The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-08-03

ways and means committee. If man
was not member of that committee
he had little voice in making the ap-
preparation. Newbcrry did not have
a representative on that committee
during the past two terms, and for
reasons Imaginable only to the tlelega-
ton. The ncwberry representatives
were members Of few important COM
mittecs. When the appropriation bill
was reported to the house by the ways
and means committee the house usu-
ally stood by the committee, most Of
the fight being made in the committee.
Fle voted to divide the tag tax be-
tween Winthrop and Clemson, giving
Clemson the bulk, hoping to save
; $40, 900. He told of number of
votes in opposition to increasing sal
aries and in opposition to putting
costly dome on the capital. He voted
against the bill increasing the salaries
of judges and stenographes. He voted
against the appropriation to the con-
federate Home School in Charleston.
He voted for the bill TO increase the
| Confederate pension to 1925. 900 but
opposed increasing it to $3.50 900. Af-
ter considering the matter he favored
compulsory education. Tie voted
against the reformatory bill, for the
bill to decrease passenger rates on
railroads, and against The bill for
| hn,
to IL university, because he knew it's
friends would come and ask for
higher appropriation.
| He asked that his record be scruti-
nized on the liquor question. Two
/ years aye he advocated the Brice
bill and said he would vote to knock
off the tax feature. The house knock
ed off the tax feature, but the senate
refused to do so. Every vote he cast
had been against the State dispensary.
He voted to let the investigating COM
mlttee go unhampered. He wanted
no whitewash. lie voted to continue
the committee, and to give it all the
power it asked. It was impossible to
purify the State dispensary, and he
had voted against the bill that had
that in view. He voted against il
with the sole idea of trying to abolish
the State dispensary. The other pro-
position was the Morgan local option
bill as between county dispensarics
and prohibition. He voted for this
| from, to loci Io l.
lieved it was the best thing in sight.
The disestablishment of the State dis
pcnsary would not destroy any Of the
good features of the system. IF re-
elected he should vote for local option
as between county dispensaries and
prohibition and to maintain the Brice
law. He was opposed to high license.
He denied cmphatically the state
ment or the insinuation that he had
hcen bought by the dispensary pco-
pie, denouncing it as falschood. Hr
voted for Evans. Evans was from
his county and had been his personal
friend for twenty years. That vote
had not cost Evans q cent. His life
belied the insinuation that he had
been unduly influenced.
During the course Of his address
Mr. Earhardt, in addition to the vote
mentioned in his report, gave many
of his other votes while membcr
of the house, saying that he had al
ways been consistent in working and
voting for economy.
! Mr.. G.. B. Boozer
was tho first speaker after dinner.
He said the last time he was Mt Mt.
Bethel he was running for sub-sup-
ervisor He saw no way sub-super-,
visor could improve the public high
ways Of his county, and that was the
reason he was running for the legis-
lature. Flo favored improved high
ways, and the only way to get them
was to tax the people to pay for them.
He was in favor Of prohibition,
but if the people wanted local option
that was their own business.
He wanted Clemson limited to $780,
600 from the fertilizer tax, if it, was
possible to pass law to this effect.
AS to education it was important.
and if the county had good roads,
compulsory education could be secur-
ed because the children could 90 TO