The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-02-24
WORK OF THE SENATE.
4 NUMBER OF BILLS PASSED BY THs
SOOY.

ANuMsER OF BILLS PASSED BY The
6OOY.
Resolutions On Judge Al6rtch. New Couu-
ty Bills Passed--Che Arti.Free Pass and
Cigarette Bills Killed.
COLUMBIA, Feb. 20.-The work OF
passing second and third reading bills
IN the senate Saturday was not inter,
rupte6 by discussion. Work was be
gun on the calendar and the follow.
ing third reading bills passed:
70 establish Dorchester county.
House bill to amend county govern,
ment law so far as it relates to work
ing the roads.
House bill to authorize and empow-
er the sheriff of Williamsburg county
to purchase and keep at the court
house pair of bloodhounds for the
purpose of tracking convicts and fu-
gitive law breakers, amended by MIR.
Williams so as to apply to all counties
and limiting the ost OF the dogs al
500 a pair.
House bill to require county super
visors to publish quarterly reports IN
the papers of their respective counties
at a cost rot exceeding $500 for each
county. Amended by excepting An
derson, Beaufort, Barnwell, Bamberg,
Berkeley, Chester, Colleton, Gerge-
town, Horny, Kershaw, LauIens,
Lexington, Lancaster, Marlboro, Mar
ion. Oconee and York.
House bill to establish Bamberg
county.
House bill to amend subdivision one
of section 954S Of the revised statutes
OF 1898, relating to costs.
House bill to amend section 81 OF
the revised statutes being section 256
Of the general statutes.
Making it a misdemeanor for any
State or county officer to receive any
debate on purchase OF books or any
other property cr supplies from print,
ing.
Soon after o'clock the senate pass
ed the following resolutions and ad'
jouruned out OF respect to judge Al
drich.
Whereas it has been learned by the
senate of South Carolina with pro-
found regret OF the death of the hon
orab.e Alfred Proctor Aldrich OF
Barnwell county, who as a Judge
kept his ermine unstaine6, and N
defiance Of the military power which
dominated the State in 1860 laid down
his robes of Office in open court and
refused to administer the law while
the seat of justice was surrounded by
Federal bayonets; SIS a patriot. self.
sacrificing and devoted to the JUS.
cause of South Carolina, and as man
without fear and without reproach,
whose unsullied career has added lus-
tre to the annals of the State, there
fore be it
Resolved, As a mark of respect to
his memory, that the senate do now
adjourn.
On Monday the Greenwood County
bill was taken up. Mr.. Gaines offer
ed an amendment providing for the
orgnization of the county 80 days
after the election.
- Mr.. Archer objected to the tine for
the bill to go into effect as the same
question would arise over Cherokee
county ard by an organization OF the
new counties during the fiscal year
would cripple the old counties by tax
ing away large part of the revenue
that ought to go to the old counties to
meet the estimated expenses.
Mr.. McCalla offered an amendment
that the county government of Green
wood would be put in operation the
first day of next January.
Mr.. Gaines said that to the people
of Greenwood the advantages aceur-
ing from an early formation would
more than balance the evil. The
senate could not with due regard to
the Constitution defer the formation
of Greenwood.
Mr.. McCalla said that a hardship
would be inflicted on the old and on
the new county by putting this bill in
force before the1St of next January.
Mr.. Mower said the Constitution
was mandatory in requiring that the
county government go into effect IN
mediately upon the formation OF the
county. This being so the senate had
no discretion in the matter.
Mr.. Mayfeld asked that the senators
vote as nearly as they could on the
question of the time new county gov
ernments should 60 into effect. He
said that Bamberg did not want to
form her government until January
/, 1898.
Mr.. Gaines moved to table the mo-
ton of Mr.. McCalla that the bill 60
into effect on the LIST of January. By
vote of 26 to this prevailed
Mr.. Gaines amendment was then
passed requiring the county govern
ment to be put into effect 30 days
after election.
The Senate on Tuesday killed the
anti-cigarette bill and the bill to re-
peal the anti-free pass ac!. Neither
one, however, was defeated without q
vast deal of discussion and then it
was but by a single vote that the lat
ter measure was killed.
The senate had shown an inclina-
ton to discuss at length every meas
ure that had been taken up until the
:ree pass bill was reached and then
almost every senator turned himself
loose" so to speak. An unfavorable
report has been made on the bill and
as soon as it had been read Mr.. Moses
moved that the report be Indefinitely
postponed. Mr.. Ragsdale was the first
senator on his feet to oppose the mo-
ton. He said that any member OF
general assembly who used free pass
over any railroad would not be above
suspicion. 1t was not right that rep,
resentatives of the legislature who
were to decide many important mat
ters affecting railroads should accept
any favors from these roads. Try as
they might, they could not but feel a
sense of obligation to the roads over
which they had free transportation.
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