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SUPPLEMENT TO Newberry Herald C News GOVERNOR McSWEENEY'S SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE. Reviews Conditions in South Carolina and Recommends Legislation Deemed Desirable. THE STATE'S INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS IS MOST NOTABLE FEATURE OF YEAR. All the State Institutionb Are Reported in Excellent Con dition and the Treasury Department-Has Borrowed No Money---The Cause of the Common Schools is Strongly Urged Upon the Peo ple's Representatives. Gentlemen of the General Assemblv: It is gratifying to me to welcome you as the representatives of tile people under such favorable conditions. You come as the first Leg islature to assemble in South Carolina in the new century. The Nineteenth century has been one of marked progress and develop ment in all the arts and sciences, and it contains lessons vhich we may learn with profit to ourselves and which may be of use to us in legislating for the future. Those who constituted che first Legisla ture one hundred years ago little dreamed of the advance in all line3 of in(lustry and of the discoveries and inveitions which have signal ized the century just passed into history. We cannot realize or even conceive the advances that will be made during this century upon which we are entering. There seens to be almost no limit to the achievements of the umain mind. It is for us to contl ibueic our part to make the world better and happier by our having lived in it and to leave to our children a goodly heritage and a name untar nished. It is your privilege to meet and to counsel with one another and to consider and enact such laws as will be of benefit not only to the present but to the future growth and (levelopment of this grand old comnionvealth. The march of material progress an( the (levelopimlent of ihe State, to which I had the pleasure to refer one year ago in greeting the members of the Legislature, has kept up with steady ald sure step. The business depression through which the people had passed an(d which was almost unprecedented seems to have been followed by a revival which is touching all branches of industry. The increased price which our farmers have received for their staple crop makes large amend for the falling off in the yield. Our farmers are leari ing the importance of diversified farming and in consequence are be coming more independent. You needl no b)etter evidenIce of the progress andl prosperity of the State than that presented in the figures contained in the annual report of tLe Secretary of State. From this report it wvill be seen that approximately fifteen million (dollars were invested the p)ast year in South Carolina companies ; andl while a large p)roportion of it ia in cotton mill building, yet many smaller manufacturing enterprises and industries have been organizedl. Newv manufactories continue to go up and we are no longer simply an agricultural people but are fast becoming as well a manufacturing State. We now lead all Southern States in the manufacture of cot ton goods and are second only to Mvassachusetts in the number of spindles, and at the present rate of progress wvill soon lead all the States in the Union in this important branch of industry. It is well to keep this fact in mind as you deliberate. Taxcable values hav'e increasedl $4,245,695 during the past year, as wvill be seen from the Comptroller General's report, but the increase is not near as large as it should be or would be if our system of as sessment and taxation were so revised andl amendled as to have placed on the tax books all the property of thle State nowv escaping taxation and if that which is assessed were equitably assessedl. Peace and( good order have characterized our people during the past year. We have not been visited by plague or pestilence and no resort to mob violence has marred the recordl or stainedl t.he lair name of the State, though in one or two cases the strong arm of the mili tary had to be called into requisition, but the majesty of the lawv wvas maintained andl no 1)1ood was shled. In one case there wvas strong provocation for