The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-19
tiary salaries from earnings. The COM

rnittee.
To exempt cotton factories now IN
process Of erection or hereafter to be
erected in Greenville county from tax
alton for county purposes for five years.
Mr.. Whitmire.
To amend the law as to incorpora.
tions. Mr.. Watson.
To provide pay for Geo. S. Mower,
Mitchell & Smith and Robert Aldrich
for service in Coosaw case.
To regulate the board Of commission
ers of che deaf and dumb and blind in
stitute.
The committee on judiciary reported
the new dispeosary Law fayosably With
amendments, aud the amendments
show that the committee is acting with
great caution. The bill was made a
special order for to-day. The com.
mite recommends ar amendment pro.
viding for the election of the State COM
missioner by the Legislature at the
expiration Of the term Of the present
commissioner and giving the Governor,
power to appoint man for an unexpired
term whenever the commissioner resigns.
Another amendment provides that
county supervisors shall be chairmen
ex-oficio of all county boards of con-
troll. Another amendment gives the
commissioner power to purchase from
breweries inside the State and outside
the State provided they have agents in
the State
The committee also offers this amend
meut to section "a:
provided, that when it is proposed
to search private residence. the
affidavit, if made upon information and
belief, shall give the source Of the
information and the ground Of belief;
and provided further, that no search of
private residence, used aud actually
occupied as such only, shall be made in
the night time"
But the most important of all the
amendments of the com mmittee is that
providing for the striking out of all Of
section As, which is the section provid-
ing for the granting of change Of venue.
already published and referred to as the
most radical of the proposed changes in
the law.
THE SENATE.
A large number of bills were intro
duced, most Of them of importance.
An unfayorable report was made on
the Jim Grow Car bill, but was placed
on the Calendar by motion Of Mr.. Will
son.
When the bill was called up to pre-
vent factors and commission merchants
fron contracting for aud collecting
..short commissions" and fror charg-
iug commissions on merchandise pur-
chased for customers, Mr.. Moses
moved to strike out the enactiog words.
Farmers, if they can sell their crop at
home, to advantage. prefer to do 80
and pay the factor his commission, they
having had the use of his money.
Mr.. Dennis said If a farmer borrowed
money from factor, promising to send
him ten bales of cotton, and only sent
him five, he was charged by the fac
tor $3.50 per bale commission on the
ten bales, whereas only five had been
sent him He hoped the motion of Mr..
Moses would not prevail.
Mr.. Mayfeld hoped the motion would
prevail. The next was going to be a
hard year. The farmer would rather
pay this commission and get the cash
from the factor than run on credit with
merchants If be borrowed from fac
tor, he agreed to send him SO many
bales Of cotton to be sold on conmis-
sion. The commission was one dollar
per bale. He made this contract with
bis factor and got his money without
giving mortgage on real estate, which
would cripple his commercial credit and
which bank would demand. He bor-
rowed money at 8 per cent. and the
promise to ship SO many bales to the
factor was the factors lien If. for any
reason, it was more advantageous for
him to sell at home or in another place,
be was perfectly willing to pay the fac
tor commission on the cotton he had
promised to let him sell.
Mr.. Barn we'll had no interest in the
factorage business, but be would state
the facts. The large majority of fac
tors have no money of their own to
lend farmers; they have to borrow it
from the banks at 8 per cent. to lend
at s per cent. and their profits were
in the commission on the sale of the
crop shipped them by those to whom
they lent the money. How unfair it
would be to let the man who gets the
money, sell his crop to another. The
bill would simply prevent any advances
of that kind being made.
The bill was killed on Mr., Moses