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L. XI. MA NNI NG, S. C.. IVE1) N E S 1) AY, FEBRUARY9.NO3 VIE CIIO0L TAN. The Senate Spends a Day and Night on It. NO EXTRA TO BE LEVIED. But the Senate Ordered the Apporticnment of the Dis pensary Funds to the Schools. Senator Hay's bill to fix the tenus of the free public Fchools. to provide for the support of the same and to regulate the disbursement of moneys arising fron the sale of liquors. eame up for consideration in the State senate 'iues day week. Senator Hay gavie a sue eiLct explanation of tie objects of the bill. Senator Scarborough moved to adopt the following substitute: L Strike out all after the enacting wor-s and inseit the following: -Section 1. That from and after the approval of this Act all revenue derived from the sale of alcoholie liquors in this State. under the disrersary law, shall be appor. ioned amorg the various coun ties of the State, for the benefi: of the common schools, in propuoruion to the enrollment of pupils in such :chools in the respective counties: and all fun ds derived from said dispensary law, not already disbursed. shall be apportioned in the same way. -- "Section 2. Such apport ionment shall be made by the Coml troller General. and he shall draw his v arrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the county treasurers of the respcue couiiines for the amounts apportirond to such counties respectively. Senator Brown, of Marion. ffered an amendment to make the term not less than six months instead of three months. lie made an excellent p:escutment of the merits of his amend ment. In conclusion Senator Brown said that the poor country districts will have to rely upon the State for years to come. The rich centres of wealth and popula tion will have to help. In a State like ours they live upon and derive their wealth from the country. Senator -ederson stated that he was as zealous as any one else in the matter of improving the common schools. but the Constitution prevented the Senate. at the outset, from origina ting bills to raise revenues. But. be sides that, the people were now taxeu enough and could not afford to pay more taxes. Besides the law provided that in addition to the three-mill tax for schools any s-hool district could levy a special tax for senool purposes and thereby keep open the schools for an extra time. Ile hoped the bill would bedefeated. Senator Brown. of Maiion. thought a half mill would be all the additional levy needed. Senator llenderson suggested that should the dispensary law be done away with or the State go for prohibition the Comptroller General would have the power, under the protisionsof this bill, to order the levy, Ile opposed this. Senator Brown. of 3Marion, thought that in the circumstances there would be no objection. Senator Rlagsdale thought there would be no objection. rhe peoplei were al ready taxed until they complained. Senator Barnwell said he could not vote for Senator iLay-s bil! beca'use ihe was of' opinion that it was uniconstitu tional. and for the sam ' reason lhe was opposed to Senator Scarboroughs sub stitute bill. The substitute was to dis tribute the funds and fix the term for schools. It was a wise provision of the Constitution that distributed tile fund so thlat the term would be th~e same all over the Statte. and the poorer eoun ties would receive benefit from the rich. It looked like nullifying the Constitution to pass this bill. Senator Scarborough said lhe would not go into the constitutionality of the uestion. Ie did not thlink tihe provis ionsof the Constitur ion were mandatory on the Legislature to fix a term for the schools to run. le did niot think it was expedient to raise: a tax at tnis time to support the schools ior a definite pe riod. It was not because there was op position to free schlQS. bttt there was suffering on account financial stringren ~Senator Rlagsdale opposed thle buill. lie also thought it uneonstutional and read from the Cons:itution the panra graphs affecting the question. The Constitution did no. autho~rize an ap portionment by enrolhnent. as proposed y the substitute. The law said it riust be apportioned in aid of the sup p~leentary tax. Senator Ihenderson said that the de' ieiency had been paid up. The thre<. dollars per eapita had been paid in. and it was now proposed to distributte th<( fund. Senator Walker said lhe yielded to mi one in his desire to see this State up ifted by education. Il Ichought tha the unconstitutionality had nothing tt do with the case. lie thougrht that oa< important point hlas been lost sight of lie thought that this Legislature wa: prohibited from levying tihe tax uniti ~e per capita tax was distributed. Th< tar could not be levied unless there wa: a deficiency. ie thought the substi i ate constitutional. Thetfinancial statu: f the State is that such that tihe Sena t.rs dare nit do anything that woult rarease taxes. The burden was nov heavy enough. I Ie did not think then x as any mandate that the term be fixed lIe thought the substitute covered thu w hole matter. Senator Ilenderson tho~uuht it wouhi i-well if the Senate would bear it mind the constitutional argument i: e neetion withl a little histo~ry. vo years algo Comprntroller General Nr .n ren sed to make a lery and said .i t tnt il thle whole school funi abefore makinrg aln adiit ional levyv. an he aettu dwisely. Senator .heppard said that the hegal it c of the Comptroller's action was sti] in the Cou~rts. and asked what woul Sth-.: efte if the Courts decide, enrct: Illendersoni replI id that th I,.zisl ture can anow prews~ri