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STBIHD1865 NEWBERRY. S. C.. FRIDAY. JA"-,-A-RY 8. 190,. TNV TWCE A WEEK. S1.50 A YEAR SENITOR LITIUER'S GOOD RODS BILL. IT CAUS FOR ARBXPENDITURE OF TWENITY-FOUR MILLIONS. An Outline of the Provisions of the Important Measure Just Intro duced In the Senate. Washington, Jan. 6.-Twenty -four million dollars for good roads, to be expended at the rate of SS, ooo,ooo a year during the next three years! That is the amount of appropriation carried in the good roads bill which Senator Latimer ,of South Carolina has~just intro duced. His bill sets forth an elabor-. ate scheme for federal aid of the good roads movement, for which p.urpose he proposes to establish in the department of agriculture a bureau to be known as the bureau of public highways. The object of this bureau, accord ing to the terms of the bill, shall be to co-operate with the various States in the improvement and con struction of permanent public roads in accordance with the scheme set forth in detail in the bill. This bureau is to consist of three com missioners to be known as commis sioners of highways; two of them shall be appointed by the president, one from each. of the two leading parties; these to be men who have bad practical knowledge of road engineering and construction. The third member isto be an officer of the engineer corps of the army of rank not below captain. Each is to receive compensation at the ;ate of $5,ooo per year for their services. These commissioners shall be under the general supervision of the sec retary of agriculture. After the expiration of six months from the time of the passage of this act, any State. through the proper officers having jirisdiction of public roads, may apply for aid in the im provement or construction of put>lic roads, under general rules to be made by the commissioners. No State shall be'entitled to receive the benefits of this act until it shall have established to the satisfaction of the commissioners of highways: First.. That the highway or sec tion thereof sought to be improved or coastructed is of sufficient public use to come within the purview of this act, taking into account the use, location and value of such highway1 for the purpose of common traffic and travel, and for the delivery of the mails. Second. That the requisite right of way shall have been secured. Third. That the H-ghway will be improved or constructed in accord ance with the regulations of the bureau, and when so improved will be maintained and kept in repair without recourse upon the United States. Fourth. That the State has pro vided for the payment of its portion of the total cost. One half the expense is to be borne by the federal government, the other half being borne by the State, but it is provided that the States may distribute their portion of the expense among the counties directly benefited. It is further pro vided that no money shall be ad vanced by the United Stat.es in pay -ent of its proportion of the ex construction progresses, and in no case shall the payment or payments; made prior to the completion of the work be in excess of 80 per cent. of the work actually performed. To carry out the provisions of the bill an appropriation of $24,000,000 is provided, $8,ooo,ooo for 1904, $8,ooo,ooo for 1905, and $58,ooo,ooo for 1906. If any part of this is not expended in the year named it shall be available for the succeeding year. And it is further, provided that no; State shall receive in any one year. a larger proportion of the sum ap propriated than its population bears to the total population of the States of the United States. PREACHER SCORES TILLMAN. A Senational Attack From An Atlanta Pul pit Upon South Carolina's Senior Senator. At the tabernacle in Atlanta on Sunday night to an audience of three thousand people, Dr. L. G. Brough ton took occasion to reply to the lec ture of Senator Tillman, delivered: in that city last week. Tillman's lecture was on the race question. Dr. Broughton's theme was the "Sersitive Fool." He handled the South Carolina senator without gloves and used some very forcible words in speaking of the senator's views on the negro in the South. Dr. Broughton said: "Much of this talk of the race problem is also the result of morbid sensitiveness. I heard Senator Till man Friday night give his legture on 'The Negro.' I tried to be fair in my estimate of it. For reckless frankness it was a. model; for sen sible argument it was a mess. I like frankness; I like to see a man who believes something and then is not afraid to say it. In this respect and in this respect alone, is Senator Till man entitled to a place among those who are trying to shape the destinies. of the nation His whole talk, from start to finish, was that of the cheap politician, playing upon the most. subtile prejudices