Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-02-05

Dill q arrangement OF Ille uFsI dllu seC-
ond congressional districts. Charles
toms influences in the house succeeded
in having Beaufort taken out Of the
First district, and put into the second,
which is thereby made long string OF
counties along the Savannah river. The
Second district people don't like this.
Neither do Congressman Elliotts
friends, as the object plainly Is to take
Colonel Elliott, whose residence IS In
Beaufort, cut of the Charleston district.
Otherwise, the bill Is pretty generally
approved. but this provision Is sure TO
be fought over. The bill Is special or
der in the senate tomorrow, Tuesday.
The house committee on commerce
and manufactures has made faVora-
BILE report on the child labor bill that
passed the senate last year, put II mas
not yet been voted on.
The soldiers home proposition will
probably be lost in the shuttle. The
house has not only appropriated S2oo,-
600 to Confederate pensions, but mas
passed bill declaring that 1t shall be
unlawful to commit any INDECENT ex-
Confederate soldier to any poorhouse or
almshouse, but the county boards or
commissioners SHALL in their discretion,
give county aid to said veterans, at the
homes Of such soldiers or or some rela-
tive or friend. The bill declares fur-
ther that no ex-Confederate sold1er
shall be disfranchised because or his
having received such aid. A similar
bill has passed the senate, and 1t is in
tended to relieve the conditions which
gave rise to the agitation for soldiers
home. The latter proposition Is apt 10
be rejected, especially since such I'D
eral appropriation for pensions mas
been made by the house. The 100000
bill, however, has not yet run the
gauntlet of the less liberal and more
conservative senate.
Another pension bill Of interest Is
that introduced by Senator Manning,
providing for a county pension COM
missioner. 1t has passed the senate;
The commissioner, under the bill, Shall
be elected by the county pension board
of which he shall! be a member, and he
shall be at the auditors office every
Saturday in the month Of January to
meet pension applicants and to re-
ceive their applications. He shall re-
port back to the board the first Monday
| in February. For his services he shall
receive 81 per day. This bill relieves
the county board from constant meet
ings and is expected to save consid-
cradle sum.
In the senate there was long and
animated debate on Senator Raysors
compulsory education bill, and while II
was rejected. the vote, lS to ID, SHOWS
growing sentiment in favor or the
proposition, which is apt to come up
again. If child labor bill Is passed,
the cotton mill men will ask for COM
pulsory education on. the ground that
without such a law the operatives
children will be idle and troublesome.
The vote to kill the. Raysor bill was as
ayes: Ayes: Aldrich, Biakeney, Brice,
Brown, Caughman, Dean, Dennis,
Douglass, Glenn, Goodwin, Graydon,
Hough, Mower, Ragsdale, Sarratt,
Stanland. Talbird,. Walker-1S.
Noes: Applet, Barnwell. Bowen, Hen
derson, Hydrick,, tlderton, Livingston.
sor, Sharpe, Sheppard, Stackhouse, Sui
livan, Williams-16, 49,,
The senate put in the best part Of
several days considering the bill fixing
the salaries Of county officers, and 1t Is
now in the hands Of a committee for
amendment. Much of the senate's york
has doubtless been. wasted, because the
house will amend the bill beyond recog-
milton, and as yet none Of its provis-
ions can be considered finally deter
mined upon. -.
| One or th0Se pecunar measures tnat
come up at every session is the bill to
require railroad companies to place
spittoons in all passenger cars. 1t pass
ed the senate with, only one dissenting
vote.
The house .nassIejected. the annual
proposition to SELF The state farms, and
it has not yet been considered in the
senate. Neither has the biennial ses-
sion issued been acted on by the house;
but bills to institute that system have
The senate, by a close vote. agreed to
Senator .Graydon's resolution. to ad-
journ on February 18th; but the house
will not concur and the senators know
it. The legal limit Of the session ex-
pires on the 23d; but as the 22d is, le-
gal holiday, so far as legislation Is con-
cerned. it, is probable that adjourn
ment will be had on the 21st, Friday.
OF course the session can continue af-
ter 40 days; but the members would re-
ceive. no pay after that time. However,
the assembly Is well up with its work
at this stage of: the game.
NJ