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WE?HES5AY, JANUARY 14, 1303. The SvBite*' iVctcnmaa s*as icunqe< ?io itbv the 7Vi<e ScutJtrq;: in 1??g Tbe I?afcA?taR~a^^ Suulkrcs ses the combined circulation ana tu?u?ec; of both cf the old papers, sad is f;v::y the best ad vert is: pg medium in SsnKer. I The City Council has postponed a decision on the telephone franchise question so many times that procras tination seems to have become a habit and whenever they are in doubt on any question they' play "trumps"? postponement to the next regular meet ing. ' - The State lost one of her strongest, truest and wisest sons when Chief .Justice Henry Mclver passed away on "klencay. He was an able jurist, a clear and logical thinker, high-toned and fearless of ensequences, who dis ced his duty as he saw. t Our Pisgah correspondent makes a observations on the value of ad vertising that the merchants and oth ;er business men of Sumter will do & to consider. The Watchman and Southron goes into almost every house hold in that section of country and an advertisement in this paper will reach hundreds of families who live nearer Camden than to Sumter, and who, until recent years, were accustomed to do-the bulk, of their trading in that place. TIE LEGISLATURE MEETS. Mendel L. Smith, of Kershaw, Zlwted Speaker on First Ballott?Tbe Senate Or ganizeti and Ready for Business. of n. -e, . Columbia, Jan. 13.?The house of re - entatives was called to order at noon by Col. Tom C. Hamer, clerk the last house of representatives. Altamont -Moses was chosen porary chairman, e members-elect presented them before the speakers desk and sworn in. bminations for speaker being in % Mr. B. A. Morgan of Green\ secured the floor and nominated M.* L. Smith of Kershaw coun Miis was seconded by Mr: Whaley Charleston, Mr. Efird of Lexington, Lancaster, of Spartanburg, Mr. ards of Kershaw and others, r. - Gaston of Chester, put in istion the name of . Hon. T. y Williams of Lancaster. This seconded by Mr. Haile of York, roh, of Green vi lie* Mr Moss of ?Iburg and-several others. There 118 votes cast, of which Mr. | received 97 and Mr. Williams ev di following voted for Mr. Smith: Aull, Bailey* Baker, Banks, Bates, Black, Black wood, Bo rooks, Brown, Bunch, CalTison, Carwile, Clifton, Coggeshall, r, Culler, Davis, DeBrahL is, DeVore, Doar, Donald, Dow J)oyle, Edwards, Efird, Fox, r, Ganse, . Glover, Gourdin, , Karrellson, Haskeli, Hen Herbert, J. K, Herbert. D. Bill, Hintou, Holman, Eum Irby, James, Jarnegan, John iiey, Kibier, King, Kirby, r, Lanham,. Leaverett, Les de, Littlei Lofton, Lyles, Mc Mace, Magill, Mahaifey, Mid Mims, Morgan, Moses, Nich Parneli, Paterrson, Pearman Rainsford, Rankis, Rawlin Ready, Richards, Richardson, 11, Seabrook, Smith, J., Smith, Stackhonse, Stackev, Tatum, , Tocle, To will, Travlor, Tri fa Wade, Walker, Wall, Webb, y, Wingard, Wingo. i following voted for Mr. Wil r Messrs. Barren, Beamguard, t, Coiccck, DesChamps, Dow Forde, Gaston, Haile, McCain, n, Mess, Pearman, Peurifoy. Sinkler. Strong, Wise, Wright oam 3ns?21. re were three nominees for nt-at-arms, Mr. J. S. Wilson, heaster, Mr. W. K. Grant of viKe, and Mr. Geo. W. Ash: 11, sesville. Mr. Wilson received Mr. Grant 21 and Mr. Asbill Wilson was declared elected, as sworn in. This is his second John S. Withers, of Chester, opposition for the position of \ clerk, an office which he has with great acceptability for years. Mr. Withers is a very member of the speaker's staff, house adopted a resolution pre by Mr. John P^Thomas, Jr., the use of "Cue hall to the Bar association for its annual g Thursday night, Friday after d Friday night, otion of Mr. Morgan a corn three waited on the governor him that the house was and ready for business. AI message was sent to the senate, ernor submitted 14 messages?? I 1 message, 12 messages sub eports of State officers, etc., nnouncing the death cf Hon. Iver, chief justice. concurred in the senate re appoint a committee to at of Judsre Mclver. The inted Messrs. T. Y. Wil caster, John P. Thomas, land, J. O. Patterson, of L. Mauldin, of Green Whaley, of Charleston, as excused on account bility and Mr. Alta ituted. otion of Mr. John then adjourned until honor of the deceased EN ATE. ilman, the retiring Senate, called the noon. Senator Ed hesterfieid was the only member absent. The new members having been sworn ! in officers were elected as follows: j President Pro Tern?Senator John C. Sheppard. Clerk?Gen. Robert R. Hemphill. Reading Clerk?Mr. W. H. Stewart. Sergeant-at-Arms?Mr. J. F. Sc hum - pert. The following appointments made by Lieut. Gov. elect Sloan were then an nounced : Assistant Clerk?R. M. McCown. Journal Clerk?Tillman Bunch. Bill Clerk?Henry D. Butler. The appointment of the regular standing committees was announced. Senator Manning is chairman of the Claims Committee and a member of several others. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Governor McSweeney's last annual message was read: The Governor states that the general | condition of the State is most satis- j factory, and material prosperity is to j be seen everywhere. He calls atten- j tion to the fact that the State is living ! beyond it means, and urges the as sembly to make the income and the ex pense bill fit each other. He urges tax assessment on the actual value of property, as commanded by the con stitution, that varying percentages in each county works injustice, and that the constitution providing basis, it would not be proper to make any per centage below that legal. He urges the adoption of his last year's recom mendation of township boards of as sessors. He speaks at length on the matter of road improvement, in view of the extension of the rural mail service. We need both more education along the line of road building, and we n6ed more cash to do the work necessary. If we depend on the commutation tax alone our roads will constantly be go ing backwards. We must also have a property tax for road building, which would make those who would derive I benefit from good roads, all contribute to the road building, that is the towns and the railroads. The chain gangs. ought to be used to make the more permanent parts of the roads, and they ought to be put to work building per manent roads out in every direction from the county seat, if only a few miles each year were built. The chapter on education is long and earnest. He views this matter as of the utmost importance. By, educa tion the wage earning capacity of a community is increased. Where the idle and ignorant people can be sup ported by a given piece of land, thirty or forty thrifty and intelligent people can find support. All wealth has its basis in intelligence. Compulsory education is urged. We need not fear for the negro. H6 is getting all the education which is provided now, and could get no more under compulsory education. Such a law cannot in terfere with the rights of the paronts, because no parent has the right to make a slave of his child. JEvery boy and girl has a right to the opportuni ties afforded. He favors a direct appropriation for the public schools of at least as much as is given the colleges^ To meet the alarming exodus from the country to town, home schools for girls and farm schools for boys, as re commended by the superintendent of education, is suggested. Each county could devote 2 mills for the establish ment and maintenance of such schools and the money would be richly invest ed. A new epoch would be inaugurat ed in the social and industrial life of the community. It is suggested that the school of pedagogy be given some financial advantage in the state. The proposition to devote $1,000 to the i establishment of postgraduate scholar ships in the South Carolina college for graduates of other colleges in the ?state and stimulus to higher learn ing. The various state colleges are shown to be doing excellent work and recom mendation is made that the appropria tions asked for be granted. The section on child labor is strong. The question must be met and better now than later. There is only one way to solve it and that is on the side of justice and humanity. He does not *avor the pardoning board, which cannot do more than re commend, which recommendation, at last, leaves the responsibility cf the pardon with the chief executive, lie makes no recommendation as to the new mansion but puts the legislature in possession of the facts anC sugges tions from time to time discussed in the-press. He says that the need of a more convenient and modern mansion is apparent. As to special courts it is shown that the privilege has been abused to the cost of the state; the special court be ing asked for as a necessity and the 1 regular term following it being with-1 out business. The dilatcriness of the attorneys is most to blamo for the de lays cf the courts. The same eight circuits, however, are expected to do the work now that the population, of the State has doubled and the counties greatly increase from the time that the provision was made. He endorses the recommendation of the comptroller general that each agent or representative of an insurance company in the State should have a license" to do business, which would protect the people and the legitimate companies. He calls attention to the pension grabbing and suggests that the county pension boards be composed of the executive members of the Confederate caamps in the State. He speaks well of the militia and recommends the sup port of this arm of the government, in which, he says, at last rests the safety j and security of our structure of civil ? government. The section on the dispenasry is ; shorter than it has been in any mes i sage for ten years. He suggests a j special hospital for epileptics and j idiotic people so as to relieve the pres : sure on the hospital for the insane. The preservation of the historical re cords is recommended. The necessity for a department of immigration is pointed out and it is suggested that these duties might be devolved on the I secretary of state and geologist. More tobacco will be planted in Sumter county than last year, but there is nothing like a toabeco craze in the county. There will be nothing like a general planting of tobacco until there is a market in this city, for it does not pay the farmers to grow a crop that they are forced to ship to a distant market. The effort to establish a warehouse here seems to havo died ' still-born. P?BTIS?H LE6ISL&tiqh. Congress Undver Republican Pomi