e how t hi miner should be paid out. Seator MIauldin said that as ther was such a di Iference of opi nion bet wee the members of the legal fraternity hi .enator Mayfield thought that all could agree that if it was undertaken to make a scheme to fix terms it would be more dificuit than the proposition to distribute this fund. Senator Scarborough moved to table Senator )lhmldin's motion to adjourn the debate. His motion prevailed and the debate was continued. Senatcor Hay opposed the amendment to make the term six months instead of two. lie favored amending the bill so that the Superintendent of Education would have to report to the Legislature what deficiency existed, and then the Legislature could provide for the defici ency. Then the contention that bills carrying revenues could not originate in the Senate could be gotten around. Senator Archer thought that if it had been a !ucstion of dividing one hun dred thousand dollars among the coni 111011 schools it would not have taken half an hour. lie thought the Sear boroli subetitute all right and would vote for it. Senator Sheppard agreed with Sela tor lBarnwell. lie thought the bill and the substitute unconstitutional. and he did not wish the General Assembly to come in conflict with the Supreme Court. for the Supreme Court generally w% on. The last Legislature had already decided what should be done with this fund. and until lie found out whether this question was now before the Su preme Court or not he could not vote for the substitute. Senator llagsdale renewed his motion to indefinitely postpone the bill. lIy a vote of 29 to S the Senate re fused to rostpone the bill. Senator Searborough moved to strike out all but the enacting words of the bill anii the adoption of the substitute. Ye'as--Alexander, Archer. lilakeney, Bmowen, G. W'. Blrown. Connor, Dean. )ennis. Douh.zss. Glenn. Graydon. lentiion. HIoughi. Love. 31anning. Vlayiield. Sarratt. Scarborough. Stan lrnd. Suddath. Sullivan. Walker and Williams 24. Nays-Aldrich, Appelt, larnwell. W. . lrowin. Gruber, Ilay, Ilderton, Liviug-ston. MIarshall. Mauldin. Rags dale, Sheppard and Talbird-13. Senator Gruber offered an amend nient that thereafter the public schools of the State should be kept open for at least six months in the year. Senator Brown, of Marion, offered as a substitute that when such apportion ment could not keep open the schools for six months that an additional levy be made for that purpose. Senator Scar borough moved to. table. Carried by a vote of 28 to S. WILL NOT BOLT BRYAN. Whoever the Candidate Tammany Hall Will be Loyal. 31r. Oliver H1. P. Belmont's paper. the New York Verdict, contained a sig nificant editori21lastweek. It declares that. though :nreity opposed to free silver as an issue next year. Tammany Ilall will loyal r support the candidate and platforn of the Democratic Party. as it has always done heretofore. The \erdiet says on this point: "If Bryan is named in 1900. Croker will be for him: Tammany Hall will be for him. Personally. Croker deems high and well for lBryan. He holds himn a leader ofirea.dth and force and truth. Croker may differ from Bryan on finance or some other question of politics. but lhe yields him his w~hole respect. And if Biryau should again be the choice of a national convention, whoever else nay fail him were he the last in the lines, Bsryan would hate the titter support of Croker to win his vic tory. Croker never bolted and he nev <r wrill. Tammany never bolted and never will. They both stood for Cleve land in '92, and that means that no man no day. will ever come when either Croker or Tamimany will be found out side the ranks of the Democracy. Croker is not for silver. That need not separate him from his party in 1900,; it didn't in 1896.' Further. the Verdict hints at a scheme of the deposed leader, Sheehan, now out for silver, to set up a contest ing delegation to the next national con vention, and wvarns the D~emocracy of the country to beware of the man. Ex-Senator lull, it is intimated, is giving encouragement to the Sheehan scheme. thotigh Ilill bimself' abandoned Biryan at the last moment in the mem orable silver campaign. Concluding, TIhe Verdict says: --Frs and last, the party interests lies in full reliance on the liemocracy that never yet failed the national ticket: and it in no sort runs w ith anv Ihill-led clique. who. without parity following or party force, speak for nobody stand for nothing but them selves. Passed the House. A bill with regard to trespassing on land, which was passed by the Ilouse on Tuesday, naakes entry on land, "after not ice by the owner or tenant 7,hibi ting the same," a misdemeanor, pun ishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. or imprisonment with hard labor on tile public works not ex (eeding thirty days, and adds: "Pro vided. that whenever any owner or tenant of any land shall post a notice in four conspicuous places on the bon ders of any land prohibiting entry therc in, or shall publish once a week for thiree successive weeks such notice in any newspaper circulating in the coun ty where suchi lands are situate, a proof of the posting or publishing of such notice witnin twelve months prior to the entry shiall be deemed and taken as noii) conclusive against the person ma king the entry as aforesaid. A Good Headsman. ThIe h andiest man with the axe in this~ par of the country is M1ayor M1y. ofhis administration he hacked off the heatds oft au even dozen of city officials, bigo and little, and then lie paused to catch his breath. How many more fa tlities there will be no one can