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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. u>n<?>Hd&ted Aug. 2,18SI. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the ends Thou Aims't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31, 1906. THE TRUE SOT7THROX, Established Jone, 1866 New Series-Vol. XX?. No 28 Published Every Wednesday, -BY ?STEE8 PUBLISHING .COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum-in advance/ Advertisements : One Square first insertion.:,-$1.50 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three . months, or longer will be made, .?t' reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. ; . Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. ?HE LEGISUATURE. Proposed to Refer the Liquor Ques? tion to the Democratic Primary. idat -Columbia, January 31.-Among the new House^ bills introduced today was jone by Mr. Watson, of Anderson^. re-, ferring to the liquor question tov the .approaching primaries, the decision ? reached therein to be enacted into law for five years by the next legislature. Mr. Cochran had a bul to allow sheriffs all the special deputies the\r want at S2.50 a day to enforce prohi? bition in dry counties. Mr. Hutt o has ti bill to repeal the . anti-free pass law. There was an interesting and spir J?i ited fight in the house today over ^ Kersh?w's compulsory education bill .-requiring children from 7 to 14 years to attend school 100 day? a session. The first vote favored the bill, 54 to 55 against strikir\g out enacting words. Then tjaere was ?more speechmaking followed by ? yea.and nay vote to in ^fft definitely postpone, which resulted iL a vote of 59. to 56 against the bill, which was finally killed by a yea and nay vote of 63 to 54. This shoves a decided increase of sentiment in the House in favor of compulsory educa tion over last session. The Senate. i The Senate spent all ot today's ses? sion discussing the bill to authorize a commission to look-fnto the advisabil? ity of purchasing the old police bar ~r*3-acks in Charleston for the. Citadel's Jgf enlargement. "The bill finally passed w by a "viva roce vote, only two voting against it. . Columbia, February 1:-The House today resumed debate on "the Morgan bill, refusing to put any time limit on 5dBKthe speeches. Before the torrent of oratory was turned on, the House agreed to the Senate amendments to the Winthrop holidayJ??li, which settles the question. All the State colleges will now get ten days for Christmas. . Mr. Hutto, of Lexington, and T. J. Mauldin, of Pickers, were appointed on the part of the House on the com* misi?n to look into the proposition to purchase the old police barracks for Wk the Citadel. J The Senate passed the Aiken and ] Richland county court bflls and gaye j third reading to the University hill, hut the bill tb require vestibules, for the protection of street railway motor? men was recommitted, though it does ^aot lose its position the calendar. The Senate again debated'the ref orr matory bill but, the the debate was.ad" ^ journed to allow three amendments to be printed. , x Mr. Rhett is here from Charleston and will appear before the dispensary investigating committee this afternoon to throw some light on how the blind tiger situation is handled in Charles ^ft ton. Mccaw. Columbia, February 2.-Represen? tative Dabbs of Sumter created a flur? ry in . the dispensary debate today by charging that the whole fight to get the question up was for the purpose ref furnishing campaign thunder* to carry Senator Tillman back into the senator ship. He said the dispensary law was enacted in the beginning to .furnish a machine to perpetuate Till? man in office. This brought Mr. DeVore of Edge field to his feet in defense of Tillman, 9^ and Representative Haskell of Rich? land rose to question of personal priv? ilege to deplore the fact that Tillman's name had been brought into the mat? ter. He wanted the vote to be made entirely independent of politics. The feeling is that the high license ^fcr feature of the Morgan bill has taken to the tall timbers and sentiment is crystalizing in favor of the Rucker county dispensary bill, if any change at all is made. Representatives Rich? ards and Morgan closed the debate and the House began an aye and nay Wk vote on the motion to strike out the ^ enacting words. Ey a yea and nay vote of. 47 to 63 the House refused to strike out the en? acting words. There were six pairs, only Brandt and L. B. Etheridge not ? voting at all. The House then adopted the San? ders' amendment eliminating the li? cense feature from the bill, Morgan having practically agreed to this. The House then adjourned till night. Later an amendment will be offered giving Charleston a chance a t high li? cense by providing that if Charleston I county does not take a vote on \he new situation. Charleston city may vote on. the question of license for itself. This amendment will be adopted, it is thought. Columbia, February 2.