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NUST DECARE ON DISPENSART EVEN CONGRESSIONAL CANDI DATES KAY HAVE TO LINE UP. "ff 0ampaiga Likely-Preseat Rep resentatives at Washington Want Congress to Adjourn to Look After Their Fences. Washington, February 26.--South Carolina Congressmen are not ques Milning the reett statement of Speaker Cannon that the House must terminate its deliberations by May 15. There is no good reason why Con gress should adjourn by that time and possibly leave a large amount of leg islation undisposed of except for the fact that elections will be on hand during the present summer in various quarters, and there is already a dis position manifesting itself among con gressmen generally to make frequent trips to their homes to patch up polit ical fences here and there. It is not-believed that the work of congress wil be ended before the mid die of July or possibly the first of August. This was the statement made today by a prominet member of the House. But he qualified his state: ment by saying that if the session should be prolonged later than that! time there would hardly be a quorum: present to answer a roll call. The next half of the session will be a busy one, and there will be a putting of shoulders to the wheel all round so that members with campaign facing them may not be detained here to their disadvantage. There will probably be more trou ble for some of the South Carolina men to return to Washington as mem bers of the sixtieth Congress than will be encountered by the members of many other delegations. The rea son is obvious. The South Carolina .eampaign to be fought during the resent summer from what is known at this end of the line, will be con ducted squarely on the issues of the Morgan bill-dispensary or no dis pensary. It is too early yet to pre dict the outcome, and to say whether or not the next Congress will see a representation of dispensary or anti dispensary men in Washington -So much of Senator Tillman 's re ent statement that the coming cam-' paign would be more fiercely fought than any since 1890, and that the lines would. be closely drawn around the' dispensary question for all candi dates. is not disputed by prominent' people from South Carolina who have been in Washington during the last few days. They say that so far as the Congressional elections are con-* eerned, matters throughout the State are rapidly crystalizing into one issue. namely, that involved in the Morgan bill, and that the people throughout the different counties are going to de-? mand that candidates say where they stand. "I have talked with many people in \different parts of the State re ently,'' said a South Carolina law yer here a few days ago, "and I give it as my opinion that when the pres ent Representatives in Congress go before the people this summer they will have to say exactly where they stand on the dispensary question. Thre was one time when they could satisfy the people by telling them of their work for appropriations, pen sions, free delivery routes, etc., but the 'situation has changed and these questions, so far as the next campaign is concerned, will cut but little figure. It is going to be different this time, and while I will not say whether dis pensary men or anti-dispensary men are going to be members of the next Congress from South Carolina, you may look for it to happen that all of the seven men now in the House are going to have opposition, and the kind too, that will take them off the fence in a hurry, if they are inclined to straddle on the dispensary question. FIREMEN'S PENSION BILL. President of the Firemen's Assocla tion Explains the Importance of the Measure. To the Editor of the News and Cou rier: Having noticed in your Columbia1 coispondenece of February 22nd and 25th that influences are being brought to bear -on the governor to veto the Fireman's relief or pension bill pass Bd by the recent legislature that are vry unfair and liable to wrongfully influence the mind of the general pub li about the bill and its provisions, I would ask space in your valued col ums, as president of the South Caro lina Firemen's association, undier whose organized guidance and in ,tructionsthe bill was introduced and --asd to make the following state-t ment, so that a fair-minded public can form a fair and intelligent opin ion. As the criticisms all seem to ema nate from the insurance people, and to infer that the bill was hastily pass ed, without due consideration, etc., that it is unjust to them; that its en forcement will necessitate an increase in rates, ete, I desire to submit the following facts: 1. That the South Carolina State Firemen 's association, composed of nearly all the fire departments in the state, at its annual convention in Co lumbia on October 25th, 1905, openly discussed, agreed upon and instruct ed its legislative committee to urge the passage of the bill, full notice of which was published in the daily press. At this envention insurance 1)eople were present, the public being always invited to firemen's conven tions. 