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Cbe Maumig times. I.IOULS. APPLTr Editor-. MANNING. S. C.. FEB. 21, 1911. PUBLLSKED EVERY WEDNESDAY ssCscPTION LdTES: Six uionths ......7 Foul months.------. ----'--- " . ADVERTISING RATES: One squa.C. one %:me. 11: each subequent in sertion. 50 cenL-. Obituaries and Tribues of Respect charg1 for a redrnur ad-eret-; lts. Liberal contracts- made for thrce. six and weaive Commui~ca:ens' u~u- te accompan:ed at the real name and addre.s of the writer in order to receive at-ention. no communicaton of a personz. cnaracter wiR be ublbshed exec pt as an advrtiement Eatered a: therPostoMee a: Mancing a Sec ond c)ass matter. CAPITOL CORRESPONDENCE. COLUMBA, S. C., Fu-b. 20, '11. The General Assembly for 1911 has passed into history, and it was one which will furnish much food for thought aed differences of opinion. Harmony prevailed throughout, and notwithstanding the disappointments of those who insisted on giving to the Uni versity all it wanted it was rec ognized that the members who differed from them were actuated by a patriotic purpose. Governor Blease has had his eye fixed upon the work of the legislature, and when he saw it was doing those things which he promised the people should not be done he did not fail to be heard from. He broke the record by the numoer of his messages, and he was the first governor to dif fer with the general assembly in the matter of making appropria tions. Never before since I can recollect has a governor taken the responsibility to veto items in the appropriation budget. but Governor Blease did it, and I am sure his action will be endorsed by the masses. The Columbia correspondent for the News and Courier seems to have been taken by surprise and claims that it was said by those close to the admin istration there would be no veto by the governor to theappropria tion Act. How he can make this claim is hard to conjecture for the reason that throughout Saturday it was common report in the ho tels,onthestreets,andintheState House lobby that the Governor would veto a number 9f items in the bill. I heard it from sev eral sources, and the governor told me that he would be heard from as soon as the appropria tion Act was before him for his approval, There was no secret about it whatever, and no occa sion or excuse to think the gov ernor would take a different ac tion or that he would lay down and acquiese. True, a larger' number of the membnrs went home after they got their pay certificates but this was their own lookout, had they re mained the result would have been about the same, with a probability of several items which were passed over the veto getting the same fate of those in which the veto was sustained. The only member of the Claren don delegation absent from the final session was Mr. Mitchum; the others remained to the last. I voted to sustain the governor on all of his vetoes except the Confederate Home school, the water rent, and the $450 for the additional work of the Code Commissioner fcr this year. On the finance committee, the ma jority cut out all appropriations for the permanent building at the colleges, and these items were cut out, but when the bill went to a free conference the conferees reinserted t li e s e items, and when their report came back to the senate for adoption there was a hard fight to reject it, butthe free confer ence report was adopted by one majority. Had all the re.embers been present I am satisfied the result would have been reversed, although it would have necessita ted another week to enact an other appropriation Act. I voted against all the items for new buildings, and was somewhat surprised when I found the gov ernor permitted the item for Winthrop and the Citadel to re main, but when I remembered that the Citadel had been ex ceedingly modest in its requests and the crowded condition of the institution, I came to the conclu sion the governor was right in letting it remain. An Act was passed and approyed giving to *Winthrop a sciencei hail and the governor could not consistently disapprove of this item. The other building wanted for Win throp was very properly reject ed. I did not vote agzainst the appropriations from any spirit1 of antagonism towards the insti tutions of higher learning but because it was my judgmvent that there was money being1 spent too fast and, if there was no ctheck put upon them, there would be a sentiment aroused against them which would ecrip pie the institutions, and I so sta ted on the iloor. There is no1 doubt these institutions are do-' ing a splendid work, and the people are getting full value for; every dollar spent but I think it is for their best interests that they should give the people a! breathing spell and wait a littl while for the additional improve- i ments wanted. and perhaps needed. The college boys were in the senate chamber in full force - when the fight was on to sustain the governor's veto, wheni the senate acted and they -found the governor sustained they left the chamber hissing. a ver-v thoughtles, act on their partl( and one whicl perhaps shouldi require a dex rttnent for good!. manners in the college. I de- i plore very much the conduct of 1 these thoughtless youths, but do! not hold the authorities respon- < sible for it. I am sure when the I boys reflect they will see their I error and will regret their course. The argument used by some '< of the senators that it was not right to discriminate against the University after giving to the Citadel its building is mislead- i ing, when it is considered thati: the general assembly has al- I