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BLEASE DISMISSES THE WINDING-UP COMMISSION GIVES REASONS FOR DISMISSING CO3DIISSION. Charges Commission With Neglect And Ineapacity.--Other Reasons Also Stated. Governor Blease issued Tuesday night executive orders peremptorily! removing from office Dr. W. J. Mur ray, of Columbia: Mr. J. S. Brice, of News of the governor's dismissal of Timmonsville; Mr. Avery Patton, of Greenville, and Mr. A. N. Wood, of Gaffney, composing the commission to wind up the affairs of the late South Carolina State dispensary. "Neglect of duty and incapacity" are the rea sons assigned by the governor for his action; and particularly does he dis approve of the arrangement whereby the Atlanta law firm of Anderson, Felder, Rountree & Wilson was re tained to assist the commission in recovering from liquor houses and other parties money alleged to be due the State. as a result of dealings -with the State dispensary. An act passed in 1909 vests in the governor power to remove members of the commission, "whenever he may deem it for the public interst to do so," and there will be no resistance in the courts to the orders. Probe Bill Still Unsigned. Governor Blease still - has under advisement the act passed by the gen eral assembly last month, at- his own urgent suggestion, providing for an investigation of the dispensary com mission's acts by a legislative com mission. Governor Is Retieeni. New of the goveror-s dismissal of the commissioners did not come from the governor's office. In fact. when1 infprmation was sought there, the governor said, through his secretary, that if anything was to be given 'to the press relative to the matter, "it. should come from the other end r' the line." The governor even refuse to say whether he had removed any members of the board other than the chairman, reporters being at thb time unaware definitely as to the isstl ance -of such orders to Messrs. Bric' McSween, Wood aa itatton. -By Registered Mail. Dr. Murray received the order ad-I 'dressed to him by registered mail Wednesday morning, the envelope bearing the endorsement, "Return re ceipt demanded." Dr. Murray declin ed to make for publication any state ment upon the governor's action. By telephone the Record ascertain ed that Messsrs. McSween and Brice received their dismissals by register ed mail Wednesday morning; Mr. ~Patton had not -received any commu - nication at the hoiwr when he was c2lled up, as the train from ,Colum bia bhad not then reached Greenville, and Mr. Wood had not received the or der but la.ter wired the Record: "Dis charge received". While the gover nor declined to say whether or not he bad dismissed all thfe members of the commission, thd copy of the order re ceived by Dr. Murray shows that the order was first made out with the pname left blank and then the name' -filled in on the typewriter. *"I had been expecting it," said Mr iMcSween, when he w'as called up at his home in Timmonsville. "Nothingj more to say." "It's all right," said Mr. Brice. at Yorkville, "I had heard he was going to do it the last time I was in Co lumhbia. But what about that investi gation ?" Will He Sign or Veto?i "No, I haven't received anything from the governor-yet," said Mr., Patton, "but I am not surprised. In fact, I am- much obliged to him. We expected something of the sort the last time we met. But is he going to sgn that investigation act?" Text of Governor's Order. The text of the executive proclama tion as to Dr. Murray is as follows: Sate of South Carolina, Executive Chamber. Wheras,the general assembly, by an at, pprvedthe16th day of Feb ruay. . . 107,enitld,"An act to provide for the disposition of all property connected with the State dispensary and to wind up its affairs," provided that "immediately upon the approval of this act the governor shall appoint a commission of well known business men. consisting of five mem bers. none of whom shall be members of the general assembly, to be known as the State dispensary commission, who shall give bond for the faithful nerformuance of the duties required, in the sum of ten thousands dollars,"~ and the said act further providing that the said commission "s.hall pay to the State treasurer, after deduct !ng their compensation and other ex p~enses allowed by this act, all suir J)illS funds on hand. :tI'i ci ~utying a~l liabilities." In my judgment the members of the commission have had more than aini ple time to finish their work and make a final report, and it appearing to my satisfaction that this has not been done, and that said commission is guilty of neglect of duty by not making the investigations required in said act themselves, but delegated thi; power to a firm of attorneys, under contract which provided an exorbi tant fee, and providing "The said par ties of the first part in their negotia tions or prosecution of suits in behait of the parties of the second part or the State of South Carolina; are here by clothed with full power, subject alone to the approval of the attorne' general of said State. to offer to any of the parties involved, immunity from prosecution upon such terms and con