The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-02-07


rr"'isn the report was adopted ano
the bill was rejected
THE NEW JURY LAW
| The bill providing for tho no W
jury law was the first .nattor taken
up. The bill passed tho senate q
week ago and was amended several
times by tho house. The bill, with
the amendments, was read in full
in tn" senate. The senate concurrcd
III the house nmondments, and the
bill was ordered enrolled for ratili
cation.
| NO CHEAP JOHN PRINTING
Senat )r Brice moved to rccommit
Senator Horndon's bill to require
the public printing in each county
to be- let to the lowest bidder.
Senator Grayton stated that in
Abhoville county both papers publish
all tho advertisements and each gets
half the legal rates. Hs thought
the bill should be killed.
Senator Herndon defended his
bill. He said that in Oconee one
paper has boen grabbing all the pub
lie printing and the othor had been
shut out. He wanted to give all Il
little Of the pap.
Senator Ragsdale said the bill
should pass. The present legal rates
may be low enough, but all printers
do not observe the law. You won't
get the same prices on the same al
vcrtising from two Offices. None OF
us want to offend the newspaper mon,
but the man who is willing to do
the printing for the least money
should have the j1t,.
Senator Sharp said the bill ought
not to pass. In his county there
are four or five newspapers, but
only one Of general circulation at the
court house. If the bill passes some
of tn" littl" Sx1O newspapers, which
hnve no clrcnl .,ion and arc run at
NJ "xrons", could get the adveris
ing and the responsible newspaper
would be shut out He thought
| this the best bill to kill that has come
up at this session.
Senator Rayaor then moved to in
definitely postpone the bill.
This WAS done by an overwhclm
ing vote and the bill was killed.
| FREE SCHOOL BOOKS.
Mr.. Lomax's bill to provide free
school books for certain school dis
tricts WAS then taken up for its third
rrading
Senator Brice moved to strike out
the enacting words
The vote to indefinitely postpone
further consideration Of the bill was
lost by vote Of Is to 1G, and the
question then was, shall tho bill be
passed and sent to the house for con-
currance to the senate amendments.
Several senators came INTO the cham
Der in the meantime and on this
| question the vote was Is to rs, and
the bill was passed.
DOMESTIC FOWLS.
When MIR. Kibler's bill to make
domestic fowls subject to the provis
ions Of the general stock law WAS
reached Senator Henderson moved
to indefinitely postpone the bill.
Tho motion was lost and the bill
then passed.
Then an amendment to make the
bill apply only to turkeys, offered by
Senator Mayiield, was killed.
Senator Hydrick then offered an
amendment that the law should be
enforced only against persons who
allow fowls to trespass upon Tho cul-
tivated lands Of another, after having
received written notice not to do so.
This was agreed to.
Then Senator May field offered ar
a nendment that the law should not
go into effect until Jnnnarv |, 1908
The motion to lay the amendment
on the table was lost.
Senator Hydrick wanted to amend
by making the date July I, 1902
This motion was laid on the table by
a vote of 18 to Is.
| Senator Mnyfield then tffered ar
am"ndm mt to mako the maximum
ponalt! s. for each trespass ms eat
Of s. for each trcspass This wa.
laid on tn" table by vote Of II tt