ready given to the University two new buildings and none to the Citadel. and besides,tbe Uni versity this year gets a consid erable increase for maintainance, 1 more than ever before in the history of the institution. The building wanted by the Univer sity is a new chapel. they have a chapel now but it is old, and perhaps when the whole student body get into it. it becomes 1 crowded, but this condition is not so serious that they cannot wait for a couple of years, as I have already said, there is no an tagonism towards the Universi tv and in time it will get the ad ditional building. The taxpay ers are to be considered in these matters as well as the comforts of the students and the pride of the college authorities. In my judgment this is one of the best things that could havehappered to the University. because.if the. appropriations continued to in crease from year to year as they had been doing in the past the final outcome would have been the electing of a legislature which would throw the institu tion back to where it was ten years ago,. if not ruined entirely. According to calculations made it would have been impossible with the levy fixed in the Act to have raised enough money to meet it,aLd a heavy deficit would have been the result,which would have forced the assembly to pro vide for next year, as it is, it is expected to meet the demands against the State,and when the assembly reconvenes there will be no deficit to amount to any thing. Over three hundred Acts be came law, of which 90 per cent. were local in their nature. The general assembly failed to elect the additional associate justice after about twenty-eight ballots, and the matter goes over to the next session by which time other candidates may loom up for the place. The laws cassed in which the people of Clarendon are specially interested,are the game and fish laws, the Act which relieves the county auditor from taking tax returns, and devolv'ng this work upon the township commission ers, the county levy and the county salary increase. The salary bill for this county is: Sheriff'S1000 per annum~and $300 for his deputy: $1200 per annum for the superintendent of education, and the said officer shall devote the whole of his time to the duties of the office:' $400 a year for clerical assistance to the county treasurer. Under the new tish Act trap ping is forbidden during the months of April, May, June and July, and fish can be caught and can be sold any time. Under the game Act deer can be hunted from September 1st to January 1st, and partridges can be hunt-1 ed from the 15th of November< to the 15th of March. The fol-i lowing is the amendment to the game law of last year:1 "SEc'rION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That it shall be unlawful to shoot, chase, trap or catch any deer] within the borders of this State between the first day of JTanuary and the first. day of September, or any partridge or1 wild turkey between the fifteenth day < of March and the fifteenth day of No-I. vember, or any dove between the first , day of March and the fifteenth day of August, or any woodcock between the fifteenth day of January and the firsti day of September, or any willet between1 thefist ayof March and the first day, of Novembier, or any wood ducks be tween the first day of March and the irst day of September, or any grackle between the first day of March and thei first day of October, or to disturb the nests of, or eggs of, any of the birds above mentioned, except as is provided for otherwise; and any person violating this Act shall be fined ten dollars for each bird killed, caught or pursued 1 with such intent, or for each nest of eggs so disturbed, and twenty-five dol lars for each deer killed, caught or pur-C sued contrary to this Act, or be impris oned one day for each dollar fined and unpaid. not to exceed one hundred do! lars fine or thirty days imprisonment:C Provided, It shall be unlawful for any 1 person or persons to cast abroad on, or bait with wheat, rye, peas or any other grain or food attractive to birds. any field, farm or other lands in Aikent county for the purpose of hunting or shooting doves between the 15th day of 1 March and the first day of December." The county levy: For ordi- I nary county expenses is, four and 1 one-half mills: for past indebted- 1 ness, one-half mill. The county 1 board of commissioners shall use I the said four and one-half mills I for ordinary county purposes.a includi:g salaries, roads, bridges, f and the necessary expenses of f the courts: Provided, however.f That the county supervisor is 1: prohibited from approving any t laim or drawingr his warrant for t any claim not authorized by law v' in any cases whatsoever, and the a :ounty treasurer is hereby pro ibited from paying such chaim or claimrs. - t: It will thus be~ seen the levy is,1I ne-half mill higher- than last itj ear. This was done to get th eji: ounty- relieved from its debts, ie md next year it is hoped with Ic. conoical management the dele- 11 ration w il be ini a position to cut it t least one whole mill from the ci ery. Unless something extra- 2 rdinary happens I think it can t e une. The new arrangement by which Jo he township commissioners will ake the tax returnus will, it is u mough additional property tnat ias heretofore escaped taxation D warrant the delegation in mak ng a considerable reduction in :he Levy next year. Take the session all in all it lid good work. The governor 2ad contentions with the legal raternity and the supreme court n the matter of appointing spe :ial judges, and there is a differ mnce of