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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
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THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 18M
Consolidated Aug. 2S1881.
SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1907.
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
THE LEGISLATURE IS P??XG UP
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
A Spirit of Extravagance Seems .to
Have Taken Possession of the Liaw
Makers and They Wiil of Necessity
increase the Levy or Run the State
Head Over Heels Into Debt.
Columbia, Feb. 7.-The general ap?
propriation bill came in today. The
totals are $1,319,000, which is $20,
000 ahead of last year.
The bill calls for thirty thousand
for the militia to meet the Dick law
requirements, ten thousand for the
Calhoun monument, twenty thou?
sand for the new practice school at
"Winthrop and twenty-five thousand
extra for pensions.
Extravagant Appropriations.
Columbia, Feb. 7.-The correct to?
tal of the appropriations made in the
"bil1, introduced today is $1,321,138.48,
L net increase of $22,000. The total
does not include the following: Fifty
thousand for high schools, fifteen
thousand for artificial limbs, fifteen
: thoGand ic1* State House grounds,
thirty-five hundred for State reunion.
In addition, abo, the State House
commission wil'. ask for twenty thou?
sand for repairs on the State House, a
total increase over last year's appro?
priations of $152,000.
The house today killed Mr. Brant?
ley's two bills, one to put ali but iife
- term convicts on the county gangs and
the other to sell or lease the State
farms.
The senate did not reach the dis?
pensary debate this morning, but
will resume it tonight, when it is ex?
pected a vote will be taken on the
Carey-Cothran bill.
The first batch of ratified acts were
j signed by Gov. Ansel today. The first
nrw meausre of the new legislature
to become a law by the new govern
! or's signature was a local bill to
? abolish the office of township com
S missioner in Chester county. All of
* the bills signed by the governor today
were of a local nature.
[ The Bill to Abolish the State Dispen
; sary and Wind Up Its Affairs
Through a Commission Passed by
the House Without Division.
Columbia, Feb. ll.-Tue house this
: morning killed the bill appropriating
; $65,000 for the new industrial school
f at Florence. The bill provided that
: the amount was to be paid back in
j five yearly installments. The vote
I was 50 to 43.
The friends of the institution say
I the only hope now to prevent the re
I formatory failing is to provide for it
Un the appropriation bill, which ap?
pears to be a forlorn hope.
The Woman's Federation of Clubs
vhas backed the reformatory, securing:
'the passage last year of the bill es
j tablishing the institution. Getting it
- started was the life work of Mrs.
; Lawrence Orr Patterson, one of the
j Federation's presidents, whose death 1
! was followed by the passage of the
act by her son, then serving as a
member of the legislature.
The house today passed K. P.
: Smith's bill providing for three lady
commissioners for the Jamestown
board, one each from the middle, up?
per and lower sections of the State.
The house today, without division,
passed a bill to abolish the State dis?
pensary and wind up its affairs and
/sell all stock and property in sub
dispensaries, as well as in the State
'dispensary, through a commission of
five, to be appointed by the governor.
The present county boards may pur?
chase from the commission stocks of
goods for the new order of things.
Excitement in the Senate.
?
?. Columbia. Feb. ll.-There was a
dramatic scene in the senate today
fduring the debate on the Toole bill
to reduce passenger fares on railroads
to 2 1-2 cents.
Senator Toole said that there was
evidence that members of the senate
had been improperly influenced by
the railroads against the bill. Sena?
tor Yancey Williams, who has had
I
personal clashes before in the legisla?
ture, was seated near Mr. Toole. He
immediately arose and demanded
that Mr. Toole 'specify the members
so influenced and expose them. Mr.
Toole did not respond, and Mr. Wil?
liams leaned forward at him and, as
his eyes flashed with anger, said: "As
the senator does not answer, I de?
nounce his statement as false, so far
as I am concerned."
Senator Crouch followed with a
similar statement. Mr. Toole made
no reply to either.
