The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-01-24
OUR COLUMBIA LETTER.
COLUMBIA, s, c., Jan. 90

After q recess OF two days the Gen
eral Assembly will reconvene today
and begin the third week of the ses-
sion. The members vii! find the work
we'll along for this tage Of the session,
with the committees well up with their
work and the calendars not too crowd
ed.
1t is likely that the most Interesting
IL not the most important thing to be
taken up this week will be the cleo
tiOns for various positions at the dis
posal of the Legislature, but this has
been robbed of some interest becauee
Of the decision Of the legislators not to
elect the members of the dispensary
board and the commissioner until they
haye decided what If anything they
WILL do with the dispensary itself.
much attention, though there is to be
elected q chief juetice of the supreme
court aud six circuit judges. Chief
Justice Pope will not have opposition
and all the judges will be reelected
though Senator McGowan. of Laurens,
will be a candidate against Judge
Klugh. rhe:e was talk OF other can
didutes in this circuit but none has
announced.
1t is difficult to write any account of
tho General Assembly's proceedings
without getting the dlspensary promi-
nent therein, though pretty soon this
mny not be the case. However, the
dispensary is to be patched again or it
ia To be abolished ut this session, or,
perchance, it viii! be loft as it ia. The
Morgan bill, which provides for local
option and high license, is favorite
measure with many OF the opponents
OF the Legislature, and it has divided
the committee on dispensary in the
House, which brought in report in
which the committee split even on the
measure. On the other hand the bill
to purify and reform and regenernte
the dispe nsary. which was conceived
last year by Senators RayBOr and Man
ming, has itself been IegeneTateu and
introduced in another form, attempting
to place as many restrictiOns as pusoi-
Bile around the purchase Of whiskey.
The principal scheme for doing this ls
to have the whishey bought In bulk
for the whole year at one sitting by @
board which shall have nothing else to
do with the dispensary. This Is on the
also not foreign to the views Of Gov
ernor Hayward, both Of whom have
made their views known. the one un-
officially and the other officially, to che
General Assembly. With this back
ing 1t would seem That if the bill can.
not pass and cannot cave the> dispen-
>sary, the institutssa 10 at Last dead be-
yond res9rreotioss but the truth 10
certain whether thsy can count on a
certain element of tie dispsnsary fac
ton, which may tind purified and in
corrupttble dieQeDBary altogether use-
leBs fOr their own particular purposes.
This element may unite with the Op-
position and kill the thing IL it is not
TO be run as it has been run, after the
manner revealed by the investigating
And In this connection it may be
said that the bill to give the committee
more power, the authority to sunmonB
Witnesses and compel their attendance,
has been passed by both houses, and
the committee will likely, get to work
again next week, with sittings in this
city. The Testimony. which has| eli
ready been taken, with which the pub.
makes a book Of 578 pages. ;c. =.
LABOR laws are no pBw thing In the
South now, but the time OF the iegis-
lature Ia occupied not a little by bills
ofa that character. The T0ole ten
| hour bill, which has been. pending for
some years in one shape or another, is
now before the house, with q favor
! were number OF mill managers here
Hast week to appsar before the Com-
| mittee in opposition, and the labor
element aleO had representatives.
There is also before the Senate a bill
introduced by Senator johnson TO
| prevent lock outs, or, In other words,
| to prevent one mill from locking ont
its employees who actively sympathise
| with a strike in another mill. 1t was
| pointed ont before the house commit
| tee that theae aud kindred measures all
! emanate from the Horse Creek Valley
| cotton mill section, where the labor
! unions exert so potent an influence.
1t is claimed that the mill Operatives
| Of the Piedmont, not being organized
into Unions. do not desire this legis.
1ation. ~ -. .:,-> =. !, : Z: ). ,#;i IS
One of the most interesting debates
IN the house this week wac on MIR.
Cothran'e resolution to endorse the
plan of federal aid TO- highway bniid-
ing. Mr.. gothran supported the
scheme in q strong speech, and by q
vote OF 90 to 4G; the house refused to
kill the reBosuti6n. m :, !; .::.5'
Senator Manldln's bill to make the
I holiday and to require it, 70 be obssrv-.
I ed with exercises in ihe pubic suilU0i5
| Was rejected by the Senate, but its
discussion called forth an excellent nd ;
dress from the Greenville Senator On
the history OF the State. ~. ;3:% %.&1
-: Inc DILL 20 provide for weeks holi- :.
day in the State Colleges at christmas
has passed. the house, and it is not
likely that the Senate will be'so hard !,
.hnarted as; 20 retnse to grant this boon
TO- the college boys and eirIs. = the
killain1s 10 override the decision Of
the Winthrop trustees, who have re-
fused! the stud danta of chat institution,
more than one day at christmas, az ali
the stller State Colleges have aylonger
sln h9lldny t!... i ih II Z, ,,; 4
eral AssaMh bly, gbeyeral years &nRo ths
scribea nsed to tignra i0nS the fiRhts
that ti1 yoniG so .bt bs .ss as Sn ths
is psndisg 8 SMIiI M rs at dissSs Ss Tia Tia fertilizer. @
/ tag tax {sVHich uo nj goes Z entiSelY to-
CLEMSON With M lnthr0p and n1aki6g,
the girls colleG do Eaft OF 4 the in.s
speetiola wosk his oslti1n has
been made several ifrneA and naSs Saasssnl sasnl
fought earh tiIne by S6oth sSha frienias
4 aof sClems0l, and Winthrop H SfS q q