The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-02-11
aAT END OF FOUR WEEKS
WORK AND WHAT RE.
MAINS III BE DONE.
ManylsVerys Important hIa,ters Yet Un-
!ss.ss55 Hard Work Required to
Eintsh Up-Various Nntt'rso OF
u Moro or LcBa Interest.
iLColumbia Record, 7th.


TheIeglslature has now completed
-four weeks of the session, but there
remains yot great many important
matters to DO disposed Of Adjourn
Ementfcertainlv cannot be had under
fortY days, unless business of great
Wmportance is neglected. So it may
kk3sbe safely assumed that adjournment
will not be had until Saturday night,
February II.
5s A few bills have been ratified and
have become acts, buj most Of them
care only Of local importance. Two
88of general interest are the declaring
%$tho code to be tho STATIONARY law Of
SS8tho State and the other is the act
sSrogulating the drawing Of jurics. Both
Il Of these bills were sjgnod by the
q governor Inst night hs soon as they
we're ratified. This was done more
on account of Anderson County than
any other, because court is to con-
vene in that county II. Monday aud
there arc about forty prisoners in
jail. 1t WAS therefore necessary that
the jury law should be approved at
once, SO That Il jury crula be drawn
The Virginia Carolina Chemical
company affair is still hanging fire.
The Judiciary committee has had
any number Of consul,atir about
the matter, hut no report has yet boen
made. 1t is certain that the Gray
don bill will be killed, for it provides
for annulling the charter Of tho COM
pany, whereas il has no charter in
this State, but is chartero under The
laws of Now Jersey. The company
simply has license 10 do business
in this State. W>thout impugning
the motives Of any man, it is Il fuct
that there is more or less buncombe
in the Legislature avery election year,
especially when it comes to corpora
tions. The fight against the Virginia
Carolina company has assumed a
more serious aspect than Legislators
anticipated, for if the proposed leg
islation is carried out, the company
will leave the State and throw hun
dreds of people out Of employment
and materially decrease taxable val
ues. Real zing this, Legislators are
hunting somo compromise whereby
they can get out Of the pit which
they dug for themselves. 1t is said
that Senator Hen de,son has sub
stitute for tho Graydon bill whereby
tho company will be given certain
time to domesticate itself. AS one
member expressed it, the Legislature,
so far rs the company is concerned,
will go up the hill and then come
down again and will pass bill that
will not hurt the Virginia Carolina
company and at the same time will
give aspiring politicians an oppor'
tunity to wallop the trust right and
left when they appear before tho
"dear people" in the primary.
Speaking Of buncombe in the pro
ceedings, quite lively incident oc-
cured in the house last night. The
question was wheth or members should
accept their per diem during their
two days holiday in Charleston. Mr..
Etird, Of Lexington, called for the
ayes and noes, thinking, like many
other members, that representatives
would be afraid to 60 on record. But
this time they were not. Instead,
MIR. Williams, of Lancaster, proceed.
cd to jump on Mr.. Etird with both
feet, and he jumped down hard every
time. He charged Mr.: Efrd with
often beng absent from the house
and still drawing his pay. ,H He also
said Mr.. Efrd had visited the Char
lesion exposition, and he asked him
pointedly whether no had refused to
draw his pay. OF course Mr.. Efrd
hadn't. Then Mr.. Iziar rubbed it
in pretty hard when he said Mr..
Efird had spent five days in Wash
Z lngton at an alliance meeting and
drew his salary os legislator and also
mileage and salary from tho alliance.
Mr.. Efrd denied that he was in
Washington five days. On tho whole,
it was quite warm night for tho
hnn0rn1>l,