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' The Herald and News f TOLTTHE LI., >OTBEB SS. NETVBERBY, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1913. TWICE A WEEK, $U8 A TSAB. f WRANGLE OYER f STATE'S FINANCES I GOVERNOR MAY SCORE CARTER tlN SPECIAL MESSAGE. Sinking Fund Commission Holds Stormy Session?State Treasurer Given Official Receipt For tlx- V AfnC rt^lA *1 Vll/O. Columbia, Aug. 21.?The sinking fund commission officially washed its hands of the matter of the State loan when this afternoon ^it reconsidered the motion of Dr. Dick turning the matter over to the finance board. Dr. Dick then withdrew his motion. State Treasurer Carter was given an h official receipt for the six notes of $50,000 each which were then turned L- over Governor Blease by Senator r Hardin with only the name of Govr ernor Blease signed to the six notes. ; Governor Blease, Attorney General Peeples, Chairman Hardin of the senI ate finance committee and Chairman T^ir tho house wavs and means i-'IV/Uj Vi. vuv ^ committee, were the only ones present at the meeting, State Treasurer Carter L coming in when Secretary Mean.5, of ? the committee, went after him to exK plain why one of the notes which has I been presented to the Palmetto Bank I signed by the governor, the comptrol[ ler general and the State treasu/er contained only the name of the govf ernor, the other two signatures being absent. Mr. Carter explained that his signature and that of Comptroller General Jones nad been erased from the note, after it had been rejected by the bank, and before he turned it over to Mr. Means. Meeting a Stormy One. The meeting was rather a stormy ^ one and reached its climax when ^ Chief Clerk Means went after State * Treasurer Carter and got him to come into the meeting when the matter of +>io ^natures on the notes was be ing discussed. The committep had first approved the minutes after amending the motion of Dr. Geo. W. Dick at the former meeting referring the loan matter to the finance board, composed of the governor, comptroller General Jones, and the State treasurer. In the minutes of the sinking fund commission of the former meeting it appeared that Dr. Dick's motion had been to refer the matter of the State loan to the governor, the comptroller general and the State treasurer, six note? ior $50,0u0 each, which had been already signed by Governor Blease to be turned over to Treasurer Carter and by him to be given to the bank, "to be delivered by him as meney is needed." This is what Treasurer " 1 -Knor nnripr. hold . Carter naa uecu ?wani& V ing that he could not deliver all six notes at one time with this string tied to the motion. Dr. Dick stated that his original motion had not contained this condition, but that after his motion was carried he had stated this condition in the course of conversation. Therefore, the minutes were amended on motion of Dr. Dick to strike out the words, "to be delivered by him as money is needed." A motion to reconsider was then put and carried, whereupon Mr. Dick withdrew the motion and the sinking fund commission officially ceased all i connection with the loan, at Dr. Dick's suggestion. Signed Only by Blease. The six notes for $50,000 each had k been turned over to Chief Clerk i Means bv Treasurer Carter and by Him given to Chairman Hardin, of the commission, who then passed them on to Governor Blease. The governor, after inspecting the notes, suddenly interrupted Chairman Hardin, who was reading a communication addressed to tae committee by Treasurer Carter, spread out the six notes k on the floor and directed the atten& tion of the members to the fact that f only the signature of Governor Blease appeared on each note. One of the notes had been signed by Treasurer Carter and Comptroller General Jones and presented to the bank when the "bank refused to loan the money in installments, and charge interest on the full $300,000, this statement being contained in the letter which Chairman Hardin was reading. When ^ it appeared that no note bore the signature of the treasurer and Comptrolk ler general, Clerk Means immediately went to Treasurer Carter's office and he came into the sinking fund meet: ing. Erased Signatures The fact that none of the notes contained any signature but that of the governor being explained to Mr. Car j ter he directed attention to the one | I signed by th? great seal of the State j and signed by R. M. McCown, secre- I '! tary of State, and said that that was j the one which he and Comptroller ! General Jones signed and sent to the ' bank and when the bank returned it j he, Treasurer Carter, erased the 1 signatures of himself and the comp troller general. Jones, before turning the notes back over to Mr. Means, and that was the simple explanation of the whole affair. Statements covering the fact that he received the notes with only his signature thereon were inserted in the