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* * VOLUME LII., NUMBER 11. JNEWBERKY, S. C? FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1914, TWICE A >HEEK, $U9 A HA* (IMPORTANT MEASURES BEFORE LEGISLATURE J SENATE PASSES MEDICAL INSPECTION BILL. Other 3Ieasures of Importance to State Being- Considered by Senate and House. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Feb. 5.?The two houses of the general assembly are working steadily cn measures of importance, ^ and at the same time are disposing of ^ n. multitude of local measure's. tAn invitation fhas been accepted to visit State Park?the new asylum t property?at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. The development of this property, in connection with the policy of the State in regard to its unfortunates afflicted with mental troubles, is one of the biggest questions now before the "legislature. The legislature has also accepted an invitation to visit Charleston, to inspect the Medical College of the State, the Citadel, and to be the guests of rttie city of cnarieston, at a time to ue fixed by toe legislature?probably i Wednesday of next week. |> Senate For Medical Inspection. I The senate on Tuesday night passed and sent to the house of representatives the Weston bill providing for medical inspection of schoot children. Upon Senator Sharpe's motion to strike out the enacting words, 26 of the senators voted against the motion (or for the bill), while only nine voted -li~~ .: /< - i.:ll 4-v.^ h;ii\ Iior lilt? iiiutiuu V LU A.1U tuc UIUJ. 1'UV, senator from Newberry voted for the passage of the bill. Several amendments were made to the original bill, and as the bill goes to the house the compensation for the inspecting \d one shall not exceed 25 cents per pupil. It (was urged that the physicians of the South Carolina Medical society would make the examinations without cost. There was a great deal of debate upon tjhe measure and the bill was stubbornly fought. Governor Blease, it has been recalled, has announced that he would veto any bill of this purport; so that if the bill gets through the house, it will take a two-thirds majority in each house for it to become law over the governor's veto. The Compulsory Education Measure. PThe Harper-McCravey-Lawscn local option compulsory education measure, the substance of -wihich was published in the last issue of The Herald and News, has passed its third reading in the house and has been sent over to the ^nate. The vote in the house up, on giving the bill its final reading showed 70 for the bill and 18 against it Committee Against Fortner Bill. The senate committee on education has submitted an unfavorable report on the Former bill to prohibit wftiite persons from teaching in negro L schools. This bill has passed the house, Bb after one of the most stubborn and picturesque fights seen in that body in some time. The bill will be strongWL ly supported and strongly opposed in V the senate, and an .interesting fight is V expected on it there. j v fcThe Yellow Peril.'' Representative C. C. Wyche, of Spar^^tanburg, has introduced in the house Rfcn interesting bill regulating the hold?ig' of lands in this State by aliens. There is a similar bill in the senate by B>Ir. Stuckey. The acquisition of lands Japanese is said to be the princif pal matter contemplated by the bill, V it being suggested that in a few years this State might be facing a problem B somewhat similar to that of California in this respect, and it is to meet this contemplated conditon that the bill is introduced. I Two-Cent Rate BilL wP The house of representatives on ^"Wednesday gave third reading to the JF 2 cents passenger rate bill for railHL r$ads. The house refused to accept n&ny amendments to the bill, which wae kdnted in the last issue of The Herfegfd News. Several amendments n v\*v1*r /-v rv* 1 1 1 i m rv/>? rr?/M?A tu appi) IAJ OUIdU ilUCd WCiC Lbut they were voted down, the passage of the measSED OX PAGE 5). r^ j ASYLUM INVESTIGATORS [l TO WAIT FOR TILLMAN i (iOYERNOR DECLINED TO APPEAR > ON Tl ESDAY. Says Senator Tillman Made the ? Charges and Should be Made to Specify. I ! Special to The Herald and News, i j _ Columbia, Feb. >.? rue legislative i asylum investigating committee held ' an executive session on Tuesday af- 1 ternoon and adjourned until Saturday 1 morning at 10 o'clock, to await tJiie ar] rival of United States Senator B. R. ( J Tillman, who wrote the secretary of j the committee that on account of the t | condition of his health he would not i | be able to come to Columbia before * ! that time. It had been announced that 1 | the committee wculd begin its inves- : i tigation on Tuesday afternoon at 3 l ! o'clock, and Governor Blease and his < ! private secretary were among those 1 j who were requested to be present at t j that time. The governor addressed a 1 j letter to the chairman and secretary \ ; cf the committing stating that he had in rlif* 11 c?