Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jupplement T SOUTH GAR GENERLAASSERbLY The house took up the bill introduc ed by Mr. Walker of Union requiring a separation of the races in co:ton mills in South Carolina. Th.e bill was passed to third reading after t"e adoption of the committee ameri ments. Under a resolution from the h3use committee of medical affair!. i' e P tition of certain property ovinc s who live near Parr Shoals, on Br river, and who ashed that the land to bex flooded by the Parr Shoals d&! he first cleared of brush and toee. wa referred to the state board of healti for action. The matter of anti-alien ieti/ili came up again in the hou- e in t'. form of a concurrent resolut'.on rh -r ed by Mr. James of Lee calling (u t':e South Carolina senators to o! - cm ': ratification of a treaty with r,1 tion whose citizens are now : - V to citizenship. The house t.dI . resolution. The house, through Speake W>. received a letter from the Fij Civic league commending the ;-*y Inr passing the Sanders bill. At the request of Mr. Welch -f Richland 'he house took up ut i-f order the bill introduced by M&. 7 of Rich'and to require street e cw panies in cities of 25,000 or i.rc ir habitants to provide proper 'et : air brakes for their cars. T,-e e e ure passed to third reading withom' opposition The DeLaughter joint resolu-tio.n appropriating $400 for the erection c a monument to the memory o' .-:K' Merriweather of Edgefield counly was . passed by the house to third readinr 4 without opposition. In a little less than five hourrs the house passed the general ap::roar. tion bill to third reading at its szoe. With scant ceremony, the hous votcd down nearly all the amendine:- s pro posed to the various items in tI bill after they had been explained b;y sore member of the ways and mers con mittee. The total of the b'1. z: ic t was passed by the house was in creased by about $35,000. The bill as reported by the committee carried a total of $2,391,795 andf provided for state levy of 7 mills, an incroe of 3-4 of 1 mill over the tax collectted by the state in 1913. After a debate the house agreed to an amendment decreasing the appre priation for the Confederate i:frin ary by $5,000 and fixing the salaries to be paid to persons in charge (f its management. For the third year in~ succession the house killed the item of $5,000 in the appropriation bili for Todd & Benson, architects of Charles ton, "in full payment-for plans and specifications of the state house and model for other claims in connection with this wek." And also the Todd & Benson item was killed by a vote of 59 to 27. Last year It was killed by a e Picken items aiea at tne instance of 'Mi. Mc Donald of Oconee. The increase in the appropriation bill' was due, to the adoption by the house of an amendment offered by Mr. James of Lee to set aside $45,000 for a contingent fund for needy rural schools, to be epended under the su pervision of the state board of educa tion and paid out on -the application of county superintendents of educa tion. For lack of one vote, almost all hope o fthe passage of legisltion by th.e general assembly to safeguard the primary election system vanished into fDiits air. when the house by a vote of 54 to 54 refused to pass to third read ing the primary election reform bill now pend in the senate. The son ate bill wb substituted for the house bill by a vote of 54 to 53 on the motion of Mr. Stevenson of Chesterfield, who led the fight to enact legislation which would guarantee to South Caro lina honest primary elections. The Liles bill fixing an annual, li cense of $5 and $10 on automobiles, the fees to be used for building and maintaining the roads in the counties in which they are paid, was taken up by the house and passed to third read ing. Mr. Liles said that the bill would raise approximately $65,00 for a spe cial road fund. At the request of Mr. Stevenson the house took up out of its order, the *Welch-Busbee-Barnwell bill relating to negotiable instruments and passed it to third reading. The Earle bill providing for creating a thirteenth judicial circuit by riving the Tenth judicial circuit was taken up by the house and passed to third reading. The bill proposed that An derson and Oconee should be allowed to remain in the Tenti circuit and Greenville and Pickens to be placd in a new circuit to be known as the Thirteenth circuit. The Mixson bill changing the inher itance law when a husband dies intes tate, so as to give the widow one-hal instead of one-third of his property, was killed by the house. The county supply bill, one of the omnibus measures of the ways and means committee, was passed to third reading by the house. The house, at the request of Mr. Pyatt, of Georgetown, pased to third reading the bill by the committee on fish, game and forestry charging a li cense to non-residents who fish for shad or sturgeon in the waters of South Carolina. The licenses are to be granted by the board of fisheries through the county treasurer, and they are not transferable. County treasurers are to be furnished with license blanks and tags by the board. On motion of Mr. Welch, the bill by Mr. Muller requiring railroad com panies to provide shelter at their shops for employes repairing cars, was passed to third reading with the proviso that it should not apply to rail roads less than 20 miles in length. Mr. Miller introduced the bill at the instance of men In. the Southern shops in Columbia. Senate. Debate on the Earle-Stanley-Mixon Hunter two-cent passenger rate bill, hemmi. in the senate, continued S Sentin roukuioft the night session ana win be .taken up again immediately after the morning hour, wheri the indica tions are that it will be killed, or the committee amendments