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VOL XLVI NO. 7 NEWBERRY. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR THE WORK Of THE GENERAL ISSEMBLIT c NO TEST VOTE SO FAR ON PRO HIBITION. d Number of Important Measures Have t Been Introduced in Each I House. ... t Columbia, Jan. 21.-While the sen ate has been in session every day this week. the house did not reconvene un- 1 til Wednesday, having adjourned un- I til that time on account of the anm versary of the birth of General Rob ert. E. Lee, which is a legal holiday I in .this- State. On Wednesday very. little routine business could be trans- s acted in either house on account of If the inaugural ceremonies. A number c of important measures have been pro- a posed in eaoh house, however. As Y soon as the election of a successor to 1 Chief Justice Pope has been dispos ed of, and, if one of the associate i justices should be chosen, as seems e likely, a successor to' the associate justice who may be made chief jus tiee, there will be nothing to inter fere with the Toutine work of the ses sion, and both houses will work with a view of getting through at the ear- t liest date possibla. The -Inauguration. The Winauguiration ceremonies, which -were held on Wednesday af ternoon at 1 o'clock, in the hall of the house of repiesentatives, are re ferred to more fully in another col umn of The Herald and News today. The Prohibtion Measures. No vote which could be considered t a test had been taken in either house ,P to this morning on the various t ' rPT'ohibition measures which have been irtroduced in both houses look ing towards State-wide prohibition, to go into effect on July L The com mittee appointed by the State Bap tist convention has drawn up a peti tion, to be presented through Repres entatives Chas. A. Smith and M. L. Smith., who are membe.rs of the com mittee, and a petition from 2,214 vot ers of Anderson county asking that a prohibition law be enacted. was re -ceived by the senate. The first test vote on ther question is being looked forward to with a great deal of in terest. It appears that those who favor a State-wvide prohiT>tion law te be enacted at this session of the gen eral assembly, to go into effect in the near future-,July 1, 1909, is the date decided upon--will be lined up against those, of whatever opinion on the temperance question, who do not believe it wise to enact a State-wide prohibition law at this session. In the latter class are some prohibition ists who believe that the eause of pro hibition would be 'better advanced by letting things ~alone for the present, urging the prohibition -campaigns in the separate counties; oth-rs who fav or a referendam to the people: othet membe.rs of the legislature who be lieve in local option, and others who are opposed to prohibition as un-De mocratic. The State-wide prohibi tionists, however, are making a very viorouis fight, and are well organiz ed. Voting in Primari.es. Mr. McMahan introduced 1i bill in the .house on Wednesday pr)vli that those voting in primaries shall be required to produce a regi ertian] certifica:te and a tax receip- before bing allowed to vote in any j'rLn::Y. Compulsory Education. It seems probable that the fight for compulsory education will be con tinued at this session. While comnpul sorv education may not conme at this session, it is bound to come. and the friends of the measure are determin ed to make an active fight for it at this time, and to continue the fight. Mr. Fultz introduced a compulsory education bill in the house on Wed nesday. Supreme Court Building and Gover nor's Mansion. Senator Mauldin. of Greenville, in troduced in the senate on Wednesday a joint resolution providing cLat a' commission. consisting of two~ memn ers of the senate, to be appointed hy tie president of the senate, and three members of the house, to be appoinr ad by the speaker. he created to take under .onsideration the recommenda tion in the message of the governo: aith reference to the erection of a nilding for the supreme court and a iansion for the governor, and to re ort at the next session the probable ost of such buildings and make such uggestions and findings as they deem roper; each nember to receive per iem and expenses of travel while ac Lially engaged in such work, the reso ation appropriating $500. if so much e necessary, for said per diem and ravelling expenses. State Officers' Salaries. There was considerable discussion 2 the senate on Wednesday on the ill to increase the salaries of the tate ofieers. By a vote of 18 to 16 he sena-te refused to