Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-01-17
WHY HE VETOED THE ACT.
Governor Blease Gives His Reasons
to the State Senate.

mission and the Attorney General.
Action on this veto was deferred un-
til noon tomorrow on motion Of SEN
ator Carlisle. The reasons are:
State of South Carolina, Executive
Department, Message No. Ito the
Honorable, the Members Of the Sen
ate of the State Of South Carolina
Gentlemen: l herewith return to
you, without my signature, an act
entitled can act to provide fC. an in
vestigation of the acts and dolngs Of
the State dispensary commission and
the acts and doings of the Attorney
General In connection Herewith, and
of the acts and doings of the commit
tee Of the General Assembly appoint
ed under q concurrent resolution Of
the General Assembly, dated Janu-
ary 81, 1905, and Of the acts and
doings Of any other person, or per-
sons, in any way connected with the
affairs of the State dispensary, and
the Investigation and winding-up
thereof"
| return to you this act, without
my signature, for the reason that, in
my opinion, under the provisions Of
the act. any investigation which
would have been held would have
been entirely one-sidcd and useless
and unnecessary expense to the State
Of South Carolina, and for the fur
ther reason that | decided to remove
the members Of the then dispensary
winding-up commission and appoint
an entirely new commission, which
did, and who had the power, under
the then existing law, to do all that
was provided for in this act to be
done by the committee to be appoint
ed under the provisions Of this act.
| have absolutely no objection to
the freest and fullest investigation Of
all matters and of all parties con-
nected with the State dispensary sys-
tenn, and l will render to you, or to
the dispenSary commission, all Of
the personal, political and official in
formation, influence and power, at
my command, to bring absolutely be-
fore the public any and all transac-
tions iu regard to the said State dis
pensary, or any person or persons
who have ever been connected there
with. Very respectfully,
Cole l.. Blease, Governor.
Columbia, Jan. II, 1912.
Passed Over Blcnse's Veto.
Columbia, Jan. 1O.--The feature
or the Senate session to-day was the
passage over the Go, ornor'S veto Of
the measure providing for the invcs-
tigation OF the winding-up commits
sion and Of the Attorney General by
a vote Of SO to 3, after an hour OF
discussion, and the strong language
used by some OF the Senators in de-
bouncing the veto OF the bill. Almost
every Senator WAS in his seat when
lhiS motion was called up, and the
kcencSt interest was taken in tho diff
fcrcnt discussions by the various
Senators. The action Of the Cover
nor in vetoins this measure after it
had been passed at his request was
characterized by Senator Young. of
Union, rs an insult to the members
OF the disponsary winding-up COM
mission, and slap in the face of
every Senator
Demanded by Blcasc.
Senator Weston read the message
the Governor sent to the Senate last
year demanding that the commission
ana the Attorney General be investi-
gated, and stated that they were
really indicted in that message, and
speclhc charges had been made
against them. The .Richland Scna-
tor stated that he would sustain the
Governor every time he thought he
was right, but he was not given to
sacrificing his self-respect to do so.
lie did not believe the charges
against the former members Of the
winding-up commission were true,
and we cannot afford, as Democrats
and =, white men, to allow such
charges to be made against officers
or South Carolina without the fullest
and frccst investigation" and he
called for the passage Of the bin.
How They Voted.
roll call was then ordered and
thc measure was passed over the veto
by vote Of &c to 3.
Those voting to pass it over the
veto we're: Ackcrman, Appelt, II.
Bates, Black, Carlisle, Christensen,
clifton, Croft Crosson, Epps, For
rest, CHM, Green, Hall, Hardin, w.