2. That ou January 16, 1906, Presi ent. Jas. D. MeNeill, of the National Firemen's association, and Chief W. . May. of the Columbia fire depart ment, chairman of the legislative committee, waited upon Mr. Seibels at his office as the representative of the insurance interests to discuss the bill and have them go with them be fore the joint committee of the legis lature. 3. That on January 16, the bill was introduced in the senate by Hon. J. A. Harshall, senator from Ricbland ounty, and on the 1qth by Hon. B. A. Morgan, representative from reenville county in the house. 4. That upon the advice of Presi lent McNeill the bill was allowed to remain in committee until February st (full two weeks) so as to allow any opposition ample time to enter protests or objections to the bill. 5. Thai. on February 1st, in the enate cbamber, before the joint com rnittee, President McNeill, at the re luest of Chairman May and myself, presented the bill fairly and fully., md as no one was there in opposition. we suposed the] bill satisfactory to L-very interest. . The bill received a unanimous ;epoit from the joint committee in fa or of its enactment. 7. Full te~xt of the bill was publish d in the News and Courier of Feb ruary 2, and the Columbia State of the same date also mentioned that the bill was being pressed for enactment. S. Bill passed the senate without pposition on February 3. Passed the house February 1, and was op posed only by the representative from Cheraw. who desired a recommitment, which, in view of the members of Lhe house being'fully informed on the airness of the bill, was not granted. In due time it was enrolled and ratified. So much for its course through the legislature. Now as to the bill itself: 1. It is similar to laws in many oth er state, which are giving eminent satisfaction and whose constitutional tv is unquestioned. 2. It only applies to cities and towns having organized fire depart rnents, the value of whose fire fighting apparatus must not be less than p1,000. 3. Bill will be an incentive to towns now without organized fire de artments to organize an efficient ser rice and thereby save the insurance ompanies from disastrous losses and lso save the citizens from having to pay excessive premiums upon their property. 4. There are over 4,000 firemen in he state, seven-eights of whom are 'olunteers, serving absolutely with ut pay, and in many instances even Furnishing their own apparatus, and [his bill simply provides that they hal be safe-guarded against loss of ie i. e.. by reason of sickness, dis ase or mnjury incurred in the fire 'ser ice, or. in case of death, that those lependent upon them shall be provid d for, or fcg pensions for the old and isabled in the service, and it furth r- provides that the money for this 2mst righteous purpose shall not come From taxation upon the property or :ersons of the men themselves or of their fellow citizens, but from the arofit of the business that their ser rices alone makes even possible, much Less profitable. In other words, it appropriates 2 ents out of every 100 cents collected an the several towns and cities of the tate having organized fire depart nents with apparatus of not less than p1,000 in value, from premiums on re insurance policies only, leaving 88 ents to the company, and, mark ou, this 2 cents does not go to pay he men for services rendered, but nly to safeguard them from injury, isease or siekness or death, while hey are risking life, health and limb :o safeguard the insurance companies rom having to pay the face of the 'ricies. amouinting to hundreds of lollars instead of cents. 5. That rates, or premiums, area .ady nreamnably high in compen son with losses, and that an increase in rates cannot possibly be based upon sound business policy or com i mercial needs, as proof of which i please note the comptroller general, under date of May 10, 1905: Risks written in S. C. $114,758,986 37 Prem'ms ree'd on same 1,393,311 86 Losses incurred .......694,141 49 Gross profits...... $699,170 37 In additinii to tie above an in crease of only 2 per cent would amount to so little upon every indi vidual policy as to appear absurd as a business proposition. I respectfully submit the above as a truthful statement of the facts in our case. Louis Behrens, President South Carolina State Firemen's Association. Buster Brown. The stage of late years has given successful realization of many char acters first made famous in the funny pages of our great dailies, but of all of them, none has come forward with so strong a hold on universal fancies as Buster Brown which will be seen at the opera house on March 9, direct ly from a highly successful, sensation al season of One hundred nights at the Majestic Theatre in New York City and two hunded nights in Chi cago. 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