The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 14, 1927, Image 7
BitATlONS OF OVERTIME
? PROVE TO BE INTERIST1NG
K. AULL Galley one....
PjL Oct. 3.?Just what are
go to mske up soma
flenses of the last general
iTgnd how they would look
FTJp an itemised appropriat^IE
makes interesting readpi
not. to be understood that
fc sny criticism by this writer.1
is not his province, The
i# presumed to be worthy of
if he readers the proper
and, so far as the fa.cU here
j are concerned, there may
who will conclude that for
cea rendered not enough mk
hat, however, is
eneral appropriation bill for
)tains 'W* "That
jyees of the general naeenjbengroaaing
department shall
jyci^lme pay at tjie rate of
se pay, the same to be paid
case out of Approved AcProvided,
further, that the
the house is authorized to
epared a house journal int
cost of $200, and the clerk
icnate is authorized to have
a senate journal index at
>f $200: Provided, further,
dean of the engrossing de:
shall receive per diem at
of $16." It is also "proirther,
that the members of
ral assembly shall receive an
allowance of $200 each, the
be paid from Approved Ac?,
f the Senate and House."
st proviso is easy to undert
simply means that, as was
at the time, the members
jneral assembly voted them100
each for "expense al'
which most of them
needed at the end of
ng session. But the
viso as to employees conwhole
lot in a few words,
opriated a good deal of
> be paid out ' by proviso,
mission was asked of the
er general to look through
ds to ascertain just what ap5ns
this proviso did carry,
t money the State treasury
d upon to pay out under it.
are public, and of course
?n was granted. As was
i the beginning, and as
ever shall be, the revelainteresting
to put it mildly,
ve been many inquires, and
mation is here presented, 'i
enate is usually known as
>er body," and it was taken
J. H. Fowles, the clerk, re-,400,
his regular pay, over
time pay not being granted the clerk
of either house. John It. Johnson,
assistant clerk, received $760, his
regular pay, and overtime pay which
brought hie total to $1,031.26. John
T. Sloan, second assistant clerk,
regular pay, $600, with overtime pay
to bring his total up to $1,287.60
tyilliapa ?1. Barnwell, general desk
clerk, regular pay $600, with overtime
pay to bring his total up to
$1,287.50. S. H. Edmpuds, bill clerk,
regular pay $500, with overtime pay
to bring his total up to $1,287.60
Mias Vera iiouseal, journal clerk,
regular >ay $500, with overtime I
pay and $200 additional for indexing
house journal, bringing her
total up to $1,487.60. William A.
^Claykson, reading clerk, regular pay
$760, with overtime pay which
brought his total up to $1,031.25.
H. 11. Hendricks, sergeant at arms,
regular pay $750, with overtime pay
which brought his total up to $1,031.25.
W. T. Walker, clerk of the finance
committee, regular pay $500, with
overtime pay which brought his totul
up to $1,287.60. Mr. Walker is
also the very efficient clerk of the
joint committee on printing, and
during the four pionths of January,
February, March and April, while
the legislature was in session, he
also received his regular salary as
such, at the rate of $250 per month,
amounting to $1,000 for the four
'fnonths.
Cliff Langford, stenographer of
finance committee, regular pay $100,
vyith overtime pay of $630; Cliff
Langford, clerk of committee on
roads, etc., regular pay $200, with
overtime pay of $315, This brought
Mr. Langford's total for his services
to the senate committees up.,to $1,545.
During the four months of
January, February, March and April,
Mr. Langford, who is also the very
efficient court stenographer of the
First circuit, also di^w his salary as
such at the rate of $175 per month
and traveling expenses as" such ^at
the rate of $25 per month,
making Mr. Langford's regular pay,
as court stenographer, during the
time the legislature was in session,
$800, in addition to the amount he
received for his legislative services.
F. B. Gary, clerk of the judiciary
committee, regular pay $500, with
overtime pay which brought his
total up to $1,287.50.
The 'remainder of the salaries will
be stated just in terms of regular
pay and total pay, in order to save
space.
