The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-10-09
GOV. BLEASE PROTESTS
Governor Informs Senlte That Copies
Sent Both Houses Were OF
Same Length.
The State, Sdh.

The State Sdl.
In regard TO message No. from
TIE governor to the general assembly
at it's special session, The State Of
yesterday said: THE senate received
an expurgated and the house an un-
expurgatd edition of the communi-
cation"
Message No. to the senate from
the governor sent yesterday morning,
resents this statement in The State
In message No. the governor says:
This morning, upon picking up the
Columbia S. .te, | find in big head
lines, EChielf Executive for Stay Law
Sends Plethoric Message to House,
Expurgated Edition to Senate, and
Caen, in referring to the message, this
newspaper says: In other words, the
senate received an expurgated and
the house an uneXpurgated edition
81 can not allow this to pass.
sent to each house identically the
same copy, printed at that, and eacn
copy was in full and each copy just
exactly alike and how this news
paper or anybody else could make
that kind of statement l am at loss
to understand
The message yesterday morning was
accompanied by afidavits from the
governors private secretary and his
stenograEher.
As Printed in Journal.
tine journals for Tuesday of the
senate and the house both contain
message No. l from the governor. In
the senate journal the message oc-
cupies pages to Is, and in the house
journal pages 10 to Ill. In other
words, the senate's version, officially
set out in its journal, is decidedly an
"expurgated'' version, by comparison
with that which the lhouse journal
contains
Message No. 3 was received by tie
senate rom the governor imm ediately
after it convened yesterday. Afr
this message was read, Senator Sharpe
of Lexington and Senator McLaurin
of Marlboro, both Of whom are pre-
sumed to be in a position to speak
for the administration, said that there
mad been "just a misunderstanding
on the part of the senate in regard
to message no |.
Statement by Clerk,
w. S. Stokes, tie veteran reading
clerk of tne senate, made the follow
ing statement, which was ordered
printed in the journal:
Before TIE beginning of the ses-
sion Of the senate | went down to
the governors office as l usually do
to get a copy of the governors mes
sage that | might look it over, be-
fore the senate convened. Mr.. Black
burn, the governors stenographar,
went into the governors private office
and returning took printed copy
OF the message from tae case and
said he could fix it and proceeded to
put together most of the pages and
to draw a heavy black pencil across
the parts which could not be padded
and handing it to me said: when
the governors message is sent up, just
put it on your desk and read this
copy l did as requested and read
only those parts left unmarked.
The report OF The State in regard
to the expurgation of message No. /
was based, of course, on the versions
of Hhe communication read from the
desks of the two houses. The State
was not given copy of the message,
which was sent to the general assem-
bly, in pamphlet form, and, as printed
by the house, contained upwards Of
41.OO0 words, most Of which were
devoted to a resume of politics in
South Carolina in recent years.
Beth Eden PaStOrate.