The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-28

| ABOUT OClOch SaLOioaJ uoi HAH .
there was some CONSERVATION when 1t
was found that the first page OF the
bill. containing the enacting words,
was missing from the engrossing de-
! partment where it was being made
! ready for ratification. Some members
were quick to cry thief, but the miss
| ing page was soon found where 1t had
been inadvertently left by one OF the
clerks who had been copying it.
| AT $50 a. Nc. the bill was ratlaed oy
the two houses, consisting OF about a
I dozen Representative and score OF
Senators. The Governor signed the
act Saturday morning, and it became
| law. =,
The bill provides that the State shall
take exclusive charge OF the liquor
traffic and invest $4,000, to be bor-
| rowed, in the business.
Within thirty days after the approx
| al CT the act the Governor shall ap-
| point a State Commissioners, 5e!leved
by him to be an abstainer from lnto4-
| icants. who shall purchase all the
LIQUORS that are to bes sold. He shaiillve
In Columbia and hold Office for two
| wears. His salary shall be s., 800 and
he shall have book-keeper at $l,2O0
| and such other assistants sS the Board
| of Control may deem necessary.
| There shall be State Board OF Con-
! troll. consisting ofthe Governor, Comp
trolier General and Attorney General,
who shall make rules and regulations
to govern the sale Of liquor by the
Commissioner.
| Connty dispensaries are then to be
established for the sale of liquor under
certain conditions. They shall be under
| the control of county boards. Ihere
shall b. only one dispenser in each
county and he shall be appointed oy
| the county board of contro! by appli-
| cation. Ten dispensers are allowed IN
| Charleston and three in Columbia.
! There are stringent provisions 10
! prevent persons selling or even having
| in their possession any liquor not pur-
chased .frora q dispersary. 4 dlspen-
ser shall not sell less than one-half
pint or more. than five gallons
to any person at any one time.
Stringent rules are prescribed for the
obtaining of liquor from a dispenser,
such as the signing of a, paper
| that the person is so many years
old, lives al such and such place, that
/ he is not minor and that he IS not IN
the habit of using liquor to excess.
The act is to take effect July /, 1898,
and LIQUOR licenses now in force Will
be continued t. that time upon pay
ment of oue-third the eannuallicense fee.
| The State Commissioner is allowed
to charge profit of fifty per cent, on
all liquors sold, for the benefit OF the
State.
On Thursday Messrs. J. A. Sligh, OF
| Newberry, II. r. Thomas, of Sumter,
land D. P. Duncan, of Union, were
( elected railroad commissioners.
|, Col. Duncan and Mr.. Thomas are
members of the old board. The elec-
ton Of Mr.. Duncan was surprise, as
| it was thought that Yeldell, of Edge
| field, Walter, Of Orangeburg, OF Stan.
land, Of Berkeley, would get the third
place. The election of Messrs. Sigh
and Thomas was forgone CONCLUSION
and they got in on the first ballot. Mr.
Yeldelrs defeat was due to the fact
l that the members had come to the be-
| lief that Edgefeld had gotten enough
of the political pap. Otherwise it is Re-
| lieved that the Governors lieutenant
would have been elected.
All the members are prominent
Alliancemen, and the result shows
! that the Alliance is still power IN the
land.
RAILRoAD MEN IN POLITICS.
/ Apropos OF the new railroad law il
will be Interesting to note the attitude
| of the railroad employees Of the State
1 toward it. Last Thursday night they
| held meeting in this city, at which
4 some 400 men were present from dl1er-
ent parts of the State. Nearly ali OF
| them had been Tillmanitas and sup
| porters Of the present administra:
tion. They made red hotspeeches and
decided to invite all laboring men to
Join in organizing 1.-THE Industrial
! Union of South Carolina" A commit.
tee was appointed to meet later and
draft a constitution and bylaws, after
which the union will be organized to
fight the administration.
Resolutions were adopted condem.
ming the Wilson railroad law as mimi
4 cal to all railroad corporations ip
Il South Carolina, affecting more es'
| pecially the working men, and declar-
ing that there is general disposition
| on the part of the present administra.
ton to work injury to the industrial
| pursuits of South Carolina, which in
turn affects the employers and en-
ployes alike, and, if persisted in, means
ruin to the State. The law is de.
| nounced az class legislation and intend.
ed more particularly to injure the rail
roads.
The bill to provide for the forfeiture
of the charter of any corporation char
tered under the laws Of this State
whenever such corporation SHALL refuse
to pay the taxes as assessed is another
obnoxious administration measure tina.
passed the House and would have gone
| through the Senate, had it not been
for the fact that it did not come up to
| third reading until five hours before
the time that the Legislatures adjourned.
Even then some of the administration
men tried 10 put it through, but most
of the Senators were tired and gladly
welcomed molten to cn,zfH.ue all the
bills that were slitl on tile calendar
until mex t session..
| It was admitted oD the floor Of the
House that the ;,i;! was mainly aimed
at the railroads, being intended to pre-.
vent them from appealing to the Fed
eral courts. The bill was 80 mauifestly
tyrannical that several reformers ex-
pressed themselves against it.
| One of the big features of the session
is the increase of the State tax levy
| from four and half mills to five and
halt.
| The manner in which it was raised
is one of the curiosities of the Legisla-
ture. The House was strongly in favor
of fve-mill levy and it was stated by
the ways and means committee and
the chairman of the finance committee
that it would be sufficient to meet the
expenses, and at first every proposition
from the Senate to increase it was
voted down, but during the closing
hours of the session, the Senate still in-
sisting on the increase, the House
either had to recede from its position
or prepare new supply bill, and this
would have involved five days more
] legislation.