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CENERAL ASSEfBLY IS MAKING OOD PROGRESS APPROPRIATION BILL PRESENT. ED ON WEDNESDAY NIGHlT. Rouse Wants to Adjouru on February 15-All Salary lRases liilhd Matters of (A'eneral I terest. Colu:bia, Feb. 2.-The house of representatives las. night amended the 11 re1olmion by fixir' Feb ruary 15 as the day for final adjourn mnT. The senate resolution fixed February 10. The appropriation bill was iniroduc---d in the house last night by Chairman Browning, of the ways and means committee. and there seems to be no reason why the session should not be brought to a close by February 15, at the latest. The Appropriation Bill. Th'e appropriation bill fixes the levy at 5 3-4 mills, the sme as last year. It is very little different from last year's act in its general prbvisions. The bill was made -a special order for Friday morning, and will at that time have the right of way. It provides for a larger than usual appropriation to retire the debt on the State house. This money was bor rowed from the sinking funid, to be repaid at $15,000 per aninum. Te payment this year will be $45,000, leaving theamne amounit for next year. The bill also carries an item of $30,r 000, to be repaid to the asylum loan, advanced by the sinking fund com mission last year. There is an increase from $5,000 to $10,000 in the amount for the corn demonstration work which has done so much for South Carolina. South Carolina coll'ege to get an ap propriation for a now auditorium. The Citadel gets $25,000 for a new wing, and this will be added to next year. Winthrop gets $6,000 to complete paying for the dining room extension and $6,000 to enlarge the infli-rary. Maintenance increased $5,000. The South Carolina Industrial school at Florence raised from $7,500 to $27,000. Colored college: Maintenance same as last year; $8,500 for heating plant; $2,000 for artesion well; $14,000 to finish paying for new building. State Hospital. Hospital for Insane: Improvemenrts and repairs, $35,000; increase for maintenance, $25,000; 'to make up de ficit for 1910, $30.000. For State Control for Clemson. The senalte on Wednesday adopt:ed wit-h am'endmntt 'the resolution of Senator Earle as sto an investigation by the attorney general \of the legal phases connected wit lithe taking over under State control to some extent Clemson college. With the house's consent such would be done. The senate adopted- the resolution about as follows: "That the attorney genera.l be and is hereby requested to investigate and re port to the next session of the. gener aLl assembly the pr'acticability of the State acquiring such control of Clem son college as will enable the general essemnb:ly to elect all the trustees of that institution." "Mileage" Bill A dvanced. After a fight on the biti lasting sev eral days and growing fiercer each day, the "mileage" bill was on Wed nesday -night in the senate passed to a third reading. The bill, introducedi by Setator Carlisle, of Spartanburg, re quires the e.cceptance of mileage cou pons on trains andI checkiing of bag gage on presentation of the coupons. The ,bill does not require the accep tance of the coupons on any trains ex cept those of 'the road issuing the mil eage book. S$ummners Bill Killed. A storm of protest from laymen; lawyers and from at least 'two physi cians in the senate on Wednesday afternoon sent to its death the- bill of Senator Summers, of Calhoun, the measure being termed "a bill to pro bibit renumeration to State senators * and rep2resen1tatives by public service corporations during their term of of * ice and to fix the punishmen?t." The vote was 31 to 10, Senator Mont gomery. of Marion, being excused from voting. Senator Johnstonie, of Newberry, is r'ecorded as voting to kill the bill. No Change as to Circuit Juhdges. The house has killed the measure to increase the salary of circuit judges from $3,000 to $3,500, and also ,killed bills for more compact rotation of judges so as to give the judges more courts in their own counties. Salary Raise Measure Dead. "Pigeonholed" until Tuesday night and reported with the recomnmenda tion that it be continued until next session, the bill providing for an in crease in the salary of State officials -died in less than One minute, as it feebly walked out upon the floor of the senate. It s down in the Senate Journa a this comment: aContimua next session." in parlamen:ary language. The bill wus introduced on th( opening day of the session, but wa. not reported until Tuesday evening b3 the finance committe-. At the time i1 was h-ld up the impression was tha1 this was for the purpose of having i1 r. affect, if passed, the i:resent ad ministration, which by a peculiar se1 of ireunsuices did not come into of ;ice until a week after the beginning of the general assembly's session. The bill would give giver the gover nor $4,000 and other State officials $2, >s, -stead of $1,900, as now. Th( governor now gets $3,000. Even i, passed next year, the bill would nol affect any administration until the,r( is another election. For Protection of Child Labor. The house of represenULtives Tues day night, by an overwho.lming vote passed Mr. Osborne's bil. to perfec the child labor laws. No speech wa. made in opposition to the bill. Th( motion to strike out the enactinc words was made by Mr. Smith, of An derson. Mr. Osborne aT.d Mr. You mans spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Osborne explained briefly thai it is the bill indorsed by the Stat( commission, consisting of Dr. Geo. B Cromer