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Aiken Mo \ jvii . Ciuuui . Senator Tillman's statement a few days ago in reference to the establishin ?n-t of the inw federal court, in the lis? t of t.:e facts known to all the delegation, is amazing and amazing. His painstaking effort to deny .me credit for the passage o my own -bill would seem to leave no question but that the underlying purpose of is article is to minimize my work in the interest cf seme one in whom :he may be more vitally interested. This r.aken in connection with the announced purpose of ' is own son to offer for congress in this district next term, might, in the minds of uncharitable people lend to the conclusion 1rat. the senator is using this juicy federal pie, indirectly, in the interest of still another of his personal or political family. Some people might t ink mat Mr. Byrnes' residence u smother district added something to the glory of his woork in the Senator's mind. That Congressman Bvrnes was iverv ective and helpful in the passage of the bill no one will deny; but that !he deserves more credit than I. its aut: or and promoter, he will not even claim, with his knowledge of the facts, r-. r> z^ ^ z _ .v^^ ^ J lur :vir. D^raejs is a uur miuutu ma.ii "\vho would not attempt unjustly to rob a colleague of that whicfc is due liim. 1 am charitable enough to believe that Senator Tillman could not havtj teen t oroughly conversant with the facts further than that Mr. Byrnes "was generally the mediary between the senate and the house negotiations, in ail or wnicn i\ir. ?*yrnes ana 1 naa a thorough understanding and a mutual interest along wifia all the other members o?f the delegation. Nothing is so distasteful to me as to recite my work as a public servant, and especially if, in doing so, there is the slightest seeming of taking augiu r-rpfHf- from ??iv r?f mv pollftasriifj?. However, the fact that 1 was the author of ti. e bill, coupled with tLe further fact f-at the senior senator, whom the State has honored exceptionally, and >ior whom I have entertained ^reat respect and ev$p admiration, sLould publish an article to an intents and purposes ignoring my part 111 its passage, y.ould at least call forth a public statement from me. I have waited several days before publishing this statement, in the vain hope that the senator in some of his addendums "would make amends lor what seems <fco-iiave been 5-is sin of omission if not of commission. Since he has not done so, "candor compels me" even with the more or less frequent use of the pronoun "I" to say a word in defense. T.ie fact is the effort to put through this new district bill has engaged tattention of the delegation lor mora tJ'ian two year-, tvith varying chances of success. Some months nrior to the last general election the whole scheme seemed to ::ave fallen to c..e ground "with little hope of resurrection. The chaiimsn of the judiciary committee 3n t; e house (Mr. Webb), was very much opposed to it and while he expressed a friendly sympathy wittn my efforts to obtain a favorable report on my bill, ue designated it as a steal, v / He said the data presented to the com mittce was totally insufficient.* Upon this hint, I went to work ,and dug up all the facts going to show ohat by comparison with other States, Soutii Carolina was entitled to anofc er district. whicj iacts 1 subsequently printed in the Record; and 1 say unhesi-i tatingly. but for this data, furnished j l>y me r ere would have been no favor- j able action on the bill in the house iiPd there would 1 ave been no new federal district courts in South Carolina. Senator Tillman claims credit for removing the opposition of the Republican leader in the house, whose inV ^ iluence in the press of time niigtlit have skilled the bill. The senator is utterly oblivious of b e fact that strong Republican influences in South Carolina j ?ad been brought to bear on Mr. Mann :to withdraw his opposition, as the newjudicial district was really a public necessity. So the question of wiho silenced Republican leader Mann, his Hepublican .friends in South Carolina, *or Senator Tillman, may be settled aside ?rom this controversy by those claiming t. e honor. ^Senator Tillman makes use of the following "broadside, in