summary justice, but wvith the assistance of the muil itary the culprits were p)rotectedl, lawvlessness was prevented, and through the ordinary channels of the Courts stern justice wvill be ad ministeredl and the p)enalty paid. You as the chosen representatives of thme people shotuld guard wvith jealous eye their interests and wvelfare wvhich have been committed to your keeping, rememberinig always the resp)onsib)ility which rests uipon you. FINANCI:s. I take pleasure ini calling attention to the very creditable showing which the Treasury Department will be able to make as to the finan cial transactions of that dlepartment for the fiscal year closing D)e cember 31, 1900, as will appear from the statement of receipts andl disbursements below. The Treasturer, by his strict attention to duty, and the uniform courtesy with which he has treated all parties hay intg business relations wvith his depnrtment. dleservos hiruh commien dation and I fed quite sure that he will receive in retiring from the ot'ice, wich he has so worthily filled, the hearty well-done of all th. people of the State. Cash Receipts for year ending December 31st 19(x). Cash bala'ce, Dec. 31, 1899 ............ $ 5 Back Taxes .......................... ,7 1 63 General Taxes 1899................... 6o6,io 91 General Taxes, 1900. ......... 292,476 6 Railroad Assessments for R. R. Commis s ioners ................... .........10,381 (.t Icoine Tax ......................... . . . . . .. o7 Annual Insurance License Fee.......... .3,100 0 Gradiated Insurance License Fees........11,877 99 Fees, Office Secretary State.............. . . ,450 State Penitentiarv ..................... .10,000 00 Privilege Fertilizer Tax.................75,214 34 (onu1nissiolners Sinking Fund.................4029 0 Sinking Fund for Reduction Brown 4 per cents: 'Loans returned ............. $91,241 50 Interest on loans and deposits. 17,995 84 Phosphate royalty ... ..... 23,475 01 - -- 132,712 35 'erilanient State School Fund: interest account ...........2,225 99 Principal (eschcats) ........ 277 32 2,503 31 Special State School Fund (Dispensary) 10,000 00 Ilorrill Fund from U. S. Government. . . 25,000 00 Insurance Sinking Fund (public build ings). ................ ..........73 7 Incorporation Fees ....................6o oo Dispensary, S. C............. ........1,913,069 76 Refulds-sudry accomits ..12,384 70 $3,760,52 01 Casl;hIl'aynients for Year Eniding Decembercl 31 , 1900. Salaries .............. ....................$ 1,18,731 -)0 Legislative Expeiises....................o ,895 77 Education, Charitable anid Penal istitu tionls..................... .............274,606 23 Pensions....................... ............. ....00,81 5 71 State Special School Ftind 100......io,684 51r interest on Bonds anid Stock ..273,456 .5 Sinking Fund for Redtiction Brown' 4%r peri cents:-Loall.......... 70'600 Commissioners Sinking F"und........... 42,0,18 18Z clellsonl College: Privilege Fertilizer Tlax ...$70,114 51 Lmit! Scrip a,dO Per manenlt -Fundh...........79,266 3 5 INJOrrill FIlliid............... 12,500 00) 41.880 87 Stato Col. Nor., Ind., Agr. and Alcl. Col l ege : MWorrill Fund............... 12,866 23 Interest Land Scrip .........5,754 0 18,620 2'j Public Printing...................1,5 62 Electionl HXp)ellses ...........................19,248 88 lQuaranltinlingf State ..........................10,2341 11 Erecting Mo nument at Chickamauga. ...........,321 Permanent State School Fund ..................2,3J20 (v0 D)irect Tax Proceeds--Act of M,f ......... ....i 16 go Miscellaneous Accomnts ......................43,470 82 Dispensary, S. C.. Account p)ropl)e........... $1,779,.6311 98) $32,7042 01 Theclim o te UitCiStte Goermet ganstth Sat9o Souh arlia orth painil o ~hih t oe im tleSttewa seriusl j)ess(l nInotce f sut gven ar no inabeanc for wantof thorty o prsecue sid caimsin he1Curts An itoi Refundltssundyal accuante to..........o..veten unre Cas and a ymoents fr Yer1 nintemer3, 1900,.ioOii oecag hs Sar iesla .............. cet. ol bonds.