The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-02-05
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sion is gone, and more than average
amount of work has been accomplished.
The bill relating to the matter of
most immediate and practical import
ance has passed both Houses and as
soon rs several minor amendments are
agreed upon will be ready for ratifica-
| tiOn and enrolment rs an Act. This
is 1.-THE jury Law, presented for the
purpose Of rcincdying the recent con-
fusion caused by the decision that Ow-
ing TO discrepancies and differences in
| the Acts regarding drawing of jurors
for The various counties. The bill now
about to become law is general, apply
ing q uniform system to all counties,
| and rs il gots into effect ut once it will
enable the Courts to proceed with the
business which has been accllmulating
for several months, in some counties
amounting to good deal.
TIE CODE.
| Another measure Of great technical
Importance is the ratification Of the
code, embracing the whole statute law
OF the commonwealth. The cOdifica-
ton of the statutes for this period vas;
begun by Commissioner Breazcalc and
completed by his successor, Commits
sioncr Townsend, and the House Judi
ciary Committee reported Il bill iutfy-
ing the report of the latter There
were some technical objections on the
ground that the CONSTITUTIONS pro-
visions required the Hreazcale codes
adoption, but it was held that the
| Towscnd code is merely an amended
form of the other, and after colsidera-
bic debate the committees bill was uc-
ccptcd. 1t is of much Importance but
very brief, rs follows:
Section /. That the code as submit
ted by the code commissioner of South
| Carolina "a copy of which is herctofol .
attached) be, and the same IL hereby
declared to be the Code of Laws of
South Carolina, 1902 and said code is
hereby declared 10 be tho only general
statutory law Of the State on the 1lth
day OF January, 1902.
| or nll the matters presented to the
Legislature three might be named ns
having attracted the greatest public
attention and discussion, viz: Redis-
tricting, Child Labor and the Soldiers
Home. None of these has been finally
disposed of.
| y redistricting bill has passed the
House, as previously reported, but it
has not yet been considered in the Sen
ate, and even il "the MCGOWAN bill"
passes the upper House it il, sure to be
literally amended in that body. The
strongest effort is being made to change
the bills arrangement of the first and
second congressional districts. Char
lesion influences in the House succeed
eli 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 ElliOtt's
friends. as the object plainly is to take
Col. Elliott, whose residence is in
Beaufort, out of the Charleston dis
trict. Otherwise the bill is pretty gen
orally satisfactory, but this provision
is sure to be longht over The bill is
Il special order in the Senate to-mor-
row. Tuesday.
| The House committee ON commerce
and manufactures has made favOrn-
bic report on the child labor bill that
l
not yct been voted on.
| Tho soldiers home proposition will
probably be lost in the shuttle. The
| House has not only appropriated $780,
600 to Confederate pensions, but has
passed a bill declaring that it shall be
unlawful to commit any INDECENT ex-
Confederate soldier to any poor house
commissioners shall, in their discretion,
give county aid to said Veterans, at
the homes of such soldiers or of some
relative or friend. The bill declares
further that no ex-Confederate soldier
snail be disfranchised because of his
having received such aid. A similar
pill has passed the Senate, and as it is
intended to relieve the conditions
which gave rise to the agitation for a
soldiers home the latter proposition ie
apt to be rejected, especially since such
a liberal appropriation for pensions has
been made by the House: The $780,
| 600 bill, however. has not vet run the
| gauntlet of the less liberal and more
conservative Senate.
Another pension bill of interest is
that introduced by Senator Manning
providing for n county pension COM
missioner. It has passed the Senate.
Ihe commissioners, under the bill. shall
be elected by the county pension board,
OF which he shall be member, and he
shall be at the Auditors Office every
Saturday in the month of January to
| meet pension applicants and to receive
their applications. He shall report
back to the board the first Monday in
February. For his services he shall
receive $2 per day. This bill relieves
the county board from constant meet
ings and is expected to save consid-
erable sum.
In the Senate there wac a long and
animated debate on Senator Raysors'
it was rejected, the vote-18 to 16-
shows growing sentiment in favor of
the proposition which is apt to come
up again. IL n child labor bill is passed
the cotton mill men will ask for COM
pulsOry education on the ground that
without snch n law the operatives
CHILDREN will be idle and troublesome.
The vote to kill the Raysor bill was ms