The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-01-17


any property owned by mortgagor,
Together with all costs and penalties
which may have accrued thereon. ard
to include the same. with interest
thereon, in the debt secured by the
moltgagc This secures the taxes on
property on which there is no mor;gsg
AS well as chat mort gagged
The bill introduced by the committee
on federal relations requesting repre-
sentatives in congress 20 Introduce a
,neasure providing for the appointments
Of graduates OF the South Carolina
Military academy to licuicnancics IN
the United States standing army
Mr. A'dr.ch, h;l! 10 reduce salary CT
supervisor Of BArowcll coua,y from
81 800 10 $500 and 20 charge salaries
asa fo~. OF other county officials.
.Nr. bottoms bij; 10 further restrain
school trustees, etc, from buy iug dis
counting or contracting for teachers
pay certificates.
Mr.. Co<grovc's bill to exempt cities
Of over 10, 900 inhabitants from the pro
visions ni the d;Speusary law was made
the special order FOR January 23d.
Ti:c House tien adjourned to Thurs
day.
The House so, promptly to work
Thursday aad disposed Of considerable
business M-. B!case'S resolution TO
su5a.it to tie people the question of
making the length of terms Of members
of the House four years was killed. AS
is tie case with joint resolutions pro.
posirs:,.. amendlucnl tc the c9pstitu-
ton /, be vo:ed upon by the people.
such resolution aust receive a two
thirds vote Of The members Of the gen
eral assembly The resolution was
/ killed by vote Of 81 in its favor
against 81 Itrequired ST votes to pass,
and only 9S members voted.
The next matter taken up was ScQ-
a,or Marshal!'s bill providing that State
institutions in Columbia use water
pletcrs in the consumption Of water
furnished by the city Of Columbia.
After some discussion the bill MS
killed.
The next bill killed was Mr.. Rich
ards proposing that the appointment OF
beneficiary scholarships in the State
colleges be apportioucd among the
several townships, Of the respective
countics by rotation among the town
ships and that in case township has no
applicant then the next township in
orQcrshall be awarded the scholarship.
There Was fight on Mr. Sanders
/ bill 10 allow suits to be brought to re-
cover damages on policies or contracts
of fire Insurance for loss soccasioned by
FIRE, without first entering into arbitra
ton to assertion the amount Of such
loss Mr.. Sanders made statement Of
the causes which led him to introduce
the bill Under the contract or policy
as it now stands there is clause which
virtually prohibits the insured from
bringing suit to recover damages from
loss under litigation. He read extracts
from ire Insurance policy, showing
that the amount of the loss is fixed BY
aroitrators, but is not guaranteed to be
pad by the company.
After considerable discussion the
House refused to strike out the enact
ing words. aud the bill passed second
reading. The bill states that any per-
son or corporation who shall hereafter
enter into any contract for insurance
against the loss by fire Of his, her or its
property, with any FIRE insurance cor
poration, company or association doing
business in this State, and whose prop
erty may lie either wholly or partially
destroyed by fire while such contract
for insurance is of force, shall! have the
right TO bring suit in any Of the courts
OF coupctent jurisdiction in this State:
against such fire insurance corporation,
company or association. to recover any
and all damages such person or corpora
tion may have sustained, without first
en,er.ag Ito arbitration or appointing
appraisers with said fire insurance cor
pora;ion, company or association, to
ascertain the amount of any such loss
Or damage, any provision IN such con-
tract to the contrary Notwithstanding.
After the in,rod dpction of uumber
of nex bills the House adjourned to
Friday morning.
The first bill discussed in the House
Friday was Mr.. Winklers to provide
for round trip tickets on railroads and
at reduced rates. The bill was killed
BY vote of 80 to IS.
Senator Grubey's bi!! providing for
county courts next came up. Mr..
Bacot stated that the Judiciary COM
mit,ee had unanimously reported the
bill favoraoly. He defended it as =
good bill. The house refused to strike
out the enacting words, and the bill
was passed, after being amended so
that several counties were exempted,
aud others which had been exempted,
By the soaa:e were restored under the
provisions Of the bill The counties
exempted are Abbeville, Anderson,
Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkicy, Chester,
Chesterfield, Clarendon, Cherokee,
Dorchester, Eiseield, fairfield,
Georgetown, Marion, Hampton, Ian
caster, Laurens, Lexington, Orange
burg. Oconce, Pickcns, Sa!uda. Sumter,
Williamsburg. Kershas, 5arnwell,
Greenvlllc, York, Marlboro, Aiken,
Union and Spartanburg.
Senator uccrton's bill 70 increase the
salary of The State librarian from 5000
to $500 passed by a narrow ma.gin
Mr. r. B. ~ Robinson, woman S
champion in the house, defended the
bill, as j: proposes to increase the sal.
airy Of the librarian, who is lady.
Mr. MaeiIl was SO overcome with the
clcQutnce" Of Mr. Robinson that he
withdraw the motion to Kill the bill.
Mr.. Ashley renewed the motion. The
librarian had run for the job aud she
ought to be satisfied with the lob. The