tell. r: 't is fair to assume that the 3Iayor wi not -top until he finishes the job. H~e believes that ''to the victors belont the spoils." and lie will not let any ol the spoils. get away. Powder PressIill Explodes. Th ' re s mill 'f the Ohio l'owd.ei compny~' s works, located about foul miles northI of Youngstown. exlloded shortlyV before noon. Wednesday killint two empIloyes. Evani Evans and Henr' Dams and totally demolishing th< AGAINST ALLIANCE. Prominent Prohibitionists Urge Their State Platform. MUST BE NO COMPROMISE. Members of the Legislature are Asked to Stand for Prohibi tion Principle Against all Opposition. A number of prominent prohibition ists have issued an address to the pro hibition members of the general assem bly urging their supipert of a straight prohibition measure without aiV Cm promise or combination with luc:al p tion forces. ie first signer of the ad dress, it will be noticed. is lion. L. ID. Childs, who was the prohibition lader in the legislature last session. IL is said that the members of the gneril i assembly who are clas-el as prohibi tionists will stand together and su port Mr. McCullough's bill or somUe siilar leasuie. There are thoiuht to be not less thau 20 prohibitionists in the house and how many there are in the senate is nut known. The address is as f llowN: To the Prohibition Members of the General AssI nbly. Gentlemion: llecent developmients of a desire and purpose on the part ol tie friends of he liquor traie to draw vmi into a false and inconsistent lt-iien tO ward the issue now before the le&i-h ture and to divert your acknowl:iged lufluence in that, body fr'm thle su port of prohibition to thitam of the i quor traife, hias iipressed upon us the duty of given expression ti our views (f the situation, for which we deei no apology necessary. We respeetfully suggest that wiat ever may be individual opinions on th is subject. and however conscientiou ly entertained, their correctness and value in guiding loyal prohibition ists nmiust be determined by their agreiicnt with the platform of their convention as a body represcnting the prohibitionists of the State. That convention in April last dis tinctly announced its opposition to every form of liquor selling for bever age purposes and to any le tl sanction of such sales by dispensary, high li cense or any other agency. Inon that platform its candidates for State offices entered the eampaign and earnestly contesting the views uf those candidates representing the dis pensary, local option and license. they proclaimed as the doctrine of the pro hibitionists that a prohibition law for the whole State was the only remedy for the evils of the liquor traffic. Upon that issue the camupaiglr was fought and resulted in the eliinnation of the local-option-high. licence idea from the contest by a decisive v,.te t)f the people in the first primary. and their deternmin. tion that the final coD test should be between prohibition and the dispensary. The attitude of the prohibition can didate throughout that campaign was one of unswerving devotion to prohibi tion as a principle, and this. with the high plane on which his canvass was conducted. called forth the grateful ad miration of his friends ar.d forced from his opponents the highest commenda tions for hiimsclf and his cause. In several counties members of the general assembly were elected over lo cal option license candidates because of their adherance to the doctrine of prohibition announced by the conven tion while in other counties, also. where no issue was made candidates were elected whose views were known to be in harmony. on this issue, with those annonneed by the convention. The number of these prohibitionists in the general assembly is bclieved to be sufiient to constitute the "balance" without which the dispensary cannot be perpetuated nor license legislation sucured. In this condition of affairs the advo cates of license are making the most strenuous efforts to secure the coopera tion of the prohibitionists in their ef fort to enaet what they are pleased to call local option, to effect which three bills arc now on their passage .through the house. Plausible pleas are offered by these local option advocates to in duce the filends of prohibition to for sake their principles and join with them in the inanguration of a system which they claim will be benefial to all. We do not prop~ose to poit out the fallacy of this claim in theory and fact. We would briefly submit that whatever may be the benefits of local option when used as an agency for the deliverance of a community from the curse of the li uor traffic, these claims fail when it is distinctly proposed for your support by th friends of the liquor traffic. ocu the opponents of prohibition, as a means of securing the license of the liquor tralie in certain countie-s of the State whe-re it dees not now exist and where it cannot exist without your aid. This sup~port is based on a temporising, temp orary policy of expediency and necessarily im volves a compromise of your pirincilles as prohibitionists. I t is the commner~-ial mehod of dealing with the traffi andl should be left with the trading politi cians who resort to) it. It piroiposes to set aside prohibition in the iinterest of law-defying cliques and schemes andat the opportunec time, when it huas dc moralized the public sentiment t its own plane, to offer it up as a sacriti~ to the liquor Moloch and sprinkle its blood upon all the high places where sin hoids its carnival. It Isroposes to ignore the eternal distinction between right and wrong by endorsing