adopted. The opponents of the two-cent rate contend that it is unfair to give the man of means the advantage of a two cent rate in purchasing a nileage book and to require the man who can not afford to invest at once in trans portation for from 500 to 1,000 miles to pay two and a half and three cents a mile. The opponets answer this by saying that it Is the same discrimina tion that is made in favor of a large shipper as against a small shipper; that the man paying the railroad $20 in a lump sum makes that much money available for the use of the railroad in its business. Senator Young said that the pro ponents of the two-cent rate bill ad mitted that it would prove confisca tory in the case of short lines, yet, he said, they would have a trunk line haul passengers for 100 miles more or less within the state ror two cents. The logic of this view of the matter Senator Young said that he could not see. The discussion of the measure has brougbt out from the proponents, and from Senator Earle especially, denun ciation of the railroad lawyers who frequent the- lobby as he dontended from ithe beginning of the session of .the end. The railroad committee has also come in for a share of criticism. Senator Earle said that he had not gone before the committee. because he expected an unfavorable report on his bill in any event. The senate passed a bill authorizing the establishment of the pellagra hos pital and commission, carrying an ap propriation of $75,000, of which $25,000 Is to build the hospital which would be the first in the country. The senate refused to change' the change the pension laws of this state, and killed the bill providing an addi tional stenographer for the seventh circuit which is composed of Spartan burg, Cherokee and Union. Hhe house passed the pension reform bill. Columbia Station Substitute Bill. A substitute for the Welch bill to require the railroads to erect and maintain a union station in Columbia was reported out of the railroad com m'ttee of the senate. The substitute makes no mention of erection but provides simply for the improvement and maintenance of an adequate sta tion. The substitute bill would place the matter in the hands of two engi neers, one to :be appointed by the railroads, and the other by city coun cil, instead of the Chamber of Com merce. / Mileage Good For Family. The railroad commission recently issued order effective within 30 days requiring rtilroad companies to accept mileage coupons from any member of the family of a purchaser, provided the purchaser at tihe- time of buying his mileage stated in writing who con stiuted the members of his family. The order followed the complaint of Senator Earle of Greenville. H. S. Hardwick, of Washington, traf fic paksenger manzager of the Souith ern railway was here. Assistant At inrney General represented the state. ei Feb. 26, 1914 Fair Last Week In October. October 26-3J, inclusive, the last week in the month, was fixed upon as . the time for the state fair of 1914 at a meeting recently sof the executive committee, South Caro~ina Agricul tural and Mechanical Society. D. F. Efird, general secretary, and D. G. Ellison, treasurer, were re-elected. Neither had opposition. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS. Systematic encouragement of thrift will hereafter be part of the policy of the Columbia public school system. The commissioners authorized the es tablishment, in the high school only at present, but eventually in all the schools, of a savings funds for pupils. The state of South Carolina was awarded a verdict of $360 in the court of common pleas recently against the Seaboard Air Line railway. The com plaint was brought on behalf of Clem son College. The Columbia-Camde4 railrogd was chartered recently with capital of $250,000 and work was commenced on the electric line -of railway between Columbia and Camden. R. L. Abney and Senator Weston and others are behind the movement. Rev. Stephen A. Nettles, formerly editor of the Southern Christian Ad vocate, Is confined to the home of his sister, Mrs. E. C. Alsbrook in Spartan burg by injuries which he received when he slipped and fell on the icy' pavement. The first shipment of the 7,000 eggs to be sent into Union county to fill the orders for the members of the Union County Poultry Association' is now being received. A delegation of railroad officals and directors of the Spartanburg chamber of commerce met in consultation with J. T. O'Dell, relative to the erection of a new union station for Spartan burg. Orangeburg county schools have re ceived $3,250.63 to be used as school extension aid. Thirty-five schools of this county, have received this aid. Prof. J. H., Harper, director of the agfcultural department of Clemson College, has accepted an invitation to conduct one of the conferences at the 1914 Conference for Education in the South, to be held in Louisville, Ky., April 7 to 10, inclusvie. After a pleasant and instructive sw ries of meetings In the Pendleton street Baptist church at Greenville, the B. Y. P. U. convention adjourned recently to meet next year at Darling. ton. The banner for which competi tion was keen was awarded to the B. Y. P.'U. of Tabernacle church of Col umbia. A new enterprise for Gaffney is a hog farpa which has been established by R. E. Johnson. Mr. Johnson has purchased some registered animals and will raise them for sale .He has had considerable experience in hand ling live stock, and only up-to-date methods will be employed by him. Henry Von Oshen, Jr., of Orangeburg and Mr. Howard of Charleston have entered into a business to raise poul try and sell eggs, etc. The poultry farm has been established on the road between Orangeburg and St. Mat 'hews, about two miles from Oranga.