minutes by Governor Blease, and Treasurer Car- j ter naa inserted nis statement in regard to the matter. "I do not charge that Comptroller General Jones and State Treasurer Carter did not sign this note, but I am going to have handwriting experts examine it," said the governor, .and for the purpose of identifying the note had Senator P. L. Hardin write his name on the margin thereof. State Treasrer Carter took no part in the meeting other than when he came in and explained the matter of his and Comptroller Jones's name being erased from the note before it was returned to?Mr. Means, Comptroller General Jones was out of the city and did not get here in time for the meet- j i ing. Governor Blease took the notes with him back to his office, and State Treasurer Carter returned to his office, carrying with hiin the receipt of the sinking fund . emission for the six notes. The governor in the course of the meeting declared that he was going to embody the whole loan matter in a special message to the general assembly in which he "would give Carter thp devil," The communication which Treasurer Carter sent to the commission was spread upon the minutes. The Statp oS South Carolina remains "broke" and the treasury absolutely depleted. Secretary of State's Statement. R. M. McCown, secretary of State, said tonight thaf the note of $o0,000 which was stampted with the great seal of the State, and which was presented to the Palmetto bank and turned down, and when turned over to the sinking ,fund commission today j had only the signature or governor Blease on it, contained also the signatures of Comptroller General Jones and State Treasurer Carter when he placed the seal of the State on it. Mr. Carter explained today that he had erased the signature of himself and Gen. Jones before returning the note to the sinking fund commission. Governor Hands Off. Columbia, Aug. 22.?Gov. Blease today declared he was through with the matter of any attempted State loan. He said that in spite of the fact that he had vetoed that part of the appropriation bill making hfm a member of the loan committee along with the treasurer and comptroller gener-1 al, the legislature liad overriden and forced the thing on him. They did this, he declared, "when they knew I did not have any acquaintance with these gentlemen," referring to treasurer Carter and Comptroller General Tr>n oc U The governor says that in spite of this fact he did his duty and got the loan, and that any further action is up to Treasurer Carter and Comptroller General Jones, who constitute a majority of the borrowing board. He said these two officials had tried to injure him politically in this matter, I just as he told the legislature they j would do, but that they had failed. J The governor in hie dictated statement says: Governor's statement. "In my message to the general assembly vetoing certain sections of the j appropriation bill, in reference to! Section 40, I used the following lan- j guage: " 'I disapprove of Section 40 in its its entirety. I have no acquaintance whatever with the State treasurer nor with the comptroller genral, and I do not see why the general assembly j should attempt to humiliate "me by placing me on a board with them. If you do so I will not serve, and will j have nothing to do with it. There- ' fore, you might as well strike out the governor, and let the two others attend to it. If there is any praise, let them have it.' "On the-question of passing this section over my veto, Messrs. .T. W. ; Ashley Creek. Gray and Harrelson j voted 'Xo.' The other members of the ' house of representatives voted to | force me/on this board, against my' , ' I T LEXINGTON MAY HAVE DISPENSARY LATEST UNOFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE "WETS' MAJORITY. Official Count Tuesday Will Decide.? j >*o Changes in Other Counties. Lexington, August 21.?After all, Lexington county may return to the sale of liquor. According to a report of one of the managers of the election at Efird's store, in the Dutch Fork, who brought the box to Lexington, the returns for that precincts is reversed, showing that the dispensary received a vote of 46, while prohibtiion received 17. This i changes the situation very materially, j giving the dispensary an advantage of j 54 votes over prohibition, showing j that the dispensary had received a j total of 968, prohibition 914. The commissioners of election, G. < A. Goodwin, B. K. Kyzer and T. H. Rawl, will meet on Tuesdaly next, when the official tabulation will be \ made. There may be other slight J i changes in the final round-up. It is ' not known whether a contest will be made or not. t* _ i /> j. v ^ Uinciai i ouhi ^eitsjoi^. iSumter, August 21.?It seems that the result of the election of Tuesday is still in doubt, and will remain so until the board of canvassers have canvassed the vote and announced the result of the official count of next