The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-02-08

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Columbia, Feb. 4.-The senate ha:
taken fall out OF the pesent dispen,
sary arrangements with reference te
/ the directorate and the purchasing
/ power by passing to third reading
the Raysor bill with an amendment
| from the, Manning bill requiring the
quarterly purchases to be made com.
pletely each quarter so as to dc away
with the eviI of filing In. = The
bill gives the appointment of the
three members OF the board OF direc.
| tors TO the governor and requires the
purchases to be made by secret, num-
bered bids, the bids TO be submit
ted to the State treasurer along with
samples in "a bottle of uniform size
and pattern and With no distinguish.
ing marks. The contracts are to &c
TO the number whose corresponding
sample shows up best according to
quality aud price. Only standard case
goods are tcsbe esed and what remains
over at the end Of the year is to be
returned to the sellers. Senator Cole
Il. Blease, leading the ultra dispen-
/ Sal - 4OlIcSs luou0s - q 5ss1Eo@ONS uSAt
against that portion ct the bill CIV
ing the appointment Of the directorate
to the governor on the ground that q
governor hostile to the dispensary
would be given the authority through
his board to close every dispensary in
the State, but his motion to con-
tinue the bill till next session receiv-
ed only five other votes beside his
owD.
The Moragn automobile bill, whose
provisions as the bill passed the house
have been summarized in this cores
pondence, has passed the senate
AMENDED so as to eliminate the
feature making judgments in cases of
damages prior claim against the
machine. The senate also put on a
rider including traction engines.
E Senator Mau1din's bill to merge
the present two classes Of widow
pensioners was killed by g large ma
:ority. a similar measure is now
pending in the house, where it mar
roBIy escaped death yesterday.
Senator Hoods bill to amend the
jury law so a to have the commission
make up tales box in December to
double as many names as will be need
ed In the ensuing year from men OF
good moral character, ano to be drawn
from the box onlE in the presnce OF all
three members of the commission, was
killed.
Its.was frenzied legislation in the
houSe yesterday over the cock fighting
bill and number of other bills. The
house refused to kill the bill forbid
ding cock fghtingg or attendance On
such sport. Mr.. LaFitte wanted to
amend it SO as to exempt fights with
out gaffs, as he contended that under
the bill In its original shape anyone
who hesitated by the roadside to
look at two old dunghills trying
their manhood would be liable to
criminal prosecution, but be failed,
as did Mr. Ashley. who wanted to IL
cIude football, horse racing and base
bali. and. Mr. Doar, who wanted to
include prize fights. The house also
passed Mr. Edwards bill to prohibit
shooting matches for prizes of value.
The house seemed to feel real
high toEed and moral but it killed Mr..
aFFittess bill to amend the law with
regard to drunkenness and disorderly
conduct on highway and at other pub
lie places. 1t was objected to on the
ground that inasmuch as the wording
would make three separate ofenses
grow out Of the same act. which is
forbidden by the constitution-would
I as Mr.. Foster expressed it, get g
man in about seven different kinds of
Imprisonment for the same one old
drunk. The bill had passed to third
reading when Mr.. Harley remember
ing that Mr. LaFitte had failed to ap-
ply the clincher, had it reconsidered,
aud it was soon killed. Mr.. LaFittee
has lost all OF his bills so far, and the
house killed his measure to further
regulate the traffic in corn, peas and
cotton seed more out of force of habit
than from any particular objection to
the bill, it seemed. The objection
was that the bill FIGURING pur-
chasers TO keep record of purchases
with the names of sellers and forbid
ding the tafic between sunset and
sunrise SO as to do away with thieving
on the part of negroes, would work q
hardship against great n2mber OF
poor farmers.
The hammers we're oat in vicious
attitudes when Mr.. Ford's bill to ex-
tend the jurisdiction of magistrates
came up, but the house granted him
permission, reluctantly, to withdraw
it in order to allow him to perfect it,
if possible.
There was an interesting debate
over bill to give the Parr Shoals
Power Company authority to dam the