The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-02
WORK OF THE LAST DAY
THE WlNDUP SESSION OF THE GEN
ERAL ASSEMBLY.

HE WiNC-UT SGOOiON vi ne S-N
ERAL ASSEMBLY.
The House Backs Down from its Position
Eevorins Five Dollars Per Day--The Sem
ate Has it's Way Also About the Appro-
priation Bill.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Dec. 25.-At / 40
o'clock yesterday afternoon the Cen
eral Assembly Of South Carolina end
ed its session of 1894, both Houses ad-
journing simultaneously few min
utes after Governor Evans had signed
the general appropriation bill, and had
notified the bodies Of his action.
About twenty members of the House
and about half a dozen Senators We're
IN their respective halls when the mo-
6ons to adjourn were made and car
rieS. One by one the members had
left the halls to take trains for their
homes. In the House, for instance,
only thirteen counties we're represent
ed at the wind up. Five of these had
only one member holding out to the
last.
With the adjournment went into
history session noted more for It's
heavy, hard and fast work than for
anything else AS far as legislation
is concerned. except for five or six
bills. the Assembly has nothing to its
record to attract particular attention.
The three most prominent of these
measures are: The Constitutional
Convention. the Metropolitan Police
and the Dispensary Law.
The last three measures enrolled and
ratified were the supply bill, general
appropriation bill and Dispenssry bill:
The enrolling of these bills prevented
adjournment at noon, the hour fixed.
The Dispensary did not get all the
finishing touches on il. until nearly u
o'clock, and the same was the case
with. the other two bills. It was after
noon when the enrolling department
got possession of them.
It was sleepy and weary lot of leg
islators which meandered down to
Senate and House halls before three
o'clock Yesterday morning to be pres
ent at tie last days session of the
General Assembly There was hag-
gard look on the faces of some OF the
members, while others looked fresh
and bright. The present session has
been hard one and it is not to be
wondered that the physical capabil-
ties of the more bard-worked law
makers have given way under the
strain. The faithful Representative or
Senator who is at his post at all night
and day sessions deserves credit 1t
is not that the work itself is so severe,
but it is the monotony that is wearing
: and tiresome. The legislator who
thinks more of himself than of his
constituents can always keep fresh by
going to his boarding house or hotel
early at night and leave others to re-
main until his body adjourns.
lido not know that a longer session
of the Legislature would prevent the
rush of business which now character
lss the last days of the sessions IN
this State, but / do not think twenty
SIX OF twenty y-eight days sufficient
dme Ia which to make wise and safe
laws. Nearly every new law on the
Statute books Of South Carolina has
been put there after consideration OF
but a few days. All the most import
ant laws of recent years have been put
through the two bodies in the rush
and confusion of the last days of the
sessions, when errors and mistakes
were liable to creep in despite the care
and watchfulness Of the shrewdest
members and officers. The Legtsla-
cure ought not to be limited as it is.
It ought to be allowed at least thirty
i've days so that it can finish its work
decently and in order.