-Tire Senate finally passed the solicitors* salary- bill this morning, though another effort was made to kill it by amendment. The bill to change the law as to municipal registration was killed, v All the dispensary bills on the cal an&er were made special orders for Wednesday. The bill to require railroad restau? rants to furnish separate accommo? dations to white and negro passengers j was passed." McCaw. .Columbia, February Sv-The Senate and House spent today's session on on? ly uncontested matters the resu't being that j only routine business was transacted. Both houses ad? journed over till Tuesday or? account of Monday being salesday. Columbia, February 6.-^"he debate on . the Morgan bill waft continued to? day. Mr. Herbert, of Orangeburg, speaking* against it as a practical -measure and also holding that county dispensaries would be contrary to the constitution.. Ey a majority of 20 votes the House today passed the Mor? gan bill to third -reading without further amendments. The dispensary people fought every inch of the way and died' hard. . Dispensary leaders are counting on 26 ?ut of 41 votes in the Senate, but they admit losing two' since the session began and some oth? ers are doubtful. The Senate trans acter routine business. McCaw. . FAVORABLE TO DAIRY BILL. Secretary Wilson is Said to be Favor , able tb Congressman Lever's Meas ,nre. !?'."v - - '-' . . ' .' * : ' ' :.' '. ..' . Secretary Wilson of Agriculture has expressed himself favorable to Mr. Lever's dairy, bill. In a letter ?e has 'recently written to Mr. Lever ti* says that he has no hesitation in saying that the department could wiseV? nnd judiciously expend the mo tor ? this purpose. A number . have written Mr. Lever on 'the subject from ali parts of the South expressing approval of* the plan to have experts trom^the department visit the dairymen of the^South and give instructions and Mr. Lever feels much encouarged for the prospects of the measure. Al? ready he says he has eleven members ! of the agricultural committee pledged to its support. Among those writ? ing to him is Mr. B. Harris, presi dent of the South Carolina Live Stock Association. Mr. Harris says that such an appropriation would mean more to the South than any? thing els3 that has come her way late? ly. He svys that there is no State in .the Union that has mor? natural ad :vahtages for dairying than South Car olina, and that all that is needed is proper development. South Carolina,by the way, has in the department of agriculture here, in the bureau of anin-?! industry, a young man who is one of the leading experts of the country in the dairy business. Mr. B. H. Raw!, of Lexington. He is a graduate of Clemson, and is nov." what is called a "traveling dairy expert" o? the department. He will make an ad? dress at the forthcoming live stock as? sociation which meets in Columbia. The 33 farmers' institutes held in this state were attended by $.690 farmers, at a cost to Clemson College of $600. The population of this State at this time is 1.340.316. the total number of homes 269,S64, and the number of farm homes 152.993. The Riverside Land Company, cap? ital $25.000, .incorporated by T. C. i Williams, Jr.. W. H. Lyles. of Colum? bia, and H. J. Kaynsworth of Green? ville have bought from Jas. A. Finlay for $25,000. Finlay's lands, within a half mile of the city limits of Green? ville, containing three hundred and forty acres. They will lay out parks and streets, divide the lands into lots, pave the streets and put in water. The Presbyterian College of South Carolina has good news to send out to its friends. The president of the ?college has received from a friend of ?the college a conditional subscription j of $5.000 to the endowment fund. Tho j condition is that the .college shall get j four other persons, each of whim will j give $5,000. j Joe Spinks, a llagman on the South? ern railway, had one leg crushed ah j Union Monday while trying to stop a ? ic-eight train. .SENT STATUS OF DISPENSARY LEGISLATION I Tiis AmandeS and Transforaie? Morgan Bill Appears to Have Righi of Way in Hofee CHARLESTON AND COLUMBIA fOB LICENSE Affairs Seem to Bc Very Much Mud? dled and no One Snows What Will Be the Outcome-Hie Baysor-Man ning Bill in the Senate. Columbia, February 5.