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jjjt ' ' * i \ | . v v/-?y: rj,.--,^'-. .>7 ll The County Record i PACES 9 TO 12. KINCSTREE, S. C., FEBRUARY 28,1907. PACES 9 TO 12. llOfllSI ' \ . Acts of Public Nature Passed > By Legislature ! , DURING SESSION JUST ENDED Great Many Matters of General Interest Enacted Into Statutes During the Forty Days. The session of the legislature re . centlv closed enacted a ^reat many new laws?more than two hundred in fa^t; of these however, the larger portion' were special acts applying *n r*??rtnin rounties or individu als. The following are the laws of a general nature passed duriug the session: Mr. Saye?A bill to create a commission and appropriate $10,000 to provide for a statue of John C. Calhoun in the capitol at Washington, D. C. Mr. Cosgrove?A bill to improve the sanitary and other conditions of the State of South Carolina by proper ^ 1 drainage and to provide for the same. Mr. Derbara?A bill to amend section 403, code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, vol. 1, requiring reports ? from county treasurers. Mr. McMaster?Forbidding the sale of cocaine without prescription. * Mr. Weston?An act to regulate the marketing of deceased cattle. j Mr. Richards?A bill to provide j,- for the erection of a practice school ' building at the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college of South CarM olina, and to appropriate $100,000 ; for the same. An act to amend the eiiarier 01 me r,? Augusta and Columbia Railway company, so as to enlarge its powers, and for other purposes. Ah act to regulate the manner of sale of any drifted boat, float, water craft, lumber or timber, and to prescribe a penalty for violation thereof. An act to amend an act entitled * 'An act to prevent delays in the , transportation of freight by railx roads in this State," approved 25th March, A. D. 1904, by striking out the words "railroad companies" and / 0|>Amn?no" irhoivt'lip frllPV gnppqi ^ VVUiJ/WIJ ?? iiviv ? v? li and inserting in lieu thereof the W -words " common carrier." ijf- Mr. Frost?A bill to authorize the re-issue of a certain certificate of stock of the State of South Carolina r for $100. An act to amend section 299, code of civil procedure, 1902, volume 2, relating to judgments in action to recover personal property. . An act ceding to the United States of America jurisdiction over certain lands in this State in Sumter county. An act granting to the , United \ States the title of the State to, and jurisdiction over, a certain lot of land in the city of Sumter, for the purpose of erecting a public building. A bill to declare the law in reference to and regulate the manufacture, ale, use, consumption, possession, transportation and disposition of alcoholic liquors and beverages within this State, and to police the same. ^ A bill to provide for the disposition of all property connected with the State dispensary, and to wind up its affairs. A joint resolution to require the comptroller general to issue his war rant, and the State treasurer to pav I the same, for 126 dollars in favor of Brutus C. Moore, for professional services rendered the State board of health in the treatment of smallpox patients. A bill in relation to the investment and loan by the commissioners of the sinking fund of the fund for State insurance of public property by the sinking fund commission. * A bill to provide for the issuing of bends in public school districts iD South Carolina. P A bill to incorporate the Audubon e Society of South Carolina and to provide for the preservation of the wild birds and animals of the State. A bill to provide a minimum sum for the annual appropriation for pensions, and fixing the same at $250,000. A bill to prohibit the manufacture or sale of adulterated <*r misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods or drug*. ^ A bill to provide for the amount to r be paid ;urors and witnesses in tho \ general sessions court. A bill to amend an act entitled "an act to regulate the catching, gathering, sole, exporting or canning of oysters, terrapin, clams, shad and sturgeon to provide for the licensing thereof, and to provide for the leasing of public lands suitable for the <M:tnation thereof." A bill ta provide an annual appropriation for the holding of the annual reunion of the Cenfederate * vetex*ans 111 this State, and. to create a commission to disburse the same. A bill to amend the law in relation to the names and locations of the voting precincts in this State. ; .. .. .. A bill to aiucncl section 2 and section 3 cf an