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of scholars. condition, etc., was adopt

| MIR. Efrd's substitute providing
for a board of three instead of the
county commissioner, was adopted by
a vote of IS to 10.
The petition from the colored Meth
odists to have the colored college to be
cut off from Clahin, established al
| Lancaster, ''the garden spot of the
State" was referred to the educational
committee.
The petition from the State fair so.
ciety for an appreciation of $4,000,
which was sent with a message from
the governor, was referred.
At the night session the bill was fur
ther discussed.
Mr.. Mayfield offered this amend
ment, which was adopted:
Be it provided that all school funds
other than those arising from the spe'
cial levy of the several school districts
shall be paid out of the county treas
ury on the warrants duly vouched by
the school trustees of the respective
school districts.
Mr.. Archer moved to strike out sec
ton 50. This section relieved school
teachers and young men who might
be attending school from working
roads or paying a Communication tax
Teachers, he said, were not idiots; they
were working on salaries and were
able to pay their part towards keeping
up the roads. Young men, of the age
which made them liable to road duty,
who were able to attend to attend
school, were as able to pay the commu'
tation tax as those young men who
worked in stores. He. was opposed to
deadheads. The motion prevailed with
out discussion or division.
Mr.. Harrison moved to indefinitely
postpone the bill. 1t was complicated
and needed most careful consideration.
The present school law was working
very we'll, and he thought it would be
to the benefit of the State schools to
have this bill postponed.
Mr.. Harrison, it was at first thought,
intended this as little diversion to
make break in dry offering of amend
ments that had been going in by single
file of an hour and quarter.
President Zimmerman put the ques-
ton in the gravest manner and declar-
ed the motion lost. Mr.. Harrison, as
gravely, demanded division, and
stood up with a little ring of five sena-
tors representing the greater portion
of the Piedmont.
mo further count demanded" )" an
nounced Mr.. Harrison, and the sena-
tors laughed. .
An amendment by Mr.. Barnwell
was adopted providing that members
of the State board of education appoint
ed by the governor shall receive as
compensation the same mileage and
per diem as is provided for the MEM
bers of the general assembly.
On the final assage of this bill Mr..
Finley demanded the ayes and noes.
He believed the law on the statute
books was better than that contained
in this bill, and he could not vote for
it. The result of the vote was as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Barnwell, Barton, Brice, Der
ham, Douglas, DuBose, E6rd, May
field, Miller, Moses, McCalla, McDan-
iel, Pettigrew, Sloan, Williams-16.
Nays-Archer, Finlay, Fuller, Har-
rison, O'Dell, Stribling-6.
The Senate passed a number of bills
among them the following:
House bill to exempt certain por-
tons of Pickens county from the op-
Grafton of the general stock law OF the
State.
To amend an act establishing the
county of Berkeley, so as to define
boundaries between Charleston and
Berkeley counties.
House bill to require petit jurors
for the last week of circuit courts to
remain till all cases requiring jury
trials are disposed of.
To provide for the settlement of is
sues between citizens of this State by
arbitration.
To regulate the election of wardens
in the towns of this State.
To incorporate Converse college.
IN THE HOUSE.
A resolution stopping the introduc-
ton of new measures after the 18th
inst. was adopted.
RAILROAD FARE
The bill introduced by Mr.. Jarris,
to fix passenger fares on railways was
much discussed. 1t passed its second
reading in the following shape:
Section 1. That from and after the
passage of this act the rates for trans
portation of passengers by railroad
companies chartered and doing busi-
ness in this State shall be for first class
fare three ~ cents per mile every
mile travelled, and for second class fare
two and one.half (2D cents per mile
for every mile travelled, and shall sell
first and second class tickets: Pro-
vided, This rate may from time to time
be altered and changed by the railroad
commission, as toany railroad or rail
roads, as in the judgment of said rail
road commission the circumstances of
such railroad or railroads may war
rant or require.
Sec. 2. Any railroad company charg-
ing higher rates for passenger trans
portation than those herein fixed, or
such as may be hereafter fixed, by the
railroad commissions shall suffer all
the penalties provided by law.
Sec. 8. Nothing herein contained
shall prevent any railroad company
from selling excursion tickets and
mileage tickets of not less than one
thousand miles for lower rates than
those herein fixed.
Sect. 4. All acts or parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
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