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^ ~~~~~ ^ ' XCESBAT, XABCH II, 1*13. ' ^ TWICE A UTEEK, il.50 A YEAB. r LEGISLATURE REACHES ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORDERS PRIMARY. iiovenior Blease Scores Columbia Police Department?Other Items of News From Stat# Capital. Special to The Herald and News. i Columbia, March 10.?The legislature got away on Friday, adjournment ~~ v?>nor ronohpd at. about 11 ?5Hit uic _ o'clock. A roll call on Friday morn- J ing showed sixty-six members of the j house of representatives present? j thrae more than a quorum. The house I ordered spread on the journal Gov- j ernor Blease's message 011 the Mitchell \ investigation?the matter that brought l forth the call for a quorum the day I before. Mr. Nicholson, of Greenwood, a member of the investigating committee, said he did not object to the message being printed in the journal. ? There was no further opposition, Mr. J. J. Evans withdrew his objection to the publication of the message in the journal, and the message took the usual ri.d proper course, and was ordered printed in the journal. Over in the senate Senator Crouch offered a rr-solution expressing confidence in the j committee, but upon objection to immed:ate consideration the resolution went over until next year. Several members of the house took occasion to score Senator McLaurin for a recent letter published in the I .newspapers in which the senator commented unfavorably upon the work 01 the legislature. .Representative Resigns* Hon. Harvey W. Mitchum, of Clarendon, who has recently been appointCfoto Hienonsnrv anfiitnr bv GOVer CU uiaiv v.v. ? nor Blease, succeeding Mr. M. H. Mobley, who has become clerk of the -county dispensary board of Richland county, tendeied his resignation to the speaker, and an election to fill the vacancy was ordered to be held on April! 2^, the date fixed for the congressional election in the district of which Clarendon is a part. Newberry Members on Committee. Two Xew berry members of the house received appointments on the ? standing committees. Mr. Mower was placed on the Code committee, and Mr. Wyche on the committee on hospital and penitentiary. Governor Blease's last message to L~? 1 occamhlv r>f 1Q151 was as 'tile gciici ai aootiiiis*j v/i. .follows: The Governor's Farewell. "Gentlemen of the General Assembly: I have no further message or communication. If the members of the .general assembly are as conscious of -having done their full duty to their constituents as I am of the fact that I have done mine to all of the people of the State, they can go home and on their way truly sing, "Hallelujah! it is done." j . "Very respectfully, "Cole. L. Blease, "Governor." J Primary Ordered In First District. The State Democratic executive committee met here on Friday and fixed a primary for the nomination of a Democratic candidate for congress in the First district to succeed the late Congressman Legare. It will be recalled that the committee heretofore j fixed a primary, but the governor, for j the reasons heretofore published In full in The Herald and XeVs, fixed tlie , general election at a date prior to the date of the primary. The committee on Friday made the primary effective by appointing a time prior to the date, Anrii 29. fixed bv the governor for the , general election. The first primary ^was fixed for April 1, second primary, if necessary, April 15, and the third, if necessary, April 22. It was urged by Mr. Grimble, of Charleston, that the rolls as made up for the last primary be used. It was argued, however, that this would exclude from the primary those Democrats who have be .come 21 since the last general election. Mr. John K. Aull, who represented Newberry county as the proxy of Governor Blease, who is the member from Newberry, offered an amendment, which was adopted, providing for supplemental rolls for those who have be- j come 21 since the general ekctios.4 The committee at the former meeting fixed the assessments of candidates at $500, and adhered to this at the meeting on Friday. There are some seven candidates, and an interesting race is looked forward to. Rejects Name of Jame* H. Fowles, Jr. The recent sesion of ihe legislature provided for a township court for Columbia, and the legislative delegation recommended James H. Fowles, Jr., ' for judge of this court, and John M. Kinloch for prosecuting attorney. The following letter from Governor Blease 1 to the secretarv of the delegation is sen-expianaiorv; "March 8, 1912. "Hon. Pringle T. Youmans, Secretary' Richland County