the beginning ?of Mm- published statement. "Wyatt Aiken introduced the bill early in fcbe lyearjbut it lay asleep in the judiciary committee of toe house. I introduced .Aiken's bill in the senate, and tried *o get it out of the judiciary committer Miiere, but failed because of an unfavorable report from tJbe attorney general and the objection of a Western senator whose State needed a 1 much more than Soutih Carolina." It 'would seem then, by his own admission, that his bill slept some, too. In) tact, it slept the sleep unto death, for "candor compels the admission" ahat it is the Aiken and not the IT.illman "bill tfcat has become law. A few facts immediately associated with the final k ikes Reply assaiie of the district, bill mis-'ht turn hp liiiht on at least ;l Mttlo more j ;vace than t' at seen from the sena| or's viewpoint. There are twenty-two senators now I serving in congress w ith whom ! i'lavo i served in the lower house. I ap| proached every one of these oil the : question of the bill ami after making i a fair presentation o. our case secured | either t'. eir support of it or their j premise not to-eppose it. senator vvais . j of .Montana was opposed to bill land 1 reached him*through Mr Evans, of Montana, who.^o office is next door to mine. Senator Overman, of North Carolina. j was opposed to ttie bill to ti e very I last, but a menV>er of the South Garoj lina. delegation, at iuv suggestion, got j Representative Page, of North Caroi !ina, to present the matter to Senator Overman, and in this way the senator's opposition was allayed. Senator Tillman seems to oe laooring under the impression tnai he handled both t5 e senate and the house in the management of tr.is bill, when if he had known the facts, he must have admitted that the senate action was directed to some extent by house influences, and tLat Senator Smith, too, rendered most valuable and telling assistance in the final passage of fche j act, which fact he seems entirely to have overlooked. Recurring to that profound sleep of my bill in the judiciary committee of 1 the house, I have already shown (cow | it became necessary to meet t?e oppo> sition, and especially of the chairman cf the committee, Mr. Webb, with a fuller statement of justifying figures in the interest of the bill. But even this did not allay t! e opposition of the chairman, and it was only 011 my I earnest personal appeal that he per mitted a favorable report on tihe bill. When the bill slept in the house judiciary committee, as Senator Tillman puts it, it was on the advice of Mr. Floyd, of Arkansas, chairman of t':e sub-committee in charge of the bill, not to push the bill then, but to wait j till tKe short session and he would do I V?io Kacf fni? o fomrQKln rfinnrf Q11 h. *-X * O UVOl LV/l Ck 4,tt* V/4 i VJ/V4 V? MUU sequent events proved the wisdom of the suggestion. In tfte closing hours of the session members were less critical about local affairs. Although Messrs. Mann, Republican, and Culiop, Democrat, objected to the immediate consideration of my bill, which temporarily took it off of the unanimous consent calendar, I oad the U:M x. i.? ^ ? i i. j,. _ 4- ^ ui.i pui uciv.'K uu uiai same t'ciieuuar 10 save time, as time was everything for 'J e life of the bill. (When I finail'* called up the bill Mr. Cullop did not object, but offered all amendment, as it was thought, with the hope of defeating it. It was to require the publication of t e names of endorsers of :pi:licants for judgships. I saw. no objection to the amendment, and so 1 accepted it, thereby silencing any objection that Mr. Cullop mi-g! t have to the bill. The fact is I nave nursed and petted the district bill till at times my patience has been well nigh exhausted. For instance, even after the bill had parsed the house at about 3 o'clock in t e afternoon, i immediately hur: *<" (! to the engrossing clerk and rged !i:rn to have it back on the speaker's table as early as possible. He said it vould be probably 8 o'clock at nig.:: before he could do this. [ would 'ake no denial, however, and stayed i 'v?ih him and had the bill returned to c e speaker's desk by 5 o'clock. Moments were golden and I stayed to see that none were lost. \Vf ile I was attending to this Mr. Byrnes said