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laundries doing business in the State to
take out license was also killed.


The Senate has indefinitely postponed
Senator Hydrick's Bill to give the rail
road commissioners jurisdiction over
telephone companies. The Bill contain.
ed section requiring all telephone
systems in place to connect, and was
opposed on the grounds that it would
hurt the local systems and tend to give
the Bell Company a monopoly of the
telephone business in South Carolina.
DOG BILL PASSED.
The House has passed Dog Bill.
The Bill, as usual, created good deal
of discussion, and was vigorously op-
posed. But the enemies of the canine
species seem at last to have got in the
majority. The Bill provides
Section l. That there shall be inn
posed and assessed on all dogs in this
State captation tax of fifty cents an
nually on each dog, the proceeds of
which tax shall be expended for school
purposes in the several counties in which
it is collected.
Section 9. That dogs shall be return
ed at the same time that other proper
ty is returned for taxation.
Section 3. That the capitation tax on
dogs provided for in this Act shall be
collected at the same time and in the
same manner that other taxes are now
collected
Section 4. That.the capitation tax pro-
Vlded for in this Act shall be and con-
stltute first lien in favor Of the State
OF South Carolina on all the property
owned by any person who owes any
such capitation tax.
Section S. That the collection of the
capitation tax provided for in this Act
may be enforced against any property
owned by the debtor of such tax in the
same manner as if it were a tax assess
ed on that specific piece of property.
Section 6. That no dog which is not
returned for taxation as provided in
this Act should be held to be property
in any of the Courts of this State.
EFFORT TO INCREASE SALARIES.
An effort was made in the Sen
ate to get through measure to in
crease the salaries of treasurers to
twenty-five per cent above those of
auditors. The measure was defeated,
the principal argument being that sal
aries are high enough already and that
there is no dcarth of candidates for the
office.
SAMrI.ING FERTILIZERS.
Mr.. Tatum's Bill providing for the
testing of fertilizers, has been passed
by the House. The Bill provides that
any citizen of the State who shall pur-
chase any commercial fertilizers or
manurcs shall have the right to have
same analysed by Clemson College, by
taking sample Of fsuch fertilizers in
the presence of at least two disinter-
estcd witness, one of whom shall be
chosen by the dealer and one by the
purchaser.
The House has also passed Mr. Good
wins Bill prohibiting the importation
INTO this State of stock with conta-
gious diseases, except distemper.
One of the prettiest fights seen on
the floor of the House took place On a
Bill prohibiting persons from shipping
shad outside the State. 1t was
claimed by the advocates of the Bill
that such measure was needed in
order to protect the people Of the State.
The Bill was opposed by Mersrs. Pyatt
and Doar Of Georgetown, the point
about which the business in shad is at
its height. The advocates of the meas
ure were greatly in the majority, but
Mr.. Doar secured the floor and talked
for several hours in order to postpone
the measure for the day, after which
it would not likely go through. Mr..
Doar, however, was forced to stop on
account of having to catch train, and
the Bill went through.
TRUSTEES AND SCHOLARSHIPS.
A Bill has passed the House making
trustees of schools conservators Of the
peace and vesting them with the au-
thorty Of constablcs.
Also a Bill providing that any person
applying for scholarship in an institu-
ton under the direction and control of
the State shall furnish a certificate
from the County Auditor to the effect
that the parents or guardians of said
applicants are too poor to provide an
education, and that no person shall be
allowed to apply for any scholarship
where a brother or sister holds a schol-
arship.
The House has passed Bill providing
that fruit cars may be hauled on Sun
day.
in REGARD TO PHARMACISTS.
Mr. Mower has Bill drawn by him
self, without the aid of the Pharma-
ccutical Association, to relieve some
who are now practicing pharmacy and
who have been practicing since 1893
from standing the. regular pharmaccuti-
cal examination.
NEWBERRY S BOARD OF PUBLIC worries