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.A 1 dl VOLUNIE L, NEP3ER 13. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1912.TWCAWEK$15AYAR ITHE LEGISLATURE NOW ON THE HOME STRETCH SESSION OF 191 ti11OULD END O NEXT SATURDAY. Lawmakers Probably Won't Remair Beyond Time When F%y Ceases. Approprasi Bill. Columbia, Feb t1.--The forty days contemplated for a legislative session will end on Saturday, the 17th in stant. When the constitution of 1895 was framed it was thought most ex traordinary conditions must arise for a session to continue for more than forty days. Prior to the constitution of 1895, when the general assembly met before tle Christmas holidays and adjourned in time to get home for the Christmas turkey, the sessions did not last thirty days. The constitution of 1895 undertook to prevent certain leg islation getting into the hopper and thereby save time, but many matters, ,vea to authority for opening roads aHd giving permission to stand law exa.minations, have gotten back into hopper. Will They Do ItI There is every reason now to anti cipate an adjournment Saturday morn 3ng, in time for the members wishing to go to the up-country to do so, but of course, the habit of delay may have the members leave the city early Sun day morning. The usual trouble is 'with the appropriation act, but that mneasure will probably receive its sec ond reading in the senate tomorrow and by Wednesday night it is thought it can be finished in the senate, and, if necessary, go to free conference by Thursday and have the act quietly and properly enrolled Friday, and deliver ed to the governor,during that day. Will Take no Chances. One thing appears pretty certain, the members are not going to leave the city in any considerable numbers. as they did last year, before the ap propriation bill is returned -to the gen eral assembly with the final message of the governor. Many members, who anticipated no trouble, have not been able to satisfy themselves at their ab .sence last year, when the veto message on the appropriatio? bill was acted -upon. As the appropriation bill does not carry any larger levy than it did last year, it is not expected that there ~ ill be much trouble with it. Recess Suggested. Saturday is the fortieth day of the session and final adjournment will be ready at that time. It is being sug gested that the house and senate :xnight early Saturday morning vote to take a recess until Wednesday or Thursday of the following week. The idea is to leave an interval of three days between the recess and the time *of returning to Columbia to insure ac tion on all bills in -the bands of the governor and to avoid any rush. If an act is left with the governor from -Saturday until Thursday, it will be come the law of the State whether ap proved by the governor or not, and if he decides to veto the act, the assem bly will have to have such report upon its reassembling on Wednesday or Thursday. In other words, some of s the members do not want to have veto Fmessages go to the general assembly of 1913 on acts that they have passed, but prefer to assume full responsibil ity and settle the issues. Most of the important measures of this session, -hoiwever, will have gone through with -this three-day period before Saturday and will either become law or be re turned to the house or senate by that time. Pate of Bace Track Bill? What is to become of the anti-racing course betting bill? It is hard to say *,and a worse bet than they are offering at the race course. The debate has been in progress for days and days without final action. The close vote on the motion to strike out the clause relative to the granting of injunctions inia-sthat there is no overwhelm ing enthusiasm on the part of the sen ate to rush the bill to the governor. What course the governor will take on the bill, if it get to him, is un fnown, but it has been intimated tat his course will be infiu-enced by the -- act whether the injunction feature i -ft in the bill or not, and should ihe - eothe act with the uizZ ture retained he will have a good posi tion, in the opinion of very many care ful observers. Warehouse Bill. The most important action of the I session, of course, is the passage of the cotton warehouse bill. The sen ate accepted the bill exactly as it was prepared, providing for only one warehouse, without limit to the bonds to be issued, the rate they were to bear and everything else, and sent it over to the house. The judiciary com mittee of the house and of the senate have never considered the legality of the bill and the measure has been rushd on through because, it is con tended the farmers of the State want it and members feel that if a half mil I lion dollar investment will do any good towards the cotton holding sit uation it may be money well spent, even if the system amounts to but little in the final solution of the prob lem. The bill is now in free confer ence and may be materially changed in that process. As at present framed, the commission to be elected will have authority to contract for the spend ing of $250,000, payable in two instal ments, and the issuance of $250,000 in bonds, or a total investment of $500, 000. Thus far the State is obligated in the bill for $250,000 in direct appro priations and $5,000 for organiz3tion. It is a gigantic venture and it is to be hoped that men of sound business ex perience and not good talkers will be selected' to manage the system of warehouses. Di$pensary Elections. There is now a decided prospect that there will