The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-02-17
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
houSe Defeats Child Labor. House Passes
Dog Biil.-Approprlation and Sup
ply BlllS.-0ther Matters.

"D"oiy CIle iioSC important DuSlneS
transacted by the General Assembl
this week was the action of the Hous
IN killing the Compulsory Educatc
Bills. Mr.. Aull's Bill requiring the at
tendance for sixteen weeks of each yea
OF children between the ages of sever
ana twelve, came up as a special orde
on Friday. After discussion, the Raw
sor Bill, requiring the attendance O
children between the ages of eigh
and twelve upon the common schools
for eight weeks Of each year, was sub
stituted for the Aull Bill. Messrs
Aull and Banks, Of Newberry tool
part in the debate. Mr.. Banks op
posed the measure in a forcible ant
effective speech, on the ground that
the parent, and not the State, is the
most competent Judge Of what is best
Tor the child. Mr.. Aull, as reported in
the News and Courier, "made a forci-
bic argument in favor of compul-
sorry education, claiming that the
wealth of the State is in the educated
masses. He took up the matter of the
education of the negro and showed that
this was useless bugaboo. He show
ed that thirty-three states had COM
pulsory education laws and gave figures
TO SHOW that since these laws had been
adopted illiteracy had largely decreased.
re took up the matter of peoples pro-
ductlveness, showing that it is proper
| inf
thoroughly posted on the whole mat
ter.' BY a vote Of 60 to sd the Bill was
indefinitely postponed, which ends the
matter SO far as this session is con-
cerned. The roll call was:
Yeas-Speaker Smith, Bailey, Baker,
Banks, Bass, Beamguard, Bennett,
Black, Brooks, Brown, Carwilc, Clifton,
Colcock, Cutler, DeBruhl, Doar, Don
nald, Dorroh, Bowling, Ford, Fox,
Fraser, Glover Gourdin, Halle, Hill,
lrby, James. Johnson, Kibler, Lesesne,
Mccain, Mauldin, Middleton, Morgan,
Nichols, Parnc!l, Patterson, Pearman,
Peurifoy, Potts, Pyatt, Rankin, Raw
linson, Ready, Richards, Richardson,
Russell. Seabrook, w. G. Smith,
Stuckey, Tatum, Traylor, Wall, Wing
ard, Wingo, Wise, Wright, Youmans-
60.
Nays-Aull, Barron, Bates, Black
wood, Bomar, Callison, Coggeshall,
Cooper, Davis, Dennis, DesChamps,
DeVore, Doyle, Edwards, Cause, Har-
rellson, ID. O. Herbert, j. e. Herbert,
Hinton, Holman, Humphrey, Jarnegon,
King, Kirby, hLancaster, Laney, Ian
ham, Leaverett, Little, Lotion, Logan,
Lyles, McMaster, Mace, Magill, Ma
haffey, Minis, Moses, Moss, Pollock,
Quick, Rainsford, Sarratt, Sinkler,
Jeremiah Smith, Stackhouse, Thomas,
Toole, Towill, Tribble, Webb, Whalcy,
Willams-54
APPROPRIATION AND SUPPLY BILLS.
The House has passed the Appropria-
ton Bill and it has gone to the Senate.
The Suppy Bill was taken up and the
State levy fixed at five mills, the same
as heretofore. The Newbcrry County
levy was fixed as follows: Constitu-
tional school tax, 3 mills; ordinary
county tax, 1-2 mills; sinking fund
note, 1-2 mill. This is to provide for
the interest and principal of $4,000
which the county supervisor is author
lied to borrow from the State Sinking
Fund in ORDER to pay past indebtedness
of the county
HAMPTON MEMORIAL FUND BILL.
In accordance with resolutions adopt-
ed by the last Democratic Convention.
recommending that suitable statue
be erected by the State and placed in
the State capitol, the House has passed
Bill providing for an appropriation of
twenty thousand dollars to be used in
connection with ten thousand dollars to
be raised by voluntary contribution, the
appropriation not to become available
until the ten thousand dollars in volun-
tary contributions shall have been
raised; the total amount to used for the
purpose OF erecting upon the capitol
grounds an equestrian statue to the
memory of Wade Hampton. A COM
mission of five members to be appoint
ed by the Governor, which shall take
charge of the matter, is provided for.
EXTREME GAME LAW.
The House has passed Mr.. Nor
gan's kGame Bill, putting the bur-
den of proof upon the man having game
] in his possession. The Bill provides:
/ Section 431. 1t shall not be lawful
for any person, except upon his own
lands, or upon the lands of another with
the consent of the owner thereof, tc
net or trap partridge; and it shall be
unlawful for any person to SELL offer fol
sale, or ship or export for sale, any
partridge or quail or deer or wild tur
keys for the space of five years from
the approval of this Act: Provided
that nothing in this Act shall prevent
the Importation for sale of any partridg,
or quail: Provided, further, however
that the handling, possession, contro
or owership of any partridge or quail
j cold pGnrol 70