The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-20
What HE SAYS.
Gov. Ansel Gives His Views on
State Matters
IN ANNUAL MESSAGE

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Docum mt Not characterized by Tn.
usual Vigor But Many Improve
ments Are Observation-Disclosures
Necessities in Legislation and Pub
lie Affairs.
Columbia, S. c., Jan. 13.-Gover-
nor Ansel's annual message, read in
the two legislative branches today.
is brief and while 1t is not character
lied by viger touches ON several sub
jects of Importance. We print be-
| low the most important facts Of the
document:
ITO the Honorable, the Members Of
the General Assembly Of the State
Of South Carolina:
Another year has come, another
milestone in the history Of the
State has been reached, and you are
gathered here in the capitol Of South
Carolina to discharge the high and
honorable duties laid upon you by
the people. 1t becomes my duty,
in the discharge of the mandate Of
the constitution, to give to you such
information as have as to the con-
dition Of the State and to suggest
and recommend such legislation as
TO me may seem meet and proper.
Providence has been kind to us
during the past year. Peace and
prosperity have reigned within our
borders. We have been free from
famine and pestilence and wide
spread epidemics. The fields have
yielded reasonable harvest and the
people generally are prosperous and
contented.
Great responsibilities rest upon
your shoulders in the discharge o.
the duties Of the high and honorable
Offices that you hold. I ask your
careful, earnest and wise consider
alton Of every measure that shall
come before you, and let only suca
laws be enacted as shall be for the
best interest of the State.
with these few preliminary
words. I respectfully ask your care
ful consideration of the following
message:
State Finances.
''I must once more call your at
tention to the important matter of
our States finances. At your last
session, you gave authority to the
governor, the State treasurer and
the comptroller-general to borrow.
not exceeding five hundred thousand
dollars to meet the obligations OF
the State to become due during the
year 19OS-such as Confederate SOL
diers' pensions, interest on public
debt, appropriations for the institu-
tons Of learning and other appro-
priations made by your honorable
bodies.
'It became necessary for US to
borrow, during the year, the full
amount so allowed and provided for,
which amount will be repaid out OF
the State taxes being collected. The
interest On said sum amounted 70
s13,O9S.2S. This will have to be
continued year after year unless
some plan is devised to catch up.
I bring this matter to your attention
in order that you may give the same
your earnest consideration and
ADOPT some measure that will rem
edy the matter.
''In my last annual message,
recommended the levying Of special
tax each year for several years to
provide a sum so that We would not
be required to borrow. again call
YOUR most careful attention to this
very important subject with the hope
that some action will be taken by
your honorable bodies to place the
State, in the near future, on a cash
basis and thus strengthen our fnan-
cial condition.
Dispensary Building.
cat your last session your hon
| orable bodies passed an act provid-
| ing for the sale Of the state dis
pensary building and lot in the city
of Columbia by the commissioners
of the sinking fund. placing the up
set price at seyenty-fve thousand
| dollars. The sinking fund COM
| mission, in obedience to saio act,
advertised for ninety days the same
sor sale, in the Charleston News
and Courier and the Columbia State,
stating in the advertisement the up
set price set out in said acts. No
bids we're received for the same.
The property was turned over TO
the sinking fund commission by the
commission appointed to wind up the
State dispensary on the 18th day Of
March, 1908, and the same has been
! and is now in the possession and
under the control of the sinking
fund commission Application has
been made by several parties to
lease it. but no power was given
the sinking fund commission TO make
a lease. They desire that authority
be given them, either to sell or lease
said building on such terms and for
such length of time as to your hon.
orable bodies may seem best for the
interest of the State. This is val
liable property and should be bring
ing in something in the way Of rents
until it is sold.
Dispensary Law.
..Since the last meeting OF your
honorable bodies, four counties OF
the State have voted out county dis
pensary, to wit: Chesterfield,
Chester. Clarendon ard Laurens,