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OA$TORIA~ For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have 3 .PER Always Bought S AegetabePreparationfor.s simitatingtheodandRegua Bears the ting teStomachseand;,oweof - *8*. Signature SPromotesDigestionCheefio nessandRest.Contains-neither Opiuma.Morphiae norN neraL NOTNARCOTIC. Use Worms,Conv~lsions -For Over essandLOSSOFSUEEP Thirty Years NEW YOR.ORA Exact. Copy of Wrapper. T. C.NTaU C.PAN. NW TORN CITY. HON. i. H. L[SESNE FAYOlR8 11 HOLDING Of BIENNIAL SES$IONS To the editor of the 'News and Cou- the Legislature at this time. I do rier: I have read carefully and with not see wherein the question of more interest your editorial in your paper new settlers in South Carolina has today in regard 'to biennial sessions anything to do with the case. I have of the Legislature based. upon the given this question a great deal of views of Mr: Dial of Laurens Coun- thought. So far as the Democratic ty. There is one general proposi- primary is concerned' I have been tion upon which I think you and Mr. elected to the House of Representa Dial are both corect, and that is that tives from Clarendon County, and ex a majority of the people of the State pect to be elected in the general elec are in favor of biennial sessions of tion next Tuesday. In the campaign New Store New Goods GABL *Iis the Neer Town on the1J road, One Mile South of TIE CRISTAL Is the New Store on the and.Sardinia Road a This store was opened in May with a new stock * everythinci marked in plain figures. As 'I Price that must be the. Right I Satisfaction Guaranteed, Your Money -Highest Market Prices paid for Eggs and Chickens. Bring or send us your Eggs and Chickens. You car We take all you bring and 'pay you the moneyv: thenx sei can. We seli for cash, therefore have no losses on ti ables us to undersell any store cairying long accounts. We sell Rice, Grits, Meal, Beans, Peas. etc.. by the y quart or peck. Try this system and weigh what you be of the fact that 8 liquid quarts of Grits will not weigh ti there are "Storekeepers" who se]] e such quarts for a i the fact that it takes 12 pounds to fill a peck measure. We solicit your patronage and will give you a square dE The CHRISTAL GABLE, S. C. lately had I favored bienial sesions, conditionally, the Constitution of the State intervening as the basis of the conditions. I note in your editorial you write as follows: "We learn from Mr. Dial that Sen ator Nickles, of Abbeville, expects to press a biennial sessions bill in the Senate this winter and that Senator Wharton, of Laurens, one of the new Senators, is heartily in favor of such a measure. We are sure that if a bill, carefuly drawn, is introduced early in the sesion and vigorously pushed its pasage cannot be prevent ed. Bienial sessions cannot be de feated on a direct vote. Its oponents have always been compelled to rely upon obstruction and evasion." Now I take it that both Senator. Nickels and Senator Wharton, who are quoted as being, in favor of bien nial sesions, and aiso Mr. Dial and yourself, who favor the proposition, have gone further into the question than to conclude that the hange from anual to bienniel sessions is a mere mere matter of enactment of the Leg islature at one of its sessions. The Legislature itself, as we all know,. was created by the Constitution .of the State, and at present- we are gov erned by the Constitution, which was framed in 1895. You will recall that the constitutional convention which met in 1895 postponed the regular sesion of the General Assembly, which was to have convened that year, charged the time of meeting from November to. January, and in section 9 of Article III said this: "The first session of the General As sembly elected 'under - this Constitu tion shall convene in Columbia on.the second Tuesday in January ' in the year 1897, and ythereafter annually at the same time and place." So that one fact is clear, that being that the Constitution will have to be changed in order to have biennial instead of annual sesisons; and you will pardon me for suggesting' that the people should be informed on this question and their minds should be disabused of the common prevailing idea that the change can be made by mere leg islature enactment. Now, what about the method of making the change ? We find in ar ticle XVI, of the Constitution, relat in to changes of the same, that