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brought nine cents above the marked : price; had never received any con_Ven~ sation other than that allowed by law and did his duty, not even threats having deterred him; had charged up car fare as other than legally allowed, as shown by accounts; had had no part j in any compromise and turned in complete vouchers of everything; n.ever allowed anyone to discuss the matter outside of the commission room. Some ? . i thing between $400,000 or $500,000 nas j "been turned over to State as Ansel's1 commission report will show, said Mr. I Patton. Patton Tells of Threats. Mr. Patton, who was one of the best known members of the Ansel commis? i,?a onmofViincr ?shnnt thrpafc i SilUIl, IICtu adiu ?? ! not deterring him from performing his duty, and Senator Sullivan ques-i tioned him at length about these threats. Responding, Mr. Patton said i that information came to him that his j life had been threatened, that Felder i had received an anonymous letter j threatening his (Felder's) and Pat-, i ton's life; that the letter was postmarked Newberry ,and that it was said to have come from Governor, then' Senator, Blease. He knew of no acts i of the Ansel commission in violation I lour on/1 -novdi> L'now fttia tr> oharse v/i ia ? auu ? vi ivuv tt V44V -w w for work he did not do. Mr. Patton ?poke of Attorney General Lyon's1 work and service to the State and of j his sense of duty. He knew nothing! of the present commission, except thej summons to the Murray commission to demand their vouchers which they refused to surrender. He refused to allow the Blease commission to invea-! tigate them; had turned over about; $28,000 to Blease commission, which is shown by the report Mr. Patton stated the commission did not object to the Blease commis ?ion examining their Touchers, ana that they even offered the Blease commission copies of the Touchers, but they refused to turn th? originals over -tsr? thf>m After relatine the historv of the fight which certain liquor houses made in the United States court to compel payment of claims and which the State won the witness told of Folder's fees how he received 10 per cent, commission on salvage or overcharges on live accounts, and on accounts tirhiVh weirA "dead:" thos** for which! the houses had already received their money. He divided the alleged "graft" into classes, one being those houses which had overcharged against which the commission had no money in hand 1 to hold on claims, and the other the commission had money to hold against the overcharge. Felder recovered? for i I tbe State, several hundred thousand dollars, which was collected from hcfuses which had overcharged the finfH 'witness Why Commission lVas Removed. Mr. Patton said lie thought no one but Felder could have obtained the evidence showing the wholesale graft, and replying to a question as to why the commission was removed by Governor Blease. Mr. Patton said it was because the commission was doing its' duty. He stated that the suit in the United States court had prevented the! commission from winding up its work! <=*TliAr ihnt iviferrwl to the nromntness with which the work had.been done, once the suit was decided in favor of the State. Witness said practically all claims had been settled when the; commission was discharged, except j that of the Richland Distilling com-j pany, which, he said, had overcharged j me State some $o00,000, and the Jarolina Glass company. He stated that; the Richland Distilling company hadj offered to settle it for $100,000, and that the Bernheims, one-third responsible for this overcharge, had paid their part, some $35,000, before the commission was discharged; that the: rest had never been collected, and that the Blease commission did not collect that or any of the other moneys due the State. As answer to critics, Mr. Patton referred to the fact that the United States supreme court, and the State supreme court had sustained the commission in every single point brought "before them, He then told of the view tfce Ansel commission had taken, willing to pay all just claims which the State owned, and nothing more, told of the recovery of money, through proving overcharges, and thought the State had lost money when Blease turned'' them out He said in almost every in- | stance, the liquor houses, had comej forward, admitted the overcharges, j and he did not see where any one had j any just complaint to make in the mat- j ter. Mr. Patton said if the Ansel commission had been the class of men governor mease insinuated tney were, i he never would have removed them, j for then they would have been perfectly agreeable to him. Blease and the Dispensary. Asked if there had been any testimony tending to connect the present governor with the dispensary affair, Mr. Patton stated that the only testii ( mony was that of Mr. Lewis W. Parker, to the effect that Lanahan had said that Blease represented