Delegation. Columbia, S. C. "Dear Sir: Yours of February 25, , transmitting recommendation of James H. Fovles, Jr., and John M. , Kinloch, as judge and prosecuting attorney, respectively, of the Columbia < township court, received. I beg leave to* inform you that John M. Kinloch * has this day been appointed prosecuting attorney of said court for th? term provided by law. ]\fr. James Hi Fowles, Jr., is now magistrate of the city of Columbia. I, therefore, decline 1 to appoint him as judge of said court, J and would respectfully suggest, in accordance with a recent decision of the < supreme court, that your delegation oiibmit another name for said position. . "Very respectfully, 1 "Cole. L. Blease, "Governor." tioveroor Scores Columbia Police Court^ ! Governor Blease's chauffeur, Harrison Neely, colored, was haled before the recorder's court here on Saturday morning and fined $3.75 on the testimony of a policeman that the chauffeuJ < had run a city block in twelve seconds, 1 in violation of the speed ordinance o! : the city. The policeman said he held < a watch on the car. Governor Blease : was indignant because? he says the po- i Hoo r^r>nrtmPTif i-a seekine to annoy 1 him, and he granted a pardon to Neely. < The chief of police refused to recognize the pardon until he could consult with the city attorney, and secure an opinion from him, and there the mat- ; ter stood through Saturday arternoon. ; The Columbia Record of Saturday : afternoon carried the following in re? - ? J * ? + V* r\ AT* J 1 ga.ru iu iuc mauti. "If the police authorities of the city < of Columbia do not remit the fine of S3.75 assessed my chauffeur Saturday morning by the recorder, I will hereafter pardon every man who applies to me from that court. If they will steal from me?who paid the fine?tliey will steal from the other fellow. "This was the statement made by Governor Blease Saturday aiternoon when he discussed the fining of his automobile driver,* Harrison Neely. "The governor further said: "Clinch Cathcart is angry ecabuse his father was not reappointed as clerk to the Richland county board of control; and he is trying to take it out on me." "The governor stated that, if the fine is not remitted, he "will sue for it, in order that the legal status of par dons for municipal offenses will be settled for all times; that "it will be the dearest fine the city of Columbia placed on any person." if not remitted. "Clinch Cathcart is angry because ed that he declined to remit the fine imposed on the governor's chauffeur | because he waited the decision of the j mtv ittnrnpv m whom the matter was referred for an opinion. "The dcfeat j of my father has nothing to do with ; my attitude," said Chief Cathcart. emphatically." Little Inquisitives. Little children are given to askingamusing, rapid-fire ami often times Startling questions. Newberry has - .1 her quota of tne nine mquioHncities." Not among the youngest, but the younger of the married couples in this city are two handsome persons who are blessed with a couple or more of those juvenile youngsters. On one occasion the mother had the boys on a visit to one of her sisters- - in-law in the sam-e city. Observing tbe domestic inhabitants of the back premises the little fellow wanted to know of his mother if cows laid milk. He was told by his mother that a cow kept a bag to put her milk in. After looking over the yard the boy said h-e didn't see the cow's bag. he rec-, kon'tf the cook had it. THE SEWS OF PROSPERITY. Death of An Aged Lady?Rev. E. C. Crook in City?Selling Automobiles. Prosperity, March 10.?Mrs. Rosa Dominick died here Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. G. Mitchell. For the past year nha has hppn n crrent sufferer. She had reached an advanced age, being 75 at the time of her death. She was a consistent member of the Baptist church. The funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. Garrett, who paid an elegant tribute to the life of the deceased. The Revs. Davis and Bouknight assist 2d in the services. She is survived by j one son, Mr. J. A. Dominick, of Kin- j irds, and Mesdames W. G. Mitchell | and G. C. Fellers, and five grandchil-i 3ren, and a host of friends. The floral tribute was beautiful. Rev. E. C. Cronk, general secretary j I of the Laymen's Missionary Movement | of the Lutheran church in the South, j together with Mrs. Cronk and little! 