-- -- Th Tr 4asure Clo Lilatikvea Expenses auhoit... ~ to. ...........n exchang th7 Edcsation, auhorityabe giv ena hInsttu tte pcils ofch Fiscal year, it.. is alasamte.o nit Interet ton tBondesr and Stok............hae t oman fnd lCommsso iner Ste gvernd..en ..t . hi stt of afar.rsermt delamson Collecig: eSaetxstI(C eitn '.I h a l)OOks werivleg ce onrtilie Tx of .D..em.$7 insea f h43s dout aducerannt Fund1(lh ......... an9,266 Cb opese generaly otirel tound ........Notsadn t12,5 da00cs,w csto or o., Ind. ov-r.afts Mech. boans cale MboterrillyFune.e. .. .).l.I. .. .o. $12,86 Inte rer,Lan wci - - ---ir -- 5,t andewtioh Expenseetfor. ben.. rr.d...te.Tea..e.s.oo..a Ereldn MBonFumde t hichan no no. . .b oarid Pfemannt Saiteg ohers, itund....s....he.. te outs Diel)nert d andoce led-Act one t Il884.bak..fth...ae Acou t.ro er .. .. .. .$ ,7 9,. til,, State iii i8o;. Notice NwaS 1iilco.iatelv -.."'ill of te loss '>f the holids to tile T1'eauirer. all tIat offiCel was cautiOllid 11 tu ;l . llz.e ally olle presenting theiltI as the o\iver. 1n <Iler the Act (_f 180) re(Illir-il tile old baliks to res;tikue blsines:;s; tW ' go ilito li(plidZititOll, the Attot'el I (etile'l of tIhe State hadl till; bank put iltO the hlmd.s of a receiver, and So the winding iup 1f its alfairs has been froi that time uider the direction of the \ virnex ;enleral. Upoll his Ilotitn ill 1870 an1 ilijuncrtiin was i'sil njin. ing the IlaslrCr from paying". al. of these bolnds withot ih ,anI tiim of thi. CIrts. .\l but the Said thirty-seven lodl. I tirt eight. for there seemus to be SoImiie (ItIeStiOll as to one. hIve ben fr1_1m time to tinwe recovered ald funlded, aw' the prowcek di-tihI1ted under the direction of the ('o1urts. There have been several applications to the I.eislatuire f lea v to fund the said thirtv-seven or tlirtv-eiglt blnds:. plit1 1cin ill tle Courts were had for mandaulllls to require the Treal:sInri t) d so without further action of the Ix.gislature. In all of t1esw tOhe Ie. its of the case have been thoroughly ilINvestigated, and tht un, have declared the bank the owner of tle bonds, and its r-eceiver. Im Only personl entitled to fund theil. Inl the limldl ls prove111.i' ;1gs, ; which all the judges ill the State were called t sit ell hant., (illm Ig all but two ultimately decided that the Treasurer was not alithrize I to fund without special action of the Legislature, two hloltlilg tha1.1t hi. was and that the receiver was entitled to have the lost bonid" Illuded without such action) the jidges were unalilliouls as to the mlir-its of. the claim. Previous Legislatures have lieF*ated to allow the lknds t lie funded, fearing that some one might possibly tturn up with tli bonds, and claim to own and fund them as All iimocent hltli.r. 1 ,I as I pointed Out last year this danger is now reimioved, as in t hi.: cas. the twenty vears from Iimaturity, (u1ring which these iomis mig.ht have been funded by the Treasirer. upon their precsentation ald deliv ery to him by any such holder, expired on the ist (f July, ati and ally such holder is now barred inder the Act of i8c)i. Under thiese circumstances, the claim of the batik to) be allowed to renew and fund these bonds ill my ' judgile nt is vlid Itd jt, :mI a(It should be allowed. It is not denied that the State owes tlte bilds P) some onie--they are carried as part of the obl debt (of the State nI the books of th1e Treasurer as owilg to some omi--the C(iulrts have dI creed the bank to be the owier-no me else cain io claim them. as all persons but the baiik are barred Illider the Act of 181)(i fl fIl iiig, so. It seems to m11e that ill the face of these facts it will l. a little short of repudiation if we conitiitle t) refise t allow the l r ceivr of the bank to fund these bonds. In some States, provision is Illadc for tle renewing of ,I-st r df stroyed bonds, without re(plirillg action of tile L.egislature m spreite cases it might he wise in this State to llake a similar pro visi(n, , the reniewing of such lost evidence of ildebtednless shoul be a mlater of judicial rather than legislative inquisition and 1reiedy : ;m d (.I. fr I he further reason that everything which adds assuranlce to the creditor that he will be paid eveni though he loses the iper evideice if hi; debt adds to the credit