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HE DENIES IT Governor Blesse Sajs Ctmplrilltr General is in Error. WRITES A TART LFTTER Says the Newspapers Lie So Often Hero Lately That lie Does Not Notice Them Usually?Iteoortl Says Its Statement of What Illease Sahl Ls Correct. Governor Mease said, Tuesday afternoon, that his position had been misstated in press reports regarding his veto of the $5,000 item in the appropriations bill for investigations of county oflices, and he denied emphatically that he had told the comptroller general to go ahead and spend this money. The governor furnished for publication the correspondence on the subject Tuesday between himself and the comptroller general, which explains itself: February 28, 1911. Hon. A. W. Jones, Comptroller General, City. Dear Sir: 1 notice by the papers (which lie so often here lately, that I do not notice them usually- that It was stated that I said for you to go ahead in your investigations and spend the live thousand dollars which were provided by the act of the legislature, and which item was vetoed by me. 1 hereby most positively say to you, not to expend that money. I made no such agreement, and if so understood by you, you were certainly budly mistaken. I thought it was a needless appropriation and cut it out, and stand by it. Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease, Governor. February 28, 1911. To His Excellency, Hon. Cole L. Blease, Governor, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 28th, in reference to the veto of the $5,00o appropriation for investigation by me, or under my direction, bus been received. While the newspaper statement was somewhat inaccurate I understood you to suggest that I borrow such funds as should be necessary to make needed investigations, and ask the legislature at its next session to provide for the payment of the loan. I then realized that the law required me to confine my expenditures to such appropriations as have been made by law, and then determined, as now advised by you, not to borrow such money in violation of law, or exceed the appropriations placed at my disposal. Yours respectfully, A. W. Jones, Comptroller General. The paragraph which caused the governor to write as above to the comptroller general was as follows: "Governor Blease vetoed the item in the appropriation bill authorizing HID IUIII)lliUIH'| Klllt'lUI * "J 1 $5,000 In examining county otlices, but he has since told the comptroller general to go ahead and spend this amount, If so much should he necessary. Comptroller General Jones has, however, declined emphatically to follow this course, since the legis latere sustained the governor's veto." Wednesday afternoon The Record said: "Comptroller General Jones did not volunteer to the press the information which The Record published In the Issue of Monday reterring to this matter hut the facts as to what had passed between the governor and the comptroller general, concerning what is an ofllcinl and public matter, were ascertained by The Record of its own motion, and the statement published in this paper on Monday stands as substantially correct, the governor having proposed, and the comptroller general having declined, to proceed without the appropriation vetoed by the governor." FAINTS IN Till! COIRT ROOM. Negro Collapses When llo Is Sentenced for Life. Tho Charleston Post says when Judge Gary pronounced a life sentence upon Simon Green, the negro who shot and hilled Hoy Maultshy near Burton's lumber mills. Green fainted dead away in the court room, causing a sensation among the Spectators, especially among those of African ancestry. Green is the third negro who has received a life sentence this term of court for slaying a fellow being. Ills counsel, Attorney Tobias, contemplated making a motion for n new trial, but abandoned it, and today Green was brought into the court room to be sentenced for life, as lie bad been found guilty of murder with reeommcjulation to mercy. He stood up to receive his sentence in tho prisoner's dock, and when Judge Gary tlnislied speaking the words that meant a life term for him, Green fell forward to the floor of tho court room, upon his face, and lay motionless. WAS NOT FOR SALE BRYAN REFUSE ONE MILLION DOLLARS BRIBE. The Story of the Offer, Which Was Made Long Ago, Has Just Been Printed in Omaha. William J. Bryan got an offer of a bribe of $1,000,000 