The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-22
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
SENATE.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec, II, 1885.

VI ~ W IL INC Jill requiring inc Income
Of the penitentiury and agricultural de-
partment to be paid into the State treas
ury, and passed the bill permitting the
sale without license Of domestic wine
by the makers thereof. The memorial
of the harbor commissioners of
Charleston was acted upon adversely.
a motion to indefinitely postpone the
bill a%bolishing the lien law was lost aE-
er six speeches by u vote Of IL yeas to
to II nays. The main question will be
put to-morrow. In joint assembly
twenty-five Acts were ratified.
Senator Woodward's desk was deco
rated with II bouquet SEM him by ladies
of Fairfield, in Acknowledgment of his
interview in the News and Courier on
the Fairfield Regulators.
Tomorrow the Senate will find some
important matters awaiting its verdict
the College tuition bill, the lien law re-
peal bill, the Columbia Canal bills, the
bill for the abolition of the railroad
commission and the census bill.
Senators Smythe and BUST, in re-
Spouse to inquiries, gave the following
explanation of their vote against the
motion to indefinitely postpone the bill
repeating the lien law: immediately
following the bill was one which had
already passed the House, and which
established the priority of certain liens.
1t has already been printed in the News
and Courier. 1t gives the landlord the
first lien and the laborer the second,
without the requirement Of writing or
recording. This leaves the merchant
out in the cold. The enactment Of this
bill would be more obnoxious to the
Charleston Senators than tho sweeping
repeal of the whole law. They sought
to get it taken up first but failed. The
repeating bill came up. If it should
fail the lien law Tould exist with the
priorties to be settled by the bill fol-
lowing. II it should pass the repeal
thus enacted would deprive the priority
bill Of n foundation to rest on. The
Senators prefer no lien law at all to one
amended as the priority bill proposes,
so they voted to-day against killing the
repeating tho repeating bill.
Parliamentary tactics will be employ
ed freely to prevent the passage Of eth
er. There was no vote to-day unac-
counted for except by pairs, and the
Charleston Senators seem to hold the
balance of power on the repeal. They
probably cannot control the priority bill.
In the House to-day the bill to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the completion of the
State House, the bill to amend the char
ter of the Georgetown and North Caro-
lima Railroad, and the bill to provide for
the appointment Of local boards Of
health outside Of Incorporated towns
were passed. The corporal punishment
bill was indefinitely postponed.
THE STATE TAX LAW.
The ways and means committee of
the House at a meeting tonight fixed
the State tax levy in the supply bill ut
five ant a quarter mills, a quarter of q
mill, or $4,000 less than last year.
The. items in the appropriation bill ag-
sregate $4,000 less than last year. The
surplus on hand will supply the differ
ence.
COLUMBIA, Dec, 18th 1885. D..
The calendar was taken up and the
work embraced in it was rapidly dispos-
cd of, so that by l P. M. the special or.
der bills were reached.
Nineteen bills passed a third reading.
The titles Of the three following being
changed to nets Bill to direct the
Comptroller General to report the names
OF oil citizens Of this State who are
disable from earning a llvelyhood by
reason Of wounds and other disabilities
Incurred during the late war between
the States ; joint resolution to paw D.
-. Werner twenty-cight 39-1OO dollars
oVerpaId taxes for the year 1877 /; and a
JOINT resolution to pay to l.. M. Gentry
the amount due him under the warranty
deed Of the State.
A number of House bills were
amended on their third reading and re-
turned to tho House for concurrence
among them the bill to amend Section
2478 Of the General Statutes relating to
stealing grain, etc., from the field. The
bill provides to declare the offense a fell.
ony and punish it accordingly, but MI.
Smythe's amendment, which was adopt
ed. reduces it to a misdemeanor and the
Imprisonment for it to one year.