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SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1907.
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
CAREY-COTHRAX BILL SENT
TO THE SENATE.
Tlie Fight Was Made and Decided in
the House Wednesday and There
Was Xo Debate On the Third
Reading-Hot Fight Expected in
the Senate.
Columbia, Jan. 31.-The Carey
Cothran local option bill passed the
third reading in the House today and
was sent to the Senate without the op?
position taking a single shoe at it-Mr.
Bucker applied the clincher. The
bill will be attacked in detail in. the
. Senate, if it cannot be killed out?
right.
By a vote of 69 co 31 the house to?
day passed the Kershaw bill provid?
ing for a^ board of examiners to pass
upon the fitness of railroad telegraph?
ers. The bili is a radical one, prohib?
iting any one of less than two years'
experience to work as a railroad tel?
egrapher in ha diing trains withouc a
license from the board, which is to
examine the applicants as to mental,
moral and physical fitness as well as
ability. Xo licensee may be under 18
years old.
The house killed Mr. Kershaw's
o?:her two bills, one requiring che
b':ock system on all roads and the
o;:her forbidding keeping a railroad
telegrapher on duty more than eight
hours in 24.
OXLY TWO WEEKS K?MAIX AXD
MUCH YET TO DO.
The Dispensary'Debate Begins Amid
Threats of Filibustering-Xo Ques?
tion of Actual Interest to the Peo?
ple as a Whole, Yet Disposed of.
Columbia, Feb. 4.-There are two
more weeks, but only eleven working
days of the present session of. the leg?
islature, unless filibustering tactics to
save the State dispensary should
carry the session beyond the 40-day
limit where there is no pay. The cal?
endars of both houses are heavy and
new bills continue to be poured into
the hopper on both sides of the cap?
itol. The senate has not yet taken ac?
tion on the dispensary, though it will
likely do 'this Tuesday night or
Wednesday morning. The usual
legthy debates in both houses over
. the State colleges, involving criticism
as to the managements, finances, etc..
there being more or less rivalry be?
tween the friends of each, will hard?
ly be witnessed before the last week
of the session; but this "spouting" will
take two or three days; and there
will be various other matters to dis?
tract attention from the regular work.
Altogether the legislature has a hard
task before it to get through with the
business.
^The future business that is engag?
ing the most speculation and atten?
tion is the senate's probable action on
the dispensary. The dispensary* peo?
ple are still whistling to keep up
their courage, and though there has
been significant conferences between
dispensary leaders and dispensary of?
ficials of various kinds the past few
days, there are signs of weakening on
the part of the dispensary generals,
and those who have tears to shed over
the death of the State dispensary sys?
tem had better prepare to shed them
now. The dispensary people are still
claiming a majority of three in the
senate and they are continuing to
say that the C-vey-Cothran biil will
be killed in that body, but one finds
a striking disinclination on their part
to bet that way.
The air is full of rumors right now
about the whiskey people having
a&Teed tc put up enough cash to turn
the senate, and there are indications
that at least one senator has been of
rred a cash bribe-which fact may be
exploited in the senate in a few days.
There is also a story to the effect that
there is a wad of $30.000 ready to be
used to stay the death blow that is
now coming upon the G. M. I. in the
senate. But as f? matter of fact, while
there are some grafting western whis- j
key houses who would like to see the 1
State dispensary as at present admin
istered continue indefinitely, still the
better class of whiskey dealers who
get no chance to sell the State dis?
pensary would welcome a change. The
dispensary grafters have killed the
goose that hat -^en laying the gold?
en eggs, have overdone the thing,
have stuck their fingers too far into
the public's eye.
Senator Blease has gotten some
more good free advertising out of his
threat to filibuster various important
things to death, including presumably
j tho Carey-Cothran bill. But either
j he is making a big bluff in order to j
I get into the limelight or he mistakes
the stuff South. Carolinians are made
of. v And generally speaking Mr.
Blease is no fool. The friends of the
bill would stick as long as he would,
but as a matter of fact a rule of the
senate can be changed by a majority
vote, so there would be no necessity
to prolong the session.
One of the most striking incidents j
in the fourteen years' history of the
State dispensary was the action last
v/eek against the present dispensary
directors-J. M. Rawlinson, Joseph
B. Wylie and John Black-when the
SOD ate judiciary committee's resolu?
tion that they be removed and prose?
cuted for violation of law passed both
houses without a dissenting voice. Di?
rector Wylie was standing in the
aisle of the house at the time the res?
olution passed that body. He looked
on without change of countenance. He
says he has acted within the law and
has nothing to fear. His attorney,
Ju?ge J. 2. McDonald, of Winnsboro,
who discovered for the present board
that the Hub Evans board had made
its purchases illegally, has secured a
hearing for him before Gov. Ansel
next Tuesday, when ".ie will attempt
to show cu"<e uv. y he should not be
removed. What steps the other two
members propels to take is not
known.