while a member of congress, according to a story printed Wednesday in the Omaha World-Herald. The offer, it is said, was made during the Cleveland administration. At that time he was one of the committee on ways and meanB. The proposal was that Mr. Bryan should not bring in a minority report on the bill to issue $150,000,000 of bonds payable in gold, principal and interest. The article gives no intimation as to whence the bribe offer came. The story is credited to a former banker of Lincoln, Neb., who has since dlea in substance the story is this: The banker, while in Washington visiting J. Sterling Morton, then secretary of agriculture, and Mr. Bryan, was approached by two men, whose names are not given, and was offered $30,000 if he would obtain Bryan's consent to kill the minority report on the bill which was then pending. He was authorized to offer Mr. Bryan $1,000,000 for the service. If Bryan refused but would agree to absent himself when the bill came up for debate Bryan was to receive $300,000. The banker refused, but later saw the same two men talking with Bryan. Two hours later Bryan told the banker that he had been offered a bribe of $1,000,000 and had refused. "They offered me a hribe of $ 1 ,000,000 not to bring in a minority report on that gold bond issue. 1 told them to go to whoever sent them and tell then there is not money enough ia Wall street to buy me." Bryan is credited with saying, "I have no love for the money itself. My salary supplies my very simple wants. I do not know what I would do with the money. U is not the temptation to me that it would be to many men and I deserve no credit for refusing it." I>!! >? FKOM INJI HV. As Result of Helng Struck bj- a Roctor's Automobile. The States says Murdock Camphell, son of Rev. J. A. Campbell, died Tuesday afternoon at the Columbia hospital as the result of an automobile accident. Murdock, who is six years of age, was struck by a machine driven by Dr. Jos. J. Watson. The accident occurred last Monday morning on the Camden road under rather peculiar circumstances and at the time was not considered serious. The boy was swinging behind a wagon and did not hear the approach of the automobile. As he dropped off and darted to one side of the road lie was struck by the machine. Dr. Watson, who states that he was running at a very moderate rate of speed, at once stopped and had the boy taken to the hospital. It was not until Tuesday morning that dangerous symptoms appeared and an examination showed a concussion of the brain. The little boy is a son of Rev. J. A. Campbell, a well known Methodist minister. Dr. Watson was exonerated from all blame for the accident. IltTlCLAltS HICH HAI LS. Xct $.">0,000 From Jewel Robberies in Ilaytona. A series of robberies, ending with the burglary at tho hotne of Mrs. Roger Whinfleld, at Sea Breeze, Fla., Thursday night, Is estimated to have netted a gang of burglars more than $:?0.000 in gems and other jewelry. According to the report of Mrs. Whinfleld, jewelry valued at $'Jf>.000 was secured from her home, including a pearl brooch and two diamond pendants worth $10,000. This robbery followed the robbing of the homes of E. 11. llotchklss there and J. D. Price, at Ormond. The report to the police shows that at each place jewels valued at $10,000 were taken. All tho houses were entered in the same manner, through unlocked upper windows, and the robberies are believed to bo the work of the same gang. There are 110 clues to the burglars. Convict Caught. John Wheat ley, who was convicted of shooting Conductor Joe Brunson on tho Southern railway between Spartanburg and Asheville, and who has escaped twice, was Wednesday brought, back to Spartanburg from Atlanta where he went after making his last got-a-way. fJriidgo Causes Tragedy. At Diana, C.iles county, Tennessee, Tuesday morning. Dr. C.eorge I .owe was shot in the head and killed by Squire Will W. Collins, who was himself shot in the left arm by the doctor. An old grudge is given as the cause of the tragedy. f GIVEN HIS SEAT LORIMER IS SAVED BY ELEVEN DEMOCRATIC VOTES. Thlrty-flvc Republicans Also Voted For Him, Which (iave Him a Majority of Si*. The United States Senate Wednes day, by a vote of 4 6 to 4 0, sustained William Lorimer's title to a scat for the State of Illinois, defeating the resolution of Senator Bevoridge declaring hini not legally elected a member of the senate. The