The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-02-25
A Dispensary Sensation.
A LIVELY TIME OVER THE ELECTION
OF BEER DISPENSERS.
MIR Dominick of Newberry Accused OF
Using Unfair NIeans to get a Bill
Through aud Courts the very Full.
lest Investiga tion-A Joint
committee to Investigate
Especial to News and Courier I

| hours of the session of the House sur
prising and unexpected thing occurred
An effort was made to take away
from the county board of control the
right to cleo dispensers who sell beer
and place that power entirely in the
hands of the State board. 1t has long
been a bone of contention and the
troubles and tangles about the beer dis
pensers in the cities over 10000 are
fresh in the minds of the people.
The Attorney General held that the
county boards, and not the State boards
should select the beer dispensers. II
appears that an innocent little county
government bill Of Mr.. Raysor was sac
rifced in the hope of getting through
a bill, on a free conference report
which sought to give the State board
the right to elect the beer dispensers
| The free conference went to work to
adjust differences on county govern
ment bill and brought out bill on the
election of beer dispensers. Mr.,
Rsysor's bill was useless, as it had been
covered in the general law, and was
! used as the skeleton for the beer dis.
pc sary bill No such bill was offered,
discussed or passed by the House. 1t
had been presented in the Senate and
was there second reading bill. The
ground for the report on free con-
ference was that it was simply to cor
rect the statute and make it read as it
was intended to read last year.
| REPORT OF THE CONFOREES.
The report OF the free conference
committee follows:
| A bill to amend an Act entitled "An
Act to amend Gan Act entitled an
Act to provide for the county govern
ment of the various counties of this
State approved the 9Th day OF
March, 1885," approved February 10,
1900"
The committee respectfully report
that they have carefully considered the
same and recommend that the title
| thereof and all the enacting words be
stricken out and the following be in
serted in lieu thereof: A bill to author
ize and empower the board of directors
of the State dispensary to grant per-
mits for the establishment and opera
tion OF dispensaries Tor the sale OF beer
by retail or otherwise in cities over TO-
900 population, and to provide for bond
| ing OF the holders of such permite and
to appoint said dispensers.
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly OF the State of South Carolina:
Section /. That the board of direo'
tors of the State dispeusary be, and
they are hereby, authorized to grant
permits for the establishment and
operation of dispensaries for the sale
of beer by retail or otherwise in all the
cities in this State Of over 10000 popu-
lation, and they are further authorized
no appoint the dispensers who shall con-
duct the said establishments.
Section 2 That the said permits
shall be of force and continue for time
of four years unless sooner revoked for
cause by the State board of directors
And the holders thereof shall have
power to manufacture, bottle and sell
by retail or otherwise, beer according
to the restrictions now provided BY
| law.
Section 3. That the holders of such
permits shall be required to give bond
in the sane amount and be approved ir
the same manner as it is now provided
by law fox bonds of county dispensers.
W. C. Hough, VIM. llderton, J. T.
Douglass, committee on part of Senate
W. O. Tatum, Fred H. Dominick
| Thos. B. Bntler, committee on part O.
House.
MR.. DOMINICK'S EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Dominick stated that possibly
some explanation was due from the
committee on the free conference as tc
why a substitute bill was inserted. HI
| said that during the closing hours o
the last session free conference com
mittee reported bill to give the stat'
board directors the power to grant per
mits for the establishment Of brew
cries, distl1leries and establishments
or the bottling and sale Of beer IL
cities of over twenty thousand inhabl
tants. The Att rrney General rulet
that on account of failure to provld
bond and other minor matters IN tn
} Act 20 additional power was vested II
the State board of directors. In larg
! cities a beer establishment has to lnves
$4,000 10 $4,000, and the count
board can only elect for one year, an
| this provides that on this account the
J should be elected for four years, and
the same time bel removed from locs
, and county politics. He believe
sufficient notice had hren given in tha
intention of the present House, as ez
pressed in the Act passed last year
was to give the board this power, ali
that bill had been Introduced IN tn