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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOW ON HOME STRETCH (Continued from page one). The bill went over to the senate with out a change or modification from the Ioor of the house. Each and every item as agreed upon by the ways and means committee was adopted, and curious to say, the hardest fight was over the water item, as affecting the city of Columbia One of the reasons that the bill had such a successful and easy passage through the house was because Chair mam Browning divided his committee imto sub-committees and had each of these sub-committeeis make actual and careful investigations with re Card to the various branches of the State government and affairs, and when the repocts of these special committeies, with all the facts in hand, were considered and acted upon the general committ6e was on the right track and the house appreciated the eareful and diligent work of the com mittee, aind passed the- bill without the change of a single item, as report ed. Tax Levy Unchanged. The State levy for the coming year wl be 5 3-4 mills, which is the same as it has been for the year 1910, and without an increase of the levy sub stantial increases have been made in the bill, although there is a latitude of $80,000, which last year came out the general fund, that will this year come out of dispensaxy manley and in this way the expectation is to provide for the new work in connection with the State hospital for the insane, without distuirbing the anual levy. As to New Counties. There hes been a marked and ap preciable disposition to check the new gounty movement The members of the assembly are passing measures that will further restrict the forma tion of new counties. The constitu tional provisions were regarded as strict, but the members have found other methods of tightening the con ditions preiminary to the elections. New Justice Wednes?day, Perhaps. The date for the election of the new associate justice has not yet been fix *ed, but the understanding is that it will be on Wednesday. No one- expects an election on -the first ballot, and there is aHl sorts of speculation as to how things will adjust themselves in the final voting. SAdjournment the Fifteenth? The house has indicated that it will work with a view of adjourning at noon Wednesday, the 15th instant. -The senate sugges'ted the 10th, but the house amended by fixing the 15th, and' this willl, in all probability, be the last day jof the present session, al though there is really no reason, with the work as far advanced as it is, why 'the members can not spend next Sun day with their families and not re turn to Columbia. Generally, the movements cf the ap spropriation biH1 are the index of when an adjournment will be had, and this bill is now in the hands of the senate, with ample time for its passage and careful study by the end of the pres ent 'week. There has been an u.nusual demand for the establishment and extension of the rural police system for the various counties. There will be no change in the priv ilege tax system, and its distribution. A compromise bill has been sufg gested by Mr. Remb>ert, relative to electric ihiedlights.' This bill, it is un3derstood, has the approval of the Brotherhood. When one hundred and twenty-two bills are sent to the senate, as a result of a single day's work, some idea may be had of the extent of the house cal endar. Just before adjourning on Saturday afternoon the sena>te passed 'to third reading the bill providing for the in vestigatii on of Attorney General Lyon, the original dispensary investigating committee, the State dispensary wind ing-up commission et al. Notice of general amendments on* third reeding was given. Fifth Associate Justiceship. The last of the batch of associate justice bills passed the senate on Fri day, and upon ratificattion Tuesday the bill will become a law; the governor's signature then being appended, the! election for associate justice to the fifth position may be held. "Convict" Bill Passed. That all able bodied convicts work on the chain gangs of this State. That the whites and blacks be sep-, arated on the chain gangs. That the sexes be separated at all times in the road work, except thatj this roes not apply to the State farms and the penitentiary. These a:-m in brief, the provisions of a bill as amended and passedi in the senate on Saturday afternoon, follow ing a discussion during practically the whole session touching a wide range of conditions in South Caro * d Convicts. The bh.ll: "That all able-bodied male convii shall -hereafter be sentenced to ha labor on the public works of - county in which convicted, if su county maintains a chain gang, wii out regard to the length of senten and in the alternative to impris< ment in the county jail or State pI itentiary at hard labor: Provided tI in any case the presiding judge sh have the power by specil order direct that any person convicted 1 fore him be ccnfined in the State pE itentiary, if it is considered uns or unwise for such convict o be ca mitted to county chain gang." Separation of Races and Sexes. The following proviso was adopt after a lengthy discussion: "Provided that a separatioa of t sexes and races be maintaind at ' times, except in the State penitentia and on the State farms." Greenville and Clarendon connti are exempted from the genEral pr visions of the bill. The Present Law. The law at present sends all cO victs to the State penitentiary who sentences are over ten years and pr vides that the sup4rvisor may u; bis discretion as to those under t< years, sending them to the penite tiary or placing them on the gang. Senate Passes "Mileage" Bill. Ending another big battle on tl mnileage question and kiling variol amend-ments, th.e senate on Frid& night, after two hours' discussion, vo ed to send the measure of SenatA Carlisle, of Spatanburg, providii that mi-leage shall be "pulled" ( trains, to the Liouse of representative The final vote in the senate was 20 7, although Senator Clifton, of Sul ter, voted with the prevailing side : rder to be able to move within tI next two legislative days, to reconsil er the