following Republicans voted for Lorimer: 'Ilradley, Brandegee, Brlggs Burkeley, Burnham, Burrows, Carter, Clarke of Wyoming, Crane, Cullom, Curtis, Depew, Dick, Dillingham, DuiK>nt, Flint, Frye. Gallinger Gamble, Guggenheim, Hale, Heyburn, Kean, McCumber, Nixon, Oliver, Penrose, Perkins, Piles, Richardson, Scott, Smoot, Stephenson, Warren and Wet more.?35. The following Democrats voted foi Go rimer: Bailey, Bankhead, Fletcher, Foster, Johnston, Paynter, Simmons, Smith of Maryland, Thornton, Tillman and Watson.?11. The following Republicans voted against Lorimer: Beveridge, Borah, Bourne, Bristow. Brown, Burkett, Burton, Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Dixon, Gronna, Jones, LaFollette, Lodse, Nelson, Pago. Root, Smith of Michigan, Sutherland, Warner and Young.?22. The following Democrats voted against Lorimer: Bacon, Chamberlain, Clarke ol Arkansas, Culberson, Davis, Gore, Martin. Money, Newlands, Overman, Owen, Percy, Raynor, Shivelv, Smith of South Carolina, Stone, Swanson and Taylor. Aldrich, Frazier and Terrell did not vote. Senator Lorimer did not vote because of his Interest in the case nnd Senator Taliaferro was in his seat but did not respond to his name. The vote of Senator Cullom Mr. Lorimer's colleague, from Illinois, was awaited with great interest. Both sides chailem him. Ht voted for Lorimer. AFT KB MANY, MANY YEARS. The South may 1h? for Cottoi Siezed During War, The friends in Congress of tin claimants of cotton seized by tin Federal Government under the "Cap tured und Abandoned Property Act,' when hostilities had ceased, are it the nearest way to accomplishing tin long delayed act of restitution tha has ever been approached. Time after time a committee o one house or the other of Congres; has reported favorably on thes< claims, only to be blocked by the oth . er house. Now it appears that tin two houses are agreed that it is tinn that this money should be restored t< its rightful owners. Wednesday the conferees of tin two houses of the committees on re i vision of the laws agreed upon tin Bartlett amendment to consolidate the Acts respecting war claims, s< ! that the proceeds of cotton seizec under the "Captured and Abandonee Property Act," now In tbe treasury as a trust fund, might be restorec to those who submitted their claims to the Court of Claims, with propei evidence, without being required 't iu?j\e ii>y;uiy. ine runtl amounts tc $4,SS6,671, of which South Carolinr. claims arc $422,54 7. COTTON UOLIj MKKVIL. Figures Showing How Destructive They Heroine. The Montgomery Advertiser says to show the damage the boll weevil can do once he opens his campaign against the cotton fields of a State we print the following figures recently compiled in Mississippi: County. 1!?10. 1907. Adams 1,020 20.4 bo Amite 2,4.15 25,567 Claiborne 4,899 24.1.->3 Frnnklin 1,250 15,0 45 Jefferson 3,404 22,955 Lincoln 5,377 19,261 Pike 8,608 22.407 Warjen 6,820 19,002 cy: Hayes, not guilty. VVilkerBon 1,063 23.1 2h Yallabusha 9,756 16,265 There is no sermon against the boll weevil so eloquent as these few figures. They show conclusively that no time should be lost by the people of Alabama in preparing to fig kit. the I MfAAfi 1 tUU ?w.., .. v? vv >n i u m > x-i\ i . Ono lvi11?-< 1 in Wreck. An extra Uock Island train, load ed with western homeseekers weni into a diteh three miles east of Jen nings, Kan., Monday morning. C \Y. VanCleave, an emigrant passen g? r, whose address is unknown, was instantly killed. His son, on tin same seat with him, escaped unin Jured. Died From Kite. At Lebanon, Pa., Miss Lillie l.i lit aged 34, died of lilood poisoning at a result of heing liitten in the wrisl and neck hy an Insane foreign woman whom she was nursing. Sh< died in great agony. MEET DEFEAT r Senate Resolution for Dirrcct Election of Senators Fails. VOTE WAS VERY CLOSE I The Proposed Amendment |to the ^ Federal Constitution Providing for 0 the Flection of Senators by the i ' People Falls Four Votes Short of 1 the Necessary Two-thirds. The United States Tuesday defeat" ed the resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that Senators be elect. ed by direct vote of the people. A brave fight had been made by the supporters of the measure, as was indicated by the vote. Fifty-four Senators stood for the resolution and thirty-three against it. Though this division showed so large a majority of the Senate to favor popular elections, yet the number was not sufficient, by four, to ' carry the measure, which required a two-thirds vote for its passage. Immediately after the reading of the Journal the popular election res? olution was taken up under unanimous consent, granted last week. So long had the resolution been before the Senate, and so carefully had the membership been canvassed by its supporters and its opponents, that it was recognized from the nio ment the question was brought up that it would go down in defeat. 