The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
THE WORK OF THE LEGISLATURES.

The recent session OF the Legislature
cannot be boasted of rs very great
financial success, but it may justly claim
to be in the very van upon moral ques'
tions. 1t refused to enact divorce law,
ard refused to amend the law prohibit
ing freight trains from running on Sun-
day so as to allow them to run during
certain hours Of the Sabbath. In addI-
tion to these negative acts it passed the
Law prohibiting duelling, with the clause
requiring the officers of the State to take
an oath that they have not engaged IN
any duel since the passage of this act.
Col. Ruckcr gave notice OF o bill en-
bcdying this feature, but it was put in as
an amendment to Col. McCrady's bill,
thereby obyiating the necessity for sep
arate bill. This feature, which is the
most practical feature in it, was tlrst
suggested by Judge Kershaw in charge
to the grand jury at atspartanburg last fall.
The passage of this bill will, in our opin-
ION, put an end to duelling in South Car
olina. The law against carrying con-
cealed weapons is another of the whole
some acts of the late session. All of the
sections of the bill, with the exception
of the fifth section, which was introduced
by Colonel simonton, were prepared as
amendments to this section by Mr. MUIR
ray, and rs it stands, il enforced, will
greatly reduce the number of pistols
carried carelessly in the pockets OF per-
sons who have no earthly use for them.
The law prohibiting the sale of whiskey
outside of incorporated cities, towns and
villages, and imposing en- additional
license for County purposes OF one hun
dred dollars was also prepared and offered
as substitute by Mr.. Murray for another
bill. It will afford great relief to those
Counties which were afflicted with bar
rooms through the country, and is step
in the right direction in regulating the
sale of liquors in our towns. Upon the
consideration of the liquor question,
Messrs. Prince, Simpson and Rucker
made able speeches in favor of some
measure looking to regulation OF the
liquor traffic. The law TO punish per-
sons who entics away the laborers of
another was introduced by Mr.. Strom, of
Edge6eld, and will do a great deal to
regulate the labor of the country and
render it stable and reliable. 1t does
not affect the laborer at all, but Furnishes
the man who would induce him 10 leave
the employment of another in violation
of contract. 1t will do great deal for
the agriculture of our State, and will
doubtless be enforced. We publish the
law elsewhere. An act introduced by
Mr.. Simpson, giving Trial Justices juris-
diction in prosecutions arising for viola
lations of the fence law was passed, ana
is now a law.
Senator Mccall, of Marlboro, intro
duced bill to exempt immigrants who
purchase real estate in South Carolina
from taxation up to $500 worth of
property for three years. In the House
it vas, on motion of Mr.. Murray, amend
ed by making it five years, and iu this
shape it became a law. 1t is hoped that
the new law will induce persons with
small capital to purchase lands and settle
in this State. We need about forty thou
sand additional voters to render the State
perfectly safe and secure without the
constant strain that rests on our people
in every election, and the ouly way to
get them is by encouraging immigration.
Some very important work was mapped
out for the next session. The laws Of the
State are to be codi6ed BY commission
CT three, to be srpaintsa by the conVen'