Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The management of the corn show
decided last Saturday to keep the show
open for another week According to
present plans it will close next Friday
night.
= The Columbia State Of February
8. contains the following paragraph:
The bankers and farmers at the au-
ditorium Of the Corn exposition
grounds on February 6, adopted a res
olution offered by Harry d. Calhoun
Of Barnwell, favoring the bill now be-
fore the legislature. known as the
state warehouse bill"
- Columbia, February 8: After an
extended debate this morning the
house passed to third reading. the bill
providing for the acceptance by the
state Of the property Of the Medical
college In Charleston and appropriat-
ing $4,000 with which to establish a
state medical college. By vote of
81 to 35 the house refused to recon-
NIT the bill and sent II to the senate.
The measure contains provision for
the revision of the property transfer
red to its present owners should the
state fail to support the state medical
college 1t Is proposed to establish.
= Columbia special Of February to
the Spartanburg Journal: "A cork
screw may be crooked, but It has
trueness. certain symmetry and reg
ularity In its convolutions. The return
or the Hon. Cole L Blease has no such
redeeming features" SAYS Comptroller
General A. w. Jones In his return filed
this morning to the suit brought to set
aside the refunding act, and opposing
the request made to the court by Gov
ernor Blease for a referee to take tes-
timony In this case. "The opposition
OF the Hon. Cole L. Blease to the act of
1912. on the ground of alleged uncon-
stitutionality. is feigned and to the in
terest Of banks and corporations which
hoped to enjoy the exemptions given
them by the act Of 1910 and taken
away by the act of 1912" Continues the
comptroller general. General Jones
points out the advantages OF the re-
funding act of 1912 and shows that to
have exempted from taxation those
shares OF banks which were invested In
state securities would necessarily
cause the exemption OF national banks
investments In state and national Sc
curfties and the consequent loss to the
taxpayer Of thousands Of dollars. He
charges that this is what the governor
Is attempting to have done. He says
sA10s VIC ASfoCot VI SONcEuOI bltdbe LOT
referee In this suit Is simply to try
to thwart the commission In its work
and 1t was for this reason that he ve-
toed the act and absenced himself from
the meetings Of the sinking fund COM
mission last year. The legislature pass-
ed the refunding act over the veto of
the governor and II provided for the re-
funding of the entire debt Of the state
amounting to some $S,500,000 at 4 per
cent The constitutionality Of the act
is now being tested IN the courts and
the governor Is joining in the request
TO nave 1t set aside. He made sweep
ing allegations of illegal acts on the
part OF the old sinking fund commits
sion. Governor Blease attacked Comp
troller General Jones severely in his
return to the suit and the comptroller
comes back at him In like fashion In
the return made by him. Both are
members Of the sinking fund commits
sion and bitter enmity exists between
them.
The case of the state against Fred
erfck o. Beach, the New York million
aire, charged with attempting to kill
his wife at Aiken last winter, was
concluded on Friday with verdict of
not guilty. the jury having arrived at
Its conclusion after having remained
out something over an hour. The
Beaches at the time told story to the
enect that the assault was committed
by a negro. Aiken people believe that
Beach himself was the assailant. The
theory OF the state as laid down by the
solicitor was like this: MRS. Beach
went out with her dogs and when she :
did not return within reasonable time
Beach became suspicious and started
looking for her. Going out into the side
street and back Of his cottage, where
he could command clear view Of the
hole In the partition fence between his
premises and the. Lyons property,
Beach saw his wife In conversation
with some one on the other side.
"Snatching paling from the picket
fence, he rushed around into Hoods
lane and through the big gate leading
into the Lyons yard. At the end Of
the hedge he encountered the negro
servant, Pearl Hampton, stationed
there. When he struck her with the
paling, her screams gave the alarm and
the person he was after, fed through
the big gate. Failing to catch that per-
SON Beach pursued his wife through
the hole In the fence, overtaking her In
the side yard where the assault occur
red. Mrs. Beach staggered into the house
and slammed the door. 1t was then
sAAckI DSdSh ioPPCu Ou luc uOOI,
demanding: Tt Is me, Beach, let me
in.'" Mr.. Gunter said that he was con-
fident that the presence Of Miss Hollins
in the house that night had saved Mrs.
Beach's life. He said that there was no
evidence to show that Beach's diamond
studded penknife was hanging to his
watch chain that night and no evidence
to disprove the states theory that the
blood which DR.. Wyman found on the
knife was not from Mrs. Beach's throat.
1T is absurd" said the prosecutor, "for
Beach to contend that he rushed up
stairs. got his revolver and made an
examination Of the premises between
the time three persons In the Wyman
household heard the door slam and
Beach's knock on the DOORS" The three
attorneys who spoke for the defense,
charged that Beach had been persecut-
ed and said that II he had been an or
dinary person on trial they never would
have put on single witness in defense
against the "fiimsy case which they
presented"
Columbia, February 4: The Ritten-
berg bill to allow Charleston to regulate
the whisky traffic in original packages
under high license has been given q
hearing before the senate committee.
John P. Grace mayor Of Charleston,
who was among the visitors In Colum
bia today, had some interesting things
to say concerning the whisky situa-
ton: II appeared before the senate
committee" said Mayor Grace, ION po-
lice regulations to which had been re-
ferred what is commonly known as the
high license bill for Charles
ton. I objected to the passage of the
bill in its present form. My views are
that the proper solution Of the liquor
question in Charleston is high license
under proper regulations. The Ritten-
berg bill provides for about 120 licenses
to be granted under which liquor will
be sold, not by the drink, but in pack
ages of one-half pint and over. Expert
ence has shown that law-breaking in
Charleston begins only where package
breaking ends. In other words, unless
some system Is devised which legalizes
the sale Of liquor by the drink, we will
still have law-breaking. There is
popular error that constitutional diff
culties make the sale Of liquor by the
drink impossible. Such, however, Is
not the case, and it is
upon this feature mainly that / dwelt