t' at he would go over and inform the senators that the bill had passed the house. Later I went to t? e senate and saw Senator Tillman and suggested to , 'Mr. Pyrnes and later to Senator Till-i Taa'i that as soon as my bill reached 1 tilo s-enate for him to move its passage J without reference to a committee. H* said fc-e would consult a senatorial friend, and later I saw him talking to Senator Gallinger, the Republican floor leader, presumably as to whether or -.i"t r. e procedure would be parlia mentary Senator Tillman, after claiming al! the credit for its passage, frankly admite that he did not expect it to pass, and we must take him at hi:; >;ord. Others did expect it to pass, because they knew the way had been smoother for its passage. In; order that Senator Tillman might get J t is Mil punctually alter it nad passed the house and been engrossed, I informed his clerk that the house engrossing clt'Tk 'bad promised me to sit riglu at hi? desk until Senator Tillman sent a page for him and the bill, and he said he would stay until day'ight if necessary. O P lr\ Vl An /\ /J/\f O i 1 n rt m a r\ f i n vi uuuior mc^r uuiaua <xl C nut iuteresting to ttbe public, but "candor compels'' their recital to prove, as the lawyers would say, "that I was around here w!~en the new district bill was daddied'." Senator (Tillman denies with a vehemence ^ordering on hysteria, that the parceling out of the court's positions ! was r. "faini'y ;i:a; cr." ! ; i: U M; . ! IViCLiOV. .1 . c ^uiioii Mt ;ii:e ! was >ortimiite and uni-al ei for, but I ! a!>:? t'r::k thai when Soiia.'or TiSl; man iv.< e;l into ; rint a:>o::t ii. hi* i si:ou!:i ;:ave been lr;mk and fair, li | is true that the parceliag out of the I r>ncit trvnv-^ nnf .'ami!v niilif* hiil" j Senator Tillman di -erven no ere Jit on ; that aceouiii. Kunior about i e eapitoi j had it that he be. anie very much i wrought up w> en ue could not exact I !a pledge that his son, 15. li. Tillman. ! Jr.. should have t! e clerkship. l presume he will not deny that for more than a ear his son, Henry ('. Tillman, counted confidently on being made assistant district attorney, upon w! ieh position he held so tight a s;rip as to he able to transfer it to '..is law partnner, -Mr, Mayes. It is state.! that j Senator Tillman's private secretary. j .j. i>. ivnigni, \m;i i:o apoiiuri'i ciitk. !i don't know whether Mr. Knight will be appointed or not, and I don't care, but the point 1 am trying to make is that w'.en Senator Tillman undertakes to make a statement in regard to this matter, he should not only tell t'":e truth, but the whole truth. Now, if I Cave failed to give due credit to others of my associates in congress in t!:e matter of the passage of the district bill, it has been for the reason that it would have drawn out this article entirely too long. They were all sympathetic and active as far as their time would permit in aiding in the passage of the federal district bill. Important committee work claimed ti e attention of some while Mr. Byrnes and I were engaged on details, but the delegation was of one mind for its passage. Of course Mr Johnson could not and did not take part in the work for the passage of the bill, as he fcad had intimation that he would be endorsed for the judgsl. ip. Mr. Lever was busily enga'ged an the committee of conference on the agricultural appropriation bill, and could spare but little time -from his work. Mr. Finley was similarly engaged on the conference committee on the post office appropriation bill, but motnriQllv in tho final nass?<?p I C*. IULU 11.1 4UUJ *u buv "wui of ti'ie bill. Mr. Whaley, with eve;, local reason for opposing the bill, ami against the protest of some of ' is home people, rendered invaluable service in many ways, and was especially lielpful in a parliamentary way. Mr. Johnson was endorsed for judge by the enttire delegation, wnue uiessrs. Thurmond and Lyon were named, the former by Senator Tillman, the latter by Senator Smit'b, under an agreement made at the opening of the Democratic ; congress, tl.at South Carolina representatives should leave the naming ; State-wide officers to t'ue two senators, ! while the senators should leave th" j naming of post masters to the repre' sentatives. And t:.ere I trust you hava j at least enough of the story of t e i passage of the district bill to con'ivince you that I was in Washington ' when my bill passed, which coulu j hardly have been inferred from reading I t t senator unmans puousnea siait1 ment. Respectfully, Wyatt Aiken. i Abbeville, S. C.. Marw 24, 1915. i NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT ' -Notice is nereDy given tnat me undersigned will make final settlement of t'e estate of Eloise H. Werts, a miner, in the probate court for Newberry county, State of South Carolina, on ! 