The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-10
FINISHED ITS LAB0RS
TSE HOUSE ADJOURNED SINE DIE
LAST WEDNESDAY,.


LAST WEDNESDAY,
The Last Days of the Session-Whst Was
Done in the aouse--A Veto From the
Governor.
COLUMBIA, March 5.-Tne Legisla.
ture finished its laDors and adjourned
sine die on last Wednesday after a
session of about seven week. After g
number of bills had been passed by
the House on Saturday a message was
received from the Governor vetolng
the bill regarding the employment OF
convict labor on the State farm. Tne
Governor in his message says the bill
is objected and not approved because
ii enacted will injuriously affect the
State penitentiary. To prohibit the
superintendent OF the penitentlary
from employing free labor in cases OF
emergency might entail considerable
loss to the State. While al eSpendl-
ture Of few hundred dollars for labor
TO chop cotton, to hoe cotton after a
long wet spell, or to help harvest the
crop. might save the State several
thousand. 1t would be unbusinesslike
and too expensive to retain a sufficient
number of convicts on the State farms
10 meet such cases OF emergency. The
policy OF the board Of directors OF the
penitentiary has been 10 hire as little
free labor as possible, and to pay for
il the prizes fixed by the farmers IN
the neighborhood. The house refused
to pass the bill over the ve:o by a vote
Of 3S to t9.
The senate bill 10 make railroad
corporations liable for damages result
ing to land owners from the wrong
ful obstruction OF water courses, which
had been unfavorably reported, was
taken up and passed. Il provides that
railroad corporations shall oe liable to
land owners for all damages resulting
from the wrongful obstruction OF wa
ter courses oy suca coroora:ions, and
it shall not be necessary to allege and
prove that such damages resulted
from the negligent construction OF
the road or other works OF sucn corpo-
rations, but any person who is dam
aged shall be entitlrd to recover
in actions against individuals upon
showing the wrongful obstruction OF
such water course.
At this juncture message came
from the senate which cruSped the
hopes of many candidates, that the up-
per house had continued the banking
and insurance commissioner Dill 10
the next session.
In the House on Monday when the
senate bill to provide tor laborers' lien
was reached, Mr.. Toole moved to
strike out the enacting words. This
the house refused to do and the bill
was ordered to third reading ia this
shape:
Section /. That from and after the
passage and approval Of this act all
in factories, mines, mills
distilleries and all aud every kind Of
manufacturing establishment in this
State, shall have a lien upon all the
output of the factory, mine, mill, dis
tillery or other manufacturing estab-
lishment in which they may be en-
ploved, either by the day or mo1ta,
or whether the contract be il writing
or not, to the extent of srln salary or
wages SIS may be due and owing to
them under the terms Of their con-
tract with their employer, such lien to
take precedence over any and all 9TH
er liens, except for municipal, State
and county taxes.
Sec. 2. That any one entitled to the
provisions OF this act may begin suit
upon his O: her demands ii any court
of competent jurisdiction, and at the
time of commencing such action may
file with the officer outof whose court
he desires process to issue an affidavit
setting forth the facts out of which
his or her alleged lien arose, the
amount of same, and shall designate
the property alleged to be affected by
lien; thereu pon it shall be the duty Of
said officer to issue his process in the
nature OF a warrant OF attachment, dl-
recting the sheriff of the county or
any lawful constable TO seize so much
OF the property described in said atti-
dayit IS may be necessary to satisfy
said alleged lien. The officer execu!.
ing aforesaid process shall seize and
take into his possession and custody,
according to the mandate Of said pro-
cess. the property described, and shall
hold the same until the final determi.
nation OF the suit between the parties,
following the usual practice IN attach
ment cases as to sale after judgment,
or even before judgment if the proper
ty seized be perishable and ordered
sold by the court; provided, that
should the party claiming to be the
legal owner of the property seized de-
sire to do so, pending suit, he may
furnish good and sufficient security
for the payment Of such Judgments as
may be recovered by plaintiff against
him in suit pending, to be approved
by the officer issuing the process. and
shall thereupon be entitled to the Gus
1SIiy VI IbC P1OpSA.y S--H-N' -t's -
though the process had been issued
against It.
Sec. 3. That the COS: and fees OF Off
GERS in this proceeding shal! be the
same as in cases OF attachment under
the code.
When the senate bill to amend sec
ton Is Of the dispensary law as to Il
canse OF distillers was taken up, Mr..
W. Il. Thomas offered an amendment:
for his colleague, Mr.. Mitchell, who
was absent, that the bill! do not apply
to breweries.
The bill after some discussion was
ordered to a third reading in such
shape as TO make section Is Ct the dis
peGsary law read as follows:
Section Is. No person, firm, asSocla
ton or corporation shall manufacture
for sale, Or keep for sale, exchange,
barter, or dispense, any liquors con-
alcohol, for any purpose what,
soever, otherwise than Is provided IN
this SCI. Any person, firm, assocla.
ton or corporation desiring or intend
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