wrong and legalizing it. It makes a majority Ivote the authority by which what is declared a wrong in one coutnty is madw~e right in another, or what is wronig at one time in sine coiunty is made right at another time in the same county. I t proposes to grant the protectioni which prohibition of the lijuor trathc miay se -ure to life, health and miorals in one county, and by the same means in the adjacent county to grant the license to individuals to invade the rights and set -jat naught the pirotectioni thus scoured. We regret the necessity whi-h has been forced upon us of protesting thus publicly against the advice of sine of our most prominent counsellors wvho favr an alliance with the friends sot the liquor traffic under the name of lo Ie colratrued ami an approval of tis al liance and used to e promote it. we are constrained by a sense of duty to our solves and to the thousands of loyal prohibitionists wlo have pit tlieiselves on record as opposed to the liquor t-I' tie by local option or otherwise, to set forth these views and earnestly urge upon you not to lend your influence to any alliance with local option license advocates in the general assenbly in securing legislation which must inevi tably prove disastrous to prohibition and fasten upon us the evils of a i quor system for an indefinite time to come. L. 1). Childs. Ge'. 11. Waddell, C. 1). Stanley. W. R llichardson. .Jolin 31. Pike. Id itor \av of Faith. Thios. J. LaM otte. lobt. MI. Adam, S. II. Zimmerman. .iohin A. Ric6.. .John 0. Wilson. .1- C. Abney. EATEN BY SAVAGES. The Hor ible Fate of Eleven Ship wrecked Sailors. Alter ese: piing deati by dr -owni ng. eleven of the crew of the ship Marbare were capt ured and eaten by cannibals of New G uinac. The 1anbare was bound for Sydiiey. Australia. when it was cauglit in the terrible gale of I Decenm ber. Near Ca:e Nelson it began to sink. The crev. eihteen all told, lert the vesscl ina tiwo boats and soon became sepainted. One.- boat containiing twelve iuen was finally thron it as.ore ten miles from the aIpe. Tho sailors were seized by natives friomi t lie interior ard hurried off to tie villoge of the chiefs. One ma1:1n1. .hnes a Gr " I-eene. escaped. The sailors were stripped and bound, and killed, one cach day. A wild orgic was participated in by at least a hundred savages who had gathered for the feast. In several cases the sailor:- were tor tured by the old women and children of the tribe. The eyes Af one were gouged out. The doomed men stoical ly watched the elaborate preparations for their death. A huge pot filled with boiling water was used for the feast' which ou the first day was prolonged away into the ni.ht. li iost eases the men were behead ed. their headI buing plaeed of! poles and paraded before the men who were to suffer the same fate. Greene was rescued by a steamer after tramping without food a day and a night to reach the coast. The scenes of horror lie had witnessed turned his hair snowy white. Wants to Get Out. A letter from llavana to The State say_ t he men of the Second sayegiment are circulating another petition asking our representatives in congress to use their utimost influence to have tie regiment mustered out at an early da te. There are several reasons set forth why this should he done. Lhe men are mostly farmers and would like to get out in time to plant a erop or they will be left high and dry when they are mustered out. Then. too, there is no chance to save any money here and there are those at home who are dependent upon these men for support. Again there seems to be nothing here to do but to sun the rocks. There is nothing that can be done. There are provost guards at every crook in the road. and consequent ly nothing can be learned of the pieople or of the county except in a very small area. The men are not allowed to visit the city at all. Another is that most of the mien have gotten enough of army life. They are realizing that it is most demoralizing to themr and they wish to quit. Then. too. this climate is not healty, and they do not care to expose themstives to needless danger when there is absolutely nothing at stake. No Tax Exemption. After one of the ablest debaites pro and con ever heard in the state capital the senate Thursday by the decisive vote of 24 to 14 refused to p~ass a bill to "aid and enicourage manufacturers by remitting all State and county taxes, excepit the school tax. on their invest ment for five years.' The followim:e is the vote: For Exemp jtion-Aldrichi. Alexan der, (. W. Browvn. llay. hfenderson, Livingston. M1anning. Marshall. Maul din. May field. Scarborough. Stanlan rd. Talbird. Walker-14. Against Exemnption-Appelt. Arch er. Barnwell, Blakeney. liowen. W. A. Birown. Connor. Dennis. D~ouglass. Glenn,. ra ydoti. Gruiber. Ilough, Ilder toii, Live. Mlower. I lagsdale. Sarratt. Sheppard. Studdath. Sullivan. Wallace. Wilier. Wiiliamis. --21 nays. Too Much Snow. Inflormiation has been received hecie by Supt. lHidge~way of the D enver and lHio (Gratnde lHail road compar~y that a snowslide on its iline nine miles east of Glenawoodl Springs today cameii down on ~ top if a work train. wreeking th( en 'iine and ears antd kill ing three of tile wrecking i crew anid injutring t we i other s. a Ii remani and a section hand. Snow is falling~ again thiroughout the. Mtate and there is great sufferin. At eeral places there is dangver of a famnine *w ing to shiortage of suppljiies and tihe itu possibl iity ofleevn ad at~ preent. A Remarkable Case. \ di p1atchi from (Chiicageo says Gaeorge Rogers. whoi was known in ihe vriiity in whi chi