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raa L XIV STEBR. S N-0.14 NE-0. FRIDAY; EBR UARY 15 1975 AR CAREY OIl#RAN BILL GOES BAGK TO HOUSE SSBD BY SENATE WITH AMENDMENTS. 4 Amendments to Be Considered By Tho Houso-This the Last Week of Session. Special to The Herald and News. -Oolumbia, Feb. 14.-The senate has pOsed and'returned to the house the Carey-Cothran local option bill, with 04: amendmeitts. The house has refused to concur in he amendments and the bill his gone O a,.confereiice committee. The conference committee will fail to agree, and the bill will go before a$ ree conference where in all probab lity an agreement will ie reached as the amendment'. The house today adopted a resolu ion to adjourn on Saturday, but it s not certain that hdjourminent. will e reached on that day, as the senate as not' yet considered. the appropria ion bill. E. H. A. The Carey-Cothran bill, which olishes the state dispensary and rovides for local option as between hibition 'and county institutions as pased the senate and been sent I ack. to the house with amendments. 'Plhe senate.. put 104 amendments in the house bill, and these amendments will have -to be.passed on by the house. If tie amendments should be fought and a roll call demanded on each the sesioi ,might be prolonged beyond the forty dgys, whic'h expit;e on Satur day.'- What the house will do with the amendments, however, remains to e seen. By a vote of twenty-three to fifteen he senate on Tuesday night, on. the third reading of the bill, passed the arey-Cot,hran local option bill, and rdered it sent to the house of repre sentatives. -At 9.20 P. M. the amending of the Carey-Cothran bill was completed, with the exception of Senator Blease's amendment, which calls for an elec ion to determine the question of local tion or state dispensary. Senator Blease then argued in favor f his amendment. In the discussion e said that the question should be iet squarely, and that the matter should be submitted to the people of ie state. He called on them as demo ats to submit the question to tile eople of the state. He argued that the house had voted submit the que.-Aicf of the lien law the, people then, and consequently s qnestion osght to be submitted to # people. He then read an editorial oem the Stjte whic'h, lie said, had ever agreed with him and that he id not blame, them. He said that preferred to be under the lash of n Tillman than under the lash of a 'Spaniard.'' D)uring his sp)eechi he )aid a tribute to Judge RI. C. Watts, vho had votedI for the original dis >ensary law uder instructious from his~ constituents. He salid that he could defeat the bill, but that lhe wais ee''ain that an extra session owuld be bthe Governor at gra ex Sand that it would also be a 1t among democrats. He challeng 1le senators to meet him before the pople in the summer. Ho s.aidl that ~he sena-te ought'dnot to refuse to give the people a chance. He closed wvith a totation from Robert Lee's fare vell to hi'army. Senatoi Sullivan moved to table m&. mendment and the motion was rried by a vote of 25 to 13. 'vld;ote on the' third reading was ni taken and at 10.13 the biU was ~ed and ordered sent to the house reptesentatives by a vote of 23 to 1Wh Bleose Opposed Bill. utor Bleaso offered the folw ens for his opposition to the 6tmman bill : o.'ted against tIme bill, No. 288, big for local option i First. Be am a firni belieyer in the state r'y system for the sale of. Ji n ~ of the opinion, that if it ~or pofi'tical puirpf>saa that ouinot bQOfqught as e4ne in the, paa ad.is how teMse, dd not~ be)ieve thait the people of South Carolina ar in favor of.ihi a -syst'em as this.bil will give them. Thiird. Because I believe that th( iystem provided -for in this bill, wil prove a curse to 'he state and wil finally lead to. a system of licenm which will be no improvement upoi the old bar room system, and possibl; prove more injurious to the younj peopie of the state. . ''Fourth. Because I believe that th( whiskey,dealers will control the coun ty dispensaries and step by step gair centrol of county politics, anid thereb: elect a majority of th'e members o: the General Assenibly in favor of v license systeni to the individual fo the 8ale'of ,wh'iskey, and I am of. th( opinioln that there are those engage< in the passage of this bill that have that end in vien. and if it were no for their belief that such a conditioi can be reached in this way that the would,sstand by the state dispensar, system. "Fifth. I have an abiding faith ii the people, and hope that they will be watehful and prevent by their ballotb what a certain element is endeavoring to place upon them, and believe that when they have the opopitunity