The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-29

Half the Session Concluded and Lit
tie Accomplished.


Columbia. s. c., Jan. 8.-This is the
first session of the Legisla ture of this
State where the duration of the sitting
is limited. Under the constitution adopted
in 1895, the Legislature was given unlim-
tied time until this year, when from now
on the sessions cannot extend over forty
days-that is, the members can only draw
forty days pay.
Just half of the allotted time has been
consumed. but really very little has been
accomplished. 1t was supposed there was
nothing to do except to dispose of the dis
pensary in one way or another, but up to
date the House mas shown no disposi-
ton to tackle a dispensary bill, and the
Senate has evinced a disposition TO mu-
tiate every liquor bill that has come be-
fore it. The Graydon liquor bill, which
is still being considered by the Senate
as a special order from day 10 day, has
been already dismembered, while the May
field substitute has been killed. Both of
these Were administration measures. SEN
ators Henderson of Aiken and Connors
of Orangeburg have prepared substitutes
to be introduced this week
The only other important work of de-
0tIuCtlOil SO IdF bobe III the SENATE WIS
the killing of the child labor bill. BY
large vote the Senate passed the broad
tire bill which is now pending in the
House. A bill providing for a reforma-
tory to be established in connection with
the state dispensary is pending in the up
per house.
In the House the Bill providing for m
extension of their limits by cities was kill
ed. Columbia was chiefly interested IN
this measure. The town is only two miles
square and there are 5000 people in The
immediate vicinity OF her boundaries that
she wanted to take in, but the Legisla-
ture was not wiling. There was consid-
cradle lobbying done against it.
The anti-cigarette bill the bill reducing
the rate of passenger fare to 212 and 3
cents and the measure providing thar
state officials now entitled to mileage shall
have free transportation from railroads
were killed
A very important bill, in which Charles
ton, Columbia, Rock Hill, Greenvile and
a number of other towns are interested in
or rather deeply concerned in-is pend
ing in the House 1t is to permit a vote
at the next election on constitutional
amendment allowing cities that have al
ready reached the limit of their bonded
Indebtedness to incur more Indebtedness
in order to make public improvements.
Columbia is anxious to spend 100000 for
water works, sewerage and pavements
and Charleston about $4,000 for water
works, but under the present laws they
are helpless. The injustice to Columbia
lies in the fact that hardly a dollar of her
present Indebtedness was put in public i'm
provements. She is paying interest on it,
and it stands as an obstacle to her prog
ress and improvement, but it went into
the pockets of Republicans, chiefly ne
groes, in radical days"
Among the other important bills intro
duced in the House and pending is the
trust bill, bills providing for the sale of
the two big state farms. providing for es-
tablishing a fertilizer factory at the pen
itentiary, providing for leasing convicts to
counties for use on state roads and pro-
parties.