After Mr. Toole's argument, the
senate took a recess without acting
on the*bill.
Columbia, Feb. 12.-The lien law,
like Banquo's ghost,* bobbed up again
in the house today, the debate being
precipitated this time over the mo?
tion to recommit the Richard's joint
resolution referring the matter to the
next general election. The bill was
killed by ? vote of 54 to 49.
By a vote of 47 to SI the house
killed the bill to furnish poor chil?
dren with school books free.
Mr. Harley's * bill forbidding an
election for a new county whose ter?
ritory embraces half of a proposed
new county which has failed within
four j-ears, passed the house today.
TO SURVEY THE RESERVE.
Appropriation Inserted in Agricultu?
ral Bill by La timer and Simmons.
Washington, Feb. 10.-The Appa?
lachian forest reserve bill still lies on
Speaker Cannon's table with little
hope of its coming up, but, in the
j senate committee on agriculture yes
I terday Senator Latimer and Senator
I Simmons of North Carolina had in?
serted in the agricultural bill an ap?
propriation of $25,000, which was
made immediately available* to enable
the secretary of agriculture to exam?
ine, survey and ascertain the land
conditions of the water sheds at and
near the sources of the various rivers
having their sources in the southern
Appalachian and the White moun?
tains and report to congress the area
with the price at which it can be
I purchased by the government.
The opponents of the bill saythey do
hot know how much land is needed or
how much it will cost. It developed in
the discussion of this question before
the committee that the secretary of
agriculture has already made consid?
erable investigation di this subject
and now has a great deal of data,
bearing upon it, and that the $25,000
appropriated will be sufficient funds
to make whatever further surveys are
necessary and to obtain the informa?
tion necessary to put all the facts in
possession of congress. This amend?
ment was considered by the agricultu?
ral department and the members of
the committee who are interested in
this project as the most practical sug?
gestion that has yet been made look?
ing for successful legislation in the
near future that will accomplish what
the advocates of this measure have
been trying to accomplish for several
years.
Senators Latimer and Simmons
were congratulated by many of their
? friends on yesterday for their success
j ful fight on this important proposi- j
! tion. Seven eastern and 13 southern j
States are deeply interested in tl. s |
proposition, as the water supply of j
the important streams they are now \
using for navigation and water power J
is involved.-The State.
COAST LINE CHANGES.
Mr. Riddle Becomes Superintendent
of the Third Division, and Mr.
Brand Succeeds MP. Riddle.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 9.-Effective
at midnight tonight the following
changes are announced on the Atlan?
tic Coast Line:
Morton Riddle, general superin?
tendent of the second division at Sa?
vannah, succeeds H. A. Ford, general
superintendent of the third division
at Jacksonville. Ford is assigned to
other duties at Wilmington, N. C. J.
X. Brand, now superintendent of
transportation at Savannah, succeeds
Riddle. E. R. Wootten, now superin?
tendent of the Richmond division,
succeeds Brand.
Fewer liens on crops have been fil?
ed with Clerk of Court Parrott for
record than up to this date last year.
A head-on collision of two freight
trains occurred at Johnston at 5
o'clock this morning. One fireman
was killed and one engineer is miss?
ing. It is supposed his body was
burned in the wreck.
The People's Oil Mill at Anderson
lost $27.000 Monday by the burning
of the hull and seed houses.
Fire broke out in the dormitory at
Clinton college Friday night, but was
extinguished before much damage
was done.
ANSEL REMOVES DIRECTORS
RAWLINSON', WYLIE AND BLACK
TURNED OUT OF DISPENSARY.
State Dispensary Directors, After a
Hearing Before Governor Ansel, on
the Charge of Illegally Purchasing
Liquor are Removed From Office.
Columbia, Feb. 9.-Governor Ansel
today removed from office State Dis?
pensary Directors J. M. Rawlinson,
John Black and Joseph B. Wylie, for
violation of the law in making several
hundred thousand dollars in pur?
chases. They will be criminally pros?
ecuted.