t< speak that they will m1ot endorse th( action .hat this legislaure is about t< take, and if they do, I hope that al the minority will join in an endeavoi to uphold the la\v and not do as oth ers have dqne, try to rulp, an(Lif the) cannot, then ruin for selfish purposes ''For these reasons I vote against this bill, let the cons,3quenices be what they may.'' The lien law stands ind the women of SOIuth Carolina retain th6ir dowei ri-fhts in their husband's property, so decided the senate by good and stub stantial majorities. There has possi bly not hepn a session of the general assembly of this state in the past 1( or 17 years at which a bill was nol introduced for the repeal of the lier law, or that portion of it relating tc merchants' liens for supplies. While a bill for abolishing the dow er has not appeared quite sb frequetit ly, it has been introduced in eithei one bra.nch or the other.for the past several years, and jas recently at tracted considerable attention, espe eially among- the women. ADAMS ESCAPES DEATH. Colleton Murderer Goes to the Peni tentiary For Llfe.-Sentence has Been Commuted. R. A. Adams wil not be hange'd, Clov.. Amel, on recommendation of the board of pardons, commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. R. A. Adjams of Colletan is the white man who has three times been under the senteneb of death, was once a fugitive from justice with a reward of $1,000 offered for his capture, and his case caused an en bane session of all the justices nd judges of the stiate. The cominutation wvas not ree ommended by Judge Earnest Gary wvho Iiid the case and declared that a:t the time ih'e verdict was considered prop~er. SolHeitor D)avis declared hih bliefI t hat. this was a cruel murdei anul an assassitnation. But Adams' long figh't for' life has at. last ended successfully. A dams killed Heiiry Jacques, a nahite neighbor, in 1903. He was tried and on conviction sen'tenced to dea-th. His e.scape from the Colleton jail was the b)egi,aniing of his struggle. Thi occurred after the supreme court had decided against him. Sher'iff Owvens and posse captured A dams in the latter's owvn house. He hiad( been at home for monThs and had worked a cerop althoug'h an escape from jail under' sentence of' death, The reward of $1,00 wvas never paid, at the request of the pardon boai'd in the discharge of.his duty.. On co nstituition al questions raised fy Adams' attorneys later it was nec essairy to call a .convention of the judges and in t:he meantime. a respite was gran'ted' Adams. The judges, by a vote of 8 to 5, deeided against Adams and he was rehentenced. A respite was again fianted. This time athe request of the pai'don board i ordere to giv~e thorm titee to conside) another petitiln for commrntation fit. OHARLESTON ASKS AID. Of Press to take Legal Action Againi the Railroads.-Fund of $4,000 1 Raised. At a largely attended and enthm instic meeting of the buiiness men o Charleston, presided over by Mayo Rhett, it was -decided to make an el fort to remove the railroad discrim inations which exist against that por and thevost of the action before bot the United States and the State com missions was guaranteed by the busi ness men at the meeting. City coun cil will appropriate $1,000 and th business houses will raise $3,00( which is expected t'o cover the cost o the proceedings. ,But the spirit of th neeting was to proceed in the inatte to the'desired consummation, no mat ter what be the cots. Mayor Rlhett presented the subjec to the meeting, reviewing the freigh rate and service troubles, arraigninij the railroads and especially th Southern railway for their discrimin ations against the sort. The mayo had carefully prepared himself an his statement of these discriminations while appreciated before, had net beet brought so forcibly before the busi ness people. The disinclination of the Atlanti Coast Line to do anything for Cbar leston was exposed and the facts lai( bare in the case of the Southern rail way, which has been shown to he ae tively operating against the port. Thi redution of through cotton rates abolishment of the grain business stoppage of flour shipments and driv ing away of business of the port, witl the control of the South Carolina an Goorgia by the Southern railway ver all painfully exhibite'd to the meetinj on the statement of the mayor. The discriminations agaii# thb ports to the south of Norfolk, barrini Willinihigiton by. which Charlestoi suffered to an extent as high as 101 per cent. in some cases, were told. Th, building of the barrier against thk expansion of trade was shown to bi the work of local railroad interest and not of the systems across th, Ohio, from whom letters were