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?f <1 V VOL. XL The General Assembly. The College Appropriations in tiie House. I FIRST ONM WAY AND THKN AS OTHER. A Majority Cuts Down the South Curolina College to $'.S1,000?Ttita Action Ih Virtually Ucscliwletl the Next Day. Columbia Stnte. Mr. Ildert >u .moved to cut tho South Carolina C< ilego appropriation from $25,000 to $21,000. Mr. Ildorton said this was to 1 tiug it down to tho tigurcs v of last year. Ho ui gucd that all thoso Stato institutions should bo cut down; tho professors should not bo paid so much. Ho could not see how it took so much to run tho ? ollego. Ho wanted all tho col logos reuueed. Ho wanted to do what was right. The professors should not bo paid more than any other hard-worked men. Mr. Kennedy moved to amend tho amendment no as to reduce tho appropriation to $17,000. Ho presented a schedule of ideal salaries that should bo paid. Mr. DoLouch then spoko earnestly and vigorously against those proposed reductions. It was a shame to vote more pittances to tho-.e Institutions. To vote for such reductions meant the crippling of these colleges. They could not run the colleges with cheap professional men. if you want to starve them out, do not give them one cent. As he concluded, there was a wave of app'ause from the students and ladies in the galleries. The speaker at once rapped for order and announced that if such a demonstration was repeated he would have the .galleries cleared. Mr. Toole was opposed to the amendment to the amendment, hut thought that in view of the State's financial condition $21,000 was enough : ho represent d the taxpayers. Mr. Simkins wanted the $25,000 appropriation made. To cut it meant the dealing of a severe blow to the entiro odnoationn.1 sv?ji?m <>f tlm Make this reduction, and how much money will you save ? The $26,000 appropriation cost each citizen about 2 cents. You would save lews than a cent apioco by tho reduction. The South Carolina College had fewer professors than any high grade college in tho country. Mr. Mauldin said ho did not wish to injure or cripple tho higher institutions of learning. Whenever the Legislature began to practice economy tho cry of starving them was at once raised. Tho poor man felt tho burden of theso special privileges. lie wanted to deal out equal rights to all. Mr. Bacot brlclly stated his observations and experience as a trustee. Ho wont there ignorant of the inner workings of tho college. Ho found there a body of men than whom nono stand higher in this country. He referred to their earnest work giving up thoir holidays to work in summer schools. And all this upon reduced salaries. If they did anything, it should be to increase and put this college on a par with tho other leading institutions of this land. Mr. Spoer did not wish to antagonize t.Iin Sinnt)? f !u ??/?l i n? f1**) 1* 1 VUV KJUUVII v/111 \/i 1 li (V l/U v lb should bo run economically. A man should pay for higher education. Ho t ok Er.skino College, which ran on an income of $0,000 and graduated about 17 students. He cited other State institutions and then said that with $2.7,000 tho South Corolina college had graduated only " two and two halves " students These would not bo worth such a sum to tho Statt, no matter who tney mitrub uu. Mr. Rogers wns a friend of tho college. unci would bo willing to cut to $21,000, but not bMow. Ho favored tuition foes and thought that they should bo paid by every student. Mr. liiieot said that many of tho students there now paid tuition fees of $40 a year. Over $2,000 was paid in fees la-<*yoar. Mr. Blytho thought that $21,000 was sufllcient to moot all the oxpensos for tho proper maintenance of the college. He <|noted some figures to sustain his posit ion. Mr. 1'atton said ho hardly know where to begin, tho arguments hud been twisted about so much. His friend from Abbeville had concluded that higher public education was useless. Tho half civilized nations oven provided for higher education. The history of tho world showed that such education was benefioial to tho State. Ho denied tho force of the argument, that tho appropriation was too large. If the committee had said $.'10,000 ho had a littjre suspicion that some would have been satisfied with $25,000. There was a desire to make a show of reduc tion. Senator Tillman had recommended that a perpetual appropriation of *30,000 bo given tho college and that it bo taken out of tho annual discussion. Tillman had carefully looked into tho matter anil ho was a friend of higher education by tho Stato. LIo incidentally called attention to tho dolightful economy practiced by tho house a fow days ago in voting to accept pay whon thoy would bo doing nothing but onjoying themselves in Charleston.