of ignorant peo ple. Never once in his solution of this great question did he get out of the realm of the rankest pag anism. The Christian religion was never hinted at as having anything to do with overcoming bad con ditions or uplifting the race. One of the most prominent Christian educators in the South said to me just as he finished his harangue, 'His position is nothing short of the vilest paganism.' Senator Tillman is a papan arguing from the stand point of pagan philosophy. "That there are wrongs with re gard to the negro that must be right ed nobody doubts. It was a blun-I der to put the ballot in their hands when they were freed. The North sees this. Senator Tillman's effort to fire Southern hearts with hate! for the North because they forced this iniquity on us is unjust. I have traveled North as much as he has. I have circulated with a better class. of people where I have gone, and I tell you the best people of the North are perfectly willing that we should take the negro out of politics. He~ ought to be taken out and we are going to do it, not for our good only, but for his good as well. I said in* Boston to an audience as large as Senator Tillman had Friday night, 'The negro must be eliminated from politics and white folks' society.' The rearkr was cheered, though made in church. The negro needs moral and religious evolution. He needs to find his place and settle. This he will do out of politics, but in it he is an ignorant tool of mean politicians. Socially the negro is not a problem to us in this country and never will be Senator Tillman's sarcastic comparison of the love of his old faithful negro servant and a Newfoundland dog, to be cheered by an Atlatita audience, was, to say the least of it, pitiable. *Let cheap politicians and dema gogues sneer as much as they will at the Christian philanthropy, it is nevertheless the only hope for the salvation and civilization of this world.. Paganism, with its hell of oppression, is not the policy of our people. If now and then an excep tion is tolerated it is only for the lack of time for the triumph of the law of Christian equity." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. tems of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. Anderson has completed her street paving at a cost of nearly $3o,ooo Estell Froneberger, a young egro, was shot and killed in York ville county last week by a young white man, Wesley Bolim, with whom he was out hunting. 21 blind tigers were convicted in the city court of Charleston on Monday. Those who pleaded guil ty were fined $25 and those who were proved guilty were fined $50 each. Mr. P. I. Welles, the superin tendent of this division of the Southern railway, has been elected general manager of the Columbia street car line and will leave the railway service. Tuesday was the coldest day in two years, the thermometer regis tering 23. Three inches of snow covered the ground in Florence, and there was snow in Georgetown and at other points in the lower part of the State. Mr. H. L. Parrott, of Cades, while attempting to board a train at Kingstree on Monday afternoon, the train having just started, missed his footing and fell between the cars, the wheels passing over his body and inflicting injuries from which he died in a few moments. YOUNG FARMBEt KILLS HIMSELF. He Swallowed Carbolic Acid, in Spite of Efforts to Prevent Him--Result of Drink Habit. The State. Dillon, Jan. 4.-Alex McClellan, a farmer living about three miles from Dillon, across the Pee Dee, committed suicide this morning by swallowing about two ounces of carbolic acid. It appears that he made an attempt at suicide very early this morning but did not suc ceed An effort was made by phone to procure a physician from Dillon when it was discovered that he was trying to, take the poison. but eluding the vigilance of his at tendants he finally succeeded in swallowing enough to produce~ i: stant death. He was about 35 y-ears of age, clever and industrious but addicted to occasional sprees, and it was while on one that he took his own life. He leaves a wife and everal children.. CITIZENS DISCUSS LICENSE ORDINANCE4 LARGEST MEETING OF CITIZENS IN A NUMBER OF YEARS. Committee Appointed to Report to as Adjourned Meeting-Discussion With Several Lively Passages. Pursuant to a call issued by a number of the leading business men, the largest citizens' meeting held in Newberry in recent years as sembled in the* opera house on Tuesday afternoon to consider the liceise ordinance recently passed by city council, The attendance numbered i io. The discussion lasted for more than an hour and several plans were suggested for requesting of council either the re peal of the ordinance or its amend ment in a number of instances. The debate was interspersed with a number of lively passages between those