J. P. Nickles, clerk committee on
education, regular pay, $600, total
$1,287 60. Huger S. King, secretary
to the president, regular pay $400,
total $1,080. Three door-keepers,
T. R Milford, John T, Sawyer, W.
C. Shaw, regular pay, ea<4), $200,
total, e?ch,-$516. Three pages, each,
regular pay $200, total, each $615.
James G. Huggin, chaplain, regular
pay, $300, total, $782.60. Laborers,
six, regular pay, each, $200, total
for four of them, each, $566, and for
two of them, each, $616. Mrs.
I)arcy B. Brennen was general committee
stenographer, and her regular
pay was |400, and total $1,080.
The former -sergeant at ' arms,
Colonel J. Fred Hchumpert, received
the eight days' pay for getting the
senate chamber ready for the session
and the nine days' pay for
monthly inspection of furniture in
committee rooms during the interim
between sessions. The senate also
appropriated $260 to the expenses of
publishing Gibbes' legislative Manual,
for which the total was $1,000,
the other $750 being paid by the
house. It may he remarked in passing
that Gibbes' Manual is a very
valuable publication, and it is somewhat
along the line which is being
urged of itemizing the appropriation
bill. In addition to its legislative
information, it gives the State officials,
their employees, etc., and
other valuable data which the people
of the Stute should be in position to
secure handily. It is a legislative
record and State hand book well
worth the expenditure. ?* **-' |
Over on the house side the silua- j
tion was something like this, just
the regular pay being given, and the
total pay, which means the sum
total of the regular pay und the
overtime pay.
J. Wilson Gibbes, clerk, $2,400,
regular pay, J. E. Hunter, Jr., assistant
clerk, regular $750, total
$1,031.25. Mrs. Olin D. Johnson,
journal clerk, regular $500, total, including
$200 for indexing, $1,487.50.
A. E. Hutchison, reading clerk, regular
$760, total $1,031.25. Furman R.
Gressette, bill Clerk, regular $500,
total $1,287.50 J. M. Smith, clerk
ways means committee, regular $500,
total $1,287.50. Miss Ethel Perry,
stenographer ways and means committee,
regular $4()0, total $1,030. R.
Milo Smith, clerk judiciary committee,
regular $600, total $1,287.50
L. H. White, general committee
clerk, regular $500, total $1,287.50.
Andrew MoC. Fawcette, general
desk clerk, regular $600, total $1,545.
James S. Wilson, sergeant at
arms, regular $750, total $1,931.26
James Y. Perry, secretary to speaker
for forty days, $400. Edw. B. Guerry,
secretary to speaker for remaining
63 days, $630. D. W. ^ott, chaplain,
regular $300, total $772.50. Six
pages, regular, each, $200; total,
each, $515. Four door-keepers, regular,
each, $200; total, eaoh, $515.
Two porters, regular, each, $200; total
for one $535 and for the other,
$515. Five laborers at $200, each,
regular, with totals for two, each, of$555;
one $540, and two, each, $515.1
Jamesf- Wilson, sergeant at arms, 8
days for preparation of house chamber
for session, $150, and nine days,
one each month during interim, for
inspection of furniture in committee
rooms, $168.75.
For expenses common to both
houses:
B. H. Lumpkin, clerk committee
on enrolled acts, regular $400, total
$1,030. K. H. McAdams, postmasterr
regular $400, total $770. Mr. McA'dhms,
who became railroad commissioner,
wjis succeeded by D. E.
Penney, who drew $260 for the
remainder of the session, as postmaster.
J. W. Woods, assistant
postmaster, regular $200, total $515.
Three laborers, each, regular $200,
total, two each, $515, ami for the
third $555. J. J: Gross, flag raiser,
regUlar $80, total $206. Telephone
page, regular $200, total $516. Two
telephone operators, $100. These
operators a if furnished by the Bell
Telephone Company.