** Ho then cited tho figures of 32 States showing that tho only two making a smaller appropriation than South Carolina were Montana and Now Mexico, if wo go down to the figures suggested, South Carolina will bo at tho very tail. If tho members would not harry tho old South Carolina College uvery year and thus toach tho young that tho college was a fraud upon tho Stato thoy would fiod the student body doubled. As their sterling young Governor had told them, the future of tho State dopendod upon tho higher education of tho youth. Mr. l'attou wont on to say that it was a wondor that tho collego lived under such annual attacks. Givo tho collego all you can for ttvo years and stop pulling at it. If it does not redound to the benefit of the Stato I will assist in a pulling it down. 11 Mr. Pollock said he was one of those | friends of the institution who wanted ^ " * ? L ******* 4 . to give the college all it deserved and not one cent more. Uo had more inter* bt in tlio South Carolina College than any other. Ho was willing to reduce all the co lege appropriations when bhow-ti that one cent of the people's money could ho saved without hurting them. Mr. Kogeis had not intended to make ? ?? .. . . 1, . U.?4 M..u|.nWU i uuiai i\r, uuw Hit? rtiuurni&uku speech <?f tlie gentleman from Itlehland hi.<1 brought him to bib foot, Mo rob rrcd to Mr. Mutton's romarks as to saving the collect) from its "but" friends?those who were its friends with a proviso. The roll call was then demanded on the motOn to rcduco to $17,000. The Mouse voted as follows, tabling tho amendment: Yes, 15; Nays, 87. Tho roll call was demanded then on the Md< rlon amendment to cut to $21,000. Tho llouso agreed to tho amendment by the following vote : Yea- lion K. It. Uury, speaker; All, Armstrong, Asbill, Ashley, Austell, Hothunc, Itlyihe, Horn, Caraway, t'aughman, Cruiit, ('ushman, Davis, C. M. . Davis, Ceogc \V.; Dukes, Kdwards, Kpps, l'aircy, Kox, Glenn, (Jooclwin, 11. P.; Uoodwin. O. P.; (iruham, J. 8.; Hamilton, llollis, lliiinnbrcy, llderton, Johnson. Kennedy, Kihler, Kinard, Henry J.; Kinard, J. I).; 1.aneaster, Ley ton, l.ester. Litnebouse, Manldin, Joel II. Miller. .Moore, MeKeowu, McLanrin, MeWbite, Phillips, Plylcr, Pollock, Prince, Hobinsoii, Rogers, Russell, Skinner. Smith. J. K. Smith. K. 1). Sneer. Sturkii', Sullivan, Timmerman, Toole, Vcrner. Welch, Westmoreland, Whisonnnt, Wiliuo, Winkler?<K?. Nav ? Andcrson, Hacot, llarklcy. I'edon, Hrecland, Coleock, Davis, W. ReLo ?ch. Ktird, (indsdcii, Cage, Casque, (Irahain, Thomas A.; Hiott, Livingston, Lofton, Menres, Mehrtens, Mitehcll, McDaniel, Nettles, l'ai'wii, I'yatt, Reynolds, Sunhro >k, Sinklcr. Si in kins, Stevenson, Thomas,.I ohn r , Jr.; Thomas, W. II Townsend, Vincent, Woliing, Wilson, Williams, Wyche, Yeldell-37. riii'; >i()i'si<; changes itm mind. A Liberal Bestowal of Scholarships Gives a Majority to the South Carolina College?The Appropriation is Likely to he Raised. Special to News and Courier. When the discussion on the appropriation hill was'resumed at the section providing for the South Carolina College Mr. Smith of Sumter moved to add: " Provided, young ladieBtiro admitted, who are qualified to enter." Ho wished to strike out the provision to admit tiie young men in the normal department free of tuition, lie objected to the idea of having this sort of free tuition, and said that it was schools more than teachers that svoro wanted. nixes ure paid to educate the teacher anil then to tux tho parent to teach tho children, lie wanted an obligation signed hy these beneficiaries that they will return tho $50 or $40 thcv gel Everything should ho free u1l(Pi equal. Teaching ia a profession iiud should be paid for as any other profession. Taking two young mon from each county is to give seventy boneficiarles and he contended that there are now more teachers than schools. Mr. Cushinan opposed the amendment on the ground that these two scholarships in each county was tho only good t,|10 poor people got out of tho college. Mr. Kibler, of Newberry, said there is a great need for normal training and ho wished every teacher had such a training us is provided ut the South Carolina College. Mr. Ildorton, of Florence, opposed the amendment and thought it was to havo these two scholarships for each cuuntv. Mr. Thomas moved to contino tho scholarships to students iu the normal oou rse. Mr. Smith, of Sumter, opposed tho substitute and said the demand was not for teachers, but for schools, and insisted that there was a Mirplus of teachers, and these young mon who accept those scholarships are better educated than tho other ninety-eight young men out of a hundred in the State. Dr. I'rico, of