The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 23, 1902, Image 3
THE LEGISLATURE.
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.The State Lawmakers Meet and Gel I
to Work.
HOUSE.
rust uuy?ini' iiu:isc 1.1 rcyi?i u- i
lathes was called to order at noon!
Tuesday by Col. Tom C. Hamer. the 1
. rirrk. The roll by < ounties was callc-J J
and a majority cf the members found ;
pn rt i>t. lion. W. r. Stevenson of j
Chest*, rfield. speaker of the house,
then took the chair and addressed '
il?f> members uf the house. He said in
ivirt:
U'o come together after a separa
"lion of 11 months with grave respon- '
sibilities. Since the adjournment it
bas hee.1 finally settled that the conn
ty government of the majority of our
counties if not in all of them is oniy
*le facto government; that the laws
<3KbthlishiUK them are in plain violation
of the constitution and one of the
iirv* /m>nsiirM nnd one of the most ini
jporfant should be a general county
government act lixing plainly and '
periranently the methods and ma-1
chincry cf county affairs and regulating
and proclaiming the salaries of
?uunty officers.
Again the jury law has been declared
Invalid for the same reason and
it is an imperative necessity that a
general and simple jury law be passed
at the first possible moment consistent
with orderly and sound legislation.
1.4* us hope that the not uncertain
tone of the court's decision relative
to special legislation will prevent the
appeal so often made by members
who are champions of pet local measures
"that it is simply a local measure."
That statement should hereafter
mark the measures for immediate
slaughter and the seal of condemnation
should be placed without question
on all such measures and policies.
Other important measures demahd j
attention also. Laws relative to j
tmsts need perfecting; laws relative i
1 "on A a enrl r?t har rvtf. !
%U IUIC igU lauivauo uuu wuv* w.
porations doing business here and
child Jabor In mills will no doubt ne
ajrain pressed upon your attention.
The past year in most of the State
has been hard on the agriculturist
and his failure to make a crop has
been felt by all classes, hence taxes
should be levied only for absolute
-necessities. On the other hand great i
progress has been made in the State I
in manufacturing, and the whole State
may well feel proud of the Carolina
Interstate and West Indian exposition
which is now open in Charleston.
It I3 needless to say that the appearance
of this State house now justifies
the action taken by the general
assembly in 1900 in directing its completion.
It will soon be a structure
of which the State should be proud,
and now let me prge that suitable
provision be made for equipping the
offices and preserving the valuable
records contained in them. Irreparable
loss may bo suffered by failing to
make proper provision for them.
We assemble with the lesson of the
uncertainties of life impressed upon
?mc Thrp^ of our members have died
since the last roll call of this house
and I feel a loss in each one peculiar
and personal, and especially in my
colleague with whom my associations
have been peculiarly close for 15
years. Within 48 hours, too, the hand
of death has been laid upon the assistant
clerk of this house, and we
have lost an efficient, painstaking and
alTabte official.
The records of those who have
passed is honorable; their memories
are dear to 113 and our affection will
be put into permanent form, but this
should warn us that death is claiming
its victims daily and we must all soon
pay the debt and pass awa>.
At the conclusion of his remarks,
the speaker called the Dew members
before the l>ar of the house and they
were sworn in. The new members
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Johnson of Fairfield; J. B. Towell. of
.I^exington and M. J. Hough, of Chesterfield.
These new representatives
then presented their credentials and
subscribed to the oath of office. Mr.
fzlar is a lawyer, a brother of former
Judge Izlar. and a leading citizen of
Blackville. Mr. Towell is quite a young
man, editor of the Batesburg Advocate
and succeeds Congressman
I-cver. Capt. Johnson is a leading
merchant of Ridgeway, has been a
member of the house before and is a
member of the State house commission.
Mr. Hough is a brother of Senator
Hough and was clerk of the ju
diciary committee of the house last
, year.
A message from the senate declared
that that body had organized. The
bouse, after electing a chaplain, notified
the senate that it was ready
. for business. There were three nouii
nations *j'r chaplain: Rev. R. N. Pratt
\of the Second Baptist church; Rev.
