Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-02-08
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Mr. Brice's to provide for eXpendi
ture Of $4,000 oil new jail and repairs
of court house at Winnsboro.
Mr.. Ga5ton's to authorize Chester
county to borrow $4,000 pending vail
dation Of bend issue.
Mr.. D. L. Green's to place under the
operation Of the stock law Motto,
Douglass, Mouzon, Midway, Mt. Zion,
New Zion, and Sandy Grove townships
in Clarendon county.
Mr.. Lyons to require the secretary
of state to make to comptroller gem
eral monthly report of receipts of his
Office Nnd to turn over funds to State
treasurer:
Mi. Haskell's to make It "a mis-.
demeanor to place any explosive sub.
stance whatever upon the rails Of any
railroad in this State by any unauthor-
lied persons.
A Busy Day in Legislature. .
The South Carolina Legislature ac-
complished more Wednesday than in
any two days of the present session,
which is over half gone, aud there
were some interesting debates on both
sides Of the capitol.
In the House, Mr.. Richards bill set.
ting aside per cent. Of the country's
dispensary school fund to be drawn on
to the extent of $1oO at the discretion
of the county board of education for
a new school building by q district
that has raised $500 by subscription
or otherwise, was passed; after it was
amended so as to make the amount to
be raised S10O and that to come out
of the special fund $50.
The House was hardly out Of this
tangle before the wheels became clog
ged again with the widow pension
Ellis. 1t had to Deat retreat from
this by referring the matter to spe.
cial committee, proceeding on the
principe that he who fights and runs
away lives to fight another day. The
propositions under the two bills under
consideration were to increase the pay
to Glass C, No. pensioners from So
to 81 a month, and merge into one
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ows-those Of men who died in the
service and those Of men who have
died since the war-and allow fu.
ture widow Of a present pensioner to
draw the deceased husbands pension
at his death when she has reached the
age of so years.
Then the House Immediately but.
ted into further trouble with the Wo-
men in the discussion Of Represen-
tative Ardrey's bill to prohibit child
marriages. The bill as amended by
the committee makes it g misdemean'
or for a preacher or other person to
marry q couple where he knows the
age Of the male to be less than Is
years and that of the female less than
16. The bill was favored by those
having a large cotton mill operative
constituency, but the House, true to
the South Carolina tradition to be
welded to its unique marriage laws
and not permit any kind of an innova.
ton, killed the bill by the decisive ma.
jority Of Sd to 40.
The Senate, after virtually killing
the Rayster compulsory education bill
with amendments and by ,re-commit.
ting it by vote Of 20 to Is plunged
into q dispensary debate on the 1Irice
bill, local option measure providing
for voting out dispensaries by those
communities opposed to tLem. After
vigorous speech from Senator Brice
the discussion was adjourned. The
Senate refused to tamper with the
anti-free pass law killing by a decis.
siye majority the bill to allow Immi
grafton Commissioner Watson to trav
ell on pass. The milestone that
proved the death of the bill was the
rider compelling the roads to traye.
sheriffs free,
The Senate Friday took fall out o.
the present dNpenHary arrangements
with reSernuca to the directiMate nnd