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. DOmtnick OF NOwberry Accused OF
Uslng Unfair Means to get BIll
Through and Courts tho very Ful.
lest Envesiiga tion-A Joint
committee to Investigato
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Columbia, S. c., Feb. 2i.-In tho last
hours Of the session Of the House Il sur
prising and unexpected thing occurred
An effort was made to take away
| from the count board Of control the
| right to clcC' dispensers who sell beer
and place that power entirely In tho
been bone of contention and the
troubles and tanglcs about the beer dis
pcnsers in the cities over 10000 arc
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. 1t
appears that an Innocent little county
government bill OF Mr.. Raysor was sac
riticed In the hope Of getting through
bill, on 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 u county govern
ment bill and brought out bill on the
L,
Raysor's bill was useless, as it had been
covered in the general law, and was
used as tho skeleton for the beer dis
pc sary bill. No such bill was offered,
discussed or passed by tho 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 1t read as it
was intended to read last year.
REPORT OF TIE CONFOREES.
The report OF the free csnfcrence
committee follows:
A bill to amend an Act entitled "An
Act to amend can Act entitled an
Act provide for the county govern
ment Of the various counties of this
State approved tho 9th day of
Murch, 1899" 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 tho following he in
serted in lieu thereof: A bill to author
iZc and empower the board of directors
of the State dispensary to grant per-
mits for the establishment and opera
ton Of dispensaries Tor the sale of beer
by retail or otherwise in cities over 20
600 population, and TO provide for bond
ing OF the holders Of such permite and
to appoint said dispensers.
BE it enncted by the General Assem-
, bly, OF the State of South Carolina:
Section |. That the board of direc-
tors Of the State dispcnsary be, and
they arc hereby, authorized to grant
permits for the establishment and
operation OF dispcnsaries for tho sale
OF beer by retail or otherwise in all the
cities In this State Of over 10000 popu-
lation, and they are further authorized
to oappoint the dispensers who shall con-
duct the said establishments.
Section 2 That the said permits
shall be Of force and continue for time
j
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 In
! the same manner as it Is now provided
| by la" for bonds Of county dispensers.
w. G. Hough, VIM. Ilderton, j. r..
| Douglass, committee on part Of Senate.
w. 0. Tatum, Fred III. DOminick
| Thos b. Bntler, committee on part OF
| House.
| MIR. DOMINICK'S EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Domnick stated that possibly
some explanation was due from the
committee on the free conference as TO
why q substitute bill was inserted. He
said that during the closing hours Of
the last session free conference CON-
mittee reported bill to give the State
board directors the power to grant per
mits for the establishment of brew
cries, distllleriesl and establishments
or the bottling and sale of beer In
cities OF over twenty thousand inhabi.
tants. The Attorney General ruled
that on account Of failure to provide
bond and other minor matters In the
Act no additional power was vested ir
the State board Of directors. In large
cities q beer establishment has to invcs
$i5, 900 TO $4,000, and the count,
board can only elect for one year, ant
this provides that on this account the,
should be elected for four years, and a
the same time bel removed from loca
and county politics. He believed
sufficient notice had been given in tina
intention of tho present House, as ex
pressed in the Act passed last year
was to give the board this power, all,