II. M. Kinard of the Ebenezer Lutheran
church and Rev. J. L. Mullinix
of the Methodist conference. On the
second ballot Mr. Pratt was elected.
The senate and the governor were
notified of the house's organization.
The governor's message was received
and read.
Mr. Spears moved that the bill he
Act No. 103 providing a special
nchnol district in Anderson county
was vetoed 1 by the governor, as it
was special legislation, and the house
wan so notified.
The Anderson delegation agreed to
the justness of the attorney general's
decision in regard to the act No. 103, j
and the house concurred.
The governor's message returning
the free pass act was read,
passod, notwithstanding the governor's
veto.
Mr. Ashley wanted to postpone action
on the veto of the free pass act,
but the speaker ruled that It was a
matter which should be acted upon at
once as a courtesy to the governor.
Tile vote was then taken and the bill
wm buried by a vote of 64 to 3S, the
tatter being in favor of passing the
act over the governor's veto, whereas
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it required S3 votes to pass it.
The speaker announced the followI
ins appointments: Assistant clerk. J.
Wilson Gibbes: speaker's porter,
Parnell Meebau; laborers. Peter Harrison.
Gallic Robins. Will Burton;
i door-keepers. Peter Saunders. S. L.
| Pope. J. C. Jennings: pages. Calhoun
DoBruhl. Clark NVardlaw Adicices. C.
J. Colcock. Jr.. and Robert Evans.
The new members of the house were
assigned as follows: Izlar on ways
and means and internal improvements;
Ilough on judiciary and enrolled
acts: Johnson, State house an 1
grounds and public schools; Towell,
eaucauon a:iu phoiiuh.
The following new bills were Introduced:
By Mr. Backer, to increase
the anual appropriation for pen?ions
to $1? 0,000; by Mr. J. 13. Smith, to extend
the time for the payment of
taxes every year.
The first bill or resolution of the
session was Mr. Bacot's concurrent
resohition suggesting the postponement
of the exercises incident to the
presentation of the brass tablet from
the last > esting place of Gov. James
Glen. The resolution also extended an
invitation to Col. Jno. B. Cleveland,
the donor, to be present at the exercises.
Tae resolution was adopted by
both houses.
Mi. Prince introduced a concurrent
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the judiciary be filled Friday. There
were several motions on this resolution,
but it was finally adopted. It
appears that the election of judges
is to be kept separate from the other
elections. It was evident that there is
a desire to hurry up the other elections
for some reason or otner.
The calendar was taken up and a
number of bills recommitted, among
them Mr. Webb's bill relating to the
labor of children in cotton mills.
The house at 2 o'clock adjourned.
Second Day?The house assembled
at noon and spent two hours in session.
During that time the thread wa3
taker, up where it was broken off at
the end of the last session. Several
new bills were introduced.
Time was set for action on the bill
to provide for bipnnial sessions of the
general assembly and the redistrictting
bills. A message from the governor
called attention to the bonds of
the late institution known as the
State bank. There was a bill introduced
by Mr. Morgan to pay to the
widow of the late Senator Earle $1,366.66
for salary as judge.
Mr. Mo3es of Sumter offered a resolution
that a committee of one from
each county be appointed to consider
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State and to report by bill next Tuesday.
This was opposed by Mr. Crcft
of Aiken, Mr. Tatum of Orangeburg.
Mr. Rainsford of Edgefield and others.
The resolution was voted down. :t'
was finally decided to dispose of this
matter on the 22nd of this month.
Among the new bills introduced
were the following:
By Mr. C. P. Sanders: To authorize
and direct the secretary of state to
deliver to the Spartan chapter of United
Daughters of the Confederacy, or
their authorized agent, one of the
broken granite columns on the State
house grounds, to be used in the erection
of a Confederate monument on
the public square in the city of Spartanburg.