his house |. before the board of control of the die-! pensary. i>JU\ VV . X". OlOTCIIDUU, ? iiu V? cto Ilia attorney for tho Ansel commission, gave a resume of the transactions front the time the Ansel commission took charge until they were discharged, I covering the time the liquor houses brought suit in the United States courts, of the final victory of the State. < He related the Felder contract in de- r. tail, and told of the many other matters now a part, of the history of the j aftermath of the G. M. I. Referring to ! the money, he had been paid, he said j he received $1,500 as attorney for the' commission in 1907, and about $3,000 for 1908, 1909, 1910. He received fori litigation $10,000, but this money came1 from the liquor houses, and not from the State. "Atlanta was known as the clearing house for rebates," said Mr. Stevenson,:, .referring to the visits made there, according to reports and evidence, by certain ones periodically, so it was claimed, to make collection. He said he saw written evidence to the effect that H. H. Evans was one of these, j and had been told of several others,; B. M. Wilson for one, had also done j the same thing. Air. Stevenson praised the work of; Dr. Murray, and the other members of! the Ansel commission, and referred to their patriotic and loyal service to the State in taking a bankrupt State dispensary and saving over half a million dollars for the State, as proof of j +Via;-r. Knciroc^ Q^nmpr lUCi.1 U UOIUVUQ MVW4MVM. Late in the afternoon, after an ex-1 ecutive session, the committee adjourned to meet tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The members of the commit- ; tee are Senators Carlisle, Clifton and. Sullivian, and Representatives Cary, Evans and W. L. Daniel It is said oel good authority that subpoenas will b? issued for J. S. Farnum, of Charleston ; T. B. Felder, of Atlanta, and others. Brice and Murray. Bitter denunciation of Governor Bloase and strong denials cf charges ! made by him aginst members of tho Ansel dispensary winding-up commis| sion were the features of Friday'ii hearing by the legislature's committers investigating the affairs of the lat3 State dispensary. In strong terms Mr. J. S. Brice of the Ansel board charged that the governor was in sympathy with the liquor houses and the graft ers, and he repeated a former statement of his when he said he considered Mr. Blease the worst man who had been in the governor's chair sine? the term of Franklin J. Moses. Mr. j Brice talked of Mr. Blease's statement on the floor of the senate, when h? was a senator, that he would stand -by 1 his friends, and acts of his since he became governor, which show, Mr. Brice believed, that he was on the side of the grafters. Mr. Brice branded a? false all charges made by Governor Blease against members of the Ansel board. Dr. W. J. Murray, the first witness, ? ^ ?,! also denounced me governors tuaigwi as false. Dr. Murray's accusations of j the governor were not so definitely: aimed, 'but it was verv evident whom! he had in mind when making his re-' marks. Dr. Murray said a man that; would make such charges against the ; Ansel board "is not fit to brush our shoes." Mr. Brice did not mince his words. | He said that prior to a meeting of the j Ansel board, he had stated: "I consider Blease the worst man who has been in the governor's chair since J Franklin J. Moses sat there. He was | : not in sympathy with the work of the; commission, his sympathies being al-; 1 together with the liquor houses and j the men who had gotten graft out of j 1 the State dispensary." governor i Blease in his masseage last year had! charged that the Ansel board feared * him. When he had told of Mr. Blease's 1 alleged sympathy with the graftei* Mr. Brice said: "If you call that fearing him, that's tbe truth as I said it | at the meetings of the board." Mr. Brice continued: "As to his 1 charge of incompetency, I did feel that T was incompetent, but I did the beet ; ' ' - i.J! 5 ! couia. rnis winaiiig-up was a. leui-; ous job. The commission tried to end) ^ I 1 the work and get through, but it was; impossible to close up the affairs un- |1 less it abandoned the work of collect-; 1 iug dispensary indebtedness. "A* to the charge of dishonesty," j j continued Mr. Brice, "the man making j < the charges should substantiate them., 1 The governor has asked an investiga-1 ' tion and has turned around and tried j < to prevent it" Mr. Brice added that, j1 personally, he was willing to be in- j 1 +Vi^ Dlnnco o n iyi mi c e i rm V CO LlgjClLCU VJy LI AC J_#icuov V/WuimiwuiVi*. ^ Asked about the charges generally ( made by the governor against the An- | I sel board, Mr. Brice said: "So far as j 1 I am concerned, Governor Blease's j j charges are false and outrageous." On < question by Senator Carlisle, Mr. Brice further stated that as far as he knew the charges against the other members of the Ansel board were also false. Mr. Tirice was