The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-01-31
OUR COLUMBIA LETTER.
COI.IMBIt, $. C., .

have been Watching Legislative affairs
for yeats that this session Is unique IL
that thctc email matters have been
gotten out Of the way ut the beginning
and the way iS now clear for the con
sidcration of the vital matters. Those
who view the Legislative proceedings
from the capital. where politics is
looked ut in its larger aspects as affect
ing the State at large, arc inclined,
perhaps, to minimize tho Importance
OF What are called local measures,
such as the bill to provide for the crcc-
ton OF Il Jail or court house, but those
who are nearer to the people know that
it Is Just such things as this which de-
termine lpglslatOr's fate in the next
election, and not urjustly so, since the
legislator should first of all represent
Ills constituency without permitting
the interests OF the State at large to
suffer in amy respect.
So when all these small, yet impOr-
tant, matters arc out Of tho way tho
big fights will begin, and the dispen-
sary contest may come up any day.
Tho Morgan local option bill is now
ready for consideration, and each
the calendar which will be pushed. for
consideration. If the diapeDsary is
really to go, then the men who are in
ut the death will have ut least as much
claim to fame as those now almost for
gotten ones who once claimed the pa-
ternity OF tho Great Moral institution.
The session is now half over and the
time for action is drawing near.
Ihe House has considered large
number Of email matters referred to
during the last week, The Senate has
debated, and very thoroughly at that,
the bill introduced by Senator john
ROn, of Aiken, 20 prevent lock k-oute.
The measure was finally rejected, after
hard fight for it by the avthor.
The bill to provide n ten days
Christmas holiday for the State Col
leges has passed both houses and
stands good chance of becoming
opposition OF Senator Iil!man, who
Ees::nis wilat ne Coustrues 10 be the
legislatures interference with the du-
ties of the board elected to conduct
Winthrop College.
An interesting incident of the week
was the presentation to the State of a
portrait of the late Gov. Hugh s..
Thompson. The portrait was present
ed through the governor by Iha late
son, and it's transmission to the Cen
eral Assembly was tho occasion Of the
delivery of several very eloquent
culogics OF the .ate Capt. Hugh s..
Thompson, who served his State first
ns boy soldier, then us teacher, then
ns superintendent Of education and
later as governor.
Here are somc of tho results OF the
week: Tao reformatOry bill has re-
ceived a farorahIe rennlt from the
Senate committee; it was rejected by
the Senate iast year. The bill to in
crease the salaries of court steDograph-
CTS has passed the Senate. There has
been introduced by Representative
= Green, Of Lee County, q bill to aboliHh
the department of Immigration, u sim
liar bill having been introduced by
Mr; Green last year and one by Josh
] iii to reauilo tSe formn,ae o,ts IT ali hds pat
ent medicines to reprinted Gu the label
on the bottle. There is pending in
the Senate bill to prohibit county
SUPERVISORS selling supplies to the
county. G.
The bill by Mr.. Otis, just referred
to, brings up, the charges made by
Cellier's Weekly and other periodicals
that the patent medicine concerns in
effect do blackmail business with the
nawspapers by the large advertising
patronage which they give and which
they withdraw from any. paper which
opposes their interest. Air. OGts: bill
is probably the result of the abuse of
certain medicines which In prohibition
Communities, such ga his county Of
Cherokee, are used as d substitutes
for whiskey,. and some of them have
pensarY constable. Of course there
are patent medicines and patent medi-
cines, and even those which contain q
large percentage of alcohol may be
proper remedies In certain diseases or
ailments. ii: s85!'.55 - NJ: ;;t., Ill