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' $ -V REFUSES TO PAT — ♦ ClimOLUl QENERAL TURNS IIVN PELPU’S ACCOUNT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED Declares that Appropriation by Leg islature Covers Only Actual Ex penses of Attorney-General—Item of $ 150 for Smoker Doesn't Pass Approval. Comptroller General Jones declin ed to pay a bill for about $200 ex penses turned in by Attorney General Peeples, incurred during the meeting of the Attorneys General in Charles ton, giving as his reason that the ap propriation by the Legislature cover ed only the actual expenses of the Attorney General himself, while in attendance on the meeting, and did not provide for the expenses of the Assistant Attorney General or him self during trips made to Charleston in arranging the preliminaries for the convention. Nor would the Comp troller General approve the item in the expense arrouiit of $ 1 O lor a smoker given to the At’orneys Gen erals. Attorn* y General Peeples turned in an itemized hill f..r 1 l To Comp troller General tones disapp r oved all * 1 f the t *' m -> e \ C * pt t tl OS*' * o v • ring the ae-’ual experiM* of Cm Vt'orm . Gon*TaI him—-If while a't"n 1 nMon aimunllr.ic to $ ' 4 * I * • i r , K , ,,rr. -pond*-: •• * .m gven out <'ti t h e tna ,, .r Tti.r»-lw < on i’t roM.-r <.. I on*-* J u. * : . 1 • : i t ■ n T ‘ '* »- H | '.-e o-* v • ■ r IA.TTEM ntON TIlAJHA^r He r.eplkr* to Htalcirwt Made !■ The OnuigeAiurs Sun. The follftwlQg letter la from Sena tor H. R Tillman to the Editor of The Sun. a newspaper published at Or angeburg. which explains Haelf. Dear Sir: In your paper of Fri day, July 18, I find this: "In the days when Tillman was seeking election and re-election he was always ‘whooping It up’ that every white man should be allowed to vote. Now he seems to have gone back on all that and doesn’t care a rap whether the poor white gets a registration certificate or not. Till man, of course, never expects to run for office again.” Candidly, Mr. Editor, isn’t that un kind as well as untrue? Honor bright, now, and say yes or no. The only time I recall ever having stressed, or had anything to say about “every white man being al lowed to vote" was when I was urg ing the calling of the Constitutional Convention and when some newspa pers were howling about the poor man never being allowed to vote again if the Constitutional Conven tion was called. I told my friends among the poor white people then that I would suffer my right arm to he taken off before I would consent to any Constitutional provision which diil not safeguard the ballot to every white man. They had confidence in me enough *o vote for the Constitu tional Convention, and we got it by a narrow margin about two thou sand \otes in the State. 1 think I redeemed my pledge in the Con **t i ’ ii t Ion a 1 Convention Pself bv giv ing three \ears ip which the poor ho Vs a ho u t to tie* orim of age could in i t h«»ni*e!\ * t,> learning to r> a f ind »r '*• at* 1 I would not hear •o a prop* r»> u uah flea* b>n except tn a 11 e r r. a ' I x e V rt at: e !•' fea ! ar.*1 »r te » * 1 •• |..n <>r ; I, tre.1 '1*>liar« » < BIEASE IS CURBED TIE SECIETAIT OF VAR PUT TIE HALTER ON HIM WAG HIXG nUMOA BI RAA. MADE HIM VERY GENTLE at J ’ ai 1 •* ft * !. r. • u • "’Cl ’ ^ *' ; * The Augusta Chronicle Tells In an Interesting Way Why the Governor Buckled to Secretary: Garrison as He Has Done After Being so Fire- Eating With Him at the Start. Many of the newspapers out of the State are guying Governor Blease for unconditionally surrendering to Sec retary of War Garrison after being so insulting and insolent to the War Department of the United States. The following from The Augusta Chroni cle will give our readers an idea of what they are saying about the Gov ernor’s back-down: We had begun to think it was im possible—that the irrepressible Cole Blease, of South Carolina, must be permitted to wend his fiery way un disturbed and undismayed hut, at last, the man has been found who could put a curb on him. and bring him to his hatim hes it s tame as you please. Not only has the Blease posed, the**- several years past, ag nn re- sp* ctrr of persons n fa, r. a down right di-respecter o' persons .. X i . pt, of <ourse. the wo.