read ex pressing their desire for trade con nections with this territory, the mis leading, juggling of rate figures blae promises, bare-fa'ed misrepres entations of facts by the railroads which in many cases the roads 'wer< forced to acknowledge and in som, cases overcharges and other discrimin ations against the port were all gon< into by Mayor Rbett. The efforts of Charleston to securi a correction of th'e troubles in thi past were touched upon and the fav orable decision of the interstate com merce commission it hat wrongs ha< been practiced, but the board was un able to correct them, was commente( upon. Courts on Redress. Now, however, the board has the de i red p)owecr anud Mayor R het counts on certain tredress of th< wrongs from ,the fodb'al board as weol as the state boa21rd, which Mayor' Rhe't thinks is betiter constit uted than evel to .seTve the cause of the people H< said that t he railroad commissiom Iwas a ' ' 'ailroadl commission' long enough, hbut he thinks thal commission was a ''railroad commis sion '' long enough, but lie thinks tha1 the personniel of the board has nov changed, and he declared that he be lieved Commissioner Sullivan to bi especially a friend of the public. May or Rlhett dee.lared that the time was ripe for action. The local press hai been enlisted in the fight and thi Columbia State had championed Char leston 's cause, as had 4her paper -through the state. Hie said tha Charleston 's fight sva's the fight o: the whole state. He said that thi railroads had been able,.to maintaim its wvarfare by arraying sectiot against section and creating the falsi impression that when Charleston wai making a fight for' fair' rates, shi wvas undermining trade condhitions o1 Columb)ia and other dities. Charles ton is now, however, a u.nit on .thi metter of fighting for fair treatmen and the servieps of The State is coun ted upon for a sticcessful Issue. DR. SHERER'S QUANDARV. t Woxld.'t Know What to.do.If Somi of Rockefeller's Money Were Of fered Newkerry. To- the Editor of The News" au< Couioi-: I might sign myself, ''Aux io*us'Inquirer,' for that is the way feel. Ike Goethe, I want more light - A colege president i these days ii - beset behind and before. Mr. John D t Rockefeller, alias. the general edu6a i tional board (alias also -Standard Oil: - strew.- the educational pathway witi - thirty-two rosy millionis, developed oi - t.he.. Amerh-,i beauty plan; ~ th< a "?riends of the college'' prod 0h4 , preside::t on to get more money 1! 'laestly if thee can, John,'' wlil 3 the' Baltimore M :mfacturers' ReeorI r fllngs down 11 " challenge to Southerr - college presidents'' to sliow cause and the college inesident is also vexe t with at least the reiinants of a consei once. Will my brethren of the presi dential chairs please tell nie what 1 ough to do? The pirohlem contains two elements and here they are. The first is all mixe'd up with that black ghost thal will not down, the ubiquitous -an %empiteinal race problem. Besiege by the Manufacturers' I ecord, I tui to the World Almanae and read a follows: Oficers of the Southern Educatior Board: Robert C. Ogden, chairman ; 'George Foster Peabody, treasurer Edgar Gardier Murphy secretary and executive secretary; witll a calipaigln commit-tee compris ing the,late Chas D. McIver as chair man, Edwin A. Alderman, H. B. Frissell, Edgar Gardner Murphy, an< W. B. Hill (deceased.) OmnenV, of tlie General Edneatior Board: nobert C. Ogden, chairman: George Foster Peabody, treasurer Wallace Buttrick' and Starr J. Mur 3 phy, secretaries; with executive ofi cers conprising Frederick T. Gates W D'aniel C. Gilman, Morris K. Jesup ) Walter H. Page, J. D. Rockefeller, ,r. Albert Shaw, Hugh H. Hanna, E Benjamin Andrews, and Win. R. Iar. per (deceased.) 4 According to the saie authority th( object of the Southern educationa bard is to awak-'n and inform publi( opinien and secure additional legisla tion and revenues for the betterimen of the public schools, ''the suprem publie need of our time;'' while th( object of the general education boar( is ''to promote education in the Unit. ed States, without distinction of race - sex or ereed, And especially , to pro mote, systematize, and make effec. tive various ,forms of educational beneficence.I It would certainly appear- on 'th( face of things thatthhese two bodies Jare virtually. the. same body, ont 1branch existing for the purpose of Southern propaganda, while the othei acts as a distributing agency of cdu cational wealth,. especially in a south wvard direction. ',The men who corn prise these two' boards are of very high cha racter>and of unuimp)eachiable purpose- but it may be perniissible te differ from them on subljeti of the