and others. It eliminates th< feature of the present law, which per mits parents to make false statementi in order to get their children into th( mill when they are under age. ThE bill -makes the flat age limit 12 yeari and further raises the age limit fron 12 to 16 years of the children wh< shall not be required to work at nigh1 and 'adds a proviso that every paren or guardian who -trmits a child un der 14 to be employed in the daytimE shall give to the overseer or super intendent a written statement, whicl shall be filed for inspection by the State authorities and a duplicate sen to the commissioner at Columbia, and only upon his permit shall the child be employed. There was no argument against the bill and it passed second reading. When the bill came up for third reading on Wednesday there was ar unexpected fight upon it, but it passet final reading. Would Change Old Custom. An important bill was introduced b3 Senator Young, -of Union, relating t< the engrossing dlepartment. This bil: reads: "The attorney general is hereby au thorized to p'r-ide a 'sufficient num ber of tymywrite:rs and stenographer.s for the preparation of 'bills, resolu tion.s and acts for each session of thE general assembly." A High School Fight. Mr. Ayer led 'a losing fight. His bill to require the high school fund to bE applied to needy rural communities was killed by a vote of 84 to is. Mr. Ayer 'explained that the orig inal act'was intended to develop ths educational interests of the county. I1 was then decided to place a limit or the size of the towns to be aided. H( decided that the original intention has been deprted from and this money is dverted to .schools in larger commu nties. Headlight Bil.l Passed. With an amendment that a railroad less than 60 miles in this Stat'e shall not be affected the senate railroads committee substitute bill as 'to t elec tric headlights for locomotives passed finally in the senate. The bill was the one agreed upon by ine reprcsentatives of the railroads and the railway en gineers of-this State in session hpr and adopted by the senate railroad commitee and presented to the senate as a substitute measur.e. Hannah Plowden Honored. Miss Hannah Plowden, of Claren don, and Miss Katie~ Gunter, of Aiken will 'be given scholarships in Winthrot college, if the bill that passed th'E senate is likewise received and' seni ,from 'the house. Traese two young la dies will ibe givien, under the bill, a four years' course. The resolution was warmly dexkted .in the senate. WhilE -all recognized true merit should bE awarded there was considerable doub' of the advisability of passing the bill However, when the resolutioni camf to vote it was passed in viva vocE fashion. The supportcrs of the bill though' Miss PIowden shen!d have recognitior for hc r w.ork in raisin ore corn t< an acre than anyone else of her se: has done. Miss Gunter was honoret likewise for her tomato raising work Commiiittee .\ppintifled to Look Int( Matter of Tiolating Constitution by Holdier Two Oiiies. The following concurrent rosolution introduced by Representativye T. P Prown, has been' passed by boti houses: "That a commiission of five be ap pointed. three fram the house and tw< from the senato. to investigate an< reort back to this general assembly during this session the trustees of th' vareus edlueatiani institutionvs of thi 7 missions and also those who are hold ing other Positions of public trust of this State contrary to the constitution of the State." Speaker Smith appointed Messrs. Brown. Gary and 'Mower, on the part of the house, and President Smith ap - pointed Senators Mauldin and Walk er on the part of the senate. BAN UPON LOBBYINGC. Senator Earle Has Bill to Protect Legislators From Teipta tion. Senator Earle, of Oconee. introduc d ed in the senate a bill designed to prevent lobbying and to provide a pen alty for infraction of the law. The penalty is a fine of not less than $1, 000 and imprisonment for not less than one year. Any person caught lobbying shall also be expelled from the capitol and its grounds. The bill follows:: "It shall be unlawful for any per son or persons, by any personal solici tation of a member of a general as seambly, during the session thereof, by private interview or letter or message, or other means not addressed solely to the judgment of the member, to favor or oppose or to votei for or against any bill, resolution, proposed measure or claim pending or to be in troduced in either branch thereof by any person or persons who is employ ed for a consideration -by a person or corporation .interested in the passage or defeat of such bill, resolution, pro posed measure or claim, for the pur pose of procuring the passage or de feat thereof: Provided, That this shall not include such service as drafting bills, petitions or resolutions, at tending to the taking of testimony, col lating facts, preparing argumecnts and memorials an dsubmitting the moral ly or in writing to a committee of the general assembly and other service of a like character intended to reach the reason of the legislators. Any person or persons violeting the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction be liable to a fine of not less than $1,000 and imprison ment for not less than one year, in !*the discretion of the court, and any person caught in the act of violajing said section shall be forthrwith ejected from the State house and the, State house grounds." "NOT PROPERLY ENROLLED." Governor Refuses to Sign Act With Pencil Corrections. Columbia, January 30.