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VOL XLIV. NqO. 18. NEWBNRRY. 0. FR[I)AY. MARC E 1; 1907. TW.OE A WEEK. $150 A YEAR of $1 NOT ON VELVET 1 COMPTROLLER GENERAL JONES i MAKES OALOULATIONS. us Appropriations Too -Large-The In- tr come is Exceeded by Probable Expense# by Over Two Hun- 0 dred Thousand. 0 50 The State. f Comptroller General Jones declared : yesterday that as..near as he can fig- t ure it the appropriations this year will exceed the income $180,4441 Had the levy been fixed at 5 mills the ap- 50 propriations would have been $58,000 00 in excess of income, and a levy of 5 1-4 mills would have left the state but $7,046 over all expenses. is Mr. Jones fixures that the appro- h pi;iations aggregate $1,454,229.79 and his figures are verified by calculations made in the state treasurer's office. In eight years -the appropriations Phave increased half a million dollars in round numbers. The income has increased but not so largely. ab The taxable property of t-he state i $249,500,000, which at 4 1-2 mills b will produce .a revenue of $1,122,750; a at 5 mills it would have been $1,247,- b 000; at 5 1-4 mills it would have been on $1,309,875. This is the ad valorem ml tax. The indirect taxes amount to th $151,400, estimated. The total in come this year is $1,274,150 at a 4 1-2 ho mill levy, while the expenses last fO year were .$10,000 in excess of that er amount and to last year's expenses Jo have been added $170,000. wt Last year the Hampton Ionuiment " was paid for, the Jamestown exposi tion appropriation was made and the general election expenses were met. 1 None of these things are provided for w( in the appropriation act this year. fu The increase has been general, all ti along the line. Mr. Jones' only fear dc is that he may be held responsible "' because he did not give sufficient sug- of gestion and advice to the general as sembly. This lie endeavored to do. re; he There Was Information. In part explanatory of the above d Repe Representative Aull of Newberry cc rites the following statement: as I notice in the News and an urier and the State of some days h ago a statement in regard to the ap- co propriations by the legislature for to this year and the insufficiency of the )evy in whichi it is said that the ap- t propriations exceed the income $180,- a 444.00. It is further stated that t1% Comptroller General Jones' only fear Ia is that lie may be held responsible, th because lie did not give sufficient sug- by gestions and advice to the general as- bli sembly. As a member of the general assem bly and also of the ways and means 'committee, I desire to say that I am satisfied there was no lack of suf- ! ficient in formaition and suggestions from Comnpt roller Gleneral .Jones, and1) that the menmbers of the general as semb)ly were in possession of suf fieient in formation in regard to the appropriationis for them to have act- ti ed intelligently. I stated t-he fhrures contained in the an appropriation bill as it left the house, el and also the probab)le incomne from tiC lie levy fixed by the house, on the PI oor of the house once or twice wvhen le: ertaini bills were being considered ai1 wlich carried applropriationis, lit I went to the troublle 'to make a m" alof the appropriation bill as it "" ssed the house, and from the infor- to ;ation given by Mr. Jones hiad the iv roh0le~ income when thle lev was " edat 4:1:2 mills. h (he app)Iropri'alion bill, as repJortLed the ways and mneanis committee, ~ ied i oundi( numbfller.. $1 ,324,040, s a~d.~ith certain changes made by the ~ 6sas it was sent to the senate car- C ' & total in round numbers of $1,- s 18,87' This change was duo large-s to thme fact that the house took off a~ 7,000 of the amount to the immigra-t oan department as fixed by the comn Ft N'-"the information given by ) ompt roller General Jones, the in- a omne from a 4 1-2 mill tax was esti atied at $1,125,000 to wvhich was addthe income from license arnd cees in the secretary Qf state's offiee ne $160,000, making a total income' of ,275,000. This, it will be seen, was 0,000 appropriated in excess of the obable. income, but it was estimat that at least $50,000 of the amount the appropriation bill would not be ed and would be,recovered into the 3asurv. III the appropriation bill, as it left 0 house, was not included the $50, 0 for high schools and the $15,000, r state house grounds, nor the $3, 0 for the entertainment of the Con Jerate veterans at their annual re ion. These three items make a to I of $68,500, and with the $7,000 iic was put back to the immigra In department, make a total of $75, 0. Then there is an item of $13,-, 0 inl the appropriation bill for the mipletion of the state house, none which will be used this year, as it a- loan from