The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-27
A CLEMSON HALL VETO.
GOV. RICHARDSON FAILS TO SIGN
THE BILL TO ACCEPT 1T.

His Course Causes a CONNECTION All
Over the Palmetto State-The Farm
ers Made the Bequest Political
1ssue-The Governors Reasons -
The First Veto Since 1877.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 26.-The announce
ment that the governor had applied the
pocket veto to the now famous Clemson be-
quest bill has created connection all over
the state. I. g. Clemson, who married into
the Calhoun family, bequeathed the Cal
houn homestead in Oconee county to the
state for the purpose of founding an agricult-
uraI college, but he provided for majority
of the trustees to manage the college. Miss
Isabel Lee of New York, great
granddaughter of John C. Calhoun.
contested the will and the United
States circuit court granted an in
junction restraining the executors from
carrying out the will. In spite of this the
legislature passed an act accepting the be-
quest and this is the act that the governor
has virtually vetoed.
WHAT THE GOVERNOR SAYS.
In an interview with the MORNING NEWS
correspondent, Gov. Richardson said: 81
sible, and especially of the education of the
whites. We have a great burden to bear in
reducing the illiteracy of race foreign to
our own. All extraneous aid is directed to
the benefit of that race for whose enlight-
eminent we already tax ourselves heavily
Consequently any increase in the facilities
for educating the White youth of the state
addresses itself to my warmest approval
and support, and it would be the hight of
aoJ.f4 10 limit e.,
for educating our own race.
A MATTER OF GRAVE DOUBT.
"But the end desired must be attained in a
proper way. To accept the Clemson be-
quest would be at any time a matter of
grave doubt, but to accept it at this time
when the transfer of the real estate has
been especially forbidden by one of the
highest courts in the country, would place
South Carolina in the unenviable position
of opposing her sovereignty to the determi-
nation of the possible rights of citizen by
the courts of the country when there is no
necessity for such haste. The postponement
of determination of the matter cannot re-
suit injuriously.
CAN'T HURT MISS LEE.
SIT cannot affect hurtfully the cause of
Miss Lee, the great-granddaughter of the
illustrious Calhoun, whose whole life was
devoted to South Carolina and who was one
of the towering three who made the states
of Massachusetts, Kentucky and South Car
DINA SO noted in American history. It
could not detract from the rights Of the
state, even were there an imperative re-
quirement that the devises should be ac-
cepted Immediately, since it has become a
practical impossibility to act under the re-
straining order of the COURT
The excitement caused by this action of
the governor is intense.
MADE A POLITICAL ISSUE.
In many of the upper counties of the
state the acceptance of the Clemson bequest
was made an issue in the late election, and
many prominent and able Legislators were
forced to support the bill against their bet
ter Judgment. The opponents to the bill
are equally gratfied at the governors &C
tion, especially since the disclosures made
during the recent session of the legislature
concerning the skeleton in the Calhoun
closet, which was published in this CORE
spondence. The action of the governor will
probably lead to the establishment of
state agricultural college. Barring veto
by Gov. Hampton in 1877, this is the first
veto that has been attempted in this state
since 1876.