opinion as to who is right. Although a layman I think I can ;ee where the governor is right n contending for such legislativa iction as will separate the func ions of the executive from the judicial,as is required by the con stitution. The fundamental 197, says these departments shall be eparate and distinct, and yet the Act of the legislature says when a special judge is to be ap pointed it shall be by the gov ernor upon the recommendation Af the supreme court or chief justice. The governor says if he is to appoint then he should be allowed to appoint as his judgment dictates, but if this is not to be. then the legislature should place the appointing pow er elsewhere: not hold him re sponsible for an appointment which he has nothing to do with xcept to sign his name to a com mission. Governor Blease has demon strated the fact, and he certainly has made the impression burn Jeep, that he is the GOVERNOR, and not a mere functionary draw ing a salary and looking wise. Whether his administration will be endorsed throughout is for us yet to see, but up to now he has won much applause for his out spoken criticism and his making good his promises to the people when on the stump last summer. We expect that a good many newspapers throughout the state will criticise the action of those who stood by the governor in his efforts to make his promises good, not because they do not think him right but they are op posed to the governor; these criticisms will not effect any good, and if they are wise they will refrain from making any. The bill to require the distri bution of the dispensary fund among the common schools was amended in free conference so that the money, if the Act is approved, will be distribu ted as follows: $60,000 for high schools, $60,000 for the common schools, $20,000 to aid in the construction of rural school buildir-zs and $100,000 for the common schools, to be appro priated to the counties on a ba sis of enrollment for the school year ending July 1st, 1912, and apportioned amongst the schools by the county boards of educa tion; the balance of $80,000 to go to the equalization fund under the provisions of the Act of last year. Thus jt will be noted that the whole amount of $320,000 wich was in the treasury from the dispensary fund has been given to the common schools as required by the constirution without having to put in the tax evy to provide for the $140.000 eretofore required by the Acts >f 1910 This ought to be of :onsiderable help to the rural schools of the state. This has been a session oL dard work for me. I did not miss m day, attended the committee neetings regularly, got tinrough every bill I introduced, except ~ne minor measure, which I in ~roduced at the suggestion of the ~lerk of court, relating to chang ng the board of jury commis sioners so as to relieve the treas arer therefrom. The members of the house elegation were at their post, nd took care of that which I ad sent from the senate, we 2ad no friction, differed in opin on on one or two matters but >ur differences w~ere adjusted ~atisfactorily, all together we ot along nicely. It was nearly daylight Sunday ~hen the gavel fell announcing he final adjournment of the ~eneral assembly, and then I rent to my hotel to get some ~leep after several strenuous lays and night. I need rest. The governor continues to rield his axe on the Acts passed >y the legislature, all of which will meet with approval except ;he "Stevenson Act" which pro rides for the distribution of the lispensary fund for the public ;chools. We think the governor s wrong in vetoing this Act be :ause the Constitution demands hat this money be given to the yublic schools. He bases his lisapproval on the ground that he enrollment in the negro schools is "inaccurate and fraud ilent,'' but be that as it may, the ;chool fund is handled by the >oards of trustees and the coun y boards and it is safe to say hese boards will take care of he interests of the taxpayers. owever, under the Acts of 910, the schools will get the .mounts provided for: $60,000 or the common schools, -$60,000 or the high school, and $20,000 or the rural school buildings. ut the effect of the veto will be o hold off the distribution of he dispensary fund until next c-ar. which is to be regretted, s the schools are needing this aoe-r now. The veto of the Act known as hie Piedmont and Northern ailway Act, is proper, because is Act passed through the leg tature without proper consid ration: it practically gives to a ertain syndicate a monopoly of i franchises in this state, while names certain up the country! ounties, the language of the et extends the privileges to ie counties all over the state, nid in effect would prevent the -ganization of telephone, tele-| raph and railway companies niess they first obtained the' Cant Wol When you feel that you can hardly drag through your daily work, and are tired, discouraged and miserable, take Cardui, the woman's tonic. Cardui is prepared for the purpose of helping women to regain their strength and health. Not by doping with strong drugs, but by the gentle, tonic action, of pure vegetable herbs. Take Take CARDUI The Woman's Tonic Mrs. L N. Nik"on, of Shook, Mo., writes: "Before I began to take Cardui, I was unable to do any work. I have taken 5 bottles and have improved very much. I can do the most of my housework now. "I can't say too much for Cardui, it has done so much for me." Your druggist sells Car dul. Get a bottle today. This is too great a privilege to grant to any organization, and the governor is right in prevent ing this monopoly. He also disapproved