The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-10
LAURENs, s. G., Mar. 10, 1896.
LEGISLATIVE DOINGs.

Last week the General Assembly
went industriously to work, looking to
the close Of the Session last Saturday.
One OF the important matters was fix
ing the salaries Of officers and they
were generally increased in view Of the
fact that the session was a little longer
thAn usual. The fact Of the business
10, the mistake lies right there-there
was no necessity, or urgency to make
IL o long session. There was the blum
der. It will be remembered that two
members were unseated as Ineligible
because they held other big paying
ofices. A great battle was fought In
an effort to secure them pay and mil
cage, Notwithstanding they were un-
seated. The proposition was defeated,
but 1t cost the State more than their
pay In the time taken in the debate
Mr.. Pollock and the "citizen," our
hero, locked horns again when this in
teresting question came up. To wit:
Mr.. Pollock offered an amendment
TO provide for the pay Of Messrs. Gas
ton and Duncan, the members who
some time ago ceased to be members
OF the house, for the whole session.
Mr.. Ashley-Do you mean to tell me
shat you want to pay them for the
whole session. Do you want to let
them suck two teats at one timer
tLaughter.)
Finally pay was allowed for the time
the two members served as such.
Members take from the State only
ten cents mileage going and coming,
the rail ways charging them to three
and o half. The difference is immater-
ial, the reader will readily see. The
Chaplain of each house gets $75, about
1925 for his morning petitions and
this Is very reasonable indeed. A
measure was passed singing out Char
lesion In the State where at primary
elections a certificate of registration
shall be required. The prominent fea-
ture of the debate, Is the flavor Of hy-
pocricy which distinguished it, several
speakers ~favoring the bill as an act Of
affection for that city, the prevention
OF frauds in elections, the publication
OF oil the people under the folds of the
Palmetto, and the prevention of sailors
and foreigners in that port participat-
Ing in elections, and thereby max
ing laws, as 1t were for the pure and
undefled of Colleton, Anderson, Aiken,
Gdgefeld and Hampton. We like to be
generous, and extend the benefit OF
u circulation towards the charitable
And nanopnro ocrooio11u ,,LN,o No.
readers are interested and in this
spirit we'mention the names of Cooper,
OF Colleton, Crum. Ia crum of comfort,
pardon please) of-locality unknown,
Watson, of Anderson, insolvency, Of
Hampton, Ilderton, Of Florence, Thur.
mond, of we don't know where. South
Carolinians when left to their natural
instincts admire a square, manly way
OF doing things and these Statesmen
uhould have said to Charleston-we
have you down now-we near your
punishment and humiliation-we will
grind the sand into your eye "Citi.
zen" Ashley voted squarely against the
bill, saying in his vigorous vernacular
$(justice is Justice" If he should
run down to Charleston again we trust
that he will have full swing at the
"~terrapins."
"Oh, Mrs. Arm, it gives me ~consarn.'
This is the language of a Hybernian,
not ours. There be two things which
have been matters of serious debate:
One the matter Of cigarettes, and their
sale to minors: We are with the solons
In this traffic; the other, the adultera-
tion Of candy, and in this we stand
with the "kids" and hold hat they
should have an article pure and unde-
filed. We are encouraged. The time
may yet come when In South Carolina
there shall be no rottenness in old
Edgefeld, no lynchings in Hampton,
and Aiken, yea, in Colleton and Barn
well, where meekness and o lowly
spirit sanctify the little matter of MUIR
der.
While we shall have more TO say, be-
fore the General Assembly retires to
the bosom of its family there are some
compliments we desire to bestow. We
my not recur to the subject again.
We have watched very closely the
words and votes Of the great and small
lights of the body. Patton of Rich
land, has shown himself as broad as
tho State is long; a real big man and
statesman; withal very bright, alert,
attentive, painstaking. The time will
come and that before many O
when all the people from Marlboro to
Oconee will be proud that the State
had such o spokesman. He is q true
son OF Prof. T.. p. Patton, and worthy
OF the best days In the history of South
Carolina. Barnweu, Of Charleston, is
by no means G County man, broad and
taking inthe whole State speaking for
e2fthe world. We recur not to his re-
cord, except as Senator in the present
session, and for all that he has said and
done In the present session the time
will como when his utterances will be
quoted as noble speeches for South
Carolina. One young man Of Charles
ton, Gadsden, has nobly represented
his city. We cannot but admire the
pluck he has shown and honesty, In de-.
tending the pickaune miserable attacks