the sinking fund and e first payment of $5,000 is to be ide out of the taxes of 1908. It was known at least to some of us at the appropriation bill was con lerably in~ excess of the probable 7ome, and for one, I felt that prob ly it would be well for Whis legis ;ur, with its extravagant ideas, to confronted at the next session with ,hortage, and I suggested to a mem r of the free conference committee the supply bill that a levy of 4 1-2 Us as fixed by the house, be left, at at figure. My purpose in writing this card, wever, is to say that so far as in rmation. from the comptroller gen i's offlice is concerned, General lies need have no fear that it was imting, and it was given to the m11bers of tlie ways and- means com btee and the house and to the free tiference committee on the appro intion bill and the appropriations re lixed and the levy was fixed with 11 knowledge of the income and of D amount of appropriations. It es seem to me, however, that there is a tendency among the members this legislature to extravagance, d that appropriations were voted .;ardless of an increase, wihich will necessary in the tax levy. I have never been regarded, and not feel, that I am a niggardly momist, but I did endeavor as far I could as a member of the ways d means committee and of the use and of the free conference innittee on the appropriation bill hold down the appropriations. The free conference committee on e appropriation bill reduced the iounts as put in by the senate some enty-five or thirty thousand dol :s. I do not think, however, that P shortage will be as much as stated eGneral Jones, for it is not proba 3 that the whole amount of $50,000 11 be used for -high schools this ar, and it was stated by members the committee on state house itunds that it was not probable that of the $15,000 for that purpose mIld he used(1 t his year, but it is ohable thant the dleficit. at thie end this year will be from $100,000 to 25,000. It is true1 t here was no appropria mi this year for thle Ilamptoni monu11 mnt and the Jamestown exp)osition d oniy a smanll amount for general 3etions yetf.t this sessioni it was cessarly to ap)prop)riate '$7,500 on rchase of police station in Char tonm a. provided by Iast legislature; increase was necessary for the mi ia on account of the Dick law ; an arease of $25,000 was givecn to pen1 ims; ten thousand dollars was given build professors homes at the UJn rsity b)esides an incre'ac in salaries (1 necessary replairs .andh insurance; Iy thousand for high schools; fif m t housand for state house (,ind1s; ten thIousand for Calhoun itueo. These are all new items. I want to say in conclusion that I nide(1r Comptroller Gleneral Jones c of the best informed ryen in the ite as to the finatnces of the state d one of the most officient officers at the state has ever had, and that.he .ve intelligent and accurate infer ation on all matters pertaining to e tax department when called upon the commit tees of the house or by y individual members. It mighyt be truly said in this eon etion that all our efforts to get the ople to assess their property at its t.nnl value or to increase their na sessments will be sfutile so long as the legislature does not reduce the levy as valuations increase. With $250,000,000 of taxable prop erty the levy is as high as it was when there was only $175,000,000. The people will argue that it is impossible to trust the legislature, that the more property we have to tax, the more ex travagant will be the appropriations. If we could only get to the point where the levy would be reduced and the appropriations made to come within the levy as assessments in crease, the people would- be more in clined to assess their prope-ty at its actual value, and instead of the $250, 000,000 of property, we I.night have $400,000,000 on the tax books. Any proposition in the recent leg-. islature to reduce appropriations was met by a statement that the people were prosperous and that more ion ey was need to meet the demands of the state. This is true inl a sense, and it seems to me that there are some places where increases- might have been made properly; for instance, the cost of living is much more than it was a few years ao, and it would be but justice to increase the sal'aries of our state officers, for no mai, who has not some other income, and who has anly business which lie must give up, can well afford to take a state oflice at $1900.00 per year. E. H. Aull. GIBSON CONVICTED Aged Defendant Was Pitiable Sight on Witness Stand-Will Take Appeal. Greenville News. Columnbia,S. C., Feb. 27.