The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1897-02-10
VOL. XXI
THE 4, SENATE AT WORK,
,sEVERiaL. BILLIE PASSED AND MANY
OTHERS INDUCED.

sEV RAJ. 6 BILLIE PASSED AND MANY
OTHERS INDUCED.
"A New Dispensary Bill introduced by SON
25s sttor II ny Fl sld--A Number OF 9th er Isnls
i5sd Passed and Read Tho Senate woll Up
II u With ITS Work. X.
5 COLUMBIA, s.. o., Feb. &. The Sen.
ate met Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
] The usual routine business at the OPP.
Seaing was disposed Of and the third
reading bills on the calendar were
reached when it was discovered that
I one of the assistant clerks was absent
with the key to the desk in which
were locked all the papers of the SEN
! ate, including the bills. Under these
( circumstances there was nothing to
do butte adjourn. This the senate
did until II o'clock Wednesday.
u When the senate met "Wednesday
morning 4he question of the introduc.
ton of bills was reopened by Senator
& Moses Offering resolution to extend
the time to the 18th inst. His resolu-
ton passed without comment, but
soon thereafter Mr.. Henderson moved
y n reconsideration, saying that it was
time for this body to be looking 10.
ward an adjournment. Bills if no.
cessary could be introduced through
\ the committees.
Mr.. Moses explained that he ssw no
4 necessity or reason for shutting out
the introduction Of bills from the
/ floor when they could be gotten before
q the senate through the committees. 1t
s was as we'll to let the author father
+ the bill as a committe. And further,
this talk Of adjouriiing BY the middle
of February WAS out Of the question,
L If fevery bill was in, declared Senate"
y Moses, an adjournment could not be
4 reached by that time. He then point,
ed out that the supply bill and the ap.
preparation bill had not been touched
sin the house and predicted that the
work Of the body would not be fin
:Sisbed before the 1st OF March.
Mr.. Henderson said that an exam.
I pie should be set in this matter. II
I. should be shown that the senate was
jlup with its work and was waiting on
tho house His motion TO reconsider
then prevailed by vote or % to s.
Saturday, the sixth inst. was then
fixed as the last day for the introduce
tlOn OF new b1fls.
When Mr.. Suddath's bill to repeal
the act against nepotism in the ap
pointment of clerks and inferior Off
I GERS by the heads of departments
came up for second reading, Mr..
Archer moved that the unfavorable
\ report Of the committee be adopted.
Mr.. Suddath gave as his reasons for
introducing the bill that under the
! present law he thought unnecessary
hardships were imposed upon the
3 heads Aof departments. These mon
We're elected to offices of trust aud
d they wanted clerks Of whose honesty
Il there was no doubt and in whom re-
s4ianee, could be placed. If relatives Of
tho sicsrs were capable of filing
these positions, then he could see no
objections to- wing thcm appointed. !.
8State officers. l@,7 s9'S.S5i
The unfavorable report was adopted
by q vote of2S to 8 and the bill killed.
a house bill to reduirs county off,
& GERS to keep an itemized account Of
4 their income by virtue of their office
and to require them to make an annu,
& nl report of the same to the county
3 supervisor and further to keep an opcn
:. record of such account subject to in
5 spection by citizens Of said county was
reached In due time among the second
reading bills.
Mr Mower moved the enacting
words be stricken out.
Mr.. Dean said there was demand
from the people for such measure. !.
They wanted to know what their
county officers were getting and in the
case of those who received fees This
was impossible.
Mr.. Mower explained that he made
his motion to strike out the enacting
words because the salaries Of the oii-
GERS were fixed by law, rs were the
Z fees. In the case of oilicers with
fixed salaries every one knew
what those salaries were. In
the case Of the officers who
got fees, such fees were fixed by law
and the presumption was that they
were fixed upon the value of the ser
vices rendered.
Mr.. Moses failed to see the necessity
OF changing the present system which
had given satisfaction for the last
century.
Messrs BUST, Archer and Gaines
spoke in favor of the bill and Mr..
Mayfield against it. .
Mr.. Dean moved to table the motion
TO strike out The enacting words. His
motion prevailed by a vote of 81 to 6.
a message from the governor was
received which recommended that the
claims Of Z. j. Mackey be considered
fayorably. This was referred to the
iudiciary committee.
The Senate after passing several
bills OF no general intereft to q third
reading, adjourned over to Thursday.
a In the Senate on Thursday q mum.
ber of now bills were pre9ented, the
majority being similar 10 the House
bills. Those of general interest are
noted below. Tho special order after
the reading of now bills was the crea-
ton Of Dorchester County. There
were both q majority and minority
report. Both were laid over.
Mr.. Mower then called up his mag.
istIates' bill, in order to have incorpo-
rated tho various amendments, and
he gave notice of calling itup for final
disposition today. There Twas some
sharp discussion on the motion to re.
consider the vote whereby the bill
with amendments was ordered printed.
ECONOMY was urged, but the Senate
thought best to print it and refused to
reconsider the vote.
Mr.. Archer introduced q joint reso-
luton to have committee Of both
Houses appointed to see If the provis-
ions of the Act regulating the public
printing had been carried out. 1t was
tolxen IN hy tha ho,1ca onf NV pob.