ditions as in their judgment may be deemed to the best interest of the par ties hereto and to the State of South Carolina"-which provision of said agreement was wholly without any authority of the commission to make, in violation of the law and contrary to the policy and dignity of the State, placing the great and delicate power of the State to give pardon and im munity to violators of her laws in the hands of people not even citizens of the State, subject to the approval of an officer of the State in whom I fail to find any constitutional or statutory power ~ested. Much delay and loss, under provisions of this agreement, has occurred; caused continued agi tation among the people of the State. and has prevented them from doing their work "at the earliest date prac ticable." Therefore, they have been negligent in the discharge of and shown plainly incapacity for the du ties required of them; and, taking in to ,considertion all of the circum stances and facts in regard. to the de lay and neglect in w-nding up the affairs as provided for in the act, and in view of the fact that all moneys have not been turned over to the State treasurer, and this being further neg lect of duty, and showing clearly in capacity and indisposition to do the work as the act provides, "at the ear liest date practicable"-it being four (4) years since said aCt was app"roved -and for divers other good and suf ficient reasons to me appearing, and; Power of Removal. Whereas, -tn act to further provide for winidiasg up the affairs of the State dis -eLasary etc . a p.2:mv'd 'X.* fourth day of March. A. D. 1909, pro viders, 'That the governor is hereby authorized and empowered to remove any member of the said commission whenever he may deem it for the pub lic interest to do so." and I now deem it for the rpublic interst to do so. Murray Commission Voided. Therefore, by virtue of the power vested in me by the constitution of the State of South Carolina and the laws, I db hereby remove W. J. Murray, of Columbia, South Carolina, from the office o_r position of member of the State dispensary commission, or of the commission for the disposition of all property connected with the State dispensary and to wind up its affairs, and I hereby revoke and declare null and void the comnmissioni of W. J. Murray, of Columbia, South Carolina -heretofore issued and under which he is now acting and declare any fur ther act of his as member of such commission to be null and void. In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed, at Co lumbia, this fourteenth day of March. A. D. 1911, and in the one hundred and thirty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America. Cole. L. Blease, Governor. By the Governor: R. M. McCown, Secretary of State., - May Fill Vacancies. An act approved March 4, 1909, pro vides: "That each member of the State dispensary commission sill, after the first day of January, 1909, receive five dollars per day, and actual expenses, for such time as may be necessary for completing the winding up of the affairs of the State dispensary, and the sanme shall be paid in the manner heretofore provided by law; 'That the governor is hereby au thorized an~ empowered to fill the vacancies now existing, or that may hereafter exist, in the State dispen sary commission heretofore created by law, and to remove any member of said commission whenever he may deem it for the puble interest to do Changes in Conumission. Originally the commission was comn posed of Dr. Murray, with Messrs. Mc Sween and Patton. anG of Mr. C. K. Henderson, of Aiken, and Mr. 13. F Arthur, of Union. The commissions of Messr.s. Murray. McSween, Henderson, Arthur and Patton were issued Feb ruary 20, 1907, by Governor Ansel. Mr. Arthur resi gne d ini the spring of ~4~b'-I ' was commissioned in his place. Mr. Henderson also resigned that spring, and the commission of his successor, Mr. A. N. Wood. was issued May 6, 1909. Nothing in the act creatiog the commission indicated what should be their terms of office. Work Practically Done. Practically all the work of the com mission had been done. It has col Ilected in ;arious ways overi $d00 and this has been tu rn .d into the S:i treasury. Thie c' claims out standing in b -half of the Sata re those - ; . m t'o R . . ::. .. -iing company, $500,000, and against the Carolina Glass company, $28,000, both of these being Co:umbia concerns. These claims are before the courts, the actions having been brought in the name of the State, so that they may be carried on by the attorney general as planned, whether a dispensary commission exists or not. Accounts due the glass company by county dis pensaries, amounting to about $17,000, have been impounded and if the courts so rule these will be confiscated and applied upon the $28,000 which the company is alleged to owe the State. There is small prospect of recovering any considerable armount of the $500, 000 charged up against the Richland Distilling company. The concern's real property in Columbia has been seized and placed in the hands of a receiver, Mr. A. M. Lumpkin, of the Columbia bar, and Mr. A. D. McFa:i den, master-in-equity for