nation Makes Laws for Benefit of Party Not for Good of the Country. - . ! Washington, D. C, January 12.? One of the sharpest debates recently witnessed in the United Stales Senate j grew cut of the effort of Senator Vest | to have a bill removing fhe duty on j anthracite coal, in accordance with the j President's recommendation, reported j from the finance committee. In terms i made thrice eloquent by the feeble condition of the speaker, which would not permit him to stand without the : support of bis desk, the Senator, for : the second time in one week, pleaded the cause of the poor and needy. He begged his opponents for the sake of humanity to abandon partisan consid erations and pass a measure offered "by a poor democrat" but calculated' to lighten the hardships of the old I and feeble and of little children who i wept because of the cold. In heart less but forceful terms Senator Aid rich taunted the Senator from Mis- i souri with having consented to a JO j per cent, duty on coal when the dem- ! ocrats were in power and Mr. i Vest replied that, *as the! Senator from Rhode Island well j knew, that duty was admit ted to the Wilson biil because four democratic Senators who held the bal ance of power were untrue to their party and made the 40-per cent, duty j the price of their vote for the bill. He urged the republicans to rise above the sordid consideration of vested in terests and partisan policy and act for once solely in the cause of humanity, but his words fell upon deaf ears. In the debate between Senator Vest and his opponents the former quoted the late Nelson Dingley as having said that the rates of the Dingley bill had been made too high with the purpose of having a margin on which to trade, so that the United States might make reciprocity treaties without injury to American industries. Senator Hale took up the charge and repudiated the well authenticated evidence presented by the Senator from Missouri. He dodged the point at issue and pretend ed to regard the statement of Mr. Vest as a reflection on the personal charac ter of Mr. Dingley which he ably de fended from an attack which had never been made. On Thursday the Senate, after learning that Senator Nelson believed I he could conclude his speech on state hood in about three days, adjourned until today. The status of the State hood, measure, was not interfered j with, however, and will be the regular order at 2 o'clock today. The impres- j sion is growing that the opposition j will be eventually forced to yield and ! admit the three claimants to state hood, but at present the republicans are finding the contest a convenient barrier to legislation which they do ! no not care to enact. This is especially j true of anti-trust legislation which j such men as Senators Hanna, Aldrich ! and others hope to avoid. The anxiety of the President to. please the people and secure the enact ment of anti-trust legislation has re sulted in strained relations between the Administration and the members of the '?isub-commitee charged with the preparation of an anti-trust meas ure/ When Congress met the House Judiciary committee appointed a sub committee consisting of Messrs. Littlefield, Powers, Overstreet, De Armond and Ciayton*to draft a trust bilL This sub-committee aksed the President for an administration meas ure and it was refused. Then they asked the Attorney General for his views on tho subject. They were j furnished and the committee im- j mediately set to work to draft a bill embodying them. Then, to the amaze ment of Mr. Littlefield and his con ferees, Mr. Knox sent to Representa tive Jenkins, Chairman of the Judici ary Committee, two bills with a re quest that they be introduced. This was done and only when they appeared in print did the sub-committee, which ; had been burning the midnight oil j over its measure, learn that it had j been completely ignored and that bills j bad been introduced which wore cal- j culated to render obsolete the bill on i which they had expended so much time j and labor. Under threat of an extra session the 1 members of tne Senate have consent- J cd to the passage of some "simple" , and innocuous anti-trust measures. ! These bills, they say, must be so ! simple as to provoke no lengthy debate and must receive the unanimous sup port of the republicans which is tant amount,to saying that they must be so drawn as to be incapable of thwarting the intentions or desires of the trusts: The lengthy and sweeping bill brought in with much spectacular advertising by Mr. Hoar has subjected the vener able Senator to nothing but ridicule, and so upset has the gentleman be come that on Thursday he moved the passage of a bill which was enacted nearly a year ago and the Senate, fol lowing his lead, passed it. The President was subjected to what the French term a bad quarter of an hour at the Cabinet meeting ou Friday, and a very bad quarter of an hour it was. Individually and collectively thej members of bis' Cabinet reproached him with the blunders he has ccm- j mitted in attempting to carry into effect a wholly qnioxtic and spectacular j Southern policy. The appointment of j one. Dr. Crum, to be Collector cf the ! Port at Charleston, S. C., and the j suspension of the post-office at