*! hit .liters of his own S ate hut, n.ore re* .-hCn he undertook to let • h*- war department of these Unite,1 S'at.g k [1 - * W exact!) • hat he thought of I* a ti -1 of the • '•ndlng army r. a'l-r*! gjarJ «r. i t he *•>»«.rr. men* ■ • g.-r.e- a: N ■' s.. man * x , ... rt an !*•* a * til*' of 1 «■ *ra.* and nxii ‘ar .lna ^. »■, » ' ' ' ! > r - »• a • • ^ . J • , t**" «• S- J t K i ■ » • » • The Damage IWme by Kira Amouted to $200,000. Owtlning, N. Y., July 2S. The re markable feature of the $150,000 fire at Sing Sing prison near here Tues day was that In spite of the opportun ities afforded none of theM.400 con victs tried to escape. On the other hand, 200 of them, trained aa a fire brigade, helped the Ossining firemen to fight the flames. The other 1,200 were marched to their cells and lock ed up. The paint shop, mat shop, where the blaze started; cart and wagon shop and lumber storage were destroyed. Kurt Schoenherr, bur glar, escaped a few nights ago, and one theory, shared by the convicts, was that he had fceen hiding inside the prison wall and rather than starve or give himself up set the fire and perished. WardGrtjVClancy be lieves that the fire is another argu ment for immediate work on a new’ prison. The damage done by the fire amounted to $200,000. Only a brisk breeze from the south prevented the destruction of all the buildings ini which the convicts are employed, arid, in every human prob ability, the spreading of the fire that razed several of the huildings to the so-called administration building, In which are the mess room, hospital and dormitory In which many pris oners are housed owing to the over crow (1**1 condition of the prison With the north gate of the yard '-urro-d •uitirtlN away, wi’h the north *•*>' g.t'e open to admit fire appar a'us, and with the w*-s' gate open to ;-*rnilt the running of hoa*- to 'he Hudson iCiNer, 2 i p: «>ners eniplox l'i t to* shops, many of them ' second termer* accounted for themaelv* s af’er 'he fire »■« under control Not on'x did none *>f them at'ernp* ■o 1 *■ •»t-e hu’ ■» »*>"n a* the prison » ' • h' a ••• r ••* *>' short toot* i-a-’ the s'l'u. fire .x.-ry prison I r r r n ;* 1 . ■ N ed In ’he ■ 'n-1 ! • ' • -»••! »• • »' 1 * . ' . • k ' * \ r * m »-y , * 1 «* • * • • r $ t * * *■ * • A g • • * RAISE LIVE TOR " OT0Vl , ** cn '•». GOVERNMENT TO AIO THROUGH CO-BPEIATITE PLAN WILL SEND AN EXPERT • opa turned to A *• ten * lancx > s - the hilt! >>e * , LS N r 'heir * * • I^ver Secures Arrangement From De partment of Agrirnlture by Which Cattle BhImmn in This State Will Have Excellent Opportunity to Bet ter Their Condition. Representative Lever Friday com pleted arrangements with the depart ment of agriculture by which live stock raising is soon to be begun in South Carolina. The department. In pursuance of the plan agreed to. will at once send an expert to St. Matthews to confer with .1. A. Banks of that place, one of the best known advocates of live s*ock raising in South Carolina, on the possibility of forming co-opera- tive organizations to increase interest in iixe stock and bring into use the best methods of animal husbandry. Th*- department's Idea is that the best results can be obtained through a self-governing organization, with the aid and advice of experts to tie sup plied by the government Assistant S* cre'arx GhIIow.in'h l**t ter-io Mr Lexer explaining the plan, fol low s Ue an* N.-rv muih Interested tn G ■* proposition of yours to emour- ag. 'tie greater production of animals In South < arollna I have discussed •he matter *ome»h»t fully with the -. * r. tar. and he U of 'he opinion ths' mu*h <an t.e done foxtard stlm i atlru in'* rest n the suPte.t of anl n.x! t isbsnilry and ha* made a num ‘■♦r • i((•-•> or,• *• to ho■ *he , u r. ■ • • 1 » # » r | >•*■ - * < ft • H ••Mint x*»x • t * -1 • IV-• K Xee laxMevt l. • • •4 >4tW*« X * I ’* I 4 X Tof a' I; ’ 4 - Tt.'-u a» H Pee;.;.