The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-01-24
The General Assembly.
Mondays Proceedings of the
Lower House.

representatives spent the entire morn.
ing in the discussion of Mr. Patton's
bill, which was introduced at the
instance of the city council Of Go.
lumbia, looking towards the exten.
sion Of the city limits of Columbia.
The cardinal feature of the meas.
ure was that the election should be
left to the qualified electors of the
territory desiring annexation, aud not
to the freehold voters.
just before adjournment the house
decided to adjourn the debate until
tomorrow
A little earlier an amendment,
offered by Mr. Montgomery. was
adopted, which materially changes
the force of tho bill by requiring
half of the qualified electors to
petition for the election before it is
ordered
The chief contest was whether the
law should not apply to all towns and
cities Of the State As the bill stood
at the time of adjournment it applied
only to cities of more than 8 .O6O
population, except in two or three
instances
SENATE
The Senate met at 8 o'clock to
night, Senator Sheppard, presiding
SPECIAL orders were passed over
and consideration of third reading
bills was entered The frs. take a
up was that relative to pensions in .
Aroduced by the committee: The
bill provided that soldiers who lost
one arm or leg, or who by reason of
wounds received or disease contract
ed from exposure in the service are
incapacitated from earning 5000,
shall receive Sc month.
Senator Graydon moved to strike
out the provision as to disease con
tracted. He thought that sucn pro
vision would lead to dangerous re
suits and might give to those not
deserving it part of the pension
money. 1t would be difficult to tell
whether the disability really was the
result of disease in the service
Senator Mower moved to strike out
the enacting words He said that
the bill brought in measure of un
certainty in the allotment of pensions
that the present law did not. The
Senate thon rejected the bill by vote
of 16 to IL
The next batch of bills on the cal.
endar was of local measures aud
passed the third reading without de.
bate
Mr Henderson's bill as to water
works, sewers and drains of cities
and towns passed it's third reading
The bill makes it q mis- eanor to
tamper with or injure such public
works
MIR Mowers bill relating to the ex.
animation of accounts Of State Treas
urer. Comptroller General and com.
missioners of the sinking fund passed
its third reading
The bill amending the Act regula..
ing the foreclosure of mortgages Of
real estate has numerous amendments
offered to Il, but was finally referred TO
the eugros.ipg CON mit,ce
The judiciary COMMITTEE reported
uo!avOTably on Senator Appelt's local
option bill. Ii looked as if the unlsv
o'aoie report might be adopted as
lw mediate consideration was demanded,
but objection being made, the bill went
on the Celeadar
The second residing bills were taken
up.
The bill 10 relation to reinsurance
aod transaction Of busioess by fire in
surance companies, except through
resident agents. was fret discussed
Mr Graydou moved to strike ous SEQ
ton 2, which allows the com ptroiler
general TO 60 to home ofioes and
examine books Of Insurance comp papies
doing business 10 the State which are
bot Incorporated 10 the State, and O,
the expense of the company. He said
II vas absurd to think such seotion
could DO enforced
Mr. Mayfeld. 10 defending the bill,
said the section was unobjecliooa able to
insurance companies The senate re
fused TO strike out the section. ana the
bill was ordered to third reading.
Mr. Graydon's bill regu'a iug muui.
c'pal ordinances, having as i,s object TO
prevent violators Of the law from being
tried twice for the same offence By he
nuoicipal and then the State court. was
rejected alter some debate. Senator'S
GraydoD aud Mayfeid defended The
bill. Senator's Henderson, Hay aud
ksgsdale spoke against it
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