5ou> spent the week-end with Mr. A. j 3. Wise. Mrs. Tom Blair has returned to j Blairs, after a visit to Miss Gertruda! Rnhh. / , | ** * j Mr. P. L. I^angford spent Sunday in ! Columbia. Mr. J. F. Browne has gone to John- j ston to visit his brother, and while j there delivered a Paige automobile, i DYNAMITE SHIP BLOWS UP. > I Score Killed In Disaster Jiear Baltimore.?Three Hundred Tons Explode. Baltimore, Md., March 7.?Three hundred tons of dynamite being loaded in the British tramp steamer Alum Chine, In the lower harbor, off Fort Carroll, exploded about 10:30 o'clock this morning instantly killing from forty to fifty men, wounding and maiming three score more, some of whom may die, and dealing destruction to more than half a million dollars worth of j property. ^ho Alum Chine and a leading scow | alongside her were annihilated. The tug Atlantic, which twice went to the rescue of the imperilled seamen, was set of fire and later sank. The United States collier Jason, just completed and ready for trial, was raked to her deck and her armor riddled. Buildings in Baltimore and towns iU ~ many miles away were rocKea Dy uie force of the terrific explosion. Cause >"ot Yet Known. The cause of the disaster is unknown tonight, but Federal authorities have instituted a thorough investigation to place the blame. Excited survivors told conflicting stories some insisting that a negro Steve dore caused the explosion by jamming a spike into a case of dynamite. This is denied by eyewitnesses, who declare that smoke was seen pouring from the Alum Chine's hold several minutes before the explosion occurred. At a late hour tonight the bodies of twenty dead had been brought to morsrues in this city and sixty injured j were in the hospitals. Estimates of the dead included thirty stevedores and checkers of the Joseph R. Foard Co., employed in transferring dynamite from a barge to the Alum Chine, which was bound for Panama; eight members of the crew of the Alumj Chine; six men on th-e collier Jason, | and the captain and several members j of the crew of the Tug Atlantic. Many j bodies, it is believed, will be recover-j ed from the icy waters. Of the injured a score are frightfully i maimed. At least fifteen are expected j to die. Zion and Prosperity. | Bishop W. R. Lamhuth and Drs. Rawlings and Kennedy. general secretaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will be at Zion, Mon- j day, 3 7th inst., from 10 a. m. till about' 2.30, and at Wightman's, Prosperity, 4 till 5.30 p. m., and will make ad-j dresses at each place. i T 'Ko? f-ndvoln/l nver I ?3lbIIUp -UiilllUULii litus vw. | greater portion of the world, making j a voyage to Africa and a journey f 1,000 miles on foot into the heart of! thp rjart continent, and established a. mission about a year ago. It*will be worth your while to come j and hear them. The public is invited., Dinner will be served on the grounds ."t 2'ion. SOUTH CAROLINA MAN APPOINTED Daii'I C. Roper \anied 1st Asst, Post- j master General.?Nominated by Wilson. Washington, March 7.?Daniel C. j Roper, a South Carolinian, who for-1 merly lived at Marion, recommended ! by Postmaster General Burleson co be first assistant postmaster gen-1 eral by President Wilson, and it is ' understood that he will be confirmed next Monday, so that the business of reorganizing the postoffice department and handling the applications for postmasterships throughout the country may begin without delay. Mr. Roper lias for two years been clerk of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives, and in that important position he has made a reputation for efficiency. Chairman Underwood's influence is j . . i believed to have had much to do with Mr. Roper's selection for a higher place. The prospective new first assistant postmaster general is about 40 years of age and is very popular at the capital. He. was with the census bureau before coming to the ways# and means committee. j FIRST PRIMARY 0> APRIL FIRST. I Ordered by State Committee for First District.?Second Primary April 15. I Columbia, March 7.?A primary to select the democratic nominee for congress from tbe 1st district, to be held on Tuesday, April l, tne seucond on Tuesday. April, 15, and the third, if necessary, on Tuesday April 22/ was ordered by the State democratic executive committee here today. The committee also ordered the campaign to open at Walterboro on March 20 and fixed the following date for the tr> supau- to the voters at tauuiuubvo w-? the various county seats in the district: Walterboro, Thursday, March 20; i Charleston, Friday, March 21; St. George, Saturady, March 22; Monck's Corner, Monday, March 24; Manning, Tuesday, March 2o. All pledges must be in the hands of the chairman by noon, March 3O, ana all assessments paid by that day. Each candidate is assessed $500, the same as was fixed at its last meeting on the request of the candidates. A subcommittee, consisting of the members nf thp statp committee from the 1st district, and such members as reside in the city of Columbia, was appointed to tabulate the returns and declare the result. The rolls which were used in the last primary are to be the rolls for this election, and an- additional roll, permitting such voters as have become of age since the last election, to place their names thereon, was ordered, j This supplemental registration will reI main open in each county until five j days before the first primary, and a?