The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-01-19
HAVE MET AGAIN.
Both Branches OF the I,egisIa.
ture Convened Tuesday.
WHAT HAS BEE N DONE
In the House aud th. Senate Since The
Session Began. ID the Way of
Legislation. Governor He,.
wards Message Read in
Both Houses.

Both Houses.
The General Assembly of Soutl
Carolina met In annual session OIL
Tuesday tf last week The Who'll,
day was taken up in organizing anC
hearing the Governor m .ssage road
The message is long document, anc
like all State papers prepared by Gov
Hayward. Is clear aud to the point,
The most important subject it treats
Is the disp nsary. The part OF the
M essage bearing on this subject Is
printed In another colun nn.
THE HOUSE.
In the House of Representatives
Clerk Tom o. Hamer called tile roll
and announced that o quorum was
present, and Speaker M. l.. Smith
allied upon the Rev. Mr.. Pratt to
open the proceedings with prayer.
Speaker Smith made q brief open.
ing address, and said he would (ffsr
no suggestions as to what ought to be
done. The members are fresh from
the psople and know what they want,
but he fol. that II the same broad
conservatism anc liberality charac
ter.z'd the action Of the members
that nothing but success would
crown the work Of the General AS
sembly.
Announcements we're then made
that several newly elected members
were present ready to be sworn In.
The new members sworn in Tuesday
are:
10 Marion Rucker, of Anderson.
VIM. Anderson, of Cherokee.
Arnoldus Wander Horst, of Char.
lesion.
Mr.. Dobbs's election has not yet
been declared and as soon as the
election Is declared he will cake the
oath.
Messrs. WhaleY, Doar and d. O..
Herbert were appointed to notify the
laoyer9nr the y !t. AZ Z - ad . organ
iSszdis gsss ready aIo receive e ssi3. ass !
communications.
Messages were exchanged between
the Senate and House that each was
ready for work.
The annual message of Governor
HeYward was read, having been pre-.
sented by Private Secretary Norment.
The members gave careful attention
to the reading.
| There we're only two-neW measures
introduced the first day. Both OF
the new bills came from Mr.. Toole, OF
Aiken county.
The first was a bill to restrict the
number OF hours Of labor In cotton
mills to ten hours, instead Of eleven,
az Is the law at present. Mr.. ToOle
introduced similar bill last year, bul
it was killed.
Mr.. Toole's second bill was to re
duce the passenger rate in this Stat
20 two and half cents per mile. L.
senger trains, with no second class,
which arrangement was adopted by
way OF compromise.
The House adjourned, after about
an hours session, to meet on Wednes-
day at eleven o'clock.
The house OF representatives got
down to business Wednesday and at
tackled the calendar with an evident
desire to kill everything that cine IN
sight. Six bills we're tabled and with
drawn by their authors, there were
recommitted, three had the enaotinp
clause stricked out, the parliamentary
way of saying that they were kilt
and two were also killed by being
indefinitely postponed.
Speaker Smith announced the ap
polntment Of Mr.. E M. Rucker, Jr
as member OF the committee on ways
and means, and stated that Mr.. Jno.
G.. Richards, Jr., would be the chair
man OF that committee. the following
executive appointments were ar
nounced by the speaker:
Journal Clerk-Ohristie Benet.
Rill Clerk w. Il. Norton.
Keeper OF the speakers Room
James N. Pearman
Mail Clerk Ohm Sharpe.
Doorkeepers r II. Owngs, Ber
Hoover, - Mckinney.
Pages James II. Tompkins, Earle
Moffett, William Martin, John b.
Patrick.
Laborers William Long, Henry
| Gillian, George Eiwafds, Caleb Bra
cy, Robert Ohisolm.
After short debate the house post
poned indefinitely the bill presented
by Mr.. Ardrey to sell the State farms
Phe vote was 78 to 80. In the course
OF the debate Mr.. Banks of Orange
burg called attention to the fact tina
rs, 900 bushels OF corn were raised or
these farms last year.
mir. J. Is. WaGson's bill suggesting
an increase In the length OF terms o
circuit ldges WAS killed. The b!l
merely provided that the people b.
given the opportunity to vote on thi
question.
Oapt. H.mel's bill proposing tina
execution Of criminals ho conducte
within the penitentlary walls wa
Killed. Capt. Hamel explained tina
! the bill was introduced In the inter
eBts of humanity.
MIR. LaFitte spoke on his bill st
| make cufsing and abusing any one o
/. another an assault and providing pun
0 iahment therefor" Mr.. LaFitte ex
| planned the necessity Of having sue
1 a law to prevent people from bein
lnsulted on the highway and then pre-
T vided for resenting 1t. The member
t did not see it his way and killed tn
/ bill.
: In the House on Thursday thor
| were eight bills given favorable cor
? sideration, passed second reading an
ordered to third reading. They wer