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VOLUME LII., NUMBER t. ITEWBERBY, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914. TWICE A TOEK, %1M A 111* u What the Law= ^p ^lfoing in th BILL AGAINST WHITES : K TEACHING THE NEGROES ' PASSED BY THE HOUSE AFTER L STUBBORN EIGHT. j s Asylum Investigating- Committee Mam- j A ^HK ed.?Various Other 3Iatters of j t V utiux. I . P ? m Special to The Herald and News. F Columbia, Jan. 29.?The Fortner 1 L bill in the house to prohibit white ( Bt persons from teaching in negro schools j and to prohibit negroes from teach^ ^ ing in white schools?public schools or private schools?and the appoint- y ^iient of the members of the asylum ivestigating committee, have been t e two matters in the general as- \ U'aol: in \vh i pVl ! ill U1J 2>\J LCLl UiX i o ?' **-. .. ? - ^ ? Hterest has centered. The Fortner Bill produced one of the most pictures- 1 R]ue fights seen in the house in a long ^ time. After a. hard and stubborn conV j V test it passed second reading 011 Tues- ^ W day, and 011 Wednesday it passed its jW third reading and went to the senate. C JK A strenuous affort was made to nullify the bill by loading it down with j ^ r amendments. As it went to the senate <' j it carried two amendments?that its J j provisions "'snan appiy 10 muma,u> ui i the races in the houses of ill repute" !1 and that it shall not apply to white persons teaching negroes the Bible, f The bill was passed in the house by 1 a decisive vote?the vote on Tuesday < showing 59 for the bill and 38 aginst. 1 The Investigating Committee. i( The investigating committee is com n posed of Senators T. J. Strait, of Lan- 1 t t ManiHiri of Pickens, and ^ V C>w71X m A. u ? ? ? _ _ - I ^ Macbeth Young, of Union, appointed W by the president of the senate, and ] " Representatives W. F. Stevenson, of i Chesterfield?who introduced the re- 1 solution providing for the investiga- 1 tion?C. C. Wych'e, of Spartanburg, < and J. A. Hunter, of Bamberg.appoint- i ed by the speaker of the house. The j < ^ senate members as first appointed by i President Smith on Tuesday included j 1 Senator F. H. Weston, of Richland, j i J x *-U,v I , f In a letter to tne prosiuem ui mc | senate, copy which was handed Sen- j ator Weston, Governor Blease, for the 1 reasofl^ stated in his letter, objected i to Senator Weston upon the com- j mittee. Senator Weston withdrew ] and Senator Young on Wednesday i was appointed in his stead. In his statement withdrawing from J ihe committee of investigation Sen- i ator Weston read Governor Blease's t letter, and said: j 1 ^Aroimnr Oliie/ttt WPStrtn YVfthdrflWS i I t\"V I V4 UV4 ? ? V?V ? - . - , "Mr. President, 1 rise to a question j 1 of personal privilege. I hold in ray ; t "hands a copy of a letter from the gov- * ernor which reads as follows: i " 'The Hon. Chas. A. Smith, lieuteu- : k ant governor, senate chamber, Colum- c &. bia, S. C.?Dear Sir: I notice from g * newspaper reports that you have ap- c pointed F. H. Weston, senator from j ^ the county of Richland, a member of! a the asylum investigating committee, a Personally I haven't any objection to e "a!t. Weston, and, in fact, I have no c personal interest in iius uivest-igacivu, i * either one way or the other, other than j D that, if there should "be anything i c wrong, that it be exposed, and the j a proper steps be taken to correct the r evils. However, I desire to call your v attention to the fact that Mr. Weston appeared before the board of regents a at a recent meeting as attorney for t one of the parties interested, (so I j c understand and believe,) and I do not t ~ Kq q momher r>f i r s~ lUilih. umi lie JMiuuiu ut a j the jury to try his own client, or mat- 1 a zers interesting his own client, and if j i he remains on the committee I shall a ^ decline to have anything to do with h it, either in my private or official i: ^ capacity, for the reasons I here state, fc as I have had enough partiality dis- t Ki played against me, and enough poEj^Llitical spite, since I have been gover- f SjHm&ior, in these matters of so-called in<51 i cr 5> t i r\ n " 'Very respectfully. to W " 'Cole. L. Blease,' if " 'Governor.'" f "I wish to state that I am not an at- s ktornev for any one interested in this s makers are ? e Capital City J: n nvestigation and that I shall ask the c .'ommittee to investigate as to whether ? am or not. I wish to state that s vhile I advocated the resolution, I ii lave no personal feelings in the mat- s er, especially against the governcr. t L'iiat 1 nave Known nun since \\e were ~ ;tudents together in the South Caro- v ina college and have been associated h vith him in one branch or other of P lie general assembly for nearly f !0 years. I have always taken an s ictive interest