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COULD QUIT SATURDAY NOT LIKELY LAWMAKERS WILL STOP THEN, THOUGH. Seems Almost Certain Legislature is to Remain in Session to Constitutional Limit. Columbia, Feb. 3.?There is some prospect of an adjournment sine die of the legislature next Saturday. However, if the members desire this legislature not to go down in the liistory of the State as a lawmaking body with practically nothing but the appropriation measure 'and a mass of local bills to its credit, it is probable that there will be two more weeks of the legislative mill. Altnougn cne nouse uas &iwu mc appropriation measure its final reading, a large number of important measures clutter up the calendars of both bodies, some of them bills for war legislation, and it is not likely that there will he ap adjournment without th'e passage of the more important of them. House Bills Remaining. On the house side the more important of these measures on second reading are those providing for the creation of a State council of defense, putting an increase to the bonded indebtedness of the State in a referendum, providing for a constitutional convention, stabilizing of street car fares between training camps and adjacent cities, survey of property of the State for assessment purposes, repealing the State income tax law, regulating the pension laws of the State, the county supply bill, licensing of fire insurance agents, several measures relating to free * scholarships and free tuition in the ' State institutions of higher learning, several measures amending the bank, ing laws of the State, increasing the ;-v? I ' ' salaries of State officers, abolishing the State board of charities and corrections, making days on which primary elections are?h^ld legal holidays, providing for a State correctional administration, exemption of all South Carolina electors in the military and naval service from paying poll taxes, reconstructing the State department of agriculture, commerce and industries, regulating the sale of paregoric and certain patent medicines, allowing women to ^ practice law in South Carolina, enjoining and abating houses used for immoral purposes, and providing for a minimum wage for women and girls working in commercial establishments. - i * - y Some Senate Measures. ft.:" . . Among the important bills on the senate side are: Providing for the investigation of management, disposition and control of the Columbia { canal, several measures relating tov the assessment and levying of taxes, empowering women to hold offices, nMirtdinir frtr hionninl RPSfiiOTlK of A- VI* \ I f the general assembly, to erect a stat-1 ue of John C. Calhoun at the State house grounds in Columbia, regu[ lating the expenditures for campaign | purposes of any candidate for State i office', standardizing of text books for the public schools, increasing the salaries of State offices, inci easing the age of consent from fourteen to ~ sixteen years, providing for the election of State game warden, abolishing the office of insurance commissioner and devolving his duties on the State bank examiner, requiring .railroads to pay their transportation employees semi-monthly, several measures dealing with the vice situation, regulating the department of agriculture, commerce and industries, creating a State council of defense, and providing for the physical and dental examination of children attending the public schools. When the house adjourned Friday afternoon to reconvene Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, there were 200 | fW second reading bills on its calendar I to be disposed of, many of them of controversial character. The senate adjourned Thursday afternoon to j| meet again Monday afternoon at 2 B o'clpgfr'Vith 197 second reading bills iW to be passed upon. ^ Defense Council Bill First. [R When the house convenes Tuesday H| the bill creating the State council of defense will have the right of way, IT as it was under debate when that body adjourned Friday. There is fj bound to be considerable debate on this measure as there will be an effort to substitute the ways and means committee amendments prok viding for the selection of the person& nel of the body by the various coun+tt Hoiotratinnc anH the reduction of [the appropriations from $50,000 to $25,000. As the present council of defense has a large number of friends in the house who do not desire to see the splendid work accomplished by the present members tampered with, there will be a battle to the finish. It is expected that the measure as originally drawn will SWORD FOR ENS. ETHEREDGE. I^egislature Recognizes Gallant Service of Young Carolinian. George 0. Etheredge, ensign in the United States navy, will receive a sword, suitably engraved, in recognition of the bravery he displayed in going to the rescue of members of the crew of the sinking Paddlesford. A resolution calling for the appointment of committees from the two houses of the general assembly to solicit subscriptions for this purpose has been adopted by the legislature. Ensign Etheredge is assigned to the gunboat Annapolis and was detailed to command and launch a life boat in making the rescue. The rescue was made at much peril to himself and his men, the boat capsizing once during the venture. The act was praised by Secretary of the Navy Daniels and he was officially gazetted in the army and navy journals of January 12. Ensign Etheredge is a native of Saluda county, his father being Col. Alvin Etheredge. His mother died only a few months ago. Before marriage she was a Miss Hammond, of Worcester, Mass., a relative of the late Governor Hammond, of South Carolina. After finishing in the course in the high school at Saluda, Ensign Etheredge entered Furman university where he remained a session and a half, until he won an appointment to Annapolis. He completed his course at the naval academy in 1917, being a member of the class which was graduated one year ahead of time at the direction of President Wilson and the secretary of the navy. He was on the first battleship to pass through the Panama canal, traveling to the Panama Pacific exposition. " He is now 22 years old. In his early school days he was an omniverous reader, particularly books relating to the lives of great military lead ers, especially Jackson and Lee. For reaching flies on ceilings there has been invented a long handled swatter, operated by a spring. Watermans Ideal Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. be passed. The likelihood is that the council of defense measure will sidetrack the county supply measure, which has not been considered on second reading yet, and-if it does it probably will torpedo the plans for adjourning sine die Saturday, as the supply measure will have to be plentifully amended as some of the delegations have not finished their county estimates. "This will delay the second reading of the bill until Wednesday, as neither hoqse will meet Tuesday night because of the reception to be given to the members by Governor Manning at the executive mansion that evening. Its third reading could not be had before Thursday, when it would be reported to the senate for its first reading. Expeditious handling could pass it through that body by 'Saturday, provided it is not obstructed by other legislation. Appropriation Bill. The general appropriations bill, carrying a total of $3,176,816.37 and a levy of eight and three-fourths mills, was given its final reading by the house Friday and will be reported to the senate when it reconvenes Monday afternoon. The finance committee of that body has already been working on the measure and knows what it will do. It will come up for second reading and amendment during the middle of the week and will be sent to free conference during the latter part of the week. It it understood that the finance committee will make little change in the totals as reported from the house, but the law enforcement fund, refused t>y both the ways and means committee of the house and the members of the lower body, may be inserted. It if is this will precipitate a fight in the j lower DOQV on me tree lumcicutc report, the rejection of which would mean that the general assembly would have to stay in session until a new general appropriations bill is drafted and passed through both houses, or an entraordinary session would have to be called to make the appropriations. Last year this item, along with a number of others, was inserted by the senate, also some by the free conference committee, and the house came near rejecting the re,port. j When an attempt was made to have the house adopt an amendment calling for $25,000 for a law enforce I mem runa last inuxsuay, a. pruiuiiged debate was precipitated, which re' suited in its defeat by a vote of 39 'to 57. An analysis of the vote, shows 'that members of nine delegations [present and split even on the vote, eighteen counties cast majority votes against it, twelve delegations voted solidly for it and one cast a ballot in favor of it. 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