Tuesday. At present the prohibitionists are willing to abide by the result of the election as announced by the managers, and are unwilling to make any move until the official count is made. At the same time, the dispensary advocates claim a victory for their side, because of irregularities at two boxes in the counting of the votes. II IS anegeu U.y me wci-a iuai ill Ward 3 the managers opened twelve envelopes containing contested votes, all of which were for the dispensary, and counted them, changing the result from a majority of thirteen to a marjority of one in favor of the dispensary. It is also reported that at Concord a number of votes were scratched on. the majority of them being against the dispensary, which, if/thrown out, will increase the majority for the dispensary. At the same time, later returns from Bloom Hill charge the vote from 8 for and 2 against the dispensary to 11 for and 3 against the dispensary, thus making the majority against the diswill, and when they knew that I did not have any acquaintance with these eentlemen, and when they know of the ill-*will between us. Two a ^Majority of Three. "My understanding of a quorum is majority, unless otherwise provided by law, and certainly two is both a a quorum and a mojority of three. Therefore, the comptroller general and the State treasurer, being a majority of this board, can now take such action as they see fit. , "Notwithstanding my veto to the legislature, after a majority saw fit to disagree with me and place me on this board, I too!* the matter up and did the very best I could. I knew Dr. Dick had made no such motion?as was attempted to make it appear he had made?and under my agreement with Mathews, (which is in writing,) all that the other two members of the board had to do was to sign their names to these notes and hand them Mr \fatthftws. and he would have furnished them the money; or, if they had signed the notes and handed them back to me, the money would have ' now been in the State treasury. "There is no reason for any quarrel or any dispute but just as I predicted to the legislature, these men are attempting, or have attempted to put up a job on me, to injure me politically. T hey have failed. I have done my part and shall transmit the entire record?not hearsay or verbal conversations?but written facts, to the general assembly. This is all 1 can do. I am very sorry that the State finds nerself without money, but ; it is absolutely no fault of mine, as the record will show. <<T rViot ttioao VPTV alllp 1 11W UC Lil C4. C . w- - j and experienced and influential finan- I ciers will be able to do better than ! I did, and will soon have the treasury | running over with funds to meet all j expenses and pay all indebtedness. : In the meantime. I shall take care of the executive department, by borrow- ! ing sufficient money to pay off its necessities.'' BANKS GETTING FUNDS. Columbia, Charleston, Greenville and Spartanburg Chosen for South Carolina Centres. Washington, Aug. 23.?Tue government's $50,000,000 crop moving fund is being rapidly forwarded to the various cit.es in which the national banks have complied with the conditions by the treasury department. Banks in several Southern cities already have sent tneir lists of securities to the denartment for approval - A | and these are being examined as to their acceptability. While the exact amount of deposits already placed has not been announced at the department, it is understood several hundred thousand dollars has been sent into the larger reserve cities; in the South to aid in moving the cotton crops. The department today completed ths list of cities in that section where the deposits are to be made. It in- j eludes: Birmingham, Mobile and j Montgomery, Alabama; Jacksonville, Pensacola and Tampa, Florida; Atlanta, Augusta, Macon and Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg, South I Carolina. Twenty-eight cities in Central and far Western States also were selected. Let the aim be to keep the poultry house clean and wholsesome. at all times during the warm season. pensa:*y in the county to ten votes instead of twelve. If the challenged votes in Ward 3 are thrown out, this will leave a majority of three in favor of the dispensary. However, the official canvass - - ^^ nif Vi Qr TX7CJ V Cil ct II g C tiild 1 COUit x i/ii V/ a ?i y especially as there are known to be quite a number of challenged votes, which may o: may not be counted Tuesday. The matter has created a great deal of comment, and is being ! talked of generally on the streets, neither side being willing to yield or concede during the interim between now and next Tuesday, when the recount is made. At the same time, neither side is willing to make any announcement of a contest at the present time, although both sides are quietly collecting data which they may use if there is occasion for it. Accept Kesult Gracefully. [Barnwell, August. 