The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-02-26
TIE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
final Adjournment Was Reached
Saturday Afternoon.

Columbia, February 22.-The Gen
eral Assembly has adjourned sine die.
Is was an ordinary, diligent and
moderate and a good-natured session.
Nothing radical was done. The law
makers went home in good humor.
ar. Baeot had the customary priVi-
lege of making the motion to adjourn
the House. After Messrs Efrd, Prince
and Kibler had notified Ethe Governor
that the House had finished its work
and awaited further adVices, if any,
the House and Senate passed final
courtesies through Acting Clerk
GibbesS and Clerk r. r. HemphiH.
Secretary Anil reported that the
rneney bills had all been signed and
She House could adjourn, and as the
city bell struck the l5 or 20 remain
ing members voted to adjourn sine
die fand the Senate followed few
minutes later.
Today was an ordinary grind to rat
ify bills, except that the beer dlspen-
sarv free conference report bobbed up
again BY statement fled by two Sen
aSorss who suggested that they had
baen fooled, but admitted that they
had not read the proposed law giving
The State board the right to elect beer
disnense1s In cities OF over 20,000.
Two members of the House COMMITTEES
made statements that they also signed
3 report meaning great deal and
that SheF had never read the paper.
TIC result was that an Investigation
was ordered under concurrent reso-
2nEion.
Senator Ilderton's protest on the
relief fund association bill occasioned
cuite a stir in the Senate and the use
Of some severe language By Lieutenant
Governor Tillman, who was indirectly
raped. 49,.
Senator Taderton said thatgss mat
5er.of personal privilege and In the
exercise Of his constitutional rights
he, wanted to have a certain protest
entered in the journal. He sent the
protest to the desk and asked the clerk:
te read il to the senate. It was as
follows:
ss respectfully ask that the follow
ing be printed in the journal: That
protest against the appointment Of the
conference committee, and majority
of the free conference committee or
Senate bill 221, House bill l044, be-:
cause it is an outrage against honest,
3egislation and contrary to the customs
Of the Senate. Said committees COM:
posing senators that tried on every
vote to Kill the bill In the senate. !"
As the clerk finished reading the
resolution there was intense silence IN
the chamber, and then Senator llder-
ton began to speak. He said he felt
that he had been most. shamelessly
ard outrageously treated by the pre-
siding officer in she, appointment of
Ehe committees Of conference and free
conference. The senate passed his.
bill, he said, and then came back
from the house with amendments.
When the conference committee was
appointed the chair, instead of ap-
pointing On it senators who had been
friendly on the bill and who would
endeayor so carry out the recorded
wishes of the senate, had appointed
men who had been opposed to the bill
and who therefore would not report
favorably on it. The same policy was
pursued, he said, in the appointment
Of the free conference committee. and
IN this way his bill had been killed
after both the senate and house had
passed It, the differences between the
$Eo bodies being only minor ones that
could have been adjusted. Senator
uderton spoke with great deal OF
feeling, the substance Of his charge
being that the presiding officer, by his
appointment of committees, had
fhwarted the will Of the senate.
After Senator Ilderton had con-
cluded, Senator Mayfeld got the 6oor.
He begged that Senator Ilderton would
not have his protest entered in. the
Journal. The senator is aggrieved and
angered at present, he said, and enter
tains feelings now that he will not
entsrtain later On. If he persists IN
pntting himself on record in this man
ner he will regret it most sincerely
later on when his cool judgment re-
Mms. He has made reflections which
ne certainly does not feel at heart
Senator Barnwell also begged that
Senator Ilderton would Withdraw his
protest from the journal.
Lieut. Gov. Tii1lman then made
some reply to Senator llderton. The
lieutenant governors remarks were
quite parliamentary, though he spoken
with a grest deal OF suppressed pas
sion. The chair he said, in appoint
ING committees, does not always select
them with reference to their friendll-
ness or opposition to measure, but
$akes it for granted that every senator
who has been elected to this body is
worthy and competent to serve on any
BODY. He denied most emphatically
chat he had sought to have the bill
killed in the committees, and called
attention to the fact that when the
bill was up ON It's passage in the
senate there was tie vote, aud that
no had voted in favor of it, therefore
saving it from defeat.
Senator Ilderton said he would
insist on his protest being entered in
She journal, and this was done. SEN
asor Ilderton soon afterward LETT the
chamber and did not return again
during the afternoon.