The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-03-04
JONES HEADS COMMISSION
RESIGNS AS COMPTROLLER GEN
ERAL.
Carlton w. Sawyer, Of Orangeburg,
Appointed to Succeed A. w.
Jones.

Columbia, Feb. 27.-The State
tax commission was appointed by
Governor Manning this morning as
follows: A. w. Jones, Of Columbia,
chairman; w. G. Query, of Spartan
burg, and J. P. Derham, Of Conway.
Mr.. Jones Immediately resigned as
comptroller general and the COVER
nor appointed Carlton W. Sawyer, OF
Orangeburg, to succeed him.
The State tax commission was Sc
lected by the governor after careful
study and after giving the closest at
tention to the personnel with especial
attention to their fitness and ability,
and it is believed that the appoint
ments made by Governor Manning on
this tax commission will meet the
unqualified approval of the people Of
South Carolina, for they are each
peculiarly fitted for the work.
Authority on Taxes.
Mr.. A. W. Jones, who is the chair
man of the commission, has been
comptroller general for twelve years,
and in that time has made special
study of the tax questions, so much
so that he is recognized throughout
the country as an expert and an au-
thority on the matter. This comes
in with his line of work and round
out career of usefulness and service
seldom equalled in South Carolina.
For several years Mr.. Jones has been
recommending a central tax COM
mission and no one is better quail
fled than he is to equalize tax assess
ments and make the law uniform and
impartial
Mr.. ]. P. Derham, of Horny county,
who was also appointed on the tax
commission, was comptroller general
of the State before Mr.. Jones and is
himself an expert on the tax question.
His fitness for the position is also
well known over the State.
Spartan Farmer.
Mr.. w. G. Query, the other MEM
Der Of the tax commission, is farm
er Of Spartanburg county, and at
present a member Of the general as
sembly, which position he will resign.
He first came into prominence as
foreman of the grand jury which took
such a fearless stand for law and
order in his home county and went
after the lynchers. His splendid
grasp of business came into favorable
notice during his work as foreman
of the grand jury investigating the
county officers and his ,recommenda-
tions as to the county finances. He
is one of the most promising of the
younger men in public life in South
Carolina, and no appointment that
Governor Manning has made will
meet with more universal approval
than this one. The governor is par
ticularly happy in finding three such
able and worthy men to serve on the
tax commission.
The New Comptroller.
Carlton w. Sawyer, Of Orange
burg. was today appointed by Cover
nor Manning as comptroller general
of South Carolina vice A. W. Jones,
resigned, to become chairman OF the
State tax commission. The appoint
ment of Mr.. Sawyer is a recognition
Of merit and ability which are the
main reasons why the governor Sc
lects an individual for appointment.
He is being heartily congratulated on
selecting Mr.. Sawyer, than whom
there is no more worthy or more
popular man in Columbia and South
Carolina.
Carlton Wilkes Sawyer, comptrol-
ler general, is native Of Orange
burg county, having been born at
"Sawyerdale," in that county. He
is the youngest of eight children, all
of whom are living. His mother was
Elizabeth Bamberg, sister to former
State Treasurer Isaac Bamberg and
the late Gen. Francis Marion Bam-
berg, of Bamberg, and died shortly
after his birth, and his father, Wilkes
Sawyer, moved the family to the
town of Orangeburg in 1880 in order