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The Lexington Dispatch. $ Representative newspaper. Borers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties hike a Blanket. VOL. XXXII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1902. NO. 14 J One Dollar BiU, Four pieces of the best; sole leather, six pieces of heavy dongola, or navy calf, a few nails, several yards of silk thread, j several yards of waxed J thred, some heavy lining I made up into the best J School Shoe for a Child, and all for A. DOLLAR BILL. If vou don't buv vour - , - T " I! I children tnis Kina you | don't treat them right. LEVER, j"THE SHOE MAN," 1603 Main Street, i nrkT TTVfTJT A . . p h | Feb. 6?Ij. - I 1 C. M. Efird. F. E. Drxheb EFIRD &DREHER, Attorneys at Law. LEXIN6T0N, C. H., S. C. WILL PRACTICE IX ALL THE Courts. Business solicited. One member of the firm will always be at office, Lexington, S. C. June 17?6m. Albert M. Boozer, A 4-4-^vnwait A|- V niv AUWIICT ai La TT , COLUMBIA, N. C. Especial attention giTen to business entrusted to him by his fellow citizens o Lexington county. c Office: 1609 Main Street, over T. B Aughtry <fc Co. February 28 ?tf, IN CONFIDENCE. < Don't give me away. And I'll tell you the remedy of the day, Listen! It is L. L. and K. It makes the system clean and pure, Will health and strength to you secure, Qtri/^tlu a vPorAtahle nrenara W II IVUj M ? - ? r. tion, Mild and pleasant in its operation. No need for nostrums just made to sell, its Life for the Liver that makes you well. HILTON'S LIFE FOE THE LIVEE AND SIDNEYS. Wholesale by the MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia. S. C. * For Sale at THE BAZAAR. May 15?ly. DR. F. C. GILMORE, * ZDSISTUTIST, Located at no. 1510 main street. over Husemann's Gan Store, Columbia, S. C., where he will be glad to see his former as well as new patients. Dr. Gilmore will be at Rammer Hotel in Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11th and 12th, to accommodate patients who find it inconvenient to call at his Columbia office. January 23, 1901?tf. ja Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Go<xl. Use 8 fij in time. Sold by druggists. gff J Sf TXT. 3lN 16SO >IAI> STI jQ Solicits a SI THE LEGISLATTJEE. HOUSE?TUESDAY. There were exciting scenes on the floor in the House Tuesday and a number of the members arose to a "question of personal privilege," which means that a member feels that he has been misinterpreted, purposely misquoted or something of the kind. The debate of the day was that over the child labor bill and by a nacfsMT? mornin ,f wont, fVirmi Ortl UAixun uaaigtM av t* vmm MMM safely, but only to meet with defeat later. Mr. Efird lost hie resolution providing for the Governor to fill vacancies occurring on the bench between sessions of the General Assembly. This was a companion to his biennial sessions of the Legislature. The session of today was entirely taken up in the discussion of the child labor bill. SENATE. The incident of the day occurred in this body when Senator Elderton accused Clerk of the Supreme Court Brooks with lobbying on the floor of the Senate against the passage of the bill to fix the liability of railroad companies having a relief department to its employees. The bill to allow women who pay taxes to vote for Presidential electors was killed. The bill to let the county printing out to the lowest bidder was killed after debate. Speaking against the passage of the bill Senator Sbarpe said "the bill ought not to pass. In his county there are four or five newspapers, but only one of general circulation at tbe court nouEe. it the bill passes some of the little 8x10 newspapers, which have no circulation and are run at no expense, could get the advertising and the responsible newspaper would be shut out. He thought this the best bill to kill that has come up at this session." The bill to provide free school books for certain school districts passed by a vote of 18 to 16. Speaking against this bill Senator Sharpe "thought the bill a dangerous one. He feared that the trustees might use partiality?that the children of their friends and kins folk would get free books and others would not." ilUUSfc The child labor bill was killed in the House today by a vote of 52 to 54. The discussion of this bill was about the only measure of general interest transacted by the House. The Senate spent three hours in discussing Senator Ilderton's bill to regulate the