The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-02-19
NEARING THE END
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL
ADJOURN SATURDAY.
a Review of the Weeks Work in
Both Branches Of the
Legislature.

sembly is drawing to a close. Next
Saturday it will become matter of
hi ,orv. Things are carried Oh now
"under whip and spur, rs it were
The days of long speeches are over,
and from now on it Will be lapid
calls of the calendar in order to
clear it, if possible, and it is just
during this part of the session that
a member ought to be most thor
oughly awake and alert that he be not
taken unawares and permit some
measure to be Slipped" through
that way rise up in the future to
condemn him. During this danger
ous time a shrewd trickster who has
some bill that he wishes to escape
scrutiny, might be able to get it
passed before the House could real
ize what had happened. Such
things have happened and may hap
pen again.
The appropriation bills have
passed the House and are now in
the Senate. Winthrop is, the only
college whose appropriation was cut
down and that was done in an in
direct manner, which was by taking
$5456.O0 for the scholarships out of
the general appropriation and re-
ducing the amount by just that
much. (rhe original appropriation
was restored in the Senatc-Ed
Record.)
There is lots of political bum
comble" in the Assembly. Many
things are done for effect and effect
only. The people will find out the
guilty ones in time, and then
The bills providing for the clea-
ton of additional judicial circuits
have all been continued. Therefore
the bill fixing the time for holding
the courts of our circuit will become
law. According to this bill our next
court will be on April 18th.
The bill whose object was to get
all property on the tax books and at
its actual value, was killed and
largely by the votes of that section
which it claimed does not now bear
its proportion of taxes. During u
debate of Il few days ago it was de-
clared and not disputed that the u.s.
sessed valued property in Richland
county is only $9,OO0,00O and
Greenville the same. Is there not
something wrong here? Richland
with its city of 10000 inhabitants,
its numerous cotton mills, railroads,
fertilizer factories, iron works, glass
factory, liquor distillery, etc., only
three times as much property as
poor old Williamsburg.
The levy for this year is four mills.
This is, l believe, the same as last
year.
Three or four bills relating to tho
sale of drugs and to pharmacists
were introduced in the House and in
the Senate at same time. They were
shrewdly prepared bills-one in par
ticular. l wish l could give your
readers an idea of this last mentioned
bill to show them how shrewd it Was
and to call their attention to the
danger Of a legislators being de-
ceived if he is not sharp and wide
awake. However, that is not practi-
cal is this space. The real object of
the bill was to force even graduates
of reputable colleges of pharmacy,
except those who might be students
at the time of the passage of the
act, to stand examination and Of
course pay the fees-the fees being
the desiderata. Senator Williams
discovered the trap in this bill and
when it came up in the Senate it
was promptly knocked into a corpse.
When it was called up in the House,
which was before its twin died in
the Senate, Mr. Bass spoke against
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