The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-01-31
SENATE AND HOUSE.
What the South Carolina Law Makers
Are Doing.
THE SENATE.

FIFTH DAY. The Senate did not
meet until p. M, and the proceed
lnGs were OF routine nature.
SIXTH DAY.--In the Senate Tuesday
the chaplain mane special prayer for
the Cuban patriots. The only feature
of the session was the Introduction of
bill instructing the Attorney General
to investigate the law and see if the
Boston purchasers of the Columbia
canal are not bound to complete the
canal as originally projected, carrying
1t nearly two miles beyond the present
terminus
SEVENTH DAY.-In the Senate, We'd
nesday there was no debate on any
question aud the session was seeming
~ a very dull one, but several bills of
magnitude passed second and third
readings. The bill for the regulation
OF building and loan associations, and
its provisions are likely to startle very
many in this State who have large in
terests in such institutions, was made
the special order for Thursday. The
bills regulating registration and pro-
viding penalties for election frauds
passed third readings and were sent to
the House.
EIGHTH DAY. In the Senate Thurs
day the House bill defining the rights
of married women fell by the wnysido
early in the day. The bill regulating
|ithe fire insurance licenses was passed
for executors and trustees to give bond,
was killed after a pretty little skirmish.
A bill was introduced to prohibit
Fsstores keeping open after Q o'clock
Son Saturday nights. The committee
ito investigate Clemson College was al-
IS thorized, and Messrs. Watson and
Sloan were appointed on this commit
+ tee. The Senate spent most of the
4 4 day discussing the bill to require insu-
/ rance companies to find out whether
property insured was worth what it
was insured for within sixty days.
NINTH DAY.-In the Senate Friday
h n biz was introduced to strike out sec
n tion 1,6S5 of the revived statutes, 1898.
\ and to insert in lieu thereof section
regulating the sounding of signals by
railroads ut crossings in town and to
regulate the speed of certain railroad
\ trains at certain places. The town in
corporation bill was taken up and con.
sidered, and the insurance bill was
/ made the special order for Tues
! day. The Senate refused to
4 concur on the House reduc-
tions on Trial Justices salaries.
The Senate held n night session and a
large number of favorable committee
reports We're presented, and the bills
took their place on the calendar. I'm
favorable reports were presented on
the bill to incorporate the town of Tim
monsville; the bill to abolish the priv
ilege tax; the bill 10 prevent the run
ming of freight trains between mid
NIGHT -SetnxAlaE---A midnight
Sunday night; the bill to provide for
separate coaches for the two races; and
the bill to amend the act ,clating to
labor contracts.
TENTH DAY.-In the Senate Satur-
day the bill to provide that petit
Jurors should remain until all cases re-
quiriug jury trials were disposed of
be indefinitely disposed of, was re-
committed. The bill to require county
trcnsurcrs to go around the counties
was indefinitely proposed. The bill for
the payment of school claims in the
several counties Of the State, except
Grccnville and Fairfield wns passed
The dog law bill was killed. Bills
were introduced to define in what man
ner towns and cities may increase or
decrease their corporate limits; to
amend Section ] do Of the civil
statute laws of the South Carolina in
relation to banks
THE HOUSE