-* X ' t orn*- v i ler.er a! Th* Gomptrolier i.eneral w r<>'*■ \t t.irner General P»*eples In reply In part as follows "Ttio Hon T 11 F’«»ep!es, V'tornev General, Columbia. S. C Dear Sir 1 have received your letter of the 23rd, enclosing Itemized hill for which your ask a warrant to be is sued in your favor to reimburse you for ‘actual necessary expense enter tainment of Association of Attorneys General of United States, at Charles ton. S. (’., July S and 9, 1913. "The Appropriation Act, 28, Stat utes at Large, p. 260, authorizes you ‘to use as much as $200 to pay ‘his’ (that is ‘your’) ‘actual expenses in attending the Convention of Attor neys General of the different States’. "In view of the constitutional pro vision, Article IV, Section 2 4, provid ing that your compensation shall be neither increased or diminished dur ing your term of office, the statute provided for the payment of your ac tual expenses in attending the con vention goes as far as the Legisla ture well could. "It has been the practice of the Comptroller General’s office to con strue ‘actual expenses’ in attending any public function or duty, to in clude traveling expenses, such as rail road fare, hack hire, Pullman car fare, meals while on trip and during attendance on the public function and hotel bills. "Hence, the remaining items in the bill which are covered by the appro priation are those of July 7 to 10, for ' r i • f a • v A ’ 7 4, r ^ V ' ' h • ftv * • i ft ft r i * r - * 4.' ft ' ’ p ■' * r T ■ ■’ v 4 l 4 *1-" ' ' ft < ' f K *- ft * !• ■ V ft 1 . » t , * * * ' ft ’ 1r I * ) o ff t V ' i r z * * x r r r* or t '-it y»-*r »i. 1 4 1 lr. •« it. .• fil MMMMNt IN HU K i. \IUxlt Railroad fare and Pullman Hotel and cafe Hack hire $ 7 40 15.00 3 00 Total apparent legal chargee. . $25 4 0 "I hope you can tee roar way Mi**.«>nrl (xixrrnor Ft\*>*» HoltiU) f«*r Work on lloari*. Gov Major, of Missouri, issued a proclamation setting apart Wednes day and Thursday, August 2u and 21, as public holidays, to be known as "Good Roads Days". Every able-bodied man In the rural districts ami cities of the State is asked to put In these days working on the public highways. The Govern or Requests that all ordinary business be suspended. Every county court in the State is asked to issue a supple mental proclamation. The women in the country are requested to aid by furnishing the volunteer workers with lunches. The Governor estimates that work approximating $1,500,000 in value will result. May Die from Bites. Braden C. Oms, of Pitcairn, Pa., is in a hospital, his life despaired of, as the result of t battle with a giant hug-, as “large as a pigean”. Oms struggled with the bug for half an hour. He was bitten on the arm and side of his body. ->* •» v-» )(•»« ’• .»!*! * ’ w • \ 41 t> i»- '*4 14 * • - 4 ' ‘ 4 •• lw»4 l f H■4fc«« I « KmmMf ?' » *• of M ‘ \ 4 ' 4 s 4 o • i • '*■ • a » 4»» ' . ( • ’ • 4 . U •, > . w 4 * • 4* • ‘ 4 *r • 'f J= ... 4 a 1 VI *4 X t w * • * -, . * 4 ; • *, , ; X ’r. ^4 .at 4.- 4‘r! 3 . r , ' » ‘ » ’ ' 4 4 r *N . 4 « 4 f t r f 4 •l** 4 0* ’.3. '!• Rjf ,.ft 4 at f •»< t * # » 1 • r f .''Sr | , Hits laborer’s Shovel. TFarry Eckhardt, of Peckham, Col., had his shovel he was carrying torn from his hands by lightning, and sent 100 feet away from him. Eckhardt was unhurt. clear to revise the bill accordingly "Youra truly. A W Jones. "Comptroller GaDarftL” W F Caldwell. 4 * t 4- ‘ v p-* ' • ' r. 4 ■ ' ' r • . r 4- ' *. *.4 I ' t 1 . • » ' Jrp*' t n.r • ' • r . 4* r t S* ' ' Nr4 r - * r * . x C.xr. •' t ‘ 4 ro p.,'- » '«■ 'r.o x r ' pr.-«| ton* »>f t ho 1 t.• r 1 S' 41o4 a:. ! In' m! •la'o m !•" <• Stt 4.* » ht-n 4 orr gov »-r:ior in»-,| !t x on thonitb tie b** a tx'ld t»»d gnxernor like til* S..re(jxrN G»rru..ii w.-nt t.a k at tin, :n * w x. tt *. left t.im no room for ihl*iin<1ers(sn<1lng IiiHHUiU'ti as tti.