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BP-*. 1 Remnant Sale Now I 2 1 ill Our Great Stock Reduction I Sale is over?went in with a | fa rush and went out with a 4 SJ rush. $ en ^ fWe are gratified beyond ^ measure with the results. & IS Hundreds of dollars of our ? f* winter stock has been turn- | ^ ed into cash. Our annual $ J* stock taking is over and we |i find, while every depart- ^ jj| ment has done its full share, S a tremenduously heavy sea- ?? jjg son's business has left odd ^ m lots or remnants in every .department that & ? v m a - - - ** 1 Must and will be Sold g e ? a M | Regardless of Cost ? 2 4. & or loss. If you are bargain 9 hunting you will find choice j| & game all over this store, un- & lU til every vestige of winter 9 stock is cleared. I Whitten Dry Goods Go. I i Batesburg, S. C. ? |A| ^ - - - - <5C >C j?) 5 CJC? 5CJC-C?C- M?? I DI T\7 I IIJU I I Your Pulleys, Belting, Packing, Pumps, Piping, Paint, Machine Bolts, Nuts and m Washers, Lime Cement, Plaster and K? I PLUMBING SUPPLIES I Eg "It means money to you." ^ I SOUTHERN STATES j ( SUPPLY CO. I Columbia, S. C. II BHHnBHWKIKOHBKflSiaeaBBHBnHBi1 Having sold m Ihstiew ie^oix: Everything is: and Fixtures a T-\ f ^ ? I Drug* Store 11 Class Goods. Prescription D Stationery, Ni GUNTER'S L | THE GENERAL ASSEM-. BLY. | i FULL PROCEEDINGS OF THAT AUGUST BODY DP TO YESTERDAY MORNING (Special to The Advocate By James A. Hoyt.) w if Columbia, Jan. L7 -The house has jf passed on one of tiie most important (f matters before I lie general assembly H i at tliis session and the senate has 4 touched on another one. The house '4 lias expressed itself on the lien law 4 j and the senate has taken up the rail4 I road rate question. 'f The lien law was debated In the \ house both Thursday and Friday and \ on the latter day the vote was taken, f and by a vote of 75 to 29 the house \ passed the bill repealing the law ref luting to the merchants hen. Last ^ year the vote in the house on this X question was 78 to 1(2 It was defeat, ed in I lie senate last year by a vote of f 20 to 10, but the advocates of repeal ^ claim now that it will pass the senate ' This matter excites much feeling a' mong those iulciestcd directly in ' farming and tiie speeches made on me nooroi use nouse wore character Ized by considerable vigor. It was an 1 interesting debate, thoroughly dignilied and parliamentary but very vigorous. Mr. Richards, the author of ilie bill which lias been passed, ( always speaks w'tli lire and cnthus- 1 , iasm in any cause he advocates: be 1 was ably assisted in this tight by Mr. 1 Alan Johnstone of Newberry, i3 E * Verner of Oconee and C. T. VVycbc of 1 Newberry. The advocates of repeal felt that they did not need to make 3 ; many speeches, since they had the f ; votes. On the oilier side, speeches against repeal were made by Messrs. ! Carey of Pickens, Rucker of Anderson 1 <?arris of ltambcrg and Sellers of Mari'in, all extremely earnest in their prediction that the repeal would do damage to the state. Mr. Sellers had gone to the troub'e to write to the i clerks of court to ascertain the number of liens in every county, and he ~ .1 i>kvii nicu ukuii'9 iu snun uiai iniere 1 were at least ninety thousand in the 1 , state. It Is peculiar that such dif i ferences of opinion can exist about a f puiely business matter, but each side ( is evidently very earnest and sincere ' in its belief that the oilier is badly 1 mistaken. 1 The railroad rate matter came be- ' fore the senate, at least was discussed * when <!ov. Ansel sent in It is message stating the propositions made by the 1 j Southern railway, through President 1 Finley, and the Atlantic Coast Line, 1 i through Vice President Hamilton, in 1 tegard lo voluntary reduction or pas- 1 I cngcr rates, from three to Hi cents per ' mile. In his message, wMcli vasj1 read in each hui.s: on Saturday, tne governor said that these otliciaIs hail : I laid their proposition before him. to I go into ellecl on April 1st, and he : called the altent'on of the legislature j to the fact that under the law the I railroad commission has the power to j lix rates, provided the rates lixed by ' the commission are not under there cents per mile, and goes on to say: I "The railroad commission having t he power to fix rates, it might he I we.I to leave tne matter of lixinir tin* !