-The violent churning the Morgan local option bill received in Friday night's more or iess violent and riotous session of the House has left the entire dispensary legislative situation in a rather con? fused state even in the minds of a majority of the members of the House itaself. In the first place Mr. Morgan had changed his bill in many particu? lars, offering the changes in the form of a substitute, which of course as? sumed* the parliamentary rights and privileges of an amendment itself. Then there were a long series of amendments to this amendment by Mr. Sanders of Spartanburg, and the Charleston delegation had up a long substitute amendment for Section 37, giving Charleston a high license sys? tem. Attempts were made to amend the amendments to the amendment, which were- of course ?out of order. Between times there were efforts, some successful and some unsuccess? ful to amend other sections of the substitute. While all this was going on Mr. Rucker, of Anderson, was watching for a chance for a flnak movement with his bill providing for county dispensaries or county prora? tion through elections to be held next May in ali counties, Charleston and Richland alone being given a chance at high license, no county to change its status excep*t by petition once in four years. It may prove of interest therefore to present briefly the situation as it will present itself to the House when debate ; on\the bill will be resumed at the close of third reading bills on Tuesday. '; The parliamentary situation is this; AJI. of the sections of the substitute have not yet been read and amend1 r. lents may.be offered to these. If this p>int is passed safely it still remains for the' substitute to be adopted as a "Whole. After that it cannot be amend? ed fr* except by unanimous cons?. . third reading it may be kil ">tion to recommit or to ind?. ostpone. It seems practically ?ertafci, however, that the bill will pass the House with but few changes from th* condition in which it was left Friday night, the bill of Mr. John Beltor Watson, of Ander? son, throwing th"* whole matter into the primaries next summer and call? ing upon the next l?gislature to enact the decision into lav for five years being quietly strangled along with the Rucker bill, both of vhich are incon? sistent with the Morgan bill. Then the tug of war;will take place in the Senate, which has not yet voted on its own bill online dispensary sub? ject, the Raysor-Manning committee substitute bill, which the friends of the dispensary will endeavor to pass instead of the Morgan bill. The final result is all in doubt even to the minds of the most experienced legislators. It j seems to be generally accepted that the j senate is about evenly divided as be- ; tween the two general factions. Whether it will pass or kill it* own bill, or pass or fatally amend or wool? ly reject the Morgan bill as lt comes from the house is each an unsolved problem. The dispensary advocates still place their chief hope in the sen? ate refusing to adopt the House bill and the House rejecting whatever the ! Senate sends over, thus preventing any ?change. However, this will not great ? ly disappoint the anti-dispensary peo ! pie, since the Supreme court has sus? tained the Brice act. which, therefore, may still be used to stamp the dispen? sary out of the State county by I county. And the revelations of the dispensary investigating committee continues to make the position of the dispensary people more uncomfortable and insecure. But above all the fire and smoke and din and confusion of battle there looms the bouyant, smiling, compla? cent countenance of Chairman Evans who says he "desn't care a damn what they do to it." Following is a summary of the pro? visions of the Morgan bill as amend? ed by the House: Section <>ne forbids the traffic in whiskey "except is hereinafter pro? vided for" under a term <>i* not less than three months nor more than six monts or a fine of not lesst han $100 or more than $r>00. Section two constitutes the State treasurer the agent of the State. B-y the provisions of Section 4<> he re J each of the dispensary counties : the general school fund, and di ! quarterly the remainder of each c j S?*s profits equally between the t j from which they come, the gel i county fund and ? the county sc j fund. The license monev coming I"Charleston is after 10 per cent. c< I out of it for the general school ! to go back, one-third to the city, j third to the county and bne-thir ^the county school fund. I Sections 3. 4 and 5 arrange for county to vote on the matter-by tition of one-third of the qual electors, the elections to be deten ed by qualified electors alone. Section 7, which has been so ge ally ridiculed, provides: "No sah delivery shall te made if the pe: selling it knows or has reason to ceives 10 per cent, of the profits f: lieve that the purchaser is a mi: or is intoxicated, or is in the habi using intoxicating liquors to excess if the parent, husband, wife, corni tee. or guardian has made written quest that no sale or delivery made to such purchaser." Sections S and 9 forbid Sunday S? or drinking on the premises, or s? in less than half a pint. Sections 10, ll and 12 require same past record for dispensers as present dispensary law and make same regulations as to the mani and time of sales, except that no quest blanks must be secured. Section 13 specifies that "every bo required by this act shall be execul by a responsible surety company censed to do business in this State." Sections 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and require the governor