By Mr. Sanders: A bill to make perpetual
charters for cities of over 5,000
inhabitants granted under the .aw
of 1901.
By Mr. Lomax. of Abbeville: A bill
to provide for buying school books for
certain school districts.
By Mr. Bacot, to include the University
of the South (Sewanee) in the
number of those institutions wnieh
are to receive new code; also the acts
of the legislature of South Carolina.
By Mr. Slnkler, to empower the
winding up or dissolution of all car
porations.
By Mr. Rucker, to provide for paying
costs of criminal cases transferred
from one county to another. This
bill puts the cost on the county in
which action started. There have jeen
suits in court because of the lack of
such a statute as this.
By Mr. Mayson, relating to liens on
crops; by Mr. Crum. to repeal the
county government law of Barnwell
county. 1895. so far as it affects what
is now Bamberg.
By Mr. Moses, several bills relating
to ratifying the work of the commission
to provide for lighting the State
house and other State buildings in
Columhja.
By Mr. Gunter. to reduce the penalty
! of stealing from the field when the
value of stolen property is loss than
$10; to protect poles and wires of telephone
and telegraph companies.
The house then adjorned.
j Third Day?The house got into a discussion
over a dispensary hill, and it
i looked for a while as if a general fight
[ would be started, but the dispensary
people tooK reruge tinner a mouou iu
adjourn, hoping no doubt to defeat the
bill by delay. It was Mr. C. P. Sanders'
bill proposing to allow con ties the
right to vote to remove dispensaries
from within their borders.
The house inet at 11 o'clock and
spent nearly all of the morning discussing
a bill which seeks to protect
the fish of the streams from wholesale
depredations. The bill passed second
reading after being loaded down with
"riders" which practically kill th?
measure. ^
Mr. Dorrah introduced a joint resoP*
tion proposing an amendment to ti.e
constitution making the term of office
of State officers four years. Also an
amendment to allow school fund taxes
paid by white people to go to the support
of white schools and that paid bj
negroes to go to negroes' schools.
Hr. Campbell Introduced a joint resolution
proposing a constitutional
amendment permitting special legislate
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tion in the matter of building highways
and bridges.
Mr. Seigler of Saluda wants to amend
the oastitulion wherein it relates to
the election of senators and munbers
of the house of representatives and to
abolish the classification of senators.
He also introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the constitution
by providing lor biennial sessions.
(Mr. Efird already has a similar
resolution on the calendar.)
Among the now hills introduce-! was
that of .Mr. MoGowan agair.st trusts
and the one of Mr. W. J. Johnson in
regard to railroad charges.
By Mr. C. P. Sanders: A bill to
provide for the selection by the governor
of State depositories of public
funds.
By Mr. C. E. Robinson: To allow
the county of Pickens to borrow money
to pay past indebtedness and to get
on a cash basis.
By Mr. Mauldin: To amend the dispensary
law as applied to Pickens
and Oconee counties so as to allow the
municipalities to get part of the dispensary
profits.
By Mr. Moss: A memorial for appropriations
to perfect Confederate rolls.
This is along the line of suggestions
of Mr. D. H. Means to the Confederate
veterans.
By Mr. McGowan: A joint resolution
to pay P. H. Martin $210; also to pay
Edward W. Higgins $150, pension ur
1900 and 1901.
Mr. McGowan: To repeal that section
of the revised statutes of 1393
which fixes the time in which taxes
must be paid.
Mr. Prince: To amend the act of !3o4
allowing the city of Anderson to i3sue
bonds in aid of the Savannah Valley
railroad.
SENATE.
First Day?The session began at
noon when Col. Tillman called the
senate to order, and the cleris called
the roll. Prayer wan made by the
chaplain, the Rev. S. H. Zimmerman,
pastor or the Main Street Methodist
church, after which Lieut. Gov. Tillman
addressed the senate In a few
appropriate words. He said:
Senators: In obedience to the laws
of thi3 commonwealth you are again
summoned to your post of duty. Fresh
from the happy hours of the yuletide,
your thoughts now turn to more
serious things. That justice and wisdom
will characterize your deliberations
were needless to prophecy. But
remember, man?that strange con
necting link between dust and deity?
la prone to criticise, sometimes to
slander. Disappointment awaits him
whose endeavor would be to please a
whole people; though when fortified
in the fortress of duty well done he
may bid defiance to those who envy.
