The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-01-30
General Assembly.

General Assembly,.
CONDENSED FROM THE COLUMBIA STATE
The bouse Wednesday last, tool
important action on the division o.
profits accruing from the sale o1
whiskey. The outcome of this may
be that those counties in which nc
dispensaries are located may some
day be forced to adopt the system in
order to raise revenue for the schools
The house decided to reduce the
States 10 per cent. profit to 2 per
cent. and thus while nominally com.
plying with the constitutional re-
quirements divert the bulk of the
profits from the general State fund
to the treasures of the several
municipalities and counties in which
the dispensaries are located.
There was not a third reading bill
on the calendar. Nine bills passed
second reading and two were killed.
The two latter being to provide a
capitation dog tax and to compensate
the victims of theft.
The two houses met in joint ses-
sion and B. R. Tillman was legally
elected United States Senator to sue
ceed himself.
There was little spsrring over
the bill that the incorporation OF
Clemson College should not abrogate
the charters of the towns of Calhoun
and Central, but the bill passed after
an amendment was adopted so that
no dispensary will ever be establish
ed at Calhoun.
There was q long fight over Mr..
Lides bill to prevent the sale of
goods, wares or merchandise within
one mile of camp ground or place OF
holding religious exercises outside Of
an incorporated town or city. The
bill passed second reading.
The principal provisions of the bill
are that it shall be unlaw full for any
itirerant trader or tradesmen other
than established dealers of the COM
munity to offer for sale any goods,
wares or merchandise within one
half nile Of any camp ground, or
other place of religious meetings
while the meetings are in progress
outside an incorporated town or city,
except with the permission of the
trustees OF other board of manage
ment OF such meeting, provided that
nothing il this act shall apply to ven
ders Of fruits and vegetables and
other farm products.
Among the bills which passed their
second reading were the following
two which are of general interest:
A bill to make it a misdemeanor to
destroy personal property. The law
as it now stands protects horses,
cows, sheep, etc. The author applies
existing law more generally.
A bill to require any courts OF this
State to receive as evidence the laws
and ordinances of any town or city
in this State, when the same shall be
certified to by the clerk or either
officer of the town or city under the
seal of the municipal corporation
within such laws and ordinances are
or were of force.
The special order in the senate
Wednesday was Mr. Henderson's
bill to make township assessors
equalizers as we'll as assessors Of
property. The bill passed its third
reading and was sent to the house.
The committee on agriculture
made a favorable report on bill to
regulate the width Of the tires Of
vehicles.
An unfa7orabie report was made
by the penitentiary committee on a
bill authorizing the sale of the State
farms.
Mr.. Sull;vans bill to orequire county
commissioners to show the nature OF
! the claims in their published reports