act entitled "an act to provide lor beneficiary scholarships in i he Clcmson Agricultural college of South Carolina, approved February 25, 1904, so as to allow scholarships to students taking textile courses, and to provide fntrelir regulations as to the examinations thereof. A bill to protect and secure the purity of the water supplies of towns and cities. To provide high schools for the State. To amend sootion 1555, volume 1, code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, amended by an act entitled "an act to amend section 1555, volume 1, code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, relative to the counties exempt from tlie general laws providing for cotton weighers," approved the 24th day of February, A. D. 1904." To provide the time for holding courts in the first judicial circuit. To amend chapter C. article 1 of code of laws of the State of South Carolina, 1902, in relation to State insurance of public property b>* inaerting therein, immediately after section 129 thereof, a section to be designated as "section 129a," by providing for part insurance in old line companies and regulating settlements of losses. To amend an act entitled "an act to provide punishment for safe crackers," approved Feb. 19, 1904, by adding another section thereto, to be section 2, providing punishment for anyone possessing safe cracking equipment. To further declare the law in reference to the adoption of illegitimate children. To provide a penalty for jurors when duly summoned who shall'neglect or refuse to appear in obedience to a venire duly issued in the police court of uny municipality in mis State. To provide for. a monument to mark the grave of Gen. Thomas Sumter. A bill to prohibit contracts and agreements for sale and future delivery of cotton, grain, provisions and other commodities, stocks, bonds and other securities, upon margin, commonly known as dealing in futures; to declare such transactions unlawful, and to constitute a misdemeanor on the part of any person, association or persons or corporation participating therein, whether directly or indirectly;, to prohibit the establishment, maintenance or operation of amy office or other place where such contracts are made or offered; to define what shall constitute prima facie evidence of guilt; to compel all persons participating in such transactions to testify concerning their connection tberefith; to provide that no discovery made by any witness, which would tend him to conviction or punishment under this act, shall be used against such witness in any penal or criminal proceedings, and that he shall be'altogether pardoned therefor; to provide that regular commercial exchanges and other bona fide trade organizations may post quotations or market prices, and for other purposes. An act to regulate the sale of cocaine. An act to further regulate the low in regard to emigrant agents. An act to provide for th'e appointment of bailiffs in the circuit courts of this State. An act to cede to the United States the title of this State to. and the jurisdiction of this State over, certain lands in Charleston, Beaufort and Georgetown counties for quarantine purposes. An act to fix the time for the commencing of the terms of office of the various county officers. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to amend section 2169, volume 1, code of laws, 1902, so as to extend the authority of the railroad commissioners to require depots at other than junctional point3," approved 2nd day of February, A. D. 1906, reducing the pefialty and specifying the time for such work. An act to amend section 69.1. erim inal code of laws of South Carolina, 11)02, volume 2. A bill to allow certain trustees to pa? premiums for surety bonds from trust funds. A bill to limit the hours of labor in cotton and woolen mills. A bill to amend section 179 of the code of laws of South Carolina of 1902, volume 1, relating to opening books of registration. A bill to amend section 2G55, volume 1, code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, by exempting property let or hired for agricultural purposes from its provisions. A bill to amend section 3117, voli ume 1, code of laws of South Carolint, 1902, relating to costs and fees of magistrates. A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section 120S of the code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, to provide for the voting of special-taxes for school purposes,'' approved '24th February, A. D. 1906, by fixing the time of the elction. A joint resolution to authorize'and