Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IS GRINDING AWAY GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Continued on page six). $100 nor more than $1,000. Mr. Ginn introduced a bill to require expedition in the delivery of freig"t and the adjustment of claims on ac count of loss and damage and to fix the penalties thereof. Five days' time is the limit fixed for shipments within the S.ate. The penalty is $- day for failure to do this. The canriers would not be allowed under this bill, to receive any payment in part if goods are not &dliverec, but settlement must be made within five days for the shortage. There is provision made lor a court of 'aippraisal. Would Outlaw Circuses. Senator Wharton, of Laurens, wants to keep circuses out of the State, if possible. He said today that so much trouble had been caused. by circuses that a high license should be put upon them. He cited the Paul Williams case and the Orangeburg alleged kid mapping, about which press dspatch-e have teemed in last few days. The bill Senator Wharton introduc Senator Alan Joh.nstone. ed today provdes: That no circus shall show until it has paid a State license. The license is fixed at $50,000 per year. * ~ This, it' will te seen, is practically prohibitive.. To Facilitate Captures. Senator Wharton wants to make it easier to catch fugitives from justice. 'He told of a case where a reward of $500 was offered and the prisoner hav nxg given bail skipped the 'State. There wa a bond of $4,500 which was paid and the fugitive was neve.r caught as no-detective agen-cy would bother with * a $500 case. Mr. Wharton wants the bond to be divided into two parts the person ap prehending the guilty pe-son to re ceive one-dalf and the coun,ty the other half. Mr. Wharton believes this will aid in .the enforcement of the laws. If on-e skips his board bill there will be a penalty of not more t'han $50 or imprisonmnenent for not more than thirty days, by the terms of an sjnendment to the act of 1908, a bill 'N7 ; g 1Representativ e Geo. S. Mow er. providing for the amendment being introduced Thursday by Senator Sulli van. Senator Ginn, in a bill introduc-d Thursday, would fix a penalty on tele graph companies, common carriers and telephonet companies for ever charges for service. The penalty is $50 for the first day'and-$5 for each suc ceeding day. House Getting to Work. lI the early days -of the house it takes several days to get the machin ery 'working, committees to working and reports submitted. It takes a full week or mnore to get a calendar that is workable and, therefore, the first few days are taken up with preliminaries and the interchange of views and sen ti!ment in the various counties. There is little, or no, opportunity for discussion, and Thursday's ses sion did not last more than ten min utes, most of which time was devoted to the announcement of committees, the reading of the titles of new bills and then Mr. Gary and Mr. Stevenson thought it just as well to ta;bulate the vote for governor and lieutenant gon $ ernor and make the arrangements for inauguration. The present plan is the inaugura tion of Governor Blease and Lieuten ant Governor Chas. A. Smith to take place next Tuesday, the 17th instant. x Representative C. T. Wyche. Election Results Declared. There were only 30,739 votes cast in the genemral election for governor, and 30,832 for lieutenant governor. The vote for Governor Cole. L.Jlease was perhaps larger than is usually cast in a general election, the' real contest be ing in the primary. Thursday the Hon. Cole. L. Blease, of Newberry, and the Hon. C. A. Smith, of Timmons Ville, were declared elected as gov ernor and lieutenant governor respec tively. There were less than .one hun dred votes cast for the opposing can didate 'of Mr. Blease-Mr. Thompson, who ran. on the Socialist ticket. Mr. Cole. L. Blease and the entire administration are, of course, Demo cratic. The two houses met in joint assem bly to declare the vote and it did not take Speaker M. L. Smith more than ten minutes to n through, the entire wofrk and declare the e;lec tions. As soon as the senate retired Mr. Gary moved the appointment of the usual committees to prepare for Repres-entative Arthur Kibler. the inauguration. Messrs. Gary, Wyche and Ayer were appointed on the part of the house to consult the governor and lieutenant governor-elect and ar ange the inauguration program. M~r. Doar's Bill. Mr. J. Walter Doar will again pro Pose his- bill, which seeks to get some revenue from liquor shipped into dry or other counties other than to the! dispensaries. The idea is to impose a tax of twenty cents a gallon on all liquor shipped into the State. It is to be called an ins-pection tax, but it is merely called an inspec tion tax on which to binge the plan. The statezment is made that carloads of liquor are now shipped to dry coun tio, and Mr. Doar's idea is distinct ly to raise a revenue. 'heeddnsumer will pay -the tax. No Salaries Increased. There will be no increase in the salaries of thegncoming administra tion, through Mr. Remelbert's bill ree-! omending a salary of $4,000 for gov ernor. The bill cannot get through in* time to affect the newly elected offi-1 cas. Mr. Renmbert expects, however, to press the measure and will add the judges. The bill, it is said, is being given favora:ble consideration by the~ ways and means committee, but the: advocates of the measure are now holding off and expect to have it ap ply two years hence if they can pass Mr. Rembert has in preparation an' inheritance tax bill. It is very long. and provides a graduated scale of tax on inheritances. "Dispensary" Bills. Mr. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw.1 who hags been intimately associated with the successful work of the wind-' ing-up commission has two measures affecting the "last hours," so to speak, of the old dispensary system. One lit tle bill provides for the repeal of the charter of the Richland Distilling copay, and abrogating all its rights. The State expects to bag this piece of property in Columbia. The plant and. ten acres of land belong to the Dis tilling company is valued at about 6 $25,000, and this is a bonus on the settlement that the winding-up comn mission has been offered by the Rich land Distilling people. With the money tu come from final settlements and suits the winding-up commission will have about $500,000 for distribution. This is about $100, 000 more than the commission now has on hand. The bill providing for this distribu tion reads: A bill to require the distribution of the dispensary fund among th,- com mon schools a.nd to provide for the method of distribution. Section 1. That the fund now on hand from the winding up of the State dispensary be distributed on or before July 1, 1911, amongst the common schools of the State, the amount to be apportioned among the counties, ac cording to th'- enrolment for the year 1910. Sec. 2. That the comptroller gen eral, the superintendent of education and the State treasurer shall make said apportionment among the coun ties, and in accordance with the same the money shall be remitted to sthe county treasurer of the respective county to the cre-it of the general school fund of the coanties. Sec. 3. That said fLnd shall be ap portioned amorg the public schools of the respective counties as theyl apportion general school funds arising from the constitutional tax. As To Clemson., Mr. Mitchum: To limit amount funds available to Clemson college from tag tax on fertilizer to the sum of $175,000 for each year, and to pro vide for apportionment of any sur plus funds arising from said tax among the free public schools of the various counties for their support and the maintenance therein of the course in primary agriculture. Bills Favorably Reported. Senator Lidle's circuit judge bill has been favorably reported by the ju diciary committee. The Torrens commissio.- hill was favorably reported by rho indiciary committee of the s4nac,. Friday's Session. The house on Friday st the leg islative grist mill a gr -a~: ma ss o'' new corn, had cominitY~ meltings arl -:.en took a rec' . at9 1 .Yonda' eng at 8 o'clock. This ga- e the! fl arb.ers time to g '.v ' attend to their home affairs anxd retur.n here for wori next week. The -house adopted Mr.. Courtney's resolution calling on the South Caro lina delegation to press for a settle ment of the potash dispute wtih the German government. Wants "Merger" Appeal Dropped. Dr. Sa,ye, of Yorkvillc, offered a con current resolution requesting the at torney general to stay the "merger suit" and abandon the appeal, the lower court anid jury having determtin-I ed the case, and askintg that tlhe ap peal be dismissed. Ur. Saye says the people in his section want to let "well enough alone" and let the Southern1 railway develop its property. Mr. Irby offered a resolution sug gesting the appointmnent of a commit tee to invite Dr. Woodrow Wilson to present the John Laurens portrait re cently painted at the expense of the State. The resolution goes to the senate. Child Labor Bill. Mr. Osborne has introduced on the house side the bill that has been en dorsed by the child labor committee and which has the backing, it is said, of. that organization. The bill seeks to repeal all present exemptions. Under the present law exemptions are pro-1 vided where. the children are those of* widowed mothers, or are compelled to work, and in such cases the commis sioner of labor is authorized to issus permits. It is claimed that this priv ilege~ is abused in certain instances, and children have been imposed up oin. The total number of such child ren working in the cotton mills is said to be about 300. The bill provides that no childrcn under 12 shall be allowed to work in any cotton mill. The bill also pro vides that in case of nighat wvork the: age limit shall be 16, that is no per son under 16 shall be allowed to work at night in cotton mills. The child labor committee will also, present, as a companion bill, one seek ing to require marriage registration o that the ages of children may' be arrived at with accuracy, as under present conditions the parents often ive incorrect ages for their children that they might be: employed in the otton mills. Fight on Merger Resolution?i The merger suit repolution of Sen ator Carlisle, that the. attorney gener al be requested to dismiss the appeal in the famous Southern railway case,; came back to the senate Friday handi capped by the unfavorable report of a majority of the judiciary commit tee. There was a divided report on the resolution. The un-favorable. ma jority report was presented by Sena or John H. Clif.ton, of Sumter. The favorable minority report was P~ TF 1=o Now on Display a Drug Store. C $45.00 C( TO IEN ABI With Many Other Ya Free and Won! ,Quality of the highest < when this beautiful instru the. 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