\v<<T>a th a t Son a tor s i Tillman had said he would not ap- i ; pear before Saturday, and the goveri nor had yet to see that court which | forces those who are accused to make ( ! a defense before those who are making the accusations are iheard, and that he would not appear until Senator Till- j man had appeared and made specific his charges, and then if the' e were any j charges against the governor, either j personally or officially, he would vDe \ giad to place himself within the juris- ( diction of the committee, and to give ] the committee any lniormauon which ) he had. j After t&e executive session, Chair- \ ma^ Mauldin, of the committee, announced that all witnesses had been excused until Monday afternoon at . 3 o'clock, except Dr. J3abcock, who is 1 expected to be present to go on the ] stand Saturday morning. |. Following is the letter which Gov ernor Blease addressed to the com- < mittee: i The Governor's Letter. ( Columbia, Feb. 3, 1914. Hon. T. J. Mauldin, Chairman, and 1 Hon. C. C. Wyche, Secretary, Legis- j lative Investigating Committee, Co- \ lumbia, S. C. < Gentlemen: Your secretary called at i the governor's office on Saturday < morning and requested that the governor and his private secretary attend 11 a meeting of your committee on Feb- ] ruary 3, at 3 p. m., in the supreme 1 court room. < / I had hoped tfoat your general as- 1 sembly would pass a joint resolution? '< one that would give your committee < power, and not place yourselves' merely in the position of asking courtesies, * for under your concurrent resolution 1 if any one were to refuse to come be- < fore you or refuse to send papers or 1 to give you possession of papers, I do 1 not see by what authority you would 1 force them, unless you would report back to the general assembly as a body and request them to take some action. However, I have no desire personally to raise- anv such Question. I notice, though, frcm the newspa- 1 pers. that the party who wrote a cer- " tain, muchly-marked "Personal" let- 1 ter in reference to this matter, Bias J stated that it will suit him to appear on Saturday, the 7th. Of course I do not know his purpose, but I believe it to be to appear after you shall have 1 heard all the other testimony, and thus 1 give him the opportunity to make one 1 of his usual political harangues in the < snape 01 testimony, in repiy 10 ttie evi- : dence as given by tihose who liave pre- i ceded him. Personally, I do not pro- < pose to be placed in any such position. < It was he who made certain charges, 1 which your committee was appointed to investigate. In my short term in 1 the practice of the law, it has always < "been customary for those alleging to prove their charges, and then for 1 those denying to be given an oppor- i tiinitv tr? mif in ennh tofttimnnv tio thov ] may see- fit in rebuttal, after -wfaich 1 those alleging shall have the right to i make reply. But I have yet to see that 1 court which 'orces those who are aci cused to make a defense before those ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4). GOVERNOR CITES WAR DEPARTMENT RECORDS? <EM)S ANOTHER MESSAGE IN ( HKISTE\SEN MATTER s <ays if Further Information is Desired j ri He MigJit Have Some of Par- ^ ticular Interest. Special to The Herald and News, rnlumbia. Feb. 5.?'Governor Blease I .\i ias sent to the State senate the foll#\vng further message in the Christensen , fr natter: The Message. n< Gentlemen of the Senate: p I noticed from one of the newspapers he statement, "The goveronr in this nessage reflected upon the fatiher of Senator Christensen.'' This statement vas in reference to message .Xo. 14. to q .-our body. I noticed also that the ?aper stated that you had held an ex- \v jcutive session o\er said message, ana i cj; [ heard it persistently rumored around r hat a committee had been appointed jy you to investigate something in fr cat message. I notice in a paper tin's morning, aj special telegram from Beaufort, S. C., v is follows: Protest is liaised. "Beaufort Board of Trade Resents vi Certain Institutions. 