The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-04-22


comparison with other state
South Carolina was entitled t
another district, which facts
subsequently printed in the Rec
ord; and | say unhesitatingly
5 but for this data, furnished b,
me, there would have been NJ
B favorable action on the bill ii
the house and there would have
been no new federal. district
court in South Carolina.
Senator Tillman claims credit
for removing the opposition OF
the Republican leader in the
house, whose influence in the
press of time might have killed
the bill. The senator is utterly
oblivious of the fact that strong
Republican influences in South
Carolina had been brought to
bear on Mr.. Mann to Withdraw
his opposition, as the new iudic-
ial district was really a public
necessity. So the question of
who silenced Republican leader
Mann, his Republican friends
in South Carolina, or Senator
Tillman, may be settled aside
from this controversy by those
claiming the honor.
Senator 1'illman makes use of
, the following broadside, in the
beginning Of his publised state
ment. Wyatt Aiken intro
duced the bill early in the year,
but it lay asleep in the judiciary
committee Of the house. | in
troduced Aiken's bill in the
senate, and tried to get it out of
the Judiciary committe there,
but failed because of an unfa-
vorable report from the attorney
general and the objection of
western senator whose state
needed Judge much more than
South Carolina" 1t would seem
then, by his own admission,
that his bill slept some, too. In
fact,, it slept the sleep unto death,
for. "candor compels the admis
sion" that it is the Aiken and
not the Tillman bill that has be-
come law. A few facts imme-
dlately associated with the final
passage of the district bill might
turn the light on at least a little
more space than that seen from
the senator's viewpoint.
There are twenty two senators
now serving in congress with
whom have served in the lower
house. | approached every one
of these on the question Of the
bill and after making a fair pre-
sentation Of our case secured
either their support of it or their
promise not to oppose it. 'Sena-
tor Walsh Of Montana was op-
posed to the bill and | reached
him through Mr.. Evans, Of
Montana, whose office is next
door to mine.
Senator Oyerman ofNorth Car
olina was opposed to the bill to
the very last, but member Of
the South Carolina delegation,
at my suggestion, got Represen-
tative Page Of North Carolina
to present the matter to Senator
! IOyerman, and in this way the
senator's opposition was allayed.
Senator Tiilman seems to be
laboring under the impression
that he handled both the senate
and the house in the manage
lnent Of this bill, when if he had
known the facts he must have
admitted that the senate action
was directed to some extent by
house influences, and that Sen
ator Smith, too. rendered most
valuable and telling assistance
in the final passage of the act,
which fact he seems entirely to
have overlooked.
Recurring to that profound
sleep Of my bill in the judiciary
committee Of the house, I have
already shown how it became
necessary to meet the opposition,
aud especially Of the chairman
of the committee, Mr.. Webb,
with a fuller statement of iusti
flying figures in the interest of
the bill. But even this did not
allay the opposition of the chair
man, and it was only on my
earnest personal appeal that he