be provision made for most of the counties of the State to hold elections on the liquor question, if the voters petition so to do. The Lide bill has passed the senate and is now in the house. It provides that upon prop er petition elections may be held in teh various counties as to whether or not they wish to adopt the county dispen sary system, and if the counties con tinue to vote "dry," then there shall not be another election in those coun ties voting for four years. The Moore Abbeville county bill was killed on the house side, largely be cause it was proposed to have the election in Abbeville county on the day s-et for the primary. All hands seem agreed that it is best not to hold such elections in connection with the primary and to remove the issue just as far 'as possible from the primary, and on that account the senate bill as sent to the house, fixes the second Tuesday of February, 1913, a year hence, for the elections. If brought to a direct issue the bill will probably pass the house. School Book Bill. The school book adoption question came up in the house in the form of a concurrent re'solution and in several bills. The house has adopted and sent to the senate a bill, under the terms of which it will be difficult to change te books recently adopted. Under the Daniel bill it will be necessary for a majority of the county superintendents to petition for a change before it can be made in any of the books now on the list. Proposed Asylum Bond Issue. The prospect is that the vioters of the State will be called upon to say whether they want to issue a millica dollars' worth of bonds for the com pletion of the new State Hospital for the Insane, or whether the work is to continue with money to be directly appropriated f' am the treasury from year to year. The bill providing for the vote on the Asylum bonds has passed the house. A entirely different -fate has met the resolution looking to a million dollar bond issue for the completion of the State house. It has been killed. "Rascality," Says Blease. The temper of the times may be shown by the following little incident: Several days ago the sinking fund commission elected Attorney General Lyon its chairman. It did this, so it is stated, to expedite its work and have! papers signed, as t!he governor s di he was too busy to attend to the mat-' ters at this tiLne. The comnmis-siun wa.ts to sell at public auction she old dispensary prope'rty and tketermi1 ed to advertise the p,roper.y for sale, fixina S100,O' J as tne upset price. 7 hsterd'" The forml acrismn "RED SHIRTS OF 76" IN NEWBERRY, S. C. (Written For The Drayton Rutherford Chapter, No. 152, U. D. C., by Col. D. A. Dickert.) Like the birth-place of Homer, which several ci.,as of Greece claimed to be, so several sections of South Carolina claim the hon or of being the birth-place of the Red Shirts. As a matter of fact, no particular city or community can be rightly said to be the first of the Red Shirts. It was a spontaneous uprising of the people, old and young, to meet the coming of our illustrious chieftain or horseback, and the fiat went forth, to "come in red." It seems as if a suggestion was somewhere -lightly made, for all the clubs that were to form part of the procession, that w-s to meet and escort the campaign party, to dress in red, as a symbol of the fiery zeal, in which the people were' going to prosecute the struggle for white supremacy, and it was at once taken up in earnest, all along the line, from the mountains of the Piedmont to the sea. Every yard of red flannel- in sight was called into service, and more or dered, willing and patriotic fingers plied the needle, with loving hearts and happy song, to have the boys all ready against the com ing of the chief. It was the opportunity to exhibit themselves first, that gave rise to the assertion, that the upper tiers of counties were the first home of the Red Shirts. Hampton began the campaign of the great "straight-out" movement in the upper counties, gradually working his way to the sea, and where he first addressed the people,- natur ally there were the first "red shirts" seen. It was the wish of those who had the campaign in charge to make it as dramatic and awe inspiring to the negro and scallawags as possible; so by some kind of telephathic sign, the call went over the State, to meet our brave and fearless standard-bearer on horseback, and come in "red.' When the compaign party traveled through the country, by private convieyance, many of the companies followed them #s epOrt, f r! one county to another, and thousands of men and women, from every nook and corner of the country, flocked to hear the great warrior. Statesman, Hampton, speak. There had never been such an en thusiaatic uprising of the people, silce the days of Secession. Time was' set weeks ahead, called "campaign days," where the campaign party was to meet the people at the county seat, speak to them of the momentous issues at stake, and to arouse them to their danger, It was the hope of our people that a strailt-out campaign, led solely by our native whites, would succeed Where a cdbinaiion 01 mixed ticket, composed of part Democrats and part Republicatis, had failed. The State had tried this with the Republican, Judge Car penter for governor, and Gen. Butler, a Democrat, for lieutenanl governor, but it was a failure, the people in the back country not taking kindly to the idea of voting for an alien and Republican, for the highest office in the gift of the people. Then again, a split oc curred