'Special to The State. o "Beaufort, Feb. 2.?At a called meet- cl iig cf the beard of trade, held this o ifternoon, a protest was voiced by w ;hat body against institutions made by :he governor of South Carolina against :he late Capt. X. Christensen, father i-' )f Neils Christensen, senator trom u Beaufort county. It was explained :hat the meeting was not held to ex- t( press ccnfidence in Senator Chris iensen, as he was amply able to fight ii his own battles. Tue implications igainst his father were characterized 1< as underhand and as misleading to [hose who were not acquainted with ^ trim. The resolutions stamp as false and absurd the institutions referred *1 to. The expression of esteem for Capt. ?hristensen made by the Confederate T( Veterans of Beaufort in 1906 was en- s< iorsed." ,lj I can put nb ether construction upon these rumors and this newspaper dispatch than teat the following sentence of message Xo. 14 is referred to, md that the construction has been put jpon it that I referred to the father yf the senator from Beaufort: g "I went on the board and found there as gocd men as South Carolina r>?o ovar rvrr?rllmarl anH nftnp Whn Vlfl.f? ^ Uiao W ? Ui Ml VUUVVUl UUU " *.v M-r.c been the captain or son of the captain Df a negro company in the Union army, w ivho led charges with negro troops igaipst the white soldiers of the South- r< ?rn Confederacy." Since, if my information^ is correct, si some of you and the newspapers and m :he board of trade of Beaufort have construed this to be a reference to the father of Senator Christensen, I beg leave to auote to vou the following Lelegram: ^ "Washington, D. C., Jan, 31, 1914. u 'Governor Cole. U Blease, "Columbia, ?. C. "Records show one Neills Christensen served about one year as en- ^ listed man New York organization ai white troops and as captain of com- L % b* panv in 44th regiment colored troops b< about fifteen months. "George Andrews, The A4jt Gen, U. S." ^ In addition to this I have been, in- x 7 t formed that the 44th regiment,/men- , { . l :ioned in this telegram, took part in , \ n the battle of Honey Hill, in this State, . Eli and I have heard from different v< sources the rumor that the father of ?e present senator from Beaufort commanded at Honev Hill a negro company. Certainly the telegram of p :he adjutant general of the United States shows that he was "The cap:ain of a negro company in the union irmy." te I shall say no more at present, Dut if your committee desire further nformation, if they will call upon me ^ r ?i-i-i. i i.t.: 4-V^i. J l migut uiive cjoxneuimg uiai wouiu De of particular interest to them, as t has been intimated that I have a vnack of finding out things. So if the construction is to be placed 6( ipon this sentence of message No. 14, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6). oi t / THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. eeting 01* >0. 9 Township Sunday School Association.?Personal And Otherwise. pecial to The Herald and News. Prosperity, Feb. Mr. M. C. vMors was a business visitor to Newberry hursday. Miss, ilarie Cowan, of Rock Hill, is le guest of Miss Martha Creighton. Mr. S. S. Birge is visiting his sister, rs. A. H. Kohn, of Columbia. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter has returned om a short stay to Columbia. Miss Willie iMae Wise spent Wedgsday in ChappeLls with her brother, rof. L. M. Wise. T r* P V T-J nrklrvy* ? r* i v? W-? Ino O f- I ?j? . \jr. j, . ii uiuci i*o 111 v^viuxiiuia rnding the Tick convention. The Literary Sorosis will meet Frily afternoon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. . Y. Hunter. Mrs. George Beaden has returned to er home In Clayton, X. C\, after a ten avs* stay to her parents, Dr. and Mrs. . L. Luther. Mrs. .J. B. T. Scott has returned 'om a visn to romana. i Misses Lillie Mae and Ruby RusSell, j tter spending several weeks in Co- j Li-.ioia, have returned here to visit 1 rs. J. S. Wheeler. Miss Annie Singley, of Excelsior, isited Mrs. P. C. Singley this week. Number 9 Township Isunday School invention meets at the A. R. P. utrrh Frirln v mr>rnir.<r ?.t 10:^0 clock, Public is invited. Dinner ill be served on the church grounds : every one bring well filled baskets. The School Improvement association :eets,at the town hall Monday at 3:3C clock. Every onb urged to aitend. . Mr. A. B. Wise was a business visi>r to Columbia Thursday. Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Taylor are visitlg in Batesburg. Messrs. Pat Mitchell, Carlisle Tay)r. J. F>. Ballentine. W. J. "Wise and ?r. C. K. Wueeler visited in Xewberrj Wednesday. Mr. W. E. Moseley has returned cm a short visit to Columbia. Miss Fannie Holloway organized a )mato ckib in the Prosperity high chool Thursday and while here will e the guest of Miss Willie Mae Wise' >*EWS OF JOLLY STREET. ? , ntertainment?