The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-02-01
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday. February /, 1905.
LEGISLATURE.

Legislature.
The following is the most important
work OF the Legislature since we closed
up to Friday:
Judge D. 4. Townsend, whose term
expires next December, was defeated for.
reelection, the general assembly having
selected in his stead Hon. D. E. Hydrick,
senator from Spartanburg county.
judge Ernest Gary, who is rounding
out Gig, years on the circuit bench,
was II lected without oppositson.
Cac. D. J. Griffith was unanimously
reelected superintendent Of the peni
tentiary and Messrs. Jno. G.. Mobley
and 4. K. Saunders were reelecled
members Of the penitentiary board. DR..
NJ. O. Rowland, of Spartanburg, was
defeated for reelection, the successful
candidate being Mr.. ". D. Kirby, a
member of the house from Cherokee.
Mr.. Arthur Kibler, of NewberTy, was
elected a. trustee Of the State Normal
College for Negroes at Orangeburg.
The South Carolina University bill
was killed in the house Of its friends by
vote 50 to 46.
There were three amendments simulta-
neoQsly placed on the desk for an addi-
tional section to the margin bill. That
by Mr.. Price was read frst-to forbid
men being employed to work against
another candidate. The amendment was
agreed to.
Mr.. Pollock then sought to get in his
amendment to forbid candidates giving
money for charity or otherwise except
in q regular church collection. By a
vote Of A to 10 the house agreed to the
amendment.
Mr. McFsddens amendment sought
to have the candidate; file pledge that
he would not use money or whiskey in
the election and would render an item
lied expense account at the end of the
campaign and before the. election with
the clerk Of the court if a county candi-
date and with the Secretary of State if
candidate in more than one county,
this expense account to show every
thing expended for campaign purposes
and to be followed Immediately after
the election by another statement set
ting forth the expense items incurred
between the close of the campaign and
the day of election, which is to be void
unless these promises are carried out.
Mr.. OTIS moved to amend the amend
ment by making the election of a
candidate violating the act void, but
validating the election of all complying
with the act. The bill was then ordered
to third reading as amended.
The house then took up Mr.. McMas-
ter's bill to require corporations to audit
and pay claims of its employees within
the State, passed to a third reading.
Mr.. Haskell's bill to establish and
build State arnory was the next
special order on the calandar.
The committee amendment to forbid
the building being erected on the state
house grounds carried.
Mr.. D. O. Herbert's compulsory edu-
cation bill being passed over for the day,
Mr.. Ashley's bill to abolish the bureau
of immigration was taken up.
Mr.. Ashley thought it wrong to spend
money to ssentice these foreigners here
in competition with native labor" The
bureau was against the interest Of the
masses Of the people. Bringing these
immigrants in to the State would cause
trouble in the cotton mills, where now
there was good, honest labor These
people were ''being fetched here by in
ducements that lead them to think that
dollars could be shaken off the bushes in
South Carolina. Immigration was
against the interest of the small farmer
and the masses Of the people were
against the bureau. Some newspapers
had said that if it were not for immi-
grafton he (Mr. Ashley would not be
here, but he wanted to explain that his
grandparents came here ''on their own
hook Immigration was responsible
for crime doubling and thribbling" in
New York the past few years since
''those crowds Of roughs have been
| pouring in there
Mr.. Foster spoke against the bill.
Mr.. Patterson was against the bureau
on the ground that it was putting out
misleading advertisements America
was the asylum of the world, but as it
| would be wrong for the superintendent
| of the State hospital for the insane to 90
! it would be wrong for the State to i'll
duce these people to come here.
Mr.. J. B. Watson opposed the bureau
on the ground that it was designed to
benefit class of Landowners, who should
| be compelled to 60 down in their own
pockets for the expense Of bringing
people here to develope their property.
He defended negro labor and said that
| would be ruined by these new comers
playing on the negro's prejudices.
Mr.. D. O. Herbert defended the work
| Of the bureau
Mr.. Taylor, of Newberry, thought
bringing in immigrants would disturb
| cotton mill labor AS the representative
Of the cotton mill operatives he demand
! ed the repeal of this law, which encour-
aged foreigners to come in and take the
place of those people in the mills. The
day these immigrants began to come in
there will be inaugurated a condition
similar to that now existing in the New
England states, where there are endless
labor troubles. Among the dangers
likely to follow the operation Of the
bureau, Mr.. Taylor mentioned con-
dioions in Columbia where there was
thirty -four different kinds of union, who
Were controlling every kind Of business
II, tho