The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-04
SOUTHERN CLAIMS
HAVE SMALL CHANCE
REPUBLICANS RESORT TO:FILIBUST-
ERING TACTICS TO DEFEAT
MEASURES.
but Twice ThCy Have Failed Church Iu-
hucnco Behind Two Demands for X plicf
Changes Current. -Congrc rcssnen Pow
trlcss In Many CnsCs- Nowbe,ry
Coueg" Gets tho Money Final
ly to which 1t Was En-
Titled Years Ago.
I Atlanta Constitution. !

| aSnlnRCOn, EoOruary Zo.-lbc
House has just acted favorubly upon
claim in which many people in
Georgia and tho Carolinians feel
deep interest. Tho case was that Of
Newberry college, in South Carolina,
and tho bill carries an appropriate n
Of $4,000 to pay tho claim in full
The passage Of the bill is Il signal
victory i"r Congressman Latimcr, of
South Carolina, who has been so in,
sistant upon pushing this claim that
about half Of tho members Of the
House know him only as "NewborrA
College" Lntimor
No Southern claim, and no othor
claim for that matter, was over moro
just and equitable. The college was
Lutheran institution and themoncy
for its building was contributed by
members Of that Church in South
Carolina, Georgia and North Caro-.
lima. Tho building was new in 1860
In July, 1865, tho Federal soldcrs
took possession, disposscssing tho 10
pupils and their teachers and used
tho building as garrison. Thrc gh
tho misuse Of the soldiers tho build
ing inside Of Il yoar became Il total
wreck
THE WAX WAS OVER.
1t will be noted that before the
building wus occupied ovcry Confod-
erato soldier had laid down his arms
and had recognized tho Union as SUI
preme. Tho building was taken in
direct violation Of tho order of tho
President, who had declared "thut
literary institutions should be exempt
from uso or abuse except in cases Of
absolute necessity"
The first movement mude to socur-
ing tho payment Of this claim was
the submission of Il petition Of the
trustees by Representative Aiken,
back in 1878; but no further action
was then taken. Congressman Lnti-
mer took up the matter when he first
came to Congress. In September,
1898, he introduced bill for the
payment Of tho claim and at his in.
stance Senator Butler introduced
similar bill in the Senate. The bill
passed the Senate bat got no farther
than tho favorable report stage in
the House.
Again in 1895 both Representa-
tive Latlmor and Senator Tillman
introduced bills providing for the
payment, and while tho Tllman bill
passed the Senate, 1T was impossible
to got action in the House.
Last March other bills wcro intro
duced in the Senate and tho House.
1t is an casy matter to got such bills
through the Senate, and on May 18th
the bill Of Senator Tillman passed
that body. This week, aftor hard
fight, Congressman Latimcr and his
associates succeeded in getting it
through tho House.
This is the second claim of note
which tho Southern members have
succeeded in getting through the
House Mt this session. Tho othe, was
tho bill for the payment of tho South
ern Methodist Publishing Company,
about which 80 much has bcon said in
tho papers. III both instances much
Of tho credit is due to Congrcs 3man
Sam Bronson Cooper, who is the first
Democrat on the committee on South
! ern war claims.
REPUBLICANS STRONGLY OPPOSE THEM.
The passage Of these two claims
need not be taken as an Indication of
any weakening on the part Of tho
majority toward Southern war claims
as Il class. There are many thou
sands Of thesc--clalms that have met
tho approval Of the government
tribunal created to pass upon thom
and which are, in every may, just as
valid rs these two. But il is the
policy of the Republicans in tho
House to permit none of these to 20
through; these two were passed pri-