in penal and charitat's t nstitutions of the State, and when I n inderstood that this matter was to t :ome up before the board of regents t went there solely in the capacity )f a senator. I desire above every- h *' * ? t tmng mat tms invesugauuu simu <)e free from any partisanship or bias, t ind consequently I beg to resign from f ,he committee." Fig-lit On Fortner Bill. ( The fight on the Fortner bill was precipitated in the house on Tuesday I vhen the author, Representative C. D. C fortner, of Spartanburg, got his bill L nade the order of business. Mr. t fortner led the fight for the passage I >f the bill, and he had the active sup- 3 Dort in his fight of Mr. James, of T Bishopville, and others. Prominent S imong the opponents of the bill were 1 Mr. Liles, of Orangeburg; Mr. Vander ticrst, Mr. Barnwell, and -Mr. Ritten)erg, of Charleston, and Dr. C. T, ( Wyche, of Newberry. Representative Fortner came to the * louse last year from Spartanburg as j i new member. One of the principal 0 jlanks in his platform in Spartanburg (jounty was the measure for which j le led the fight on Tuesday. There r s no doubt of the fact that he is a lard fighter.^ It was urged by some of the opponents of the bill that the best results could be secured by having svhites to teach negroes, and it was irged that in Charleston, especially, ;ould better results be secured. An imendment was offered to exempt Charleston, but it failed. Dr. Wyche, >f Xewberry, argued that if error lad been made it was in not teaching the negro enough. He said there .vere no white teachers in negro jchools in Xewberry?that this was a mijn'c mrnitrv unri thprp was no V leed to fear. He thought it an inopportune time to raise the question, if the issue was to be squarely met t t must be more serious?deportation, t A Picture Produced. u When it was argued that the teach- ? ng of negroes by whites was not in v he nature of teaching social equality, t Representative Fortner produced a a picture of the faculty of' a negro col- e ege in Columbia. "Talk about it not n eaching soqial equality," he exclaim- fi ;d. "Look at this picture a white t voman teacher with her arms around t i negro teacher."' The presentation b )f the photograph by Mr. Fortner was t, lomewh&t in the nature of a dramatic o ilimax, and the fight for the bill was e von. In fact, it seemed there was no t irgument which could be brought s tgainst the picture which Mr. Fortner v. ;xhibited. Citizen Josh Ashley made ii me of his characteristic speeches a or the bill?such a speech as only Jr Ashlev can make. He said he >nce knew oi a white teacher, who, j c tfter being thrown in contact with the u iegro so much, asked to be buried s nth them. fi The opponents of the bill offered is .mendment after amendment with a he object of loading it down. One ^ >f these amendments was to apply tl he bill to negro chauffeurs and car- Is iage drivers, and other amendments P ,s jokers, with the object of nullify- t< ng the bill. However, only the two .menaments mentioned?applying to icuses of ill repute and to the teach- t( ng of the Bible, got through, and the b iill has now gone to the senate with T hese two amendments. w The bill as it passed the house is as h ollows: b rne mn Ana me * ore. Be it enacted by the general assem- b ily of the State of South Carolina: f< Section 1. That it shall be unlawful si or any white person to teach or in- ti truct in any negro college, high cliool, public school, graded school, rivate school or any school where egroes are taught in this State, or rhite nurses to be employed in negrc ospitals to nurse negroes at an> ospital or sanitarium, or for an\ egro to teach or instruct in anj ollege, high school, public schooi raded school, private school or anj chool where white persons are taughi a this State; and any person whc hall violate any of the provisions o! his section shall be deemed guilt} >f a misdemeanor, and, upon coniction thereof, shall be punishet y fine not exceeding $500, or by inv irisonment not exceeding 12 months: Provided, that nothing in this aci hall be construed to prohibit the eaching of the Bible and religious natters;, that the provisions of this till shall also apply to intimacy c; he races in houses of ill repute. T!ie test vote on the bill in th< louse on Tuesday is of general in erest. On the motion to strike oui he enacting words, the vote was as ollows: Those who voted in the affirmative to kill the bill) are: Messrs. Atkinson, Barnwell,Bethea Jolt, Boyd. Brice Busbee, Charles Element. Courtney, Dantzler, De ^aughtw, Evans, Greer, Huner, Johnson, Kirk, Lee, Lilos -umpkins, McMaster, McQueen Jeans, Melfi, kVicholson, Pdgues liddle, Rittenberg, Walter M. Scott >enseney, Sliirlev Smiley, Thompson "indal. Vander Horst, C. T. Wyche 