gravest importance. One of the Sonth e'en leaders of thle movement said t( mYe not long ago that' many of hii Nor thlerni associa.tes on the boardu might an p111robalIy do eherish dcep .gnpa)lt hy wvith .racial equality, hui1 that the Sduthsrn members will he able t.o receive $he bounty of their weoalthy friends while averting their political tend neies. One thing . want to know is, was lie right ? Ihas heen said in certain qjuarterm of t:he S'ouitherni education b)oard and. its twin ally arises from the fear that the propagatida of t.he gentlemeni composing t)ene boards will antagon izes child labor in Southern mills. To this extenit I for one, am clearly with' themr. ('hild labor is a blot on1 the country, whether' in the South 0or in INew Ene-land. On the whole, I air ine~liined to believe that the alleged Ievils of the so-ealled ''Ogden move mienit'' have been as it were somcvhat~ mngnified. But 'thiere is another' phast 'of this qujiestion.thit seems to mue very Every dollar, of the forty-Ithreie mil lions inow in tilp, hands of the mgenei'ai education bog'rd has been given by John D). Rlockefeller. Twio-thirds oi the $32,000,900 so recently bestolve c%n be distributed only on his persao a al endorsement. The New York Time of ..ebruary 9 quotes M. Frederic T. Gates as saying with authority tha a chief aim of this.prineely donatio I will be to spread eduication, '' into a' . parts of the agricultural South. Aind there you are. What. are we goin to do about it, brethren? 3By ''we'' Itmean the denomini tional colleges. We are supposbd t - stand for ideals; if not, we hardl; stand for anything at. all. Ldeals in elude civic righteousness, regard fo I law, andI plain oldfashioned honlest N'ow, I. conless that the argumen against /'-4 ainted mouley '' has neve - struck me with very'great force; al most all money is tainted. But .Mt Rockefeller's personality is uniquo and his personality is mixed up con spicuously with all of his princel; I benefactions. A few months ago h -was reported as dodging aroum through the country in fear of a h6me kpim constable with the badge of th, law on his breast. Is this so, or is i just the yellow press? If it is So, wha made him dodge? I read Miss 'arbell interesting book, but then Mr. Rocke feller's friends -sent me bumdles o gratuitous literature in which she wa called. '' the Tarbell woman'' and hi charaeter was absolutely'' vindicated Be'ides, Dr. McArthur says he is al right. What troubles ile speeially i the latest issue of iy impartial Liter ary Digest, which tells ic that the In ter-State Coillrice Colllllisioll ha I just laid before Congress ''the nios seathing arraignmentot the Standiird' metM)Ids'-meaning, I suppose; Mi Rockefeller's-" that has yet ippear ed in any 'public document.'' We ar further informed that while this re port contains but one new charge, 'i is regarded by t;he ires ats of gren importance, si.nce it. is anll ollicial I)res entation and su1mming-up of evidene taken under oath;'' while the Ne York Mail is ,reported as declarin that it inculdes indictments for ''prAe tically every crime against the indivi -dual and society at large except 111111 -tder, arson, and mayl;emi'' what'l wilt t'o know, then, is thi -Canl I say as they said lit Yalc 'Brin- aloig your tained money am we will purify it with tle Yale spil it,'' or is tIhis patli(.1ula1r ease of put ridity so foul as to,,corrupt the ver students? After all, is character MOr important than culture, 01'or llay edu eati.onal facilities he purihased by th barter of ethical influence? Does Mi Rockefeller's ''jrilleely gift '' coim close upon the heels of the liter-Stat commerce commiin1ion ' report-aq stounding the omeers of the genera education board by its suddenness for the reason he is willing to pit hi millions aunainst justice to influene, public opinion, or is hie a large-heart ed phila.nthropist who is sorry for hi: sills'? If lie is sorry for his sinl ough lie not, like little Zacellues, to confeRi hig guilt as a law-breaker before hi seeks to) restore four-fold ? To pas: from the lPublican to the Phlarisee does the hand which easts resoundlCinJ ' offer'i.nigs in'lo C)the t reasury of thei temple itone for the' work of thb I l'huer Ihnd with w~idlows' mites .an< withI AmerCIiaiin Ceaty rose5( ? Is h< sou1rce', that is ini the matrlix of th< 'Icolle!.es; or' is lie really t ryinm- to h< jusit as well as generous? Tls thle giener al education b)oard thle in corpora tes alias of .Johin D. Rtockefeller for thl distribution of a portion of his wealth while Standard Oil is the incorplorateI alias at l'he ether end of the machin< buisily accumiulat ingmorec wealth by ev ery cr'iminail means except