The present legislature has so far
shown itself very liberal in matters ,
educational. The Raysor compulsory
education bill compelling twelve
weeks a year has been killed in the
senate, but a more comprehensive
measure has been favorably reported
to the house by way of a substitute for
the Aull and Kershaw bills pending
in that body. Tt seems certain" that
the house will pass the bill in some
form, but its passage by t^he senate is
doubtful. The senate has passed a
liberal measure providing for a system
of high schools throughout the State
at an initial cost of $50,000.
In the final tussle over the State
colleges it is likely that Clemson will
come in for some hard raps. A bill
is now before the house looking to
the appointment of a joint committee
to investigate the finances and general
management of Clemson.
Events of the past week have fully
confirmed the prediction in the be?
ginning of the session that this was
the most radical legislature that has
met in a decade, with a gay disposi?
tion to strike the corporations, partic?
ularly the railroads. The senate has
passed the Toole ten hour bill by a 5
to 1 vote, after it was amended so as
to defer the time it shall go into op?
eration till next July, when 62 hours
a week shall be the law up to July 1,
1908, when 60 hours will be the limit.
There is no doubt but that the house
will follow the senate's lead and
make the bill a law.
Both houses have acted on the lien |
law, but Representative Richards,
whose bill making a lien to a mer?
chant void and placing the tenant in
the hands of the landlord so as to
better control the negroes, has not
given up hope. He says that with a
full senate his bill will pass that body,
in spite of the fact that a few days
ago the senate by a vote of 19 to 16
voted down a similar bill.
The most radical railroad legisla?
tion the house has so far engaged in
was the action last week in passing
by a large majority the Kershaw bill
providing for a board of three to be
appointed by the governor to examine
and pass upon the qualifications of
railroad telegraphers. Only those who
hold license certificates from - this
board may dispatch or space trains,
and the board may revoke a license
when it sues fit. The house also pass?
ed with an overwhelming majority
the bill to reduce railroad fares to 2
.1-2 cents, and it seems certain that
a similar bill will pass the senate. The
resolution of Mr. Carson for a com?
mittee with the powers of a court to
discover who is using passes has pass?
ed the house by a big majority, and
will likely pass the senate, which has
passed thc Weston bill t<> require the
railroads to file with the rairoad com?
ston a list of passes is issues every
six months. The hons-? without a
dissenting voice passed ttl" Rin ker
bill to punish railroad employes for
p.'-p?iger'ce. as it did the Rucker biil
to give the railroad commission an
appropriation to carry ^a^^s before
the interstate commerce commission
where in its judgment there is injus?
tice in interstate rates affecting this
State, and that of Mr. Racker to
specify the time in which an order of
the railroad commission as to putting
up a new depot shall be carried into
effect.
Eoth house have acted on the ques?
tion of specuating in futures, being
evidently inspired principally by the
Duncan failure at Union, when five
million dollars worth of cotton mill
property was swept away. But so far
the houses have not gotten together
on just the sort of law it will finally
adopt. The senate has passed the San?
ders bill, which makes provision for
cotton mill presidents and others buy?
ing in a legitimate way for future de?
livery, but the house* killed this and
passed a copy of the Georgia law on
the subject. It is thought there is
nothing in the house bill to prevent
cotton mill presidents hedging in a
legitimate wa? Representative Nash,
a good Spartanburg lawyer, and oth?
ers voted for the bill.
/_
The house of representatives last
week, while passing a large number
of local bills, and perhaps a half doz?
en affecting the State generally, did
only one thing attracting general at?
tention: the passing of the Carey
Cothran bill, the measure which
strikes directly at the State dispensa?
ry. The fight of the dispensary peo?
ple to shift the ground of attack by
supporting a prohibition bill, first
introduced by Mr. Nash, and after?
wards copied by Mr. D. L. Smith, is
well known now.
Interest in this fight has been
transferred to the senate, and from
now until a vote is taken the galle?
ries in the upper branch of the gen?
eral assembly will be crowded. Some
old familiar faces have been seen in
the lobbies during he dispensary de?
bates. The whiskey houses appear
to be much interested in the out?
come.
On the house calendar, however/
there are several bills that will bring
forth debate worth listening to. The
committee on education has reported
a bill providing for compulsory edu?
cation, taking from the bills intro?
duced by Messrs. Aull and Kershaw
several actions- and-framing a substi?
tute. If the house passes this bill
it will almost certainly pass the sen?
ate, as the advocates have canvassed
that body and think they have a safe
majority there.