Richland county, has been ordered to take testi mony as to the law and the facts in volved. If the State shall succeed in its attempt to confiscate this property, $60,000 or $75,000 may be realized on it. No other property belonging to the company can be found in this State. The stockholdely, principaiiy the Messrs. Block, of Macon, are be yond the jurisdiction of the Soutl Carolina courts. To review the situation in genera' terms, it may be said that the wind ing-up commission has turned over to the State treasurer all the money col lected from whiskey houses. with the exception of the amounts tied up in the litigation of the Carolina Glass company: the work of the commission has for sonme nonths been practically completed, all the claims having been reduced to judgmen;, or put- in suit, and it was the purpose of the comn mission to wind up its work by the first of the preserit year, but circum stances arose which made it expedi ent that the work should be continued for a while. Personnel of Commission. Dr. William Jacob Murray, chair man of the commission, was born at St. George an.d is a graduate in medi ine from Vanderbilt university. HE has made a signal success of the Mur ray Drug company of Columbia, one of the largest wholesale concerns ol the kind in the South Atlantic States of which 'he is president and treasurer. Dr. Murray is a director of the Na tional Loan and Exchange ban3e and is connected with a rnumber of other important Columbia enterprises. Mr. John McSween, of Timmons ville, merchant planter: and banker, came at 21 to South Carolina from Argyleshire, Scotland.. He is presi dent of the John McSween company, wholesale an~d retail merchants, doing one of the largest businesses of the kind in the State, and is president also of the Bank of Timmonsville. HE is a - prominent Presbyterian lay especially in'terested mn the education al work of that denomination. Mr. Adolphus Nott Wood, of Gaff ney, a native of Spartanburg, is a Confederate veteran. After several years as teacher and merchadit in his home county and in Alabama, he set ted in 1875 at Gaffney as a merchant entering in 1887 the private banking business. He was one of the organ izers of the Gaffney Manufacturing company, of which he was for years Ipresident. He is vice president of the Cowpens Manufacturing company. He was for several terms mayor of Gaff ney. Mr. Avery aPtton. a broker of Greenville, with, considerable means, first came into -prominence as an in vtgtr of official misconduct, when h e he inquiry into the scandals arising some years ago in connectionl with the finances of Greenville county. He then developed mnuch abilit.v ini analyzing documentary evidence. Mr. J. Steele Brice, lawyer, of York viile, introduced in the 'senate the bili known as the Brice bill which led tc the downfall of the State dispensary. He is an attorney of high reputation and i's intimately connected withi many large affairs in his county. NOTICE! All parties owing the c;l& firm .M 1. W. Kibler & Co:npany, which clos ed business January 3, 1913, Will please settle at once. Accounts nOt )ail within ten days will be handed to our collector. J. W. Ihiiler & Company. NewLorry, S. C., March 8, 191 1. Water, Light anc Power Rates. At a meeting of the board of con missioners of public works on Marc 7, the following revised scale of price was provided. Th:s scale of rate will go into effect beginning with th month of ADril. Water and light rates for domesti uses: Light-First 50 K. W. Hr., at 1 cents per K. W. Hr.: second 50 K. 11 Hr. at S cents per K. W. Hr.; the 101 K. W. Hr. to infinity at 6 cents pe K. W. Hr. Wter Rates: 1 Gallon to 10,00 gallons at 25 cents per M gallons 10,0001 gallons to 20,000 gallons a 20 cents per M gallons; 20,001 gallon to infinity at 17 1-2 cents per M gal ions. Current Rates for Power--First 25 K. W. Hr. at 8 cents per K. W. Hr. then next 500 K. W. Hr. at 7 cent per K. W. Hr.; then 750 K. W. Hr. t infinity at 6 cents per K. W. Hr. Water Rates for Manufacturers gallon to 100,000 gallons at 15 cent per M gallons; 100,001 gallons to 200, 000 gallons at 12 1-2 cents per M gal lons; 200,001 gallons to infinit'y a 10 cents per M gallons. Street Lights by the Year-AT Lights per year $75; series and mul tiple 32 candle power, per year $25. Single water spigots-Single wate spigots in residences per month 6 cents for each family; single wate spigots in stores per month 52 cent! Minimum Charges - Minimur charge on water and light per mont 50 cents. Moving picture shows, current 10 per K. W. Hr. on meters. Approved: M. L. Spearman, " C. E. Summer, W. F. Ewart, Commissioners Public Works, Nev berry, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ICOUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Frances L. Haltiwanger, Texani Sarmel, Lenora Eleazer, Mattie] Alewine:, Kizzie C. Chapman, John, Haltiwanger, Holland S. Haltiwange Wilbur Haltiwanger and Lula Fulme Plaintiffs, against Burtell Haltiwanger, Defendant. By virtue of an order of- the Cou: herein, I will sell to the highest bi< der before the Court House at Ney berry, S. 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