lie livedl as the ". - gie mnan.' died Wedlnesday in the conn ty hosipi tal of a rare <iiscase, which the physicians have cailled acromegaly. swell ing of the hones. Hiis hands and feet w ere greatly swinllen. and his jaw was overi four tin~ee4 the normal lengh. he istuee romthefrontal hone to the chin in the( iirdin ry man is eighit to ten inches, and in Iii ers I t his had grwn to so inches Burned Himself Alive. Anithojny Burgie, a seven-vear' il in the~ San Francisco jail, W~ednesday secured somne coal oil froni the store wh ichf was usid to heat tihe i'ell and pour1ed it ov.er hiis c'ilies while the other pirisonuers were asleep. fle then iited the oil and in a few seconds his by as eniveloped in fhames. The cellI caughit tire and the sleeping cell mates were barely saved by the guards. Hur THE PRIVILEGE TAX. tt Is Taken From Clemson and Given to the State. THE TAX REMAIN THE SAME. The Farmers College Must Now Depend Upon a Direct Appro priation Like the Other State Colleges. The privilege tax matter was finally settled in the House last Wednesday by the passage of a bill taking the tax from Clemson College and giving it to the State. The judiciary committee's bill passed without a single change. and the other bills were either killed or with drawn. 'I his matter has consumed over seven hours of the time of the lower house. and it is not known yet whether or not it is finally disposed of, as the senate may Lave some changes to make. There were six bills on this question: Mr. Ashley's to reduce the rate from 25 to 1) cents a ton: Mr. Jeremiah Smith. to devote the net proceeds to academic schools, one to be established in each county: t he committee on public schools oiffered a sul.stitute for the latter that the next proceeds be devoted to the public. schools: Mr. Efird wanted the net proceeds divided between Withrop and Clemson, and thejudiciary commit tee's lill place tL tax in the State treasury. 1'he judiciary committee, in taking the fund from Clemson. had for its ob ject the enaction of a law which would conform to the constitution of the VuiIted States. At present the fund is paid directly to Clemson college. and in the case in North Carolina it has been decided that the law was unconstitu tional. -s it exacted a tax noaminally for inspection, and then devoted the net proceeds to educational institutions. The law in Nortlh Carolina was changed so that on it.' face it would be constitu tional and still permit the funds being devoted to the State Agricultural and 31elhanical college at Raleigh. Fearing.litigation from the present law. the jadiciary committee prepared a bill whieh had the same object as the law in North Carolina, to save the rey mue obtained froin this inspection tax and still have a law which is not vul nerable to the constitution. As the judiciary. committee bill was adopted wihout amendment. Clemson must de pend upon a direct appropriation from the general treasury just as other State institutions are doing. As the net in cone from the privilege tax may be considerably more than the. appropria tion recomimendle-ed-40.000-tlie. State will-hardly suffer from the change in the law. but niayV gain, as -it has been in timiated there has been evtravafance at Clemson. iring the discission of the bill Mr. Ashlev moved that the tax le reduced from 25 to 1ll cents. This was voted down by the following vote: Yeas-Ashley, Bailey, J. B. Black, W. I. Black. Cosarove. Crum. - Dar gau. Da~wling, N. G, Evans. Floyd. Gamble. Gantt, Gause Henderson, Hill. Hoffmneyer, Jackson, Jenkins, Lofton, Lyles. 3Mann, Marion, Laban MIauldin. )Jiley. Patterson, HI. B. Richardson, C. E.' Robinson, R. B. A. Robinson, Sawyer Seabroek, Simkins, Sinkler, G. P, Smith, Jeremiah Smith, J. L. Smith. Strom, W. J. Thomas, West, Wharton, Wilson, Wimberly. II. HI. Woodward, Yeung-43. Nays-Speaker Gary, b'acot, Bell, Blease. Blythe. Bolts. Caughman, Col cock. D~avis. Dean. D)eBruhl. Dendy. Dukes, Efird. Epps, Fairey, Graham, ilollis, llopkins. Ilydrick, HI. E. John son, W. .J. Johnson Lockwood, Man ning. McCraw, 3IcCullough, McDill. McIow, McLauchlin. Means, Mehrtens M ontgomery, Moss, Patton. Peurifoy, Pyatt, lE. B. Rlagsdale. Richards, G. W. Richardson, Rogers Sharpe, Stackhouse Steduson. Sturkie. W. 1I. Thomas, Threatt. Timnierman. X'erner. Whison ant. Williams. Wingo. Winkler Wolfe, Wyehe-- 53. Mr. Blythie then moved that the tax be given to Clemson College as at pr'e sent. TIhis was voted down by the fol Yeas- bailey. J. BI. Black, Blythe, Bolts. Caughman. Crum, Dowling. Dukes, E'pps, Fairy, dadsden, Gantt, Giaham, Hill, Hlolhis, Hopkins, HI. E. Johnoon. Lockwood. Lofton, Manning, Mctraw, Miley, Prince, Richards, Geo. Wi. Richardson. R. B. A. Robinson. Stakhouse. W. 11. Thomas, Verner, West, Weston, Wingo, Winkler. Wolfe. Wychle-oM. Nays-Speaker Gary, Ashley, Bacot. Bell, W. D). Black, Blease, Cosgrove. Cross, Dargan. Davis Dean. DeBruhl, Dendy, Efird, N. (. Evans. Floyd. Gamble. Ga use, Henderson. Hoffmneyer. Hlydriek. Jackson, Jenkins. W. J. Johnson..Lyles, Mann, Marion. Laban. Mauldin. Williami L. Mauldin, McCul loughi, Mclill, McDow, Means, Mehrt ens, Montgomnery, Moss. Nettles, Pat terson. Pemurif'oy. E. B. Ragsdale. J. Wi . esdae. Henry B. Richardson, C. E. Robinson, Rogers, Sawyer. Seabrook, Sharpe. Simkins. Sinkler. G. P. Smith, deremniah Smith. .J. L. Smith. Steven son, -trom. Sturkie, Timmerman, Wha~ rton. Whisonant. WVilliams. Wil son. Wiiberly. 