REMOVAL ORDER HELD UP.
RULE ISSUED AGALNST GOVERN?
OR ANSEL BY JUSTICE JONESl
Upon Application of Counsel for the
Members of the Board of Control
of the State Dispensary Justice
Jones Has Issued an Order Requir?
ing the Governor to Appear Brefore
the Supreme Court Next Tuesday
and Show Cause Why he Ordered
the Directors Removed and if the
Proceedings Were Legal.
Columbia, Feb. ll.-A rule to show
cause on a writ of certiorari was is?
sued today by Justice Jones, holding
up the removal of the members of the
State board of control and mairftain
ing the status quo as to the three
members removed by Governor
Ansel. ,
The formal papers were tonight
served by Sheriff Coleman on Govern
-or Ansel, and he is required to show
cause to the Supreme Court next Tues?
day why he removed the members of
the board, and if the proceedings were
legal. The order in the case was se?
cured "by Mr. J. E. McDonald, who
has appeared as counsel for Mr. Wy?
lie, but the application is made in be?
half of Messrs. Black, Rawlinson and
Wylie and the record is signed by
Messrs. W. B. Gruber, J. E. McDon?
ald and W. T. Aycock.
The grounds on which counsel in the
case hope to overrule the order of
Governor Ansel removing the mem?
bers of the board are largely the
same as appeared in the objections of
counsel to the proceedings and the
manner of the trial before Governor
Ansel. The chief objection is lodged
againse the evidence taken before the
legis"ative investigating committee.
The objections urged against this tes?
timony in the hearing are reiterated
and are largely the grounds on which
counsel hope to have Governor An?
sel's position overruled. Counsel con?
tend that Governor Ansel had no le?
gal right to use that evidence because
it was taken in secret, and the mem?
bers of the board were not allowed to
be present at the taking of the evi?
dence, and they were denied the right
of confronting the witnesses and the
right of cross-examination. It is fur-1
ther contended that this evidence was
taken for and by the legislature, and
that the same evidence had no legal
standing before the governor, and that
the courts have often held that evi?
dence taken in one hearing cannot be
used in another proceeding.
Objection is made to the short time
in which counsel had in which to
present the case of their clients, and
that Governor Ansel should have
given reasonable time in which the
board of control could have presented
witnesses and affidavits in reply, and
to have time in which to collect their
proof and produce their witnesses.
A College for Teachers.
The legislature of. Tennessee has
just passed a bill giving to the Pea?
body College for Teachers, at Nash?
ville, the sum of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. Appropriations
from other sources, notably one from
the Peabody Education Fund of one
mililon dollars, which had been made,
but depended upon the appropriation
just passed by thc State of Tennessee,
make the toal already given more
than a million seven hundred thou?
sand dollars which will come to the
college this year.
Assurances of other donations had
been given, to be made soon as the
college is permanently and adequate?
ly endowed, which Is now practically
accomplished.
The collegee will have handsome
buildings, new departments, addi?
tional professors, and promises io be
one of the greatest teachers' colleges
of the country.
The dreaded nun butterfly is ap?
pearing everywhere in Bohemia,
threatening the devastation of the
'crests. The neighboring woods of
Saxony and Silesia are also threaten?
ed. The ministry of agriculture has
named a commission to investigate.
TO GUARD *SHIPS against the unseen dangers at se^
the United States Government maintains lighthouses.
To guard your home against the un?
seen dangers of food products, the Govern?
ment has enacted a pure food law. The
law compel^ the manufacturers of baking
powder to print the ingredients on the
label of each caa ,
The Government has made the label your protection
so that you can avoid alum-read it carefully, if it does not
say pure crean? of tartar hand it back and
ROYAL is a pure, cream of tartar baking powder-a pure
product of grapes-aids the digestion - adds to the health?
fulness of food
mmmm?mmmm??mmmm
COTTON WORTH TWELVE CENTS.
