The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-14
AT THE END OF IT'S Row,
TIE STATE BoARD OF CONTROL
aBANDoNS TIE Job.
M royyer to Go Further With the
pIspenssry Investigation and Says SO
what Was Cleaned in Cincinnati.

rJs,enssry Investigation and Says SO
what Was Cleaned in Cincinnati.
CoLUMe1,, S. c., Oct. s. The State
board of control is still peglns away
at its regular monthly routine bust
ness. Yesterday morning, however,
il found time to receive the report of
Messrs. Williams and Weston, who
were sent on during the recess to Gin
cinnsti to look into matters bearing
on the rebate business. This report
was received and received some DIS
cussion. The board practically de,
cided at the morning session what it
would do so far as any further investi-
CATION is concerned, but took no otli
cial action, preferring, it is sunderstood,
to await the arrival Of Mr.. Alien.
During the morning, however, the
board decided to make public the re-
port presented by these gentlemen,
and it was turned over to the repreSel-
tatives Of the press.
In the afternoon the board orougnt
up the matter of the investigator again
and took final action in regard thereto
in the Eshape of the following resolu-
ton which was adopted and at once
made public:
This board of control, on account
of the many rumors affecting the IN
tegrity of the management Of the busi-
ness oil the State dispensary before the
presens board took charge Of It's affairs,
deemed it proper to enter upon an IN
yestigation of the truth of such ru-
mors so far as they affect employees OF
the institution. This investigation
has been made as thorough and as
searching as possible IN view OF the
limited extent of the power and at
thority of this board.
During the investigation the board
has received statements, under oath,
of all persons and all officials who ap-
peared before it. A joint committee,
composed of one member OF the board
and one member OF the legislative ex-
amining committee, was sent to the
CITY of Atlanta and city of Cincinnati
to investigate the business transactions
between firms who have sold liquors
to the State and the officials OF the
State dispensary under the former act
of the legislature. The report OF this
Joint committee has been made. The
hearing before this borad was held with
open doors, and the testimony has
been published in the daily newspa,
pers for the information of the public.
It is the sense of this board that at the
proper time the general assembly shall
be fully apprised of the disadvantages
under which this investigation was
made, that they may take such steps
as may be deemed advisaole.
''The evidence that has been taken
IS, in the opinion of this board, Insult
cient to show that any officer or EN-.
ploye of the State dispensary has re-
ceived rebates or commissions on sales
to the dispensary, or to trace any
money so received to the personal
possession of any such officer or em,
ploye, or to prove that any such otii'
Ger or employe has participated IN
such rebates or commissions.
TIE CoaNuTTEE'S REPORT.
Here is the report of the official com
mittee sent to Cincinnati:
Columbia, S. c., Oct. Z, 1896:
To the State Board Of Control:
We, your committee appointed at
your last meeting to 60 to Atlantis end
Cincinnati to collect evidence agains;
dispensary officials, if any there IS,
tending to show that rebates were I'M
properly received, report:
That we went to Atlanta, Ga, and
there found that e vas impossible to
recover damaging telegram said to
have been sent from there to Commls
- ;;ssesserassS@,his son in July. 95,
sZ2azsnaaisSnc company,