11. H1. W'ooda'ard. Young -t:1. The .judiciary cmmiittee bill was then taken up and passed to its third reading by a vote of 61 to 29'. there be no change in lie bill. It is quite a long' document, but one which may' play a great part in, the political canm pigns of the future. it. p.rovides for the inispectiioni of aill fertilizers and establishes a penalty for selling and ransportinog lerti'izer s upon which ther'e is not a tag, or' cer tiicate as to thei r purity. Tlhese are the provisionis of the present law. The only radical chanuge is the following which is to take the place of' sectioni 11:::. revised stat utes of 14 IAll thle inspection tax on lertilize., heretofere rec1gired to) be paid to the commissionier o1f agriculture, be piaid to the treasurer of the State. anid he shall liaY therefrom the expenses and anal vsis as audited andl certified ti him by thte board of trustees of Clemson Agri eultural college oh' South Carolina. The first~ eanmp meeting in the Enited States was held on the banks of the K'fd River. Kentucky. in the ILLEGAL FISHING. The Penalty for Same Increased to Twenty-five Dollars. In the House on Tuesday of last week Mr. Blease moved to strike out the enacting words of Mr. W. D. Black's bill to increase the penalty on fishing in Aiken, Barnwell, Darlington, Colleton, and Orangeburg counties, from $10 to .25 Mr. Cruni said that the penalty was now but ten dollars which was no me nace to trap fishers. Mr. Dukes said that to make this penalty heavier would not add to the enforcement of the law, for an unpepu lar measure cannot be easily enforced. Mr. Blythe said that it seemed to be a good bill. and while it did not affect his section still he thought that he should support it. Mr. W. D. Black said that trap fish ers could in one night make enough to pay the fine of ten dollars. The law is being violated openly and he thought this bill would offer a restraint. Mr. McLauchlin spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Timmerman said that when the present law was passed in 1892 the peo ple of Aiken felt outraged. The law now imposes a fine of from $10 to $100. Mr. Crum said that there were see tioas where the people mnade their liv iag by fishing. Mr. Dukes interposed, 'But not dis honestly." Mr. Crum replied: "Not dishonestly. but illegally." le recited an instance where an official had been given a good drubbing by fishermen whom he had caught violating the laiv. Mr. Dukes said quite feelingly that the incident happened in Mr. Crum's own county, Bamberg. 31. Crum submitted that illegal fish ing was just as widespread in Orange burg as in Bamberg. Mr. Dukes explained the manner of fishing on the Edisto. The seines don't stretch across the river and don't keep. the fish from going t;p. The seines are never in the river longer than 10 min utes at a time, and out 40 minutes. As a general rule the poorer class does the fishing, a class who could ill afford to pay heavy fines. Mr. Jenkins asked if the fine would injure them if they obeyed the law. Mr. Dukes said not, but that it would induce unscrupulous men to bring false charges against these people. The house. refused to strike out the enacting words. Mr. Bell then wanted to amend by exempting Aiken county. Mr. Dukes wanted Orangeburg ex empted. Mr. Crumi said that as Bamberg was just across the river from Orangeburg, it would be unjust to Bamberg oounty to exempt Orangeburg. The house re fused to exempt both Aiken and Orange burg, Mr. Sawyer moved to strike out the clause offering three-fourths of the fine to the informant. Mr. Crum moved to table the amend ment. The amendment of Mr. Sawyer was voted down. . Mr. Dukes moved to indefinitely post pone the bill. This was voted down by a vote of 49 to 15 and the bill passed its second reading. Crushed to Death. The news reached here Wednesday morning of the horrible death at Char lotte of flagman C. G. Craig, which was a great shock to railroad men. Just how Mr. Craig met his death is not known, He left here with freight No. 72, Tues day at noon, and it is presumed that he reached Charlotte that night between 10 and 11 o'clock. The train stopped and shifted at the junction. When the conductor was ready to leave the flagman was missing. One of the crew wdnt back to look for him and found the body on the track, between the cars, in a horribly mangled condition. lie lived only ten minutes. No one saw him go between the cars and the accident cannot be explained. When last seen he had two coupling pins in his hands. The remains were gathered up and put in charge of an undertaker and Thursday they were shipped to his former home in Gastonia, N. C. The Whole Truth. The Gallatin, Tenn., Examiner re marks: "An idea prevails in the minds of a great many people that unless their representive in the Legislature introduces a number of bills and gets his name in the papers he is not doing anything. But to those who under stand the situation the best recommen dation he can have is that he intro duces as few as possible and kills as many as he can. for we have too many laws already, and it is generally the representative who knows the least that introduces the most bills. Let us have as few new laws as possible. and the people will be better off." The evil appears to be widespread. Suicided on the Street. Ernest A. Maletti, said to belong to a wealthy New Orleans family. commit ted suicide Thursday by swallowing carbolic acid while walking on the street in New York. A letter was found on his body addressed to Henry Maletti of the commission firm of Ma letti & Stoddard of New Orleans. whom the suicide addressed as his brother. Another letter was found addressed to Mr. Edye of Funch. Edye & Co., steam ship agents in New York. In both let ters the man complained that financial aid had been refused him. Mr. Edye said that Maletti came to New York several months ago. Passed the Senate. A house hill to require cotton buyers to atcept bales of cotton weighing not less than 800 pounds without docking the seller $1 or any osher amonut on a'ceount of the lighitness of the bale, called for~i a good deal of discussion in the State Se'nate Wednesday. Mesars. Graydon. Surratt, Coqnor and Shep pard favored the bill and Mr. Barnwell opposedC1 it. The bill was passed to al third reading. Coming Out Early. 