to appoint up the recommendation of the legislati delegation county boards of three 1 the wet counties for terms of ti years, the pay to be $3 a day and cents mileage for not more than t days in a month. The board elects t dispensers for terms of one ye* Board members and dispensers are give $5,000 bond each, the board to the purchasing. Sales are to be f cash, the credit of the county bei: pledged for purchases. Sections 20 and 21 provide the ma ner in which a city or town, not county seat, may secure a dispensa in a wet county. A majority of tl qualified electors voting may vote o: ?on $he call bf a petition signed by on third such electors. Towns of le than 1,000 population must stay dr the elections not to occur oftener th? once in four years. Section 25 gives the persons refe red to in Section 7 the right to recov? damages against the dispenser on h bond. In Sections 26, 27, 28 and 29 it provided that dispensaries shall \ closed by the governor or mayor c intendent whenever "the public goo may demand, licensed druggists ai permitted the use of alcohol in con pounding medicines, not beverages c intoxicating in character, and drinP ing resorts are- declared nuisances, th keeper or manager being liable t punishment. Section 30 abolishes the whiske drummer. Section 31 provides for the windin up of the affairs of the State dispen sary by a board of five, one appointe by the governor and two each by th speaker of the House and the presi dent of the Senate, the balance afte i paying the debts of the concern, to b .turned into the State treasury. Th j dispensaries now in operation to b : continued by county boards appointe' I by the governor and to get thei stocks from the present State dispen sary. The commission of five is po ; to receive pay after August 1. next Section 32 referring to licenses wa; stricken out. Section 33 imitates the North Caro lina law in prohibiting a common car rier or any person from transporting "alcoholic iiquois unlawful use' io any prohibition county. Sections 35 and :;<! provides for th? seizure and condscaton of liquors as under the dispensary law. except thal [seized stuff instead of being used o: sold is to be destroyed. j Section 34 provides for the closing of dispensaries in counties going dry. i Section ?7 prescribes the manner in which Charleston may vote in and operate a license system on petition of ! one-third of its qualified electors. Tho licensees must have a clean past rec i ord as is required of county dispensers. ? but the city council is to determine the j number of licenses that may be issued j in any one year, and after the licensee has paid $1.000 for the State" [ the city council exacts a monthly li cense fee of $100. The licensee are to be granted in the order in which tiley are tiled, and are to run for one year, tourist hotel privileges to be I granted in the same manner, all j license places to be * conducted 1 ik ? county dispensaries. Charleston pays no money to the general school fund. I The license fees paid for the Stat?- ar*s i held by the city treasurer and distrib? uted monthly by him, one-third for j ^JfiP^v ^ figs* Sk feMk^P lill DISTINCTIVELY ? CRE?IS ?F B?&INC POWDER : It does net contain an atom of phos phatic acid (which is the product of bones digested in sulphuric acid) or of alum (which is one-third sulphuric acid") sub? stances-adopted ior other baking powders because of their cheapness. enforcing the law in the city, one-th to the city school fund and the otl third to the general city fund T governor is given the power in ci the State treasurer reports conditic unsatisfactory, to revoke all licer "for such time as he may think prc er." The bill was amended with this pi agraph to gladden the hearts of t owners of the Richland distillery a the Charleston breweries: "Xothi in this act shall be construed so as allow the establishment of any bre ery or distillery not now establishet The Raysor-Manning com mitt substitute bill now pending in the se ate, and which . is the banner und which the dispensary forces are dra ing up in battle array, might have pi longed the life of the dispensary ma years had it been enacted into l? even as late as last January with strong and determined governor ai a capable set of dispensary, head c ficials behind it. The bill raises the salary of ti three directors elected by the legisl ture to $1,500 a year, and requires bond of them in the sum of $10.00 makes them responsible for the co: duct of the county dispensaries ai forbids them becoming candidates f any other job while holding their p< sitions. They are to direct the bool keeping, a board of expert accoun ants appointed by the governor to cai vass all accounts and records at tl end of the fiscal year. The contrac for whiskey are to be awarded ai nually by a committee of three citizei appointed by the governor to the lov est responsible bidders who are 1 give sufficient bonds. The bids ai to come sealed in