continue the ill to tie next session. The motion to postpone until next ession was a test vote which was de eated by only two majority. A hange of one vote would have made tie. The senator from Newberry oted against the motion an I foi the nrease of salaries. The bill as the committee amended t, the said amendments being adopt d by the senate, provides for a sal try of $4,000 for the governor of outh Carolina. The original bill alled for $5,000 salary. The gover or now gets $3,000, and it was :tat d upon the floor of the senate that he chief executive of the State very ften spends about $1,000 more than his a year, so that it should be pro -ided for him some adequate compen ation to meet necessary expenses. The committee in amending the bill ;truck out all provisions for clerks Lnd secretaries, it being the sense of he committee that these are to be )rovided in the annual appropria ions, and should not be made a sta ;utory provision. The same is true of he governor's secretary's salary. The other provisons of the bill, vith amendments, by the committee tre as follows ! Seeretary of State, $2.500 in bill; is passed with amendment, $2.230. - ComptrolYer generaL amended -to 2,250 from $2,500, as in bill. State treasurer to receive $2,250 nstead of $1,900, as now, (same be ng true of all other State officers, vhose salaries are increased to $2,. !0) instead of .V2,500, as provided in he original bill. State superintendent of education, alary as amended, $2,250. Adjutant and inspector general, 2,000 salary. This was raised from 1,900. A motion was made to in rease the assistant adjutant and in ~pector general's salary to $1,450 in stead of as now, $1,350, and this was ost by an aye and nay vote as fol ows: Ayes, 22; nays, 14. Attorney general, salary increased ~vith $2,250, as in case of other State fflcers. Assistant attorney general 's salary s $1,800. by the bill. The provisons for all clerks, as stated, are stricken out by the com ittee, and so adopted by the senate. There was an effort to decrease the alarv of the insurance commissioner from $2,300 to $2,250, but it was ex plained that th-is salary comes from the insurance companies, and on a test vote the salary was left at $2,. 00. The salary of the superintend ent of the penitentiary was raised from $1,900 to 2,250. The senate bill provides that the increase shal] take effect =after the general electior in 1910. The bill was passed to a third reading by a vote of 26 to 12. Railroad Rates. Senator Graydon, of Abbeville, ha: introuced a bill providing that th( legaI r-ate for carrying pasngr ir this State by all railroad companIia over forty miles in length si ai bt two and a hialt c-ents per mile, com pted by the shortest ro)ute and nc other, and in case the railroads shal: put on sale any form of mileagp books at said rate, or less, the presen tation of the correct number of miles by the shortest route, out of sait book to the conductor or other officei authorized to take up tickets, shal: entitle the person holding said mil eage books to travel on the trains o: any roaid selling said mileage, and up on presentation of his -nileage to any agent of said company to have hi: baggage checked as now provided by Mr. Dixon has also introdu:ced ir the house a bill providing for a tw( and( one-half cents passenger. rate. Bill have -as been introduced ii the senate looking towards a uniform cLassification so as to secure uniform freight rates. As To Convicts. Senator Wharton, of Laurens, has fintroduced a bill 1:roviding that prisoners sentenced to not more than twenty years' service shall be liable to work on the county chain gang. The law as at present is that prison ers sentenced to not more than ten years shall be liable to such work-. leaving it to the discretion of the I county authorities whether to place such prisoners on the ;hain gang or 1 send them to the penitentiary. Sena tor Wharton's bill sought to inerease the limit from ten to twenty years. The bill was reported unfavorably by the judiciary -committee. Mr. Garris has introduced a simil ar bill in the house. Fire Escapes. A bill has been introduced in the senate requiring fire escap-es to be provided in hotels of certain size in the State. Unfavorable Report. Senator Wharton's bill fixing death as the punishment for attempt to rape received an unfavorable com mittee report. The bill will probably evoke considerable discussion. To Guarantee Bank Deposits. Senator Croft, of Aiken, has intro duced a bill fashioned somewhat af ter the Oklaho-a statitte for the guarantee of banks