The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
FINISHED IT'S LAB0RS.
TIE HOUSE ADJOURNED SINE DIE
LAST WEDNESDAY.

The Last Days of the Session-What Was
Done In the House--A Veto From the
Governor.
COLUMBIA, March 5.-The Lsgisla-
ture finished it's labors and adjourned
sine die on last Wednesday after a
session of about seven week. After a
number of bills had been passed. by
the House on Saturday a message was
received from the Governor vetoing
the bill regarding the employment OF
convict labor on the State farm. The
Governor in his message says the bill
is objected and not approved because
| if enacted will injuriously affect the
State penitentiary. To prohibit the
superintendent of the penitentiary
from employing free labor in cases of
emergency might entail considerable
loss to the State. While an expendi-
ture of a few hundred dollars for labor
to chop cotton, 10 hoe cotton after a
long wet spell, or to help harvest the
crop, might save the State several
thousand. It would be unbusinesslike
and too expensiveto retain sufficient
number of convicts on the State farms
to meet such cases of emergency. The
policy of the board of directors of the
penitentiary has been to hire as little
free labor as possible, and to pay for
| it the prices fixed by the farmers in
the neighborhood. The house refused
to pass the bill over the veto by vote
of 3S to 49.
The senate bill to make railroad
corporations liable for damages result
ing to land owners from the wrong
full obstruction of water courses, which
had been unfavorably reported, was
taken up and passed. 1t provides that
| railroad corporations shall be liable to
land owners for all damages resulting
from the wrongful obstruction Of wa
ter courses by such corporations, 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 such corpo-
rations, but any person who is dam
aged shall be entitlrd to recover
as in actions against individuals upon
showing the wrongful obstruction Of
such water course.
At this juncture message came
from the senate which crushed the
hopes of many candidates, that the up.
per house had continued the banking
and insurance commissioner bill to
the next session..
In the House on Monday when the
senate bill to provide for laborers' lian
was reached, Mr.. Tools moved to
strike out the enacting words. This
the house refused to do and the bill
was ordered to a third reading in this
shape:
Section 1. That from and after the
passage and approval OF this act all
employees in factories, mines, mills
distilleries and all and every kind of
manufacturing establishment in this
State, shall have lien upon all the
output of the factory, mine, mill, dis
tillery or other manufacturing estab-
lishment in which they may be en-
ployed, either by the day or month,
or whether the contract be in writing
or not, 10 the extent of such 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. Q. That any one entitled to the
provisions of this act may begin suit
upon his or her demands in any court
of competent jurisdiction. and at the
time of commencing such action may
file with the officer out of 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; thereupon it shall be the duty OF
said officer to issue his process in the
nature of warrant of attachment, di-
recting the sheriff of the county or
any lawful constable to seize SC much
of the property described in said affi-
davit as may be necessary to satisfy
said alleged lien. The officer execut.
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 US ual 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 bs 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
tody CT The property seized, just as
though the process had been issued
against it.
Sec. 3. That the cost and fees of Off
GERS in this proceeding shall be the
same as in cases of attachment under
the code.
When the senate bill to amend sec.
ton L. of the dispensary law as to Ii
cense of distillers was taken up, MIR.
w. II. 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 of.the dis
pensary law read as follows:
Section Is. Noperson, firm, associa'