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THE LEGISLATURE. ! .The State Lawmakers Meet and Gel I to Work. HOUSE. rust uuy?ini' iiu:isc 1.1 rcyi?i u- i lathes was called to order at noon! Tuesday by Col. Tom C. Hamer. the 1 . rirrk. The roll by < ounties was callc-J J and a majority cf the members found ; pn rt i>t. lion. W. r. Stevenson of j Chest*, rfield. speaker of the house, then took the chair and addressed ' il?f> members uf the house. He said in ivirt: U'o come together after a separa "lion of 11 months with grave respon- ' sibilities. Since the adjournment it bas hee.1 finally settled that the conn ty government of the majority of our counties if not in all of them is oniy *le facto government; that the laws <3KbthlishiUK them are in plain violation of the constitution and one of the iirv* /m>nsiirM nnd one of the most ini jporfant should be a general county government act lixing plainly and ' periranently the methods and ma-1 chincry cf county affairs and regulating and proclaiming the salaries of ?uunty officers. Again the jury law has been declared Invalid for the same reason and it is an imperative necessity that a general and simple jury law be passed at the first possible moment consistent with orderly and sound legislation. 1.4* us hope that the not uncertain tone of the court's decision relative to special legislation will prevent the appeal so often made by members who are champions of pet local measures "that it is simply a local measure." That statement should hereafter mark the measures for immediate slaughter and the seal of condemnation should be placed without question on all such measures and policies. Other important measures demahd j attention also. Laws relative to j tmsts need perfecting; laws relative i 1 "on A a enrl r?t har rvtf. ! %U IUIC igU lauivauo uuu wuv* w. porations doing business here and child Jabor In mills will no doubt ne ajrain pressed upon your attention. The past year in most of the State has been hard on the agriculturist and his failure to make a crop has been felt by all classes, hence taxes should be levied only for absolute -necessities. On the other hand great i progress has been made in the State I in manufacturing, and the whole State may well feel proud of the Carolina Interstate and West Indian exposition which is now open in Charleston. It I3 needless to say that the appearance of this State house now justifies the action taken by the general assembly in 1900 in directing its completion. It will soon be a structure of which the State should be proud, and now let me prge that suitable provision be made for equipping the offices and preserving the valuable records contained in them. Irreparable loss may bo suffered by failing to make proper provision for them. We assemble with the lesson of the uncertainties of life impressed upon ?mc Thrp^ of our members have died since the last roll call of this house and I feel a loss in each one peculiar and personal, and especially in my colleague with whom my associations have been peculiarly close for 15 years. Within 48 hours, too, the hand of death has been laid upon the assistant clerk of this house, and we have lost an efficient, painstaking and alTabte official. The records of those who have passed is honorable; their memories are dear to 113 and our affection will be put into permanent form, but this should warn us that death is claiming its victims daily and we must all soon pay the debt and pass awa>. At the conclusion of his remarks, the speaker called the Dew members before the l>ar of the house and they were sworn in. The new members w f-i? W7 T STB I j. r. iziar, ui uai uncn, it. . Johnson of Fairfield; J. B. Towell. of .I^exington and M. J. Hough, of Chesterfield. These new representatives then presented their credentials and subscribed to the oath of office. Mr. fzlar is a lawyer, a brother of former Judge Izlar. and a leading citizen of Blackville. Mr. Towell is quite a young man, editor of the Batesburg Advocate and succeeds Congressman I-cver. Capt. Johnson is a leading merchant of Ridgeway, has been a member of the house before and is a member of the State house commission. Mr. Hough is a brother of Senator Hough and was clerk of the ju diciary committee of the house last , year. A message from the senate declared that that body had organized. The bouse, after electing a chaplain, notified the senate that it was ready . for business. There were three nouii nations *j'r chaplain: Rev. R. N. Pratt \of the Second Baptist church; Rev. II. M. Kinard of the Ebenezer Lutheran church and Rev. J. L. Mullinix of the Methodist conference. On the second ballot Mr. Pratt was elected. The senate and the governor were notified of the house's organization. The governor's message was received and read. Mr. Spears moved that the bill he Act No. 103 providing a special nchnol district in Anderson county was vetoed 1 by the governor, as it was special legislation, and the house wan so notified. The Anderson delegation agreed to the justness of the attorney general's decision in regard to the act No. 103, j and the house concurred. The governor's message returning the free pass act was read, passod, notwithstanding the governor's veto. Mr. Ashley wanted to postpone action on the veto of the free pass act, but