asked to give the source of his information that Gover nor Blease had been insvmpathy with the liquor houses and the grafters. He said that he had heard Mr. Blease on the floor of the senate state that regardless of what evidence could be produced against the members of the board of control of the dispensary, he was their friend and would defend thein even if they were sent to the penitentiary. Mr. Brice said he had heard Senator Blease say the State dispensary was not wrong and he wnntPfi it rnrifirmed and did not want any legislation that would alter its status. Mr. Brice said he had read evidence taken by the Lyon-Christensen investigation commission, of which Governor Blease, as senator, was a member, and that his "acts and conduct on this commission, some of which he had seen personally, his spoken and written words, caused me to believe that his sympathies were with the other side entirely. After he was governor, and following out his declarations on the floor of the senate, a man proven eniilt.v bevond a, shadow of doubt had O v been pardoned." On questions by Senator Sullivan, Mr. Brice explained that this man was the one whom the governor had said he would go to the penitentiary with and wear stripes with if he were convicted. Adding a? reasons for his belief that the governor was on the side of the grafters, Mr. Brice said: "In the senate when the proposition was made to appropriate $15,000 for the prosecution of these men for stealing, he (Senator Blease) opposed it vigorously resisted it in everv possible v 9 - - way." Dr. Murray on Stand. Dr. W. J. Murray, of Columbia, chairman of the Ansel winding-up commission, was the first witness before the investigating committee Friday. He told of the organization of the commission and the beginning of the auditing of the dispensary's accounts. He told of the disposition by the board of the immense over-stock on hand in the dispensary. He went into details of the work of his board in winding up tne anairs. rw bam that every gallon of the stock had been disposed of, being sold to the Geer Drug company, of Spartanburg; Bruce & Doster, of Greenville, the Murray Drug company, of Columbia, and the county dispensaries. He said that in this transaction of a million dollars there was no error, and he in?iniraotio-afnrQ tn in?neof his Tiw?u tut; 111 wou5%4bv?M w ? accounts. Governor Blease, in a message last year, had asked the investigators to find out what had been done with this alcohol. Dr. Murray said that he had paid out large sums in the winding-up business out of his own pocket. As to the governor's charge that money had been received by the commission and of Sunday work by them, 'lrv? r ? i-n nA +Vi rt f a clitrht ur. iviun <xy tjAyiamcTj cum. n. vo? mistake had been made of one day in one of his vouchers and that Governor Blease had taken this day to be a Sunday. He offered an affidavit from Mr. Thorpe, book-keeper for the dispensary, showing that the money for that extra day had been returned. The error had been made by calculating the month as having 31 days when that month had only 30. The error was fully corrected. No charge had been made for Sunday work. Dr. Murray spoke of the dispensary as a "miserable affair" and said the man who makes tne insinuation mat any members of the commission had acted wrongly in managing the affairs of the dispensary "is not fit to brush our shoes." When read that portion of the message of the governor as to a meeting of the Ansel board at which, the gov ? o V>a ^Plaoeo^ Tia/1 hoon cnivr Tjacixg'cvi) uc uuU ww/?* discussed, Dr. Murray said that he knew of no such meeting and "in the first place he (Blease) was not worthy Lo be discussed and the board had not reason to discuss him. Governor Blease had said in his message that if the commission had done no wrong tie saw no reason why it should fear Slirn and he said their discussion of lim and "fear" of him intimated that 'hey had done wrong. A Fierce Xlgrlit Alarm. is the h&oarse, startling cough of a child, suddenly attached by croup. Of:en it aroused Lewis Chamblin, of Manchester, 0., (R. F. D. 2) for their four children, were greatly subject to croup 'Sometimes ir severe attacks," he wrote, "we were afraid they would die, but since we proved what a certain remedy Dr. King's New Discovery is, we have no fear. We relv on it for Jroup and for coughs, colds or any :hroat or lung trouble." So do thousands of others. So may you. Asthma, j lay fpver, la grippe, whooping cousrh.: lemorrhasres fly bptor*3 it. .'Ac. and ^'I.UO. Trial bottle free. Sold by W. 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All T*>rsnn? indebted to the said es 4ftte will make payment forthwith, and all persons holding claims against the said estate will present the same, proved according to law, to the undersigned, or to his Attorney, Eugene S. Blease. H. H. Abrams, Administrator. Dated Newberry, S. C., Feb. 20, 1912, < ' v * I . i-w