'oumans, Zeigler.?38. Those who voted in the negative for the bill) are: Speaker <M. L. Smith and Messrs Lddy, J. W. Ashley, M. J. Ashley ilackwell, Bowers, Browning. Bur :ess, Cross, Daniel, Jf'crtner, mciay Basque, Goodwin, Gray, Haile, Hall lardin, H. F. Harrelson, M. C. Har elson. Harvey, Holley, Hutson, Irby fames, Jones, Kelly, Kennedy. Kirb.v >vbrand, McDonald, Miley, Miller rlixson, Moore, Moseley, Murray, Xel ;on, Odom, P. *,tt, Ready, Riley Robertson, Robinson, W. S. Rogers tr., Sapp, W. W. Scott, Sherwcod Itonlov Git r>5 1 ci n H Qfurl'ip Snmmprs Valker, Warren, Welch, White, White lead, Wilburn, C. C. Wyche.?59. On the final passage of the Fcrtne )ill on Wednesday, t'qe vote was 6: or the passage of the bill and 4i gainst. Of the Newberry delegation oth those present, Messrs. Mowe: iud C. T. Wyche, voted against th< till. "Primary Reform" Bill. The Nicholson "primary reform' >ill came up for discussion again ii he senate on Wednesday, and "pri nary reform" was again tnresnea out Jenator Young, cf Union, said h< wanted to give the senate something o put itself on record on, and wante( . vote on the matter of requiring genral election restrictions for the priaary. The matter, however, was nally referred to a committee to tak( he measure under consideration anc I o work upon a bill to be reportec >ack to the senate. This action was aken upon motion of Senator Crouch f Saluda. The committee is composd of Senator Nicholson, of Edgefield lie author of the measure before the enate; Senator McLaurin, of Ben ettsville; Senator Sharpe, ot L.exigton; Senator Clifton, of Sumter nd Senator Sullivan, of Anderson. Compulsory Education Measure. The local option compulsory eduation measure is expected to come p in the house for discussion posibly today. This measure has a avorable report in the senate, and > a special order in the house. It is long the line of the bill last year *hich was vetoed by the governor, :ie veto being sustained. The Richmd delegation will urge a measure roviding for compulsory school atindance in Richland county. Proposed Liquor Legislation. Bills have been introduced looking ) an election upon State-wide prohiition, and, as has been stated in 'he Herald and News, (looking towards outlawing the social clubs andline' liauor. One of the liquor ills Which is of considerable inter5t applies to Charleston alone. This ill looks towards a license system )r the city of Charleston, under retrictions required by the Constituon. A bill along this line was pass(COXTIXUED OX PAGE 5). L M ? BILLS AFFECTING DEWBERRY. > Increasing: Auditor's and Treasurer's Salaries?Deputy Sheriff?Otlir er Matters, , Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Jan. 29.?There are sevL! eral matters of local legislation af) fecting Newberry county. f As has been noted in The Herald and News, Mr. Kibler's joint resolu tion extending the tiine for payment 1 cf commutation tax in Xev/berry - county to March 1 has passed tne house and is now in the senate. t A bill introduced by the Newberry 5 delegation in the houNi providing i for an additional rural policeman who j shall act as deputy sheriff has passf ed the house and has gone to the senate. i An amendment has been offered to - the county supply bill which would t increase the salaries of the auditor 5 and treasurer in Newberry county from $1,200 to $1,400 each. ~ * ?- ? * - _ru.% j i senator .Jonnsione uas ouereu au amendment in the senate Which would provide that the probate judge shall y _ i receive 75 cents and the county 2o y cents of marriage license fees. i t, 4. , ? , ? * " ' / ' - ' * SMALL FOX. ' *> ? ' 4 ? '?> ^ ^ <? ' > & vf'' '.Cditor The Herald and News: Since small pox is present in various sections of our country the peo* *- tit *1)0 snouiu Iiavt* some iiii.uiixjti.iuxi uu lie diagnosis and modes of transfer5 . !ii3 :ur: disease from one person to , a? i tr. Vv'iurn t. *e last 1?? years - the writer has had the misfortune to , see quite a number of small pox pa, lients?of these cases one: died, sev s'ral were seriously ill, but the majority of them were conparativelv mild. This winter, however, the dis', <>ase seems to be a little more severe - "''an it was in this section some years ?go. 1 '' *- x M*. r? A/Nrvl A (V at i, uniortunaieiy man* I, -mall pox and chicken pox or "big'* .-hicken pox mixed, so this question - ?rises, viz, how can we differentiate small pox from chicken pox? In comr paring chicken pox with small pox 2 the writer will describe an average D case of such disease. , Chicken pox begins with fever and r there may be some headache and 3 backache and sometimes nausea and vomiting. As a rule the fever is not high and tbe headache and backache, ' if Dresent, are not severe. The erup i tion (bumps) in chicken pox almost - always appear on the first day of the . disease, however, it may not be notici ed until the second day. ; Small pox often begins with a chill, I which is followed by considerable fev er. The patient has evere headache - and backache and sometimes there is 5 nausea an$ vomiting. The patient j may have several chills. On the third I or fourth day' the fever declines and I the headache and backache subside.. 