed on the two comittees, was needted on other committees also. Mr. Kershaw thought Mr. Farser's mo tion a proper one, but on a division and couit it was rejected by a vote of 53 to 26. The old rules, therefore, will be adopted unless changes are made after the apopinItment of colp mittees. Again a motoioni wias made to ad journ, but it w%,as voted dowi almost un1aimimously. The delegations want I ed to know where they were going to sit today and the drawing for seats commenced. This took fully 45 minu tes and when the governor's annual message entme ill) it was decided to postpone its readiig initil today at I noon. Finally the work was complet ed. Speaker Whaley- will -itti aounce -the appointment of his conuittees inl a day or so. He stated yesterday that lie had given tlie latter but. little fhliult yet and wonld select those lie tholught were hest silited for the work. 'lhere are also the appoint ments of thle doorkeepers. the pages aniid th1valiousassistantls. Study of Vote. A study ofI the vote for speaker is ali interesting one. As ml1enltioned in ye State yesterday morning, t lie lines were dra\Wn to some extent. The friends of Ml.r. Whaley say that whilo fhev expected Mir. Nash to withdraw ofter Ihe first ballot, they had re ceived no assirances to that effect. 'I'lie vote had been figured down rath er. closely the day before by .. both sides and tle supporters of Messrs. McColl and Whaley did iot. change on tlie semond ballot. Of the 13 votes east for Mr. Nash, 9 of them wvent. to Mr. Whaley oi the second ballot Messws. Arnold, Clary, J. H1. Dodd, WV. J. Gibson, Johistone, MrliArthur,2 Nichols', Reaves and Walker. The four going to Mr. MeColl were: Messrs. Goodwin, Harrison, Morrell and Miller. Mr. Fred Harman of this counity did not, vote the first time, but oin the second( ballot voted for Mr. McColl. Mr. Nash, wh'lo on account of his candidacy, didl not vote the first time, voted for Mr. Whaley on the second ballot. It was eommented on in the lobbies afterwvards on the vote of Richland, whlich went solid for Mr. McColl. As Time Flies. It is 10 p. m. They are seated in the parlor. ''No,'' she says, bowing her head. ''Pa says I am too young to be come engaged.'' It is just 1.30 a. m. They are still seated in the parlor. Suddenly, fromi somewhere upstairs, a gruff' voice., shouts: ''Henrietta, if that fellow waits a little longer you'll be old enouigh to accept his proposal.'' -Woman 's Home Companion. Horse Sense. "'There is'something very odd abou'~t horseaplay in dramma." ''What is it?'' ''That it is seldom well mounted, .though it may be very well backed." -Baltimore Sun. Just Like People., ''A horse is a man's best .friend,' said the man who likes animals. ''es' answvered young Mrs. Tor kins wvith a sigh, ''but when he gets on thie racetrack lhe is liable to p)rove one of those fool friends who make so mnuch trouble. "-Wash ngton Star. LAST MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR HEYWARI IMPORTANT MATTERS CLEARLY REV3E WED. Thinks That. Pay of State Officers Should be Increased-Too Small At Present. To the lonorable fihe (wentlemen of the 'eneral Assebliy: At' the beginning of anlother year with its numerous dlities, you ar( agaiti convened in annual session and are -at once confronted, as lawmakem with the highest dities and responsi bilitlts of citizenship. In this, the last offileal message which I shall have the honor of transmitting to you as Gov ernor of South Carolina, I shall, in accordance with tire requirements of our laws, submit to you sitch import nat details as require your considera tion. Knowing that details and re sults wil mllore immediately concern a new State administration I have been as brief as possible, and have re frained from making any recommend ations other than %'ere acttially re quired. While th ditties of my of fice have been arduous always, and many difficulties have been encount ered. I have ever been deeply con scions of the honors whiich tihe people of my State have conferred uiAn me -honors for which I can never, in mnere words, express my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation. Assessment of Property. The equalization of the assessment of propelty in a matter of vital con cern to every taxpayer in the State. The reiort of the Comiptroller-Gen eral rill shW"ltha* this imi'tanit matter is far from being in a satis factory condifii. Last Year Comp troller-General Jones mad(e an earn est effort to renedy 1.his condition by having-, il ac-cor-dance with olr laws, all taxable property assessed at its real value. A fixed standard is posi tively nrecessary, for oly inl this man ner en all 11 properly le equally assess ed, inl order that the bu-den of faxa tion siould rest alike upon all. ' At tlie last mieetin2g 1of your hOn orable body the (omptroller-ieeral ea-efilly prepared al ah'straet of tihe tax laws of the state, anld this was made ro the guidattce of auditors anlld t It her assesslinrig officers, ill