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' '' ! ' _ VOLUME LI., NUMBER IS. JfEWBEEEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1913. TWICE A WEEK, *UQ A YEAB. Governor's A\ Vetoes Mos GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO MEET AGAIN THURSDAY GOVERNOR CUT APPROPRIATION BILL ABOUT $130,000. Was Sustained in Only About $7,500? Legislature Worked All Saturday Night. Special to The Herald and News. Columiba, March 3.?After spending Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, until 4 o'clock Sunday morning, passing upon the items vetoed in the general appropriation bill by the governor, the general assembly adjourned until Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, taking the position that certain Acts sent by the governor to the secretary of State, without the signature of the governor, would not become law until the next session of the general assembly, unless the general assembly remained in session three legislative days after the Acts mi w-erf delivered to the governor, ine governor has no Act in his office; of 253 Acts sent him by the general assembly, all of them have either been sent over to the secretary of State, or returned with veto messages to the ljouse in which they originated. Some ~ Ante? hfturflver tHo PTIVip TTliOr yji lucoc AVIO, uuKvvi, in, neither approved nor disapproved, and simply sent them to the secretary of State, the secretary of State receipting for them. There are those who take the position that when an Act is receipted for from the governor's office by the secretary of State it is in the sanK condition, so far as becoming law is concerned, as if vigned by the governor. The general assembly, hnwpvpr took the other view, and ad journed until Thursday afternoon so as to give three days for its eleventhhour Acts to become laws. It is supposed the legislature will simply come back and adjourn. The general appropriation bill was sent to the governor on Saturday morning, as was the county supply bill. The county supply bill was sign ea oy tne governor a:iu s ni lu ius secretary of State. The veto message on the general appropriation bill was sent to the house immediately upon its reconvening at 3.30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and the house struggled Willi nit: veiyts mini ituum luiuuigxn,, and then sent it over to the senate, which finished with it about 4 o'clock Sunday morning. The governor vetoed items amounting to about $130,000, which, if sustained, would have reduced the levy marly ono-half mill. Very few of the vetoes on these items were sustained ?the items on which vetoes were sus tained by the legislature amounting to only about $7,500. Following are the items vetoed by the governor and the action of the spiipmI ass^mhlv nnnn the vetoes: The Governor's Vetoes. Extra clerical services, comptroller ?cnerars office, $1,000. (Veto overriden Kit hnnco SI frr\ IS- rwprHrtpn hv s?nate, 32 to 1.) Printing, comptroller general's office. $500. (Veto overriden by house, S2 to 19; overriden by senate. 31 to 4.) Printing. Sts.te treasurer's office, $2,000. (Veto overriden by house 79 to 23; overriden by senate, 34 to 2.) Deficit for 1912. for lighting, $2,<? " J ^ rt < i r V ^ V\tr Vir^nCA 7 -> v t;iu in ci i men u_> nuuoc, ij to 21; overriden by senate, 28 to 6.) Deficit for 1912, health department, $2,536.62. (Veto overriden by house, 77 to 19; overriden by senate, 32 to 3.) For books and blanks, investigation and installation of system of bookkeeping and examination of financial condition of counties, $5,000, tax de-' | partment?vetoed on ground that same : matter is contended to be elsewhere; provided for in bill. ' (Veto overriden! by house, 72 to 26; overriden \by j senate, 25 to 10.) Equipment, University of South j Carolina, $4,500. < Veto overridden by1 ^ --3 I *> A llOUSe, lO overriucu uy at-tiatcr, -jki . to 4.) General expenses, University of South Carolina, $12,000. (Veto overi opropriation tlv Over ridert ^.riden by house, 90 to 9; overriden by senate, 30 to 3.) Improving dining hall and kitchen and equipping sarfte, University of South Carolina, $15,000. (V<eto overriden by house, 81 to 14; overriden by senate, 30 to 2.) For completing hew dormitory, U-nij versity of South Carolina, $25,000. ] (Veto overriden by house, SO to 15: | overriden by senate, 29 to 6.) For extension of heating plant. University of South Carolina, $17,500. (Veto overriden by house. 