liability of railroad companies having a relief department, to its employees, and the bill finally passed by the Lieutenant Governor casting the deciding vote. Several committees made reports on several measures. HOUSE?THURSDAY. The new code was adopted and also the Jury law and they were both ratified and received the signa tnre of the Governor and are now laws of the State. When the House met this morning there were a number of seats vacant. A number of bills received their third readings and some new bills were introduced. Among the acts ratified were the following: An act to declare the code as submitted by the code commissioner to be the only statutory law of the State. An act to provide for the payment BaECBMBHCKBBBBHBnSQnHnBHBBa GLOBE DRY I 13L. MOITCZ:T( JEET, hare of Your Valued of coatB in criminal cases where transferred from one county to another. An act to amend section 1919 of the general statutes in regard to the ? 1 i.? appraisement 01 personal proper^ of intestates so as to allow qualified electors to act as appraisers. An act to protect keepers of boarding houses. An act to prevent the sale of certain fire crackers. An act to prescribe the manner of drawing jurors for the circuit courts of this State. An act providing for the winding up or disolution of all corporations. An act to amend section 984 of the revised statutes, relieving dentists from iury duty. The session of the Senate was unimportant and after the joint assemi-i_ L.iv. i 1? ??f;i Viy VUlU urttuuucs nuua. a icwoo uuvu Monday, an invitation to spend two days at the Charleston Exposition having been accepted. I NEIGHBORS FALL OUT. I Under the "reapportionment act' ' ? * t ???x.? oi last year, juexmg&oD, wuicu uuw has two representatives, was to get an additional member of the honse. OraDgeborg lacked jast 28 in popuj lafcion of having people enough for another representative. Last winter the legislature passed an act to cede Little Mountain to Newberry county, part of this town having been in Lex ington. The Orangeburg delegation , claimed that Lexington's population | was so much reduced thereby that she should lose her additional repre1 sentative. Immediately after third reading | bills yesterday Mr. Moss of Orangeburg called up his bill to reapportion the representation in the lower house. The effect of the bill would be that ! Lexington would lose one member j and Orangeburg would profit cor' respondingly. Mr. Efird moved to strike out the ; enacting words. Mr. Moss explained that the bill j does not seek to take any rights from Lexington, but to appiy the constituj tion to the census returns. He explained that there are 124 represent| atives in the house, one for each 10,809 of DODulation. * The population of the State is 1,340,316, allowing one representative for every 10,809 of population. Of j this Lexington, with a population of 27,264, got two representatives with a quotient of 5,646. Orangeburg, with a population of 59,663, got five representatives with a quotient of 5,618. The difference between the two quotients is 28. Lexington got an extra representative. Mr. Moss claimed that when Little Mountain ! was transferred to Newberry county the population was changed in Orangeburg's favor. ftia T-iaarkYM-irfJrmmenf ftpf. nf ; v. uuti. i/uo j last year Orangeburg county lacked but 28 in population of getting another representative. Lexington got the additional representative. Since that time about 1200 acres had been cut off from Lexington and given to ; Newberry. By this 98 inhabitants were lost to Lexington county and Orangeburg is now 70 ahead of Lexington in the claim for the additional i representative. Mr. Moss was quesi Vir \1"r Tinminirt Mr Tnwill IIUUCU KTJ iU.A? *** w .W ... and others if this bill would comply with the constitution. He replied that the reapportionment is made on the census of 1900, and does not take into account any growth in population, but change in territory as it affects population. The reapportion MS COMFj -5tT T"S__ TwT A - Patronage. Polite and meDt act of 1001 has nnt yet become of effect. MR. TOW ILL V of Lexington opposed the bill vigorously. It would be opening the ^3 J L t 4 I u:il_ iioougBtea iui uiuer urns. jluc uuuoc had made the reapportionment last year on the census of 1900, and he thought that that reapportinment should stand. On the ground of equity it would not be right, as Lexington has grown in population since the census, although