The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-26
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CHAOTIC STATE
OF CONDITIONS
Created by Governor Manning, Vino
Reyerses Himself Freely for Par
tiSan Purposes.

Columbia, June Hhe audubon
society has met twice; has on three
different occasions expressed itself as
to it's choice by majority vote of its
membership and has on four differ
ent occasions sent you its recommen-
dation," says President E. C.. L. 40
ans, of the society, in letter to Gov
ernor Manning today, and if the Of
fee of chief .ame warden should re-
main vacant the responsibility will be
upon the governor and not upon the
society, continues DR.. Adams.
Certainly" he says to the governor,
"the responsibility will not rest upon
the people of South Carolina who have
twice, through their legislative as
sembly, endeavored to take the Sc
lection of chief game warden into
their own hands, and have twice been
thwarted by your use of the veto pow
er, which against the expressed wishes
of the general assembly, has left the
appointment in your hands
DR.. Adams does not agree with
Governor Manning in his recollection
of conversation passing between them
in the governors Office recently, and
asserts that Governor Manning sug-
gested that the name of Mr.. Wade
Hampton Gibbes be sent to the gov
ernor by President Adams without
calling a meeting of the society.
President Adams letter to the gov
ernor is as follows:
Columbia, June %, 1917.
Hon. Richard Manning, Governor,
Columbia, S. c.
Dear Sir: I have your letter OF
June % in which you return to me
the name of E. C. L. Adams as being
unsuitable to you for the position OF
chief game warden. 1 beg to say
that your action in this matter, so far
as the return of my name is concern
ed, is entirely satisfactory to me.
stated to you my letter that I was
not seeking the position and only
agreed to accept it in order to be of
some assistance to South Carolina in
the way of game protection.
In reply to your reminder of a con-
versation held with you several days
before June 20, in which you state
that you requested me to call a meet
of the Audubon society in the usual
and regular way, in which you claim
to have stated that no name sent to
you as the result of what you term
such an irregular" proceeding as was
entered into would be suitable to you,
| would like to remind you that you
stated that any name sent other than
at an open meeting of the Audubon
society would have to be held for Sc
rious consideration by you; but
scald like also to remind you that
you suggested on another occasion
that l, as president of the society,
send in the name of Mr.. W. H. Gibbes
without even calling a meeting of the
society.
| also wish to state that 1 do not
think any of this has any bearing
O the situation. 1t is the preroga-
tive of the Audobon society to recon-
mend and it is the function of the
governor to appoint or decline, as
suitable or unsuitable, and I deny the
right of the governor to dictate the
methods of procedure of the Audubon
society. You say that it is your "de-
sier that this matter shall be determ-
ined in a regular and legal way So
far as the legality of the action TAX
en- by the Audubon society on June
20 is concerned, It was absolutely IN
accord with the decision OF the su-
preme court of this state in the case
OF Gibbes VS.. Richardson, 90 S. E. 33S,
which decision states: "The general
assembly is now in recess and the
Audubon society may now recommend,
and the governor may now nominate,
a chief game warden to hold until
the vac ncy be filed in the mode-pro-
vided 3gy law, to Wit, until the senate
shall confirm the nomination" The
opinion of the court does not require
that the Audubon society shall bold
any meeting in order to make rec
ommendation. AS to the reg
ularity of the action Of the
society on June 20, I am OF
the opinion that it was entirely reg
ular and certainly not without prece-
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