The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, March 14, 1902, Image 1

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E,ATA[BL,ISHED 1865. NEWBERRY. S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1902 TWICE A WEEK.$1.50 A YEAH The home if it had been built in a few years would have been the State's property, and after built a done away with appropriating money for pensions, and let all those who are not able to live at home without a pension go to the old soldiers' home and let the State bear all expenses, and if they refused to go give them nothing. Here is what we favor, to se build an old soldiers' home or divide . the apportionment of $200,000 for ir pensions, in eqnal amounts to each old soldier or his widow, let him be rich or poor, high or low, as every M, nE man who went to the war was a tar get for the yankee bullets, and faced th the storm of shot and shell, and his life was held up to the missles of m death just the same as his poor neigh- p bor who received a pension, and do of away with property qualifications. of The man who went to the war and pU did his duty and gets no pension, pu dtserves one as much as the man who is receiving one. th We ask the question, is this fair of legislation? That is the condition of iffairs as we find them today, par- ap :ial legislation to benefit some, while int thers receive-none who were better M( ioldiers may be than those receiving frc pension. We claim it is right to livide the amount. If our legislature e M ~Pei s going to apportion money for the for >ld soldiers give them all a part f it only be $1.00 a piece. We be- 'w err ieve in "equal rights to all and pecial privileges to none.'' We be eve if the State is going to pension lE ier old soldiers there should be crE ,lasses, as there is today in the law, d give every old soldier or his cot widow, rich or pour, their part of the Lpportionmeit, according to the class me ie comes under. We believe that ,he one leg and one arm soldiers hould receive more than the others gei >ecause they have been disanled aft rom making an honest living, and c Mffered the loss of one of their limbs. co vaj f we are going to have part*al leg- ha slation, and not going to give all the ext >ld soldiers or their widows a part >f te apportionment made, then weco lay build an old soldiers' home, and o lo away with appropriating money fri o pension old soldiers and widows. est od after the soldiers' howe is built mud if any of them refuses to go tose t let them alone and stop pensioning abl hem. We know of an old soldier dos ho says he will perish before he fro ill go to the County home, if the lounty home is not good enough for di( m man, when he needs help and an o >ld soldiers' home is not to the taste >f an old soldier or his widow and bey are in need, and a home is of ~ered them, and help freely given pa nd they refuse, we say let t hem suf ze er. We would be glad to see the in lay come where all the old soldiers, p~ r their widows receive their propor-li ~ion, or either build an old soldiers' Iorpe fQr t4ose braye boys of bygone g rers, and do away with partial legis S ation, Leon a. $ Newberry Co. March 10, 1902. an ____ ____ ____th PREs1DEN4 WIr,eDRAW4 CHIAFFEE'S fic SOM I N ATION.ci ~ortage or S300 is Accones of Ati or Potcmee Reported2 by Inspector-No di [Special to The State.) tw Washingt.on, March 10.-Presi lent Roosevelt has withdrawn.- the er ominat iou of Win. G Chaffee to he an postmaster at Aiken because of the th shortage in the accounts of Postmnas- tr4 Ler Chaffee amounting to $300. no The matter was brought to the at- cit tention of the president through a sei report of a postoffice inspector which sn is now on tile in the department. se; As soon as thbe shortage was made ty known to President Roosevelt by su Postmaster General Payne he told wi the latter he would take the matter in in hand arid the withdrawal of Chaf of fee's appointment is the result. St Senator McLaurin, npon whose ati recommendation President McKinley ar appointed Chaffee last summer, de th eined to disenss thbe matter today th further than to confirm the above facts and to say that so far as he nt knew Chaffee bad not. offered an ex is planation of the affairs. al No applications for appointment ec have been yet filed. r The senate had refused thus far to confirm the nomination on account W of certain opposition to Chaffee from vi nknwn qnarters. c THE SOUTH CAROLINA 9 T AT ST. LOUIS. HOW IT 19 TO B 41CUKI' UNI1ER LZGISL%TIVE PLAN. krrelimlesties soon to eegis-Will bo Made * from Exhlbitg Now io the Sat P=Hdig s Charbston Kxp,*ttIOn. [The State, 11th.] Every effort is to be madenow that the general assembly has made provision for it to have South Caro haa suitably rep,e ente at the world's fair at St. Louis. With the mate rial in the way of exhibits in the State building at Charleston, if it can be secured and properly worked over, will form a fine exhibit. Under the clause put in the appro priation act by the general assembly it wijl be the duty of the present South Carolina commission in charge of the State building and exhibit at the Charleston Exposition to take charge of the work. This commis sin will soon meet to urap out a plan of action and get the preliminary worf under way. This provision in the appropria tion act of this year for the exbibit at SLIonis rkds as follows: "For the purpose of