In the past twelve month partisans
threw aside their partisanship, parties
were for a time forgot, while a
nation knelt beside the bier of a
martyred preeident; but through Almighty
benevolence the Grim Reaper
has not entered here and we are once
more permitted to welcome with
kindly greeting each and every member
of this distinguished body.
I invoke your aid and assistance
during the session. I hope to be fair.
I pray to be just. Let nothing mar
your proceedings, but I would, have
you feel like D'Artignan and his
musketeers. "All for one, one for all"
?that all. Carolina.
I now declare the senate of South
Carolina ready for any business that
may properly come before it
Senator Sheppard moved that a committee
be appointed to communicate to
the governor that the senate was organized
and ready for any communication
from his excellency. The committee
consisted of Senators Sheppard,
Barnwell and Brown, and these gentlemen
immediately performed the duty.
Senator Raysor, the successor to Senator
Brantley of Orangeburg, resigned,
presented his credentials and was
sworn in by the president
Lieut. Cov. Tillman then announced
the appointment of pages and other
minor officials of the body.
Senator Sheppard for the committee
reported that the governor sa'd he
would communicate with the senate
immediately and Private Secretary
Aull was announced and presented the
annual document.
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senator from Orangeburg, Raysor, be
assigned to the same committee as his
predecessor, save that on public library,
for -which was substituted the judiciary
committee. This was carried and Senator
Raysor was accordingly assigned
to tho committees.
Senator Barnwell offered a resolution
to recommit all bills unacted upon
to the appropriate committees, which
was adopted.
Senator Shepnard presented a.resolution
requiring the election committee
to inquire and rejiort what elections
are to be held at this session.
This was adopted. The purpose is to
i. complete the elections as soon as possible^
The ooncurrent resolution pos'.poni
ing the ceremony accepting the Glen
tablet was presented and Senator Marshall
moved its adoption. To this there i
wa3 no objection.
Senator Graydon asked leave of absence
for the senator's clerk, Gen. R.
R. Hemphill, to attend the funeral df
his distinguished uncle, Hon. James
; Hemphill, of Chester.
The only new bills introduced were
. two by the senate from Charleston as
follows:
i By Senator Barnwell to amend the
i pilotage laws.
By Senator Barnwell to empower the
. 1 winding up of dissolution of all cor
porations.
Second Day?The senate was In session
but little more than half an hour.
1 but during that time'dispatched con.
siderable business. Such matters as |
were acted upon went through without
discuss ion. w
Senator Mayfield introduced a resolution.
which was adopted, directing
the sergaant-at-arms to provide new
furniture for the senate committee
rooms, that now in use being worn
and delapidated.
On motion of Senator Orydon the
report of the attorney general as to
the trusts was referred to the judici-..
ary committee with power to report
! by bill or otherwise.
Senator Raysor of Orangeburg introduced
a bill providing for compulsory
education. The bill requires parents
or guardians to send their chilt
;Ircn between 8 and 14 years of age to
a public or private school at least
j eight wrok3 in each year, unless prevntofl
hv illneqq or nrofieipnev. -licit
excuses to be passed upon by the township
school trustees. Violations of tills
provision arc made punishable by a
fine of not less than $5 nor more than
$20, or by impriosnment not less than
five days nor more than 20 days, the
cases to be, tried by magistrates. Fines
so collected are to be turned into the
county school fund. The bill was referred
to the committee on education.
Senator Applet introduced a bill to
further regulate the traffic in cotr.on
seed. Referred to the committee on
agriculture.
Senator Graydon introduced a bill
to amend the act creating Abbeville
school district in regard to the election
of trusties. Referred to the committee
on education.
