The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-02-24
THE DISPENSARY.
The House Passes the Local Option
Bill With Amendments.
HOW THE MEMBERS Voted.

ANY County Can Vote Out Dis
pensary il It Will Tax
Itself to Enforce
the Law.
The Brice local option bill, which
passed the Senate last week came up
in the House on Thursday, and passed
pretty much in the shape it came from
the Senate. The house refused all
amendments to the bill. Mr.. Dor
roh's amendment was the only one on
which test vote was taken. This
amendment provided that instead Of
the fat tax Of half a mill on the coun-
ty which votes out the dispensary,
the matter should be left to the gov
ernor, and if, in his discretion, he
should think the law was not being
enforced by the people of that county
be should order the half mill tax lev
led. This was rejected by vote Of
49 to 66, as follows:
Ayes-MessrS. Baker, Banks, Bar
ron, Bates, Beamguard, Bomar.
Brown, Bunch, Carey, Coggeshall,
Doar, Dorroh, Doyle, Ford, Hendrix,
J. E. Herbert, Hunter, Humphrey,
James, Kibler, King, Kirby, Lanham,
Lotion, Logan, Mccain, McColl, Maui
din, Middleton, Morgan, Parnell,
Peurifoy, Potts, Pyatt, Quick, Ready,
Richardson, Sarratt, Sinkler, jeremiah
Smith, Strong, Toole, Wade, Walker,
Wingo, Wise, Wright, Youmans-49.
Nays-Speaker Smith and Repre-
sentatives Aull, Aycock, Bailey, Bass,
Bennett, Black, B.ackwood, Brooks,
Callison, Carwile, Colcock, Cooper,
Cutler, Davis, DeBruhl, Dennis, Des-
Champs, DeVore, Donnald, Dowling,
Edwards, Efrd, Fox, Fraser, Gourdin,
Halle, Harrellson, haskell, Herbert,
D. o.; Hill, Holman, Irby, Jarnegan,
Johnson, Kelley, Lancaster, Laney,
Leverett, Lesesne, Lide, Little, Lyles,
Mace, Magill, Mahafey, Minis, Moses,
Moss, Nichols, Pollock, Potts, Pyatt,
Quick, Ready, Richardson, Sarratt,
Snkler, jeremiah Smith, Strong,
Toole, Wade, Walker, Williams,
Wingard-66.
THE BILL AND ITS RIDER.
The bill provides that section Of :
the old dispensary law be amended so
that the removal OF a dispensary may
be obtained in the same manner as
the establishment, upon the petition
of one fourth Of the qualified electors
of the county, when the county sup
ervisor shall order an election upon /,
the question of ''dispensary'' or no
dispensary," to be voted upon by the
qualified voters. The bill then con-
tinues: "And if a majority Of the
ballots cast be found and declared to &
be for dispensary, then a dispen-
sary may be established in said coun- !.
ty, but if a majority Of the ballots
cast be found and declared to be
against the dispensary, then no dis
pensary shall be established therein,
and any dispensary already established
shall be closed. Elections under this
section can be held not oftener than
once in four years.
''No dispensary shall be established
in any county, town OF city wherein
the sale of alcoholic liquors was pro-
Inhibited prior to July /, 1893, except
as herein permitted: provided, that
where dispensaries have been estab-
lished in such county, town, or city,
they shall remain as established un-,
til removed or closed as permitted In
this act: provided, a tax Of one-half
mill is hereby levied upon every dollar
Of the value Of all taxable property
in all counties voting to remove or
close the dispensaries as above pro-
vided; for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of the enforcement OF
the dispensary law in said county
under and by direction Of the COVER
nor, said tax to be collected as other
county taxes and forwarded to the
State treasurer, to be expended, or
so much thereof as may be necessary,
as now provided by law, for such pur-
poses. Any balance remaining un-
expended at the end Of the year to be
returned by tine State treasurer to
the county treasurer Of such county
for general county purposes, and that
the value of all confscations Of con-
traband goods seized in such county,
as determined by the State board OF
directors, shall be paid to the State
treasurer, to be credited to the fund
raised by said levy for the enforce
ment Of the law, as above provided.
And any amount expended in said
county for the enforcement Of the
dispensary law shall be refunded to
the State treasury upon the collec-
tion of the tax above levied. Any
county voting out a dispensary shall
not thereafter receive any part Of the
surplus that may remain OF the dis
pensary school fund after the de6cien-
cies in the various county school funds
have been made up as provided by
law
There is also a povision put in the
committee that "A diSpensary may
be located elsewhere than in an In
corporated town IN the counties OF
Beaufort and Horny, and no others,
except such as are authorized by spe-
cial act of the general assembly"
j MI. Tatum withdrew his proposed
amendment providing for elections
mo o1tener than once in two years"
and the bill went through vita the
four year limit.
Met An Awful Death.
Two unknown travellers who were
ionroeving along the trail between