The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 01, 1906, Image 8
TATUM'S SHOWING, ,
COMMISSIONER ASSERTS THAT
STATE DISPENSARY IS SOLVENT.
He Says That all Debts Can Be Paid
and Have a Balance Left-The Fig
ares Given-Gen. Wilie Jones'
Statement..
Columbia. July 24.-l!r. W. O.
Tatum. State Dispensary Commission?
er, today gave out the following state?
ment: j
' Recently a number of papers, and
Mr. J. ."raser Lyon, candidate for at?
torney general, asserted that the dis?
pensary was insolvent; that if it were
put in liquidation it could not pay its
debts. At the time this statement was
made, I came out in a card asking a
suspension* of judgment, and asserting
ihat the dispensary was perfectly sol?
vent. I said "I could produce the fig
. ' ures to prove that the dispensary was
amply able to pay every dollar it owed
I have the figures to more than sustain
my contention, and will submit them
in this statement. It took much time
and lots of work to go through the
.great mass of accounts at the State
dispel. j and prepare a condensed
statem .it showing exactiv the condi?
tion of the institution. I could not ex?
pect the newspapers to publish all the
figures in their columns, but I invite
any citizen, particulardly Mr. Lyon and
the editors of the papers which ques?
tioned the solvency of the dispensary,
to call at the State dispensary and ex?
amine f?r themselves the books and
accounts, and so verify the statement
I have prepared. Now, here are the
:figures, condensed to the point, where
.any mind can grasp them and any
memory retain them:
"On June 1, 19v06, the State dis?
pensary owed for whiskey, beer, etc.,
a total of $735,886.94. Since -June
1st, and up to and including July 21,
1906, there has been paid on the
..above accounts a total of $451,005,.61,
leaving a balance of $284,881.33. But
of this balance, $197,388.67 is not
yet due, which leaves the amount due
on old accounts $87,4992.71, and the
State dispensary had on hand at the
-.close of business July 21st, a cash
balance ;of $96,518.76, or $9,026.01
more than enough to pay a 15 accounts,
xthen due. ?? ,
* "However, when the new board Of
i directors were restrained by order of
the dispensary investigating commit?
tee from paying old accounts of the
dispensary, instead of letting the dis
pensary funds . idle, they discounted
a of new accounts, by this
?coarse making an ex:?a profit for the
ii tate cf >.ZZ. Of the accounts
ao aiscoupted, an aggregate of $79,
119.76 would not lave been due on
or before July 21, so had not those ac?
counts basti so discontinued, the cash
balance on that ?day would have been
$175,638.52. or $88,145.81 more than
.enough to have paid all accounts due
-.st that time.-;
"On July 21st, the State dispen
^ =sary owed for whiskey, beer, supplies,
etc., $443,225.34, though only $87,
'-491.71 of this amount, as stated above,
was due on that date. Any asser?
tion that the dispensary is not solvenV
and cotfd not pay out every dollar
at owes if it went into liquidation,
'. seems ridiculous, when the assets of
the Institution ,are compared with
that total of its debts,
v"On July 21< the" total of ita debt
was $443*225.34, to- meet which it had
easily assets of $900,000 in round
figures, n?ade up" of $96,518.76 cash j
.on hand, about $665.000 of stock in
-the State and county dispensaries,
real estate which cost $56,360.56, sup- j
plies *>f bottles, seals, corks, etc., ma?
chinery, and office supplies. If all its
.assets were sold at fifty cents on the
-dollar, they would be more than suf
. ficient to pay its indebtedness. In the
- above I have given the value of the ;
real estate at its cost price, but it j
must be remembered that it was
bought before the tremendous boom
of recent years. The opinion of real
estate men, architects'-and the comfy 1
auditor of Richland county, is thai
a very, conservative estimate of the
present value of the dispensary real
estate would be $ll0j?0i>. Accepting
that figure, would make the dispen?
sary's assets a million dollars with j
which to meet ' debts of less than
: $410.000. Far from being insolvent.
. if the disp^^ry were o'osed out it
could pay every cent it owes and hun- (
dreds of thousands of* dollars into the i
school fund, to which it has con- J
tributed in the last ten years $1,351,-J
697.63, besides paying $3,991,325.49.
io the towns and counties in that
same period, a total of $5.343,032.12.
"What is the condition of the dis?
pensary today? The facts given
-above sustain my contention that the
dispensary is in better condition to?
day than ever before. When I took
charge of the dispensary in March
1904, the dispensary's condition was
shown by the following statement
compiled on February 2*, 1904:
Quarterly Statement of State Dispen?
sary For Quarter Ending February
20. 190-1.
Assets.
Cash in State treasury Feb?
ruary 29, 1904.$ 17,680 2Z
Teams and wagons.. .. 64 00
i-.?nn? (inventory Feb
Machinery and ornee fix
tures.. .
Contriband (inventory
February 20. 1004)
Real estate.
Merchandise in hands of
dispensers February 2 is
1904.