President Johnson, in a Statement to
Farmers, Makes Some Direct Mar?
ket Quotation Comparisons.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 7.-President M.
Lb Johnson, pf the Georgia division,
Southern Cotton asociation, issues an
interesting statement this week re?
garding conditions in the cotton mar?
ket. President Johnson says:
, "Let me call the attention of Geor?
gians to some quotations from the
market pages of our daily papers, and
let me beg of you to give them some
thought
'Tn the first place, let me recall the
fact that I have insisted throughout
the season that our best grade of cot?
ton should not bring less than 12- 1-2
cents; it has beer and is now worth
every cent of it. It is worth it either
from the profits which the mills are
fom the profits which the mills are
making.
"Note the following from a recent
issue of the New York Comemrcial:
" 'The day of settlement between
the mills and spot dealers has been
postponed from month to month
through the courtesy of the mills, but
there will be a day of settlement
soon.'
"Isn't there evidence of agreement
or combination there? Combination,
too, which is not in the interests of
the grower?
"You all know how daily attention
has been called to the heavy receipts
with a view to 'bearing' the market.
One market writer puts it in this sen?
sible and reasonable way: 'The cot?
ton would not be moving had it not
been sold, and therefore heavy re?
ceipts at the ports is a bullish feature
from a consumptive point of view, as
the cotton arriving at these ports is
on the way to the mills, domestic and
foreign, particularly the latter.'
"Is it not also evidence of the most
rapid marketing of the crop and that
the stock of raw material in the in?
terior is rapidly exhausting? And
what will you say to this from anoth?
er published market report:
" 'The dry goods market was verj
strong today. Fruit of the Loom and
other ticketed sheetings were advanc?
ed half a cent a yard today.'
"Does not that touch every con?
sumer's pocket. Cotton declined one
sixteenth of a cent one day last week.
What was the cause for it? The truth
of the matter was, the New York
bears made a raid. They had to have
some profits, so it had to down.
This must be evident, since it will
be admitted the spinners' needs were
no less, and the world's demands and
needs no less than they were the day
before.
"Bear in mind that one-Jixteenth
decline as you read this:
" 'Mills are running full time and
earnings are increasing. Goods are
being manufactured on a basis of 12
cents for cotton. Thc directors of the
Massachusetts mills declared today
an extra dividend of one per cent, as
well as the regular semi-annual div?
idend of 3 per cent on $1,800,000 capi?
tal stock. The extra dividend was
justified by great increase in gross
and net earnings during the past
three months.'
"Do you want any better evidence
that the mills are purchasing their
cotton at too ?ow a price to allow the
farmer to participate in the prosperity
they are enjoying? " ' Why don't they
pay us more? Simply because we are
selling at their price. I am making
no fight on the spinners. I rejoice in
their proseprity. But here is the
point: There is in the results he is
getting, the profits he is making,
proof that he could afford to pay us
12 1-2 cents for our cotton.
"American manufacturers only use
about one-third of oar crop. They
would not be hurt by it, but the for?
eigner who uses two-thirds, or some
8,000,000 to 9,000,000 bales, would be
forced to pay the additional 2 cents
per pound, $10 per bale or $80,000,
000 on the part of the crop that he
uses.
"These conditions have lost Geor?
gia's farmers not less than $10,000,
000. Why should not every Ameri?
can, spinners included, look on cotton
growing, spinning, weaving, knitting,
bleaching, dyeing, finishing and gar?
ment making, as but successive stages
in our common industry?
"I appeal to our spinners and to
every southern interest to cooperate
with us, his American brethren, and
we will be able to get a price for our
cotton that will enable us to share in
this great prosperity, the more so
becausg we have'no government to
throw around us as she does others
by barring from her ports the manu?
factured goods of t^e old world.
