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If Toe. Don’t Rood THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Got The News. VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1925 NUMBER 14 GENERAL ASSEMBLY BREAKS ALL RECORDS FOR LONG TERM Entered Upon Twelfth Week Monday Still Faced With Ancient and Complex Problem ' of Revenue Raising. i Columbia, March 28.—The eleventh week of the legislative sessioh came to an end today, with adjournment willro-the- wisp. Whatever hopes may have been aroused in the minds of the legisla tors by the promise of free conference committee members that the general appropriations bill would be engross ed and ready for final consideration today were extinguished when the JLL-Jioxise.Tofrepresentatives adjourned‘un-' -tors -hi’-the refusal of the senate to * til Monday night. The belief that this week-end would see the conclusion of legislative busi ness for the session encountered its first set-back when the senate rejected the revamped soft drink tax bill early in .the week, amended by the finance committee so as to place a tax on cosmetics. The subsequent defeat of the occupation tax proposed by the same committee from a plan outlined by Senator Arthur Young of Charles ton, caused members of the legislature to predict that the session would run well into its twelfth week. For a period of several hours Fri day, members of both houses indicat- bers of the conference committee on the general appropriation bill, that the house conference would refuse to re- porTany kind of an appropriation bill until the senate would have passed some revenue measures. During the week evjdence of an increasing sentiment in favor of the general revaluation bill introduced by Senator R. S. Stewart, of Lancaster, and others, was seenJ>y several sena- continue the measure until next year. The bill was recommitted to the fi nance committee. That it is the purpose of the senate in discarding revenue measures sent over by the house to put through the revaluation bfll was pointed out by several members of the legislature, 'but it was indicated that the opposi tion in the house will be. strong so that chances of its passage will be slim. During the week Governor McLeod vetoed two acts whi£h had their ori gin if! the senate, and in each case the senate sustained the veto. The first measure would have provided for ed that they were*stlil holding to the placing the state constabulary under plan of adopting the report of the free j bond, and the second would hjjve eom- 4 •A conference committee ^n the appro priations bill and ending the session. "The conferees reported that they were making good progress and would pelled the sinking fund commission to pay delinquent taxes to the counties on. all forfeited lands sold for taxes. The house adopted a resolution un- the tax and economic situation in the state and to draft measures that be able to report the bill today, but der which a'committee to investigate members of the house argued that to return to 'the halls today would accom plish little, so the objection of ten 1 would furnish an equitable form of members to immediate consideration taxation. The committee^will be com- of the report would hold it over until posed of Chairman Nance of the ways the following legislative day. Slicing the various items of the ap- and means committee, and four other members of the house. They would be ,propriations bill, advocated by some, required to report their findings to was discarded by leaders in both the 1926 general assembly. houses as a means of reducing the de ficit. One member of the general as sembly pointed out that even though Before adjourning for the week the house killed 62 to 47 a resolution to provide for paying members of the the items suggested by Senator Rufus s house $160 additional pay for the ses- ,F»nt of Anderson, should be eliminat- sion. Senator Pearce’s bill to liber- ed the grand total of the bill would alize the provisions for widows of be reduped only by about half a mil- j Confederate veterans was rejected in lion dollars. In order to reduce the,the house. The house also killed a total the two million dollars to wipe I bill by Representative Pearman, of out the deficit, others brought out, j Anderson, and Davenport, of Green- would make it necessary to slash ap-1 ville, to require textile mills to give propriations for vital departments and thirty days notice, before closing* down institutions of the government. Members of the legislature stated that they thought it not impossible for three days or longer The senate advanced the bill pro viding for state regulation of motor that both houses will be in session | busses to third reading and committed throughout the coming week, Senator i it to its judiciary committee for re H. H. Gross of Dorchester, chairman pf the finance committee, stated *dur- porting and possible amendments. Smator Hamilton, of Chester, served in session only 175 hours to the close of the previous week,,the