Orangeburg, did not believe tho State had arrived at such a stage that it could deny scholarships at the State colleges, if the doors of these colleges were not opened to froo tuition, he would not vote for these appropriations at all. The demand for touchers is grouter to day than ever. Mr. Kinard, of Ahbevillo, said tho free tuition was to add students, and it was an admission that the South Carolina College could not get students except by offering free scholarships. There was no lack of teachers, lining a friend of denominational colleges, he could not see tho State's money being used to injure tho denominational colleges. The friends of the college are simply trying to get students to make a show for an appropriation. Mr. Kinard said there wore no free scholarships at the denominational colleges, hut they accepted notes in payment, and ?hat was what he wanted at tho South Carolina Collogo. Mr. 1'atton said there was no collogo in America that contlned its coursos to post-graduate work, such as Mr. Kinard wanted. Mr. Kinard said young men loft the State because the standard of the South Carolina College was too low. fie said tho State colleges would now bo closed if tho denominational colleges did not keep up tho desire for education. The South Carolina College, ho held, was a drag on tho State. Wofford graduated twenty-seven hoys last year with $1."1,000, and the South Carolina College frpont $30,000 for a few boys. It looked to him liko ox travaganee. Froo tuition would put more bovs in tho college and give u chance for a demand for more money, and thereby cripple tho denominational colleges. I)r. Wychc, of Newberry, protested against the statement that there were too many teachers. What Is needed is bettor teachers. Tho normal department shoul1 bo encouraged in evt ry way possible as It Is tho best feature of tho college. .Mr. Smith said ho was not protesting against normal oducation, but special privileges. Dr.sWycho beliovod that any man or woman who wanted to teach ought to bo educated by tho Stato, and willingly, too. Mr. Smith wanted to koow how poor children were ever to got to tho South | Carolina College? Mr. Wyche said tho argument meant' \ / CONWAY S. C if all could not tako normal coarsen none should bo allowed to do so. Mr. Patton offered this substitute for the section: " Provided, that sultablo courses of study aro provided without foes for as many students from each county, who may he unable to pay tuition, as may bo cquiil to the number of representatives in both brnnrhiN >if f.lw? i: >n. Assembly an such county may bo entitled to ; such students to t>o selected from deserving youths of either sex by tho said representatives." Mr. I'atton said that, disguise tho argument as Mr. Smith would, he sought to deprive from attendance at the college those unable to pay tuition. If tho State has no right to givo tuition free it had no right to give ajbed room free or t> givo tho use of tho college library. Tho tuition fees would not pay half tho expenses if wrung from every student, as some wish. The eol1 .*go knows that as soon as $10 was charged to every student it would deprive poor boys of an education there. There are young men now at the college doing their o.vn cooking and living at seventy live cents a week, and yet these young men aro to he saddled with $10 apiece by tho State that owes them .in education. There was no harm done, and no additional cost, to let the poor boys listen to tho learned lectures. It costs no more for poor students to attend lectures than if they did not go there. Mr. Kinard said lie did not want tho State college to hurt his college, Wofford, which ho helps to support. Mr. I'atton said to teach the people that State educat ion was not to be dosiied would certainly operate against denominattonal colleges. Mr. i'atton went into an elaborate explanation of tho claims of the college. Tho delegation'can adopt'such regulations as it sees tit. and tho mem dots eun select deserving and indigent young peoplo. If evil exists the members eau remedy it. lie did notprovido for couipetitlvo cxaminat ions, because deserving youths did not always enter such contests. The college can easily accommodate 200 or 200 students. Mr. Gage, of Chester, preferred that the question should come up on ull State colleges. The bald proposition is whether one hundred and sixty boys and girls should enter this college free of all charges. The South Carolina College, Winthrop and all belong to the people, and no one man or set of men, and it is the right of tho Assembly to see where tho money goes. Ho was not one of tho " but " friends. The college is here and the question is what to do under present conditions, lie supported