The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-02-19
AGONY ALL OYER, ..
DISPENSARY DEAD
3GISLATURE ON SATURDAY
OLINCHED ITS POSITION.
,,Inall Minority Faithful-Eght in
the Senate and Twenty eight in
the House Alone Stuck to
the Colors.
.e State, 18th.

WI the State of South Carolina rati-
fFed the action of the majority Of the
free conference committee on the To-
cal option bill.-and all was over ex-
cept the approval Of the governor of
sf6he state.
A The free conference committee had
Esaery little trouble. The time was
n oent i'll reading the tattered manu-
Script to see that all amendments
Were correct. The majority reported
the adoption of the senate bill with
few alterations. The minority fav-
red the rejection of the entire bill.
he, majority consisted Of Senators
its and Hardin and Representatives
Earey and Cothran. The minority
eDnsisted Of Senator Raysor and Mr..
Richards.
s The vote in the senate was as fol-
y lows:
> Ayes, for adopting the report of the
majority of the free conference COM
II mittee:
Senators Appett, Bass, Bates, BIZ
wins, Brice, Brooks, Carlisle, Chris
tensen, Crouch, Graydon, Hardin,
Haynes, Holiday, Mauldin, McKeith-
Nan, Otis, Sinkler, Smith, Sullivan,
Vralbert, Toole, Wells, Williams-23.
: / Nays-Senators Black, Blease, Cliff
1 {on, Efird, Kelly, Rogers, Townsend,
Walkers.
SSas Absent-Earle, Griffin, Laney,
Johnson, Stackhouse, Weston.
n Paired-McGowan, aye, with
Raysor, nay.
House Adopted It.
] BY vote of 68 to % the house yes
: terday adopted the report of the COM
mittee on. free conference on the
y Carey -Cothran bill which abolishes
{ the state dispensary and gives the
eounties choice between county dis
'ensaries and prohibition. Besides
ythe time spent in reading the bill,
(which consumed about an hour, only
Men minutes were required in debate.
&Y When it was all over and the re-
Rllt had been announced tue members
a sigh of relief. The state
ls1ispensary was dead after nearly Ii
years Of existence, after causing great
qIssension and strife and practically
4 sSifav1ng precedence over all other poll
A$Scal questions. 1t had been a long
AaIG18Sight and hard fight, but when the
sssenate joined with the house in con-
sAaemning the institution and placing
u upon it the stamp of disapp1oval,
Hhere was never any doubt as to the
Sfinal result.
RI But there was always a chance of
y.soine legislative mistake through
laclSof vigilance or care that made it
possible for the bill to fail of pas
RE&ssags. 1t was this that made the men,
|&.beR uneasy and made them anxious
I3tt,1. M3tt,o1.Ssecawy out the will of the people as
IsSsoon as possible. Because of this
There were over 100 members in their
Meats when the speaker announced
IEhat he had ready the report of the
eommittee Of free conference and ev-
3ery member paid close. attention to
= the reading clerk, who slowly read
ithe pages Of the long document.
In the few minutes devoted to the
ASpeeches close attention was paid b
ne remarks made by Mr.. Richards,
no has always been regarded as the
Bspensary leader during the present
, sion and was member of the free
iference committee. The speech
in the nature Of an appeal to the
Sc not to, adopt the report because
members had little opportunity to
VI the bill with the amendments
ne did not think snap Judgment
d be taken on the abolishment
state institution that had stood
years. + =
- as the last, hopeless appeal of
resentatives who had from the
lvocated the adoption Of the
ishing the state board Of dis
directors, but to retain tho
=. pensary. He had consistent.
led county dispensaries and
ored prohibition rather than