The bill requiring marriage licenses
to be issued will, as usual have a
hard fight, there being majority and
minority reports from the committee.
The mills of South Carolina say that
if the ten-hour law and bill further
regulating child labor should pass
there should crtainly be some provis?
ions made for registration of mar?
riages and births.
' A discussion of the condition of the
capitol grounds will come up when
the bill providing for the appointment
of a commission to have entire charge
of the building and grounds is reach?
ed on the calendar. The bill will pass.
There is a favorable report on Dr.
Wyche's bill providing for a pure
food inspection, the bill being mod?
eled along the lines of the national
law, and Dr. Sawyer of Georgetown
has a bill providing for a tax on every
gallon of whiskey sold in this State,
the object being to give the consu?
mers a pure grade of the product of
the still. The money raised from this
source would go to school and college
funds.
Much of the week will be taken up
in the discussion of railroad bills, Mr.
Frost of Charleston having reintro?
duced his measure for the appoint?
ment of a commision to investigate
all of the railroads of the State, upon
which he has received a favorable re?
port.
Columbia, Feb. 5.-Representative
Dixon introduced a resolution in the
house today forbidding a corporation
attorney or lobbyist talking to any
legislator on any bill affecting a cor?
poration under penalty of $1,000.
The house, without division, killed
the senate resolution endorsing Sena?
tor Latiiner's federal good roads
scheme. Not a member chanmpion
ed it.
The senate considered only uncon?
tested matters, but passed Efird's bill
to relieve the three State treasurers
on their bonds for the Zimmerman
embezzlement. The bill will be
fought on third reading.
Columbia, Feb. 5.-The hearing be
fore Gov. Ansel today on the resolu?
tion recommending the removal of
Dispensary Directors Black, Rawlin?
son and Wylie for fraud in whiskey
purchases resulted in his issuing a
rule t?? require the directors to show
cause next Friday morning why they
should n?>t be removed. Attorney
Genera] F.y<>n agreed to this. The
merits of the case were not entered
into.
THE YELLOW PERIL.
JAPANESE SITUATION PRODUCES
COLD FEET IX WASHINGTON.
White House Conference Convinces
California Congressman That Trou?
ble is Brewing-President Urges
That California Take Immediate
Action to Settle School Trouble
There Must Be No Anti-Japanese
Action at Present.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The gravity
of the situation between the American
and Japanese governments has not
been overdrawn, according to a
member of the California delegation
who wos present at the White House
conference.
He said that President Roosevelt
declared that action must be taken
immediately removing all causes of
friction with the Japanese. The San
Francisco school question must be
disposed of without waiting on a
court decision.
The situation is more serious than
is imagined by the public. War with
Japan would not be anything like the
war with Spain. If trouble comes it
must not be the United States' fault.
At the president's suggestion the
congressman wired the governor of
California, urging him to use his in?
fluence to prevent the legislature tak?
ing any action now on the anti-Jap?
anese resolutions which are now
pending.
A Japanese Ultimatum.
Washington, Feb. 1.-It is learned
today that the representations to
Secretary Root by Japanese Ambas?
sador Aikov though couched in the
most delicate phraseology, were in
the nature of an ultimatum.
This government has been inform?
ed that Japan insists on its subjects
being treated the same as those of the
most favored nation in Europe.
Interview With Viscount Hayshi,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pub?
lished in Tokio.
Tokio, Feb. 2.-What purports to
be an interview with Viscount Haya
shi, minister of foreign affairs, was
punished i today. It refers--to-the - re**
ported proposal on the part of the
United States that Japan and America
shall agree to mutually restrict the
immigration of laborers.
The Viscount is made to declare
that such a proposal is nonsensical.
He admits, however, that the influx
of Japanese in the Pacific States is
rather over-abundant and says the
Japanese government is voluntarily
taking measures to restrict it.
ANOTHER MINE HORROR. .
Twenty-five or Thirty People Killed
in West Virginia.
Elkins, W. Va., Feb. 4.-Twenty
five or 30 miners, the majority of
them foreigners, are suposed to be
dead as the result of a mine explo?
sion today at mine No. 25 of the De
vis Coal and Coke company at Thom?
as, near here. Five miners, who were
just entering the mine when the ex?
plosion occurred, have been taken
out, so it is believed all the miners al?
ready in the mine have been killed.
It is not known how large thc list of
casualties may grow until further in?
vestigation can be made.
HOUSE AGREED WITH SENATE.
Violation of thc Law Charged Against
tiic Board of Directors to Be In?
vestigated.
Columbia, Feb. 2.-The house last
night without discussion concurred in
the senate resolution putting the re?
cent alleged violations of the law by
the dispensary directors before the
governor f?r his consideration. When
thc resolution was called for Dr.