* cornmariiler :n- i hb f of tto- army and navy of South Carolina had defiantly refused to rec ognize the authority of the war de partment. or to permit the South Car olina national guard to conform to certain established rules and regula tions, the secretary of war politely Informed the recalcitrant command er-in-chief that, unler the circum stances, all federal aid would be withdrawn from the South Carolina military; that there would be no State encampment at the govern ment’s expense, etc. Which was put ting it up to the Blease In a way that even he could understand; and he also understood that to cut the South Carolfna military out of their annual encampment by his own crazy act would cost him several thousand good Carolina votes when he gets ready to run against “Cotton” Smith for the United States senate. So the Blease forthwith sought a peace with the war department; in short, “caved” in a fashion of which few thought him capable. But. in the letter, if not in the spirit, of the thing, he made amends for his offi cial misconduct; with the result that, out of consideration for the troops more than for the commander-in chief, the war department relented and ordered the encampments held. It later turned out. however. That some of the South Carolina compa nies didn't come up to specifications, so to speak—aa to number of moo on their roll, etc ^enee they were or dered back home after they reerhed catnp or, at leeat. were informed that they coaid remain In camp only • XT 4J4.1 \ !• r r ... 1 U.fh'rr *.f K '• .f orlrtfi* 414.J u 4! ! r 4r§ tiittru ..ff t>y 4 maJ bull ! * '..Kl'.r »«• |*<1 '.h** animal an,] 1 ''■ r » • ' G f IT* 'lead •llh 4 rlavp k:. fr 7! *- * MM I* n a •rru.u* con d ■ t i.>n 'at ttix-ir .ixxri **xpx*n*«• • hwt> th**v '• 't l'i Na'iirall), th.. coiuiuand- • r t* < tii.-f ■« h«-art •** mov**il for hi* iii.-n ti.- ha*i prexIouMi) ahoxvn th**m *u. h gr. at consideration, when he came so near knocking them out of their encampment entirely, through his defiant and unseemly awltude to ward the war department so he lost no time In making another political play, by "appealing" to this same war department, which he had so recently defied, to give these companies an other chance, by permitting them to go back into camp with the Second Regiment, etc. And here is his ap pealing communication on that sub ject: "I, therefore, write to request that you allow these three com panies to come into camp with the Second Regiment, N. G. S. C., at Camp Wilie Jones. If you can con sistently do this, I am satisfied that tl^e members of these companies will appreciate your kindness very much indeed, and will be eager to come up to the standard required more so than if they had been left in their regular place in the Aiken encampment." Godzooksl Can it be the same Blease? And if so, what has come over the spirit of his dreams?—his nightmares. "I, therefore, write to request” “will appreciate your'lctp'dness,’’ etc. , Verily, there was never yet foaled a man was not born to ride him. And, a horse—or a Jackass, either—that In this particular instance, the secre tary of war, the Hon. L. M. Garrison, of New Jersey, seems to he the man Verily, also, the Blease appears to somewhat betted advantage with a curb between his teeth. We congrat ulate all concerned. 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The necessity for our people to get away from the one crop idea is accentuated and emphasized by the rapid approach of the boll weevil upon our borders—this pest being now within striking, distance of the Georgia line. No way of checking its advance has been found, and it Is my opinion that the Carolinas and Georgia must make up their minds that if cotton Is continued to be grown, means must be found of grow ing it under the boll weevil condi tions. We are face to face with a very serious problem, and we can not afford to shut our eyes to the facts. We must reinforce our cotton crop, and we can do it most profitably with the introduction of live stock raising, and I think this must be built up through the co-opefative methods suggested by Assistant 1 Secretary Gal loway.” BURLESON IXTEXDft TO KX1WIP THE SCOPE OF HERV1CE. Would Abandon Parcel Poat Mapa, Increase Maximum Weight limit and Reduce Present Rates. Plans for the extenalon, Improve ment and reduction In rates of the parcel post were announced Friday by Postmaster General Burleson. The changes, which are to become ef fective on August 15, include an In crease from 11 