the speaker ruled that It was a matter which should be acted upon at once as a courtesy to the governor. Tile vote was then taken and the bill wm buried by a vote of 64 to 3S, the tatter being in favor of passing the act over the governor's veto, whereas - 'f. 11 i ; ? ??m it required S3 votes to pass it. The speaker announced the followI ins appointments: Assistant clerk. J. Wilson Gibbes: speaker's porter, Parnell Meebau; laborers. Peter Harrison. Gallic Robins. Will Burton; i door-keepers. Peter Saunders. S. L. | Pope. J. C. Jennings: pages. Calhoun DoBruhl. Clark NVardlaw Adicices. C. J. Colcock. Jr.. and Robert Evans. The new members of the house were assigned as follows: Izlar on ways and means and internal improvements; Ilough on judiciary and enrolled acts: Johnson, State house an 1 grounds and public schools; Towell, eaucauon a:iu phoiiuh. The following new bills were Introduced: By Mr. Backer, to increase the anual appropriation for pen?ions to $1? 0,000; by Mr. J. 13. Smith, to extend the time for the payment of taxes every year. The first bill or resolution of the session was Mr. Bacot's concurrent resohition suggesting the postponement of the exercises incident to the presentation of the brass tablet from the last > esting place of Gov. James Glen. The resolution also extended an invitation to Col. Jno. B. Cleveland, the donor, to be present at the exercises. Tae resolution was adopted by both houses. Mi. Prince introduced a concurrent iknt vseonf nlftoPQ In lirsu Ulit'li iuai Cliv. ? U.UV ? the judiciary be filled Friday. There were several motions on this resolution, but it was finally adopted. It appears that the election of judges is to be kept separate from the other elections. It was evident that there is a desire to hurry up the other elections for some reason or otner. The calendar was taken up and a number of bills recommitted, among them Mr. Webb's bill relating to the labor of children in cotton mills. The house at 2 o'clock adjourned. Second Day?The house assembled at noon and spent two hours in session. During that time the thread wa3 taker, up where it was broken off at the end of the last session. Several new bills were introduced. Time was set for action on the bill to provide for bipnnial sessions of the general assembly and the redistrictting bills. A message from the governor called attention to the bonds of the late institution known as the State bank. There was a bill introduced by Mr. Morgan to pay to the widow of the late Senator Earle $1,366.66 for salary as judge. Mr. Mo3es of Sumter offered a resolution that a committee of one from each county be appointed to consider ? ?l htlla a? I h A trie afVCittl U111S ua ir\iion?vv<4?9 State and to report by bill next Tuesday. This was opposed by Mr. Crcft of Aiken, Mr. Tatum of Orangeburg. Mr. Rainsford of Edgefield and others. The resolution was voted down. :t' was finally decided to dispose of this matter on the 22nd of this month. Among the new bills introduced were the following: By Mr. C. P. Sanders: To authorize and direct the secretary of state to deliver to the Spartan chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy, or their authorized agent, one of the broken granite columns on the State house grounds, to be used in the erection of a Confederate monument on the public square in the city of Spartanburg. By Mr. Sanders: A bill to make perpetual charters for cities of over 5,000 inhabitants granted under the .aw of 1901. By Mr. Lomax. of Abbeville: A bill to provide for buying school books for certain school districts. By Mr. Bacot, to include the University of the South (Sewanee) in the number of those institutions wnieh are to receive new code; also the acts of the legislature of South Carolina. By Mr. Slnkler, to empower the winding up or dissolution of all car porations. By Mr. Rucker, to provide for paying costs of criminal cases transferred from one county to another. This bill puts the cost on the county in which action started. There have jeen suits in court because of the lack of such a statute as this. By Mr. Mayson, relating to liens on crops; by Mr. Crum. to repeal the county government law of Barnwell county. 1895. so far as it affects what is now Bamberg. By Mr. Moses, several bills relating to ratifying the work of the commission to provide for lighting the State house and other State buildings in Columhja. By Mr. Gunter. to reduce the penalty ! of stealing from the field when the value of stolen property is loss than $10; to protect poles and wires of telephone and telegraph companies. The house then adjorned. j Third Day?The house got into a discussion over a dispensary hill, and it i looked for a while as if a general fight [ would be started, but the dispensary people tooK reruge tinner a mouou iu adjourn, hoping no doubt to defeat the bill by delay. It was Mr. C. P. Sanders' bill proposing to allow con ties the right to vote to remove dispensaries from within their borders. The house inet at 11 o'clock and spent nearly all of the morning discussing a bill which seeks to protect the fish of the streams from wholesale depredations. The bill passed second reading after being loaded down with "riders" which practically kill th? measure. ^ Mr. Dorrah introduced a joint resoP* tion proposing an