-Because there were pencil marks noting cor rections in the engrossed act, Gover nor Blease tonight sent back to the senate, refusing his signature to, the second enrolled act of the session, en titled ''An Act to amend Subdivision 8 of Section 1,893, of the Code, by ad ding a -provision as to purchase mon ey mortgages." Governor Blease gave as his reason that on page 2 of the Act, the word "date," written in ink, was scratched out and the word "d'eb't," written ii pencil; and on page 3, the word ".note," written in ink was seraitched and the word "rate," written in pencil, in the margin. "In my opinion," writes Gov ernor Blease, "this act is not properly enrolled," and he declined to approve the same. L. M. G. * * * ** * *~ * * * * * * * '* * * NEWBERRY BILLS. * *** * * * * * * * * * .* * * * The following local measures relat ing to Newberry county have passed the house and been sent to th:e seniate: Mr. Mower's bill to authorize treas urer of Newberry county to transfer to the current funds of Newberry school district any surplus *of sinking fund for the redemption of bonds issued in 190; also a bill by Mr. Mower to an thorize trustees of district No. 52 in Newberry coun:ty to put aside $40 each ear to pay bonds of school district; alo by Mr. Mrower to authorize trus tees of district No. 14 to issue $3,000 in bonds to retire old bonds. Four bills by the Newberry delega ion, one to authorize loan from State sinkingn fund commission to Newberry county for $5,500 to take up bonds is sued by Newberry townships in aid of Columbia, Newberry and Laurens road; $6,400 to redeem bonds issued by Mendenhall township in favor of the Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry alw ay; $5,150 to retire bonds issued by the~ Stoney Battery township' in favor of the C., N. & L.; and $20,600 to retire bonds issued by Newberry tonshp in aid of the Augusta ard NOTICE. -All rersons are hereby notified that executions against those who have nct Ipaid their town taxes by that time will be placed in the hands of the sheriff on February 1st. 3J. R. Scurr:., -. C.CLT.T.C.N. DON'T DELAY LONGER In providing vour home with a good piano or organ. Doubtless, you have jromis.d your family an instrument. No home is comiplete without music, and nothinZ is so inspiring and culti vating. Music helps to-drown sorrows. and gives entertainment for children, and keeps them at home. This i. our 27th year of uninterrupted succe.s here, hence we are better prepared than ever to supply the best pianos and organs and wi:l save vou money. Write us AT ONCk for cqtalocs and for our easy payment plan and prices. MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, COLUMBIA, S. C. ASSESSMENT OF PERSONAL PROP. ERTY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1911. I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places named below for the purpose of taking returns of personal property for fiscal year 1911: Newberry, January 1 to 10, inclu sive. Kinards, Wednesday, Jan. 11 Whitmire, Thursday and Friday, January 12 and 13. Jolly Street, Monday, Jan. 16. Pomaria, Tuesday, Jan. 17. Walton,. Wednesday, Jan. 18. Glymphville, Thprsday, Jan. 19. Maybinton, Friday, Jan. 20. Prosperity, Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 23 and 24. Little Mountain, Wednesday, Jan. 25. O'Neall, Thursday, Jan. 26. St. Lukes, Friday, Jan. 27. Longshores, Monday, Jan. 30. Silverstreet, Tuesday, Jan. 31. Chappells, Wednesday, Feb. 1. And at Newberry until February 20, after which date a penalty of 50 per cent. will be added against all persons, firms, or corporations failing to make their returns. The law requires a tax to be charg ed on all moneys, notes and mort gages, also an income tax on gross incomes in excess of $2.500. There shall be a capitation tax of fifty cents on all dogs, the proceeds to be expended for school purposes. Dogs not returned for taxation shall not be considered as property in any of the courts- of this State. , AM male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to ppy poll tax, except Confederate soldiers, or those persons incapable of earn ing a support from being maimed or from any other cause. Nothing out personal property is to be assessed this year, but all persons .who have bought or sold any real es tate since last return are required to note such transfers on their returns for 1911. All property must be assessed "at its true value," which is construed to mean "the sum of money for which such prop erty,, under ordinary cir cumstances, would sell for cash." Please do not ask tnat your prop erty be taken from the auditor's du plicate the same as last return, for the law requires that all property must be listed on regular tax return blanks an dsigned and sworn to by person listing same. Name of township and school dis trict must be given on every return. Eug. S. Werts Auditor Newberry County. Newberry, S. C. Escaped With His Life. "Twenty-one years ago I faced an awful death," writes H. B. Martin, Port Harrelson, S. C. "Doctors said I had consumption and the dreadful cugh I had looked like it, sure enough. I tried everything I could hear of, for my cougn, and was underI the treatment of the best doctor in Georgetown, S. C., for a year, but could get no relief. A friend advised me to try Dr. King's New Discoveary. I did so, and was completely cured. 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Seats for out of town ved by mail or phone. 1 >f Newberry County, 'ant to sell you your making as good as the se me before buying. OilMlliil, ER, Manager.