The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-01-24
The Legislative Mill at Work.

The past week very little has been
ACCOMPLISHED. and in fact, from reports
of the proceedings it looks TO US as II
the whole scheme is one OF uaikee.
talkee, and doing nothing but kill time
and eat up expense. The General AS
semblv took vacation last Thursday
and the country would not have suffer
cred much had it not returned. II 1t
continues on the pace 1t IS travelling.
A correspondent terselr puts It this
way:
Though the Legislature has been
in session two weeks. which Is more
than a third OF the constitutional limit,
it has done nothing OF great importance
or striking interest. 1t has spent the
time combing over last years calendars,
each house passing few unimportant
bills emitting and listening to the,
escape of much hot air about trivial
matters, hearing committee reports
suffering the droning OF the voice of
| its reading clerk, reciting the titles o.!
great wads of new bills.
| The thing which overshadows every
other place OF business of course IS the
fight which will be waged about the
careening and leaking hulk OF the dis
pensary. What will be done with it IS
the question which is being constantly
turned over in the mind OF everyone
watching legislation IL fact the eye OF
every city. town, hamlet and cross
roads is eagerly turned toward the
Legislature for the answer which that
body is shortly to go into labor to bring
forth. This dispensary business has be-
come to the State, what so-called negro
problem has become to the South gen
erally-it is absorbing time and atten-
ton and nerve force that should be de-
voted to other important matters.
! In each house the decks are being
cleared for action. and the ray Will be.
Gin about Wednesday in the House II
not also in the Senate. To add 20 the
situation the dispensary committee,
acting under the authority OF the new
law giving it power to commit for con-
tempt and fully authorizing it to send
for persons and papers will open up a
lime of fire on the dispensary head
quarters with the members OF the STATE
board and others on the stand Inns
ring in the big circus IS expected to
develop 4 series Of cracking sensations,
while the fun is going on in the other
two rings. the House and Senate Inc
new 6ispensary. committee bill, though
| i has not yet become an act and mas
Therefore not been signed by the Gov
ernor. has passed both Houses almost
unanimously. and soon as the formalty
OF making it an act is completed 1t will
be signed by the Governor. ln the
meantime members of the committee,
working with their detective, Mr..
Klineenberg, have been preparing Tor
the public session now shortly to be
held in this city" -,
| The Clarendon delegation is still on
it's GOOD behavior. keeping quiet and
watching the proceedings with states
manlike care. The delegation did,
however, have couple OF spasms last
week. Representative Bradham IN
troduced a bill to regulate pensions and
make appropriations for same. Ihe
text of the measure we have not seen,
but from its title we judge it IS to get
some in on the pension list that are not
Representative DesChamps, he TOO,
had fit, and brought forth bill upon
which he has received favorable re-
port. The bill is an amendment to the
dispensary law, seeking to leglIslate
honesty into men who must first learn
i the meaning of the word.
Senator Davis spent Sunday in Man
ming visiting his daughter. Mrs. J. D.
IGerald. We did not have an oppor-
tunity to talk with the Senator, but
] we learn that he will not have any
special bills to offer at this session,
land will devote himself to guarding
! Clarendon's interests against any at
tempt to increase the indebtedness.
We should like, in interests of the tax
PAYERS, for our Senator to take Up the
natter Of an extra session OF the legls,,
lature with Governor Heyward, ana
as business proposition, if it appeals
to his Judgment, offer resolution urg,
i ING the Governor TO convene a special
| session after the tax returns have been
made.
Representative Bradham returned
to Columbia Monday.