Engrossing department:
. C. JL Qerald^jdiief clerk regular
$850, total $2,1,188.75. Seventeen engrossing
clerks, regular time, each,
$300; total, each, J $772.50. Two
porters each, regular, $200, total,
each, $515. Solicitors, on per diem
basis, McLeod, $930; Gasque, $1,485;
Allen, $830; Carter, $800; Glenn,
Ji850; Callison, $760; Harris. $680;
Blackwell, $1,010;. Hough, $850; Hydrick,
$980;. Murdaugh, $260 Blackwood,
$370;. Leatherwood, $140.
r The two porters who served in the
engrossing department, and drew
$515, each, for the session,^ are also
regularly. employed in the State
House, and dTew their regular salaries
also. One of the women laborers
who drew $516 fn expenses common
to both houses, is, janitress
regularly em ploy#0 at the Staid
House, ami drew her regular salary
aTso. ?
{ That is the stdrjr. It spesks for
1 itself. The voucher* uv?r ?r? the
State Hoik, as mute evidence .of
what it costa to' run a "session of the
general smafrHj, Jj?d how Uttle the
appropriation hill tiUs the true story
1 . - -O , v.
That i? the record of who the employee*
and attaches were at the
last. session, and what they were
paid.
It is an interesting revelatory
story. And there are just lots of
stories of this kind over in the State
House. The last legislature did not
itemise, the appropriation bill, bjat
the vouchers are over there. The
expenses incident to legislative employees
and attaches are comparatively
a very small item, but they
point a moral and adorn a tale. There
are huge items in the appropriation
bill that are not even attempted to
be itemized. The next legislature
may or may not itemise its bill..
There will be those who will say
that this is an attack upon hardworked
clerks. It is not attack upon
anybody. It is not within the province
of this column to editorialise.
The figures ure given. They speak
for themselves.
There are boards and bureaus and
commissions in South Carolina which
are spending thousands and thousands
of dollars, which are not specified
in the appropriation bill, hut are
B|>ent under the bill's general terms.
The State's institutions of higher
learning are spending thousands and
thousands of dollars, all of which
could he itemized in the appropriation
bill. It all mounts way up into
the millions. Probably the most difficult
itemization would be as to
legislative expenses which are here
called attention to. Maybe they
could not all be itemized. But certainly
the people of South Carolina
have a right to know what those expenses
are, and it is for that reason,
and because it is believed the people
of South Carolina will be interested,
and because many of them have inquired,
that the information is given
them here.
Hunting lJcenpt^T Revoked
Columbia, Oct. 3.?First convictions
under the new hunting license
law have been reported from Charleston
county to A. A. Richardson,
chief game warden of South Carolina.
This year, hunting licenses are
issued in the shape of "buttons,"
which are worn on the coat or jacket
and the law prohibits the lending
as well as the borrowing of these
buttons.
The chief game warden said yesterday
that he received a check for
$50 from Magistrate J. H. Timmons
of banning, the check covering fines
imposed on Prior Legg for borrowing"
a hunting button and hunting
with it and on Tom Keels for lending
the hunting button to Prior
Lcgg.
The chief ga.ro warden of Clarendon
county, W. S. Plovvden, has
been instructed bv Mr. Richardson
to confiscate the buttons referred to I
and rtnd them to hir. effbe
I
Here ! beaut y end the bea^t, but
In thle instance. beauty represented
by Mlsa Teresa Baron ta on the
Ions and, while the heeat honors in
the hands or, to be exact, the feet of
"Little George" taVe the second
cowt ^nyway. you can personally
rlew both beauty and beasTs wh^n
John .Robinson** Circus comes to
Jhlt vicinity' for afternoon and
bight exhibit Ions In the near fu*
lltire. ...
"Little George" la one of the
* member* of the Juvenile sou with
the "pioneer circus of the world,"
while Ifita Baron Is one of ihe 1nnr
Baron Girls, noted English aerial*
lata. These girls are said,to he
without an equal in aerlsllstlc*.
possessing abundant nerve and daring.
as .well as a goodly share of
- English beauty. The 104th edition
of John Robinson's circus comes
with many new and novel featuree.
a ??fl ? the maiMd of all trained
wild animal displays.
.
: Willi JoKn Robinson's Circus
. at Sumter, Friday, October 21
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h agree with George White
I that Luckies are the best"
fSaid Flo Brooks to Lou Holt*
while waiting for their cue to
I appear in "Manhattan Mary."
