The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-06-20
THE DISPENSARY INVESTIGATION.

The dispensary Investigating com.
mlttec met again Tuesday afternoon of
last week and resumed the taking OF
testimony. Nothing Of the same SEN
sational character was developed as
came out the preceding week, but
given showing the inherent roltcnncss
Of the system.
j. NJ. Cantey, a brothcr-in- law of
J.. ". Boykin, q former member of
the board, was put on the witness
stand. lie admitted in a very frank
manner that he had represented
Fleischmann g. Co.. of Cincinnati, the
makers of the Congress Hall LIQUOR,
which has been showed up on former
occasions during the investigation 70
be inferior in quality and in other
ways. He said that his duties were
merely to see that advertising matter
was kept fresh on the bill boards, and
for this he received salary of $500
per month, at rate higher than tho
salary Of the Governor of the State
and nearly twice as much az the aver
age State officer. The natural infer.
encc is that Cantey's duties were to
keep in touch with his brother.in-la law
member Of the board and thus be in o
position to sell great deal Of bis
houses inferior whiskey to the dis
pensary.
Charles Cohen, beer dispenser of
Beaufort, was sworn to produce testi.
mony showing that the dispeusary,
while buying Auheuser Busch beer
from T. S. Farnum, Of Charleston, re-.
quired @ ohen to order it from Colum-
bia, althou gh it cost him $3.l2 per
cask more and did not save the State
anything.
Mr.. Lyon put in evidence before the
investigating committee an affidavit
from Brevard D. Miller, organizer Of
the company which built the Carolina
Glass COM pany, in which disposition
MIR. Miller says that he pulled out of
the company because a proposition
was made to give stock to officers of
the dispens ary in order to stife com.
petition and as that was not in keep
ing with his ideas of proper business
methods he resigned at a meeting Of
the corpora tors at which it was dis
cussed off oially. He uumed as the
party to whom the stock was to be
made over in trust for II. H. Evans
and L. j. Williams, w. G. Childs,
president Of the Bank Of Columbia.
Mr.. Childs and the other directors
Of the company deny this, and when
the committee meet again they say
that they will take the witness stand
in refutation Of Millor's statement.
Out OF the mass OF testimony OF
Thursday g session evidence was pro-
duced to show that the dispeueary
paid the Atlanta Brewing company .
higher price for q roorer beer than
they could have bought in Savannah
at lower price; that labels almost
identical with those bought by the
last year at price which
has been much talked about had been
bought by a whiskey concern at q
lower figure; that some half pints are
short over Two ounces, or nearly 2h
per cent. It was shown that the d..
pensary billed out certain grader Of
liquor at o cheaper price than other
brands OF similar class, thus losing
the profit 10 the State, but pushing
tae sale of liquor 80 favored. The
State dispensary was shown to have
lost thousands Of dollars annually on
the sale Of barrels to the Richland dis.
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It was also shown that the whiskey
drummers kept open house at one OF |
the hotela Of Columbia and made uer-
~ with dispepsary directors and mem.
bers Of the legislature as their guests. |
On ono occasion, az 900 changed hands
in one Of the rooms, the passing Of |
money being:aE matter Of common 90.
currence. II awhiskey house had a |
representative on the board of direo-
tors, the house got plenty of orders. |
Many matters or the. character OF |
those mentioned above were brought
put, but We have mot space enough
here to recount .aem fully. |
The subcommittee, consisting of
Mr.. Lyon pud MIR. Christensen, in
tended to put in evidsnoa 4 report on
heir trip to Cincinnati, but tho type.
writer to whom the repoys was given
had not completed Transcript 'of il, |
md as Mr.. Fraser and Senator Hay had
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