21.?There will be no contest on the result of the dispensary election held in this county on Tuesday. This was definitely announced yesterday morning after it was learned that the dispensary had been voted bock by such an overwhelming majority. Ibc Rev. A. E. Evison, one of the prohibition leaders, said: "The size of the dispensary vote in this county makes it unmistakenly evident that the people want the dis pensary. As a contest of the election, if made, could have no ultimate effect in changing that decision, it seems the better part of wisdom to acquiesce with as good grace as can be mustcrel up. "It would be an excellent thing to secure a court ruling on the issues involved, but I am not so personally interested in that as to feel justified in spending mucb money to secure it." Ko Contest Expected. St. Matthews, August 21.?There is evidently no disposition to dispute or contest th-? result of the liquor election Tuesday. There was a majority for the sale of liquor even excluding the negro vote. There is already a considerable scurrying to and 'fro in the hope of eating dispensary plums and the outcome will be watched with interest. * Ar?f o 1 - There has Deen mucu tuimucm a* ready about a change in the forthcoming division of dispensary funds. Heretofore the town has gotten half the profits, which is considered excessive, and a strenuous effort, it is said, will ibe made for a more equitable distribution of these funds. The prohibitionists say that they will come again four years hence and that tne outcome will be differert. One thing seeras certain, that the liquor situation is not settled yet in PolVinnn ^nnntv 131 Majority for Dispensary. Florence, Aug. 21.?The vote of Florence county on the question of i dispensary or 110 dispensary was officially tabulated today and the dispensary won out by a vote of 131, thus Florence county will be "wet"' for the next four years. THREE BIG NATIONS STAND WITH WILSON GREAT BRITIAX, FRANCE VXD JA- 1 PAX INDORSE PRESIDENT. Pressure From Abroad Likely to I Bring: Huerta to Realization of His Position. Washington, Aug. 23.?Great Brit ain, France end Japan are among,) the nations which have interposed j ? their influence upon the Huerta administration in Mexico in support of i the efforts of the United States to ; bring about a peaceful settlement of | the revolution. j While administration officials were j < silent today regarding this phase of j1 the situation, there was a lively in- J' 1 1 _ i. - " [ leresi iiiaimesi iu utpiuniaut wuuico here as to the probable effect of for- I eign pressure on the Huerta govern- ^ ment. 1 It was learned that the Mexican au- j * thorities hoped President Wilson 1 would not read his message to con- 1 gress next Tuesday as he had plan- ? ned, and showed a disposition to pro- * long the negotiations. Unless some ( tangible overtures, however, are re- 2 ceived within 48 'hours from the I Huerta officials, indicating a desire j1 to accept the fundamental pro^. ->sals !1 of the United States, the president! * will proclnim to congress and to the j* world the attitude of this government c toward the Southern republic. Will Start Something. The fact that diplomats from some j1 of the very countries which not only 1 have formally recognised Huerta, but 1 whose bankers hitherto have floated J loans for him, are using their influ-, 2 ence on the Mexican administration : * is calculated to produce something , * definite shortly. Official reports to I( the Washington administration show j * the Huerta regime to be in desperate 1 financial straits with little prospects 1 of getting funds anywhere to meet ! the running expenses of the govern- ( ment or pay its troops, already res- ( tive because of deferred payments. ,1 So important is this aspect of the situation considered that an air of J tense expectancy prevailed tonight in * official circles where it was believed * some pronouncement would be forth- j coming from Merico City before Pres- 1 ident Wilson finally determined to communicate his message to con- * gress. |( Wilson is Determined. t The insistence of the United States * - * rtlimirioHfin nf on an eieuuun <mu cumiuauuu v Huerta was reiterated. positively by j administration officials?a position * which Mr. Lind has been instructed k to emphasize. Only concessions by | * the Huerta government, it is believed ;t here, now would persuade President 1 Wilson to hold up the presentation of * his message. j * The president finished the docu- 1 ment today, read it over to Secretary 1 Bryan and will discuss it Monday ^ f with memfbers of the senate ana v 'house committees on foreign rela- * tions. Meantime officials will await word from Mexico City as to possible * change of attitude. ( The sending of a special envoy from 1 Mexico to Washington further to dis- . * cuss the situation with President Wil- ;T son is regarded here as a dilatory * move. It is known that the Wash- 1 ington government has made it clear ^ that such a procedure would not. al- ^ ter the views expressed in its first note. It is believed, however, that 1 the Huerta officials now have aban- ' * fidoned the idea of sending an envoy and are seeking to develop a new ba- j' sis for negotiation. e>:ds life for love. 1 i Thmpa Man, Rejected by Woman, i1 Kills Himself. j I I c Sterling, 111., Augi 23.