The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 26, 1913, Image 1
' 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.