amendment to ti.e constitution making the term of office of State officers four years. Also an amendment to allow school fund taxes paid by white people to go to the support of white schools and that paid bj negroes to go to negroes' schools. Hr. Campbell Introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment permitting special legislate > A\ 1 1 m ???i???f????a? tion in the matter of building highways and bridges. Mr. Seigler of Saluda wants to amend the oastitulion wherein it relates to the election of senators and munbers of the house of representatives and to abolish the classification of senators. He also introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution by providing lor biennial sessions. (Mr. Efird already has a similar resolution on the calendar.) Among the now hills introduce-! was that of .Mr. MoGowan agair.st trusts and the one of Mr. W. J. Johnson in regard to railroad charges. By Mr. C. P. Sanders: A bill to provide for the selection by the governor of State depositories of public funds. By Mr. C. E. Robinson: To allow the county of Pickens to borrow money to pay past indebtedness and to get on a cash basis. By Mr. Mauldin: To amend the dispensary law as applied to Pickens and Oconee counties so as to allow the municipalities to get part of the dispensary profits. By Mr. Moss: A memorial for appropriations to perfect Confederate rolls. This is along the line of suggestions of Mr. D. H. Means to the Confederate veterans. By Mr. McGowan: A joint resolution to pay P. H. Martin $210; also to pay Edward W. Higgins $150, pension ur 1900 and 1901. Mr. McGowan: To repeal that section of the revised statutes of 1393 which fixes the time in which taxes must be paid. Mr. Prince: To amend the act of !3o4 allowing the city of Anderson to i3sue bonds in aid of the Savannah Valley railroad. SENATE. First Day?The session began at noon when Col. Tillman called the senate to order, and the cleris called the roll. Prayer wan made by the chaplain, the Rev. S. H. Zimmerman, pastor or the Main Street Methodist church, after which Lieut. Gov. Tillman addressed the senate In a few appropriate words. He said: Senators: In obedience to the laws of thi3 commonwealth you are again summoned to your post of duty. Fresh from the happy hours of the yuletide, your thoughts now turn to more serious things. That justice and wisdom will characterize your deliberations were needless to prophecy. But remember, man?that strange con necting link between dust and deity? la prone to criticise, sometimes to slander. Disappointment awaits him whose endeavor would be to please a whole people; though when fortified in the fortress of duty well done he may bid defiance to those who envy. In the past twelve month partisans threw aside their partisanship, parties were for a time forgot, while a nation knelt beside the bier of a martyred preeident; but through Almighty benevolence the Grim Reaper has not entered here and we are once more permitted to welcome with kindly greeting each and every member of this distinguished body. I invoke your aid and assistance during the session. I hope to be fair. I pray to be just. Let nothing mar your proceedings, but I would, have you feel like D'Artignan and his musketeers. "All for one, one for all" ?that all. Carolina. I now declare the senate of South Carolina ready for any business that may properly come before it Senator Sheppard moved that a committee be appointed to communicate to the governor that the senate was organized and ready for any communication from his excellency. The committee consisted of Senators Sheppard, Barnwell and Brown, and these gentlemen immediately performed the duty. Senator Raysor, the successor to Senator Brantley of Orangeburg, resigned, presented his credentials and was sworn in by the president Lieut. Cov. Tillman then announced the appointment of pages and other minor officials of the body. Senator Sheppard for the committee reported that the governor sa'd he would communicate with the senate immediately and Private Secretary Aull was announced and presented the annual document. C*V? nnnn V? ? f fKfl ocuaiur oiicppai u uiuvcu buat wuo senator from Orangeburg, Raysor, be assigned to the same committee as his predecessor, save that on public library, for -which was substituted the judiciary committee. This was carried and Senator Raysor was accordingly assigned to tho committees. Senator Barnwell offered a resolution to recommit all bills unacted upon to the appropriate committees, which was adopted. Senator Shepnard presented a.resolution requiring the election committee to inquire and rejiort what elections are to be held at this session. This was adopted. The purpose is to i. complete the elections as soon as possible^ The ooncurrent resolution pos'.poni ing the ceremony accepting the Glen tablet was presented and Senator Marshall moved its adoption. To this there i wa3 no objection. Senator Graydon asked leave of absence for the senator's clerk, Gen. R. R. Hemphill, to attend the funeral df his distinguished uncle, Hon. James ; Hemphill, of Chester. The only new bills introduced were . two by the senate from Charleston as follows: i By Senator Barnwell to amend the i pilotage laws. By Senator Barnwell to empower the . 