require the pavment of the sum of $114.70 to J. 0. Sanders, M. D., for professional services rendered the State board of health. A joint resolution to provide for an appointment of a committee to examine and to revise the railroad rates and to investigate all matters pertaining to the service furnished by the railroad companies to the city of Charleston, to grant certain powers to said committee and make an appropriation therefor. *To declare the violation of a lease of land or tenements and a failure and refusal to enter upon the due performance of a contract for leasing lands or tenements and the violation of any such contract upon the part of the ladlord a misdemeanor and to provide a punishment therefor. To amend section 2935, voume 1, code of laws of 1902, relating to exemptions from jury duty. To require the sergeant-at-arms of nnpli hranrh of the general assembly to care for the senate chamber and hall of the house of representatives, committee rooms and their furniture. To empower cifies aud towns to furnish electric current and water to parties without the incorporate limits thereof auci make contracts and to fix the rates and charges in behalf. An act to authorize and empower all municipal coropratiotis in this State to purchase or condemn land for certain purj>cses. An act to create a commission on State house and pounds, and prescribe its duties. An act to authorize the State treasurer to receive from the United States government a certain fund, and to hold the same subject to the uses declared by an act of congress. A bill to make appropriations to meet the ordinary expenses of the State government, for the fiscal year oomraencing January 1, 1907. A bill to make appropriations for the payment of the per diem, mileage and stationery certificates of the members of the general assembly, the salaries of subordinate olhcors and employes thereof, and other purposes herein named. A bill to raise supplies and make appropriations for the fiscal year commencing 1907. JAPANESE MAY RULE WORLD. All Christendom May Yet Become Vassal to Japan. Count Leo Tolstoy has written a letter to Paul Sabatier, apropos of the letter's recent book on the "Disestablishment of the Church In France," in which the famous Russian author predicts the possible reduction of all the Christian countries of the West to a state of vassalage to the Japanese and other Oriental people. He bases his prediction upon the ground it is only in the Orient that religion and patriotism are synonymous. In this letter County Tolstoy displays all his his old-time vigor of tyle and clearness of ideas. He says, In part: "Religion Is truth and goodness, the Church falsehood and evil. I tell you frankly I cannot agree with those who believe the Church is an organization J|nnAnatMA ?sv?* KAllcrlnn Thn Hhllffth luuiapcusjuiu ivi 1V1151WU. A uv baa ever b??en a cruel and lying institution. which, in seeking for temporal advantages, has perverted and distorted the true Christian doctrine. "All the concordats have been for it nothing but compacts with the State, whereby the Church supported the State in raturn for specific material advantages. Christianity has even been simply a pretext for the Church. I may be told that there have been and still are In the Catholic world men and women of holy life, but 1 answer that these sainted lives are not due to the Church but rather ill spite of the Church. "In spite of all the efforts of Church and State to unite the two principles, true Christianity (iove, humility and kindness) and that of the State (physical force and violence) the contradiction has become in our time so flagrant that a solution is bound to come. Several symptoms prove this:? First, the religious movement is not confined to France, but exists in alf Christian countries; second, the revolution in Russia; third, the extraordinary military and industrial progress which is manifesting itself in the Orient, in China and especially in Japan. The present religious mov^ ment which is going on not only in Catholic countries, but in the whole world, Is, I believe, nothing but the unrest accompanying the exit from the dilemma." Chinese Wares in Vogue. Canton ware, especially that with the open-work bordering:, which in the fruit stands and plates has particular charm, and the Chinese medallion china in green, gold and red on white, are the most correct for dining-room j furnishings for houses of the colonial j type, for both were widely used by J the wealthiest of the early settlers in I New Amsterdam, being brought by I their trading