tho college and voted for a $25,000 appropriation. To admit students free is anothor question. He was willing to compromise on these matters, although his predilections were against free tuition. Justice is to be ftOuo and lie favored Mr. Thomas's plun of two /roo scholarships, although ho may not favor it as a duittcr of principle, hut the desires of others, as wise as himself, had to he consulted. Full justico would ho done by allowing two beneliciary students. Mr. Graham, as an alumnus of Wofford, said the denominational colleges all say they ure weeding out free tuition, and now with this statement from the college presidents themselves it is the dntv of the Stutn i*? l#ir?lr <? ?i , - J w" ,v/w" fcU UUVOU poor students unci ho would support the umendmont of Mr. I'utton. As n Methodist, us >111 alumnus of WolTord and one of its supporters, ho was not jealous of WolTord and lie could not agree with Mr. Kinurd or Mr. Gage. Mr. Grahum's speech was ono of the best of the day. Mr. Stevenson said he was a graduate of a denominational college and a trustee of a 1 'rcshyterian college of North Carolina and South Carolina. When Mr. Kinard raised his banner of tho denominational colleges against the South Carolina College he wanted it understood that he was not lighting under that banner. Ho said that Mr. Kinard's position was that the South Carolina College did not graduate enough boys and yet ho objoots to tho poo- hoys going to college. Tho logical conclusion was that Mr. Kinard was opposed in to to the existence of tho South Carolina Collogo. Mr. Stevenson said ho knew and felt tho necessity of giving free tuition as ho could apeak with personal experience. Mr. Kinard aroso to a question of porsonal privilege and defended his position. Then Mr. Smith had another que tlon of personal privilege and denied ho wus a partisan of denominational colleges. There were three propositions boforo tho Houso : Mr. Smith's and Mr. TK/tmou'u umnn/l??\A?Gi Vf ? ' 1 4 .>u<uud o nmuuuiuuuliB UIIU .M I', I ill/" ton'a substitute. The yeas and nays wore called on Mr. Patten's substitute, which resulted as follows : Yeas?Speaker Gary, All, Anderson, Armstrong, Ashley, Bacot, Bailey, Barkley, Bedon, Bclhune, fUythe, Breeland, Burns, CoIcock, Bushman, 0. M. Davis, W.<\ Davis, DeLoach, Dukes, Ed wards, Enps, Gadsden, Gas<|ue, (ilenn, Thomas A. Graham, lliott, Humphrey, 1 lderton, Johnson, Lemmon, Limehouse, Lofton, Magill, Meares, Mehrtons, Mishoe, Mitchell, Mr Daniel, McWhite, Owen, I'atton, I'hillips, Pollock, Prince, Pyatt, Kainsford, Kevnolds, Robinson, Heabrook, Sinkler, J. ft. Smith, W. iS. Smith, Stevenson, Sullivan, John P. Thomas, J r.., W. 11. Thomas, Timmerman, Toole, Townsend, Vincent, Wolling, Welch, VVhisonant, Winkler, Williams, Withersnoon, Yeldell?67. Nays?Austell. Banks, Carraway, Oaughman, Drum, Geo. W. Dav s, Efird, Kairey. Gage, II. P Goodwin, J. 8. Graham, Hamilton, ila/.elden, Henderson, 1 iollis, Kennedy, kihler, Henry J. Kinard, J. J). Kinard, Luyton, Lester, Joel II Miller, Nettles, Rogers, Kussell, Sanders, Skinner, | Simkins, K. 1). Smith, Speer, Sturkie, Ver- i ner, Westmoreland, Wilson, Wingo, \\ yche-37. Tho Collogo had won a docisivo victory, and many members said that with tho I'atton substitute the Col lego ougni 10 nave more tliao $21,000, and thoy would so vote if they had the chance. ' OIRLS' STATR COLLKOK WINS. Then came tho Winthrop appropriation. Mr. Tnomas said it took $38,000 to maintain tho collogo, and of this $6,000 was received from tuition fees, and some from the I'oabody fund, ami I it required $30,000 of State funds. Mr. lldorton said ho thought $26,000 was BUlllclent with tho $5,200 for the scholarships. Tho colleges, ho said, always asked for more than they needed. Mr. Hobinson.of Anderson,said whenever the female colleges were attacked $ # D. THURSDAY, FEBF ho camo to tho rescue. If ho did not defend VVinthrop ho would almost be iifruid to go homo. Mr. Cushinan fuvored tho $.'10,000 appropriation. Mr. Ildorton said ho simply wished to test the volco of tho House und lind out what whs really needed. Mr. Blythe did not want any sentiment. lie contended that accounting for every item of expense $25,000 would be Butliclcnt. Mr. Ashley said all tho education he had was through his good wife, and the House should not waste time trying to cut down the appropriation. Mr. Verner said there was no reason for the reduction. Mr. Ildorton withdrew the motion to eut the appropriation to $25,000. No voto was taken. TIIE ClTAllF.L HOLDS ITS OWN. Mr. Ildorton moved to cut the Citadel appropriation from $20,000 to $1*,000. Mr. Thomas, of Richland, said it cost $.11,000 to maintain the Citadel, and last, year there was a dotieiency of about $.'1,000. Tho actual amount to support a cadet is $2!?.'l. If the State is to support tho bonotieiarles it will take $20,000. Tho salary list is but a pittance, and tho money received from pay cadets defrays much of tho expense. Two boys in ev?