Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-01-16
LETTER FROM HON. MR.. werner.
WRITES OF MATTERS IN THE H0UsE-M0RE
/ ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY

| Columbia, Jan. 14,-Editors Courier:
promised to write you from this place.
The House was organized by the cleo
tion Of Mr.. Whaley speaker. The other
office' were filed by the former officers
of the H0use.
This House 10, noted because of It's con-
tanning SO many well-known men; among
Norton and Mr, Croft, ,Ex-Speaker Gary,
Ex-C Comptroller General Durham, and
several members who were once State
Senators. N't5.;
or course there has not been much
done in the Legislature yet. 1T takes q
week to get committees all arranged,
biiis on the calendar and the work gene
| rally In operation. ~.
resolution, endorsing the State dis.
peDsary, was continued by vote of so to
g.. This old sore win, as heretofore, take
lot OF time and there is no telling what
Will be done In the matter, though It ia
said that tho House is against It, and
that Ononee and Pickens counties hold
the balance of power In the Senate. II
the Senators from those two counties
vote against the law it will be- killed, and
IL looks as II they ought, az both coun.
ties have, by vote Of to /, declared
against the law. have heard that there
was regular assessment of dispensary
employees here last summer, and the
oash 30 obtained was spent in the cleo
ton 70 elect dispensary officials, both for
Governor and the Legisiature.
Several bills have been offered to re-
per mile, and also several to prevent
dealing In cotton futures in the State.
A bill to abolish the lien law has also
been introduced, and has been reported
favorably from the Committee on Agri-
culture.
4 A.bill compelling children to attend
school is mp again, but you will have to
swaitsto see what becomes of it.
\ did not intend to mention Mr., Earle
and our old controversy, but for what /
saw In The Courier this week. No, Mr.,
Earle and myself are not talking about
different things, but we are talking in
diterent ways about the same thing. He
quotes the Act of 1905, not as he passed
lt in the Senate, with all the lands on
Conneross creek and Little river included
IN the Act, but as amended 1t in the
house, by taking out all those lands ex-
cept at Isbell's and at High Falls, Just as
stated and proved from the Senate and
House Journals. The bill introduced by
Mr.. Earle, and passed by the Senate in
1903, asking for additional powers, and
Damlng other water courses, was tabled
In the House because I had said would
Kill 1t. If your readers are willing to
take Mr. Earle's word for statements
without any evidence against my word
with direct proof from both the Senate
and House Journals, then there is no use
for anything further to be said. told
them whore to find the record. AZ ia
there yet. Ii they find that l have mis-
stated anything am willing to resign
and come home. Bills that are killed are
destroy ed, but the Journals are suffioient
for what we have both written.
have never had a better week in Co
lnmbia than the past has been.
The old members of the House and
Senate seem glad so have mo here, and
the new members are good-looking,
friendly lot Of men.
We have very convenient seats and good
neighbors, being surrounded and in close