morder that they might more accu-ately assess pr-operty as re(Iuired by law. When the L-0islature ilet tile assesstIet of iw-41perty, hot)h persolnal andI real, wias then beinl-, made 1Ithr - -.1otu thle state. and on aeeoult. of tile uncertain ity of the levy to be fixed by 11he Leg islature, that, body refusing to follow the recommendations of - the Cotmp troller-General in reference to a flexi ble lery, to be deteriminted after the as sessmnent had been completed. As a result, the inequality complained of is gren ter now tItan it was before this assessment, and hunudreds of potitions asking for a r'edutction or equalization of ptroperty have beeni received at the Compt rbller-General 's office. This i's an unbusinesslike condition of affairs, in a department where busi ness conditions should be preeminent. If all property in thte State were equalized up on a 60 per cent basis, the toitah taxab)le property in tihe state wvould, in my Opinion, beC not less than $300,000,000 on the books of the Comptroller-General, instead of only $25,000,000, as at-e the figures at pr-esent. This is not only an injus ieie to our taxpayers, butt it is un wise and is an injury to the state, in that it does not set forthl to ot.hers outr real progr-ess and pr'ospetit-y. Ott the conitrary, it is -actually misleading, both as to our r-esout-es and to our tax rate, and this in a matter where most imnportant considetrations are in volved. Only a certainr amount of money is required1 to meet the expenl ses of our state governument, and an increased assessmentt, by ha~ving all prop)erty assessed at its real valute, would simp)ly be ant eqtualizationr of the tax hut-den and would not mean anl itncrease in taxation. Thie present inws, if pt-oper-ly en for-ced, i' outld to a gr'eat ext ent r'emedty thtis untsatisfactory condition of af fair-s. The only change I shtall sug gest looking toward thieir entfor,eement is that tho Board of Equalization be chanlled, 11 it is it preseit too un11 w ieldly. Another objection is that i the various members naturally feel i that they represent their own coun- t ties, and not, the St'ffe at large. It 8 would be wise, in my opinion, to re- 1 duce the membership of the State i Board, limiting it to five membens, ; these to be appointed by the Governor i aid confirmed by the Senate. Two of I the meimibers should devote their en tire time to this work, and should re evive a fixcd salary and traveling ex- t penses. These metblers should visit I the various counties, consult with tile auditors and local assessing oilcers, should hear all complaints and should I regulate the equalization of all taxable I property in the state. The1,, report of 2 the Comptroller-General, which will i be submt.ted to you at the proper time, t has becii carefully compiled and mer- t ith your most .thoughtful considera tion. Immigration. The most important consideration, C perhaps, which now has the attention of the people of South Carolina, is our vigoroUs effort to get the tide of much needed and carefully selected imini gration turned directly into this see lion of the South, through our chief seaport. What is far more important. also, is 'the combined effIrtS to biuild I ill) our coimerce, with a saving of I thmusands and thousands of dollars i annually 0 0111 exporters and impor ters, and giving promise to save to t our cotton anld other raw material de- * inmided abroad, the sums now being < paid in useless tribute to transporta- < tion lines having no intere t whatever < in Southern development. 1 Duriing the past six monthlis Your 1 Department of Agricultuire, Commerce -1111d [in imligra-t tion-thoigh establish ed -less thia.-three'ye ars ago-lis u1n dertiken the exeeution of carefullly prepared plans and has worked withi sneh vigor, ererg anl success to ae complish tlie desired ends, that it has succeeded ill co111111111dinlg. Ile atten tionl, not only of (his countryN, bIII the a(tentiol (f thle conliltries of1 lErope also. This has placed South Carolina 0lnCV mor"e inl the( forefr'lond a1- a pitonl-,. (er leader inl Imovemienis alIeting Ihle WVlfare )f' heIl Natimn. The hol. hut e1fII'uilly planlned, operationms of tlhis department lm1ve broug"1ht ahout tle han,11din. down of a1 decisionl il Washl in-gtoll that clearly defines tle pow e'S of' tle State and puts is--and our sisfer States--in i posilion ti imove iitelliently for that 'selected imni ..r1ationl that no4) only %. ur11 own po l and the people of* Ilie Soutih, but which tle pColie of' the en(ire coun Iry, have beeln deanilding. in va in sinlce the bordes ofiiundersir-ables pouri.- I in-, into ourl g-reat ports of entry beC gan to ereate what. we have all recog nizedi as at problem. In pursuing the policy, which has 1 beenl exti'vmely difficult in execition, of1 settinlg tihe pie of sculrinig calre fully selected imini.