Indian- ; : oln. Miss., were made the texts for j the curtain lectures delivered behind j the closed doors of the Cabinet room, f | Representative Bartlett of Georiga j said to your correspondent, apropos of ! this subject. '1 President Roosevelt it what you might call a spectacular j statesman fend, of playing to thej galleries. Like all other professional i reformers he has but one object in I view and that is to better his own per- i sonal chances at the expense and dis comfiture cf others. . lie is after a majority of the delegates to the next National Convention and he has been j I making a grand stand play for the ne J gro votes in the South because he ! ! knows that they control the conven tions that create the delegates.5' Re ! pfesentatives Johnson, Howard, Brant ley, Cochrnn, Patterson, Lever, Sen I ator-elect Latimer and ethers express | ed similar views. MORE TELEPHONE PROCRASTINATION. i City Council Holds a Called Meetl?fl to j Take Action oh Long Distance and Pastpop.es Everything. A called meeting of the City Council was held at 2 o'clock Monday with Mayor Stuckey and Aldermen Boyle, Chandler, Dick, Hurst, Schwerin and W. H. Epperson present, and Alder man, Geo. F. Epperson, absent. The Mayor stated that the meeting had been called to confer with Messrs. F. L. Beattys, Jr., and E. C. Hayns worth, attorney, representing the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., in reference to locating their poles in the streets, and also in refer ence to making a correction in their franchise ordinance as required by Council. Mr. E. C. Haynsworth stated that the ordinance in question had been ; obtained for the purpose of construct ing a long distance line. The American is a long distance company,and whether or not they would be authorized un der the ordinance to establish a local exchange he was not prepared to say. He had no knowledge of the policy of the company and could not say whether or not they would consent to changing the ordinance to apply to a "long dis tance station only.'' But the company is here now with their construction force at large expense to put in their long distance station as demanded by Council, and yet the work i3 prohibit ed and prevented by authority of Council. The Mayor explained that the one obstacle that confronts the company is the fact that they .have an ordinance under which they might attempt to establish a local exchange; whereas they applied for the privilege of a long distance line only. Now Council asks them to so alter the ordinance as to restrict it to a long distance sta tion?"will the company agree to this and put the matter right?" Mr. Beattys answered that the com pany would not consent to alter the ordinance in any manner, but they are not attempting to build a local ex change. He asked that Council permit them to proceed with their work. Alderman Schwerin moved that the ! Street Committee be authorized to direct the location of poles in the streets, but there was no second to this motion. Alderman Dick moved, "that the I matter be postponed to the regular meeting on the 14th instant, during i which time these gentlemen might ! hear from their company: and, that. Council now adjourn. Alderman Boyle seconded the motion to adjourn and I it was carried, Alderman Schwerin voting, No. \ The pantry thief visited the Presby | terian parsonage last Friday night. The ! kitchen was entered, an axe being used to break open a window. No provisions I had been left in the kitchen and tbe thief got only a cux> of sugar. lie did not break into the pantry. The Mechanicsville and Pi^gah peo ple who were taken into Lee county against their wishes are already at work to have an election to vote them selves back into Sumter county, but j as Lee county has but a few square miles to spare, ..these dissatisfied Lee county folks will have to be very care ful how they run the lines marking off j the territory to be annexed to Sumter county. THE SUCCESSFUL PLANTER FERTILIZES HIS LANDS. The Virginia'CaroIma Chemical Co,, "Manufactures the best Fertilizers cn Earth", is Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., CHARLESTON, S. C. ET? M ? 8 8 ^ 1 ??Ua=s3 ?2=. ^ c?i: Material I rvnilni <r M if. l*c i bSLb mate Vi f I ? iwfi ibiPtiii Sale starts T0H10IT0W Actual values Q K)C c A word to the wise, etc , etc. Ryttenber MONEY LOSING Cost sales seem to be the order of the da}5 and while wre do not believe in them excepl as a matter of necessity as They Lose Us Money Still we feel it "but just to our patrons to give them the same opportunities that are being offered elsewhere as it is but nat ural they should expect it. We have just finished stock-taking and find that we have a larger stock than usual at this season of the year, which is not due to our having sold less, but that we bought more, and a COST SALE Will doubtless assist us in disposing of some of the surplus. Until farther notice we will sell every item in our Dry Goods, Clothing and Shoe Depart ment at Actual Cost. No greater opportunity was ever offered in Sumter of getting Dress Goods, Silks, Domestics, Embroideries, Lace Curtains, Carpets, Mattings, Hosiery and Underwear. Our loss will be your gain. Come early and get your share ot the good things.