The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-01-25

Stevenson. to authorize the hiring of
convicts 20 counties for work on the
public roads; Dendy, to authorize COM
missioner OF Oconee county to cooper
ate with authorities of Habersham
county. Ga, in building bridge across
Tugaloo river; Fairey. to validate the
municipal election at Fort Motto; Ash
ley. to regulate the sale of whiskey;
Wharton, to authorize county treasur-
ers to pay certain school claims; La
ban Mauldin. to devolve the duties OF
supervisors of registration upon city
and county officials; Magill, to protect
primary elections: Crum, to require
treasurers of State institutions to be
bonded officers and to regulate draw
ing of money from State treasury;
Richards. to regulate the appointment
Of beneficiary scholarships: Prince. to
provide for the further codification of
South Carolina statutes; Prince, to
authorize registers Of mesne convey
ance to record options. etc; Patton, TO
protect game; Lockwood, to reqire
phosphate commissioner to live in
Beaufort county; Estridge, proposing
constitutional amendment repeating
clause relating to lynching; Mehrtens,
to prevent sale Of merchandise in de-
fraud Of creditors. Mr.. Mauldin want
ed to recommit the bill relating to the
hiring OF convicts to counties. The bill
as it passed Tuesday was preferable to
the original bill, but it was still not
such a measure as the people desire.
The bill was recommitted by vote OF
43 to 50. Mr.. Moss bill to increase the
number of judicial circuits was made
special order for Thursday Of next
week. Mr.. Blythe thought Mr.. Ashe-
ley's bill to reduce the tax on fertiii-
zers to % cents ton menace to the
educational institutions Of the State,
and he wanted it taken up and acted
on at once. But it was decided to wait
until the report of Clemson College
should be sent to the general assem-
bly,. as that institution receives the in
come from the fertilizer tax. Mr.
Wharton's bill to provide for the cleo
ton of county dispensers was next
discussed. Mr.. C. E. Robinson moved
that the enacting words OF the bill be
stricken out. Mr. Wharton claimed
that the present method Of selecting
dispensers is favoritism. and not DEM
ocratic. Let the people elect compe-
tent officials. Mr.. Crum opposed the
bill. Mr.. Warn spoke in favor of the
bill as a means of stopping the vices
attendant upon favoritsm. Mr.. Mob
lev said that the desire of the people Is
to take the diSpensary out of politics.
The House killed the bill. Mr.. Verner's
bill to limit the extent Of liens AMI
mortgages for agricultural Suppl!e6
was taken up. The bill provides that
all liens and mortgages given for agri-
cultural supplies shall be lien upon
and cover only the crop or crops OF cot
ton grown on the land upon which said
lien or mortgage is given, and upon no
other crop or crops whatsoever.
Tenth Day.-The House of Repre-
sentatives adjourned until noon Mon
day. Little was accomplished at to-
days session. Eleven bills passed
third reading, there being no question
to any except Mr.. Patton's to confirm
to the city of Columbia the title to the
lot whereon stood the city hall, but af-
ter a short debate it also passed third
reading. The bill regulating railroad
fares was killed. This practically con-
cluded the work Of the day. The hour
of noon having arrived, the join me-
mortal exercises TO the late Governor
Ellerbe were held The State officers
and supreme court attended in
body. II was three years before. at the
hour of noon, that he first subscribed
to the oath of CiiiGe as governor. in the
hall where these exercises were to be
held, and just year previous he had
delivered in this hall his second inau-
gural address. A few days later he
was confined to his bed by the disease
which wrought his death. The Senate
wide tire bill was read first time and
to the committee on roads,
bridges and ferries.
The following were among the new
bills introduced:
. WhisOnant. TO amend the relating 10
to barbed wire; Jackson, to prohibit
the hiring of children in payment Of
for debt; Jones. to amend
the law relating to tax sales; Wimbe"-
Iy, to amend the law relating to incor-
poration of towns of less than 1000
Wilson. to require the
State to pay 10 counties. and school dis
trictS taxes on land forfeited to State
for non-payment of taxes: Nettles. to
bond magistrates at 5000; Caughman.
to include towns of not less than 14O
inhabitants under act relating to re-
turn and assessment of taxes.
The building of the State capitol,
stopped by the civil war. will probably
be completed at cost of s25O,OOO. A
TO cost $4,000 will be erect
ed on Chicamauga battlefield.