-The con vietion of Thos. J. Gibson, on the clarge of knowingly receiving th(A stolen bond1s taken from the treas urer's office by Dainiel Zimmerman is one of the saddest cases in the re cent criminal history of the state. Half a dozen of the best men in the community swore to his good reputa tion 'yet the jury of twelve good men, feclin: it their duty, promptly con vietetd him and no (oubt on account of his cxtreme ill health and age re commended him to the mercy of the court. Tom Gibson is now beyond the age of 74. He is bent with age and pal sied. His mind is clear and active, perhaps it was too active today, and his frivolity on the stand may have operated against him. Solicitors Dav is and Thurmond w,vho handled the case of the state did so with ju(lg ment and force. In the first place they narrowed the chargm. (lown to two specifle bonds of which they had the complete history and with these two1bonds handled in one sale, they avoided any confusion. The evidence against Mr. Gibson was in the main that of Daniel Zim merman who alleged that. Gibson sug gested tie plan to him but today two lit tle things developed in his testi mony that oper'ated agains-t him. One was that he went ouit and1( bought for Zimlmerman couphonis. These coupons were p)resumlably to be used by Zim merman to cover upl the amount of coupons that would have come in at t-he apploin ted initerest period(. Anmd thme second( incidlent that hurt his cause was that a Chaiirle. ton cl ieiit. discovered a mistake of $120 and sent thme money to Mr. Gibson to lie rne funded1 the state anad instead of re funding' thme $120 lie used it and stat 0(1 that lhe did so because lie wvas in need( of the money and iinteinded to repay it and1 has done so in part to Capt. ,Jennings. The statuate is not (cleair as to I le pmunishment, excepit that it makes it a misdemeanor and( leaves the sentence to thle dliseretioni of the jud(ge. Mr. Crawford wvho had made a suplerb tight for' hiis client gave notice of an app)eal and will no doubit take the ease to supreme court.. The people of the community are unliversally sorry for' Mr.' Gibson's two daughters who have wvatched the trial with the keenest- interest and sorrowv. The verdict of the jury was per Iaps a surprise to many and part icu larly the promptness with which the jury rendered its judgment. .. Small talk is the gene?dtor of many big troubles. -THE LABO RPROBLEM. As Seen By a Colored Man-Some Sensible Remarks On The Ques tion. To the Ed(itor of The Herald and News: ''liere has been no little com plaint ol late inl Newberry county partilularly concerning the greati searcity of laborers among the color ed )eople, anmid the reliability of such laborers, in the minds of some of the tWore conservative white people has becomei an open question. Great dif ficulty has been experienced in pro curing washerwoien, edoks, and nurses as well as farm laborers. This scareity of laborers has been explainied in this way: that wages paid now are very much better than in former years, and as the average colored person must have so much money each week, if he can get it by working hour (4) days in the week, he is sure to loaf around for the remain ing two (2) days. Now, I cannot con vinee mNyself that such workers are representatives of the average negro laborer. It appears to me that these represent (lie little withered crop of dudes, and not the average negro la borer. legarding their reliability as to how lonl' a time they may stay with their employer, it does seem to me that there is some truth in many cases, but not in the majority of them. It is claimed that a colored man when he has agreed to work for his employ or, and has really worked for some days, will leave without giving any proper notice of his intention to do so, and wilhout assigning any reason and if lie 'ive anly reasons for leaving his employer, he will almost always give some other than the real cause. He will say lie is sick, or something of that sort and keep back the real cause. The real cause may be and sometimes is that he finds lie cannot support himself and family upon wihat his employer is giving him as wages. Now the plain diuty of such a man who finds honestly and by careful scrutiny that he cannot support his family 111)011 the wages paid hilm-his plain duty in such a case'is, on fiid ing this, to go at once to his employ er, and tell him calmly and deliber ately that he has a family, and that his labor is his capital to give them and himself honest support anid that by strict economy and careful inves tigationl lie cannot (10 this with his present wages. For this reason, he asks that lie be given an increase of wages that lie may honorably live as any other honest and honorable man. If the employer is a man of consid eration and sane judgment, Ie will surely appreciate such a course on the part of his employe andi in nine cases out of tenl, if tile employe las proved himseltf to be honest, indulstrus, and