number of hours of committee meetings had not been taken into consideration. The intermediate sentence bill was signed the name d,ay by Governor Mc Leod. Twice recommended by him,to the general assembly as desirable leg islation, the measure found ready ac ceptance when it came to'the governor for his signature. The new law pro vides for imposing a maximum, and minimum sentence on each defendant whose crime does not call for a life sentence or less than twelve months. At the expiration of the minimum term the record of the prisoner would be reviewed by the board of pardons and recommendations would be made to the governor for executive clem ency if deemed advisable. Both attended- a :joint-*4a-|] sion in the hall of the house toward the close of the week to hear an ad dress by Senator “Pat” Harrison, in which# he predicted that the policies for which * Woodrow Wilson stood would eventually win recognition from his own nation, which rejected them. Senator Harrison made a strong plea for the world court and the league of nations. He stated that the world court issue would be a burning ques tion in the next session of congress. The Mississippi senator^ reviewed the act of the present administration, attacked the appointments made by President Coolidge and declared that indications are favorable to a Demo cratic victory in the coming senatorial and presidential elections. * DIAL NAMED BY PRESIDENT ing the middle of the week that as it, notice that he would make a fight on appeared to him then there was' the measure at third reading. strong probability that an extra ses sion would be necessary before the work of the general assemblly will be ended for the year. Predictions of distant adjournment sine die were strengthened by state ments by Chairman Carroll D. Nance of the ways and means committee,.and Representative Mendel L. Smith; of Kershaw, two of the three house mem- Tuesday members of the senate re plied to .criticisms made editorially in the press in regard to tl^ length of the session and the size of the appro priations. They expressed the yiews that certain of the'editors are not aware of the extent of work before the legislators. Certain senators pointed! out that, whereas it had been written that the general assembly had been As Member of Muscle Shoals Com mission to Study Project and Sub mit Data for Legislation Washington, March 27.—President Coolidge today appointed a commission of five to study the Muscle Shoals pro ject and submit recommendations to form' a basis for legislation at the next session of congress. With the aid of the commision, the president hopes to lay down sugges tions to congress in December that will solve the government’s problem at Muscle Shoals that has been hanging fire since the war. The commission, consisting of for mer Representative McKenzie of 111- nois, chairman; former Senator Dial of South Carolina; Prof. Harry A. Cur tis, a chemical engineer of Yale uni versity; William McClellan, an elec trical engineer of New York, and Rus sell F. Bower of the American Farm Bureau federation, are expected to meet soon to map out a course of pro cedure. Supporters of private operation of Muscle Shoals are heartened by the personel of the commission, three members of which, McKenzie, Dial and Bower, were original advocates of Henry Ford’s bid and later the Under wood private leasing bill. ’those favoring ’government opera tion of the property,.led by Chairman Norris of the senate agriculture com mittee, declard the commission would not recommend government operation, particularly since President Coolidge was opposed to it. Although no members of the cabinet ^ere included in the commission, the president expects the secretaries of wqr, agriculture and commerce to con sult with the commission in an advi sory capacity. 1 President Coolidge has available $150,000, left over from a war appro priation, which can be used for the expenses of the commissiorf. It was made cleaf that the commissioners will be paid for their services although the exact amount has not been fixed. . The commission is expected to go to Alabama this summer and make an exhaustive investigation of the entire property and seek counsel from ex perts befoA preparing a final report. The appointment of a commission was in line with a resolution adopted i by the house in the closing days off the last sessiom after it WA*- realized^ r that the Underwood bill could not be passed. The resolution declared it was the sense of the house that a commis sion of experts Should be named to consider the whole subject thoroughly and submit recommendations to the president. HIGH GRADE GAMECOCK FERTILIZER FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Send Your Orders to « • Phone 62 SEASON TICKET SALE FOR THE SPARTANBURG MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1ST 4 Mail your orders at once and you will be given just as good seats as if you selected them in person. 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