The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-31
Che Nera1a and 0ews
The SOLONS IN SESSION
THE WORK OF TIE Law MAKERS OF
The STATE ASSEMBLED IN CO.
LUMBIA.
a Condensed Report OF the Proceedings
Taken From the Daily Papers from lay
to Day as the Work Proceeds.
IN THE HOUSE.

enquire into the Feasibility OF estaD
fishing State Fertilizer Factory.
The bill to charter the French
Broad and Southern Railway passed
the House. The road is to run from
North Carolina just across the bor-
der to some point on the Southern
Railway, probably at Seneca. The
road will eventually go to Anderson.
The plan at present is to make it an
electric road. Among the corpora
tors are B. L. Abney, J. @. Marshall
and j. S. Werner of Columbia and
Senator Sullivan and Representative
Prince of Anderson.
The Sanders bill requiring the
Governor to designate what bank
State funds should be deposited IN
caused a great deal of discussion.
According to the bill there are to be
eight repositories and not more than
$4,000 should be disposited in any
one Of them and each bank should
give a bond for the safe keeping Of
the money. Mr.. Sanders stated that
the State had absolutely no security
for its deposits and said that the State
treasurer had deposited about S2OO,.
900 in a small country bank, (he did
not mention the name of the bank
and that the treasurer was unbrldled
as to what bank he should use.
Mr.. Weston opposed the bill and
said things were getting along very
we'll under the present arrangements.
He thought Mr.. Sanders was mistak,
en- about the treasurer depositing
such an amount of money last year,
he personally knew that the State
was borrowing money last year.
Mr.. John P. Thomas spoke in fa-
vor of the bill as did also CASTOR and
Kibler.l Messrs, Ashley and Beam
guard opposed it. There was con-
siderable other discussion pro and
con.
The bill was finally recommitted
to special committee, consisting OF
Messrs. Sanders, Parker and CASTOR,
in order that the Objectionable feat
ures might be eliminated and the
bill perfected by increasing the num-
ber of repositories and making the
selections by board.
IN THE SENATE.
January 27.-The senate was IN
session more than two hours tonight,
and the greater part of the time was
spent in discussing Mr.. Raysor's bill
TO amend the law known as the Lord
Campbell Act.
THE EXPOSITION TRIP.
The house concurrent resolution
accepting the invitation to attend the
Charleston exposition on Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 7th and 9Th, was re-
ceived. On motion of Senator Shep-
pard, the resolution went over until
today. In reply to a question Sen
ator Sheppard frankly said he
thought one day was enough for the
legislature to spend at the exposition,
and his object in having the resolu-
tion go over was to urge an amend
ment of this kind.
THIRD READING BILLS.
These bills passed their third read
ing:
MIR. Gaines bill to provide for the
running of schools on cash basis
and to provide for tn tion fees.
Mr.. Aldrich's joint resolution to
provide for the purchase of 200 vol
umes of the Historical records and
rolls of volunteer troops furnished
by South Carolina in the Spanish,
American war, compiled and pub.
lished by General ]. W. Floyd.
Mr.. Aldrich's bill to provide for
the preservation of valuable docu-
ments and papers of the State of
South Carolina.
Mr.. Robertson's bill to amend Sec
ton 1884 of the Revised Statutes of
the State of South Carolina.
Mr.. Croft's bill to exempt dentists
from jury duty.
Mr.. Austin's bill to protect the
keepers of boarding houses.
Mr.. Mishoe's bill to amend section
3 of an act entitled San act to pro-
III,