The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-15

| Z OllOWllES die uIS leCOuuoAuo-
tions as to the State dispensary
building:
State Jispc2sary Building.
At your last session your honorable
bodies passed an Act providing for
/ the sac Of the State dispensary
building and lot in the city Of Co.
lumbia by the commissioners Of the
sinking fund, placing the upset price
at scventy-five thousand dollars. The
sinking fund commission, in obedi-
ence to said Act, advertised for nine
tv days the same for sale, in the
Charleston News and Courier and the
Columbia State, stating in the adver-
tisement the upset price set out in
said Act. No bids were 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 1lth day Of
/ March, 1908, and the same has been
and is now in the possession and un-
der 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 honorable
bodies may seem best for the inter-
est of the State. This is valuable
property and should be bringing in
something in the way Of rents until
it is sold.
Following are Governor Alsel's
recommendations as to tie dispensary
law:
''Dispensary Law
Since the last meeting of your
honorable bodies, four counties Of the
State have voted out county dispen-
saries, to wit: Chesterfield, Chester,
Clarendon and Laurens, leaving twen-
ty-one counties in which there are
county dispensaries and twenty-one
counties in which We have county
prohibition.
In my last annual message, 'econ-
.mended that the Carey-Cothran act
be amended by providing "that not
more than one county dispensary be
! allowed IN any county where liquor
is allowed to be sold, except in those
counties where there are cities with a
population exceeding twenty-five
thousand. This suggestion Was not
enacted into law, and I now renew
the recommendation and recommend
that the said act be further amended
by making all the counties dry, that
is, not allowing liquor to be sold in
any Of the counties Of the State, with
the right Of any of the counties now
having dispensaries to vote upon the
question as to whether liquors shall
be sold in said counties according to
! the rules and regulations as provided
in the Carey-Cothran act, said elee'
ton to be ordered upon a petition be-
ing filed with the county supervisor
;: Of such county, signed BY at least
one-third of the Qualified electors OF
such county. This is IN the further,
ance Of temperance and for the best
interest Of our people. I also recon-
mend th-'t the aet be further amended
:: by not allowing any county in which
! liquor is allowed to be sold to have a
bottling plant or mixing Or blending
plant, and that all liquors Of every
| kind shall be purchased in bottles OF
in jugs, and sold in the original
packages.
>; The commission appointed to wind
up the State dispensary we're pro
eeeding with their work during the
past year until they were enjoined by
the United States circuit court from
+; paying out any Of the funds in thei1
! hands. Receivers we're appointed by
the United States court to take
charge of the fund and an order was
made providing that the same be ad-
ministered in that court. From this
); decree an appeal was taken to the
! United States circuit court Of ap
peals, which court affirmed the ordel
> Of the circuit court. and the case wa:
then taken to the United States su
| preme court, which court granted the
, writ Of certiorari asked for. Th.
, whole cause is now before the United