< | passenger rates with them, without i further legislation at this tunc. They I could lix a tluce cents a mile rate for s I y entire stock of Dri BTJIT-jId new, fresh and clean re the Finest in this 1 every respect ant Graduate and Licen epartment. mnally's Fine Cand NEW BA * ' ? Lite short, Independent lines that ( c >uld not make t xpenses on a smaller I rate, and could tlx the fare for the' larger roads at the rates set out in i President Finley's letter above re-1 ferrcd to. II ts by reason of the conservative course that this State has pursued 'n the past that three corporations have voluntarily consented to give us the rates above rede red to, and I submit, for your wise determination, the 'question as to whether any legislation should be had cn this subject at this se slon of the general assembly." The special message wa3 sent to the senate whl e Senator Toole was dc? bating a bill, passed by the house last f | ,, _ I ie<|iiiriii? railroading telegraphers to pass an examination before a state board. He pitched into the governors plea for conservatism and intimated that the tight he lias for years been making for lower rates was about to be brought to naught by sucl) a suggestion. Senator Carlisle has a bill in the senate carrying out the plan suggested by President Kinley and Sen ator riarle has one that is more sweeping in its reductions. The suggestion of (Jov. Ansel was not altogether expected, as it has been the general Idea that some rate law will be passed aud in fact it is not objected to very strenuously by the railroads themselves. The Charleston delegation, through Mr. Von Kolnitz, presented the bill for a license dispensary system in that city, as an amendment to the present liLW. hilt tlin l>IU . , -..v. v..? nut mju very lar. It was referred to the house commit- ! tee on dispensary, which within two I lays made an unfavorable report; tlie i report was adopted an I the bill was ejected. That ends the bill for < vhicli the mass meeting in Charleston iome months ago met and got up a I >etition. < The establishment of the dispensary it North Augusta was the occasion 1 or some little lire and more smoke ( >Ir. Lane, a Marlboro prohibitionist, ' ntroduced a resolution condemning as 11 indemocratic tiie action of the county 1 inard in establishing the dispensary 1 gainst the wishes of a majority of t he citizens of the town. It passed 11 he house without objection. Hut the js icxt day the Aiken delegation had it I econsidcred. Mr. Croft defended the < bction of the county hoard, as within < heir legal rights. Mr. Gyles, also of 11 \iken, condemned the hoard but s height the. house should not go into I ,lie matter, which was purely local. 2 )n their presentation of the case, the i esolution was voted down, and all ? ecord of the matter was ordered ex- < lunged from the journal. So the 1 10use marched up li e hill one day ind down again I he next. I The senate has expressed its appro- ' ,-al of the bill liy Senator Sinkler c naking the Lrrins of county superintendent of education and supervisor 1 'our years instead of two. The hill J' oas not yet passed that body but wiil ( 11 '.o so, and a similar hill has passed the ' t louse. It \s very apt to become law. i ( 1 Mr. Wallace has reintroduced his!1 aid providing for marriage licenses |* II? i.o . ^ .v.miucw his iuii in order to Rive * j uipport to another on the same sub-' < jeci introduced by Mr. Morrell, hut j a .he house t?y a verv decided vote riiected Mr. Morrell s bill, and Mr. s Wallace will present Ids bill for on- 1 /.deration. Hut the house seems op 1 i sosed to the marriage license plan. t The house has sac Wednesday as the i ?ime for memorial exercises In honor J1 )f i he late .1. M. KpMntf of Lexington ' 1 mil W b\ McArtnur of Cherokee, I jotli of whom died sdnce the last | lessh n. j; - i it???????mmrw igs, etc., at my old i misror isr: and the best that : part of the State 1 . 11 i sen just as cheapl; sed Druggist with y ies, Cigars, etc., DRU TESBURO, S. ' COLUMBIA, JAN 30 SPECIAL? "? Liquor has consumed the usual a- rj mount of time In the two houses oi the general assembly this week, cr( though seme important matters in va which liquor has no part have lieen of acted on 8U The house will likely vote today on Ll1 Q>U the Nash prohibition bill. The sub- rc stitute recommended by the minority < of the dispensary committee for Mr. ki Nash's original bill is really tlie mea de suro under consideration. (Note to ^ Editors: You wl.l lind this oill in ^ The News and Uourier and The State an of Wednesday ) Tins substitute is a r.