--Charles * Hubner, of Tampa, Pla., committed 11 suicide in a local hotel today. He left J" a note stating that he took his life;2 because Miss Anna Kulogowski re- j6 fused to marry him .ollowing bis trial ! for murder in Tampa. |1 j ? 2 WOMAN PRESIDENT. Bainbridge, Ga., Aug. 23.?At a meeting of the directors of the Geor- ? Alabama & Florida railroad here {s o * today, Mrs. Cora B. Williams was 3 elected president, succeeding her hus- 1 band, the late Capt. .T. P. Williams. ? Mrs. Williams is believed to be the i 1 only woman in the South who is president of a railroad. All other officials were reelected, r including the vice president. Col. * Green Johnson of Sandersville. c SAYS WILL FAIR IS THE RIGHT NEGRO IDENTIFIED BY SPARTANBURG WOMAN' AS ASSAILANT. tire negroes in renitentiary brought Before Woman Who Points Out Fair. Columbia, -Aug. 22.?The negro, iV'illiam Fair, held in. the penitentiary lere for safe-keeping, charged with iriminal assault on a white woman )f Spartanburg county, was positively dentified by his alleged victim here ;oday. She picked him out of a bunch )f five negroes who were dressed exactly alike in citizens' clothes, and i talking up in front of Fair said, 'This is the negro." The Spartaniburg woman, accompanied by her husband and father-in- . aw, nad come to Columbia' this s norning with Solicitor Hill and Sherff White, of Spartanburg, for the purpose of identifying the negro. Soicitor Hill and Sheriff White arranged with the penitentiary officials, and 'our other negroes and Fair were in /lit* 7 one' /^lnrlioc PYnr'tl'O VWWVU A JUL v*VV**VU ilike, even to their hats. They were )laced in chairs down one side of a oom in the penitentiary and told to :eep their mouths shut. Capt. Sondey, of the penitentiary guard, standng by to see that this injunction was :arried out. Quickly Identified. flie woman\ in company with her lusband, father-in-law, Sheriff White md Solicitor Hill, walked into the oom and Sheriff White asked her to joint out Fair. She told the negroes . 11 ? 1 vv nrV\ f rtTT vVl Q Ill tu a Ld.ilU uy, YV111V11 LI1CJ VA1VI. hen commanded them to turn their jacks, which was promptly done. Orlering them to face about the lady hen raised her finger, pointed directy at William Fair, and said, "There s the negro who assaulted me." Sheriff White asked her to step closer and be certain, which she did. Not jnce did she waver in her identifica;ion. ? The negro, when brought here for jafe-keeping by Chief Hayes, of Spar;anburg, after Sheriff White had )eaten off a mob which stormed the ail in an effort to lynch Fair, denied lis guilt. While the stage was being set for ;he identification the negroes were jlosely watched and during the whole .im?> there were several of the peni;entiary guards in the room. Speedy Trial Promised. Solicitor Allbert E. Hill announced .his afternoon before returning to Spartanburg that the s-pecial term of he Spartanburg criminal court called o try this negro had been postponed intil the third Monday in sepiemoer> he loth, this being necessary to get n the twenty days required to draw i jury, which is required by law. Mr. ^ill said the negro, William Fair, vould certainly be tried at -.iiis term )f court. He said the court would ast for one week. It is understood that the Spartan>urg woman, her husband and fath?r-in-law returned home this afterloon. Sheriff White went back to Spartanburg on the afternoon train, vhile Solicitor Hill remained over or a conference, returning home toilght. f> $ 5> MOTION PICTURE NEWS. p Q Comfort Novelette Picturized By Beliance. The Glow Worm from the pen of ATill Levington Comfort, which ap jeared in story form in Lippincott's nagazine will be released as a two )art drama by the Reliance company )n September 6. Mr. Comfort who las written several novels is probaby best remembered as the author of 'Rutledge Rides Alone." His stories ibound in action and are well adapted to picture dramatization. The Glow Worm is the name which las been given to a very beautiful ind fascinating woman around whom i most unusual story of love and adenture has been woven. nni,? ootinn nf fhp storv is laid in JL IIC uv/kiUM v* v? ? south America with a number of scenes enacted on board a large racht. All of which gives ample op)ortunity for beautiful settings, an idded cnarm to the drama in its new )icture form. Wild and excitable hens are, as a ule, poor layers. Tame fowls can ,e pickcd up without scaring the rest )f the flock.