vessels from foreign j ports. \ J I APPROPRIATIONS MADE 2 Final Figures of the General Appropriation and the State Tax Levy. " - -? . c At 1:30 Sunday morning the gen- fc eral assembly was ready -to adjourn, o The final adjournment of the gener- $ al assembly was marked by a display of good feeling seldom seen, especi- ii ally as the aftermath of such vigor- o ous fights. Senators and representa- tl tives in the recesses taken to await the reports of committees joined with si each other insigning and handshaking ti The business was transacted iu the S most orderly manner, however and ti the crowded gallaries watched the e: closing scenes with much interest. ii Many of the leaders had gone n home and there was little chance for d< speeches. The members wanted to p finish up. There was the usual de- tl lay in getting the amendments from c< the committees, and while waiting, m Mr. Frazier moved that tile house go te into a committe of the whole. Un- ji der the rules, the speaker had to re- T sign the chair, and Mr. Rucker of di Anderson was selected to preside. to Mr. Frazier offered a resolution Ji, thanking the speaker for his fair and ei impartial rulings and the courtesy tt extended all members during the ses- fi sion. The resolution was adopted by te a rising vote. A resolution thank- cl ing the press for the fair and impar- at tial reports was also adopted. ci Speaker W ha ley, who had retired tr during the session of the committee as of the whole, was informed of the ei resolution on his recall, and in a few ej words heartily thanked the members at for their expression of cpinion on his d< rulings. m At the night session the house had w to wait several hours on the reports m from free conference committees. tl The resolution giving the South w Carolina club the use of the house for vj the annual State ball was called up. Mr. Morrell moved to table it be- 0| cause of his scruples against dancing, cl holding that while citizens had the right to do as they pleased at home, m they had no right to use State prop- ? erty for balls. The motion to table cr by Mr. Morrell was promptly voted tt down. p The committee in fiee conference cc ftn tlio noiKinns nor<v>d to mve $5,000 I *"v - n- * - ^?7 \ji for the artificial limb fund of the i< Kucker bill, which ga\e $250,000 to pensioners, an increase of $25,000. p. The supply bill, which increased j, the salaries to the assistant clerks of er house and senate from $250 to $300 Sl was agTeed upon. al The senate amendment which fixed the State levy at 4 3-4 mills instead h( of 4 1-2 mills was net agTeed upon bf and the levy was .fixed at the latter sj figure by the committee of free con- d< ferences. ^ The report from tte free confer ence committee 011 the appropriations tor the year agreed upon $1U,UUU tor sj; the department of immigration, which e2 reduced the senatg amendment by $2,- jn 00, but increased the house appro- ^ priation from $3,000. ^ Mr. J. E. McDonald's compensation so for legal eervice to tfce State dispen- n pensary directors was increase from $250 to $500. The Senate wished to give $1,000. 5^ The appropriations for the statute to to John C. Calhoun, for/ the Gen. Sumter monument, for the investigation of the railway situation in ^ Charleston, for the improvement of ^ the State house grounds ($15,000); p, high schools, $50,000, annual reunion of Confederate veterans $3,500,, all aj were passed. a. The committee refused to give $6,- co 000 to the State treasurer for metal a( cases, and gave $1,000 to comptroller general for special investigations. ^ For the University of South Caro- ea lina the $10,000 as given for the m building of professor's residences. ar One scholarship in each county in ' the normal department is given, but its value is inoreased from $40 to $100 which increases the value from $3,2S0 to $4,100. The appropriation for the infirmary is rejected. Winthrop college is given $4,350 increase 111 salaries for teacners. <ji For the Citadel $3,000 was given tc for repairs instead of $1,500. tc The sum of $3,000 is given the K Catawba Indians instead of $1,500. The sum of $18,000 is given the ^ public priuter instead of $15,000. The Industrial school (reforma- ' tory) is given $3,308 instead of ( $15,000. . The committe wrangled for five ^ hours over the differences between tl; the two houses. The bill was sent q to the engrossing department at 1:30. jg The Dispensary Wind-Up Law. ' p: After the final passage of the Is Carey-Cothran bill the joint resolu- V tion providing for winding up the af- tc fairs of the State dispensary was D taken up. The senate amendment proposed by Senator Talbert, adopted the day before, was read and without objection was adopted. The clincher was then put on by 0{ Mr. Nash. The substitute, which was '? offered by Senator Talbert and will be the law of the State, is as follaws: j w< "Section 1. That immediately upon I ' if,- ? ? i ivy- 4 - . * tie approval of this act the governor hall appoint a commission of well nown business men, consisting of ve members, none of whom shall be icmbers of the general assembly, tc le known as the state dispensary ommission, who shall each give iond for the faithful performance f the duties required in the sum of 10,000. 