Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-18
Will Open July 8th.
MONEY IN LIQUOR.
South Carolina Has Found the Traffic to Be
 Profitable.

South Carolina Has Found the Traffic to Be
 Profitable.
 Columbia, S. C.. June 1S.-The legis- latve committee appointed to examine the books of the dispensary made it's re- port yesterday. It is the first report made as to the workings of the dispens- ary that layman could understand, and while 1t does not show any half-million- dollar profits a year, as was promised when the dispensary was first estab- llshed, it does show the business to be in d healthy condition, and q far larger profit to have been made than many per sons ever expected from the dlspensary. The report shows the total profits made since the establishment of the dispensary on July l. 189S to have been $le0,2Sl.4S: of this $l46, ,607 69 was made during Commis- sioner Traxler's term, from July 1, 1893, to February 1, 1895. and s13,679.79 during Commissioner Mixson's first quarter, ending April 20.
 The receipts for the quarter ending April 90 were: February, $6S,2S5.16; March, S64,4G4.99; April, $7lOi6.O2.
 The seizing of liquor marked for pfi- Vate use only" by the liquor constables, and the beginning of contempt proceed ings in the United States courts against them therefor has become such a com mon occurrence that it is news no longer. The virtue in these proceedings will be determined on the 30th instant before Judge SimontoWn in Charleston.
 The executive committee of the forty has been called to meet in this city on Thursday. The forty is that factional element in state politics which com menced the peace and harmony move ment by issuing an address during the last session of the legislature to all in favor of unity Their work has been somewhat foiestalled by the Tillman- Hemphill-Evans-B -Barnwell combination, rvb c1o iY,,c fo ba 1a eo oYa,a end. Where the difference between the forty and the Tillman Hemphill- Evans Barnwe1l combination exists no one is able to say, except that each for bringing about unity among the white people
 Another faction has arisen within the last few weeks. It Is being led by Rep resentatives Weston and Patton of Richland county. It stands on the same ground with the Tillman-Hemphill com bination, except that it holds for quail ification of the suffrage that will apply to all men alike, disfranehising as few white men and as many negroes as pos sible. The Tillman-Hemphill combina- tion want limitation of the suffrage that will disfranchise no white man, ex- cept for crime. and will disfranchise as many negroes as possible. Both of these factions advocate going into the prl- mary, in which white men alone shall be allowed to participate. The forty are somewhat uncertain in their position as to the primary. with decided leanings, however toward the primary.
 There are still two other factions in the state-the extreme reformers, led by Senator Irby and Congressman Storn- yarne Wilson, who want no concessions made to the conservatives, who do not want the reformers to go into the pri- mary but who advocate a straight fight; and the extreme conservatives, lead by the state. These are very much of the same feelings as the Irby faction They wish to appeal to the general cleo tlon, when they hope to be able to get enough votes from the colored people of the state to put the reformers to flight All factions are moving slowly now, and each is watching the other very closely From present indications it seems that the factions advocating the primary are vastly in the majority.