1 Nevertheless, there was a large at1 tendance on the floor. Though it had been understood I that debate would be nhut ofT on the measure when called up, Senator 15a' con, who determinedly has opposed 1 the resolution as it was altered un' der the Sutherland amendment, placing control of the elections In " the hands of Congress, yet hoped to " have an amendment adopted that ' might render the measure acceptaole to some of the Southern Senators. The Georgia Senator s effort was ^ f vi S /I # V* ?* fl ?> <> ' - ? IV wiuc mat tnc iiiiiii nil |)i:i v 1S1UI1 J of the elections should apply only In ^ , those States wherein the Legislatures have failed to designate the t manner and method of holding the j elections. Vice President Shermrn j ruled that the Bacon amendment was out of order and the call was * " begun. g Though, as indicated, it was prac- { 1 ticallv a foregone conclusion that the ? rt l resolution would fail to get a twothirds vote, the roll-call was followed f with the deepest Interest. For a moment it was thought that calculations s would be upset, for when Senator ' flallinger's name was reached his answer was 'aye." Looks of surprise were exchanged by many Senators, for there is no more invet- i 5 erate enemy to the resolution than 1 the New Hampshire Senator. t The roll-call: Yeas, Bailey, Rev- c eridge, Rorah, Bourne, Bradley, t Rriggs, lliristow, Brown. Rurkjtt. t Burton, Carter, Chamberlain, Clapi, ' Clark, of YVyomlns: Clark, of Arkan- t sas; Culberson, Cullom, Ciimmings, < Curtis. Dnvis, Dixon, Du Pont, Frye, i ' Gamble, (lore, flronna, Guggenheim, < .tones, LaFollette, McCumber, Mar' tin, poison, Newlands. Nixon, Over- t man. Often, Paynter, Perkins, Piles, 11 ' Rayner, Shively, Simmons, Smith, of i ' Maryland; Smith. of Michigan; r 1 Smith, of South Carolina; Stephenson. Stone, Sutherland, Swanson, c Taylor, Thornton, Warner, Watson, t Young. t Nays: Paeon, Bankhead, Brando- I gee, Bulkeley, Burnhain, Burrows, 1 Crane, I)epew, Dick, Dillingham, a Fletcher, Flint, Foster, (lallinger, r , Halo, Heyburn, Johnston, Ker.n, f I Bong, Lorimer, Money, Oliver, Pago, i ; Penrose, Percy, Richardson, Root, u Scott, Smoot, Taliaferro, Tillman, Warren, Wet more. Yeas, 54; nays, r Total 87. There were four absentees, Sena- d tors Aldrich, Frazier, Crawford and t Terrell. Had they been present, Mr. f Terrell, it was announced, would f have voted against the resolution and t Mr. Frazier for it. For Mr. Aldrich, no announcement was made. I.ater Mr. Crawford appeared on the floor , and explained that he had overslept < and then made the additional announcement of a street car delay. His vote, he said, would have been , "aye." Senator Borah, who has led the ' , advocates of popular elections. , wiougn oisappoini en in me result, , was not diacourng'd. On the con- J trary, ho felt that the vote plainly Indicated the growing popularity of 1 the measure. The Senator said: "While I would like much to have 1 had four more votes, yet I am grati- ' L fled with the results. When it is ' demonstrated that the Senate stands 4 ' within four votes o' two-thirds, it is certain tha' the real fight is not over. 1 4 "The resolution will be Intro- ' ducud again at the first session of ' Con ress, regular or extra, and urged ? unremittingly. The friends of the 1 measure may rest assured that the matter will not he permitted to lie forgotten. The ie xf Congress, In * my judgment, will pass favorably on i 1 the resolution." 5 None of us comes within a stone's \ throw of what he should do. i WAS ESCAPED CONVICT. OLICE CHIEF IDENTIFIED AS ESCAPED Ml'KDEKEK. iafe for Fourteen Yoars?He Had Ikvn Joined by Ilia Wife and Children. Thomas Edcar Striblinff, who for Ive years has been chief of police if Danville, Va., under the name of t. E. 