85 to 17; overriden by senate, 29 to 7.) For agricultural extension work, State Colored college, $1,000. (Veto sustained by house, ">4 to 29, thus kill- j ing the item.) For summer school. State Colored j college, $500. (Veto sustained by | house, 58 to 31.) | For Confederate Home College, $2,000?on ground that word "Confeder! ate" is a misnomer and thajt this is u | ! private institution. (Veto overriden bj . j house, 80 to 1-4; overriden by senate J ^31 to 1.) For Historical Commission, $5,350. (Veto overriden by house,-in three | votes on three items; also overriden j by senate.) For interest "likely to accrue, $5,! 000." under the head of "interest on | bonded debt." (Veto overrid-en? by | | house, 79 to 11; overriden by senate 29 to 2.) For claims passed by general assembly, $10,000?on ground that James Henry Rice claim and some other I * 1 amounts should have be^ provided V for in joint resolution, if provided for at all, and sent to governor in regular manner, and that inconvenience to others in drlay which would ensue | should not stand in way of refusing | | to pay claims the governor contended | this legislature had no right to pay. | (Veto overriden by house, 74 to 11; j overriden by senate, 32 to 2.) Deficit public printing for 1912, $5,341.45. (Veto overriden by house, 69 | to 12; overriden by senate, 24 to 8.) Corn Breeders association, $1,000. (Veto overriden by house, 76 to 11; sustained by senate, 21 to 15. thus killing the item.) i Phosphate commission, $300. (Veto j overriden by house, 70 to 13; sustain-j j ed by senate, 21 to 14, thus Killing me J item.) South Carolina Live Stock association, $1,000. (Veto sustained by house, 45 to 36, thus killing the item.) South Carolina Agricultural society, $5,000. (Veto overriden by house, 64 to 18; overriden by senate, 29 to 4.) Defiicit for 1911, printing, $1,136.18. (Veto overriden by house, 61 to 24; sustained by senate, IS to 16, thus killing the item.) State Colored Fair association, $1,unonimnnclv ell etu in od h V UUV. V v ciu uuauixiiuuQtj ouuvv*?.vv. j the house, thus killing the item.) Chairs for house of representatives, $1,079, and linoleum for gallery of house, $324?on ground that sufficient \ provision had been made for these matters elsewhere in bill. (Vetoes overriden by house and senate.) f Plant Breeders association, $1,500.! (Veto overriden by house, 57 to 28; j sustained by senate, IS to 17. thus ,' killing the item.) Another Surprise Marriage. Mr. Holland 0. Felltrs and Mi*s I j Hove Agnes Harris were married ! Columbia cn Sunday morning at 9.30 ' ! I o'clock at Ebenez<>r Lutheran parson-; ; age. by the ev. C .A. Freed. Mr. j Fellers was accompanied by his broth- i " - Jo I I er, Mr. minis renters. iu- unuc w j ! from Lake City, S. C., and last fall 1 ! she taught in Chester, going then1 from | j Newberry where she had charge of the * j kindergarten before that. She mad* J many friends during her stay here, j her little pupils being very fond of ! her, which added to her popularity in tho f>fvmmnnifv The zroom has a re ~" I l sponsible position in the city office of i the electric light and water plant, and ' is held in esteem by the general pub- j lie. The happy couple arrived here! on Sunday afternoon by the 2.48 Southern, a .id are "at home" to their friends at the residence of Mrs. Mary P. Fant. Newberry welcomes this popular - 11 - ? - ? * I couple ana an join m uuusiaunauuu^j and best wishes. I Jk HOSIERY MILL MUST GO CAVC TUF I CflCI ATIIDE OtMO 1I1L LLU1 JJLifi 1 UIVLi ONLY ONE VOTE AGAINST BILL IN STATE SENATE. Senator Johnstone, of Newberry, Opposed The Bill?Ml Goes November 1st. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia. March 3.?The hosiery mill at the State penitentiary will be abolished. The general assembly has passed the measure prohibiting the employment of convicts in the mill after November 1, 1013. The bill passed the hous-e some days ago, and was passed by the senate on Friday. In the senate there was only one vote against the measure?that of Senator Alan Johnstone of Newberry. When Governor Blease, who has made a strenuous fight for the abolishment of * 1 ^ if V* /\ oftar liio Lilt LLJ111, Sl^lICU It, lie dVAVicui CMOV-A mo signature, the words, "Thank God," and sent the following message to the general assembly: Gentlemen of the General Assembly: I have just signed my name to the act abolishing the hosiery mill at the State Penitentiary. I have heard it said that "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." This could truly be applied to the iviiii ~\ luwi mnf]p n hard and j auiA. x A?U ? ^ ?mv%V>W determined fight to relieve