deposits. Mr. Croft proposes that there shall a -bank board, which shall includ-e in its membership, the governor, at torney general, State treasurer and comptroller general. The governor is to be chairman of the board. The fundamental idea of the proposition is that all banking institutions shall pay to this board one per cent of the amount of money on deposit, and this on& per cent of all deposits shall be used as a guarantee fund for deposi tors. The one per cent is to be main tained on the anual report of de posits as made by the State bank ex aminer and in ease the general fund should be depleted then such defi ciency is to be made good and all banks in the State are to maintain a one per cent credit on their -deposits. In case of new banks,-which start out without deposits such ba4iks are to place with the board three per cent of their capital stock, which is to be held for the credit of the guarantee fund. National banks may come in under the provisons of the Act. There is no requirement that national banks must come ,in under the provisions of the Croft bill, but provison is made that if any national bank voluntarily wishes to come in under the guaran tee law that it can make application in writing, and then make the depos its as do other banks. Provision is made that banks in the1 guarantee fund shall have the right to advertise that fact. Any bank or other organization that lhas complied with the provisions of the guarantee Act shall be eligible to -act as a depository of State or any officer thereof, upon compliance with this and other laws of the State rela tive to the deposit of public funds. A Labor Commissioner. Senator F. H. Weston, of Rich land, has introdrneed a bill providing for the appointment of a commission er of labor. who shall collect and transmit to the general assembly sta tistical details relating to all depart ments of labor in this State. such as the hours of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated numb)er of persons depending on daily labor for their support. The bill pro vdes that owners or managers of manufacturing establishments shall be required to give information along - such lines, and imposes a penalty for refusal, and gives the commissioner power to sendifor persons or papers and administer oaths, and gives him Ithe right of free access where five or more laborers are employed, and to enter all buildings subject to the pro visions of the Act. The methods of protection from accidents, the means of ventilation3 and investigations into the employment of children are made a part of his duties. The bill provid es for clerical help at not exceeding $1,200 per year. IBeneficiary Students. The State ha;s passed1 and sent to the house a bill by Senator WV. .. [USTICE JONES I MDE CHIEF JUSTICE DEFEATS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE EUGENE B. GARY. Dnly Two Candidates, The Vote Be ing 96 for Mr. Jones, 63 for Mr. Gary. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Jan. 21.-Associate Jus ice Ira B. Jones was today elected 3y the general assembly chief justice >f the supreme court of South Car Aina to succeed Chief Justice Y. J. Pope, whose resignation takes effect n April. There were two candidates -Associate Justice Jones, of Lancas ter. who was nominated by Senator 1. Y. Williams, of Lancaster, and As sociate Justice Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville. who was nominated by Senator Win. N. Graydon, of Abbe ville. The vote was: Justice Jones-96. Mr. Justice Gary-63. The time for the election of an as sociate justic-a to sacceed Associate Justice Jones has not yet been fixed. An effort is being made this afternoon to have it fixed for tomorrow, but it will probably not be held before iext Tuesday. Circuit Judges Watts and Hydrick, Representative Cothran, of Greei ville, and ex-Governor Sheppard, of Edgefield, are being prominently urged for the plaee. The senate today sent to the house the State officers' salary bill. TILIMAN DEFINES POSITION. Replies to Taft, Declaring 15th Amendment is Chief Argument Aga.inst Negro Education. Washington. Jan. 20.