'Sec. 2. Said commission shall nmediately organize by the elction f a chairman and a secretary from heir number. "Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of lid commission to close out the enire business and property of the tate disnensary efcept all real esite, and including stock in the sevral county dispensaries by disposig of all goods and property conected therewith, by collecting all ebts due and by paying from the roceeds thereof all just liabilities at le earliest date practicable. Said immission shall be at liberty to lake such disposition upon such times and conditions as their idgmeut may dictate: Provided, hat no alcoholic liquors of beers be isposed of within this State except 1 county dispensary boards, and all quors illegally bought by the preslt management may be returned to le persons, firms or corporations om whom purchased, and fbl* dermining the lagality of said purtiases they are hereby authorized id directed to investigate fully the rcumstances surrounding all conacts for liquors and to employ such distant counsel as may be approv1 by the attorney general, and such :pert accountants and stenographers id any other person or persons jemed necessary for the ascertainent of any fact or facts connected ith said State dispensary and its anagement or control at any time in te past, and to take testimony either ithin or without the State: Pro-' ,ded, further, That all payments tail be made in gold and silver coin the United States, in United States irrency, or in national bank notes. "Sec. 4. The compensation of each ember of said commission shall be i per day for each day actually nploycd about the business, and aclal expenses for the time engaged: rovided, That they shall receive no impc-nsation for services rendered l this commission after January 1, )0S. "Sec. 5. The said commission shall ry to the State treasurer, after deleting their compensation and oth expenses allowed by this act, all irplus funds on hand after paying 1 liabilities. "Sec. 6. The said commission is i ;reby authorized to employ such >okkeepers, accountants, clerks, asstants and employes as they may ?em necessary and to contract with iem at the time of employment for teir compensation. "Sec. 7. The said commission tall submit to the governor at the irliest day practicable a complete ventory of all property i-eceived by em with a statement of the liabilies of the State dispensary and as on as the affairs are liquidated a port in full of their actings and lings. "Sec. 8. That said commission iall have full power ani authority investigate the past conduct of the fairs of the dispensary and all the iwer and authority conferred upon ie committee appointed to investiite the affairs of the dispensary as escribed by an act to provide for ie investigation of the dispensary, iproved January 25, A. D. 1906, be id hereby is conferred upon the immision provided for under this t: Provided, That for the purpose ! the investigation of the affairs of e disnensary as herein provided, ich and every member of said comission be and hereby is authorized id empowered, separately and indidually, or collectively, to exercise o nnn-pr nnd authority herein con rred upon the whole commission." When Queena Beat Kings. There is hardly a king in ChristenDm today whose wife does not over?p him by a head. The Czar is over>pped a full head by the Czarina. ' aiser Wilhelm is of the medium eight, but tne German Empress is .11, and that is why the proud Kaiser ill never consent to be photographed eside his wife unless she sits while j a stands. The King of Italy, short i ad squat, hardly comes up to the loulders of the tall athletic Queen ? elena. The King of Portugal, tough fatter, is less tall than his ueen. Even the Prince of Wales a good four inches shorter than the rincess. The young King of Spain several inches shorter than Queen Ictoria. The Queen of Denmark >wers above her royal spouse.?Korea ally News. HOPES DASHED. I First Bell Boy?Did ycu get rich t that lady that gave you fifty cents r taking up her grip when she nded? Second Bell Boy?Naw! I had to >rk all the rest of the week for her r nuthln'.?Detroit Free Press. 