*? ; to be in charge of the secretaries of ! the various clubs, except in this city np pf^rioctnr -tvh^re the. secretary of ! the county -executive committee will have charge of this supplemental enrolment. i Fertilizer Tax Shows Increase. Columbia, March 6.?The fertilizer tag tax for this year, over that of 1912, has increased $30,0S2.20. The tax for 1912 was $110,526.70, for this vear $140,608.90. The tax is for the fiscal year ending March ff. ^Tie increase is attributable to the diversification of crops in South Carolina. The movement to dissaude the farmers of the State from planting iV*:- -r.-v,/-vii,T ,*n onttnn has liitJir (1U1 n uviij aa* v/v, ? gained in popular favor because of the educative campaign waged. Instead of planting the whole acreage in cotton, the agriculturists are sowing grain, principally corn. Col-; onel Watson, State commissioner of ] agriculture commerce and industries, j said that he had been conducting an I - ^ ^ educative campaign 10 persuuue mc , farmers of the State to reduce their j acreage in cotton; that, while the re-1 , suits had not been entirely satisfactory, h-e was sanguine that a StateN widp movement is on foot to diversify 'crops, and that the results are rapidly making for a mor<: comprehensive system of farming. v . WEBB BILL SESTED Af GREENVILLE express company refuses to hftjvfr whiskey. North Carolina Representatire Telegraphs His Brother That South Carolina is Not Affected. Greenville, March 7.?Acting on orders from headquarters the local agent of the Southern Express company today refused to deliver whiskey shipments to any person whomsoever whether for personal use or not, declaring the Webb bill is of this effect. Following the action several citizens prevailed upon C. S. Webb of Greenville, brother of Representative Webb, author of the bill, to wire the representative at Washington for his opinion as to the intent of the bill, receiving late today the following reply: "Law does not prohibit private use shipment and will not unless State forbids it and State can not where it allows sale to individuals by any one in the State. (Signed) "E. Y. Webb." Senator E. D. Smith also answered a request for information declaring an opinion similar to Representative Webb's. Mr. Hall, agent of the express company, stated that several showed him letters from whiskey houses acknowl- J edging receipt of orders but stating that the purchasers would be unable to get. the whiskey out of the express office. This would indicate that the whiskey houses take the same viewof the bill as the Southern Express company. The general opinion here is that the express company is \ the shipment of liquor into South Carolina. "This law," Mr. Wcbfb continued, "only mak-es more perfect the enforcement of th-e present State laws by throwing safeguards around them in such a way as to render them less * liable to be violated, but in a siaie like South Carolina there is nothing that will prevent the shipment of liquor there so long as the State permits it. There need be no fear that the dispensaries will suffer or that anv nrivate person will suffer so long as the State law is not violated." Senator Tillman said: "The Webb law is in effect, but not in language, the same measure that I introduced in the senate 16 years ago, but on which I failed to get a favorable com * Tf oininlr nrnvidpq miLiee rtpuii. n. onuyij yiw._v. that liquor shall not be shipped into any State in violation of ihe laws of that Stat-e. This will not effect the shipment of liquor to the dispensaries nor to private parties in South Care- j lina, except for uses which are at | J present unlawful." I The full text of the law is as folj lows: "Be it enacted bv the senate and I 1 ? ?c rvf tho T'ni | IlOUSe ui lepicscmauito vi v, ? ted States of America in congress assembled. That the shipment or transportation in any manner or by any m-eans whatsoever