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South Carolina, pc- j tkioiring and requesting i at an elec-j tion be -eld in said school district on the question of le.ying an additional special annual tax of two mills to be collected on the property located in the said school district:' Ynw thprAfrvrp rhp undprsisr-ned. composing the county board of education .for Newberry county. Soutn Carolina, do hereby order the board of trustees of t~e Whitmire school district No. 52, to hold an election on the said question of levying a two mill tax to be collected on the property located in the said school district, which said election shall be held -r-rtn. ?i ? __j. , yi ? :_t ax wuiiiixiire 50-001 iu/ust;. m miu sc-ool district No. 52, on Friday, April 9, 1915, at which election cbe polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. rn. The members of the hoard of trustees of said school district ahal] act as managers of said election. Only on/>Vi ?.1 a 5 in sr.h/wl district and return real or personal property for taxation, and which exhibit their tax receipt and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and such electors opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed t'bereon. Given under our bands and sea' on Maro- 1913. GEO. I). DROWN, S. .!. DMftaiOK, f o wrz t . - i i/* i* .*. o. vv i i * Count;.' Board o. Kaii I'.tion l'or NewLerrv County. 1 i WriCE OF ELECTION I> KlTiiEHFOiii) SCHOOL DISTRICT, ,\0. reas, one-third of the resident i electors p.nd a like proportion of th-31 resident ;rec. ciders of the i'.ge of' twenty-one years, of Rut c rford School , District, Xo. 23, o: the County of j Xcv/berry, State or. South Carolina. .:avc file j : petition with the County Board of Education of Xcv/berry Coun| ty, South Carolina, petitioning and re! questing that an election 'be held in i | said School District 0:1 the question cf levying a special annual tax of two j r, ills io be collected on property | lot. ted in the said So ool District: | Xow, therefore, the undersigned, i composing the County Board or Edu- 1 cation for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board j of Trustees of the Rutherford School i District, Xo. 23, to hold an election on !i All Forms of able Mileas Scrip Book; trastate Pai Effective Saturday, All Interchangeable milea forms Z. 33, SIM and Penr purchased) will be good, journeys in South Carolin at ticicet windows for pas with contract and tariff pr< Seaboard Air ftnntlwrn UVUU1VI u Carolina Atlantic & Csarleston & Westei Columbia Newberry \ ^ Atlantic Coast A /"I 1 A j\ ^aru t( of Rural Tel We are anxious to sec other parties and connecte condition as to furnish effi owners of rural lines are re rxra iirinf fa urit TT V 7T UiiL IV VV~V^V1?IV TT 11. 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Only such electors as reside in saiB fl | aor.al property .or taxation, and wj? f ex-libit their tax receipts and rep? tratior: certificates as required in ! eral flections, shall be allowed to vote.^^B | Electors favoring t e levy of suc'i tax ; si:all cast a baliot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and such elector opposed t.o such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Gi>ea under our Lands and seal on March 22, 101". -GEO. D. BROWN, S. J. DERRICK. T O fWtU.TWT IT 13 J. O. County Board of Education^ for Xe*.vbe'rry County, S. MH3EB8MBB?IWI HI I III I?* 4-nw/* l> o M /TA M Ill Id Lliailg C;e and Penny 5 Good for Inssage in S. C. March 20th, 1915 * ge and Penny Scrip books, ly Scrip (regardless of date within limit, for instance | M a by exchange of coupons sage tickets in accordance ^visions. 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