The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-01-25
Capital Correspondence.

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Just when the Legislature will ad,
journ cannot be told yet, as none OF
the important measures have been
acted upon. One if the most i'm
portant questions to be settled is the
changing of the Congressional Dis.
tricts; two bills have been intro
duced; one in the Senate and one in
the House, and we believe the dis
cnssion will cost more than the pro-
iect is worth. If the redistricting
bills pass as they are written, Clar-
endon will be bump on log. We
will be tackled on to Richland and
kershaw, which will mean that Co.
lumbia will have the Congressman in
the future. We are opposed to the
scheme and will vote and work
against it. But we fear the politi-
clans have got the scheme so thor
ough!y organized that it will be hard
to Illustrate them.
The dispensary will take up a
a great part of the time, and since
Mr.. Featherstone has advised the
Prohibitionists to join the forces
with the anti-dispensaryites there is
every reason to believe that COM
promises will be made. There are
all kinds of views on the liquor ques-
tion; some want the dispensary,
others want prohibition and some
want high license with dispen-
sary restrictions. In our opinion,
the people will have to finally settle
this much ve1ed issue and it will be
best, so that the politicians will have
to seek some new hobby.
A bill was introduced by one OF
our representatives to amend the
Hawkers and Peddlers act. This law
requires the County Commissioners
to fix license on certain class OF
hawkers and peddlers, ,andthe amend
ment is to include iterant dealers IN
horses; as the law stands now there
is no license fee for horse traders
who come here from abroad and
compete with the local. dealers:
These iterant dealers place our local
dealers at a disadvantage, because
the local dealer has his property
here and is taxed while ne comes
along, does the same business with
out taxation which is not fair to
those who are part and parcel OF
US and who share in the expenses OF
running the government.
Another representative has IN con-
temptation a bill to Sell the poor
farm property and the proceeds to
be utilized in some other way. We
doubt the adyisibility of this scheme
for the reason that the county must
have a place to take care OF its poor.
If a better site could be pro-
cued so that the farm could be made
self-sustaining, as is the case IN many
counties, we would favor the scheme.
Senator McLaurin spent one day IN
Columbia:on a visit to his friend, Col.
w. A. Neal, but his visit was cut
short by a telegram calling him back
to Washington, where his wife was
taken i'll.
Last Thursday was General R. E..
Lees birthday and by law a legal
holiday. the Legislature took recess
until Friday; most of the members
went to their homes. On Friday
the General Assembly reconvened,
but very little was done; the Senate
caught up with it's work in about
one hour and was left waiting on the
Lower House. An adjournment took
place then until Monday.
DR.. I. NJ. Woods, on last Monday
morning, made a strong speech to
repeal the lien law. He held the at
tention of the house and as his effec-
tive blows were being pounded on
the "octupus," as he termed it, a
motion to adjourn was made and
failed to pass. Then an attempt was
made to take recess, and also fail
ed. The house evidently wanted to
hear Clarendon's representative: Or.
Woods was at his best and struck the
the lien law some mighty blows.
Hon. H. B. Richardson reported a
substitute bill from Committee on
Public School, advocating the ap-
preparation of the Privilege Tax to
the common schools of the State.
This is intended to take the income
from the Privilege Tax from Smiths
Academy bill, and give the common
free schools, the benefit of which, If
adopted, will be great help to the
free schools.
Representative Jones is quite i'll:
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