present. It was finally de cided that a committee be ap pointed by the chairman to report to an adjourned 'meeting of citizens whether a license tax is desired and desirable, and if a license is desired, what is deemed a fair and equitable basis for such taxation. There were those present whc were free to pronounce the gather ing an "indignation" meeting and a gathering of "kickers." Others denied that the meeting was actuated by any feeling of indignation or ill. wil towards council. There were those present who held that it wa a wrong principle to elect a city council and then seek to annul it ordinances and to dictate what law. should be passed. Othets denied that such was the intention of th( meeting, holding that the citizens had met bimply to consider the or dinance, to state whatever griev ances they had and to frame a re spectful petition to council, and thal council should be ready and willinc to consider a memorial from a citi zens' meeting of such respecta ble proportious. There was not a member of city council present, the only represent ative of council being City Attorney Blease. THE CALL. - The call for the meeting was the following, circulated among the business men and signed by those whose names appear below: Newberry, S. C., Jan. i, x9o4. To the Citizens at Large of the Town cf Newberry : We, the undersigned citizensoi the Town of Newberry, having seer in the Observer and The Herald and News of this date the notice ol a "License Ordinance" providing for the licensing of all "callings, trades, businesses, occupations and professions" therein contemplated, within the corporate limits of said town during the year 1904, dc heartily ask and urge a meeting ol the ciUzeus of the Town of New berry in the opera house on the af ternoon of Janury 5th, a: 4 o'clock p. mn., to consider thle said or dinance. Edw~ R Hipp i ro E IAJ ri(a Co iLv..>C Ti J0;Hos T I Ha' G S M.verCo 0 \I Daniels i1? ii- elhamn& Son R art-Pifer Co - HJones times&McFall Cop ul S J Wooten Gilder & Weeks Livingston- W A Jamieson Lominick Co D L Copeland A C Thomason Blackwelder & W S Melton Daven rt Sample & J W Kibler&C Lominick R D Smith W H Lominick G B Summer Mrs M A Huiett Shelly, Dean & Mrs E C Sonnen- Summer berg J M Swindler H E Todd Purcell & Scott I R C Williams J A Mimnaugh Cromer & McGraw W G Mayes C L Havird Havird Bros T A Williams Gus Dennis Louis Morris Kibler, Dennis George I C & Co McWhirter Arthur Kibler Jos Mann W T Tarran J L Burns Jos Lines T Vigodsky 0 Klettner The Smith Co Casey & Lee iH C Solomon J H West Counts & Dickert L C Pitts Jno W Miller AlanJohn Hair & Havird stone & Co C J McWhirter J W White J H Hair J A Senn W TTarrant & B B Leitzsey Son,.Agts L M Speers J Q Black M A Carlisle Jno M Kinard R Y Leavell Z F Wright J A Burton F Z Wilson J N Bass James McIntosh T C Pool W K Sligh J M Counts MEETING CALLED TO ORDER. The meeting was called "to order by Mr. R. D. Smith, upon whose motion Dr. George B. Cromer was elected chairman. John K. Aull was chosen secretary. Mr. Smith stated the object of the meeting to be to get the citizeris together to consider the license law recently promulgated in the town papers. Dr. W. E. Pelham thought if the mayor or any of the aldermen were present it might be well to get a statement from one of them as to the object ofthe law: There was no member of couwcil present and Dr. Pelham made a motion, which was carried, that the city attorney, who was present, state the reasons actuating council in this matter. THE CITY ATTORNEY. Mr. Blease stated that the ordin ance was drawn by his predecessor, that painstaking and honorable law yer, the Hon. F. L. Bynum, and was passed before he was chosen attorney. He was in no way re sponsible for it but he stood ready to defend it at any time in any court, He thought it would have been very improper for any mem ber of city council to attend an indignation meeting called to criti cise their own acts. Dr. Cromer stated that he-did not understand this as. an indignation meeting. Dr. Pelham said that he certainly was not actuated by any feeling of 'indignation. By request, the call for the meet ing, which appears above, was read. MR. ALAN JOHNSTONE said he came to counsel with conn cil, and in no had spirit. He moved that the ordinance be read and as each item was called that such amendments as were deemed neces sary be recorded and suggested to council. COL. 0. L. SCHUMPERT said that this seemed to him a very irregular proceeding. The license ordinance was a law. What are we here for i To repeal this ordinance? We can't do that. We are here as kickers. Whether the ordinance was a t>ad law or a good law he didn t know-he hadn't read it. But it must be abided by. The peo pie were here as kickers and noth ing else. Mr. Alan Johnstone, interrupting, said it was his idlea to frame a re