The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-02-21
OUR COLUMBIA LETTER.
COLUMBIA, s. c., Feb. ~.

The Legislature has adjourned. 1t
Sunday morning, and the State diepen-
sary still stands. A new board of di-
rectOrs has been elected, and none of
the old board is on it.
Neither Ia there Any change in the tax
laws nor will there be biennial session.
Nor will the children growing up in
ignorance be compelled to 20 to
school, and the boys OF criminal ten
denotes will be sent to Il reformatory.
which will have $4,000 to start on and
no fund for it's support, except the
amounts paid in by the counties from
which the boys come. Winthrop gets
no model school and the pension fund
will not be raised to S250,000 but to
st225, 200.
1t will be seen that the sum total of
the General Assembly's session can
not do this and it did not do that and
because it did not either purify or abol-
ish the dispensary the Legislature has
laid itself liable to be called by the
senior Senator "driftwood."
The Morgan local option bill having
passed the House it was refused by the
Senate which sought to substitute the
Raysor-M tanning bill But the House
would not accept this measure, which
sought to remove the opportunities
tor graft and corruption from the sys
the abolition of the State dispenaary
at Columbia, and the revelations of the
dealings with the glass company here
had something to do with fixing the
determination of the House. The
Senate wnnl Id not assent to that prop
ositlon, on d SO there was no agree
ment. Seeing that things would re-
n hny I'M
agreed to meet in Joint session Satur.
day and elect q board of directors un-
der, the UNCHANGED law. Chairman
d. ID. Evans was o candidate for re-
election, but Messrs. Boykin and
Towill ere not. MIR. Evans, who ia
toviel, popular and In many respects
likable man. was very badly defeated,
receiving only 80 votes to 103 for Mr.
j. N. Ravlinson, Of Richland county,
o member - the Legislature. who has
taken little part in the debates and
who Is by no means q strong man in
any sense of the word, but who has
been regarded as q good man. He is
from lower Richland and is farmer.
The other two '::::sces were filled by the
election Of Mr. Joseph WyIie. of Ches-
ter, ter County so' y ana Hi,lj Major John Black.
came here as shipping clerk Of the
State dispensary seven or eight years
ago, and since reliuquishing that posi-
tion some years ago has for some OF the
time at lehsG represented whiskey
houses in this State. There was no
opposition to Mr.. W. o. Tatum, the
State liquor commissioner, and he was
re-elected.
During the last few days of, the Gen.
eral Assembly the matter of the dis
penaary's transactions with the Caro-
lima Glass Company wac a matter
which demanded considerable atten-.
ton. The investigating committee
had broCs,i.t uut evidence that the
State board he'd bought glass bottles
~ almost UNLIMITED Gnantities from
this concern, located in Columbia, and
the committee recommended that the
legislature c9ncei the contracts with
the company: This the Legislature would
company appeared before the com
mittee and offered to csScel the con.
tracts and enter the market for the
diepensary's business in competitive
bidding, and thia waa agreed to. Tie
Investigating COMMITTEES las adjourn
ed to meet at the call Of the chairman,
As stated above, tho Legislature did
nothing on the biennial sessions prop
osition. The amendments to the con-
atitutiOn adopted two years ago were
found to be Technically defective, and
1ast year a Joint committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the matter and
report at this session. The committee
reported several resolutions necessary
to get the matter in shape but the
House did not take them. So there
will be annual sessions as heretofore. .