Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-01-30
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Synopsis of te Daily Proceedings of the
House and Senate.
Condensed from Daily papers.
IN THE SENATE.

IN THE SENATE.
The senate devoted the greater part
of Friday to the discussion of the
Charleston exposition bill. Senator
Graydon moved to- strike out the en-
acting clause, and it was on this prop
osition that the speaking was done.
The bill was passed by vote Of q to
6. The negative voters were Caugh-
man, Goodwin, Herndon, Hough, and
Talbird. Senators Graydon and Rags
dale did not vote. They were paired
against the bill, however, with Sena-
tors Manning and Livingston, who
would have voted for it.
Senator Stanland introduced bill to
repeal the free pass law.
A favorable report was made on a
joint resolution to refund the penalties
on taxes paid after December 81.
Mr.. Ilderton's bill providing that pis-
tol dealers pay license Of $4,000 a
year was killed by a vote of 16 to II.
IN THE HOUSE.
The house covered considerable
ground Friday by means Of committee
reports; but disposed of only two sec
ond reading bills. The first was Mr..
Thomass bill to provide for expert su-
pervision of the public schools in ac-
cordance with the theories of Superin-
tendent of Education McMahan, and
the second was to exempt graduates Of
the South Carolina medical college
from further examination before the
state board of medical examiners.
The principal speech in favor Of ex-
pert supervision Of education was
made by Mr.. John P. Thomas, Jr., Of
Richland. He claimed that he alone
was responsible for the bill, and advo-
Gated it because he believed 1t would
be to the best interest Of the schools.
He sought to secure supervision for the
public common schools Of the county OF
the same degree of efficiency and in the
same manner as supervision was secur-
ed for the graded schools.
Although this bill may be revolution
ary, the real revolutionists in this house
are not the men that favor the bill, but
the men that oppose it. The bill up
sets the system now in vogue; a sys-
tenn, however, that is wrong, and
should be superseded. The celebrated
DR.. Arnold said: There is nothing so
revolutionary, because there is noth-
ing so unnatural and convulsive, as the
strain to keep things fixed when all
the world is, by the very law of its
creation, in eternal progress, and the
source of all the evils in the world may
be traced to the natural, but most dead
ly. error of human Incidence and cor
ruption, that it is our duty to preserve
and not to improve" l submit,
therefore, that it is our bounden duty
TO make a move in this direction. The
people of the whole state are crying
aloud for relief and we should not turn
deaf ear to their appeal. quite
number of members expressed them-
selves in opposition to the bill; but no
one attempted a set speech. such as
WAS ny MI. ~ was AioS
deemed necessary, because the house
was too obviously opposed to the idea or
making any change. The vote against
the bill was 81 to 3S.
The bill to exempt the graduates OF
the medical college at Charleston from
further examination by the State board
was passed by vote of SO to Al.
A bill to devolve the duties of county
boards Of control on county boards OF
commissioners was killed.
IN THE HOUSE.
The concealed weapon question was
discussed Saturday, and it developed
that there was Il strong feeling against
the practice of carrying such weapons.
The discussion was on a bill introduce
ed by Mr.. Cooper, of Laurens. Quite
a number of members participated in
the debate, including Mr.. Beamguard,
of York, who neld that the pistol was
made for purposes of murder and that
it ought to be suppressed. The bill was
finally passed to a third reading, In
very clumsy shape, on account OF ILL
considered amendments. 1t reads as
follows:
Section l. That from and after the