*y cotv'y taken up ami dm ..U v.. ii iukch till to clothe each cadet; $1011 maintenance; washing $1 t, and so on. Mr. Thomas pre entcd tho claims of the Citadel in a l> rcihlo manner. Mr. Ildorte.i said if it was a fact that the beneficiaries would have to make up Lhu doUcioncios ho would withdraw liis amendment. Mr. Kinard said that tho boys should clothe theim elves, and did not holiovo it right for the State to buy clothes, shoes and all for tho benotie'arlea. Mo fourod it was accustoming hoys to expecting too much of the State. Mr. W. C. Davis, a graduate of the Citadel, was satibtlod that nocut would bo made if it could bo shown that the $20,000 was needed. Tho money at the Citadel was economically spent. if $20.'l is too much for benellciury cadets, why !s it that until last year tho pay cadets, who pay $200, outnumbered tho bonotieiaries. It is because they get a superior education to what they can get elsewhere. Last year tho poor boys were assessed to buy some of their clothing or do without it. Mr. Limehouse, of Summorvillo, proposed $19,000. Mr. Crum said that the Citadel was the only institution at which a poor boy could get an education without a cent of cost. It is an institution for the people and where poor boys can go and be as well dressed and thought of as the richest. Smaller salaries are paid at the Citadel than elsewhere. Mr. Cushmun thought the Citadel the best inst'tution in the State and the institution should be supported, but he favored retrenchment. Tho IIOUSO rejected tho proposition to reduco tho apprOfjrl&tUm to $19,000, and then tho veas and nnvn '.v.'tro cull ^ J ~ ? - I ed od tho proposed eut to $18,000. Thoao voting for tho out to $18,000 uro: Messrs. Austell, Ashley, Caughman, Cushiuan, Kdwards, liethune, Kuirey, 11. I'. Goodwin, J. I). Gruluiin, (ioodwin, Glenn, ilninilton, Henderson, Johnson, li. J. Kinard, J. I). Kinard, I .ay i on, Lester, Lominon. Mauldin, Joel II. Miller, Piyler, Pollock, Prince, Kussell. Spoor, Sullivan, Tiinmerman, Toole, Wingo, Westmoreland. The Citadel got $20,000 by a vote of 08 to 32, which is the amount the trustees asked for. VVINTJIKOr DOKM1TOKV WAITS. Mr. DeLoach oll'ered to amend the bill so as to provide $5,000 to bogin work on tho new dormitory at Winthrop. Mr. Winkler thought it well to wait in making the appropriation. There was no institution he favors more than Winthrop, but thought it best to wait awhile. Mr. Sturkio thought it well to let the matter rest. A BUSY DAY IN TUB S ION ATI'] The Anti-Free Push Bill Knocked in l ho Head?The Bond Taxes Adjusted?The Cigarette Bill Killed. The Senate proceedings which follow deal with interesting features of tho session: COUNTY ItOA I> TAX KM Mr. Moses objected to tho bill requiring tho commutation tax to bo expended in tho townships whore collected. People did not travel ovor their own roads exclusively, and tho ofl'oot of such an act would bo to complicate tho machinery of tho county government law and would bo unsatisfactory. Mr. Dean urged that in tho ease of work on tho roads, it was nil dono in tho worker's own township, and if money was paid instead of work it ought, to bo used in tho same way. Mr. Scarborough said that tho commutation tax law was not an act to raise revenue, it was a privilege allowed a citi/.cn in lieu of road work, and tho old law made tho provision required by this bill, it was left out of tho goneral county government law. Mr. DuLioso urgod that tho bill was a necessity in many sections which jsulTerod from roads that had enjoyed no working for many years, because tho commutation t.av nal/l ? v?r*m .? ?*w I'UIVI llinVUHU of work boing done on them. Mr. Dean moved to lay tho unfavorable report of tho committee on the table, whieh was carried. Mr. Henderson moved to striko out tho section which provided for the drawing of tho money from tho Treasurer by township commissioners and which provided that any warrant in excess of fund in the Troasurer'n hands should be void. It was usoloss and abounded in causes of litigation and trouble for tho Treasurer. Tho soet ion was stricken out and tho hill passed. FREE l'ASS FIGHT. Mr. Moses moved to indefinitely postpone tho unfavorable report on tho bill repealing tho anti-free pass law. Mr. ltagsdalo said that the Senate had nothing to do with tho circumstances under which tho law was passed. Tho froo pass matter meant a good deal to tho people. They instinctively regarded the holding of a pass by their publio