of the Commission form of government Act, in this there is doubt of his being correct, because the Act did not force upon a city the commission form of government but merely per mitted the citizens to say wheth er or not they desired this form. It would have done no harm to have approved the Act. The readers of The Times will recall that it was predicted in this correspondence that the governor would apply his veto power if the general assembly adopted extravagant appropro priations, or passed any Acts which failed to meet with his approval. He has done just what this correspondent said he would do, there was no need for any one to be surprised, un less they thought the governor would keep up the custom of ignoring his platform of prom ises, as his predecessors did. A. That story now going the rounds to the effect that Horace Greeley, after signing Jefferson Davis' bond, reifused to acknowl edge a salutation from the ex president of the Southern Con federacy, saying "I'm not hob nobbing with Jeff Davis if I have signed his bond," may and may not be true. We prefer to think it is a concocted yarn. But in any event, one thing is certainly true, and that is that Horace Greeley never hobnobbed with a grander man or more perfect gentleman than Jefferson Davis. Don't forget that the people who had the name of Jefferson Davis chiseled0offof Cabin John's bridge had it put back again, and they will yet do more than this by way of restitution. 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Dr. Howard Jones, of Charles ton, is evidently trying hard to break into the limelight, by char acterizing the recent veto o1 the commission form of government Act by Governor Blease as "un warranted and dirty " This prominent minister, it seems to us, would be serving his Master more loyally if he would put less brimstone into his eloquence,and be governed by the adage that more flies can be caught with sugar than with vinegar. If Dr. Jones would contine himself to saving souls, rather than inflam ing them, he would be a true minister of God. BLOCKADED. Every Hosbol in Manning Shoald Know How to Resist it. The back aches because the kidneys are blockaded. Hep the kidneys with their work. The back will ache no more. Lots of proof that Doan's Kidney Pills do this. It's the best proof. for it comes from, this vicinity. Mrs. M. S. Montgomery, Railroad avenue, Kingstree. S. C., says: "I can recommend Doan's Kidney Pills highly in return for the great benefit I have received from their use. I had a lame ness across my loins and such severe backaches that I could not turn in bed. Morninigs on arising. I was so lame and iore that I could hardly dress myself md it required considerable effort for me to get about. That my kidneys were jut of order was shown by the unnate ral condition of the secretions. Doan's Ridney Pills not only removed the nackache, but restored my kidneys to a normal condition.'' For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. ~'oster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, New York, ole agents for the United States. Remember the namne-Doan's-and c1"er - - W NE II U The People's Bank the opening of its door middle of next month. CORPS OF OFFICERS: IIW. C- DAVIS. President. J. H. R16BY. Vice-President. =1 R. C. WELLS. Cashier. Place of Busine! The building form Clarendon, adjoining ready equipped with been secured for this i: field. A new, trippli lock, Manganese steel has been purchased ai days. All Banking c chased and is expecte( ness about the middle i CAPITAL STOCK The capital stock of Bank of the People is $2o,ooo.oc divided into four hut shares 0f $50.00 each. stock already subsc for, 25 per cent. of whi now in the presid hands, the balance 1 called for in 10 per cen stallments per montla been well placed amon es home people, not a dot: Iit being owned out o: ~county. Courteou The many well wi Iprise, who have expre to give us their accoun us, if you live out of to" o to th e president or cas Stion on any point, whi Sandc courteous attenti Searly day to place bar a your hands. I THEFNO? --- --- --- --- ------*' --- IENT!NT of Manning announces s for business about the DIRECTORS: W. C. Davis. J. H. Rtigby. A. C. Bradham. Jno. 'U. Gerald. L. H. Harvin. S. 0. O'Bryan. ;s and Equipment. erly used by the Bank of store of J. H. Rigby, al an excellent vault, has es nvasion of the Banking O i movement, Yale time- 0 safe, and best vault door 2 id is expected in a few M upplies have been pur- i I in ample time for busi- E of March. 00 POLICY. i this Not a single man ha; se been allowed to take over @ One Thousand Dollars 0 worth of stock. We have had applica tions for stock from out of j 9 the county. but following out our policy to have it 0 [dred owned and controlled by 0 The our <uvn people, we have e held these applicants off rie until all of our people are l'1 ein who care to come with .chLJ is "We still have afew thous ent's and dollars of stock for sale. which we desire to :o be place amng our people in . one. two, three. four. five . in- and six share distributions. has The public can at once , has ee we have not orqanized a close corporation, with g gour all of its stock in the hands 00 [ar ofof a few men. but that it is 0@ ar ofto be what its name signi- 00 f thefles.the Bank of the Peo f theple. absolutely free from any handicaping alliances. s Attention. shers of this new enter ised their determination ts and do business with vn, may address a letter her requesting informa- 'o ch will receive prompt = )n, and we hope at an ik and check books in Respectfully yours, A NNING3.