The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-25
OUR COLUMBIA I 7
CoI.u MEIA, FEB. %, 1903.

All the work was virtually completed
by Friday, the various amendments to
tho more important bills were nearly
all agreed upon, the conference COM
mittccs had very little trouble in reach
ing in aere o an TL yet adjouriament
usual, caused by the necessity to en-
gross every Act ~ the exact
is ratified. This means that pts every iii iii
must be copied by hand after all
amendments have been inserted and
then signed in joint session by the
!lcutcnant-G Governor and the Speaker.
Very often this procedure has prolOng-
cd the final session well into Sunday
morning, and tho adjournment this
year before Saturday night is unusual.
e WAS due to tho fact that tho bills
upon which contests were certain were
taken up earlier in the session thar is
usual.
The Senate disposed Of tho contested
issues M soon as pOssible, and even over
them wasted no time, but economical
%0fspcech this car. The child labor bill,
Tor instance, cnt through the Senate
without discussion. The biennial SEES
siOrs measure elected little debate, as
did the Hampton monument bill and
other important matters. The House
dcbattd the child labor bill, however,
during several days and finally passed
1T, but the House continued the biennial
sessions bill without discussion. Both
houses debated at length the compul-
sorry education bill, the Senate sending
1t To the House, where it was killed.
In Tact, the tendency seems to have
been for each House to kill We bills of
the other. The fish bill, ....ich passed
the House after long discussion, was
III the Senate continued until next SEES
slon; the dog tax bill had Il similar
career. MS did the.bill to further rohib-
it cock-fighting, the bill to regulate
insurance companies and establish the
Office OF. insurance commissions . On
the other hand, in addition to the com
pulsOry education bill q number of
others to which the Senate assented
were rejected by tho House, among
these being the bill to regulate traffic
in seed and lint cotton, to provide the
qualifications for county superinten-
dent of education, to establish the office
II bill providing $4,000 for an exhibit
ut the ST. Louis Exposition and others.
TIFF POSITIVE RESULTS.
1t will that tho bills which
nave run the fire in both houses are
not very numerous nor conspicuous,
yet when u list of them is prepared it
will be much larger thar tho reader
would think. For about one thousand
bills and Joint resolutions were intro
duced and more than huff Of these have
been voted on, some being "cOntinued
until next session. which means that
they may be taken up next year if heir
authors insist. Among those latter
were the bills to provide two extra cir
Ell: would be il lcnding Issue.
he measures nuun which hath
houses have agreed and which will be-
come laws cannot be enumerated in
this letter. The more important ones
have been mentioned before, Including
the child labor law. the bill putting
tcn-ycnr convicts on the changing,
the Hampton monument, the bill To
rcOrEntlZo h dlsprnsnry cOnstQbulary
force and to provide f0rn chief con
stable. The last bill was ratified and
immediately signed by the Governor,
who soon thereafter announced his
selection rs chief constable to he, u.
b.. lInmmctt, of Barnwcll. This is tho
only dispensniy legislation of any con-
sequence at this session. There were
scvcrnl propositions to regulate tho
distribution OF profits, diverting q lar
ger proportion to the school fund, but
These were fought hard and defeated.
There were also bills to increase tho
number OF directors OF tho d%ispensary.
but those also failed. In the Senate
there was an nbOrtivo attempt to insti-
tuto an investigation of tho State dis
pensnry. The Senate recommitted to
tho standing committee G" the dieren-
sary the resolution with Instructions
and authority to ascertain whether an
investigation was necessary, and tho
committee found that the complaints
did not justify such radical proceed
lngs. In the report to tho Senate the
cOmnltte sage:
THAT your committee has been in
almost continuous session for eight
days, and have examined a number of
witnesses whose testimony has been
taken down by n stenographer and
transcribed Oh n typewriter, and is
herewith submitted. After IL PAINS
taking and careful consideration of the
evidence, the undersigned, being a
majority of the committee, are unable
to lind anything against the
ment That time AMI opportunity was
too shor for such full and thorough
investigation ne is either Just to the
management or to the State"
APPROPRIATIONS.
One reason, the principal reason. for
h smooth Adjournment was that there
was no radical nor persistent Disagree
mont on the items in the appropriation
and supply bills. The Charleston dele
CATION usually dispute among them
selves concerning the provisions for
that county, but this year they seemed
to be harmonious. No attempt was
made to reduce taxes, the State levy
remaining Mt five mills, and the gem
eral appropriations of last year nearly
all being r%e-adopted. The colleges
get all they asked for, although this
was not lone without protest. When
the free conference committee report
ed Friday morning it recommended
that the Senate rccrde from n number
of amendments. The following were
adopted:
Governors stenographer $500 in
stead of 800. IN recommended by tho
Senate.
Railroad commissioners stenogra-
pher 500.
The state gcologist will get $1,000
for his contingent fund instead of
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