>*ew Music Teacher. Personal Mention and Other Matters. pecial to The Herald and News. Jolly* Street, Feb. 5.?Mrs. E. T. | lerts was carried on Monday to the olumbia hospital for an operation. Misses Minnie and Ethel Singley, ho have been visiting friends and Natives in Saluda, returned home unday.. Mr. Joe Quattlebaum and family >ent Sunday with Mr?. Quattlebaum's LOther, Mrs. Mahala Werts. Misses Mae Amick and Lottye Lee alfacre, Mrs. Bernice Werts and lite daughter, Lilliam Ruth, spent the eek-end at'Miss Halfacre's home. Mrs. Bessie Richardson spent Satrday and Sunday with her mother, [rs. Mary U. McGraw,?at Newberry. The Improvement association of 'unter-DeWalt graded school, Jolly treet district, will give a box supper nd valentine entertainment for the enefit of the school Friday evening eginning at 7:30 o'clock. The public j i invited. ' Miss Elizabeth Singley, as music iacher, has been added to the Hun;r-DeWalt graded school. Miss Sing- i ;y is a graduate in music and has ad much experience. Her beginning ere, in regards to enrollment, was ?ry encouraging. Calculation. ennsylvania Punch Bowl. First Sport?Hoy, lend me $10, will Dufi old man? Second four-flusher?No; but I'll ;11 you how we can both make $5. First sport?Let's have it. Second four-flusher?I'll give you $5 >llars. CdMAOom kJttLVOOlu? enn State Froth. Editor?This joke is not new. Freshman?It has never been print1 before. Editor?It was an awful oversight i the part of Noafo, then. The Matter of The State's SPECIAL MESSAGE ON IMPORTANT QUESTION POSITION OF GOVERNOR GIVEN* TO LEGISLAUKE. ? 1 In Matter of Ketunaing uonaea jh- i debtedness and Also in Kegard to j State Loan. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia. Feb. 5.?In a special message to the general assembly, "in the matter of refunding the State debt," Governor Blease transmits the records in connection with the borrowing of mnnpv t'nr rurrent exnenses of tJhe I State last year, and also discusses the 1912 refunding .act, in connection with the bonded indebtness of the State, and the matter of refunding this , bonded indebtedness, which has been a ! live question in South Carolina since the 1912 refunding act was passed by the general assembly. The governor's positon in the matter, and uis reasons therefor, are fully set forth In his mes sage. i nis is a matter uj. vuai uuyui iance to the State, and the message of the governor is published herwith. The record which is transmitted deals with the matter of borrowing $300,000 by the State last year,* and the fight of the goveronr to secure a loan upon which interest would be 1 aid by the State only as the State needed the money. "Heretofore,says the governor,. > 1 "the State has borrowed the full; amount of money which she needed, whether it be $300,000 or $500,00U, in bulk, and it drew interest from the day it was borrowed, notwithstanding the fact that the banks kept it on deposit, and much of it was not paid out until late in the year. Still the banks were holding the money and tue State was paying them interest for it. "The precedent which has been set (in the last loan) will not only now, but hereafter, be followed, and the State in the future will be saved many tVirvnctinric nf Hnliars hv navins: inter l/lIUUk. UWVIU V* V4Vf??V%> M W est on money when it gets it, instead of borrowing it months ahead and paying interest when it is not using it, as it has been doing heretofore. Therefore, I have gained something for the State by making this fight as all must admit. However, I really think, and ' f V* a 1 r\ rri c* _ Rill Sllll 01 Uiie OpiIliU.il, onat LUC icfeiijlature ought to put the State on a cash basis and not have to borrow this money every year. By doing this it would be unnecessary to have a precedent such as this set for borrowing committees." Lack of space forbids the publica tion of the entire record in regard to th-is matter. The history of 'the securing of this loan, however, is familiar to the readers of The Herald and News. The message of the governor, transmitting this record, and discussing the matter of the refunding of the bonded indebtness, is given in full. The Message. Gentlemen of the General Assembly. I herwith transmit to you certain correspondence and minutes of meetings of the sinking fund commission, and ether matters, in connection with the borrowing of money by the State during the past year. The record is self-explanatory. Tfre first six original notes mentioned therein are in my I office. The note about which there I was a controversy, as to whether or | not it had been signed by others than myself is among them, and is subject to inspection