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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Very Few Measures Have Been Com.
pIeted-The Local Option Bills,
the County Government Bill, the
Question of Additional Circuit
Judges, and Even the supply ana
APPROXIMATION Bills Have not Yet
been Taken Up-PattOn Redfstrici-
Ing Bill May be Amended I'm the
Senate-FeatherstOn Card Brings
Ont q Reply from One Of the
Board OF COntrOl.-Other Matters.
News and Courier.
Columbia, January 29-Special: The: :Gener'
al Assembly has now been in session fof near
| " three weeks. In legislative days before the
new Constitution daylight would he ahead oe-
| fore now AZ 10 completing the Work OF the ses-
sion. Th7re is not yet, however, sign OF the
close OF this session. The prophets have CIV
en- up suggesting when Inc SESSION VIII cos
clude and IT appears that the only way ad-
| iournment can be reached in less than two
months Is to "break the session right on,
leave work on the Calendar until next SEES
the county government Issue, the change OF
The circuits the appropriation bills. have not
come up yet. The appropriation oil! ana the
supply bill are still before the comltee s, ana
| ed from th committee rooms, "Without reIer-
ence." which means nothing except loss OF
time and place on the Calen dar.
| AZ has been said before In the correspon-
dence the legislation on the dis2ensary ques.
| tion. ut this term will be revolutionary, or
there will be verltabiy none at all. Ine mem
and try 10 settle the issue once and for all
time by passing one OF the several local optlon
bills proposed, or resort will be had to the old
argument, give the dispensary a fair trial ana
| walt. l.,
The diapensary bills, in which there is
| the chief in teresI. will be on the desks OF the
memb bers OF the House tomorrow, and ~ 1s
likely that they VIII pc mace mac sp sPsc'a' ofuets
| 1t IL we'll not to count on revolutlon, out
| always safe to calculate that there IL nothing
80 likely to be left alone as dispensary ieglsla-
ton, and the tendency is now, as II mas a..
ways been, to urge delay, which, under the
circumstances is az good as a victory for the
| Interests Of the dispensary machine
thousand d and over from the operations ofthe
law will not be accepted. although u ls sala
| that 1t has the backing Of some Of the strong.
est friends OF the dtspensary system. me
| anti-dispensary people say that such Dill
will not do, because IL leaves them helpless TO
make future fights with Charleston, Colum-
| bia Creenville and Spartanburg exempt from
the provisions OF the ACT. ,, ,o
considerable influence. MIR. l.. j. Williams,
one OF the members of the board OF control,
has prepared a rejoinder.
The only hard fights up this time on it0 ine
House side have been on the Patton redls-
tricting bill, and tn privilege tax question.
The former has beeu decided 80 far as the
House Is concerned, while the latter mas oeen
Those who favored. as we'll as those who OPP
posed the redistricting bill, could not help ad-
hiring the the fight made by Mr. Patton
for his bill. The redstricting bill is no new
thing, having been argued In all OF lls phases
last session on similar bill Several polls OF
the Senate have been attempted on tne pl!',
but In vain, sufficient Senators saying they
had not yet determined how they would vote
| TO hold the balance OF power. AT all events,
the Senate is pretty well divided, Win str0ng
Senators on the one side ana the 0tnes; PINE S.,e me
committee and can be taken up any Time DUR
Ing tina coming week.
i There have been suggestions OF amenoing
/ the bill on the Senate side, and IL may Noe
| no amended as to make the passage OF Inc
bill by the Senate more probable.
The friends and opponents OF the Pill claim
vote can settle the question, although the op-
ponents OF Che BILL claim 10 nave cert
The The House has been handling very danger
GUS question in the privilege tax matter. A
| majority OF the House seemed disposed 10
reduce the privilege tax. Such has alWavs
| been the case, but the Senate has always held
r. is somewhat curious that friends OF the
State higher educational institutions have
| been found voting for the abolition OF tne tax
for @ h 0a 9a ihs 6oss who
have no love for the Slate colleges are gener.
ally to be found voting for the abolition OF
the tax. or course 1t Is not to be inslnuat
ed that the State college question has any.
thing 10 do with the voting on this privilege
TAX question or that 1t should have, but LOOK.
| ing at the matter from prac1ical pollIical
tandpoint every dollsr that Is PAID the State
colleges from the State treasury direct empha.
sizes the matter more, and the larger the
| direct appropriations Tor State colleges the
| more the likelihood of curtail!ng the appro'
aNNfh fhao0 tF1At
A NEW ANr1-B1cYcLE BILL.
The anti.bicycle bill has now been entirely
| remodelled and revised and appears anew IN
Mr.. Winkler's bill. The bill Ia It's new uni;
form stands about as much cnance as olu
| the original measure.
| FIVE HUNDRED HOUSE BILLS
Yesterdays Calendar contained twenty;
seven pages Of bills, the last being House biil
uons have been acted upon by committees OF
been placed ON the Calendar. Together win
bills before committees nnd IN course ol
preparation the number OF aouse m measures ASSURE,
Ing the Senate bills al all, and Inc worthy
Senators have been quite prolific In their
suggestions Of new laws.
CONFEDERATE HISTORY.
Mr.. Lotion, OF Charleston, has introduced
bill TO provide for tue preparation OF history
Of the part the soldiers from this State took
lin the war for Southern independence tc
accompany the Codlerate rolls. ~ ls simply
matter OF dollars and cents. All want the
work done, and the only question Is whether
The State will expend 81, coo or any sum for the
work. or course, 1t is highly important te
have the record preserved. II might also oe
very well for the Legislators 70 consider
seriously the advisabillty OF Publishing the
rolls. just completed, so that the SURVIVORS o.
the 'Lost Cause may see the work and give
the benefit of their knowledge by revising
correcting and completing the record. Many
OF the rolls give merely the names OF the
lmembefs OF the command without notes as tc
service, deaths, and the like, and as lonQ
as The old soldiers survive they can be com
pleted, but II that work be delayed l0ne
lit will be im mpossible to correct the rolls. The
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