The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-12-16

me following concurrent resolution,
offered by Senator Moore, Of Ander-
son, was agreed to without division:
81. That all bills, petitions and pre-
sentiments OF grand juries now pend
ing before the Senate and House Of
Representatives for and against the
granting Of license to retail liquors and
intoxicating drinks be referred TO the
joint judiciary committees of the SEN
ate and House of Representatives for
their consideration, and that said COM
mittees duly consider the same and re-
port by bill or otherwise, as they may
think best.
"2. That said joint committee take
into consideration the proprietv Of a
uniform law upon the subject of license
or no license in the State of South
Carolina, and that they report by bill
or otherwise, as may be thought prop
er, to the end that the law in the State
may be made uniform on the subject
OF license to retail liquors and intoxi-
eating drinks in this State"
The following bills, among others,
received their second reading: To
require the commissioners of Horny
county to maintain fence between
Horny and Georgetown; to incorporate
the Original Free VIII Baptist Church;
to Incorporate the Wilmington, Chad
bourn and Conway Railroad; to change
the time of holding the summer SeS-
sions term in Barnwell county: to
incorporate the Chester, Greenwood
and Abbeville Railroad; to allow the
sale of homemade wine in Barnwell
county; to incorporate the Summer
vile Street Railway and Hotel Com
psny; to incorporate the BlackviIle and
Aston Road Company; to amend the
charter of Mount Pleasant; tolncorpo
rate the Cheraw and Camden Short
Line Railroad; to prohibit the catching
of terrapins between April l and June
50; to amend thi law relating to apoth-
ecaries. This bill opens the door to
those who have served five years in a
drug store. 1t was unfavorably re-
ported by the Judiciary committee in
the interest of public health, but went
through on vote of 20 to 10. All of
these bills have since received their
final reading in the Senate.
The bill to utilize the labor of jail
and and municipal convicts, and to-
empower the courts and municipal
authorities to impose the punishment
of labor within their respective juris
dictions, caused some debate in the
Senate, but it was finally passed, with
amendments limiting its application to
convicts sentenced for period not
exceeding sixty days, and providing
that it shall not apply to penitenitiary
convicts.
The joint resolution to amend the
Constitution, respecting the Superin-
tepdeut of Education and the School
Commissioners, was finally lost in the
Senate. The vote stood Il ayes to l9
noes.
The bill to repeal the Act prohibit
ing the leasing out of convicts caused
long debate in the House. 1t was
urged by the friends of the bill that
unless the present law be repealed, it
would cost the State Sl00,000 year to
maintain the penitentiary. After a
long discussion the motion to strike
out the enacting clause was tabled
yeas Sc, nays 16. After two hours
discussion the bill was passed, with an
amendment providing that any con-
tractor violating the laws for the pro
lection of convicts shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and that in
all such prosecutions any convict who
has been ill-treated shall be considered
competent witness for the State.
The next bill taken up was that
requiring the agricultural bureau and
the directors of the penitentiary to pay
into the State treasury all moneys col
lected bv them, and 10 draw no moneys
without an appropriation. There was
considerable discussion, during which
it was brought Unt that while no i'm
putation was intended upon the officers
in question it was an abnormal state
of affairs that so largea sum of money,
about S150,000, should be disbursed
without legislative supervision and
control. It was urged on the other
hand by the agriculturists that the bill
would be death blow to the bureau
of agriculture. The motion to strike
out the enacting words was over
whelmingly defeated, and the bill
passed to its third reading.
Some time was consumed in dis
cussing DR.. Pope's bill to cut down
lawyers fees. One prominent lawyer
attempted to amend it, but Dr.. Pope,
remembering how the lawyers amend
ed the same bill out Of existence last
year, refused all amendments, and
triumphantly carried his bill through,
all the lawyers voting with him.
The bill to provide pensions for Con-
tederate soldiers, which only provides
for the appointment of pension agents,
was killed, the three one-armed Con-
federate soldiers in the House, Messrs.
Haskell, Smith, of Spartanburg, and
Brawley, opposing it. On motion of
Mr.. Brawlev, however, a substitute
was passed directing the comptroller
general of the State to report to the
next Legislature the names of all citi-
zens who are disabled from earning a
living by reason of wounds received
in the late war.
MIR. Davies constitutional amend
ment prohibiting county or city aid to
railroads came to grief in the House
on its final reading. The bill had been
held on the Speakers table for sew
erai days awaiting a full House. It |
failed to get the necessary two-thirds !
vote, So, the vote Standing 81 yeas, so |
navs.