'The informnatio n comes from Col umn bia that Congressman Latinier will be a candidate for Governor next year, ais also Col. ,John G. Sheppard. It is re ported that lon..Stanyarne Wilson will either oppose Senator Tillman or enter the gubernatorial arena, but of course these are mere surmises. as no one can tell what surparises the next campaign will bring forth. THE RAI4ROAD BOOM. Railroad Projects which have Bills Be fore the General Assembly. The influx of bills to amend old rail road charters or to issue new ones seems to indicate a markel revival in the building of railroads in this State. It is a very uncommon thing to find half so many applications for charters for railroads. In addition to the charters and extensions asked for it is to be re membered that there are a great many outstanding charters which are still alive and which can be and of which some are being used now. The following is a list of the railroad projects for which bills have been pass ed this session of the Legislature or which are pending: Mr. Iogers: A charter for the Ben nettsvi'le and Ashborn Railroad. Mr. Gadsden: For the Charleston city Railway comnpany. Mr. Coleock: For the Savannah Ter minal company. Senator Marshall: For the Columbia Electric Street Railroad Company. Senator Henderson: For the Wilson and Sumnierton railroad. Senator Mauldin: For the Hampton and Branchville Railroad company. Mr. Montgomery: For the Carolina aud Northern Railroad company. Mr. Rogers: For the Marlboro. Mari on and Horry Railroad company. Senator Aldrich: For the Barnwell and Blackville Electric lower com pany. Mr. DeBruhl: For the Due Wsst and Donald's Railroad comipany. Mr. Stevenson: For t-he Noith and South Carolina Railroad Company. Senator Douglass: For the Unioa and Augusta Railroad company. Seriator Marshall: For the Win.ton, Salem and Carolina Railroad company. Senator Barnwell: For the South Carolina and Georgia Extension Rhil road company. Mr. C. E. Robinson: For the Pick ens and Coleman Railroad company. THE CUBAN ARMY. The Amount Needed to Pay Them Up in Full. The correspondent of the Associated Press understands that the ostimate furnished President McKinley by the delegation from the Cuban assembly called for payment for 5,119 commis sioned officers. 9.762 non commissioned officers, and 3.160 privates, divided as follows, with totals estimated as due eack gradet Eleven major generals. $500'a month $179,450. Nineteen generals of division. *450 a month. $296.175. Fifty-four brigadicr generals. $400 a month. S.825. One hundred and sixty-three colonels $325 a month 1.491.750. Two hundred and ninety lieutenant colonels. $275 a month. -*32..3G.800. Five hundred and seventy-eight ma jors, $220 a month, $3.870,240. Nine hundred and sixty-five captains $130 a month. $4.5G1.S00. One-thousand two liundred and forty five lieutenants. $100 a month. $3.763, 200. One thousand. seven hundred and ninety-four sub-lieutenants. $90 a month, $4,958,880). Two thousand. one hundred and thirty first sergeants. Si;0 a month. $3, 796,200. Three thousaud. one hundred and twenty-three second sergeants. $50 a month. $4,605,600. Four- thousand, five hundred and nine corporals, $40. a month, $5.23S.240. Thirty thousand, one hundred and sixty privates. $30. a month, $21,502, 520. 'I otal. 44.041 men. 873430 It is doubtful whether as many men still under arms can be found as was estimated by the assembly's delegation. Large numbers. however, are scattered throughout tihe'island, though there is no great force at any one place. Gen. Gomiez, has only 400 with him here. Lawless Negro Troops. The Negro~ troops have been giving great trouble in Arkansas and Georgia by their lawless acts and general rowd ism. As the regiment from Arkansas passed through Inka. Miss., some un known persons set fire to the ammuni tion car, which was almost filled with cartridges and powder. It was entirely destroyed and the rest of the train was barely saved. Three Negro wonien, who were following thie troopers, are re ported to have been ki'lled in the burn ing car. A dozen of the men were in jured. .At Walker switch the burning car was discovered by trainmen and side-tracked. The lives of the crew were in danger. as the cartridges were exploding in every direction. By the time the switch was reached the car was a mass of flames. The loss will be heavy. Predicted His Own Death. Rev. Geo. II Simons, of Brooklyn. predicted his own death, which occurred Wednesday of pneumonia. Last De cember during heavy snow storms, he visited a sick child and caught a chill. Since thenfte has been ailing and Wed nesdhy was quite feeble, but was not apparently in any immediate danger. To his wife. however. who was sitting in the room, he said, for no apparent reason: '"My dear. I(do not believe that I will live after midnighit. A Fatal Snow Slidle. I).tails were received Thursday of a fatal snow slide on the mair line of the Canadian Pacific at Rir Pass~ on the summnit of Selkirks. The catas trohe occurred laK evenug Ihe Round llouse and