preserving the exhibits of a permanent cbarac ter at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition which may become the property of the State as provided in section 5 of an ist entitled "an act to provide for a hilding and a State exhibit at the South Carolina Interstate and West J Indian Exposition, and to make an -appropnation for the same, approved I Feb. 8, 1901, and such county ex bibitg as may be placed under the i s areof said commission so as to form I an ehibit at the Louisiaua Purchase I uposition in 1903, at St. Louis, No., I $Ji00, and any unezpended balance I of the appropriation in said act." I The seetion of the original act re- i terred to reade,as follows:] S8ection 5. The commission herei inabove treated shall receive and hold for the use of the State all ex hibits of a permanent cba. acter that may become the property of the< State by purchase, donation or other- I wise, and shall make a report as to eeb exhibits to the general assem bly at its first meeting after the closei of the exposition." In a letter to Gov. McSweeney, Mr. Charles N. Reeves, secretary of the committee on legislation of the Louisiana Purohase Exposition corn pany received today says: Sir: Your very kind letter of March 1, giving the amount of the South Carolina appropriation for the world's fair exhibit and list of the members of the commission, came dai ring my absence in Minnesota4 Qurt people were very much pleased *to note t be patriQtic action taken by the South Carolina legislature, and I want to thank you particularly for &he kindly interest you have shown throughout. Tb'- commiission is a -strong body, and I believe that the South Carolina exhibit will be not only a credit to the~ State, but to the exposition as well. TN E PENSION LAW. WL.ona" Wants a Qolees' Ho,me or the omer ilded Betwe. n the Ve.ra'na Other NeW. Mr. Marcus Lester, has been very ilL We learn that Mrs. Jas. Moore, has been very sick. Mr. A. B. Mills, Sr, has a case of La Grippe. Some of our farmers have sown a great deal of spring oats. Onr schools are all still running with good attendance. JRev. A McA. Pit.mao, of Green .wood, preached at Bet hel last Sun - day. We had hoped that the last ses sion of the legislature would have appropriated money to have built an old soldiers' home. As we consider the pension law as it stands today rotten from beginning to en24~, as it applies to certain individual soldiers and not to all who rendered service in the Confederate services. We favor an old soldiers' home let it cost what it may, or either proportion the amount expended to every old sol dier or his widow. hanges Made in Pension Laws )ME OF TRE NEW ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Clerical Error DiLacovered But There't No Way to Corsect it-The County Pension Commissioner. [The State, 8th.] The general assembly at its recent ssion made considerable changes the pension acts. Aside from in easing the appropriation to $200, 0 and providing for its disburse Dnt in such a way that the most edy veterans would be more ma rially benefited than the others, e legislature passed some six or )re acts making changes in the nsion laws. Recently numerous juests have been made for copies these acts, and for the information those concerned. The State today blishes some of them; the others [ be given tomorrow. Yesterday in one of these new acts re was discovered a bad mistake the engrossing department, the rds "first Monday in February" pearing when it is the manifest ention of the act that the first )nday in March was intended, for m its text the act shows that it s the intention of the framers to rmit at least a month for the per mance of cortain duties between ) meetings of the board. This or appears in the act creating the ce of county pension commis ner, and it is somewhat of a prob. c as to how the difficulty thus ated will be met. rhe text of the act "to regulate inty aid to Confederate soldiers I to prevent their disfranchise nt," is as follows: ection 1. Be it enacted by the ieral assembly of the State of ith Carolina: That from and er the approval of this act the inty board of commissioners of the -ious counties of this State shall re the right in their discretion to end county aid to indigent Con. lerate soldiers in their respective ities at the home of such soldiers at the homes of such relatives or nds: Provided, that it shall be ablished to the satisfaction of the d ards that such soldier is de ving of aid and is physically un e to earn a support, and that he a not obtain a sufficient pension m the State to support him. see. 2. That no Confederate sol ir shall be disfranchised by reason his having received or is receiving sh aid as aforesaid. rhe act "to provide for the re. ir of artificial limbs of. certain citi is of this State who were soldiers the war between the States and to y certain of such citizens money in i thereof," reads thus: Section 1. Be it enacted by the eral assembly of the State of rnth Carolina: That the sum of 000, if so much be necessary, be d is hereby appropriated to defray a expenses of the repair of arti al limbs heretofore donated to izens of this State who lost a leg arm, or who became permanently abled in a leg or an arm during a military service in the war be een the States. Sec. 2. That the comptroller gen d be, and is hereby, authorized d required to draw his warrant on State