'Morris, was arrested there Thursday afternoon as an escaped nurderer from the Hamilton, Harlson county, Georgia, prison. In 897 he was tried for murder, conicted and sentenced to life imprismment. He escaped, ponding a moion for a new trial. Strlbling coolly and promptly conessed when the requisition papers vere read to him. Since he escaped itribling was married. He is the Ether of ten children. The arrest and exposure of the hlef of police was made by Secret lervice Agent J. W. \V. Smith and )eputy City Sergeant W. W. Bosseau ,nd caused a widespread sensation. For the past six years no one for i moment suspected his identity. Eforts were made a number of times 0 trace up some shady spot in his iast life. In criminal trials, but no nkling of his prison career was irought out. He was first employed is night watchman for the Southern Cxpress Company. About five years go he was elected as a patrolman on he Danville police force, and after erving about six months was adanced to chief. His promotion was due, in a measire, to his great nerve and coolness, hough he was criticised severely for lis almost uncontrollable temper. Stribling, in his official capacity, lad many innfluential friends, and, luring his residence here, had never ?een charged with any offense other han those resulting from outbursts if temper. Stribling shot and killed William r. Cornett. in Georgia, and was being i leld in prison pending a motion for ! 1 new trial. His brother-in-law, who j vas implicated in the killing, was I dven a long term, but was pardoned. Wter his escape from prison Stritiling vas joined by his wife and children. He was allowed nearly two hours o bid his family farewell, at his lome, but did not break down even 'or a moment. The prisoner was taken to Georgia Thursday night. Before leaving he mid he killed Cornett for a criminal I88ault U noil his sister Ktrlhlinir lopes to secure a pardon. THOtSAM) DYING DAILY. I'la^uc and Famine Claim Many Victims in China. Famine and the plague are sweepng over China. The known deaths 'rom the plague number 30,000, and iccording to the ofTtcial statistics, the leath rate averages 200 daily. Hut he officials say but little is known >f the true conditions. It is impossible even to estimate he number of deaths that have resulted from lack of food. Dr. Snmtel Cochran, an American, who is engaged in the work of relief, writes: "One million people will die before he first crop is harvested. This will ip scanty, because the people have lot the strength to till the soil, and 10 animals remain for ploughing." So far Japan and America are the inly foreign countries that have roiiributed to aid the sufferers, but even he assistance that has come from the Jnited States is entirely inadequate, t is estimated that 2,000,000 people ire without food and are existing on oots, grasses or anything that af crds the slightest possibility of nourshment. Those possessing grain ;uard it niglit and day. (Missionaries, who are distributing elief, tell of many tragic occurrences ?a man on Ids way to meet them, lying in the road; another falling in he road as he was returning to his amily with packets of rice. From the amine, the death rate is several liousand daily. MKKTS IIOKKIIH.IO DKATII. 'aught in the Shafting of a Shingle Mill. Fatally Hurt. Caught ir the shafting of his father's shingle mill at l.exington about i: Tl'? o'clcxk Wednesday morning, oung Davis Can hman sustained j njuries from which he died thre< lonrs later, llis body was hurled onnd and round for al ant !!0 timet lefore the mill was stopped. lie ,vas injured about the head and face ind one of his feet was mult Hated le was also injured internally. Dads Caughman was a son of Capt. P. f. Caughman, one of the most highy respected farmers of this county, ivlng about 3 miles from Lexing mi. lie w.iy si ikiiii years 01 age, iturdy and industrious and true, and vas loved by all of liis associates. Nurse Pies in Agony. Miss Tillio l.iyht, aged thirty-four rears, a nurse, died at Lebanon, I'a., Pnesday in great agony from blood loisoning. Rhe was idtten on the vrist and n< ck by an insane foreign woman whom she was nursing. MURDER SHOCKS ROME ITALIAN PRINCESS K1M.KI) BY CAVA LB Y OFFICEB. In Hotel Boom Slayer Stalls Victim, Wlio Bleeds to l>eatti. Then Shoots. 