response to new: paper advertising for them in th State and in Lousiylle, Cincinati, Ba timore and Pittsburg, to the Stai treasurer, by express, in not less tba 30 days after t?ie first advertisemen On 31st of March these bids witt out any marks on them as to whi firms they come from are to be opene by the commissioner in public befov the purchasing committee, and n committeeman, dispensary employe c other representative of the Slate rna receive from any whiskey concern di rectiy or indirectly "any position. ?a vcr, reward, compensation, rebat ? gift, present or gratuity of any kin \ whatsoever"' two months previous t j taking oath or at any time while serv ing. Xo case goods arc to be uan j i died and ali whiskies are to be pur i chased from bonded warehouses, th. I commissioner to do the blending ac J cording to a formula he must public!; I post, the one X stuff to be not les i : than one year old. the two X thre years old. the bidding to indicate no less than 20 different brands as quote! on the markets at the wholesale price current of the various cities design ated. The commissioner shall not pur chase any liquors from any concen "soliciting orders either by drummers agents, samples or otherwise than a: herein provided." His quarterly re? ports to the directors designating "th? amounts contracted for. including brands and grades, with the name oi the seller" are to be published in at least two daily newspapers. Whiskey drumming in all forms is outlawed, and a dispenser failing to ':s*' a re~ ouest blank in making ;i sale or selling any stuff that does not e.-me from the commissioner is lia Me to a line of not less than $500. ar.d he removed from office for tin- second offense. Senator Coie I?. Blease has a ..iii, which will not pass, repealing the Brice law and providing for the dis? continuance of dispensaries on peti? tion to the State hoard. S A MENTAL ANGUISH <:ASE. Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars Pail for a Special Train to Carry a ?Ian to His Dyng Child. Raleigh, N. C., February 1.-K de? cision just rendered In the State Su? perior Court in Guilford county makes a new departure in North Carolina in the matter of recovering damages against corporations on the ground ot mental anguish. The Southern Railway is the losing defendant in this case, and that the company and other railway companies regard the decision as very important is evidenced by instruction which rail? road attorneys received today, to take an appeal and carry it to the highest Court, which means that it witt prob? ably be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. W. I. Young, whose family was at i ^ the time in Greensboro. N. C., received j. a telegram while he was in Chattanoo? ga, Tenn., notifying him of the crit? ical illness of a child and urging him to hasten to Greensboro, N. C. He thereupon chartered a special, train from the railroad authorities' there, with the promise to land him in Greensboro six hours before the next regular passenger train, which would, not leave Chattanooga for several, hours. He paid $700 for the special,, but the special did not make the trip within the time guaranteed, but act? ually got to Greensboro 20 minutes after the regular tiain1 on the same system arrived there. - When Young reached his wife and 'child he found the child had been dead just one hour.' He sued the company for the recovery of the $700 paid for the special (which he alleges was hooked on to a slo.w j freight train for part of the trip) and ;for $500 damages, alleging mental an ! guish. The jury has awarded him the ; full amount of'the claim. - LUMBER PRICES RAISED. ? Price cf North Carolina Pine Again i Forced up. the Increase Kein^ from S2 to S3. According lo Grade. Raleigh. X. C., February 1.-Today at the meeting of the North Carolina ; Pine Association ar decided advance . was ordered in the price of ail kinds of lumber, ranging from $2 io $5. ac? cording to grades. This means an in ' crease\ of from 5 to 12 per cent, on prices obtaining up to this time. This increase is in addition to the increase made by the same association at its last regular meting last year, and is a big Advance on the^prices of 1904. Contractors and builders here tonight 'say that the effect will be to greatly decrease building operations for the present year, and they are veiw much concerned over the matter Great quantities of this North Carolina Ium ! ber are sold in the North and West. ! If we understand it the Morgan bil! j will not do more for the counties gen . erally than the Brice hill i< now doing, ?and allows dangerous privileges to J Charleston. It seems that the object i is pretty much to wipe out the dispe.n-r sary even in those counties that have said in their election that they want |to keep it. and also in those that said hy their refusal to hold elections that i ne}- are satisfied with fisting order of tilings. That's home ^ule for you. -Florence Times.