The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-12-23
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHAT
THEY ARE NOT DOING.

and the House, In tho Fourth Week of
the Session.
The 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 10
the bill to permit the sale Of domestic
wines manufactured in the State)
without license. The bill to amend
Section l,O21, General Statutes, relat-
ing 70 disbursement of poll tax, was
killed.
The House bill to require the board
of agriculture and the directors of the
penitentisry to pay into the State
treasury all moneys collected by them
from any source had been unfavorablv
reported by the agricultural committee,
who considered that it would hamper
these departments in expenditures
which were proper but could not be
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. It was speedily dis
posed of when it came up for its
second reading. Senator Moody moved
to indefinitely postpone the unfavora-
BILE report of the committee. Senator
Youmans moved to table this motion.
This last motion prevailed by the fol-
lowing vote: Yeas 90; nays II. The
bill was then killed.
The House bill to repeal the Lien
Law came up in the Senate on the 14th
idst. Senator Earle moved to strike
oat the enacting words, and made a
speech in favor Of his motion, Those
who spoke in favor Of repeal were
Senators Woodward, Sigh and Lett
ner, and they were opposed by Sena-
tors Earle, Moody and Wallace. Those
voting yea were Senator's Bell, Ben
bow. Coker, Earle, Field, Howell, Nc
Call, Moody, Moore, Of Hampton,
Simmons, Smith, Wallace, Williams
and Wingard-l4. Those voting no
were Senator'S Biemann, Black, Bobo,
Buist, Clyburn, Izlsr, Leitner, Maui
din, Maxwell, Moore, of Anderson,
Munro, Patterson, Redtearn, Sigh,
Smvthe, Todd and Youmaus-17. Sem
ators Byrd and Woodward, who would
have voted ssno," were paired with
Senators Ta!bert and Reynolds.
The motion being lost, the question
recarrcd on the passage of the bill.
At this point the House appeared to
participate in the ratification ofyActs,
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:
Yeas-Biemsnn, Black. Bnbo, BUST,
Clyburn, LILA, Leitner, Moore, Of An
derson, Munro, Patterson, isedfea-n,
Sigh, Smythe, Todd ami Woodward
-15. Nays Bell, Bembow, Coker,
Earle, Field, Howell, Mccall, Mauldin,
Maxwell, Moody, Moore, Of Hampton,
REYNOLDS, Simmons, Smith Wallace,
Willisms, Wingsrd and Youmans-lS.
A motion to reconsider, and to table
that motion was lost. So the matter
was left still open.
The Senate killed the bill fixing the
priority of liens-giying the landlord
the first lien, the iaborer the second.
The matter came up again on the 18th
inst, when the bill to tx the priority
of liens was reconsidered, and passed.
On the 18th the bill was passed to its
third reading, in. the following shape:
ssSEcrIoN /. That from and after tie
passage of ,hissaet the landlord shall
have q lien upon tie crops OF his tenant
for his rent, in preference 10 all other
liens. That laborers who assist in
making any crop shall have lien
thereoM to the e1tent57of 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 b, paid next after the
satisfaction of the liens of the landlord
and laborers, and shall rank in other
respects as they do now under exist
ing laws.
ssSEc. 2. That no writing or record
ing shall be necessary to create the
liens of the landlord, snd of the labor
er, but such lien shall exist from the
date of the contract, whether the same
be in writing or verbal.
ssSSc. 5 That all acts and parts of
acS consistent with or supplied by
this act be, and the same are hereby,
repealed"
This bill does not affect liens for
supplies, but places such liens subordi-
nate TO landlords and laborers' liens.
Senator Patterson endeavored to
have reconsidered the adverse vote of
the Senate on the bill authorizing the
payment of expenses Of county school
commissioners incurred in attending
meetings called by the State superin-
tendent of education. He was sup
ported by Senator Buist, aud opposed
BY Senator Youmans, upon whose
,notiou the reconsideration was refused
and the bill finally killed.
The bill to regulate the hiring ont of
con7icts caused y long debate. This
bill removes the restrictions imposed
BY the Act Of 1884. AS amended,
however, it provides that any con-
tractor or any other person. or persons
who shall violate the provisions of any
law regulating the hiring of convicss
shall be held guilty of q misdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be punished
bv imprisonment not exceeding Ave
years or by fine, not exceeding $500;
and in all such cases any convict shall
be competent witness for the State
The bill reported by the Judiciary
committee to repeal the Barnwell