The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-06-20

the Legislative instructions relative to
getting bids for the glassware, and
Mr. Rawlinson insisted that the board
bought from where it thought IT
could ge. the best and cheapest con-
tracts, and that it did not worry
about the back contracts or past ar
rangements, although Mr.. Lyon
thought some Of the old contracts
were for less than the new prices.
Mr.. Ra1ylinson said that the board
did not, as far as he knew, make any
actual comparison between the sam
pits by which liquors were bought,
and the goods after their arrival. He
said that the idea seemed to be to wait
for complaints.
There was considera bic controversy
with regard to the declination of the
new board to give the Christensen
Lyon committee copies Of the lists OF
purchases. Mr.. Rawlinson urged that
the board was ready and anxious to
supply all possible information, but
that the board preferred ito know e2-
actly what was wanted.
Mr.. Lyon presented Mr.. Jesse
Vance, who conducts a brokerage
business in Newberry, to show What
he knew about the claim of Mr.. II.
H. Evans that he made lot of money
in cotto, futures Mr.. Vance declined
to know or say anything. He did say
that he could tell something if he had
his books, but he declined to produce
his books, and with the usual good
luck the majority Of the COMMITTEE
declined to order that he present his
be oks 10 show whether Mr.. Evans
had made or lost money on cotton
futures in his place.
Mr.. Lyon said he thought in this
way he could show what merit there
was in the claim Of Mr.. Evans that he
had grown rich on cotton futures. The
committee thought it ought first to be
shown that Mr.. Evans has the money,
and that the cotton future phase
would simply be a defence.
Mr.. w. W. Starr, the general man
ager Of the Savannah Brewery, testi-
fed that the disptnsary has been pay
ing mere for No. beer than it had
been offered at. Analysis were pre-
sented by the committee, without the
knowle dge of Mr.. Starr, to show that
the Savannah beer was better than
that for which the dispensary paid
more money.
Dispenser Corey, Of Fort Fremont,
complained Of the price Of Acme beer,
and the result of his correspondence
was that he was advised that ne must
have been buying It cheaper from the
dispen sary than it had been priced at.
At the very round-off Of the testi"
mcny this afternoon Mr.. Lyon pre-
sented an affidavit from S. Grabfeider
& Co., large dealers, bought labels
from Nivission & Weiskopf, the very
firm from which the famous label Or
der was got, at $3.50 per thousand,
that were thought to be fully as
hands ONE embossed and all, as those
bought ty the dispensary at $3.50.
These labels bought from Navisson &
Weiskopf were used on Glen Lily
whiskey and are considered as hand
some as any bought by the dispensary,
and were bought by Grabftlder for
less than half. Some pretty labels
were presented that were bought
from the Louisville Courier Journal
people, at 40. cents per thousand.
These were body labels and had no
neck piece.
Mr.. Lyon thinks that this shows
| very conclusively that the State paid
| more than twice too much for its big
lot of labels as it ought to have paid.
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