worthImy of trust lie will in most cases, T'think, get an increase in his earn ings. I have in my miind now a case ini pintii. [t is thliis: A co(loried man dlecidled to leave hiis em plover, not for any cause of comiplauint onu his palrt , mnor onl the parit of hiis employer about hiis work or about his pay. iIe simiply decided toI leave for other caumses that entirely justified him, lie wen~ t to his emloyer and1( gave hiim several 1d'ays notice beforehand. On ihe day beflore lie intended leavinig, his empilolyeri told him t hat alt houghi lie had not asked increase ini Ihis earn ings lhe wvould gzive it to him if lie woul slay on withI him. This ini eca-e a mounited to more thIian he wvould recive f'rom his new em ployer. But lie would not st av as he hamd gir en his word to his~ new emlo(yer that he w.nbll serve him. Thodlay, withI t wo miniutes notice this man can get wvork wvith his former emphloyer. Thiis man cert ainly purmsu ed the prpe course. No man should leave his emiployer wit hout giving him pro~pr niotice, anid assigninlg thle real rea soiis for it and t his should b)e done sumeliently long beforehand to give tme to th'ink (lie mattr over or get somei( oilier. one to take his la(ce. lie should not leave before a similar course is taken eveni if his new emi layer' slhul give him tw~iee as i meh a.4 he had fornierly received as wages. Thi- course will avoid all embarirass mient and inconveniences so certaini to come ahout by any imn)roner course. I think in those cases where such a disregard of strict honesty occurs, it is not meant to be dishonest, but it really is so. We must all re member that a bushel of good inten tion and good meaning plus a littlo fraction of sincerity will never equal strict honiesty. If our employers will have patience and foresight, and think a little ser iously about the families which their employes have, and also of the posi tive demand upon all men to live lion a,tly and honorably, there will be very few cases of this kind with the average negro worker whether wash erwoman, cook, nurse or farm labor er. There is one thing which has caused the scarcity of negro workers, the re sponsibility for which scarcity I must place at the door of the white people themselves, and I think you will' all agree with me. Here is a farmer who hires a man for a year. He has him to sign a con tract, which he thinks is a guarantee, certain and, sure that the laborer will serve him for a year without regard to future conlsideratioll and colse quences. The laborer has actually be gun to work, aindl has worked for sev eral days. Maybe he has not worked at. all, but at the time he signed your contract you advaiced to him $5, $10, $15, $20 or $25 as the case may be. Now that man has taken your money and spent it, and lie does not feel as1 much obligation to you as lie Would feel if lie had had no advancd nion ey. Yoi feel as if lie is bound and consistent with your feelings you treat him so. le feels jns( the other way. le feels thati( he is loose, and con11sis tent with his feelin-s lie acts so. 1le certainly has the advantag.e of you here for he iats youir $25 or ias had it. 1 (1o not, believ'e that the employ ei himself inl the majority of cases of advanced money, feels safe in doing so, but lie advances his money because lie is a cheap mann i a;d, somehow, lie hopes to hobble through his crop with this cheap inni. Thiscea man almost invariably turns out to be the dearest 1111111 you have ever had on your farim after all. Of' eourse, this mani ought never to treat his employer in that manner. le is dead wrong for doing so, and I, for one, have 11t sympathy with him at all; but do you not see that lie employer lias committed the greatest error and the bigest blunder at all in advancing his money when it is tle next thing to an absolute eer tainty thatl he will surely lose li. money? It seems too plain for hon est questioning. Now I really think this advaleed money system ought to I done away with. All experience teaches that it is productive of had restilts. Of course you send (le 1111111 to tlie county chain gang for 40, 50 or 100 days, but that is poor pay (or the farmer while in this particular case for such a worker, it is lie prop er place for him. The farmer himself is poorly compiensatBed for he is out of $25 whiichi lie unever gets iaaii; more v'e r, he is payintg th at iit for every day~ lie w~or'ks for the county' when lie needs him so much 4on his fairmi. Th'le wayf to doi it. it seeums to ime, is to hire a numn st raiJtoml . Take him uder ai contrmact it yout want to. There is certanintly no objectuin fto hat. A contract rarely, if ever, hiurts an honest mani. Pay lhin pre' cisely as agireed upon whiietIher byv lie day, week, month Ith(iree