servants with distrust. He did not think it would afToct an honest man to use a free pass, but / ^UARY 25, 1Q^7. legislators should bo not only virtuous, but also above suspicion. If h tcglslat ?r had a frco pass ho could not bo above suspicion, no matter bow good a man ho was. Lie shod i bo frco not or ly from u conscious, but an unconscious i bias. A frco pass was given as a favor, and the members of the General Asecmbly bad no right to ueov pt favors from anybody. "If you do net think,'' lie said, "that this puss is given to you for some other purpose than that you are a good follow, seo how far you can ride when your term of cilice is over, and yet you are just as L'ood a fellow.'' i Mr. Scarborough thought that to ho consistent Mr. IJagsdnlo should have urged this same argument against accepting the free transportation to Charleston, which was a favor given by the railroads. Ilo took the act as people of the State when the Legislature found it necessary, for the purpose of preventing contamination, to pass tiiis law. It was a had law and should ho wiped otT of thestatute hooks for its imputation on the character of ovcry State olVieor. I lo also opposed it because of the subterfuges resorted to in getting around tho law. if a free pass disqualified a man from holding public otllco by the etToct it would have in subverting his judgment, wo should go a step further and declare that no man who is under any obligation as an aoy or stockholder of a corporation should be entitled to his scat hero. Mr Maylield thought it better that a man should take a free pass thuu resort to such tricks us had boon charged, t hat some paid 10 cents for a $2*? ticket. He did not like the spirit that had enacted tho law. Mr. Hay contended that passes wore j UK (till! vv 1II1IMUIJUU lO^lSlilfclVC policy unci should not bo accepted, 1 therefore ho thought it good public 1 policy to declai'o against thom. Ho did not consider the acceptance of the trips to Winthrop and to Charleston 1 against the spirit of tho law. It was not tho railroads that invited tho 1 Sonata to Charleston, but tho city council. Mr. liuiat made a ringing spooch i against tho repeal bill. '"Load us not t into temptation" was his text. No i said: "The position which South Carolina has occupied during tho last six 1 years is being gradually adopted as i a necessity by nearly every State in t ho Union, and if it was true that a judge ?n tho hunch paid 10 cents for a mileage book, ovory member of the General Assembly should spend tho whole recess in seeking the truth and bringing that individual before this body with the open charges against him." Mr. Archer said that no christian man could accept a free pass without undertaking the obligation of a christian to return the favor. Mr. Scarborough denied Mr. Hoist's rlgh to compare South Carolina morals with New York morals. If the Legislature was not to have free passes, t hen hedge us in on all sides and deliver us also from the contamination of lobbyists. Mr. Henderson said the object of the bill was not to make the railroads give Of the ollicors of the State accept passes, but to 11 man the inborn right, the divine rig'lll C-f exercising his own free will. Tho people would not judge a man by whether no took a free pass or not, but by the way ho acted. Tho repeal of this law would be the removal of a stigma. Tho act was passed as a taunt in the midst of turmoil and excitement, and now the Sonute in its dignity and quiet should repeal it. Mr. May tie Id thought tho act on tho statu! i books was II wlmlnimmn True, it was prosonted as a taunt, but let us turn this taunt against tho hand that directed it and show that wo are willing to keep our skirts clear. Tho aye and nay veto was called on Mr. Moses' motion to indefinitely postpone t he unfavorable report of tho committee and thi) following was the vote. Yeas?Messrs. Connor, Dennis, DaDose, Gaines, Grilllth, Henderson, Mauldin, Moses, O'Doll, l'ottigrow, Kugin, Scarborough, Sloan, Suddath, Walker and Williams 16. Nays?Messrs. Alexander, Archer, Drown, Duist, Dean, Douglass, Hay, Love, Mayfiold, McDaniel, Miller, Mower, Norris, Itagsdalo, Stack house, Talhird and Wallace?17. Tho vote was then taken on tho direct question without change. KILLED THE TAX ON CK! AKETTKS. The cigarette hill was taken up as a special order. Mr. Moses moved to indefiioly postpone the whole hill, and said on the part of tho committee it was thought tho law would bo a dead lott t. Mr. Connor moved to lay tho motion on ine tamo, this whs lost. Mr. Moses t hen moved to table the bill, but withdrew it for Mr. Archer ! to say a few days inj favor of the bill. Mr. Moses opposed the bill becuuse it would be ineffectual, and