1 winding up of dissolution of all cor porations. Second Day?The senate was In session but little more than half an hour. 1 but during that time'dispatched con. siderable business. Such matters as | were acted upon went through without discuss ion. w Senator Mayfield introduced a resolution. which was adopted, directing the sergaant-at-arms to provide new furniture for the senate committee rooms, that now in use being worn and delapidated. On motion of Senator Orydon the report of the attorney general as to the trusts was referred to the judici-.. ary committee with power to report ! by bill or otherwise. Senator Raysor of Orangeburg introduced a bill providing for compulsory education. The bill requires parents or guardians to send their chilt ;Ircn between 8 and 14 years of age to a public or private school at least j eight wrok3 in each year, unless prevntofl hv illneqq or nrofieipnev. -licit excuses to be passed upon by the township school trustees. Violations of tills provision arc made punishable by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $20, or by impriosnment not less than five days nor more than 20 days, the cases to be, tried by magistrates. Fines so collected are to be turned into the county school fund. The bill was referred to the committee on education. Senator Applet introduced a bill to further regulate the traffic in cotr.on seed. Referred to the committee on agriculture. Senator Graydon introduced a bill to amend the act creating Abbeville school district in regard to the election of trusties. Referred to the committee on education. Senator Mayfield introduced a bill to regulate the division of dispena.iry profits between the town of Bamberg and the county. Placed on the calendar without reference. Senator Grube introduced six bills looking to amending the constitution so as to provide for biennial sessions | nr tppneraJ flsseniDlv. His Dlan is I to have the legislature to meet every two years, and to have representatives elected for four years and senators for six years. His scheme provides for extra sessions to be called by the governor if occasion should arise and empowers the governor to fill vacancies on the supreme and circuit court benches. The bills were referred to the judiciary committee. When the house oresolution calling for a joint session at 12 o'clock on Friday for the purpose of electing judges of the first, escond, third, fourb, sixth and eighth circuits wa3 called up Senator Gruber moved to amend by making the hour 10:30 Instead of 12 o'clock. This wa3 agreed to without discussion. The governor's message, which was read Tuesday, was referred to appropriate committees. Leave of absence was granted Senator Stackhoiae of Marion, who is detained at home by sickness. The senate adjourned at 12:35. Third Day?The senate held another brief session. No business of special importance was transacted beyond killing a number of bills that had been brought over from last year. The governor's message relating to the stolen bonds of the old State bank was received and read. The message was sent to the senate on Wednesday, at the same time it was sent to the house, but the senate had adjourned when Secretary Aull got to the senate chamber with it. The following bills were introhrdlu The following new bills were introduced: By Senator Raysor?To amend ; tlcn 2316 of the revised statutes. ' *e Bame being a part of the Lord CampI bell act. By Senator MaySeld?To regulate I the deposit and withdrawal of State J funds. 1 By Senator Raysor?To authorise nrhnni district No. 67 in Orangeburg to issue bonds to build a new school bouse. By Senator Graydon?To regulate the drawing of jurors for the circuit court. By Senator Hemdon?To amend the act allowing the establishment of dispensaries in Pickens and Oconee. A memorial in regard to completing and caring for the Confederate rolls was referred to the committee on military affairs. By Senator Raysor?To allow school districts to issue bonds for the purpose of building school houses. Big Surrender in Batangas. Washington. Special.?The War Department was advised late Tuesday of an important surrender which occurred yesterday at Taal, Batangas province. Phiippine Islands. The surrender included one colonel, three lieutenant colonels,. one major, five captains, twelve lieutenants, 245 men and 223 rifles. Marasigan. the colonel, was a leader of importance under the insurgent General Malvar, operating in the western portion of Batangas. That section is reported now to be practically clear of hostile forces. It is stated that the surrender was unconditional. and due to the excellent service of the American troops. The loyal natives, it is added, believe this surrender will influence hostile bands in other sections of Batangas to surrender. Getst Damages. Montgomery, Ala., Special.?Mrs. Emma Furth, of New York City, was awarded $5,000 damages by a Jury in the United States District Court as a result of a suit brought against Alex. K. Cawthon, of Solum, Ala., who was charged with causing the death of her husband, Jacob Furth. Two years ago I Furth, who was a traveling salesman, became involved in a difficulty with Cawthon in Selma, and Furth was shot and killed. Mrs. Furth sued for $25,000. \ r. s*. i - ' To Regulate a. Cock's Crow. 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