Merchandise (inventory
of stock at State dis?
pensary February- 29,
1904).... -
Suspended accounts.. ..
Personal accounts due
State for empty barr?is,
a?cohol, etc.
Totals.$1,012,537 9S
cities.
School fund. .$ 519,664 12
Personal accounts due
by State for supplies.
whiskies, vines, beer,
alcohol, etc. 492,873 $6
Total liabilities.. ..$1,012.537 98
"It will be noticed how 'l-t*ie cash
was on hand at that time. The amount
of stock was $S90,000 in round fig?
ures, or $225,000 more than on July :
21, 1906. Of that stock about $350,
000 was represented by an accumula?
tion of hard stock which had not been
worked off since the institution began
business This has been worked off
during my administration, and the
present stock contains hardly $20,000
worth of anything except new, fresh
and salable goods: This alone repre?
sents a tremendous improvement of
codition in the last few years..
. "Besides, in the liabilities as repre?
sented in the statement of February
29, 1904, there . was over $300,000 of
accounts past ' due, some of them as
much - as- six months overdue. This
condition compared to the-statement
for the present day ought io be con?
vincing to any reasonable mind of the
.improvement of the financial condition
of the dispensary.
"The school. fund is not a debt of
the dispensary, but its profits and loss
account. It is ?Jess understood than
any^ other feature of the dispensary.
This article is too long to permit me to
stretch it further by adding an expla-^
nation of^bhe school fund. I will give
such' an explanation later in another
article," \x: ' V . S- ;'-*^ " .
Gen. Wilie Jones also gave out the
following statement :
"After reading. Commissioner Ta?
tum's statement, and after having ex
amined the balance sheet of the books
.of the institution, I say without hesita?
tion, that I regard the present condi?
tion of the nnances of the institution
as in better shape than at any time
dvring n the Hast ten years. I was
Chairman of ^the 'Board from April
1st, 1S96, to April 1st, 189-7, and also
a member of the Board by appoint?
ment of Governor Keyv/ard about six
months in 1903, and I feel that I am
I tb rt roughly familiar with the affairs
!^of ^the dispensary."
> v RUSSELL SAGE*S WILL.
New York, July 26.-When the will
of Russell Sage is read this afternoon
it " will . be disclosed that, with the
exception of- an insignificant bequest
to an only sister, Mrs. Fannie Payne,
of Oneida, N. Yv who died two years
ago, Sage has left everything to his.
WidOW, . ~ 4 *? ; v?^?**. .>
Other relatives -will-probably con?
test the will on the ground that while
Sage was in full possession of his fa?
culties he-made, a will providing for
all bf his relatives, but that following
hi? mental breakdown in-19 01, a new
j testament, was made, placing his entire
! fortune at Mrs. Sagels-disposal. It
will be contended, by them that Mrs.
Sage exerted undtie influence over him
in the distribution of his wealth.
The will shows, that the estate
amounts to $60,000,000.
YOUXG MAX DROWNED.
Mullins. July 25.-Mr. Fred Scar?
borough was drowned this morning in
Pee-Dee river, near here, while bath?
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ough was on?y about 20 years old. a
son of Mr. Thos. Scarborough, and
nephew of Ex-Congressman Scarbor?
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Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland. Adopt..
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Cleveland. O.. Ju iv 25.-Judge
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"I will pay no attention to it." said
Mayor Johnsen, when notified of the
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THE PE^CE CONFERENCE.
London. Juiy 25.-The Inter-par?
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Time Table No. 4-Effective June 17, 1906.
Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter
Train 35 Florence to Augnota * Arrives 5 35 am
* 54 Columbia to Wilmington " 8 10 am
" * 1 Lucknow to Sumter " 5 50 pn?
*. *57 Gibson to Sumter " 9 ?0 am
" 52 Charleston to Greenville Leaves 9 31 am
" *46 Orangeburg to Charleston , " 9 35 am
" 79 EIrod, N. C., to Columbia " il 05 am
" * 2 Sumter to Lucknow " 9 r>o am
" 78 Columbia to EIrod, N. C" Leaves ? 05 pm
" 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston^ " 6 30 pm
" 32 Augusta to Florence " 6 40 pm
" *56 Sumter to Gibson * 6 50 pm
" *47 Charleston to Orangeburg " 8 20 pm
" 55 Wilmington to Columbia " 9 35 pm
Freight Trains carrying; Passengers.
Train *24 Sumter to Darlington 'Leaves 8 30 am
** *19 Sumter to Robbins Leaves 10 00 am
" *20 Robbins to .Sumter Arrives 7 30 am
" *25 Darlington to Sumter Arrives 9 10 pm
Northwestern Railway.
Train *70 Camden to Sumter Arrives 9 00 <ai?
" *71 Sumter to Camden Leaves 9 36 am
" *68 Camden to Sumter " 5 45 pm
" *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter Arrives 12 30 pm
" *73 Sumter to W:ilson Mill Leaves 3 30 pm
'.' *69 Suaater to Camden " 6 31 pm
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