The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-02-22
Another contingency is the extreme

Another contingency is the extreme
sickness Of Governor Ellerbe. He
may not be Well enough to approach
on the subject Of approving these
two very important measures.
A Joint committee has been ap-
pointed to investigated the affairs Of
the penitentiary. The following
compose the committee: Senators
Hay and Livingston, and Represen-
t~atives Stevenson, Mellow and Pat
terson. We hope, as they nc doubt
will, find Col. Meals books all correct.
We have always regarded this affair
as being one of more words than
facts.
Mr.. Livipgstone's bill to prevent
tie double pay of witnesses was
killed.
Mr.. W j. Johnson $ resolution to
appoint a committee Of one senator
and two representatives to look 1lto
the cost of publishing colonial and
revolutionary records in the State
house was adopted, but the Senate
gently put the bill TO sleep. and it
now safely rests in the pigeon holes
in the office of tie clerk Of that body.
Tie S, mite reused to reconsider
and Mr.. Hepderson's amendment
stands. It provides that no money
shall be paid to any one Of for col
Letting the claim of The S a'e against
the United States advanced to prose
cute the war Of 1882, but that all shall
be left to representatives from the
State to push the bill through Con-
gress.
Senator G W. Brown tried hard
to get a bill through to encourage
the manufacture of home made wine.
The bill provided that the wine could
be sold on the premises in quapti-
ties of not less than n gallon, net
to be drunk on the premises. On a
vote being taken it stood a tie, II to
IT,. Lieutenant Governor McSwee.
ney voted against the bill and killed
it.
! Mr.. Mower introduced an amend
ment that all money received from
the fertilizer tax over $4,000 be
used as an endowment for Clemson
The amendment was finally rejected
MI. Mowers bill relating to mum
cipal elections in towns of less than
1000 inhabitants was killed.
The amended county government
bill passed. The bill fixes the sala y
Of the supervisor of this county d,
5000 per annum.
The free conference committee re
ported on the bill to organize tn
term of the public schools in the
dispensary funds for the schools.
The report, which is a substitute
bill, provides that the free public
schools be kept open for at least
three months: that the comptroller
general in determining whether any
deficiency exists III any school dis.
trict, shall make his estimate upon
the basis of the sum of S75 for eX
penses of such term of three months,
and the deficiency shall be made up
from the dispensary funds.
After tie deficiency of the school
is raised TO S75, the remainder of the
~dispensary rr> Fl S shall be expended
for the public schools per capita Of
school population. FIVE thousand
dollars is to be used for institutions
for public school teachers.
Speaking to this bill, Mr.. Sharpe
said that be was not afraid of the
constitu'ionality Of the bill. He
thought it a good bill. He thought
teachers ought to pay for their OVID
education, and opposed the $4,000
item for teachers il stitute. The
vote was then taken, and the bill
passed by a vote of 81 to p.
The Senate notified the House that
it had killed the following bills: The
che to establish an inspection Ct oils;
MI. Means fire insurance bill: the
bill to amend the "new county law
as to settlement of disputes; and the
bill to extend the time for tee pay
ment Of communication taxes.
At $50 the House receded for a
time in order to ratify acts in the
Senate chamber. During The IS
% n ties relaxation there was a mock
session, at which the gallery gods
were entertained by the usual jokes,
grown gray with years, and With
SUGGESTIONS of such %conclaves. Re O
lutions regarding bachelors, bald
headed men and womeu's suffrage
were introduced ad libitem and ad
nauseam. However, Mr.. H. H.
Evans, Of Newberry, and Senator
Slanlard, Of Dorchester, made god
presiding officers. "Citizen josh"
Ashley declined the Office Of chap
lain. The "scalawag alliance No. 5"
came in for its share of thrusts.
Mr.. Moss bill to regulate charges
TO- advertising notices was fought by
Mr.. Ilderton and others. On final
passage the vote was 10 for and II
against. Hereafter all county and
State advertising will be paid for By
space rates instead Of by the word,
as is now the case.
The aye and nay vote was taken
on the motion to kill the bill to pro-
hihit beer nri1ilepes, and resulted In