station were com pletly .swept away, and -"ven lives were lwt. anud two persons injured. Th'e dead are Ageot Canto. wdie and two children. O pcrator C ar-o. I'ngine Wiper Repldy and one unknown. Leprosy in America. A special from Battle Creek says hat I r. Iitt. a physicien from India. at presenit visiting in this city stated that there are 5:2 cases of leprosy in the United :-4ates. 10 of which. are in Chicago. The doctor has made a life study of leprosy and recommends that our quarantine laws be more rigidly en forgd, and believes in the establish me~of a-geoeral asylumu in this coun SMOOTH BUNCO GAME How a Farmer Put the Laugh on a Shrewd Hotel Clerk. THE CONFIDENCE MAN CAME Cashed a Draft for a Bunco Man and Bet the Clerk that He Would Come and Redeem It. "I was standing in the rotundaef one of the uptown hotels in New York last Saturday night," said Mr. 0. D. Stev ens, a leather drummer from the -met ropolis, "when an old gentlemen with hayseed in his whiskers came in. He looked about for a moment; and then walked up to the clerk's desk, -fished a card from his pocket, and thrusting it into the hands of that official, asked: "'Mister, do you know that man?" "The clerk glanced at it, and smiled. For he read thereon a name worn by one of the smoothest of the many con fidence men who have sprung up since the beginning of the 'anti-reform' ad ministration. Then he said: "'Yes, I know him, sir-I dare say he had you cash a certified check for him, or something of that sort?" "Yes he did,' said the old gentle man. wonderingly. 'How did you know?" "The clerk smiled. "ile said he would meet me here tonight and take it up,' continued the vietim. "I don't think he will, though, said the clerk. *But I do," said the old gentleman, "for he looked to me like an honest man, and I am a good judge of human nature." "All right, sir," said the clerk, "just have a seat and wait, if you will." "The old man came over and sat be side me. I entered - into conversation with him, and discovered that he was a well-to do Long Island farmer. The 'con' man in question had met him a few days before, and ingratiated him self in the old man's confidence, and induced him to cash a check-the old man showed me the paper. "After about an hour the old man went back to the desk and asked: ".Have you seen anything of him yet." "No. said the clerk, and it isn't Rke ly thatI will." "The old genialeman came back. He waited about fifteen minutes, then went. to the clerk again, and made another inquiry. 'The clerk answered as he did before, and the old fellow went to his seat lookiangt1tisappoiateA : "c grew fidgEy after another short wait, and again addressed the clerk. B3y this time the attention of a number of people had been attracted. Someof them laughed, and others looked sym pathetic. "See here, said the clerk, that man isn't going to meet you. You have been bunkoed." "No, sir, youare wrong, said the old man. "Well, he won't meet you, insisted the clerk. "I'll bet lie does, replied the old man doggedly. Y~ou bet he does, repeated the clerk. Well, how much will you bet?" 'Come-put up or shut up, he add ed. "Oh! I don't want to bet, said the old man. "No, of course you don't laughed the clerk. "Well, now, Mr. Smarty, said the old man, in a nettled tone, I will bet, and he reached down in his pocket and fished out a roll of bills. There was a hundred and sixteen dollars in all told, and he laid the money on the counter with a dogged air. "The clerk went back to the safe, brought out a similar sum, and said: "I give you one more hour." "No." said the old fellow, I'm bet ting he will either be here, or send me a mr'ssage explaining why he couldn't come." "All right, said the clerk, and upon this agreement the money was put into. an envelope and placed in the safe. "The old gentleman eame over and sat down by me. He started to say. something but arose suddenly and went towards the cigar stand, that was near the front door, and bought a cigar. As he turned to come back, the door swung open, and in stepped a flsM ly dressed gentlemen-the confidence man. "Mr. Wilson, he said. The old man wheeled around. SIi have come, continued the bunkoer to take up that-little check." " I looked at the clerk. Risface was white: " The bunko-steerer pulled a roll of billa from his pocket, stripped off a number of them, and handed them to the farmer. The farmer in return gave himi the check, and then walked up to the clerk and said: -I'll take that money." It was handed to him. lie went back to where the bunko steerer was standing, and the two, join ine arms. walked toward the door Just befo:-e they stepped into the street the farmer looked back over his shoulder, and winded at the crowd. * Well, I'll be d-d if that ain't the smoothest con game that was ever work ed. said the clerk, simply." Musteinxg Them Out. Tilc war department Thursday issued :s o: ier to muster out about 15,000 volunteer troops. The reginients are "First Maryland, now at Augusta, IThirdi Mississippi and Second Missouri at lbany. Eighth and Thirteenth Pens~ylvania at Augusta, Fourteenth Pemylvania. Summerville, S. C. Foiith Texas at San Antonio, Fourth Wisconsin ait Anniston. Seventeenth vola teer infantry at Macon. Eighth olunteer infantry at Chickamauga T'eut i voluntear infantry at Macon. Why Don't They? The Rome. Ga., Tribune very perti neit iy remarks: "Biennial sessions of the Legislature would cut down the great tiood of useless laws enacted at every session. We have too many laws now. The people of Georgia should rise up) and diand biennial sessions.'' Thersio n is why don't they?