a bill will have to be introduced pro posing to submit the change to a general election of the votes in each house before it is submitted to the voters in a general election; that when it is voted on and the people in a general election endorse the New System L'colu Rail Sardinia. STOR Manning t Gable of Merchandise and here isbut One >rice Back if Wanted not "oversto.k" us. you somnething if we iat score, which en ound instead of the y. Are you aware n pounds? and thlat peck notwithstanding STORE. us Mrs. Jay McGee, of Steph enville, Texas, writes: "For nine (9) years, I suffered with womanly trouble. I had ter rible headaches, and pains in my back, etc. It seemed as if I would die, I suffered so. At last, 1 decided to try Cardui, the woman's tonic, and it helped me right away. The full treatment nor only helped me, but it cured me." TAKE The Woman's Tonic Cardui helps women in time of greatest need, because it contains ingredients which act specifically, yet gently, on the weakened womanly organs. So, if .you feel discouraged, blue, out-of-sorts. unable to do your household work, on account of your condition, stop worrying and give Cardui a trial. It has helped thousands. of women -why not - you ? Try Cardui. E4-1 change, the matter comes back to the General Assembly again for rat ification. So that granting that Sen ator Nickles and Senator Wharten shall press, and succeed in passing, their proposed bill, the\ matter will then go before the people in 1918 for endorsement, and will have to then come back to the Legislature, not earlier than .anuary, 1919, for rati fication, and the biennial session pro position certainly cannot go into ef fect earlier than with the members of the General Assembly who shall be elected in 1920. The Constitution of the State is our fundamental law, and we can not change it except in the manner prescribed by the instrument itself. Speaking frankly with you, I want bienial sesions of the Legislature, al though I have never thought that the annual convening of the body created halt the evil that is com monly ascribed to- it, nor that the expense of a _ession was near as terrible, in comparison. with some other extravagances that the State is indulging in. But this brings me to the main point in my entire article a question which I really want enlightenment on, and one which I hope you will give thought to and discuss in a lib eral manner at intervals from now until the time of the convening of the Legislature. Will a mere change f the word "annual" to "biennial" be sufficient? In -other words, when our Consti ution was framed in 1895 the whole scheme of thought in the minds of LI-EMHRHiORN SON CHAR LESTON, S.C. From Weak and Lame STo Well and Strong Try them. Foley Kidney Pills will de for other men and women-qiuick ly-what they have done for Mrs. Stas' year, I got almost down with my ba :k," writes Mrs. H. T. Straynge ~f Ga~ 1esvllle, Ga., R. No. 3. "I suf ined 'rom Inflammation of the blad Ier. :.. I whenever I stopped doctorir=g -rew worse. I tried Foley Kidney rs end after taking them awhile ly ble Ider action became regular and trinsensation disappeared ve en f. r several years, and since get ng v: 1l, I've stayed well and had o re:Lm of the trouble." Start In now to use Foley Kidney misi. You will feel an improvement :om t te very first doses, showing ow qtuckly they act on kidneys and ladder. They stop Irregular urinary -tir-n, .ase pain in back and sides, umsbT t stif jonts and aching mus der In :aund, healthy condition. Try Dnckn' Drug Store. Lax-Fos, A Mild, Effective Laxative & Liver Tonic Does Not Gripe nor Disturb the Stomach. In addition to other properties, Lax-Fos contains Cascara in acceptable form, a stimulatingLaxativeandTonic. Lax-Fos acts effectively and does not gripe nor disturb stomach. At the same time, it aids digestion,arouses the liver andse.retions and restores the healthy functions. 