The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-06
GETrING READY FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
Little Over Week Until the Members
AsSemble-A Great Many
.. SE% Changes Noted. .-.H
1.-THE State.

of the body will show many changes
number of the leading senators
and several of the most picturesque
figures in the house passing off the
political stage-for time at least.
The senate and the house will both
have new presiding officers. With
Lient. Gov. Jno. T. Sloan in the
chair there is expected to be no fro.
tion and the business of the senate
will be discharged smoothly. Soma
tor Applet. Graydon, Gruber, Blake
ly, Caughman, Bowen, Sullivan, Sar-
ratt, Liyingston, Ilderton, Bsrnwell,
Glenn and Henderson ere among
those who for various reasons will
not be members Of the new legisla-
eture.
The personnel and the leadership
of|the house will be changed. The
speaker of the last house will not be
member of the body this time and
it is probable that the robe of Office
will fell upon Mr.. Rainsford of Edge.
field, Mr.. Smith of Kershaw or MIR.
Williams of Lancaster.
The house will lose some of it's
strongest and most reliable members
as we'll as some of the picturesque
figures who have been handed down
from the uprising Of a decade ago
and have been holding over ever
since. The ways and means com
mittee is by some considered the
most important working body of the
Legislature. There will be mum.
ber of names erased from this com.
mittee's roll this session. The chair.
man, Col. Harvey Wilson, was can
didate for secretary of State; Mr..
Geo. e. Prince aspired to succeed
Congressman Latimer; Messrs. H. j.
Kinard and ). @. Wolling ran for
railroad commissioner, and the fol-
lowing also will not return: Coegrove
of Charleston, West of Spartanburg,
Weston of Riohland and Estridge of
Lancaster. Mr.. Altamont Moses of
Sumter is the senior member of those
who will return.
The judiciary committee is also
'one of the most important and here
too the changes will be marked.
Seven of the leading members will
not return. These are: the oourte-
ous chairman, Mr.. Bacot of Charles.
ton, who was candidate for con-
gress; Mr. Croft Of Aiken who WAS
elected to, congress-; Mr.. G. p. San.
ders Of Spartanburg, Mr.. f. P. Mo-
Gowan Of Lsurens, and T. B. Butler
VINO now becomes senator from
Cherokee, Mr.. Spears Of Darlington,
Of free pass law fame, and Mr.. Bos-
tiok of Bamberg. Of those who will
return Mr. T. Yanoy Williams is the
senior member of the committee.
There will be many other faces
missed in the house. Mr.. VIM. H.
Lockwood of Beaufort, chairman of
the committee on accounts, died dur
ing the summer; Mr.. Henry B. Rich
ardson of Clarendon was defeated
for the State senate; the venerable
Mr.. Dean of Spartanburg will not be
here to raise HE voice in behalf Of
the Confederate veterans; the jolly
MIR: Strom of Edgefeld will not be
here; Mr. Elder of York is q book
keeper at the State diepenaary, DR..
Wood of Clarendon will not be here
to make those funny and facetious
remarks in regard to "bug ology" or
the study of "mickrobes"; Josh Ash.
ley, the irrepressible Josh with his
fog-horn voice and his lack Of ven-
Grafton TO" custom and the usages of
State bodies; Representative Bolt,
the coiored member from George
4 town; the venerable and dignified
IS Mr. VIM. Henry Parker of Abbeville,
End tho retninisoent Mr.. Thompson
from Oconee; Mr. Ivy Mauldin OF
Piokens, Olemson's first eraduate m
be elected to the general assembly;
tho earnest and manly Mr.. McMaste @,
oSCharleston, who ran for the State
t>nate; Mr. Blease, the young repre-
sentative of Saluda who was q cendi
date for tho State senate. There
will be many Of the former membert
who will be- missed at this session.
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