by any of you. I will state, however, that that particular note has been closely locked in a bank vault in this city since its return o me, and I find that, from some cause. ?I supose chemists could explain it to you?the name of one of these gentlemen is gradually beginning to reappear thereon. I submitted this note at the time to various gentlemen, and not a man said he thougfht the name of either of the men in question had ever been placed on it, and one gentleman, after very carefully examining it, j under a glass, stated that if the names had been placed on it, that in his opin/ Refunding ; Indebtedness ion the man who did the erasing was a very dangerous man to have (handling public pap rs or public funds, and that the liquid used by him should not be allowed to be kept in any office where bills, bonds or notes are handled to any considerable extent. I think you gentlemen will reacli the sam9 conclusion, because if a man can so completely erase a name, as was done in this instance, I am surprised that Gibson and Zimmerman got into their serious trouble in the treasurer's office. As to 1912 Refnnding Act.1 As to the matter of refunding the V /> m /] a J Z m A V\ + M /-N P A rt ^ A TT 7 1 /k Vl uviiueu mucuuico^ ul tnc ouicc, nuaa has been referred to by me in previous communications to your honorable bodies, you will recall that in my message, No. 46, at the session of the general asembly of 1912, vetoing the act providing for the refunding of tlhe State debt I called your attention to certain objections to and deficiencies in said act. The most important was the lack of a provision in the act exempting from taxation so much of the Aonifnl r?f aaI* nf Konl'c? at? nrvrrvP ro + inn o CG-iJlLttl ocv/viv ui uaimo v/? ^ within the State of South. Carolina as may be invested in such bonds, as was provided in the acts of 1892 and 1894, in reference to the refunding of the State debt at'that time. I was fully convinced and *n my belief that it was to the best interest of the State and to the advantage of the sale of ti'.ie bonds that such provision should be incorporated in the act, and after events in connection ? / with the refunding of these State bonds have conclusively confirmed my opinion and justified my judgement in the matter. The general assembly failed and refused to heed my recv nmendations, but, instead, .left the act as it was, and without the provision requested , and urged by me. I presume that this action on the part of the general as sembly was taken ana oasea upon me report of the comptroller general of South Carolina, who, in his annual report to the general assembly for the year 1912, referring to the refiwding of the trended indebtness, urged against any such provision'in the refunding act, saying that it would be a discrimination in favor of investments in State securities and against investments in national securities; that the same deduction would have to be allowed national banks for investments in United States bonds or securities and that such a provision of law would be construed by the courts to prevent the State from collecting the tax due on national bank shares; so that the State would lose not only the taxes on Che capital stock invested in State bonds, but also the taxes on the capital stock invested in United States bonds or securities, which would amount to an immense sum each year. .w>?nr waII fmin^pri such obieetion could be or was, or how much truth there was in such objection, can be very clearly and easily seen by reference to the opinions of the United States supreme court, the highest court of appeals and the court of last resort, which have been rendered where simular .questions have been involved. The York Case. This same question has been raised in the very recent proceedings which were heard before Judge Geo. E. Prince, at Yorkville, and which were brought by certain banks in York county, one of which was a national bank, asking for an exemption from taxation by reason of the ownership by tie banks of certain nontaxable bonds, among which were United States bonds. All of the bonds involved in Uhe proceedings were, by the terms of their issue, exempt from State, county and municipal taxation. These banks claimed an exemption of m their capital stock from taxation by I reason of these provisions in the bazuls , 1 owned and held by the banks, and, in 4-V.^. aoon nf +Vir\ noflnnal KonV LUC VXbOU vt tUC V A\SJuLI*A UUrUit, A Vi.V4 A V\A to, the exemption was claimed as to the United States bonds held and owned by tine bank by reason of the alleged (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.)