would pile I up dead acts on the statute books. If ! it would accomplish any good he would vote in favor of it. There is no machinery to enforce it as the liquor law is enforced. Mr. Connor said thut there was a great demand for the law from all parts of the country, and if tho present law was doing no good, let us muko the regulations more stringent. Mr. Mower sent a communication from .Jasper II. Montgomery, president of tho society for the suppression of the use of tobacco among the youth of the United States, to show that the prohibition and high license had been ineffectual in every ease, and urged the enforcement of the law against the sale to minors as tho bobt step toward correcting tho evils. Mr. l'ettigrow, of Florence, said that his conscience bad reproached him for the part he took in killing this bill last year, lie made a long and earnest appeal for the passage of the law. Ho contondod that it would not hurt the tobacco industry. Mr. Mayfiold read the existing law against selling cigarettes to minors. It has been on tho books since 1885, and there lias never boon an Indictment under it. "Let us," ho said, "enforce tho laws wo now havo before wo load I down the statute books." Ho referred to tho tobacco industry in tbo State and thoofTcct of this law, which, ho thought, would bo inoperative and yet would prejudlco tho interests of tho growor. He put Mr. Connor in a hole by asking hiin why he did not indict the men whom ho referred to in his county who .violated the present law. .1 to nil bb, d. V W if Highest of all in Leavening Pov JL ^ UZ&S&5S 4B&OLU1 Mr. Connor said Wo was not a detoctlvo. Tho voto was called on Mr. Moses's! motion to strike out tho enacting words. Tho ayes and nays wore caliou us follows: Voaa?Messrs. Aloxandor, Urown, i lluist, Dean. Dennis, Douglass, DuDoso, (Sri tilth*. lluv, Henderson, Mauldin, May lit'id, Miller, Moses, Mower, Norrls, ODoll, Kahili, itaysdalo, Scarborough, Sloan, SuddatW, Talbird, Walker ami Williams?Ho. Nays? Messrs. A roller, Connor, Caines, Dove, MoDaniel, I'ottlgrew, StackliouHo and Wallace 8. * The Kill to ('midst ate Ahanilotietl Ituilronil Property. Mr. Williams' Will providing for tho forfeiture to the State of ahandonud railroad property was then taken up. Tho committee amendments wore agreed to and then the hill was ordered to a li nit I reading in this shape: Section I. That any person, company j or corporation owning, operating or controlling any line of railroad in this State which shall tear up or remove its track, or attempt to tear up or to discont inue a regular freight ami pas songer service thereon for the period of livo days, except when prevented hy the act of CJod or the public enemy, shall be deemed to havo abandoned the same, and because of such abandonment shall forfeit to the State its charter and all the tracks, cars, rights of way, lands, depots and all other property connected with or belonging to the said railroad. Sec. 2. Whenever it shall appeal' to the Attorney General that any such person, company or corporation has abandoned its line of railroad, he shall proceed to forfeit the same as aforesain hy rule against such person, company or corporation in a court of competent jurisdiction, requiring them to show cause why the same should not he forfeited : I'rovidod, That the provisions of this act shull not apply to st root rai I ways. Sec. .'I. This act shall take otfcct on approval and shall apply to any and all railroads that may hereafter be received by the State railroad commission and opened for operation. Mr. McCuilough made an effort to have the i louse reconsider the vet o whereby it bad passed Mr. Williams' bill providing for the forfeiture to the State of abandoned railroad property, lie feared that this bill was aimed at a ... urn eiKiii!'. ..iiilw.? .'l. ..hn I "Swamp Rabbit." 'fv> pans this bill would amount to a dishonest act on tbo part of tbo Statu. 11(5 gave a history of tho road down to its purchase l>y a citizen of Greenville. It was wrong to rob him of his property as this aet would do. lie olTorod an amendment to prevent the property from reverting to the State if the purchaser could not operate it at once. Mr. Williams said this bill did atTcct this road, but it was not intended t5 alVeet italone. The people of the State had built tiiis road and were entitled to the con venioncea of travel. The man had refused to run the road and hud said that the people could be damned, lie was even tearing up tho track, lie then cited tho case of tho Chester and Choraw road. If the oIIIcIuIh wished to, under tho presont law, they could tear up the road and deprive the people of his county, who had paid thousands of dollnrs for it, of tho privileges