murlldei ar.gon and mayhem? In ai wordi, mayI conscientiously acceplt his funds-il I can get t-hen-for the upbuilding o' a college which conceives of no0 highet prlesenit dluty to the young men of thi Southl t h.n the inclendtion of thle sac r'ednecy of the law? Newberry Colleg< is not one of the 250 collegiate appli ents at. the door of Mr. R?ockefellei or of' the general education boi'ad, no' has it ever been ; but we fieed money and need it badly.' It is worth th price? That is what T wvant I t 'presi dent.s of* retlirriouis college.s to tell me all. except Chancellor Day, of Syra eulse. .with wh ~ose position T am al ready ae1uainted. James A. B. Scherer. Newberry, S. C. . GOY. ANSEL CITED BY JUDGE JONES t a MUST PRODUCE RECORDS ON WHI0H HE EJECTED BOARD. Lawyers for Acqsed Appeared Be fore Judge Jones at Lancaster and Secured Write of Certiorari. D The State, 12th. The directors of the state dispenl r sily refuse to be ousted. After hav ing given them every opportunity to t prove that they had been accused r falsely by the general assembly of . South Carolina, flov. Martin F'. Ansel thought. it proper to eject. these mIen from the otliacs of' trust to which . they had been elected. Yesterday their , attorneys appeared in Lancaster be a fore Judge Ira B. Jones, associate i justice of thd state supreme court, and prayed for a writ of certiorari to be issued directing Gov. Ansel to pro duce tle record before J1u(ge Jones. The motion was granted and .Judge Jones has decided to refliest, the at tendance of the other memibers of the lsupreme court, when the return to the 3 writ is to he made .next'Tuesday in this city. There is some question as to Ihe \leglity of the proce(ling before Ji(ge Jones ats the at orneys repres _ enting the eject-e( di rectors have Ihd . no official written notice to tile ef fet. Ihat their -lients h1ad been olust t e(l. The notification from Gov. Ai sel was not tiurnIed over to lie attor ney geieral 1util yesterlay morning, . although action was taken in the cnse 1 3aturd'ay before 2 o'clock. When . Sheriff Colvlial 1 and his d(epilies t rie( It find SI soie of tle parl ies yes ter'lay to seve te notice ulpoln themi, .I. e re were none in tlie cily to acopt e service. Yesterday afternooni he sent. V )eputly W. S. Green to Congaree,with a paper to serve on ti ex-chairman, Mr. iawlinson. This was after the . hearing at Lancastet. . Of that proceediiig tlie Lancaster correspondent of The State wired as follows yesterday: 'Messrs. J. 14. McDonald and W. ,I T. Aycock, attorneys, appeared before - Associate Jwstice Ira B. Jic.nes at this . place this morning ai 10 o'clock with a petition verified by John Black, Joe a B. Wylie and J. M. iawlinlsonl, ex-di . rectors of tle stiate dispeinsar . FI pray Sing thlat a writ of certifrari h. direel ,ed 1o Mar1itinl F. Aisel ns goverlor of ' Soulth Caroli.n, directing him to cciti e fy to.the supremic court the whole re . cord of tile proceeliings had before I him, etc. - ''The petition, which is quite leng a thy recites the proceedings in detail lhad before Gov. Anisel, emphasizing - that the report of tle joint iivestigat ing. coimlittee was anl ex parte pro I. eceding. That thle governor should a have pi veli tle attornevyiys for the ae ensed time to pru .. nce evideic e, somie 4 of which was out of the stalte. ,''Onei pa ragraphd is as fol hMrs: S'' 'That y. our peti lione(rs are in: I formed aind believe anid so1 aver Ithat I lie sa id Maritiin F'. Aniisel, govieriior, as afiresaidl. ini (effect ainniounced andii threate.nehd lo excente thei said or der of I removal issued against youri pet it ione rs as a forecsa id and to0 eject theni from the said olileec of directors of the state dlispenisary and~ thereby deprive them of thle books and records a ndt the pro,fits anid emol umeint.s there 'To the pet it ion is attached as a.n exhiibit, a copy of the testimony taken by the comm1111ittee to iinvest.igate t he dlisp)enlsary, and( a copIy of Gbov. An ,sel 's rule to show cause anud a copuy of the return of Ithe di rectors to the rule to show cause. I''Jnustice Jonies made a short orider dIireeled to (ov. Anusel, reqpiinig him to show eaiuse before him in t he suu preme court room at Columbia at 11 o 'clock a. mn., on Tu'iesdauy, Feb. 19, 1907, whly the writ of certiorari as prayed for in saidl petit ion should niot be grn ted and furuther ordlered that ini the meantime all f'urthier prloce'ed ings lin thle mallIter be superseded anid staIyedI uti f urt her order thereof. ''The atitori'ys requested Justice Jones to have the matter heard at. thle timie.mnentionied before all of the jus tiees of I le supreme court and( Juis ties ,Jones will accordingly request