The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-01-22

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| BY Mr.. Lomax OF Abbeville: 4 bill
! to provide for buying school books for
certain school districts. The bill pro-
: videS that whenever the trustees of
any school district shall deem il to
the interest OF such school district to
provide school books for the school in
such districts they may use 50 much OF
! the money apportioaed to the district
. for the purpose OF providing books as
in their Judgment will be Of advantage
to the promotion to education in such
district. Some other bills OF local
character were intr01;!:"G and the
, Home adjourned to Thursday.
THE FISH INDUSTRY.
The House on Thursday had a long
discussion on Mr.. McCall's bill to
provide for the further protection Of
fish in this State" created discussion
and brought out interesting intorma-
tion. The bill was finally adopted by
a vote of IS to 2S. The first section
| as yariously amended now reads: 1t
shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to use and seine, gill net or
! trap, or dynamite for the purpose Q?
catching fish, excepting mullets.
crabs. Holsters and Shrimps. in any OF
! the navigable streams of this State be-
F: tween the first day of January and the
; first Ga! OF April.
! The second section provides that
! any person c- persons violating the
provisions Of this act shall hc deemed
| guilty Of q misiemeanOr. and upon
! conviction thereof shall be fined rot
/ less than three hundred ($300) dollars,
! or imprisoned not more than three
months. or both. in the discretion OF
j the court, and that One-half Of the
! fine imposed and collected shall be
i paid to the prosecutor who furnishes
such evidence to convict the often
der"
TINKERING AT THE DISPENSART.
i Mr. c. p. Sanders offered bill to
amend the dispensary law. 1t pro-
: vides that section Of the diSpersary
law he stricken out and new section
substituted. The existing section
provides the manner in which dis
pcnsarieS may be established, the pro-
posed section goes further and pro-
videS for the removal OF those now
operating. The proposed section I
concludes: Any county may secure
the establishment Of a dispensary or
dispenSarieS. or the removal Of a. dis
pensary Or dispentarieS within it's
limits. in the following manner:
, Upon the petition Of onefourth OF the
qualified voters Of each county for an
election upon either the question OF
the establishment or the removal OF
dispensarieS therein being filed with
the county supervisor OF each county,
he shall order an election submitting
the question of ''diSpenSary" or mo
6ispensarE" to the qualified voters OF
such county, which election shall be
conducted as other special elections,
and il a majority of the ballots cast be
found and declared to be for diSpensary
then d dispensary may be established
in said county, but if a majority of the
ballots cast be found and declared to
be against the dispenSary, then no dis
pensarv shall be established therein,
and any dispenSary already established
shall be closed. Elections under this
section can be held not oftener than
once III four years. No dispensary
shall be established in any county,
town or city wherein the sale OF alco-
holic liquors was prohibited prior to
July l, 1898, except as herein permit
ted: Provided. That where diSpen-
saries have been established in such
county. town or city they shall re-
main as established until removed or
closed as permitted in this act,
THE DIsPENSARY BILL.
On Friday the first second-reading
bill on the calendar in the House was
Mr.. Sanders bill to allow counties
to vote on the establishment or re-
moyal of diSpensaries. Mr.. Tatum
moved to recommit the bill. He spoke
at length against it as directed as a
blow against the dispensary.
Mr.. MCGOWAN saw in this bill the
disintegrating process which would
result in the final overthrow Of the
dispenSary.
| Mr.. Dorroh-Do you mean by that
admission that you are afraid to trust
this matter to the people?
Mr.. MCGOWAN replied that he would
not trust them with local option. It
is unwiSe to have the people, churches,
families perennially stirred up, and
the matter is now settled. The dis
pensary law is effective only as po-
lice regulation. and police regulation
must apply to the whole State.
! Mr.. Towill Of Lexington said that
the people are satisfied with the dis
penSary.
Mr.. Henry b. Richardson thought
the measure fraught with great dan
ger in opening a way to elections. We
cannot satisfy all of the people.
Either the dispensary has decreased
drunkenness or just at the time it was
started a moral uplifting came upon
the people, for conditions are better.
What is advocated as local option foI
counties might be advocated for the
towship and where would it end?
; Mr.. Cooper Of Laurens wanted tC
know why this opposition to the bill:
Are the diSpensary people. who are in
trenched, not willing for the people tt
say what they want: lie had favored
letting each county govern the dispen,
sary in its own way and he had beer
sustained in the campaign.
DR.. II. J. kinard said that il this
law were passed Charleston would vote
the dispensary out and liquor wouIC
flow as free as the tides on the ocean
Mr.. Sinkler-Wcll, the people OF
! Greenwood needn't come down there
! and get drowned.
] Mr. Would Charleston vot'
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