Wyche of Newberry, who is a sup?
porter of the State dispensary, said
he hoped it would pass. The recent
disclosures, he said, showed that the
law had been violated and he did not
propose to stand for fraud.
The question was then put on con?
currence to the resolution and without
a dissenting vote it passed.
On account of the rush of other
matter it was not sent to the senate
last night, but will go to that body to?
day and as soon as the signatures are
affixed thereto the copy will be sent
to Gov. Ansel for action.
It is understood that Gov. Ansel
will confer with Mr. Fraser Lyon, the
attorney general, and it is quite prob?
able that Mr. Lyon will recommend
London, Feb. 2.-Charles Martin,
of Nashville, Tenn., alias Payne Full?
er Wells, who was committed for trial
on January loth, on the charge of
conspiring to defraud the Carlton Ho?
tel, by mons of a bogus check, was
convicted today and sentenced to
three years penal servitude.
Alum
r in food causes
stomach disorders-Its con?
tinued use means permanent
injury to health.
^Following the advice of medical
scientists, England and France have
passed laws prohibiting its use
in bread making.
^American housewives
should protect their house?
holds against Alum's wrongs
by always buying pure Grape
Cream of Tartar Baking
Powder.
(j Pure Grape Cream of
Tartar Powder is to be had
for the asking
Buy by name
ANDERSON INVITED TO JOIN.
Asked to Become Member of Siate
Baseball League.
Anderson, Jan. 31.-Anderson has
been invited to join the State Baseball
league, and in. all probability the in?
vitation will be accepted. The invi?
tation cam. in the form of a letter
from Mr. W. Bultman of Sumter, who
is vice president cf the league.
Mr. Bultman says thac it is desired
that an eight club league be formed,
and that the league shall be formed
of teams from Sumter, Darlington,
Orangeburg, Camden, Rock Hill and
the towns in the Piedmont.
The invitation is gladly received
here, for there are many ball fans
in Anderson, and it is probable that
some definite steps will be taken at
once to accepc the invitation.
A meeting cf representatives of
towns intending to enter the South
Carolina league of baseball clubs for
the ensuing season has been called
for February 7, in this city. A letter
received by the acting president, Mr.
W. Bultman, signed by W. R. Bar?
ringer, states that Florence is in line
and will have a delegation here for
the meeting. Orangeburg and Cam?
den will also be represented. Other
towns are expected to bc heard from
within the next few days. The out?
look is good for a strong re-organi?
zation of the league.
Dog at Polzer, in Greenville County.
Bites Man and Child and Both
Perish as a Result.
Greenville, Feb. 4.-About three
weeks ago the little two-year-old son
of Mr. Farmer, of Pclzer, was attack?
ed by a mad dog. Mr. Walter G ri Hin
was standing nearby and ran to the
aid of the child, and, while carrying
him to a place Of safety, was also bit?
ten. Last night the child died, and
tIiis morning Mr. Griffin breathed his
last, having resulted from thc bites.
The dog belonged to the father of the
dead child an 1 before going mad was
devoted to the child.
AD3?TKAL DAVIS PRAISED.
President Roosevelt Commends His
Action a Kingston.
Washington, eFb. 1.-In unequivo?
cal terms President Roosevelt today
approved Admiral Davis' action ia
connection with his visit to Kingston,
Jamaica, to render aid to the stricken
city, and in addition requested the
secretary of the navy to express to
Admiral Davis his heartiest commen?
dation of all that he did.
The long expected report of Admi?
ral Davis of the circumstances lead?
ing to the withdrawal of the fleet
from Kingston reached the navy de?
partment today and was at once laid
before the president. Inasmuch as
the president already has announced
that the diplomatic phase of the case
is a closed incident, the report itself
will not be made pubiic, but late to?
day Secretary Metcalf gave out the
letter of Admiral Evans, commander
in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, warmly
commending Admiral Davis for his
conduct of a situation "which was, to
say the least, somewhat embarrass?
ing."
The correspondence is supplement?
ed by a strong letter of commendation
of Admiral Davis by the prtsid?. rit and
by Secretary Metcalf who adds his
rpproval and commendation of Ad?
miral Davis' "distinguished service to
humanity."
BABY BURIED ALIVE.
Strange Case Reported From Spring?
field. Ohio.
Springfield, 0.. Feb. 4.-The grand
jury returned an indictment against
Matilda Bailey and Martin Meyers ?rn
the charge of assault with intent tc>
kill in burying alive the baby of their
seventeen-year-old grand daughter.
Mary Bailey.
! The baby was found buried in the
back yard by authorities; it was tak?
en out alive and is now in good
health.