in the Republican party, and the whites undertook to sup port the disgruntled faction of Green and Delany, a negro, but this, too, was an ignominious failure. The great body of our own.people, by long years of defeat and oppression, had grown apathetic and lukewarm to the principles of Democracy, and they saw no hope in keeping up the struggl e while they were so greatly outnumbered by the negro vioters, and it was as easy to get a negro to change hia vote. as it was to change his color. It is claimed by the friends of 'General Butler and General Gary, the two-fiery Confederates, that these two were the first to see hope in. a "straight-out" movement, with General Hampton, their illus trious leader, at its head. It was claimed further, by these men, that if Hampton, with other good Southern men, would head a "straight cut" movement, a strong ticket put in the field, and the State be stumped from the mountains to the sea, in advocacy of white supre macy and home rule, that every white voter in the State would turn out and vote the ticket, a thing never consummated before. They thought, too, that Ha.mpton's popularity with the colored voters in the lower counties would cause many negroes to enrol under the Democratic banner. With these hophes, the ticket was put in the field, and the most stubbornly contested campaign ever known in the South was on. The days for the great Democratic rallies in the different counties were announced, and the campaign began in earnest in the upr counties, working its way gradually southward. News camne ah3ad of the great out-pourinig of the people, the enthusiastic reception given the campaign .party by the red shirt horsepnen, and Newberry began I r preparation to give the standard bearers a hearty wel come. A great 'barbecue dinner was arran'ged for, sufficient to feed three thousand people, to be furnished at "Cline's Grove," on the outskirts of the town, at which the speaking was to take place. Early in the morning of the day of Newberry's great Democratic rally, the troops of Democratic clubs, all dressed in red shirts,,be gan pouring into the city, from every section of the county. Every community and precinct, had its company of red shirts and as they arrived, they were directed to the college campus (then not used), by mounted marshals, all dressed in red. The stores of the city were gaily decorated with red bunting, and flags waved from the housetops. Col. 0. L. Schumpert, whose company was organized in the city and surrounding county, from his close proximity to the meeting ground, was the first on the field, and formed his men on the right, resting on the street leading to the city, and facing the college. As the other companies rode through the city, they were met with cheers and deafening shouts. The old rebel yell, echoed and re echoed from one company to another, 'and the whole scen3 was one wild spasm of enthusiasm and cheers. Capt. T. J. Maffatt, from Silverstreet, next rode in, and took his position on the left of Col. Schumupert. Next came Captain M. M~i Buford and Captain W. W. Riser, each with one hundred horsemen, both from the Mollohon se?ction, and amid the wildest of cheering, formed on the left, the line extending along in front of where now Holland hall stands. TI'en in rapid succession came Capt. Dickert, from the Bro-t1 River section, and Capt. Jeff Gallman from Number Nine township. The line had by this time extended to the limit of the college cam ps, en- was now doubled, 'beginning at the street in rear of Capt. SchPrTrt, as Capt. Andrew Wheeler, with his Prosnerity riders, roe '-'ollowed by Capt. Sid Cunningham, from the Caldwell comn (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.) JLLLI't1i Ii1iLAll yrX IW3- L Senate Passes House Bill Abolishinj Hanging.-Provides Agricultural Education. Columbia, Feb. 10.-The senate, ir an afternoon session today, passed the bill providing for electrocution of criminals in the State penitentiary abolishing the practice of hanging The bill is now returned to the nousE for concurrence in slight amendments A substitute was offered iu the senatE for the house bill, this being onl3 slightly different from the original The differences were technical largel3 the chief amending clause being one tc require that at least twelve person shall witness an electrocution. ThE bill was introduced in he house bi Mr. Boyd and the substitute in thi senate by Senator W. J. Johnson; 1 passed the house last week. The electrocution bill provides tha a death chamber shall be furnished a the State penitentiary and execution; shall be under the supervision of thi penitentiary superintendent. A1 amendment was offered to the sub stitute bill to put the expense o transporting the criminal to the pen itentiary on the county from whic1 he comes, the cost being paid by th penitentiary officials, who will after wards draw on the county sending th Scriminal. The senate also passed Senato Stuckey's bill to create an elementar agricultural ediiCatiol ommission an to provide funds for its maintenani< This new commision will consist c the State superintendent of educatior the commissioner of agriculture, on trustee of Clemson college, the direc tor of the department of agriculture 0 Clemson college, the professor of sec ondary education in the University c South Carolina, the State superinten dent of rural schools, the professo of elementary agriculture in Winthro: and one member to be elected an nually by the State Farmers Union, al of whom shall receiv+e $3 a day