vote wh.ereby the bill was se: to the house. In its final form the bill passed I follows, with the provision added th it take teffect October 1, 1911.: "That any railroad company sel ing mileage books for trasportation hereby required to receive coupo from mileage books, sold by said rai oad company, on its trains for tran >otation within the State, ai o check ;baggage for passiengers upt >resentation of said mileage book." Inhieritance Tax Bill Goes Over. On motion of the finea e comnii tee the inheitance tax bill, that o0 asioned so oxeh discussion. in ti ouse, was, continiued until next set sion by 'the senate. Thi gene.ral impression ia the sel ate was ths.t the members were n< ~ufficiently acquainted with the pro: siion to vote intelligently on it th 'ear. Fowls and Animals May Stray. Mr. Magill made a valia'it fight Lhe house fcr his bill relative to fowl e had th'e support of Mr. Stevenso: but the bill was killed all the sam he bill undertook to make it unlawfi o permit animals and domestic fow o trespass on lands of anotbder, wher n is growing or ungathered any grai otton or vegetable -production rais r market or domestic consumptic ftter notice, and to provide a punis ent thereof. The discuss-.on provol d much amusement. Hunters' License Bill Killed. The Audubon society bilW to requl mnters to take out a gun licent aie up as a special order in ti house on Thursday, and was kille Idr. Magill, of Greenwood, in who; aine the bill was introduced, warm: efended ithe measure. Liquor Cases by Circuit Court. Mr. C. D. Smith's bill to make mas istrates have ;jurisdiction in cases< iolation of the dispensary provoke ively contest, some contending the the .present courts were too slow, b1 the house determined that it woul leave the law- alone and retain di: ensarry cases in the higher courts. Mutual Insurance Companies. There was a surprising debate ( the bill to allow a mutual life insul ance company, at Anderson, to ha' a larger field than is now permittei 'he present law restricts the cor any to doing business in two couw The committee was unanimous] against allowing the Anderson Mutus ompany doing a general business. The bill was kiiled and hereafte as at present, ilocal mutual insurau< omnies in this State must confli their enengies to one or two countie Keep Their Pensions. One of the prettiest litle fights the session was over the bill th; sought to deny the Confederate sc diers, who are inmates of the Confel erate Infirmary, their pension( Thu rsd ay. The bll was d.cussed~ by twen or more members, and finally a y< nd nay vote was taken, the bill b ing killed, 46 to 42. thereby lettir the soldiers at the home continue receive their small pensions. There was a renewal of tha ~9 over the bill on Friday. Mr. (Thso ::ts to $2 per month. The first sugges ,rd tion was to make the amount $1.50 he but Mr. Doer, with his side partnei .ch Mr. Sawyer, managed to have th( th- amendment adopted, and in this wa3 ce, the league bill was passed, providin m- $2 to inmates of the infirmary, ir m- lieu of their pensions, which var3 ,at at present. all to CRITICISM OF REFORMATLORY. Institution at Lexington Not Doin ,f- Proper Work, Says Committee. de M That -the State reformatory is not do ing the work that it should, that thE institution is a mere adjunct to tht State penitentiary, is the charge thai is made in the annual report of thE committee on penal and charitable in all stitutions. ry In the rep6rL it is stated that in 190C e an act was passed authorizing and re quiring the board of directors and superintendent of the penitentiary to set apart so much of the State farm in Lexington as might be necessary for a State reformatory for criminals un se der the age of 16 years. This was for 0- white as -well as nelgro convicts, the se act providing that they should be kept 31 and employed separately. Since the n~ establishment of the South Carolina Industrial School onlry negro convicts have beien kept at the Lexington re ie formiatory. is "Both the spirit and intent of the Ly -law which actuated the establishment t- of this reformatory," says the report, :r "was to improve the morals of the in ig mates and inspire them to become bet >n ter citizen. The act declares, 'that s. the superintendent shall provide for to the instruction of the inmates in mor a- als as well as -useful labor.' In other in words that it be a reformatory in fact. e "In this regard," the report con f- tinues, "the institutionAs not doing the at work it was designed to do, it being a mere adjunct to the penitentiary, s where farm labor is performed and not at enough training is paid to the moral training of the inmates, nor are they . taught any useful trade." is The committee comes to the con clusion that reformation of character 1- is the laudable object in view and "to s- the attain,ment of this end we think tdj and so recommend, that the institution >n have an instructor of its own to ino oulate the principles of .right living anhd give his attention to the spiritual t- and moral uplift of the inmnates. The committeejgnks that the inmates te should alsd have some training in use g- ful 'trades. It is also stated that a Sgeneral improvement of the sanitary 1- condition could be made." yt Tha t there has been rneh improve >- ment in cnditions at the State hospi is tal er the insane is the statement trade in unle annual r:eport of th,e joint committee on penal and .charitable in isti'tutions which has been sent to the s. general assembly. The report covers a, all institutions of the above nature and e. maihes a numbcr of recommendations il as to~ each. Is "We have made a careful inspecton Sof all the buildings of this institution ~and found that they were, especially Sthe interior, in much better condition a than when we last visited them." This i statement is made in the report on - the asylun. The co'mmittee says that it was not impressed with -the fact that a build ring w-is being 'erected 'as a place of se recreat.'on for the negroes as the tnegroes are soon. to be moved to the d new hoepital, w1hich will be erected se eight miles nor,th of Columbia. 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