The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-01-22
COLI llB!.A LETTER.
What Oar Law Makers are Doing at
the State Capitol.
fr0m OW' OWn Correspondent.

to work. There lS nothing much III
the shape Of bills passed to show for
their five days labor, but the first
week or ten days of every second scs-
sion is taken up largely with the task
of wedding out the crop of bills left
! over from the previous year. Quite
number of these have been withdrawn
by their authors and others have been
| summarily disposed Of,.whilc others
have been SO freely amended as to be
almost unrecOgnlsable.
Both houses met at noon Tuesday.
Lieut.. Coy. James III. Tillman WAS
| present to preside over the senate ~ Il
Speaker w. j.. Stevenson was ut the
helm of the house. The Governors
message was read in each house, the
| appointment of minor officials was an
| new bills presented and the first days
session soon ended. Since then there
has been more work done each day.
The Senate on Friday adjourned! unit!
| MOnday.night but the ll0llsc,was in SEES
! sion Saturday and then adjourned
only to meet again Monday mt noon
unexpectedly enough, the first con
prccipitatcd III the House by Il bill re-
lating 10 the dispcnsary over which
there have been SO many orat0rical
| battles in Legislative halls and on the
hustings. This measure, introduced
| last last session by &. J.. Sanders, of
| Spartanburg, and similar to the cele-
brated "Arcller bill' of two years ago,
dispensary or dispcnsaries the right to
vote upon the question of removing
the dispensary. 1t was vigorously Op-
| posed by certain advocates of the dis
| pensary as q covert attack upon the
system. and, after heated discussion
| during two days, was virtually buried
by the passage of motion to recOmmit.
Ihe vote upon this question was as
the nays favOring the bill:
Yeas-,Speaker Stevenson, All, Aus
tin, Banks, Beamguard, Bivens, Blease,
Brooke, Butler, Carter, Coggershall,
| Crum, Dean, DeBruhl, D0minick,
Efird, Elder, Estridge, CASTOR, Gour-
din, Gunter, Halle, Hardin, Hollis,
Hough, Humphrey. Izlar. James.
son Keels, Kibler, Kinard. Lide, Lit
tie. Lomax, Lyles. Mccall, McLaugh-
lin, Mcleod. McCowsn, hishoe, MorTi-
son, Moses, Moss, Nichols, Rainsford.
Richardson, Robertson, Seigler, NJ. l..
Smith, Stroman. Tetum, T5eas, J. p.
Thomas, Jr., Thompson, Towill, VOL
ling. Webb, Wells, West, Williams
"NSlsoa, wGSas, WRoodwfEd.oo Rocot ard.
| us
Bryan, Colcock, Cooper, Dennis, Dodd,
DOrrOh, Dunbar. Durant Fox, Fraser,
Freeman. Galluchat, Hill, Kinsey,
Lockwood, Lotion, Logan, Mauldin,
Mayson, McGraw. +. H. McMaster,
Jno; McMaster. Morgan, Murchison,
Nesbitt, w: l.: Parker, Prince, Pyatt,
Rankin, G. f. Robinson, Rucker, Stack
Is. Smith. Vincent, Weston. Whaley,
Wingo-i5.
| PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
ON j. b. Smiths bill to appropriate
100000 to. the. public schools. The
bill was defeated by vote of GO to SO.
The debate developed the existence of
a general sentiment favoring local
taxation for supplemental support of
the public schools.
SOLDIERS HOME.
| A bill, backed by q memorial from
the United Confederate Veterans, has
been introduced for the establishment
OF a home for INDECENT and helpless
Confederate veterans. The Stnte is
asked ut present for an appropriation
of SEA, 1000, of which Sl5 1000 is for build
inge, aud it is proposed to utilize prop
erty near Columbia now belonging to
the Asylum but not in present use.
The sentiment in favor of the HCme is
undoubtedly strong, but it's establish
ment is by no means assured.
THE TRUSTS.
The fight against the Virginia- Caro-
lima Chemical Company instituted by
the Attorney General at the instigation
of the General Assembly has become
rather complicated. The Attorney
General began, action in the State
Courts to annul the. Virginia Carolina
| (.hRTnj0Qi u5o chor
allegation that it has violated the anti
trust laws ofthe State. The Compa-
ny's attorney took steps to have the
case removed to the United States
Court. wherenpOn tho Attorney Cen
eral presented TO the General Assem- bly,
the propriety Of repeating the compa-
ny's charter. Upon this suggestion
will be of interest to know what course
will be pursued. Apparently there has
been no politics in the fight, but the
Charleston Evening Post, which is
thoroughly independent in politics,
suggests: Attorney General Bellin-
ger Is pushing after the trusts quite in
earnest, and the politicians who put
him on the trnil may regret that they
called him. Their plan was for him to
drive the game for their shooting, not
to run it to earth himself.n
THE ELECTIONS.
Tuesday has been set for the election
Of Judges. There will be no opposi-
tiOn to the Judges who desire re- -elec-
tiOn, and the only contest will be in
the Third Circuit for tho place volun-
tarily vacated by Judge Buchanan.
Tho candidates are r. 0. Purdy and II.
IS. Fraser. of Sumter. and George Gal
lity, of Florence. TO succeed Judge
Benet in the First the only candidate
is &: &. Dantzler. of Orangeburg, j. +.
Burke, OF Charleston, having with
! drawn.
The two Houses have not yet agreed
upon day for the other elections, and
there is also Il disagreement between
them rs to whether the State Librarian
is to be elected, the incumbent having
been appointed by the Governor to fiji