The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-06-20
DISPENSARY INVESTIGATION.
THE INVESTIGATION ADJOURN.
ED TO JUNE 2e.
An Attempt Made to Have Prepared
Statement Exonerahng the Carolina
Glass Company Entered on the Rec
ords, But it is Defeated-Some In
teresting Letters From Mr.. Far
NUNS Files.

ords, But it is Defeated-Some In
teresting Letters From Mr.. Far
NUNS Files.
Columbia, June 14-The dispensa-
ry investigating committee has taken
recess until June 26 at noon. There
were four members of the committee
present when this decision was reach
ed, and the members of the commit
tee were getting restless and wanted
to go home. When the committee
meets on the 26th some definite plan
relative to the payment Of the $780,
900 worth of deferred payments will
be considered. The expectation was
that the subcommittee would have
been able to submit its views on these
claims at today's meeting. The report
was dictated, but could not be gotten
ready for the committee, as most Of
the members had to go home on the
afternoon trains, and the meeting the
latter part Of the month was largely
ordered to consider these claims Of
the liquor houses. The motion in
cluded that such other matters as
might be desired be then brought up,
and no one knows what is likely then
TO come up.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Fran
els H. Weston made a passionate ad-
dress to the committee, in which he
asked for fair play for the officers
and stockholders Of the Carolina Glass
Company.
Mr.. Lyon objected to any prepared
statement going in the record, as he
wished the committee to have the
right to cross s-examine all residents
Of the State, who were within the
reach Of the committee. It was decid-
ed to hear the representatives Of the
Carolina Glass Company at the next
meeting OF the committee.
The committee did not do much at
its regular session today. Only one
witness was put on the stand, Mr..
Dudley, of Carlisle. He stated that he
was in Greensboro, n. c., in 1904, and
that he then saw Mr.. Butler, who
was liquor drummer, and that Mr..
Butler showed him a telegram from
Il. H. Evans, in which an appoint
ment was made to meet Butler at Hot
to Mr.. Dudley that he was going to
Hot Springs to see Mr.. Evans about
business with the dispensary. After
that he saw Mr.. Butler and asked him
how he came out in his appointment
with Mr.. Evans at Hot Springs, and
he said that it was all right and he
went on to say that the sessions of the
board in Columbia were Sitting
farces," and by this he meant that the
real business Of the dispensary, the
buying and trading, was conducted
! outside Of the State
A number Of letters were gotten
from Mr.. Farnum's files in Charleston,
before the conflict between Mr.. Far
mum and the subcommittee, were
presented today. The committee pre-
sented letters today from Dispensers
Harmon and Ferguson Of Spartan
burg, asking liquor firms for samples
and cases of their goods. The point
Of these letters, and they were nu-
merous, was that they were written
after the visit of the committee to
Spartanburg and the exposure at that
time. Evidently the dispensers were
not affected by the position Of the
committee against such requests for
whiskey from the houses selling to
the State, but kept up their silent sys-
tenn Of blackmail Liquor was sent on
such requests by Cook-Bernheimer
Strauss, Spritz. Grabfe,der and 9TH
ers. Letters from quite number Of
dispensers, asking for samples were
offered in evidence. This practice is
not at al peculiar to the Spartanburg
dispensers, but appears to be very
general.
A number of letters from Mr. F. M.
Mixson to. J. W. Kelly & Co., were Of
fered, and in several of these letters
he states that ne was all right with
Messrs. Boykin and Towill, but that
he had been unable to do anything
with Mr. Evans He wrote about the
Introduction Of the resolution to in
vestigate the dispensary, and said that
he thought that it was inspired by
Mr.. Evans and was directed by him
against his colleagues in the board,