this suffering, and I wish to thar.k you, in the name of all mankind, f-or the manhood displayed by those of you who voted for this measure. And I ask the tender mercy of God upon those who refused to listen to this appeal for mercy from their fellowmen. To the young member from Spartanburg, nvjfln onr>h a e-flllnnt ficrhf_ South *T XX \J :iIUU V- k.lV?Vi* V*. "O 7 ? Carolina owes much, and I can assure him that when the time comes his appeal for support for that which he may ask from the people will be answered, even as he answered the appeal of these poor convicts for mercy. Gentlemen, I thank you. May God's richest blessings rest upon you. If the legislature of 1913 does nothing "'ill mnoifo 1 mirV DTI V-lSf' Will I ^ C* ****** *% w ? the records of the recording a.igel. V?ry respectfully, Cole. L. Blease, Governor. ^-1 V.;.> O r> vior^h 1 1015 VJUIUIUUIU, Kj. V/M JH11VU 1. U -.V. Petit Jury, March Toini, lfllS. T. W. Abrams, No. 4. T. P. Adams, No. 3. .1. T. Bouknight, Newberry mill. J. S. Crouch, Silverstreet. E. D. Chaney, Kinards. R. M. Cook, No. 9. M. B. Caldwell. No. 11. J. M. Dennis, Prosperity. J. W. Denning;. Newberry. H. W. Dorainick, Newberry. Geo. A. Epting, Xo. 5. W. F. Ezell. Whitmire. .T. G. Floyd. No. 9. J. M. Felker, No. 3. J. H. Garrett, No. 9. J. R. Groen, Newberry. N. T. Hogg, Newberry. C. M. Harmon, Prosperity. W T Tester. No. 9. Geo. H. Livingston, No.' 9. E. T. Mayer. J. 0. Moore. 0. L. Mayer. No. 5. W. Marcus Lcster. No. 9. J. G. Morse, Whitmire. r> tjt V . n. .villi!*, n.. J. I). Oxner. S. J. D. Price. B. W. Stivers. Newberry mill. P. M. Schumpert. J. E. Shealv, Little Mountain. A. Story. Newberry mill. W. B. Timmerman, Newberry. i .7. D. Tidmarsli, Whitmire. J. S. Werts, No. 2. H. M. Wicker, Pomaria. Grand Jurors. Drawn Friday: W. I. Herbert, .J. V. Dickert, E. L. Griffin, 0. S. Wessinger, .Tas. H. Monts. Jno. VV. Scott, .T. W. Mack, S. J. Mayer, Jno. 0. Adams, J. W.- Wicker, Leo. Hamilton. L. Q. Fellers. i Holding over from I Mil': usoar vv. Wessinger, J. 0. Singlev, W. O. Pitts, T. .T. Gibson, K. M. Shealy, H. M. Sligh. The trouble with the hobo conven tion in New Orleans seems to nave i been that so many of the citizens were J mistaken for delegates.?News and ' Courier.; | COIUPULSllbl EDUCATION Vh'lOb Akt htiMAINtD VETO ALSO KILLS I'EK DIEM EA-j PENSES FOK .11 DUES. Oil Inspection Hill Over Veto?Veto on sale of Asylum Property. Sustained. I Snppial ro The Herald and News. Columbia, .March 3.?The McCravey-Lawson local option compulsory education bill was vetoed by tne govrnor, aad tlie veto was sustained by i tne senate, 23 voting to pass tne iua-j i 1 sure o-ver the veto and 14 against? | 'the necessary two-thirds being lackI ing. The veto tirst went to tne nouse, I where the bill originated, and the I house voted to override the veto, I but the senate, in sustaining the ve ! to, kined the bill. 1 he Carlisle bill providing tor conii pulsory education ia the city of Spartanburg was overriden by tne senate, but sustained by the house, and the : m-aasure killed. I Thus both the local option general compulsory education measure and the Spartanburg local compulsory education measure were finally defeated. \o Increase in Judges' Fay. By a vote of 65 for and 44 against the bill, the house sustained :iie veto of the governor to allow judges I a per diem of three dollars while | holding court. Asylum Measure Veto Sustained. The measure to provide fo.* the sale of the asylum property in Columj bia by the sinking fund commission fcr not less than one million dollars, was vetoed by the governor, and the | veto was sustained by tlie House, oy a vote of 63 for the bill and 33 against?the necessary two-thirds to pass it over th?e veto being lacking, i The veto of the oil inspection bill j was overriden by bjni 1 ouses. j riienuv Kecordtr Veto Sustained. | The house, by a tie vote, sustained i the veto of the measure introduced ! by Mr. \Y. F. Stevenson to establish a recorder's court in Cheraw and to give tli' recorder, elected by the town council, jurisdiction in Cneraw I township in all cases involving not ! more than $r,u0 or three inontns imj prisonment. It was urged that it j would be very dangerous to give a rej corder elected by a town council such | power, not only in the town but outside of the town. Vetoes Killed Bills. In addition to the vetoes on the! general appropriation bill, there have! been seventeen vetoes by the governor, including two acts which were I returned because duplicates of them I had already been ratified. Of the ; vetoes only four were overriden, and f in one of these?that relating to the j State Agricultural Society?the goverI nor withdrew his objections to the ! measure. ? I A Former Helena Boy. "Laurens Advertiser. Mr. J. E. Glenn, the newly appointed division roadmaster of the C. & W. C. railway to succeed Mr. A. W. Todd, who was recently appointed general j roadmaster, has rented the house on j Jones street recently vacated by Mr. j W. H. Anderson, and has moved his) family her-t*. Mr. Glenn is a very com- J npfpnt raliroad man. having been con-j ductor on the work train before the ! promotion to his present position. He i will have charge of maintenance and construction between Verdery and j Spartanburg and Laurens and Green-j vilie. A Slight Misunderstanding. A man who lisped had bought some pigs, and he asked a neighbor tor the use of a pen a few days. "f have jutht been purchasing thon thwine?two tbowth and pigth. F want to put them ir your pen til I can fifth i a plaith for them." "Two thousand pigs!" exclaimed the astonished neighbor. "Why, n*y pen will hardly hold a dozen!^ "You don't understand me. Mr. Ben I don't thay two thouthand pigth, but two thowth and pigth!" "I hear you," said Mr. Bent, "Two! thousand pigs! Why you must be; crazy!Exchange. The Strenuou the One=M Governor Vetoed Measure Si lief for the Needy Sch Been Fighting, den by Be Special to The Herald and News. I Columbia, March 3.?The hardest I ! struggle in the legislative session of i I HUG was over the matter of levying a one-mill tax for the free public ! schools of South Carolina. The levy i of such a tax was strongly urged by I Governor Blease in his annual mes! sage and governor told the legislature I that if he. was not given such a tax | for the fiee public schools it would ' 1 * 1- T sinm taKe iwo-uiiras 01 eatrxi uuuse wiry the appropriations for the State colleges. A bill was introduced in the ! house by Mr. Mitchell levying this | tax, and it passed the house. This I bill, however, which directed how the j money should be expended, did not ! meet with the approval of the governor, who was urging the one-mill for the aid of the weak schools, placing the fund in the hands of the State | board of education to 1>p expended as i rho Stuto hnarrl saw necessity for its I expenditure, in assistance .of the schools which needed the help. Over in the senate the governor's views were incorporated in an mendment offered by Senator Appelt in the finance committee, and for awhile it seemed ; that all would ue smooth sailing, and that the bill the governor was urging ,vould be passed. When the bill finally was sent to the governor, however, it provided for 50 per cent, of the; fund to remain in the county ! V.,?ir1o onH tllo rtfhpr fi ft V net | IJUdl U lU^uo anu tuv x cent, to be expended by the State board of education, the method cf expenditure beir.g set out. The bill was sent to the governor on Friday j night. Shortly after midnight the same night the governor sent in the following veto message: % The Veto Message. ! "Gentlemen of the' House of R pre! sentatives: ! 44 r vnn Vi/arowith without 1 1CIU1 II W juu 11V v - .v., my signature, Act No. 237 (House Bill No. 233, Senate No. 504), to levy and collect a one-mill State tax for the free public schools and provide | for the distribution of the same.' ^ ! "Gentlemen, I have seen a great 1 many abortions in legislation, but this is the worst of them all?this is the chief of all the sinners yet born. Section i ic hoputifni. hut it is a deceiver, and, after we pass it, God save the mark and the name of the title." "In the first place, any county, yes, even any school district, can now vote itself a special school levy, without the consent of your highness and that of your Lord Chief's at the other end of the capital. Therefore, the half of the one-mill levy for the county board fund is of absolutely no consequence and of no service. "As for the other, it is a very serious question, if you will make a close calculation, if the half of the one-mill levy provided for disposal by the State board of education will meet the appropriation that you provide it shall meet, and then you have left out one of the most important features, which is, or was, the $30,000 to be used for the payment of rural graded school applications, building applica ti ns iiiicl lerm cmmimuh cations now on file in the office of the State superintendent of education for the fiscal year 1912, and your little joker, added at the end, "any additional fund at the disposal of the State