this does not affect the le<*al status of the issue. This was Mr. Towill's first speech in the house, and he acquitted himself very creditably indeed. Mr. John P. Thomas, Jr., declared the motive which prompted the judiciary committee of the house to report favorably on the bill. The constitution requires the general as| sembly to make the apportionment on the population of the counties. If one of the comDonent carts of a ~ ~ I. & county goes to another county, the legislature is bound to take notice. ! Among the component parts of Lexington county is Little Mountain with a population of 98 according to that same census. The apportionment act of 1901 does not go into effect until 1902 and the matter is still within the control of the house. Mr. Croft of Aiken opposed the bill. He claimed that the apportion- 1 ment has already been made, and the law is valid. The constitution provides for reapportionment for new counties, but says nothing of changed county lines. The apportionment must be made on the census of 1900. Mr. Bacot declared that the very fact that the new county provision was put in shows that the apportion ment act is flexible and subject to change. Mr. Lide of Orangeburg warmly advocated the bill. Had the apportionment act not been passed until this year there would have been no additional representative for Lexington, but what has been done can be undone at this eession, and should be done. Mr. it B. Robinson thought they, had better let good enough alone, and he opposed the bill. Mr. Dominick of Newberry said if this bill should happen to pass what would prevent a county from de manding a new census at any time and then claim a reapportionment? Mr. Fraser agreed with Mr. Thomas that this is purely a question of law. But he differed with Mr. Thomas on the point of a county's census being taken upon the theory that the county is made up of separate units: All that is shown in the act of 1901 in regard to the transfer 1 of Little Mountain to Newberry is ; that a town has been transferred ^ from one county to another. He bef lieves that the house must rely on j the United States census by counties, not by townships or by towns. Mr. McLaughlin of Orangeburg : agreed with Mr. Fraser that they must be bound by the census enu| meration is subject to conditions, j though not to changes. It would be j ridiculous to say that if the county | of Lexington should be dismembered i it would 6till be entitled to three T < representatives. Last year there ; was an effort made to annex New j Brookland to Columbia; Orangeburg j 4ried to get some territory around i St. Matthews; and Little Mountain , was ceded to Newberry. Suppose j these three proposed inroads of Lex! ington's territory had been made and j had left that county but 5,000 peoj pie, would Lexington have still been IKY, tr^.G-E^3, C OLUMBIA, 8. Prompt Attention. Oct< entitled to three representatives? The principle is the same as that which is advocated by the friends of this bill. Orangeburg is entitled to this additional representative, not by going behind the census returns but by applying changed conditions to the census. Had Newberry been able to get another representative, he ventured the assertion that Mr. Dominick would not have oppoeed iu. L:II rpu.. 1 t U? | I luk uiii. iuu iiuuae wuuiu uuu uc conferring a favor on Orangeburg, but would be carrying out the mandates of the constitution. Mr. Fraser had conceded that this matter of making apportionment is in the same condition as if no apportionment had been made last year and Mr. McLauglin contended that if such be the case the reapportionment act of 1901 should be corrected and is subject to correction. Mr. McLaughlin made a clear exposition of the matter in a good speech. MR EFIRD. of Lexington agreed with Mr. McLaughlin of Orangeburg that this matter should be settled on the facts in the case, but he thought the facts are on Lexington's side. He said that a representative from Lexington would represent 13,000 people while in Orangeburg a representative would represent 14,000 people. It} the last primary in Orangeburg 3,600 votes were cast, showing one representative for 720 Democratic voters, while Lexington cast 3,100 votes and each of her two representatives is here representing over 1,500 voters. Mr. Efird discussed the constitutional phase of the question. The census report doesn't show any transfer of territory from Lexington and the house