of a railroad. Mr. John I'. Thomas held that under the constitution they could not rob any one man of his personal property "without due process of law." They could not, confiscate property by a legislative aet. Mr. Hly the supported that the purchaser bought the road us a speculation. The purchaser stopped the running of trains. Ho was now enjoined from tearing the track up. Ho could not tell what the court was going to do. The people had como to him asking him to do all he could to seo that they obtained their rights. Ho had agreed for Mr. Williams to introduce the bill, as he had a similar case in his part of the State. Mr. I'atton then made a legal protest against such a bill. It was clearly, absolutely unconstitutional. Mr. Livingston wanted the matter considered without reference to special cases. Kail roads were public corporations. Ho took issue with Mr. I'atton. He said t his bill was not alone to cure , present ills, but also to control railroad 1 property In the future. Mr. McCullough said thin was nothing more or less than an attempt to blackmail the purchaser of this road into operating it. This wus the purpose of the bill. Mr. Hlythe thought this language improper. The gentleman who was the attorney for the road should remember that he was not in court. Mr. McCullough Maid ho wan not tho attorney of tho road, but ho did represent tho purchaser of the road. All he asked was that tho hill be made to apply to railroads vet to bo built. The gentleman from Greenville, Mr. Williams said, had used language, that to say the least, was unkind. Mr. McCullough, interrupting, said he had not intended to say anything unkind, but if ho had, ho apologized. Mr. Goodwin, of Greenville, thought the bill should be passed. Mr. McCullough's motion to reconsider was then tabled. ?A Milwaukee man who loft an estate of $:i0,000 willed $1,000 to a seerot ordor to which ho belonged, ono of the conditions being that the members meet once a year and drink two kegs of beer. The testator is believed to be the only person who over considered it necessary to make the absorption of malt liquor obligatory in Milwaukee. \ > I :. .. \ < * f A 1 = m NO 27. vcr--? Latest U.S.Gov't Report Baking Powder ;eky pure WHAT IS Tll|<: /,()l>IAO ? I'rOHidciit CnrllNlt*, ?>I* Wofl'oril College, explains the Matter. t\ A correspondent of 1 ho Spartan ar<kcd tho following questions, which have boon answered by Dr. .1. II. Carlisle, president of WotTord College : la there any such tiling aa the zodiac? Does it nlYoot tho hutuan i>ody ? There is certainly a bolt of tho aky called tho zodiac. Tho sun, moon and Iho lar^ro plain ts are always in that narrow strip of tho sky. Thoy novor wander outsuli of it. This belt is sixteen decrees wide. Gut froiu Tho Spartan one column and hold It ten inches from your eye. Tt will thon cover a strip of tho aky as wido as tho /nd iii<* rIM> i u Y\i\ 1 t. i ii I I ?% 1 ?? j <. u stars named after animals, men anil women ?twelve in all- such ad Ham, Hull, Goat, Virgin, etc. The wor*l 14 zodiac" moans animals, or living things, anil Is so oalleil because of those constellations with names of living t hings. These names were glvon thousanils of years ago, ami aro well known in all parts of the world. A few evenings ago, soon after sunset, one large planet, Venus, was seen in the West ; another, Jupiter, in the Mast., and the moon between. The zodiac ran along the sky so as to take In the moon and planets. Docs the zodiac alVect the human body ? Tliis question touches another question that has long been debated, ilus the moon any inlluonco over the weather, or the bculies of men? Many have thought that it does. They have supposed that when the moon is in ono cluster of stars in the zodiac, it has some strange power over the head, so that a wound in the head of man or animal will not heal rapidly. In another cluster the lungs may bo atl'ectod by the moon. Some almanacs still have a picture of tiie human body with lines reaching from head, lungs, feet, etc., to the constellation which is supposed to have inlluonco over that part of the body. The best authorities now pay hut little attention to this belief. Ono of the greatest living American astronomers, Prof. (J. A. Young, of Princeton l"nl* voralty, says : 44 The multitude of current beliefs as to the controlling inlluonco of tlu; moon's phases and changes over the weather, and the various conditions of life are mostly unfounded, and in the strict sense of the word, 'superstition-'?jmoro survivors from a past credulity." ? - ? Perhaps some practical reader of Tho Upartitn may have something to nay on tho other wide of this old question. J. 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