140 ARE DROWNED ?f ' Crew and Passengers Die in Sight of Land LIFE-SAVERS UNABLE TO HELP ' /-'A Rotterdam Steamer Berlin, With 141 Passengers and Crew of 50, Wreck; ed Off the Hook of Holland, Every Csw.1 iVnird OTitlt fin A TlrMatiOll MVIU lf*?M J?-- -- - -^ Disappearing in Mountainous Waves. London, By Cable.?The Rotterdam mail steamer Berlin, from England, _ with 141 passengers and crew, w?9 ' , wrecked off the Hook of Holland, at S the entrance of the River Maas, leading to Rotterdam, shortly before t o'clock Friday morning, and with one exception all on board perished. A terrific southwesterly gale was blowing right in shore and drove the Berlin on a sand bank close to the northern jetty as she was trying to enter the new waterway. Heavy seas quickly pounded the vessel to c pieces. She broke in two, her forepart sinking immediately, while the doomed passengers and crew could -' be seen for a brief space of clustered on the afterpart. Then the afterpart slipped off the ledge add dis * appeared in the mountainous waves. Tugs and life boats, when the alarm was first sounded, promptly pat oat to the assistance of the Berlin, tat the violence of the gale and heavy seas made it impossible to ap?. - * proach the wreck, and the helpless would-be life savers saw the steamer break up and the crew and passcng- .v ers washed away without being able v to render the slightest assistance. The Berlin left Harwich at 1? o'clock Thursday night, npea the rival there of the London train witR . the greatest number of passengei* who subsequently lest their iives. thm Steamer should have reached the JtiQO* ./v of Hollar..1 at <1 o'clock Friday morn- ^ ins and would have then proceeded"^ for Rotterdam. * All on Board Drowned. As the Berlin was entering; the waterway at the entrance of the river',' Maas, she apparently became unman- v arable on account of the force oftfefl^gj wind and was driven ashore, The- * alarm was given and life beats front < the shore went to the assistance of the steamer, but the seas were so higk that the boats were unable .to ap? ' . proach the J^erlin close enough to,v; take off any of the passengers-or crew and the life boat men had io sit helpless wjjile the steamer pounded until She broke fin two and soul on board was earrie<f down. Th? { steamer- apparently struck off and . . sank immediately, while' her afterpart could be seen for a considerable period of time afterwards. The waterway in which the .disaster occurred is a new one on the nortlstf. side of which is the pier .and railroad station. The steamer .must have been within a few miles of tying up after., her rough passage across the North Sea when she was overtaken by the * disaster. Land was but a few yards- % away, and except in 4fce roughest . weather those on board^|M*4b|du^^ could have been rescued without ficulty especially aa the waterway if, | navigable at all tides. . , ^ New Ambassador Arrives. Washington, Special. ? Honorable James Bryce, the new British ambofr- ' sador to Washington, accompanied by Mrs. Bryce, arrived here at 4:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Tbey >were met at the station by Mr. Esaan Howard, counsellor of legation and/3 charge d'affaires, and the entire bassy staff and ladies, who extended them a hearty greeting. The ambaco/Jnr nnJ hie n-ifo wpro driven to their temporary apartments in Stoneleigh Court, while the repairs to the embassy are being completed' ^ Rates for Exposition. West Palm Beach, Fla., Special,? The Southwestern Passenger Association adopted rates for the James-' town Exposition and special tourist rates, but these will not be publishuntil revised by the proper authorit- ies. Otherwise only routine matters;^ were considered and the association J adjourned. Fatally Injured by 12-Inch Gun. Peusacola, Fla., Special.?Harry L. Leonard, a first-class gunner of th?i Twenty-fifth Company of Coast tillery was perhaps fatally injured at Fort Pickens by the firing objeet of one of the 12-inch rifles. Ope of the primings failed to ignite thir charge, and after waiting a few minujg tes Leonard inserted a new primer^ The gun fired just as Leonard wm leaving the breach block, throwimp him some distance away. His skiijg was fractured, two ribs broken anjft he was otherwise bruised. His hoMj is in Chicago.