must abide by the census. As a matter of right and a matter of law he urged that Lexington rightfully should have three representatives. He showed that the larger part of Little Mountain was in New berry any way, 111 of the inhabitants being in Newberry and 98 in Lexington before the transfer. Mr. Efird handled his side of the question in a , very skillful manner, and, no doubt, won his case. The discussion was closed by Mr. Tatum who declared in reply to Mr. Efird that the matter of Democratic votes in a county has nothing to do with tb9 census. There are but 1,200 voters in Beaufort county and yet there are four representatives from that county. The previous question was ordered and by a vote of 53 to 45 the bill was indefinitely killed or postponed. When the Chimney Is choked with soot, the fire languishes and goes out. When the bronchial tubes are clogged with phlegm, the flame of life flickers. Intelligent treatment with Allen's LuDg Balsam brings up the phlegm, alays inflammation, stops the cough and pain in the chest and, in a word, overcomes those terrible colds which if neglected soon become consumption. The Quarterly Conference Of the Lexington charge of the ] Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will be held in this place next Friday and Sunday. Presiding Elder Hodges will preside over this Conference, and will preach in the church on Sunday. The public is cordially invited and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance of delegates as well as visitors. Please pay for your paper. * )ber I3tf ar P. C. I. Notes^ These are the names of the students who attended Palmetto Collegiate Institute every day last month: Primary Department-A.nnie Caughman, James Floyd, Elwell Bundrick, Lula Bouknight, Harry Davis, Berley Derrick, Clinton George, Willie Monts, Weeber R*wl, Jesse Ricard, Minnie Smoak, James Slice, Leah Bouknight, Ethel Derrick, Leland Hartley, Frank Hartley and George n oawyer. Intermediate Department?Sam Corley, Lewie Craps, Ernestine GraicheD, Beulah George, Kezie George, Patsy George, Lewis Roof, Annie Martha Meetze, Anna Smoak, MayBoozer, Mamie C irley, Carrie Snelgrove. Ernest Slicp, George Craps, H'iien Corley and Noah Slice. Collegiate Department-Marie Sawyer, Pickens Roof, Alonzo Lown, Leila Wright, Helen Sawyer, Walter Harman, Lola Harman, Pascal Hendrix, Bessie Corley, Willie Long, Lily Smoak, Carro Efird, Annie Lou Harman, Estelle Harman, Kate Shull, Fleming Moots, Julian Meetze, ^ TTI l_l._ T ! TT 1_ -n_ L uertna jtxiecaiey, jjua jioojk, xran* Roberts and Edna Barre. The official gazette Of the United States Patent Office is now received at the library cf the Institute. There are only about six or seven schools in the Seventh Congressional District entitled to this privilege. Mr. George Harman, of Providence, has sent his three daughters, Ella, Eessie and Alleen to the Institute. Mr. John Roberts has placed his daughter, Sallie, in the Institute. Mr. Pickens Harman has done the proper thing by placing his daughter, Delia, in the Institute. The Institute grows every week and some times almost every day. Parents, don't miss the opportunity to send your children to a good school. P. ? This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Cure FeveriBhness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroys Worms. They never fail. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. - News from Around Peter's. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The weather is still cold. Farmers are busy turning land and sowing over their oats. We are sorry to hear of the severe illness of Miss Mary Harman, who has pneumonia. "We hope she will soon be on the road to recovery. Mr. Andrew Poath, an energetic young farmer, has recently had a handsome dwelling erected. Mr. Jacob Harman, one of our most successful farmers, is putting some new additions to his dwelling. Mrs. P. F. Schneider has been ill, but we are giaa to near sne is center. Miss Carrie Franklow has returned home after a pleasant visit to her brother, who resides near Leesville. Miss Lottie, the beautiful and charming daughter of Mrs. Ella Cromber nee Kaminer, of Saluda, is visiting friends and relatives in this neighborhood.. Miss Lottie, I fear you will break one particular heart when you return home. Mr. George D. Franklow paid a hying visit to his mother last Sunday. With much success to the Dis* ? T* _ 11_ paten. ruena. February 10, 1902.