an travelling expenses when engaged The bill provides that the commissio] shall elect for a two-year term a Stat director of elementary agricultural ed ucation, who shall be paid a salary fix ed by the commission. This directo: may be a .professor in Clemson -and hi shall have general supervision of th< agricultural education nf the. Rtate. The bill makes an annual appropria tion of $10,000 for the administratio) of the commission's duties to be divid ed among the different schools an4 phases of the agriculaural education of the State. Several senators spok< in favor of the bill and others op posed it. Some opposed consideratio today as many of the senators wer< absent, and they thought a .bill tha carried such a heavy appropriatio should be considered by a full senate It was thought, however, that if thi *bill did not pass this afternoon i would not likely stand a chance o -passage next week and the majorit: of those present voted to send it to the house. MAJ. W. J. GOODING DIES FROM SUDDEN ILLNES! Well Known Hampton Citizen and fo: Years a Members of State Board of Regents. Hampton, Feb. 9.-Major. W. J1 Gooding, of Crocketville, four mile from here, died this afternoon. He was stricken suddenly, it is stated and died before medical aid arrived Maj. Gooding is a much respecte< citizen of this county and has figure< prominently in all movements for th4 be.tterment of Hampton county. H< has been onie of the mnembers of tn' asylum board for several years an< has rendered efficient service to th4 State. Maj. Gooding has a host oj friends throughout the sta*e. He was a popular man. He leaves four chii dren, Mrs. W. I. Wilso:., of' Augusta Ga., W. J. Gooding, Ir., of Savan~nah Ga., P. H. Gooding a nd Mrs. N. Par ker, of Crocketvill3. The funeral sei vices and interment will be held a the Presbyterian chazmi at Crocket ville Saturday at 4 o'cloes. Now is the time~ to subscribe tV 'rhe Herald anid NeWS Miuraia ur wun OF GERAL ASSEMBLY BILL PROVIDING FOR STATE WAREHOUSES PASSES, Electric Chair Provlded.--State Com mission for Agricultural Educa. tion.-Juvenile Court. By a vote of 71 to 29, the house passed to a third reading Thursday morning a bill providing for a State system of cotton warehouses. The bill was amended in sev4ral sections. The senate bill had been substituted for the house bill, introduced by Mr. McQueen. The bill carries an appropriation of $5,000 for the contingent expenses of t the warehouse commission and the sum of $250,000 in two equal yearly installments. t The house accepted an amendment authorizing the cotton warehouse commission to establish cotton, com preeses in conjunction with the ware houses. Another amendment provid ed for placing 1-50 of the amount and 4 per cent. interest annually in a sinking fund to reimburse the State for the $250,000 advanced. Another 8 amendment allows the members of the commission 2 1-2 cents., instead of 10 ents, for each mile traveled to attend the meeting of the board. Mr. Irby offered a anini"die whiclh the house agreed toj by which th builIi4i #nd prdpbrsty of the old - State di?fii@aTy In edlumbia ld turn ed over to the waithi#k# emidesI* ', to use as it sees fit. e Most Eligible Site. Briefly, the bill as passed provided that the general assembly shall elect g f three commissioners to be known as the State warehouse commission who r are to hold office for two, four and six years. The general assembly is to designate the chairman of the board. 1 The warehouse commission is charged to provide warehouses at the most eligible sites in the State, capable of holding at least 250,000 bales of cot ton. . The person who deposits cotton in . the warehouses is to be given a re ceipt from the State of South C'rolina, showing the weight, grade and num ber of the bales stored. This receipt is transferable only by written assign -ment and the cotton it represents de liverable only upon production of the . receipt. 1 The bill further provides for estab i lishing a sinking fund to retire the a bonds on the property purchased for the warehouses. 1 Storage at Cost, a In regard to charges for storing cotd t ton the bill says: "The charges on 1 cotton shall, after the system herein eprovided for has been in operation, a cover all current operating expenses, t It being the intention of this act to f make this system self-sustaining, and at the same time give storage at at a tual cost." The senate bill was substituted for the house bill, but, after the bill pass *s third reading today, it will have to go back to the senate, since the house amended the senate bill. Reconsider Passage. At the night session Mr. Stevenson moved to reconsider the vote whereby the cotton warehouse bill was passed to a third reading in order to recon s ider the amendment turning over the State dispensary building and prop-. erty in Columbia to the warehouse commission. Mr. Stevenson stated that to give away this property was contrary to the constitution, since it had been given to the public schools of the State. A deal was now pend ing on the -property, and it was prob able that it would soon be turned Into eash. The amendment was proposed by Mir. Irby. Beject Amendment. The house reconsidered the passage of the bill and rejected the amendimen1t donating the State dispensary build ing and property to the commission. Mr. Wyche spoke against the bill as a whole. Mr. Stevenson said he regretted that his motion had reopened the dis eussion. The overwhelming majority (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6.)