The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-25
GALLOWAY REPLIES
TO AsPERS|ONs OF
SENATOR .B. BROWN
WHEN ABSENT FROM COMMIT
TEE HE WAS TOO SICK TO
ATTEND.
BUT WORKED ALL The TINT

But WORKED ALL The TINT
Submits Proof From Physicians and
Other Members of the Committee
Charges Brown With Drawing Pay
While Visiting in North Carolina
Representative w. T. Galloway,
the old Confederate soldier who rep
resented this county with such credit
and distinction for three terms, has
replied to the attack Of DR.. Senator
Bledsoe Brown to the effect that he
accepted a large sum of money from
a committee on which he did practi-
cally no work. Mr.. Galloway shows
in his reply that he was absent from
the committee only because OF Sc
rious sickness; that he was authoriz-
ed under resolution of the committee
to accept pay while sick. He also
states that while he was sick and
against the advice of his physicians
he worked assiduously for the COM
mittee in gathering necessary lrfor-
nation.
J Mr.. Galloway has letters from s.
H. Mitchell, an old soldier and mem
Der of the committee, DR.. A. Jones, a
regular and another member of the
committee, and his physician, in
which they fully substantiate all that
he says. In addition Mr.. Galloway
charges and he has letter from Mr.
Mitchell in support of the charge,
that Dr. Brown was absent in North
/ Carolina for a week visiting rela-
tives, but drew pay for all the time
that he was away.
j The following is the statement Of
Representative Galloway:
/; ITO the Editor of The Herald:
| II understand that DR.. Brown and
Hammond have been criticisblg me
for taking pay for committee work
while not present with the commit
tee. / delayed answering this until
l could prove everything say Twas
not absent one single day except
when in bed or too sick to attend.
My illness was Mastoid disease Of the
ear. 1t was represented to me as be-
ing very serious by my physicians,
Drs. Pillow, Edwards and Covey, Of
this county, and Drs. w. H. Witt and
J. T. Crawford Ian ear specialist), Of
Nashville. l have letter from DR..
Jones, the vice chairman Of my com
mittee, stating that resolution was
passed by the committee, at the very
commencement of their work That
II any one by sickness could not at
tend to the duties of the committee
they should draw pay for the time abb
sent" He further adds Il advised
you to stay out Of the weather IT.
was March and very cold and windy.
"Our committee decided on the rec
ommendation of the governor, that
we should investigate the condition
of all the jails and poor houses of
the state, as to the number of the
insane, the facilities for their safe
and comfortable keeping, if they did
not care for them in the various coun-
ties at home, where were they sent
and at what cost to the county. Also
to find out from the three state asy-
lums what room, if any, they had to
care for more patients, looking to the
states finally taking care of her in
sane patients without charge to their
families or to the counties, if such
could be practicable. Though not
well single day during the recess
and for two weeks after, l attended
to this work myself from the commit
tee room in the capitol and had all
the data made out and arranged, and
the report as it appears today for the
committees approval. DR.. Brown was
we'll aware of all this when he made
his charge, which by Withholding the
greater part of the facts, makes 1t
virtually false.
81 have something still more inter .
esting and pertinent to the present !
situation in letter received from
the Hon. s. H. Mitchell, a member of |
my committee, an old Confederate,
the representative from Upton coun-
ty, and who never missed a day flom
the committee, being the only one
who did not, in which he says, among
other things: Senator Brown should
keep mum. l know that he was. away
from the committee for more than
one week at one time, on Wait to
his sister in North Carolina. He took