The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-18

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requiring a jury, unless it is by
consent, and in criminal cases 1t
will be hard to obtain consent.
This condition will bring about
a congestion of business, and
ultimately result in a heavy ex-
pense to the County.
The Clarendon members are
on the following committees:
Agriculture, DesChamps a n d
Bradham; interpretations, Brad
ham: Dispensary, Green; Educa-
ton, Bradham; Public Schools,
Green: Roads. Bridges and Fer
ries, DesChamps. Representative
Green, we imagine, will be kept
the busiest, as his committee will
have a batch of bills to consider.
It is unusal for two members
from the same county to be on
the same committee, but such Is
the case with the committee on
agriculture, but maybe the
Speaker thought that on a COM
mittee where there is so little to
do two members from Clarendon
could hold down the job better
than one. Since putting the
granting OF charters by the Sec
retary of State, the committee
of incorporation is not of as
great Importance as it used to be-:
the committee on education is a
good appointment, and Speaker
Smith made a happy selection by
naming Capt. Bradham, because
having been for a number of
years. a trustee of a State educa-
tional institution he will be a use
full committeeman, but we think,
on account of his experience in
educational matters, Capt. Brad
ham should have been placed at
the head of the committee, in
stead of the tail end of it. The
committee on public schools is
also a good appointment: roads,
bridges, and ferries committee,
is about as useful as the doctors
say the appendix is to a man.
Take it altogether, Representive
Green must "tote" a rabbit foot,
because he has been assigned,
in our opinion, to the most i'm
portant committees.
In the report of the State Dis
pensary directors, to the Gov
ernor. Clarendon's share of the
dispensary profits from Decem-
Der l, 1908 to November 30, 1904
is S12, 5O2.65, which gives the
county S6,251.52 and the town
of Manning Sc, 251.3 80; county and
town, each receiving about 81, 900
more than the year before.
Captain Bradham spent last
Saturday at home.
Senator Davis come home last
Wednesday night, to move his
residence to Summertion.
Senator Raysor of Orangeburg
has introduced a bill looking to
the reformation of the dispen-
sary along the lines recommen-
ded in the Governors message,
but it is no good, and Senator
Brice has also a bill on the dis
pensary which brings back his
original bill that had its fangs
extracted by the friends of the
present dispensary law, by an
amendment which was the most
outrageous piece of domineering
legislation we have ever known.
We refer to the taxing clause.
Senator Blease, of NeWberry,
has introduced a resolution to in
vestigate the dispensary, and we
predict, if Senator Blease is a
member of the investigating
committee, and is given the pow.
er, his report will be sensational
as well as interesting.
We notice a bill to regulate the
purchase price Of cotton seed,
requiring the same to be uni
form. This is a specimen of
some of the foolishness the peo-
pie are taxed to pay for, The
idea of a man with no better un-
derstanding of law-making than
to suppose legislation can fix
the price Of products. Mr.. Pitt
man. the man who introduced
this bill, promised the farmers
OF his county, we suppose, that
he would do something for them,
and he has displayed his ignor
ance. Mr.. Pittman might as well
ask the legislature to regulate
the action of pills that Doctors
prescribe, as to ask that it regu-
late the price of any commercial
product.
Since the above was put in
type, we are informed that Capt.
Bradham's bill relating to the
drawing of juries for Clarendon,
was killed by the committee, and
in its stead the committee gave
out a bill, which ifit gets through
in time, will give the relief de-
sired. 1t will be general law.
on the lines indicated in our sug-
gestion.
PURIFYING ELECTIONS.
One of the most important
bills introduced in the Legisla-
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