The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-02-10
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to make distinction of different
businesses, it has a right of diff
fering between doing business I'M
der different methods. The General
Assembly can divide property doing
business under charters and those do
ing business without charters.
Mr.. Tatum moved the previous
question, and on the motion to strike
out the enact;ng words, a yea and
nav vote was demanded, which result
ed, yeas Ito kill the bill, 18; nays,
(for the bill, SO.
In the Senate today the bill Of Rep
resentative Toole, to provide for
special township road tax, brought
forth much discussion. All Senators
who spoke on the bill favored good
roads and generally permitting the
people of counties to vote taxes for
the purpose of building good roads,
but several objections were made to
particular provisions Of the bill, and
with some amendments the bill pass
ed third reading and was sent to the
House.
Senator Manning offered a number
of amendments to the bill presented
by Senator Harden in reference to fer
tilizers. Mr.. Hardin's bill included
s9cotton seed meal,' in the general fer
tilizer inspection law. Mr.. Manning
explained several scientific facts about
cotton seed meal and made remarks IN
favor Of his amendment. It all looked
like smooth sailing until he offered
one, which struck out Section 10,
which reads as follows:
Section 10. That Section 1.542 OF
the Code of Laws of South Carolina,
1902, be amended by striking out all
of the said section and inserting the
following in lieu thereof, to wit:
Section 1,542. All sales, or contracts
for sale Of fertilizers, fertilizing ma
terial and cotton seed meal, in viola
tion of this article shall be void: no
title shall pass by such sale AID no
person buying such fertilizers, fertil.
izing material or cotton seed meal
shall be bound in any manner to pay
the price or cost thereof.
This brought up a general discus
sion of the fertilizer conditions and
prices and there was much debate on
one side of the question or the other.
Finally, on motion of Senator Rags
dale, Of Fairfield. all proposed amend
ments to the bill were ordered printed
in the Journal and further debate on
the bill was adjourned.
The House fixed tomorrow at noon
for the election of the trustees OF
Clemson and Winthrop. The election
is to fill the vacancies occasioned by
the designations of DR.. T. A.. Craw.
ford, of the Winthrop board. and
Cant. Ivy M. Mau]din, of the Clemson
board. The Senate has not yet agreed
to this time for the election.
at the night session of the Senate
the special order, MI. May6eld's bill
authorizing the Attorney General to
institute proceedings to test the valid
ity of the lease by the Southern Rail
way of thea aCarolina division created
much debate. Mr.. Mayfeld explained
that the idea of the bill was to settle
once for all the question of the con-
stitutionality Of such railroad leases.
Under the present law any citizen
| may bring a suit to test the constitu-
tional question, and there is penalty
attached in case the law is determined
| unconstitutional, the one bringing the
suit to receive portion Of the amount
recovered in Court.
After long discussion vote was
taken, and the motion to indefinitely
postpone the bill was lost, the vote
being 8, to 1. The only vote in favor
| of the motion was by Senator j.. w.
Raesdale. Senator j. W. Ragsdale an
| nounced that he would have voted in
favor Of the motion to indefinitely
| postpone, but that he was paired with
! the senator from Charleston.
The Senate then proceeded to dis.
| cuss bills about which there wass nc
contest. The bill relative to an appro'
| priation for the Charleston Confeder-
ate Home College scholarships was
passed. An amendment offered that
! the appropriation should come ont Of
the pension fund was agreed to.
Columbia, Feb. 5-The House to.
| day passed the compromise bill ex.
empting from examination in junior
studies the graduates Of the Charleston
Medical College. They are to be ex.
amined in the senior branches how
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| ever.
The Morgan bill, repeating the fire
insurance anti-compact law was sent
to the Senate
There was a long fight on Mr..
DesChamps' bill to provide for al
agricultural station in every county
It was recommitted. The fight was
based on the ground that these sta:
tions would not do much good, anc
would injure Clemson College by tax.
ing away $4,000 year from it's In
come.
At a joint session J. E. Tindal, Of
Clarendon. vas elected trustee OF
Clemson College, and B. R. Tillmar
trustee of Winthrop to succeed them
selves.
There was much debate in the Senate
today on Senator Manning's bill te
appropriate 81, 600 for the Confederate
Home College Of Charleston. Sena-
tors Manning. Marshall. Won Kolnitz,
1 &ke