Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-14

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900 This would prevent the an
nual hue and cry which is made, IL
lyou sustain this veto you inJure the
institution" If it were in my power
to exercise this discretion could,
without injury to any institution IN
The state, or any department Of the
state government, save the people on
TINS appropriation bill many thous-
ands OF dollars. And when 1 request
ed of you to itemize these approprla-
uons l knew what l was doing.
lIhose of you who now have been
caught in this trap will have to answer
to your people, and If some of you
are not careful, the people are going
10 say that you were weighed in the
balance and found wanting.
Many Of you pledged on the stump
to reduce taxes. You stood up before
the people and said you were against
the creation of useless offices; that
Iyou were against the raising OF the
tax levy; that you were in favor OF
| lcutting down expenses The people
took your word for it, and they elect
ed you to the general assembly.
Now what have you done?
| First, look at your county levy.
Have you raised the salaries OF any
of your county officers? Have you
Increased the expenses Of your coun-
ty government? Have you increased
your county levy?
Second, look at the state levy. Are
Iyou turning out an increased appro-
priation bill, or have you reduced the
appropriation bill? Are you giving
your higher institutions OF learning
and your state departments more
money or less money? Is your state
levy higher or lower than it was be-
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individual county levy and ask your
selves the question, Have l kept my
promise made to the people at the
county campaign meetings in 1912?
If your answer is, mo-" then ask
yourselves the question, How am 1
going to account to my people for
this increased county levy and this
increased state levy?"
Fortunately for you, the governor
| is vetoing some Of this bill, and you
have yet the opportunity to save your
selves with your people and redeem
your pledges.
Now, listen:
Where are the advocates of these
higher appropriations, who appear
before your committees, going to be in
| the campaign this summer? Are
they going before your people, as
they did before your committee, and
advocate your reelection? Are they
themselves going to vote for you!
| Or is it a case of get all we can out
of them now; to political oblivion
with them hereafter" Those Of you
who expect to run for higher offices
will certainly have these things put
up to you all over the state. Those OF
you who are going to run for re-
election have certainly got men at
home now watching you who want
your jobs, and the fact that you have
raised this tax levy so fearfully high,
and the fact that you have passed
such an extravagant appropriation
bill, is going to be put right square
up to you, and some of you are go
ing to find that, instead Of coming to
Columbia next January, you will be
performing your regular routine
duties at home. You may say that
you do not care. If you do not, 1t Is
all right, so far as the future is con-
cerned, but you certainly ought to
care for your reputation and protect
the promises which you have already
made.
l say these things in all kindness.
You have had a very pleasant session,
of which no one is prouder than am.
And l hope good will and peace Will
forever prevail among all our peo-
pie. But it is not going to prevail so
long as you burden the people with
taxation as you are now doing.
l decline to approve of the item OF
section II, which provides that the
state librarian is required to turn
over to the state treasurer all money
now in possession and all funds here
after received by her once month
as all state officers are required. This
provision has never been inserted in
a bill before. Your body elected the
present little lady, who now holds the
| job, and it looks like reflection up
on her to require her to make a
monthly report, when no one in that
position has ever been required to do
so before, and, knowing her pleas
antly, for the last three years, and
watching her in the discharge of her
duties in the adjutant generals office,
l cannot be party to this item which
consider a reflection upon her. If
| il had been in the bill heretofore, l
would have nothing to say, but to
stick it in now looks like it might be
a reflection upon her honesty, and /
will not be party to it.
| l disapprove of item IA, section 13.
The bill which this item was inserted
to meet, to place meters in the pub
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to be a nonentity, in that the title of
the bill does not conform to the body,
inasmuch as the body Of the bill only
provides for public institutions, thus
| defeating the purpose of the bill; this
5000 will not be needed this year.
| 1 disapprove of item 16, section 13,
repairing heating plant at the COVER
nor's mansion. The heating plant
there is not in the best condition, but
we can get along with it for the re-
mainder of the time we are there,
and we really do not care to have it
torn up at present. (Repairing
heating plant, $1,000
1 disapprove of item 8, section 10.
This is a useless expense, and the fl
nancial condition Of our state can
wait for twelve months and the state
and the commissioner Of agriculture
will neither be injured. preparation
and printing state hand book, $2,50O.)
l disapprove of item 5, of section 19
| (for books and blanks, investigation
and installation of system Of book
| keeping and examination of financial
condition of counties, tax department,
$4,000. The comptroller general is
paid a salary, and he has a clerk and
assistant who are also paid salaries,
| for performing this very work. 1t is
put under a different head as a sub
terfuge. If you will examine into who
is receiving this money, you will find
people getting it who are being paid
double salaries, in direct violation of
the Constitution of the state.
| l disapprove of the proviso in sec
tion 20, which provides as follows:
| Provided, that the board of trus-
tees of the University Of South Car
olina be empowered to permit the
erection on the grounds Of the uni
versity, under such restrictions as they
may deem wise, building to be used
as a free public library" 1 disap-
prove of this item, because in a con-
ference it was decided it was an un-
wise proviso at the present time.
l disapprove of item 8, of section
"a (for building hospital Estate Col
ored Industrial and Mechanical col
lege,1 $4,000, because I do not te-
lieve such a building to be necessary
at this time.
disapprove of item II, Of section
| 26 (farms at State Park, $7,5O0). ).
The farms at State Park should be
self sustaining. You must remem-
Der that many of the insane people
are worked on these state farms, and
they make good farm hands. In ad-
dition to that, there are many acres
of land there, and last year the hos
/ pitol commission and the hoard of re-