-ration and1, at +-e and the saie time, bringi a-11 I lo;ig-dr'eamed of1. deelo4pmenti o our ) commerce, your depart mnent,. before movuig, ini add1itioni to the many prIe (caut1ions taken to pro'tecct thle good niame of the State from poi.sible cop flicts with Feder'al and inter'national lawvs, also gave great care for the wel fare and pr'otection of our1 native ha IIt had b)eenl alleged that, the dep)art-4 ment would be used by the financiallyI stronger class of our' citizens to the injury of our wveaker class. During the year' it becamne absolutely neces lsary, ini orIder to keep inl oper'ationI many of 0111 manufacturing plants, to secure ad(ditionlal labor to oper'ate idle machinei'y. The condition was such that unless some i'elief could be0 ob tained, the owners of the properties would suffei', and, in time, the opera tives would suffer also. Even facing thco conditions, no move was made to give the nieedled aid until the assur' aniec hlad been filed that all efforts to securie the necessary labor had b)eenl made with no prospect oIf result, in this and adljoinginig stales, or in oth er' por4tions of the United States. No dlefinilte move wa:s made then uintil lhe plants 1had4 vohmnt-ar'ily taken con--I e'(r'Ied acti oll to redc(lte the hour ms of Jabor', gi'auahly, to sixty hour's .a week, wit hout decrease oIf wages, anid until the pledue had alo engivn ii any. native empllloyee ini favor of any - ie who might, be brought. to relieve he sitmution. When this had been lone, the departmnent. accepted, under he terms of law, assistance from those o sorely in need of help-assistance riveii without, rest-rictioin or stipula ion-anid it must be said that this Ltsistance enabled your department o accomplish results which have at racted the attention of the economie Vor-ld. P"xrt reie coniservatisim in all mat ers relatingt to Ihis undertaking has aarked, aid is marking, the course of ,oulr department. 'Ju1st as you are ais emblin-, the second ship of .the pro >osed new trans-Atlantic service is ireparing to sail, bringing additional iew citizens to us. We are now in he crucial period which will deter nine whether or not our suceoss in his great undertaking is to be perma ient., and whether we are to reap the ommercial benefits for which we iave longed, for a century, to call our wn. The semblance of lack of support n this critical stage, when the depart cent has the confidence of the best nfluences in Europe, would almost ort.ainly jeopardize lie success of he undertait king and possibly lose for is the opportlility now openl. Oice al r>wed to pass, this opportunity will be orobably beyond our power to regain n a half century. This entire undertaking, the execu ion of which has occupied less than ix months, has called for a tremen ous amount of work, far beyond the Ililee force ati( the resoirces of the epartnicit. The work is developing t, so rapid at rate tlhat, for i period I least, it, will be absolutely neces ary to furnish some relief. It is seareely leessary for me to enpitulate the facts inl reference to he cha mraeter,of im uigrants landed n Charlestol last. November, upon i'hom sch 16--di encoinim was pro MUmN'ed by Ihe Federail exaimininlg llicers. Nor is it iecessary to re Iat livre tihe details of tihle selective l.el vilmplo)yed libroad1--the sel eit iv 1 m odlsI ha,ve ilw a.ys advoeat d 'all insisted upon. I do no4)t em ider ii liecessary 14) repeal .a state llellt 4f Ihe l (.40114itimis Ilit reider rlie ilmigration So vital to Ile de -ilop nt o o u il ( -ta t in agriel *I l, c(lilnnervial am1id indu- t iai frles, do wish,. hwever, tl diret voll at illiml iu s p iielally t(o the 11u1:,lnn 'i il t Ippo rtsn i oy 1iii wails lis as anl agri -nitin-a,1 i 141m prl4 vill ni d a mumfacturin Stte. il Ie sucess 'l est.islilsh en tilt an maintna e of L permanent, t is-Aianfic f reih . mlld aerline hwen hle ati ei 'ic nills-sh1iplpiie of tpgret et EtuIpe as .1 - li- leadin- se alie Cwor,aleston , kith its harbor imm 1ot elaled fr loecessi liflY andt( its disiribillive (1p1,1it'ies by mliy port e of thistern Sores of toh 4or-Ih Amlerican) emntinlent. In Itle mailiteane of snye line, hr ilvvv alre(Y Seenred tle outive, supp$4,0000r wt o fDire ter Vn otf aone oest the forstsesin ortporen we are orbl,~n an cohav east on toa knewat $h,00,00 w orth riend pofrtheot and ofi isouithorn ommerciao decteloprme oha thee srdtablihrtof this portman to thsi ne ahipmt dif entet and any otus r i i udrtandle she I otelie ota S(atyes $9400,000ii wort' ow otern a>veon alonthgoeanintofthelforeign hporpwere w are14 l'de'tabfishese airo idesio bya rearlyfh p2,opos00 wornh y ourma oton red eal weachis that ao med.rt an tai is within ourgrp,b >alyigwer t' to iecae tore11 Iloduthrs, oht sie yrnul teshipper, and t r11 ofsur prodnetto trouh heportii o on ileChairfestn wit is h it u moern to lie 8(11 many tousandsat of dollar toe oihiersi an prodneiers ofntess ar ieles b resoln ow the rseat orn -yateu tan ahny oer wat this time -ma in jmurae, buwthe o compn ar no ire.Iti iti orgas,b allying..now,.....av...o..ur.produc.r.,