The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-02-06
GOVERNOR CITES WAR
DEPARTMENT RECORDS
SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE IN
CHRISTENSEN NATTER
Saws if Further Information is Desired
He Might Have Some of Par
ticular Interest.

Special to The Herald and News.
Columbia, Feb. 5.-Governor Blease
has sent to the State senate the follGw-
ing further message in the Christensen
matter:
The Message.
Gentlemen OF the Senate:
noticed from one of the newspapers
the statement, "The goveronr in this
message reflected upon the father of
Senator Christensen" This statement
was in reference to message No. IA. to
your body. | noticed also that the
paper stated that you had held an ex-
ecutive session over said message, and
heard it persistently rumored around
that committee had been appointed
by you to investigate something in
that message.
notice in a paper this morning,
special telegram from Beaufort, S. c.,
as follows:
Protest is Raised.
Beaufort Board Of Trade Resents
Certain Institutions.
Special to The State.
Beaufort, Feb. AT a called meet
iug &C the beard Of trade, held this
afternoon, a protest was voiced by
that body against institutions made by
the governor of South Carolina against
the late Capt. n. Christensen, father
of Neils Christensen, senator from
Beaufort county. 1t was explained
that the meeting was not held to ex-
press confidence in Senator Chris
tensen, as he was amply able to fight
his own battles. The implications
against his father were characterized
as underhand and as misleading to
those who were not acquainted with
him. The resolutions stamp as false
and absurd the Institutions referred
to. The expression Of esteem for Capt.
Christensen made by the Confederate
Veterans of Beaufort in 1906 was en-
dorsed."
can put no ether construction upon
these rumors and this newspaper dis
patch than that the following SEN
tence of message No. IA is referred to,
and that the construction has been put
upon it that 1 referred to the father
of the senator from Beaufort:
81 went on the board and found
there as good men as South Carolina
has ever produced, and none who had
been the captain or son of the captain
of negro company in the Union army,
who led charges with negro troops
against the white soldiers of the South
ern Confederacy."
Since, if my information, is correct,
some of you and the newspapers and
the board of trade of Beaufort have
construed this to be a reference to the
father of Senator Christensen, beg
leave to quote to you the following
telegram:
Washington, D. c., Jan. 81, 1914.
Governor Cole. L. Blease,
Columbia, S. C.
Records show one Neills Chris
tensen served about one year as en-
listed man New York organization
white troops and as captain of COM
pany in 44th regiment colored troops
about fifteen months.
George Andrews,
The Adjt. Gen, U. S."
In addition to this I have BEEN in
formed that the 44th regiment, Enen-
toned in this telegram, took pa art in
the battle of Honey Hill, in this State,
and 1 have heard from different
sources the rumor that the father of
the present senator from Beaufort
commanded at Honey Hill negro
company. Certainly the telegram of
the adjutant general of the United
States shows that he was "The cap
tain of a negro company in the union
army"
I shall say no more at present,
but if your committee desire further
information, if they will call upon me
l might have something that would
be Of particular interest to them, as
it has been intimated that I have
knack of finding out things.
So if the construction is to be placed