----Senator Tillman today gav; out a ztatement in reply to the iatements r-atle in today's newspappis that Pr:ident elect Taft had had him in min-i ii his speech delivered eerhy at Auus ta, Ga., in which Mr. Taft was report. ed as having spol-.en of him az 1.wking in sympathy with the education of the negro race. Mr. Tillman atfribuite: Mr. Taft's criticism to 'misstatemne and mali ious editorial in <omne of th.e South Carolina newspapers," i.2 w: >h. be said, his attitude had not bee-. :car lv stated. "'In the first pw'-e,"' he said. "I am not opposed to negro edu ation, provided it is of the right kind, knowing that edn3ation incLas es influence and inc -ea.;es the usef vi ness of the citizes. What I sadi and meant, and by whir-h I stick, is this, that the Republican n1iley dI the: last 40 years has been to compel the South to recognize the po!itical equal ity of .the negro. That, in its essence, would mean the domination of the negro in South Carolina and Missis sippi and many parts of other South ern States. "We have disfranchised every ne gro we could under the 15th amend met, and the only instrumentality ents attending State colleges from ob ligation to teach school if appointed to the Naval or Military academy of the United States or to pbsitions in the army of government service of the United States. -Unfair Discrimina.tion. Senator Earle has a bill to p)rohibt unfair commercial discrimination. which has been favorably voted upon by th~e senate. The senate has also voted favorably uponl a bill intro i '-ed by :SeAde o .:akler to establin;' a board of com missioners for the promotion of uni formity of legislation in the United States. The C., C. & 0. A concurrent resolution, offered by Senator Weston, relative to the al lowing of the C. C. and 0. railroad to obtain a charter was passed. This had come before the secretary of state, who could not grant a charter. owing to the fact that boks of sub scription had not been opened in this State. Then it came before the su preme court in an action to compe: the issuance of said charter. Now the resolution was to allow the int ro duction of a bill to grant this com panv a charter. availale was to require an dacation al qualification. There is now an agi tation in South Carolina for compul sory education. That would mean a heavy burden to provide more heavy burden to prived more schools, which white tax payers would have to bear if there was no discrimination against the negro on account of race 4 or color. Hence we would present the spectacle of educating the negro at a very heavy expense to hurry forward the contest for supremacy between the two races as soon as we should i have given them the necessary quali- I fications to vote, and be undoing what we found absolutely necessary to pre serve our civilization. "We irever int ed to be governed 1 by negroes. whether educated or un- i educated. The Republican party is i now seeking to debauch the South I through Mr. Taft, who offers us two 1 offiees in every thuosand of our popu la.tion and a pretended advancement of our material interests to join that party. If the Republicans will throw down and abandon once f6r all their efforts to compel the South to recog nize the equality of the Caucasian and the African by repealing the 15th amendment, we can then have the control of our State affairs and can then train them to make better ci.tiz ens and aid in the 'uplift' which Mr. Taft is so anxious, to see brought about. But we never expect to 'up lift' -them high enough ourselves or allow anybody else to lift them enough to put their heels on our necks, or govern us again, and the conflict of the races which seems to me inevi table will only be -hastened by such talk as Mr. Taft indulges in." PRESIDENT'S PAY. Senate Passes Bill Fixing it at o1o, 000-Increase Opposed by the Democrats. Washington, Jan. 19.-The senate today adopted the amendmetnt in creasing the salary of the president to $100,000, including all traveling ex penses. The senaite fixed the salary-of the chief justice of the supreme court at $1.5,000 and the associate justices at '$14,500. The amendment increasing the sal ary of the president was adopted by a vote of 35 to 30. The Republicai senators who voted against the in rease were: Beveridge, Borah, Brown, Burkett, Clapp, Dolliver, La Follette and Piles. No Democratic senator voted in favor of the in crease. Senator Warren said the commit tee had accepted the amendment fix ing the salary of the speaker at $15, 000 as significant of its desire to give a similar salary to th.e vice president but they did not take the view that the committee's conten,tion for a sal ary of $100,000 for the president was affected by it. Hie expressed the hope that the allowance of $5,000 annual ly for carriages or other vehicles for the speaker and vice president would b allowed to stand. By 40 to 21 the provision of $5, 000 ea.eh annually for carriages and horses for the speaker and the vice president w-as stricken from the bill. An amendment to reduce the salary allowed for the president from $100,-. 