board"?gentlemen, if there is a man in either of your branches who would take a slate and pencil and add up the figures stated in your bill he would easily see that there would be a deficit. If I did not have the bill before me, I could not conceive el such a make-shift, and 1 can not conceive of its purpose, ur/less it is on behalf of some astute politicians to keep it from appearing that tne present governor had succeeded in doing something for th-e free public schools, and to deprive him of the little credit which he might have got if he had beon able to carry through - fr,* o mip-mill s Fight on ill School Tax it #] #] nnt DA XjriAig 11 villi UUl \J1TC U1C 1XCools for Which He had ?Veto Overrid>th Houses. t lew for the free nnhlin srhnnls. in , , __ i order to help the little country chil; dren and the little factory children i of South Carolina. "Gentlemen, read this bill; deliberate over it; think about it, and, after you have finished, if there is a man in the general assembly who v calls himself a statesmaii, who had \ . any part whatever in bringing about V this abortion, and still regards it as a measure which will be of benefit to the free public schools and to the little country and factory boys and girls, let him present himself at my office, for I would like to look upon him and would like to reward him. "I pleaded with you, gentlemen, asking for this one-mill tax?not for myself, for I have no children, and if j I had, I would, thank God, be able to educate ui-em witnout aepenaing on & free public school or a State levy?but I did it for the mothers, who are : praying, for the fathers who are hop ing for the welfare of their children, and for the future of the State. After ! the Mitchell bill, as it was termed. i passed the house, I had a contereace with the State superintendent of education, and agreed upon a compromise, which I felt would still carry - ' out what I was urging for the relief / of the needy schools. This was of! fered in the senate as an amendment ! ?the amendment which migtft be i termed the Appelt amendment, com!; ing from the finance committee, and ? ! 1 felt surely there would be no fur: ther trouble ii? having the demands of justice met. tiut, gentlemen, you have i fur.ipil -a dv-af pav Knt von havp not i ; turned a deaf ear to your higher institutions of learning. For them you ; have made extravagant a appropriations, and for them yqu have lavish'' ed money tor useless purposes. I "li the gamc of politics is to be ' [ played at the expense of the educa! i tion of the little children of this State, '! God save the State. YeOfe more, if I i" icrnnnon/ta in A|?/^QT* i IU ivccu ciiciii ill ifeUV/A iu vxuwi ? i * I to keep from giving credit to one who is trying to help them is the purpose i of some would-be statesmen, then God grant that the people may rise in. i their inignt in their next election and J smite sucb statesmen hip and thigh; j for if this be your idsa of helping I the pooor little country children and j the little factory children to get an i education, then I would ask you, when you go limine, to call your own little children around you, and in * our prayers, as you lay them in their little Krt/lo f a . >??]? P s\A 4- K o r vfViAi* j ucuo, iu aoiv. vjuu ixiai viuui j maf do by your children as you have ' attempted to do by the little ones of other people, who are not able to eUucatc \eir little ones, and are looking to their State for help. And when i you shall have done this, and lay your i heads upon your pillows I hope that j your sleep may not be disturbed by j any vision of the dark cloud of ignorance hovering over your own little ! ones, as you are permitting this cloud ! to remain and to darken over the little : ones of others who are helnless. Gen i tleiiien, I have dene what I could. I could do no more. "Very respectfully, "Cole L. Blease, "Governor." Veto Overriden. The veto was overriden by the house | and, in view of certain statements made on the floor of the house, the governor on Saturday morning, later I in the day, sent the following message to the genera] assembly, setting forth his position in full: Governor's Position. "~ | "'Gentlemen of the General Assembly: | "I thought I had made clear my I position in reference to the one-mill * j tax for the free public schools, but I it seems that I have not, in the minds ! of some; therefore I am forced to j burden you with another message. I I favored, and how favor, levying a I (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5). / r-rf'L. > '>?*&