of the State. I have gone somewhat into the merits of this mattr as I cmin ti but feel that the credit and honor of the State are now to stomenk VIt lt it] - volved. I earnestlv recollllieild it to the aftetionf.I of the ( ;(. :1 :\; 5 seblibly as One upon which some action should he taken, fIr Ite hobid can no longer be carried oil the Treasurer's books as "( H nd1 Ptioldable." FI )UCATION. Not tle least g-ratif ing evidence if our pr(gre s is It I -111aut1 able awakening ill all departments f C(lcation. \t th beginn11inI of the century just Closed the civilized world kniew no such 1hinIig a State systemi of edication ; and ill ianiy qularters, Ittil a C'Ilnpara tively recent date, the position o)f those who adv icated fret pulliC edlcationl as a legitiliate flln't iin of State go\>(ermllnlit was stilb bornlv contested, the opposition ill oIlr Stae being larelv tIlle Io peculiar racial and social conditions. State edlucationl is no4w tII, settled pl)icy (if our cotiutry, b)eingu reefognizedM as Ifothi a fu1(mneh and( a dutyx of 11he governm't111 en t ; ad ( it miay well lie ques ti olled wvhethier the in leteentIh cent urv haIsii nudeI a tmiorte ill1 poritit coti bution to1 lie calise oif (detmocracy and civil izat iofn. Since 187(1 the ipublic exp)end(itunre for comiimn schoo ls ill the I.niitedl States has: nlearlyI ' trebled, 1beinag now $2.67 pewr cap1 ita of popuil ationw, otr an og gr'egate of $200,oo0,ooo annuallyv. It is a pincI'il(' no0w ' tee reco nizedl, that the safety of the governm]ent it sf.lf re<p~iir'es thiat it givet. its citizetns the Ohoppot1imity~ to fit thlemiselve.s for an ititelligenit fdis charge of their (duities to the State. Enicour'aging r'eporits cotme fromt the sclnols ;uni1 colleges foifouilr own St ate, indoicat ing that they have enlter'ed iupon ain era' off inex aml)ed priosper'ity. And yet nitch remi ains to lie don me to incret(ase the efficienicy of (our1 pubtlic schools. TIhe first e.sseti al is teachers of hiigh miorai chlai'acter' ado adequajte3tC professionl ailiii1)qu ipet . (Onel teachter's have b)etter' opphor'tunities for' pt'ofessionital tr'aininlg t han e'vet' b)efor'e, and they show a higher average of intellIigenice andt pro.) fessional fitness ; but they are too( otencm pooly p aid for t heir se'r vi(cs, and1( the best r'esul ts e. mlot be e2xpec'(ted untilI thle sch otols:, in-. ste(adI of advert isintg foi' b)ids from 11e ache's, of lfer adI(I ate pa and 1( dlemanlid goodl qual ificatioins. The coml)ainit is miadie, and noit unljustly, that ouri schloo! system is nbot well aticuilated( ; t hat no priov ision ha s bleenlI made to fill thle gap~ between the connntIon schooi(l and thle college, and t hat the col lege must theriefor'e miainltaini a pre'par'ato.ry (dpartmet. WVhile it is tue that very few of those who enter' tIhe 'otnnnloni schooI ever' ireach the high scho ol , anid few.er still the ctolleg(', yect th ose wh'Io (he sire to fit thlemlselves foi' college shouald have thle opjpor'tunity to doi so in their owni schools. This de(ficiency'. has beeni met iin maniy (f the towns, and( in sonic of the country1m oisticts, byi t.hie erec(:t ioni off gradled schools ; btut ini mosti of the2 coutryi'. schools inmadequtate' prle p)aramtory trainling is of'fet'ed. Tfhie restlt is that manyv of the c'outry ' punpils whlo desire to compete for' schotlarshiips ini theit State c' ll eges, ot' who desir'e to1 enter colilege., are at a mianiifest disatdvatitage, and itnist either empilloy some1( one( to coachi them'ii, (it mulst attend( a pe patry school or gradedl school mi ttown, at a co nsiderable outlay fo~r boardl ando tulitioni. The impor)tance(f. of teving ani additionial tax foir thet. support of thec countittry schools cannott be too stroiighvly'uged( tupon our pieop)le. Thhis w.ill enable thIemn to iemploy compihetenmt teachers for' longei' terms; it w'.illI enable thlemi to give thirm cliir 1en eleim entua ry amid pire paraltory trainling at hotne; atnd it will tend to chieck the abniormal flow.. of popiulation fr'oii the country to the townvm ; it wihl be bene ficial fromii yere. ptint iif view. whiite it is ossi;ble for in eahet!