Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-02-14
WORK OF LAST WEEK.
Review of Proceedings of the House and
Senate UP to Tuesday Night.

AS t1G SeSSlOl uldWo W q SiooSI ehS
results of nearly FIVE weeks of work
becomes more evident. There are now
a number of measures which have
passed both houses and are ready for
ratification but the calendars are still
very full. The senate calendar con.
tains number of second reading bills,
although most of them are house bills ;
but if the senate amends or delays
them, few will become laws.
The last week has been characterized
by the careful if somewhat lengthy
consideration of many important mat
ters in the senate. The always absorb.
ing topic of political interest in South
Carolina is the dispensary. The senate
agreed to all the house amendments
and the bill becomes a law in 10 days
after approval by the governor. The
only amendment to which objection
was made in the senate was that fixing
10 per cent. as the states profits OH
sales to county dispensaries above cost
of the whisky. This reduces the profit
of the state on the wholesale business,
and consequently cuts down the dis
pensary school fund. Senator Gruber
said it "means cheap whisky at the
expense of the common schools" But
there is another side to the question.
The counties and towns which have
dispensaries will get a larger share OF
the profits under the new bill, the
money to go into the general county
funds, which may result in decreasing
the county levy. This will have the
effect of enhancing the financial ben
fits which the counties and towns re.
ceive from the dispensary !; may make
them more anxious to have the dis.
pensaries, more willing to enforce the
law through the town and county of
fcers as the bill provides, and viewing
it politically it may diminish opposi-
ton to the dspensary, and thus prove
a good strategic move on the part OF
the dispensary forces. Be that as ii
may, there is still another view. There
has been some complaint that counties
having no dispensaries come in for a
large share of the profits with which
to keep up their schools. The reduc-
ton OF the states profits will change
this somewhat. But Notwithstanding
these considerations, several senators
who opposed the 10 per cent. clause,
voted for the house amendments on
the ground that if the senate refused
to concur in them, the bill might be
killed and the present state of affairs
continued.
The senate receded from its amend
ments to the Caughman separate coach
bill so that the bill will, within 60 days
after approval, become law, and the
railroads will have 10 provide all trains
with coach of equal accommodations
for each race the uniform fare to be
8 cents per mile, with no second-class
car nor second class rate. This is sim
liar to the Georgia law.
The senate passed the house bill to
erect a monument on Chickamauga
battlefield to the memory of the South
Carolina soldiers who fought in that
battle. The appropriation is only
$4,000.
The marriage license bill was sum-
marily killed, there being no debate
when the final vote was taken.
Mr.. C. p. Sanders's insurance bill
and his oil inspection bill, both of
which passed the house, were defeated
in the senate.
The biennial sessions measure is
still pending and it is doubtful if it
can secure the necessary two thirds
vote in the senate, though it ran the
gauntlet in the house.
Senator Livington's bill giving the
counties preference in hiring convicts
when the bids are same, was substituted
for the house bill on the same subject
and is now on the calendar.
The senate has passed and sent to
the house three measures of some i'm
portance. The first is the bill to COM
plete the statehouse at an appropria
ton of $4,000 year for three years,
which the comptroller says will not
raise the levy on the present basis OF
returns. The second is the bill to
provide for the separation of young
convicts in the penitentiary from the
old and the white boys from the black.
This measure has developed talk about
the unfortunate state of affairs at the
penitentiary in regard to quarters for
the prisoners. The third measure,
over which there was a hard fight in
the senate, is the bill to provide for
the licensing of homeopathic physi-
clans.
The senate killed a number Of bills,
perhaps the most important being that
of Senator Ragsdale to require an in
spection of cotton seed meal sold for
feed stuff and TO lay tax upon this
product.
The sentiment of the senate is for
adjournment on Friday or Saturday,
but IL few think the session will have
to run over into next week even if the
members stay without pay. The ap-
preparations are yet to be considered
by the senate, and this will take some
time, us the senate never acts hastily );
but it is possible that after dlsposing
of these absolutely necessary meas
ures, the senate will ask for adjourn
ment within the forty days, though il
is yet unsettled whether this is a linn
tied or an unlimited session.
Assault and Battery With Intent to Kill.
Aaron Jones, Rock Hill barber,
was committed to Jail Monday on the
charge of assault and battery with in.
tent to kill. He shot Negro woman