of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other i intoxicating liquor of any kind from I one State, territory or district of the ! United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof into any other State, territory or district of th-e United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof or from any foreign country into any State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous [ . i to but subj >ct to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, j , malted, ferment- d or other intoxicat- j taking this method to test the legality j of the law. | ! Can Sliip Liquor into Sogth Carolina. Washington, March 7.?"There is I ? f ^ tVio WoliK hill nr XiU iimtriiUiUTriii uw? <-n^ .Tv-w, any part of the bill which forbids the shipment of liquor into South Carolina or any other State when that commodity is shipped in in conformity to State laws." This was the statement made here tonight by Representative E. Y. Webb of North Carolina author of the Webb liquor bill, when asked specifically whether or not the | enforcement of this law would forbid ing liquor is intended by any person interested therein, to be received* possessed, sold or in any manner used, either in original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited." Some objection to the bill in congress was based on the fact that it provides no penalty fior violation, but it is likely that interstate railroads and express companies will obey the law, notwithstanding this fact. Some liquor has already been confiscated under the new law in Oklahoma, a dry State, by State officers. L A Can Get Liquor by Court Order. Abbeville, March 8.?Following a hearing in the mandamus proceedings, brought by D. F. Collicutt, of Colum bia, Chief Justice Gary of the supreme court of South Carolina today signed an order to require the Southern Express company to deliver whiskey consigned to D. F. Collicutt, of Columbia^ The express company recently issued "an order holding up all shipments of whiskey to individuals, basing its ac tion on the Webb law which was passed at the last session of congress. It is expected that the order by Justice Gary will be carried to the United States supreme court, which may test the constitutionality of the Webb law* The mandamus proceedings wer? brought by D. F. Collicut, of Columbia. The express company refused to deliver a package, alleged to contain whifllrflv. in Mr. Oolliciitt. on th? grounds that the Webb law does not allow shipments to individuals from one State to another. Under the order signed this afternoon by Justice Gary the express company must deliver whiskey to all individuals in the State until the case has been finally settled by the United States. As Viewed by a Great Paper. g | American Red Man. ! Past Great Sachem Cole. L. Blfase, South Carolina's popular governor who was recently elected for a second term and who is one of the Palmetto reservation's hardest working and ; most loyal members, was the princi j pal speaker at the corn products ex position which was held in Columbia j last week and the address of South, i Carolina's chief executive was enj thusiastically received by the immense j throng that trailed co Columbia, to be?. ! present at the exposition. ! A Most Tireless Worker. American Red Men. The representatives who attended the last session of the Great Council of the United States at Charleston , S. C., will long remember the hospitable treatment accorded them in that Southern city and among the many South Carolina brothers who worked incessantly for the success of that meeting Past Great Sachem Otto Klettner, of Newberry, will ever be most pleasantly remembered. Brother Klettner continues to be one of the Palmet *-* * ? TPAplrAffl to reservation s mu??, nvi^v.., and his excellent work contributes largely to the success of the order in that State. Piano Subscription list. Previously acknowledged $2#9.50 J. C. Sample ^1.00 instead of 50c as printed in last list. McHardy Mower 1.00 Willie Wicker 1.00 ? o ho Tlieato ?vv Frank Chapman 1.00 J. A. Mimnaugli .50 J. C. A'* ms 1.00 E. L. Roaelsperger 25 G. C. SWittenberg 50 R. Y. Lea veil 50 James Gaiiiara *vv Jennie Morris 50 Calvin Crozier Chapter, U. D. C. 5.00 W. A. Hill LOO J. E. Norwood 1.00 L. A. and M. M. Salter ^ .50 E. C. Sonnenberg 1.00 Gilder & Weeks 5.00 Winthrop Daughters 2.00 Alfred Matthews 50 Total $263.75 Ie Kansas City a Liquor-seller wants a license for a saloon within a hundred yards of the bishop's house and of the- cathedral parish's parochial school. The bishop's coadjutor ob jects. i \ ^: ?ri , . '''