pounds to $0 pounds in the maximum weight of parcels; a material reduction In the postage rates in the first and second zones, and the abandonment of the parcel post map as a means of computing rates and the substitution for It of a rate ohaft individualised to every post office in the United Stater. The plans contemplate the purchase of a large number of automobiles to be used exclusively for the delivery of parcel post matter. \\ hile, for the present, the maxi mum weight limit of 20 pounds and the reduction in rates will apply only to the first and second zones, from any given post office—a distance of about 1 50 miles —the changes direct ed Friday constitute the first long step toward a universal extension of the system and a general reduction in the rates of postage on parcel mat ter Mr Burleson announced the changes as follows: "The first zone shall include the territory within the local delivery of any office and the fif4t zone rate of postage will apply to all parrel post mall deposited at any office for local delivery or for de livery bv city carrier or oa rural mutes emanating from that poet of fice "The second mne shall larlode the rema nd'-r of what la sow the Brat tone together with th* preeewt sec ond zone and shall tsclude eil the unit* of are* located in whole or la part within a radlua of approalosste- v 15 0 mllra from aay gives poet of- fle* Th* rat* of poetage oe parrele weigh.ag ta etcaea of fear eaftrae th ’h* proposed Arm *oe* will he redwe- *4 from five reata f»r the ftrwt peasd and oaa rest for esch poaed or frsetkea there cwel* for the first posed m lor rack addltlohftl tvs fractios tkeewef asd the I raroed »oee sill he radpoa reata for the first peaad rest a fee seek sddttlehhl sts reals for the first pew rests for eerh iffftrat rwsitea the res f le five m first peesd aed she «smt I dlttehhJ The pest per k ages wtll 1 I peeede te !• poos do. th* of * eight le hgpiy ehly le tfth Wee mode lh the alee or fader regsletteho fees *4 the see of Foeger I* msedelery see la permitted le ■ o r 41 aary stamps a ft ted The thesrwhce fee, ohlrh was merty lee coats, see feshd le he ceealvs aed aa order, eft active , 1. red seed le five reata the fea per re la I a as red to actshl raloe a 111. aad a tea coat fee la earn only oa per re la la as red te hr raise of mors thaa 111 aad aei reeding ISO Under thte meat the baelaeaa of Inhaling pack age* haa mora thaa doubled, partie- uarly in the eendiaf of valaahle mer chandise Saves Baby Ten Days. After having kept her baby alive for ten days, by breathing In Ita mouth when It was sinking, Mrs. J. H. Spaulding, of Oklahoma City, fin ally lost the child. It was six weeks old and had an affection of the heart. Hhoots Htepanother; Kills Self. Martin Strasburger. of Knox, Ind.. •hot his stepmother la the head, then committed suicide. RKMORME I JED TO ftUICTDft. Unable to Bear the Gaae of _ Whoee fldld He Killed. The accusing gaze of a woman whose child met death under bin en gine, led Louis Faber, of Philadel phia, to take hia own life. Faber, who shot himself after making an at tempt upon the lives of his wife and children, was an engineer on the Reading railroad. After her son, John, was killed bj Faber’s engine, Mrs. Rose Crocowicx made daily visit to the scene of the accident Just at the time when Faber was passing. She stood near the track, her eyes riveted to those of the engineer, to whom she tgied, “Give me my child. 4 ’ The mother's grief and presence so worked upon Faber that he became subject to strange hallucinations and his mind gave way. ♦♦♦ Eats Poisonous Pills. Jane, the three-year-old- daughter of Mr. C. B. Caldwell, of Pittsburg, found her father’s pill case and started to play doctor. She divided a bottle of morphine tablets with two playmates. Later she said she was sleepy, and went to sleep, never to awaken. The others were very sick, but have recovered. Rescue* H ns band From BnIL Gus Anderson, of Boise, Idaho, owee his life to the bravery of hie wife. He had gene out to milk, when he wee attacked by e boll. Hta wife heard bis ertee dog to worry the has head from the •oa Is In a