The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-26
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house lO yearS-nOC cOnSecullNeI!' o"'
five terms, and it had been his duty ana
his pleasure to represent his people
to the very hest of his ability. and to do
all he could, not only for the people OF
Newberry county, but for the people
of South Carolina, and there was not a
man in the audience, who had kept up
with his record, who would dare say
he had been extravagant in his ideas
or his votes. 1t was a pleasure to
hear the gentlemen who preceded him
criticize what the legislature had done,
"that is right, to bring these questions
before you, and if we have done wrong.
tn enlighten you" But it required
more than a sweeping charge. he said,
that the representatives had not done
their duty, and had been extravagant-
It required more than that to convince
the people that their legislative body
had been extravagant during the last
five or ten years.
.It don't require that much to con-
vict Blease," some one interrupted.
eft is very easy to make a charge,
but to sustain it is another question" ;"
said Mr.. Kibler.
Mr.. Kibler said he had been mem
Der of the ways and means committee
for four years, and he had been charg-
ed with being too economical and with
not being liberal enough in his ideas
as to appropriations for the State col
leges. Some had called him an enemy
of the State colleges. He would take
the lead and often stand alcne in his
fight against appropriations in the
committee, but when the committee
had decided, he wouldn't get up and
fight the committee in the house, be-
cause that would not have been right.
as he saw it.
That's what I would have done
carried the fight on the floor of the
house." said Mr.. John Henry Chappell
Suppose each of the twenty-fouf
members of the committee had oppos.
ed different items in the appropriation
BILL" replied Mr.. Kibler, where would
have been the bill? Make your fight
in the committee and stand by the
committee" He had moved to strike
out the enacting words of the bill to
increase judges salaries to $1,000 and
the bill had been killed, and every time
he had had a legitimate opportunity to
reduce taxes, he had done so.
'eThey go up every year" some one
interrupted.
Mr.. Kibler: "You are getting more
property every year. I
"Aint got as much as I had when
Twas born," was the reply
Mr.. Kibler said he had told the peo-
pie two years ago and Jour years ago
that they need not expect their levy
to be much less, because the cost of
running the government increased ev-
cry year, just as the cost of running
family had increased every year, and
taxes would naturally and inevitably
increase every, year, and what was
wanted was to keep taxes as low as
possible, consistent with the proper
running of the government. He didn't
believe some salaries, probably, were
large enough-for instance the sal
aries of State officers, s1,S0G year, On
which man had to move to Columbia
and cay $500 or $500 for mouse rent.
He could not go into every appro-
priation, for lack of tine.
He had fought day by day to build
up the common schools, and only last
session resolution had been introduc-
ed for the purpose of amending the
constitution so as to cut Out the con-
stitutiopal 3-mill tax, and he had NOV
ed to strike out the resolving words,
and the bill was killed.
In defending the rural police meas
.ure, he said if there was one thing
needed it was the enforcement of law
and the protection of the people, and
that was the object of the bill.
He had done all he could for a sys-
TEN for building up the roads and
making them better.
"That was for the poor white man
and negro to work them," voice in
terrupted.
. Anybody between certain ages has
to work the road or pay his two dol