The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-02
WORK OF THE LAST DAY,
THE WlND-UP SESSION OF THE GEN.
ERAL ASSEMBLY.
sI1ns House Backs Down from Its Position
Ysvoring Five Dollxrs Per Dsy--rhe Sem
ste Has It's wsy Also About the Appro-
prfation Bill

ste Has It's Way Also About the Appro-
yristion Bill.
COLUMBIA, 8. c., Dec. 25.-At 40
o'clock Yesterday afternoon the Gen
ersl Assembly of South Carolina end
"a It's session of 1894, both Houses ad-
iourning simultaneously a few min,
t,tes after Governor Evans had signed
the general appropriation bill, and had
notified the bodies of his action.
Abouttwenty members of the House
and about half dozen Senators were
in their respective halls when the mo-
tions to adjourn were made and car.
ried. One by one the members had
left the halls to take trains for their
homes. In the House, for instance,
only thirteen counties were represent.
"a st 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 its
heavy, hard and fast work than for
ANYTHING else. AS far as legislation
"a 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 Dispensary bill;
The enrolling of these bills prevented
adiourment at noon, the hour fixed.
The Dispensary did not get all the
finishing touches on it until nearly IL
o'clock, and the same was the case
with the other two bills. 1t was after
noon when the enrolling department
got possession of them.
Il was q sleepy and weary lot OF leg
islatops which meandered down to
Senate and House halls before three
O'Clock yesterday morning to be pres
ent ct the last days session of the
General Assembly. Z There was hag-
gard look on the faces ofsome of the
members, while others looked fresh
and bright.a The present session has
been q hard one and it is not to be
wondered that the physical capabili-
ties of. the more ard-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
/, in not that the work itself is so severe,
but it is the monotony that is wearing
md tiresome. The legislator who
thinks more of himself than of his
constituents can always keep fresh by
roing to his boarding house or, hotel
early at night and leave others to re-
main until his body adjourns.
Iio not know that a longer session
nfthe Legislature would prevent the
sYush Of business which now character
isss thelast days of. the sessions in
this State, but / do not think twenty
;six or twenty eight days sufficient
time in which to make wise and safe
hwx. Nearly every new law on the
Statuts books of South Carolina has
BEEN put there after consideration of
but slew days. ALI 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
nismbers and officers. The Legisla-
5ture ought not to be limited as it is.
It ought to be allowed at least thirty
Ave days 80 that it can finish its work
saeoAntlr and in order. =.