< simple but anisiic and sweeping pro- mi hibition measure as it now stands but n(l it has been amended so as to permit a citizen to keep as much as one gallon m for persoiial use, a provision which the original substitute did not have. |nl The light lot* Ihe bill lias been led of tel course by Mr. Nash, and lie lias had b"? tile support of Mr. I). L. S.r.lth. who P' en introduced Mr. Nash's bill all of a ? d pa den last year, of Mr John (t. iticbards or the former slate dispensary leader, in and of oilier strong men in the house. P'< The opposition lias not so far debated gr the raaiter at all. ^ In the senate the bill of Senator an Appelt. to piece a license of $1,000 on sU liquor drummers has been the sub- I ject of much discussio i. It was at t'1 hr tacked as unconstitutional-, the opposing senators claiming that it in r.??l - til ity licenses the sale of whiskey. The th purpose of the bill of course Is to pre- wl vent the operations of whiskey drum- Go irers representing houses outside the state. After a I very fu'l discussion, ( the bill was amended so as to make |10 ihc license $0,000 the bill passed 21 to ho 11, with Lancaster and Marlboro cx- Le ^eptcd. The whiskey question in .a way was _ ,lj. Drought up in eacli house by t lie cot ipccial message of Gov. Ansel on eul ruesday suggesting that the general isscmhly otss a concurrent resolution ho leclaring that tl?c commission to viml up the state dispensary is the f|ij igent of the state and that the inten- U ion of the legis'ature was not to :reatc a trust fund, the purpose of .his declaration being to make it )laiu thai tlie commission is acting as igent of the state and in this way to irevent the interference of the federal court in the application for a reteiver for the dispensary funds argued it Asheville on Wednesday. The iuggested resolutions were at once in J .rod need on tlie lieels of the message 'n ' ind tlie house passed tlie resolution pr( it once, without division, but in tlie j(,(J enate Senator Blea-e objected to im- atK nediate consideration and under tlie t/<> oiles tlie resolutions went over. On S Wednesday Senator B lease was attain ?f ire pared to fight tlie resolution and tlH _ , OUI senators Raysor, Sinkler and others dit :amc to his support. Senator Chris- i ha1 .erisen, a friend of the administration. rm consented 10 have the resolution l'1, be imemled so as to eliminate ti e enlorsement of t ie commission's policv pi :i every particular and in the amend " d shape it was though* th.? resolujion would pass, Jbul when it came to .'lite the inntion to table prevailed by i vote of 1!> to is. Senator Hie.use had )ut general led tlie friend* cl'lhead- OB ninlstration F i iiuatcly the out- j some had no t iLo* on the proceedings it Ashc\ .,1V*. '1 he house had heard a po.id deal Lbout the dispensary situation in \iken county. Mr. Croft of that ;ounty has made ) an extended state neut as to iiis posith n in regard to he estabiisiunent of a dispensary at * S'ortli Augusta and on Wednesday the cit? louse parsed the oil I of Mr. Gyles to h i iiiil an uieouon o:i inc uispcnsity j ii that ccunly in April. Mr. Croft wanted tlie il ction in August but <,u :his (l>d not prev il. T?ie bill was; he uneiuled so as to k vn Oul.eton tlie ! bci stand, I have opene* money can buy. R My aim is to run y as possible consistei rears of experience i; Fresh Garden 5 a st< c. lit to hold an electlo.i a!so. It Hie house, by a vote of 61 to 45, and w cr full discussion, passed Mr. Hy hi ck's Oil) lo Jequire the existence of h! >ps to make mortgages thereon \l? lid. This 1b intended by the friends 11 the repeal of the lien law as a rrea ' re supplementary to the repeal of 11 at statute and it was fought for * 3 against on the same line as the | peal of the lien law. riie house, by a vote of 48 to H3, 1 led Mr. Nash's hill to establish a ^ part mint of insurance, with an in rancc commissioner. This bill, as r. Ntt-li fiankly stated, is favored the insurance agents association, d it was opposed by Comptroller , :neral dones, under wliose depart L'lit the insurance companies are 11 w regulated. a LUiiroads have again taken up c: ucli of the senate's time this week, a r. Kershaw's bill, winch passed the si use last year, requiring an exam p at ion by a state board for railroad r leg raphe rs was killed by a vote of to 14. .Senator Orayaon's bill, to x event the running of "double head 01 j." trains with two engines, was I ssed by a vote of I'd to 10. Senator b ay don's bill to regulate Hie practice |k regard to the application of the ja of contributory negligence was 13 jectcd to by some senators on the a ound that it. was too sweeping, and t was lio.ally amended so as to apply 0 ly tccommon carriers and in that ^ ape it passed. Senator 11 lease, since the work of * e dispensary commission lias been 0 ought up, lias introduced a resolu 11 . . noill.x* f - ?' -1 . . IWI an investigation or (l! e commission's action in regard to ai c acccp ancc of the Clark Hros fj liskey, for the purchase of which v. Ansel, on demand of the general f' lembly, dep ised the last state hoard c< control. t( )n Wednesday at one o'clock the use held memorial exercises in nor of the late J. M. Kpting of xington and tlie late Mr. W. F :Arthur of Cherokee, both of whom <>: ire died since the last session. As f urthcr m irk of respect to the de ^ uuu ituu?