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and she bill was passed aud ordered
to third reading
TIE SENATE

HE SEN & r.
The senate made excellent prog
ress today and rapidly advanced
many bills, so that they stand an
excellent chance of becoming laws
ymong other matters of interest
accomplished was the passage of q
anti pistol law and the final passage
of the child labor bill
The bill to give Winthrop yearly
25 convicts was the first TO cause
general debate
SeDator Brice introduced the bill
and showed the necessity for the
number, saying that they woald be
needed on the farm, in the laundry
and elsewhere about the buildings
The college authorities had asked for
the pumber and this is conclusive
that shey are needed
Senator Glenn opposed the bill
because he said that it would prac-
ticaliy amount to an additional ap.
preparation IF the college has to
run farm let the convicts be hired
aDd paid for oct of the abundant
appropriation made to this instltu
tion TIE people ought to know
what this institution gets 1t gets
$4,000 aud this ought to be enough
without 25 extra convicts.
Senator Sheppard said there could
possibly be no need of 25 convicss to
work 100 acres of land aud, anyway,
Wisthrop is the last place in the
State where convicts should be seen
he moved TO indefinitely postpone
the bill
Sena.os Gaines waated an amend
snent requiring IS month TO be
paid for each convict
The senate, on q division, iude6
ni,ely postponed the bin
The child labor bill came up for o
third reading and Senator Sullivan
offered an ameudmen: TO the May
field substitute. which would inssi-
,ute general compulsory education
al provision ranging from Z so II
years He sald the provision in the
original bill virtually applied com
pulsory education to factory children,
which is manifestly unfair He also
introduced an amendment reducing
the age limit to 10 years Both
amendments were voted upon sogeth.
er and both were rejected by vote
of 81 to Il
Senator Sharpe offered an amend
ment which would allow orphans
under age to take oath snd work in
the mills This amendment was
adopted
Senator Gruber offered gu amend
ment, the effect 0. which is TO conGne
the law to textile manufactures The
amendment was adopted
The bill was then passed and
ordered reengrossed and cent 70 the
house
representative CooEers Dill to
regulate the carrying. manufacturing
and sale of firearms was reached and
Senator Graydon offered an amend
ment which relieved the bill of its
very drastic features when it left the
house. whereby even the carrying of
a shotgun for Innocent purposes
would be unlawful The Graydon
amendment made it plain that only
pistols were intended to be legisIsted
against. Mr Graydon said that $50
people were killed last year by pis-
tells, and Law prohibiting the sale
aud the manufacture OF such Ere
arms will save not only human lives,
bat thousands of dollars.
Senator MayGeld offered an amend
ment which would license the carry
ing of concealed weapons for one
year, the license fee to be $50 He
said that he offered this amendment
80 that the bill would not come
within the inhibition of the constitu
tion If man thinks be ought to
go armed let him pay license, but
every man will know that be is
licensed.
By vote of 81 to Is the senate
refused to strike out the enactiDg
words Of the bill
Senator McLaurin Not To Be