50c. its framers was that the General As sembly should meet once every year. The whole scheme of taxation, for raising money to defray the expense of the State government, and for raising money to defray the expenses of county governments, was based upon the idea of anual sesions of the General Asembly, and that the Legislature alone, has the power tq levy these taxes. The whole scheme 4" the terms of office of the judges: of the State, college rustees, and many other maters, are based upon the idea of annual sessions of the Legislature. If you simply cut the Gordian knot by changing the word "annual" to "biennial," and leave the matter there, then what's going to be the effect of it, and how much turmoil and litigation will we have as the General Asembly could, esti mate the ordinary expenses of the State government for two years, and that the county governments would get alopg better by having .1cal boards to levy the taxes within the respective counties to defray ordi nary county expenses, instead of county taxes being levied by the county delegations, which is now in effect the case, but how are you go ing to do all this under the pres ent Constitution? Now you will prehaps say Mr. Ed itor, that I have raised a lot of ques tions, and offered no remedy. Very welL Everybody knows that. when the constitutional convention was held in 1895, it was shortly after the great reform revolution of 1890 -and 1891, and while there were a great many good and conservative men in that convention, men from both po litical factions, yet there was a great deal of stir and confusion, and some bitterness in that convention. The State had not settled from the revolution through which it had just pased, and the time- was not pro pitious for framing a fundamental set of governmental principles and leaving the matter at that. Instead of doing that the convention under took to descend into matters of de tail legislation, which should be left for the Legislature to do, and we all know the result. Can adybody tell me how many times the present Constitution has been amended since 1895? Why that one matter of "Spe cial Laws Prohibited," in section 34 of Article III, in regard to a dozen or mores subjects has been the cause of many amendments already, and a nightmare to all the lawyers in the State and all the cities and muni cipalities. The Constitution has al ready' been emasculated by so many amendments that one can hardly tell what is constiutional and what is not, and I aspect that on next Tues day we ~ ill be voting on more amendments to the Constitution to allow some village to issue bonds to pave a street. The Constitution of 1895 accom plished the main purpose which im pelled the calling of the convention, that being the elimination of the ne gro vote. Give praise to the genius of B. R. Tillman and D. S. Hender son, but beyond that the document was no great improvement, over the old document of 1868. Biennial sessions of the Legisla tre were not popular in 1895. I am told that in New York State-'the constitutional convention convenes automatically every twenty years to make such changes as rare necessary. Our Constitution has been in force now about twenty-one years, and in that time has been much amended and emasculated. The cost of a con stitutional convention will be. very little if any more than the cost of a sesion of the Legislature, and the convention could eliminate one ses, sion, like it did the session of 1896. It looks to me, Mr. Editor, that since biennial sessions are practically sure to come in a few years, (be cause I -think the masses are thor oughly in favor of the idea), that it would certainly be better, and' save much confusion and litigation in the coming years, for the people of the State to assemble in convention and fix the document properly, and meet some of the growing demands of the masses. But conservative and think ing men cannot afford to fall into popular fads of government and, thoughtless waves of sentiment like women voting and changing the fun damental law of the State without looking to the results th'at will fol-' low.-News and Courier. J. H. Lesesne. Manning, S. C., November 1, 1916. Suiterer from Indigestion Relieved. "Before taking Chamberlain's Tab lets my husband suffered for several years from indigestion, causing him to bave pains in the stomach and distress after eating. Chamberlain's Tablets re lieved him of these spells right away," writes .\rs. Thomas Casey, Geneva, Y. Otaitnable eerywhere. W.C. DAVIS. J. W. WIEMA DAVIS & WDEMAN, ATTORNE YS AT LAW MANN .NG. S. C. DURANT & 'ELLERBE. ATTORNm S AT LAW,. MANE ING. S. C. JOHN G. DINKINS, ATTOLNEY AT LAw. Manning, S. C~ Office in Old Court House. C. -H. LESESNE, ATTORNEY. AT LAW MANN ING. S. C a. o. PURDY. S. OLIVEZa e0B. PURDY & O'BRYAN, . Attorneys ounselors at Law MANNING.S C. R. J. A. 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