>e aujournca, alter lories by Mr. Wunnamakcr and . Clarej. The Nash proliibition '' 1 is the pending measure 111 the a use and lias the right of way. HE FIFTH CIRCUIT IS 5 DIVIDED. ? s? VORABLE REPORT FROM JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ON SUGGESTIONS FROM THE W COLUMBIA BAR. C t favorable report will he brought by the judiciary committee on the ipusltinn to divide the lifth judicial cult, making the c mnties of Saluda ^ gelield and Lexington one circuit 1 Richland and Kershaw another, be known as the eleventh circuit, iomc time ago the bar associations Lexington and Richland petitioned ; general assemoly for another cir t on accuiiit of the congested eon ion <>f the docket-sand I lie members Lite b.ir, in the counties interested, vt1 been nnshii.ir tli? i : committee. The measure will be cod on the house calendar and will made a special order. DV. GLENN A HARKED' MAN. * ION OFFERED TO BET ONE HUNDRED TO ONE THAT HE WOULD BE ASSASSINATED BEFORE CHRISTMAS. .i, toanoke, Va., Jan, 27.?Much ex.1 K ement was create 1 ir. a hotel at lj: 01 teJic'.d last ni^ht when a man from ar io olTered to bet fl ()00 to $10 t Hat [j[ v. Glenn of North Carolina would qi 1/ assassinated before next Christmas , :ause 01 the stand lie lias taken in al i up in the E3HE IDE3 fy Fountain a First Class nt with First n charge of ?eed Just in. 3RENEA :e light against the railroad.*. There M ere no tatters. I he man claims he ad no information that would lead im to believe that a plot had been lid to kill Qov. Gleet). Guv. Glenn as been notified of the man's bet tat the executive would not live till ext Christmas. IAILR0AD COMMISSION lumber of Orders and Hearings l)i?* posed o? Tuesday. The railroad commission met In rcglar session at 10 o'ekek Tuesday lorning. Concerning the order issued gainst the Southern railway to show iu.se as to the reinstallmentof agency t Hibernia, the Southern rallwap lowed tli's was a mistake in the riiiting of their schedule, and Hibeiia will hereafter ha\e same service s heretofore. The conamissin took up omplaint as to stopping of passenger rains at Summit and this matter wsll c promptly adjusted. An order was .sued to the Southern railway to ap ear before the commission on Febru. ry 4, as t > passenger train servise bewecn Hardeeville and Allendale. An rder was issued to the Atlantic toast Line to show cause why they hould not be prosecuted for violation f rules 15 and 12 of the rules and rig lationsof the railroad commission, s to the discontinuance of trie agency t, Syracuse. The Southern railway ofcials were also notified to appear be>re the commission on February 4, jnccrning delay of passegers atTren>n, this being connection for the kigefield branch. Ri.nk Foolishness. "When attacked by a cough or cold, r when your t hroat Is s ?ro, it is rank lolishness to take any other medicine lian Dr. King's New Discovery." says . O. Kldridge, or Empire, Ga. "I are used New Discovery seven years mi i Knuw u is me oesL remedy on irtli Tor c >uglis and c Ids, croup, and II throat and lunt; troubles. Mv lildren are subject to croup, tut cw Discovery quickly cures every .tack." Known tlie world over as ic King of throat and lung remedies, )ld under guarantee at all drug ores. f>0c. and $1.00 Trial bottle free. Old Dresses. Made new by our new dyeing pr( ces rile forom free price list. (J. Laundry and Dye Works, Columbia, S. C. (tiii. BKI.I.TIMMK::MAN. .1. WM. THUIWONP. THURMOND A TlMMKltHAN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Dll practice in all the State and U. S. Courts. Ottlce mi KuutTman Building, Lexinetnn. S. ft. L. M. MITCHELL: Physician ant. Surgeon. liatesburg, 9. (J. Office Hours: 8 to 9 &. m. 2 to 3 p. in. 7 :80 to 9 p. m, BARRETT JONES. attounky at j.aw, BATESItlJRG, S. (J. ureful attention given to ail business, insr National Bank Builjjing? Up Stairs. DR. I. A. WATSON. Dkntiut. Bateshurg, S. C. Olllce in Telepnone Building. At ltidge Spring Every Thursday. A turj for Hisery. "1 iiave found a eure for the misery alaria poison produces," says II. M. air.es, ot Loiiellen, S. (3. "It sculled leotric Bitters and comes in 60 cent It I lr l.inol/o -1.1*1 .... w uiv ano up lb V/UAC ? ?I UIJI IS ' a bi ions attack in almost no time; id it puts yellow jaundice clean out ' commission." This Rreat tonic ediclne and blood pdrifiei Rives tick relief in all stomac.i, liver and dney complaints and the misery of me back. Sold under guarantee at I drug stores. POT I R THE I DEPOT |