You, too, will find that
LUCkY STRIKES
give the greatest
pleasure*?Mild and
Mellow, the finest
-cigarettes you ever
smoked. Made of the
choicest tobaccos,
properly aged and
blended with great
skill, and there fe an
extra process?"ITS
TOASTED"?no
harshness, not a bit I
of bite. 1
i Pbotobt Q. lUUIardKMiUr*
George White,
Producer of
George White'8 Scandals,
writes!
"In the theatre world, Luckies
, . have become almost univer*
. sal. Stage folk* are very critU
I cal?rolces. must be kept In
condition, throat irritation is
a handicap. In *Qeorge
Whiteft Scandalt,' most ao
.. tors and actre?*csu>ho$e voice*
'are important sntolcC Luckiest !_
CH>hI jot voice protection ana. r'
finer flavor. For these rtaton* ?
1 prefer them, too."
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Begin Small and Grow I
a i
Many
men starting out on their bus- I
iness careers have a wrong idea in their
heads. Most successful businesses * do
not start big. A man . must begin in a j
small way and deny himself. j
Loan & Savings Bank I
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OUTLAW DRUNKEN* DRIVERS
Would Take Away Right To Drive
While Drunk in Thin Slate
Driver* of automoones in this
state who arc found under the influence
of whiskey will be deprived
of the right to operate cars if
a measure now being framed .by
Representative W. H. Keith, of this
city, becomes law.
"I favor a law with teeth in it."
Representative Keith -said this morning.
"While we have no law requiring
a driver of an automobile to secure
a driver's license, we could take
away from him the right of operating
a car, provided he is declared
guilty of driving while under the influence
of whiskey. I am in favor of
such a measure and think I shall introduce
it at the next session of the
legislature. We must do something
to protect our people who are being
killed almost daily on the highways."
Representative Keith is the author
of the law which carries a
chaingang sentence for. persons in
' this state, who upon their second
J offense, are convicted of driving a
car while under the influence of
whiskey. He thinks this a good
law, but believes something more
stringent in now needed. Fatalities
still occur on the highways of the
state and so far Representative Keith
does not know whether or not there
have been any convictions under the
existing law.
"I believe it would be very effective
if we had a law which would
deny a driver the right to operate a
car, if it were proven that he was
under the influence of whiskey, while
driving an automobile. I believe the
fear that he would not be allowed to
drive a car for the remainder of his
life would do more than anything j
else to keep drivers in a sober con- j
dition and thus reduce the number'
I
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of futulties on the highways of our
state. Something must be done."?
Greenville Piedmont.
Popular Southern Conductor I ft
"1 am t^Mhly very sorry to hear of
the illness of my good friend, John
Barxtell," said a Yorkville man this
-c
morning. "1 have known John ever
since he first ran into Yorkville in
1888 and I have always liked him
and consider him a good friend of
mine. He has been a remarkable
man, running his trains all of these
years. He came to this road from
the old South Carolina and Georgia
railroad, which at that time I believe
was under the supervision of the
late Col. J. H. Averill, and he has
been on the Marion and Kingsville
division ever since that time, long
before the road came into the hunds
of the Southern system. But he had
been a conductor long before that
and I have always understood that
he served on the Panama railroad
when that line was under control of
the French company that first
started to dig the Panama canal,
and paralleled the canal with a
railroad. John is a clever gentleman
and I am hoping that he is going to
come through his illness and after a
good rest get back on the job again."
-?Yorkville Enquirer.
Honor Roll Antioch School.
Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts, superintendent
of the Antioch High School,
reports the honor *roll for month of
September as follows; '
Grade 1?Lou Alice Pate, Jack
Spears, Irving Shiver.
Grade 2?Ila Mae Boykin, Frank
Galloway, Elilee Pate, Marion Spears s 1
. Grade 3?HPeggy Holland, Mae :
Sinclair.
Grade 4?Iris Arnold, Arthur Holland,
Jr., Marion Shiver.
Grade 5?Garrison Frost, Sammie
Spenrs. - . :|g
Grade 8?Connie Mae Shiver, Ma- "^Ji
lie Sparrow.
Grade 10?Ray Johnscn.
Grade ll?Lloyd Davis, Henrietta
Joye. -
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