treasurer, and the State easurer pay the same, for a sum t exceeding $25 in favor of any izens of this State, upon tbe pre atation to him by or on behalf of h citizens of a certificate under al of the clerk of court of the coun wherein such citizen iesides, that ch citizen lost a leg or an arm or is permanently disabled in a leg or an arm while in military service this State or the Confederate ates in the war between the States, d that such cinizen received an tificial limb under the act of 1879, e act of 1881 or the amendments ereof, and that said artificial limb weds repairs, and that such citizen not on the State pension roll and so tbe estimates of the probable st of such repair certified to by a putable physician of the county ierein such citizen resides: Pro (ed, that such citizen who is re shall not be entitled to receive any thing under this appropriation pro vided that the amount so appropriated shall be appropriated out of the pen sion fund: Provided, further, that in case any citizen received money in stead of an artificial limb as pro vided under the act of 1879, the act of 1881 or the amendments thereof, that such person shall be allowed the sum of $25 upon the presentation of a certificate nnder seal of the clerk of court of the county wherein such citizen resides, that he was entitled to receive such compensation instead of the artificial limb as provided in said act: Provided further, that all persons desiring the benefits of this act shall file their claims as herein provided within 90 days after the approval of this act, and if the comp troller general shall find that the amount of claims filed and approved exceed the said sum of $2,000, then he shall pro rata the said sum among the claims approved by him. Here is the act "creating a count) pension commissioner, defining his duties and to further define and regu late the duty of county pension boards hereafter," in whi.h tWe error has been made: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina: That each county pension board of the respective coun ties in this State shall at its first meeting in January in each year elect one of its members to the posi tion of pension commissioner, whose duty it shall be to attend in the au ditor's office of his county every Saturday during the month of Jan uary in each year for the purpose of meeting the pension applicants in each range and fix up all pension papers in a condition to go before said board, which said board shall meet on the first Monday in Feb ruary of each year to pass upon said applications. Said commissioner shall be arid is hereby author zed and required to administer aths. When said applications have een approved by said board, said ommissioner shall write up lie lists f the same. Said board shall meet again on the first Monday of Feb rary in each year to sign said lists ad immediately forward same to the cmptroller general. Said pension ommissioner shall be allowed $2 a day as pay for his services, but shall nt be paid for more than 10 days' service in any one year. Below are given the last two of the ew pension acts resulting from this year's session of the general assem bly. The first is the act giving the requirements as to the eligibility for pesions and the method of disburse ment. It reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina, that section :L065 of the code of laws of South Carolmna, 1902, and the same is hereby amend ed, so as to read as follows: Section 1065. The sum of at least $150,000 shall be anhually appro priated to pay the pensions provided for by this chapter, and in case the same, or such amounts as shall be appropriated shall be distributed proportionately among those legally entitled to receive the same: Pro vided, that those peaisioners described in section 1066, as class A, class B, class C, No. 1, class C No. 3, shall have been first paid in full: Pro vided further, in case the same, or such amount as shall be appro priatd shall be more than sufficient, then the amount so appropriated shall be distributed proportionately among all those legally entitled to receive the same. Sec. 2; That section 1066 of the code of laws of South Carolina of 1902, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1066. The applicant must have been a resident of the State for two years prior to the time of the applicant. Io order to obtain the benefits of this chapter, the appli cant qualified by residence must also show: (A) if a man. 1st. That be was a bona fide soldier or sailor in the service of the State, or OCnfeder ate States in the war between the States; and second, either (a) that whil in such servie he lost a leg or arm or sight, or received other bo ly injury whereby he has becot disabled, or that be is totally d abled by paralysis; and further, tb neither himself nor his wife has income exceeding $150 per antju nor property sufficient to produ such an income, or (b) that he b reached the age of 60 years, and th neither he nor his wife is receivil an annual income of $75 from ai source, nor possessed of proper sufficient to produce such an incor (B) If a woman. First, That she the widow of a man who was a boi fide soldier or sailor in the service the State or of the Confederate Stat in the war between the States; ar second, that she has never reiarriE or having remarried is again a widov and third, that either (a) she is ( years of