Senator Mayfield introduced a bill to
regulate the division of dispena.iry
profits between the town of Bamberg
and the county. Placed on the calendar
without reference.
Senator Grube introduced six bills
looking to amending the constitution
so as to provide for biennial sessions |
nr tppneraJ flsseniDlv. His Dlan is I
to have the legislature to meet every
two years, and to have representatives
elected for four years and senators for
six years. His scheme provides for extra
sessions to be called by the governor
if occasion should arise and empowers
the governor to fill vacancies
on the supreme and circuit court
benches. The bills were referred to
the judiciary committee.
When the house oresolution calling
for a joint session at 12 o'clock on
Friday for the purpose of electing
judges of the first, escond, third, fourb,
sixth and eighth circuits wa3 called up
Senator Gruber moved to amend by
making the hour 10:30 Instead of 12
o'clock. This wa3 agreed to without
discussion.
The governor's message, which was
read Tuesday, was referred to appropriate
committees.
Leave of absence was granted Senator
Stackhoiae of Marion, who is detained
at home by sickness.
The senate adjourned at 12:35.
Third Day?The senate held another
brief session. No business of special
importance was transacted beyond
killing a number of bills that had been
brought over from last year.
The governor's message relating to
the stolen bonds of the old State bank
was received and read. The message
was sent to the senate on Wednesday,
at the same time it was sent to the
house, but the senate had adjourned
when Secretary Aull got to the senate
chamber with it.
The following bills were introhrdlu
The following new bills were introduced:
By Senator Raysor?To amend ;
tlcn 2316 of the revised statutes. ' *e
Bame being a part of the Lord CampI
bell act.
By Senator MaySeld?To regulate
I the deposit and withdrawal of State
J funds.
1 By Senator Raysor?To authorise
nrhnni district No. 67 in Orangeburg
to issue bonds to build a new school
bouse.
By Senator Graydon?To regulate
the drawing of jurors for the circuit
court.
By Senator Hemdon?To amend the
act allowing the establishment of dispensaries
in Pickens and Oconee.
A memorial in regard to completing
and caring for the Confederate rolls
was referred to the committee on military
affairs.
By Senator Raysor?To allow school
districts to issue bonds for the purpose
of building school houses.
Big Surrender in Batangas.
Washington. Special.?The War Department
was advised late Tuesday
of an important surrender which occurred
yesterday at Taal, Batangas
province. Phiippine Islands. The surrender
included one colonel, three
lieutenant colonels,. one major, five
captains, twelve lieutenants, 245 men
and 223 rifles. Marasigan. the colonel,
was a leader of importance under the
insurgent General Malvar, operating
in the western portion of Batangas.
That section is reported now to be
practically clear of hostile forces. It
is stated that the surrender was unconditional.
and due to the excellent
service of the American troops. The
loyal natives, it is added, believe this
surrender will influence hostile
bands in other sections of Batangas
to surrender.
Getst Damages.
Montgomery, Ala., Special.?Mrs.
Emma Furth, of New York City, was
awarded $5,000 damages by a Jury in
the United States District Court as a
result of a suit brought against Alex.
K. Cawthon, of Solum, Ala., who was
charged with causing the death of her
husband, Jacob Furth. Two years ago
I Furth, who was a traveling salesman,
became involved in a difficulty with
Cawthon in Selma, and Furth was shot
and killed. Mrs. Furth sued for $25,000.
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A Erockton, (Mass.) man has patented
a device 1o keep roosters from
crowing during the night or earJy
morning. An arrangement is fastened
to tlie rooster s bill at night by a
clasp, which does cot interfere in
any way with the bird's breathing.
When he attempts to crow, however,
his clarion note will not come' forth
until his owner chooses to remove the
clasp. The inventor believes that.
#?er a ffmo the rooster that wears
the antl-crower will cease wanting to
crow even when the device is not attached
to his bill, in which event a
further hope is enterlaine:! that a race
of non-crowing fowls may be raised.?
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