The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-12-23
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHAT
THEY NOT DOING.

and tho House, In the Fourth Week of
the Session.
Tho Senate passed the bill to repeal
the Act prohibiting the sale of spiritu-
GUS liquors in Oconee county. The
bill to revise the usury Law was killed.
There was no opposition whatever to
the bill to permit the sale Of domestic
wines manufactured i'm the State)
without a license. The bill to amend
Section l,O2l, General Statutes, relat-
Ing 10 disbursement of poll tax, was
killed.
The House bill to require the board
of agriculture and the directors of the
peniteutiarv to pay into the State
treasury all moncvs collected by them
from any source had been u%nfarorablv
reported by the agricultural committee,
who considered that it would hamper
these departments in expenditures
which were proper but could not he
anticipated by the General Assembly
in its appropriation bills. Other Sena-
tors objected to it because it would
place both departments at the mercy
OF legislators. 1t was speedily dis
posed OF when it came up for its
second reading. Senator Moody moved
to indefinitely postpone the u%nfavora-
BILE report of the committee. Senator
Gounans moved to table this motion.
This last motion nrcvail.a hv ,ho f,i.
lowing vote: Yeas 20: nays IL. The
bill was then killed.
The House bill to repeal the Lien
Law came up in The Senate ON tic 18th
idst. Senator Earle moved to strike
out the enacting words, and made n
speech in favor of his motion, Those
who spoke in favor Of repeal were
Senators Woodward, Sigh and Lett
ner, and they were opposed bv Scna-
tors Earle, Moody and Wallace. Those
voting yea were Senators Bell, Ben
bow, Coker, Earle, Field, Howell, MIC
Call, Moody, Moore, of Hamilton.
Simmons, Smith, Wallace, Williams
and W~ingard-l4. Those voting no
were Senator'S Bicmann, Black, Bobo,
BUST, Clyburn, Izlar, Leilncr, Maui
din, Maxwell, Moore, of Anderson,
Munro, Patterson, Rcdtcarn, Sigh,
Smythe, Todd and Youmans-l7. Sen
ators Byrd and Woodward, who would
have voted "no,' were paired with
Senator'S Talbcrt and Reynolds.
Tho motion being lost, the question
required on the passage Of the bill.
At this point the House appeared 10
participate in the ratification of Acts,
and the bill, with the other special
orders, was postponed until the next
day.
On the following day the discussion
was resumed. On the motion to pass
the repeating bill, the vote stood:
Ycas-Biemann, Black, Bobo, Buist,
CIyburn, lila, Leitner, Muurc, of An
derson, Munro, Patterson, Redfea:n,
Sigh, Smythc, Todd aml Woodward
10. Nays Bell, Bcnbow, Coker,
Earle, Field, Howell, Mccall, Mauldin,
Maxwell, Moody, Moore, of Hampton.
Reynolds, Simmons, Smith Wallace,
Williams, Vineyard and Youmans-1S.
A motion to reconsider, and to table
that motion was lost. SO the matter
was left still opcli.
The Senate killed the bill fixing tho
priority OF liens-giving the landlord
the first lien, the laborer the second.
The matter came up again on the nth
inst, when the bill to fix the priority
of liens was rc~considercd, and passed.
On the 18th the bill was passed to its
third reading, i'm the following shape
"SECTIoN l. That from and after tie
passage of this act the landlord shall
have a lien upon the crops of his tenant
for his rent, in preference 10 all other
liens. That laborers who assist in
making any crop shall have Il lien
thereon 10 inc extent OF the amount
due them for such labor, next in priori-
ty to the landlord, and as between such
laborers there shall be no preference.
That all other liens for agricultural
supplies shall be paid next after the
satisfaction OF the licns of the landlord
and laborers, and shall rank in other
respects as they do now under exist
ing laws.
SEQ. 2. That no writing or record
ing shall be necessary to create the
liens OF the landlord, and of the labor
er, but such lien shall exist from the
date OF the contract, whe ,hcr the same
DO IN writing or verbal.
"SEC B That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with or supplied by
TINS act be, and the same are hereby,
\ repealed"
rms blil docs not affect liens for
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