age, or (b) that her husban lost his life in the service of the Sta or of the Confederate States in ti war between the States: and fourtl that she has not an income of $1( per annum or property sufficient 1 produce same. Fifth, the classifici tion of all pensioners shall be E follows: Class A. Those who as result of wounds received in sai war, are physically helpless, or who: while in such service lost both ara or both legs or sight; or who are di abled by paralysis and are unab] to make a living whose income or h wife's does not exceed $150 per ai num. Class B. Those who while i such service lost one arm or one le and whose income or his wife's d,) not exceed $150 per annum. Clai C No. 1. Those soldiers and sailo. disabled by wounds received durin said war, whose income or his wife does not exceed $150 per annun Olais C No 2. Those who have reache the age of 60 years, and whose ii come or his wife's does not excee $75 per annum. Class C No. Widows of those 'Who lost their livE while in such service of th State or of the Confederate State and whose income does not excee $100 per annum. Class C No. Widows above the age of 00 yea1 whose income does not exceed $10 per annum. Sec. 3. That section 1067 of th code of laws of South Carolina, 190' be and the same are hereby amende so as to read as follows: Sectic 1067. The persons described in ti preceding sections shall be entitle to a pension upon complying wil the other provisious of this chapte and each pensioner of the sever classes shall be paid the amoun hereinafter set forth, to-wit: The other is the act "to amer section 3 of an act 'Entitled an at to provide for pensions of certal soldiers and sailors now residents South Carolina, whe were in the se vice of the State or of the Confe4 erate States in the late war betwe< the States, approved the 19th day February, A. D. 1900, so far as r lates to widows of Confederate s< diers and sailors' " Section 1. Be it enacted by ti general assembly of the State South Carolina: That sub divisic 2nd of sub.title (B) of section 3 an act entitled "An act to provide i pensions of certain soldiers and sa ors., now residents of South Carolin who were in the service of the Sta or of the Confederate States in t: war between the States, approv the 19th day of February, 1900, and the said sub.division is berel amended by inserting between t word "remarried" and the wo "and" the following words, "or t1 she being 60 years of age, is a wid< again, her last husband having died so that section 3 of the said act wb so amended shall read as follov Section 3. In ordar to obtain t benefits of this chapter, the app cant unqualified by residence, mi also show: (A) If a man, first, ti he was a bona fide soldier or sail in the service of the State or of t Confederate States in the war I tween the States; and secoud, eith (a) that while in such service he 1 a leg or arm or received other b.d injury whereby he has become d abled; and further, that neither hi self nor his wife has an incomne< ceeding $150 per annum nor prope sufficient to produce such an iuncomx or(h)that he has reached the age ii- years, and that neither he nor his wife ne is receiving an annual income of $75 is- from any source or possessed prop at erty sufficient to produce such an in an come. (B) If a woman, first, that M, she is the widow of a man who was a ce bona fide soldier or sailor in the ser as vice of the State or of the Confed. at erate States in the war between the ig States, and, second, that she has iy never remarried ur that she being ty sixty years of age is a widow again, e. her last husband having died, and 3, is that either (a) she is sixty years of i ia age, or (b) that her husband lost his I f life in the service of the State or of 3s the Coifederate States, and, fourth, d that she has not an income of $100 d per annum nor property sufficient to I v; produce same. 0 - -_ _ _ d AUGUSrA THREATENED WITO A MILL :e STRtIKE. le Operative@ Demand 10 Per Cent Advance 1, General lome Down Expected Next I 0 Monday. [Special to The State.] s Augusta, March 10--The busi- t a ness interests of Augusta, and par d ticularly of West End, the mill dis B trict, are worked up and very blue is over the prospects of-one the largest 3. cotton mill strikes this section of the te country has had to deal with in 1 is years. I About three weeks ago the opera n tive4, principally the carders and i g spinners, made a demand for a 10 t )s per cent. increase in wages to which r is the mills replied emphatically in the s negative. The labor organizations i g set March 17, next Monday, as the s last day of grace and decided to . strike if the demand was not granted. d The mill men say they will not put 1 i on the 10 per cent. increase and the C d determination of the operatives makes t 3. the strike inevitable. I 6s Merchants of West End are en- j e tirely dependent upon the mill trade 3, for the life of their business and all ( d fear with the coming crisis comes L also the collapse of many mercantile 1 -s houses. 0 It is frequently stated that north ern mills, principally Borden's "Iron e mill,'' a print goods establishment of 3, Fall River, Mass., are in with the i operatives and aire enicouraging a n southern strike in order to benefit Le themselves. d The operatives talk confidently of h winning but business men see no r, chance for them in the fight. il The strike will go on Monday and bs will effect the Sibley, John P. King, Augusta factory, Enterprise and all .d other Augusta mills and quite likely I t those of Langley, Bath, Warrenville n and nearby South Carolina towns. r-WILL NOT ATTEND CORONATION. m President Roosevelt Decides That His 1 Daughter t annot Accept the Invita >l ion. p1- Washington, March 7.-Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the President, ie will not attend the coronation of of King Edward. n When the White House officials of discussed the matter it was stated by or those in position to know that she - should not go. a, It was learned to night that the te reason why Miss Roosevelt will not 1e attend the coronation of King Ed ad ward is because it has been found be practically impossible for her to go >y simply as a young American girl de traveling privately in the household rd of .Special Ambassador Reid. Not at withstanding it was stated she would ) not go to London as the daughter of ,' the President, but simply as Miss an Roosevelt, it was learned that Lon rs: don court circles were considering be seriously the question if the status li- became a matter of international func st tions. When Miss Roosevelt's status cat became a matter of international dis or cassion, the President considered the b advisability %i cancelling the visit, le- but found that an invitation to visit er the Emperor and Empress of Ger yst many was on the way to America. ly It was decided, in view of the youth is of Miss Roosevelt and the interna n tional conditions, as well as courte a sies she would be called on to meet, -ty that the English visit and all its de e; lights would have to be relinquish SECRETARY LONG LEAVES CABINETs w. M. MOODY OF MASSACHUSETTS NAMED AS SUCCF4sOR. Did SecretaryjOnt of politics-Will Return to Law Practice-Kindly Notes Pass Between President and Himself. Washington, March 10.-The third hange in the cabinet of president Roosevelt occurred today w' en Sec -etary Long submitted his resigna ion in a graceful letter, it being ac epted in one equally felicitous by he president. The change was made omplete by the selection of Wm. lenry Moody of the Sixth Congres ional district of Massachusetts, as dr. Long's successor in the navy de )artment. Mr. Moody will assume harge of the navy department May 1. This change has been expected for long time. Mr. Long had intended o retire at the beginning of the late ?resident McKinley's second term mt he consented to remain until cer ain lines of policy, in which he was nvolved, was more satisfactorily ar anged. Then when President Roose elt, succeeded, though anxious to eturn to private life-for Secretary .jong will never again enter public ife-a strong feeling of loyalty to vards Mr. Roosevelt induced the see etary to defer his retirement until t was convenient for the president o make a change. Mr. Long will e enter the practice of law. The correspondence exchanged to lay is as follows: Navy Department, Washington, March 10. My dear Mr. President: Will you :indly accept this as my resignation f the secretaryship of the navy-to ake effect on the Ist day of May ext, or sooner, of course, if you shall t any time so wish? It has been to ne a delightful service. I leave the fficial circle of your cabinet, in which ny association with you and its mem >ers has been so happy, with high ppreciation of your administration d with most cordial good wishes or its success and for you personally. Very truly yours, John D. Long. The President. W hite House, March 10. My Dear Secretary: It is with rery sincere regret that I accept your esignation. I shall always count it privilege, not only to have served with you during the last six months, ut to have served under you at the utset of President McKinley's ad ninistration. I have seen you in yoth relations, and it has never been ny good fortune to be associated vith any public man more single ninded in his devotion to the public ,nterest. Our relations have been 20t merely official but also those of personal friendship. May all the good fortune you so richly deserve attend you wherever frou e. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. To the Hon. John D. Long, secre ~ary of the navy. Mr. Moody's selection for the port folio of the navy was the outcome of sn interesting contest. There was o less than a half dozen aspirants but the struggle finally narrowed clown to the two representatives mn ongress-Mr. Foss of Illinois, chair man of the naval committee of the house, who had the energetic sup port of his western colleagues, and Mr. Moody, for whom Senator Lodge made the winning fight. It was for a time in doubt whether Mr. Moody would not be plaiced in some impor tant foreign mission rather than in the navy department, but he pre ferred to stay at home. A Printer Greatly surprised I never was so much surprised in my ife, as I was with the results of using Chamberlain's Pain Balm," says Henry . Cook, pressman of the A'seville, (N. C.) Gazette. "I c:>ntracted a se vere case of rheumatism early last winter by getting my feet wet. I tried everal things for it without benefit. OOne day while looking over the Gazette I noticed that Pain Balm was positively guaranteed to cure rheumatism, so bought a bottom of it and before using two-thirds of it my rheumatism had taken its flight and I have not had a rheumatic pain since." Sold by W. E. Pelam & Son.