9 Himself, Hut Probably Not Fatally. v Princess D1 Trlgona, a lady-inwaiting to Queen Helena, niece of Marquis PI Sangiuliano. the Italian {minister of foreign affairs, and cousin of Prince 1)1 Scalea, Secretary of State in the foreign office, was murdered Thursday in a small hotel in jthe city of Rome, by Lieut. Baron Paterno. a cavalry officer, who then shot himself. Paterno was still alive i when the room occupied by the couple was entered by hotel employees, I but the Princess was found lying on 4 A bed, dead. She had been Stabbed 1 In the neck and death was almost in j I stantaneous. J | Princess ni Trlgona was one of tho most beautiful ladies-in-walting to ? the Queen, and her trade end has. 15 caused a tremendous sensation. She was at the Court ball on Monday ami attracted more than ordinary attention as well as general admiration. She had had a disagreement with her husband, which deeply grieved the Queen. Her Majesty used every influence to reconcile the couple, hut without success. Baron Paterno, who had been in close attendance upon the Princess: for some time past, engaged a mom in a small hotel this morning. Soon lie was joined by Princess Trlgona and they remained together until the afternoon. A waiter, passing through the hall, heard a pistol shot, followed by groans. An attempt was made to break in the door, hut this proved toe strong to be forced, and employees, entered the room by a window. The Princess, half dressed, lay on the bed, in a pool of blood. A dagger bail severed the blood vessels in the neek and she had bled to death Paterno was outstretched on tinfloor. There was a bullet wound in his breast, made in an evident attempt to commit suicide, but he was still alive and was quickly removed to other quarters. i The Prim-ess hud been summoned I to appear before tbe Court today Inseparation proceedings brought b.v I her husband. Moth she and Paterno were Sicilians. Last summer the Princess was at Saint Moritz with her two daughters, who are seven and fourteen years old, when she received a letter from Paterno explaining that his debts prevented him from joining her. She was touched by the let- m ter and sent him a check, which he- M turned over to one of his creditors. The creditor, it is said, instead t.f, cashing the check, used it for blackmailing purposes against Prince Di Trigona, thus revealing the scandal. MONTI'. CKIKTO MAS A KIVAL. Modern Croesus, Young and (iood1/coking. Startles Atlanta. Fortified with 13 1 one thousanddollar bills, a New York certified (check for $ I ."Lotto and a suit case and Gladstone hag crammed full of bide of smaller denomination and gold coins, a mysterious stranger has just finished giving Atlantans a perfectly good imitation of Death Valley s'cotty's free spending, and hits departed for Havana, Cuba, with Miss Louise Whittimore, a pretty manicurist, whom he took as his bride while hero. After a short stay in Cuba, they will i<> .> ? i rim, ironi wii!on city they will go to Kurope for an extended tour. The young Croesus registered at a local hotel as A. \V. Carnjiohael. of New York. l>nt is said to hail from l'.uenos Ayres. He asked to he given an entire floor, but finally was persuaded that a stilt of four rooms would be sufficient, lie then proceeded to a tailoring establishment, where he ordered an out lit of sixteen suits, paying for them in advance, something over $1,000. Hut this was only the start. Carmlchael visited the hotel barber shop the first day, where he met and fell in love with Misss Whittiinore, and made an engagement, for luncheon. Not satisfied with her costume, he pulled out five $100 bills and sent her out to get some clothes befitting the occasion. When she reappeared he was dissatisfied with her lack of jewels and took her to a leading jeweller, where he presented her with a large diamond ring and pearl in cklace. Carmielia -1 also visited a garage, where he rented an automobile at the rate of $'? an hour, for as long as h? should want it At the end of his \isit he paid the owner $although he had not used the much.no more than half tlio time. Accompanied by Miss Whlttlmoro and her mother, Camiichael went from there to Tampa, Fin., en route* to Cuba. Friday rtms. Ihllebde. who I chaiifTour while in At - J lanta. received a telegram from Carmlchael instructing him to meet him in New York and accompany him on tin extended Kuropean trip. Cari dchael also sent transportation and $1 no. Carmichnel is described by the hotel attache^ a good looking, of the blonde type, and about 2!t yetirs old. | He was ijulet and unassuming and apparently interested in nothing but ! having a good time.