muonthIis or year'; but this cheaap manl and t his ad v'anced money man, it is well andi~ best to 1let him i go on hiis way' reci n ng. For the common lalborer, thle me elai:'ii( and( the prof'essional iman, I ha:1ve long~ bel iev'ed thait thle soiuth If 1(er, thle very best opp1 ortutnily, Hie 'irtiiinly shirts with this advantnge Ilhnt he has t he great masses oif his oIwn people withI him, a thiing that will be thle ease for thle next .1,000 yearis despite any eff'ort s to thle con.. trmary. lie has also a great tnumber of friends amlotng the whtit es who will surecly hlp hlim to make thle most. and best of' his opportunity. It will niot alw'a ys be charged to thlese friends ha't thley' have been cowa rds, anud Ihave allowed1 thle r'owdy' 'it izenls to hiold swa y, f'earingu if they rhuotild protiiest, t hey will be k nown as dhe fenmidi ng thle "'niggers.'' Thiis cert a in ly wuill ,not alwauys he charged to 4hem. Udrany andl all nhoe no mis representation or wrong of wlhatover sort, it is the plain duty of the negro to seek advice and help and coopera tion of the best white people in the south, and in doing so, he will pro mote and advance the interests of both races, and most certainly those interests of his own. I plead for a better understanding of boti races. Wie have been too far apart. This surely will relieve much of the pres 5ure now experiiencedand greatly sim plify what has long been known as the "Negro Problem.'' 13. Levister. ''Everybody Works But Father," Howard Webster's Iatest musical comedy, bid's fair to become as popu lar as the song that inspired it. The play is enjoying the same success on lte road as, it did during the months of its excellent openilg. Tihe music is cateliy and popular, the numbers are beautiil and entrancing, the hu mior is infectious and the whole idea and purpose of tle comtedy a bril liant eftort. inl play construiction. Mr. Iliarrison (ireene, as a comedian, nleeds no0 int(roduet.ionl to thleatre-ro ers, and il's acting of, the (lerian fatiher in this parlicullar play has beenl filvoriably compared witi tihe work off Loulis Manli and by some ctriies, as eVeil i 1unnier initerpret'a tion. There is a laugh in every line, and throughout 0he eitire play. (le i0rg(eoIIusIiess of, tle stage pictires and beauty and grac of thie Iiialny prelly girls, coulpled with tle iimelody aind catcily sonl.gs and efleetivenless of its many musically nuibers and elev trical dances hol one spellbound witi tie possibilities of thlie comeidy a111d beaulty (W its voniceptionl. "l'verybody W iors 1h1t Fatiher' will be given iil tle opera house on Saturday, March 2. MR. THOMAS HOYT DEAD. Former Resident of Johnston, This State, Passes Away at Ameri cus, Georgia. News aid Cmurivr. Coluibia, February 26.---News was received here today of Ile deati of Mr. Thomas P. Hoyt at his home ini Amieriit s, (ia. h'lle news was not a sirprise, as his relatives here had been apprised of Ile fact that Mr. Iloyt suffered a troke of paralysis several weeks ago and tlat there was little hope of his recovery. lIe died at 10 W'clock last Iighit. Mr. Iloyt was lie second son of the late (of. J. P. Iloyt, who lived i'or a iinmber of' years at lIanreis, S. C., wihere Air. TlIomas P". Iloyt spent hlis hovhlood. 1e was a broliher of' the lale (,ol. 'James A. Iloyl, of (1,ireen ville, and, like his brollier, learned lte prinier's trade inl hiis Yoiti and speit Imolt of* his life in Ilie nlewspa p' bu4sin1s. ilr the last sevi- l year s lie hand lived at Ameirieiis, whiere lie was on thle edhitor'ial sI afY of' lie Timieis-Wi''order. Previouis to thfat, iimelie lived at Fort \'aley amit at. A iulustaI. AIrm. 11loyt was I wit'e noirried . II is irmst wife was Al iss MJat tie lieady, danuighteri of Dr)u. IHeady, of' dohnistoin, E'dgefield counity,~ aiid I hjr sons of. I his iiarr'i a e suri'v: M Iessi's. Tholm is 1P. 1 loyt, Ji'., JIohni P'. lloyt and W. II. 1 leyI, all of' who'm live at Jhni stoii. 1 is first, wife died a inmber of' yearis ago and lie suibseqpientfly mar ried Miss FaniieI lioebiiek, of near Auiguistai, (Ga.. whot survivyes lim t. As a bouy Mir. H-oyt vo l unitevi'ed f'oir service iin te Confed'('Ie'rate arimy and wen'it ouit ith IiIhe miliftia near the close of' hostilities, Ile wais about (13 yeariis oif age ait thle t im' of' his dleathI. The body will be broiighit to thle formei' hiome of' Mr. I Foyt, at Johni st on aind the funiei'al will t ak pwlaceo at 10 o 'clock fomoirrow mnorninig at War.d 's cemiet cry. J. 1I. Th'le rea soil a bachielori never' enjoys hia vinig a good ti met is becausie he can have it whenver lit wants to. Wise is lie w hot kinows just. whati to say--an w1h leni tto sany if. Them 'mor'e a man11 knows at twventy iem leux lit' is ..nt ino mi,mw at lvivy.