3 On the fourth day the eruption , (bumps) begin to appear, however, it - may not be detected unless looked for , closely, until the fifth or even the j sixth day of the disease. From the above description of the two diseases you will notice that the , eruption (bumps) occur in chicken pox on the first day, but does not occur in small pox until the fourth day. This is a very important point in disj tinguishing one disease from the oth er. In chicken pox the "bumps" rip en faster, all the symptoms are less [ severe and run a shorter course than ; in small pox. In suialil pox the , the "bumps'' are more numerous on . the face and extremities than on the J body. In chickcn pox the feumps are ; usually more numerous on the body than on the face and extremities. In small pox the bumps ripen much slower than in chicken pox and they are more painful and sere. When the eruption does not occur until the fourth day of the disease it does seem, from the above description, that there should be no excuse for calling small pox by the name of chicken pox or "big' chicken pox. "Big" chicken pox exists only in the minds of some peo pie. Some people have an idea that all cases of genuine small pox must be very severe. This is a mistake. The writer had three cases in the same house?one died but the other two t NEWS FRO31 EXCELSIOR. !' i ! Death of 3Ir. Sam ?erts of Saluda County and Mr. J. W. Hartman of the Mt. Pilgrim Section. Special to The Herald and News. Excelsior, .Jan. 29.?JMiss Chesley Kibler is visiting relatives in Newberry. The pretty weather continues right on and our people talk about garden- J ing. Thp minils of our school have all I been vaccinated against small pox. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lorick will go down to Columbia Saturday to visit relatives. Mrs. Boozer and Mrs. Lovelace, who have returned from the Columbia hospital, continne to improve nicely. Mrs. D. B. Cook, who was carried t) Knowlton's infirmary, in Columbia on Saturday for an operation, is getling 011 nicely and her friends hope she will soon be able to return norne. Mr. J. Samuel Werts, who moved from this section to Saluda county about nine years ago, died at his home- there on Tuesday afternoon after being confined to his room v\ ith i small pox a little over one week. Mr. Werts leaves a wife and several grown children to' mourn his death. His re- : mains were laid to rest in the ceme- : - ? * TT'. J t | tery at St. Marks cnurcn on weu-j ? nesdav afternoon. Mr. Werts had many friends here who are pained to hear of 'his sad death. Peace to his 1 ashes. Mr. J. W. Hartman, who- had been confined to "his room for a good long lime in a helpless condition, died at his home near here on Tuesday af ternoon at tlie age of 62 years, me burial service was conducted Wednesday afternoon in Mt. Pilgrim "luirch by his pastor, the Rev. E. W. Les'ie, to a crowded church of sor- ; rowing friends, after wthich the re- ! mains were laid to rest in the ceme-1 terv near the church. Mr. Hartman \ I had been superintendent of Mt. Pil- ! ! grim Sunday school for a long time i I and ono of the leading officers in rne | jclrrch. Mr. Hartman's first wife died j i a fow years ago and by his first wife | he lea\es five grown children, four, boys and one girl. Later he mar- j ried Miss Carrie Cook, who is left to mourn the loss of a kind husband. Mr. Hartman was a good Christian > man and will be greatly missed in ! the church, in the home and in the ; community in which he lived. Messrs. j Willie and Enos Hartmkn came over ; i from Atlanta Wednesday to be pres-1 ent at their father's burial. Sigma. were so mild that they were not con- ! fined to bed. Regretting the presence of small j i pox in the community or the desire 1 to escape detection,, if you have the disease will not change a genuine case of small pox, however mild it 1 ! may be, into harmless ohicken pox. A few words in reference to "catchine" small dox may not be out of place. The disease is contagious when the person first develops fever, prob- < ably more contagious about the fourth < day when the eruption comes out, and l most contagious when the eruption J ripens and begins to scale. Since the 1 scales carry the disease a patient'is dangerous until all the scabs fall off ( and the skin becomes smooth. A pa- j tient's clothes