"One more question that I wish
you would consider. Here is what
dear old England is doing: 'In Lan?
cashire they are making anywhere
from 75 to 100 per cent. We still
think spinners are getting cotton
much tco cheap, writes a Liverpool
friend. What do you think about it?
What are you going to do about it?
"M. L. Johnson,
"President Ga. Div. S. C. A."
TIIE WITTEKIXD IMMIGRANTS.
All of the Immigrants Have Been
Placed-Where Uley are Located.
Charleston, Feb. 10.-Commission?
er E. J. Watson filed his official re?
port of the distribution of the newly
arrived immigrants with United States
Immigration Inspector Reisiek today
and completing his business connect?
ed with the arrival of the second load
of immigrants from Bremen. He left
here this afternoon for Columbia.
The immigrants are largely mill
hands and agricultural people, and
the mill hands were distributed in
small lots to several of the mill dis?
tricts of the State, while the agricul?
tural people were placed also to ad?
vantage. The distribution is inter?
esting, as follows: Pelzer, 55; Green?
ville, 29; Anderson, 1; Mayesville, 5;
Orangeburg, 1; Richland, 6; Colum?
bia, 5 ^Charleston, 14, which with the
family cf five detained on shipboard,
pending the treatment of the child
whose eyes are afflicted, aggregate the
121 immigrants of the vessel.
MAKING PARTIAL RESTITUTION,
Rocekefeller Donates Tbirty-Tsr
Millions to Education.
New York, February 7.-Announ?
cement was made late to-day that
John D. Rockefeller has given the
"g?h?r?l education board'~%32,000,000'
He had previously given the boardi
$11,000,000. Thc gift is intended to as?
sist in the work of the board through?
out the country. The educational
board is designed to help educational
institutions.
The gift is in the form of thirty-two.,
million dollars' worth of income bear?
ing securities, the largest single prizer
ever handed out for educational pur?
poses. Mr. Rockefeller's contributions"
to the work now amount to $43,000,
ooo.
The general education board appa?
rently was not prepared for this gift,
which was announced simply in thia
letter.
"New York, February 6, 1907*. '
"General Education Board, 54 Will?
iam street, New York City. Gen?
tlemen: My father authorizes me
to say that on or before April 1, ?9&7,
he will give to the general board in?
come-bearing securities, the present
market value of which is about thirty
two millions dollars, ($32:,O0fr,0OO,>
one-third to be added to the perma?
nent endowment of the board, two
thirds to be applied to such? specifier
objects within the corporate purposes*?
of the board as either he or r may
from time to time direct, any remain?
der not so designated at the death, ofT
the survivor to be added also to the*
"permanent endowment ef the boar<?L
"Very truly,.
"John D. Rockefeller;. JhJ"'
THE THAW TRL4L.
New York, Feb. 12.-The session?
this morning was given over to a
wearisome and uninteresting lega?
squabble between counsel over the
i admission of testimony of experts; in?
tending to prove that Thaw is insane
from conversation. Dr. Evans?
launched into tiresome technical de?
tails and practically declared that
because Thaw was not open re the
Coctor's argument and disagreed witty
him he was therefore insane
Thaw's Birthday.
" New York, Feb. 12.-To dajr is- Har?
ry Thaw's birthday. He was 3t? years?
old this morning. He was- remember?
ed by relatives and friends. Hie wife
met him in the prison pen and wi sheol
him "many happy returns of the day"*"
with an earnest mien. He als? re?
ceived many letters.
London, Feb. II.-The lack trC as
duelling law in America was respcmF
sible for the slaying of White* by
Thaw, is the view of Dr. Emile Reich,
the famous English lawyer and." lec?
turer. He cites lynching in the Uni?
ted States as a duel in the form in?
wheih a crowd is arrayed against one
person. "Thaw, if mad," says Reichv
was naturally led to commit whait
might be termed a one-sided dueL!**