000, as proposed by the committee on appropriations. -to $75,000 was de feated 33 to 32. The qjuestion then recurred on the amendment to increase the salary of the president to $100.000. FIFTY WORKMEN PERISH. Blown to Pieces by Powder, Burned to Death, or Drowned in Icy Waters. Ch.!eago, Jan. 20.--Blown to pieces by exploding powder, burned to death by the resultant fire, or drowned in iv waters of Lake Michigan was the fate today of some 50 workmen who ,were working on a submarine tunnel Iat a wooden crib, a mile and a half' from shore. The crib was used in the construe-. tion of a tunnel connecting with the South Side shore of the city at Sev en't-third street. It is known tha; 95 workmen were employed in th e rib and the connecting tunnel at the time of the explosion, which started thfire and blew or drove men into the wa.ter. INSEL AND EGLEOD ARE INUGURATED )EREMONIES WERE SIMPLE AND MPRESSIVE. )ath of Office Administered by As sociate Justice Woods, of Su preme Court. M. F. Ansel was on Wednesday for nally inaugurated governor of South ,arolina, and Thos. G. McLeod was 'ormally inaugurated lieutenant gov rnor, each succeeding himself for a econd .term. The ceremonies were >rief, but very impressive. As is cus omary, thpey were held in the hall of he house of representatives, and the. loor and galleries were crowded with nembers of the general assembly and nterested spectators. -Promptly at 1 o'clock the senate iled into the house of representa :ives, headed by Senator W. L. Maul lin, of Greenville, the president pro :em. After the clerk of the senate ad read the resolution providing for ,he inauguration, the doors of the iouse were thrown open and the gov rnor's party approached the speak ?r's desk in the following ordei: Martin F. Ansel with Senator P. L. Eardin, of Ohester. Thomas G. McLeod with Senator F. H. Weston, of Richland. Chief Justice Pope with *T. P. Cothran, of Greenville. Associate Justice Gary with Repre sentative C. W. Harris, of Lee. Associate Justice Jones with Rep resentative Kibler, of Newberry. Associate Justice Woods with At torney General Lyon. Following these came the other State officers, the solicitors and. oth ers interested. The justices of the supreme court and Gov. Ansel and Lieut. Gov. Me Leod mounted the raised dais upon th, platform of the speaker's desk and Associate Justice Woods adminis tered the oath of office to Martin F. Ansel, The Bible used in the cere mony belonged to the governor and bore his name. As soon as the oath was administered Gov.' Ansel deliver ed his brief inaugural address, which was listened to with interest by all present and at its close he was given prolonged applause. Justice Woods then administered the oath of officee to Thos. G. McLeod, as lieutenant' governor. G'ov. M.e Leod had no set speech, but acknow.1 edged with th.anks the confidence shown by reelecting him to this of fie and wished to assure the people thathe would work with determina t.ion to promote the welfare of the State. Governor Ansel 's inaugural was brief, urging that more attention be paid to .the conservation of natural resources-our lands, forests and wa ter courses; that some attention be given drainage of swamps and wet lands, and urging the importanee of good roads. In regard to good roads he said: ''Another important matter - that should engage our attention is the one of "good roads." Every good citizen of the State is interested in this vital qu-estion. Conventions and conferences are being held in many of the States to discuss it. The gover nors of most of the States are calling the attention of their legislaturas to it. Some of the counties in this State have go)ne to wvork and are making godc roads. That they are needed in all of the counties every one will ad min:. The work that is done should be of a permanent nature. and it seems to me that, in order that the neces sarv information may be obtained as to the best methods of making good highways and the possible cost of each method, the department of ag riultre should be charged with the duty of getting this data and report in th1e same to you." Governor Ansel concluded as fol "And now, as I take upon myself for a second time the responsibilities and duties of this office, I ask that yout will uphold my hands in every ood word and work, and, by your generous help and cooperation, give me that encouragement that I have a right to expect at your hands. By thus working together, wve shall make South Carolina second to none in ithis Union of indestructible States.'