and bedding should be 2 boiled for an hour or thoroughly fum- ^ ieated. s I Since our people will conceal the 1 fact that they have small pox if they < can, especially in mild cases, and ( since it is sometimes very difficult to 1 thoroughly disinfect an infected place, c it becomes necessary to vaccinate to r prevent the spreading of the disease, t If everybody were vaccinated small t pox would be a thing of 'the past. No ~ - - - - ' -1 child should be admitted to any scuuui | without successful vaccination. Q One more point on the difference between small pox and chicken pox . ?the vaccination point prevents the spreading of small pox but does not check an epidemic of chicken pox. John .T. Dominick, M. D. t -v New maps have been added to the t furnishings of the school near Pros- c perity, of which Miss Mae Amick is r the teacher.?Southern School News e for January. t % \" CHK1STENSEX REPLIES. Senator From Beaufort Makes Answer to Special Message of Governor. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Jan. 29.?Rising to a que&uun ui yeiauiiai yiivuegc xu mc senate on Wednesday, Senator N. Christensen, of Beaufort, made the following statement. "The propriety of my conduct as a citizen is called in question by Governor Blease in a special message to the legislature. This because of the fact that I am a trustee of the Port Royal Agricultural school and because Booker T. Washington is named on a letter head of the school as a reference. The said message also insinuates by questions and 1 phraseology that whites may be i caching negroes, that social equality may be taught, and that the school may be a State institution. "The facts could have been easily ascertained by the governor from the same source through which he secured the partial information, used in this message. Briefly stated they are as follows: t "The Port Royal Agricultural school is a private school for negroes and uses no public funds. The four trustees are white. The letter head in question was printed for the negro principal at his order and for his use and so far as I know it is not used by any one else. The principal is a graduate of Tuskegee and it is but natural that he should refer to the principal of that school as one who knows him. All the teachers of the Pon Royal school are negroes. "Nearly every school district in ihi$ State has negro schools in it and each of the white public school truatees of this district is a trustee of nw;?/o schools. Governor Blease himself was for some years a trustee of j a negro college for which position I liv> was a candidate in 1902 before the / legislature which elected him. So il^ere is no objection to a white man - ? i ' acting as a trustee to a negro scnooi, the only question is the kind cf school iie is in charge cf "The school in question is located in Beaufort county, five miles from N the town of Beaufort, it is known by the public school trustees of the district who heartily approve it. I have discussed its policies an<J methods with Former State Superintendent of Education 0, B. Martin, and the present State superintendent of education, J. E. Swearingen, who have approved of same. I believe that no school for negroes in this country is so tree from any teaching of social equality. It is a farm school. The 35 boys and girls who live -there do all the work oi the 70 acres under cultivation, working summer as well as winter. When the boys are through with the course they go back to their ova farms on the island or work for the white 'farmers as hands and many of tfae girls are house servants for white famillies there about. The aim Df the school is to make the negroes A of P< rt Rayal Island better fitted to ^ fill the place that the Almighty in Flis wisdom and South Carolina by its :aw has assigned to them. "This attempt by the governor to liscredit me and others tftrough this xusteeship is just such a one as was nade in Beaufort county 10* years ago ivhen I was first elected to the State senate. The voters of Beaufort coun:y heard the matter discussed on the >tump in all of its details and then elected me by a large majority. They \ lave twice reeieciea me. iae peupie >f the State may be sure they' would lever have done this had the insicuaions of this special message beon rue." x The express companies have, with- ^ i ii? _-i:A ~ ? 4. >IU rlie sii&u-tcat legai i cisio LdriiV/C, igreed ito make effective orders to the nterstate commerce commission vhich prune their rates, the country ver, from 5 to 50 per cent, the averige being 25 per cent. No such re-olutionary change has ever been wrought in the revenue department if any corporation, and certainly lone at all without a semblance of ffort to block regulation through he courts.?Atlanta Constitution. j > i \