The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-12-13

CoLuMprA Dec. .

charters OF corporations refusing to
pay their taxes passed in it's third and
final reading in the Senate but that
was o foregone conclusion. It was
~stubbornly fought and an unusual dis
play, OF Independence on the part OF
the Reform element was manifested in
the discussion. 1t went through only
by vote OF ID to II. Wilson of Spartan
burg was in charge of it and he showed
1t through with his usual relentless We
hemence in dealing with intractable
corporations. Zimmerman and Finley
opposed it. Finley, by the way, is the
unknown factor in the Senate. Some
times he votes and fights for measures
most repugnant to the Conservative
element and yet while they are still
gnashing their teeth at him he often
comes to them with timely assistance.
The salary reduction bin hangs fire.
lts passage depends entirely upon
whether or not the Tillmanites really
mean to pass 1t and their intention Is
one of those things like "the way of q
serpent upon u rOck-too wonderful to
understand"
The bill to put Charleston in the
Black district with the unwritten
amendment of sending some citizen
like Stokes to the national legislature
has passed its second reading, despite
the frantic efforts of the one time DO
tent II influential rcformer, Cal.
Caughman. Calls voice is still heard
in the land, sounding, sounding, but
his glory is of the far-gone departed
variety and he isn't any more listened
to as n of Farmer Ben's old chums.
fancy the new spick and span dis
pensary law will be passed as intro
duccd without material amendment
though there will be u vast deal of
wrestling and tussling ovcr some of it's
features. It's a tight, severe, stern,
drastic measure and the purpose of it's
trainers evidently is to devise q statute
which must turn a stream of dollars to
the Refawm bars or else starve the
dry portion of humanity outright. In
brief you ''touch not, taste not, handle
not" anything but Dispensary liquor or
else go to Jail for thirty days or pay a
fine of a hundred dollars. C~onstabIes
may enter any house whore they sus-
pect liquor to be concealed whether the
house is a private dwelling or soft
drink emporium. Violators of the act
may be arrested without warrant.
Section three is expected to break
up entirely the practice of importing
liquor into the State. The salary Of
the State dispenser is to be increased
$1,000. The bill is not likely to com
up for debate before next week. What
the Conservatives will have to say
about 1t is Il matter of conjecture.
Many people are of the opinion that
u trial of the preposterous measure will
disgust everybody with it and that it
would be better to let it go through
without an amendment being limited BY
its opposers.
1t has been finally determined that
u reading of Brazeale's c%odifcation
will not be necessary but of course it
will not have the force of new statute.
A session after Christmas to enact it
would have cost $4,000 and it was
thought better to accept it merely as q
digest thar to incur such an outlay.
The county government bill will be
called'up tomorrow.
Senator Wilson'S bill to compel cor
porations to pay their employees at the
end of each week, etc, has been I'M
favorably reported, but it is not i'm
probable that the Senator will put in a
lick or two for it on the floor. Wilson
Is good at that sort of a thing and as
this bill will strike u popular chord. he
may succeed in saving it.
regsstricting bill hs.s-.-so get
A bill is pending to restore $50 to
all liquor dealers in the State who
paid the license of 800 to the County
Treasurers this year and whose esta5-
lishments were closed by the Dispen-
sary law in July.
LAURENS.
Representative Smiths bill to place
a tax on dogs, was lost after a two
hour debate. a bill making it q mis-
demeanor to allow any sheep killing,
egg sucking etc, dog to run at large
was passed in the House.
The bill to create q new school dis
trict in Cross Hill, is on u fair way to
passage.
County chairman G. p. Smith has
appointed to a clerkship in the en-
crossing department.
The Greenwood county" people
have secured a favorable committee
report in the House on their bill but
their plans had previously been
changed and no part of Laurens is to
be contributed to the new county.
The letters received by THE ADVER-
TISER from gentlemen on the Saluda
side and published, possibly had some
thing to do with bringing this about.
Anyhow THE ADVERTISER thanks ali
on both sides of the question who were
kind enough to reply to their queries.
Representative Smith is strennously
opposing the new county bill.
Representative Wolf has introduced
I'LL SoiliHllS d new SCHOOL UlStnlCt
at Friendship with the usual provisions
for q special tax, etc. He has also
drawn up but not introduced, a bill
providing a hey school district in the
neighborhood of Barksdale. He has
%refrained from Introducing this bill
because the people of that section do
not seem to be united on the measure
as to the bounds of the district and etc,
and letters and petitions Tor and against
1T have been received. Until these
differences have been adjusted. the
bill will probably not be introduced.
Another of DR.. VOLTS bills provides
thai h two Trial Justices in the city
of Laurens be paid each salary OF 5000
per annum, and that the office of Con.
stablec be abolished, the duties of the
latter Office are to be devolved upon
the Sheriff, who is to be empowered
to serve Trial Justices process. A
reason given me for the latter provis-
ion is that the Laurcns Trial Justices
sometimes experience trouble in find
ing their Constablcs when wanted.
The Constables, of course, are Obliged
to engage in bushes additional to their
official duties in order to earn q liveli-
hood and consequently it is argued that
they are not always to be had at n
moments notice. The Sheriff or his
deputy though is always convenient.
Messrs. Jones Fowler and Marvin
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