The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-02-06

it will hold GOOD during his lifetime
yet the dover is a check and makes 1
more difficult for him to sell. Ihe
author of the bill cited several case:
. where men had separated from tnell
wives for cause-in these cases .good
cause, and because the wife would no.
sign her dover the mea could not dis
pose of the property and suffered.
have no doubt that this Is SO, OUT IN my
Judgment it is not q Justihcatlon TO
make liable and endanger every mar
ried woman. Ii the right OF dover is
taken away, a man sitting at a poker
table in the excitement OF the game
NAV deed his property for a stake, and
when he comes to himself find that he
has gambled away the shelter that
covers the heads of his wife and chill
dren, and perhaps, too, that man, be-
cause the possessor of that home from
the toll of his wife, perhaps she burn
ed the midnight oil, and with her
needle made the money by which the
home was bought; to give the power
to man to sell the property without
the consent of such wife would be an
outrage that T shall not be party to-,
but strange to say, on several d!latory
motions the Senate, the majority oI
which is composed of lawyers, favored
the measure, which might properly
have been entitled, "a Bill TO Ro5
all Women, and Children OF Their
Sacred Rights. in order to remedy a
few isolated cases of bad conduct on the
part of Women who had deserted their
husbands Should this bill ever again
be resurrected and it passes the SEN
ate I have declared ia speech on the
floor that shall follow it over to the
House, and spend the balance of the
session laboring to defeat it, and feel
that am doing religious duty IN the
name of humanity.
1t will be remembered that in ac-
cordance with the action OF Claren-
don's mass meeting, I introduced IN
the early part of the session bill 10
regulate agricultural labor contracts,
which had for its purpose the remedy
ing of an evil far-reaching IN its conse-
ouences, but after very hard fight
/ could not convince the Senate, the
bill should become law. endeavor-
ed to picture the conditions which
exist in this portion of the State, where
the agricultural labor contract system
originally intended for the farm pro-
lection, has, by its abuse, been per-
verted into system OF blackman and
peonage. It did no good, although
there came to my support such able de-
baters as Senators Graydon, OF Abbe-
vile and Rogers of Marlboro. The
up-country was afraid to make any
change in the law, and therefore struck
out the enacting words which was the
death of the bill, but since then, Doctor
Woods has had another bill drawn and
introduced in the House, it was refer
red to the judiciary committee, and
that committee recommend that
the bill do not pass" DR.. Woods pro-
poses to make fight forits passage IN
the House, but we have no idea he will
succeed, and should he, the Senate has
already indicated its opposition to such
legislation, therefore think he is
wasting time. DR.. Woods bill is alto
gether different from mine, in that 1t
does not require the contract to be IN
writing nor filed with the clerk OF court
and not having such a provision the
essence OF farm protective Legislation
is left out. The only feature OF his bill
which can approve OF IS the one pro-
hibiting the transfer of the contract.
However, that my readers can know
just what DR.. Woods wants, [ print the
bill:
A Bill to Regulate Labor Contracts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly OF the
State Of South Carolina:
SECTION l. After the passage and approEal
80 %t,S so% 1ohn cho1l pNnlre
close OF the year in which they were maze:
Provided, The contracting laborer does not put
himself in hiding, either in or out OF the STATE
With intent to depSe the
event it shall hold good for five years from oate
ot contract. All labor contracts shall ee vallo,
either written or verbal, that are mace IN tne
presence OF two or more dlSlntereSteo "lInesses
without being recorded
SEC. 9 Labor contracts shall not be vaIld, the
terms Of which are not plainly Speclneo IN ret
erence to amount to be paid, whether Win or
without board, with the kind ana class OF "orh
contracted for to b; performed.
SEC. g. Labor contracts shall not be binding
when transferred OF bartered to q second party
either as collateral security or otherwlse.
SEC. 4. The violation OF labor contracts snaiI
be misdemeanor, punishable by tne not less
than five dollars nor more than thirty dollars,
or imprisonment not less than ten days nor
more than sixty days, or both me mean ana impclS
SEC. 5. AL Acts and parts OF Acts lnconslst-
ent with this Act are hereby repealed
The general assembly threw a bomb
shell into the Board of Directors OF the
dispensary. by adopting a concurrent
resolution recommending the removal
and prosecution of the present Board
of Directors, and calling upon the
Governor aud the Attorney General to
carry out the recommendation. since
this action was taken, the friends OF
the Board are already questioning
the authority of the Governor to re-
move; they take the position that the
legislature should have Instituted I'M
peachment proceedings, and by not
having done so, it shirked the respon-
sibility and palmed it of on the Gov
error and Attorney General. 90 not
know what there is in the contention,
the Governor has not the authority to
remove, believe, however, he has,
and also believe he is going to 90 1t,
but if the friends of the Board think
the members Of the general assembly
would be so foolish to undertake I'M
peachment, when all know it revulres
a two-thirds vote to convict, they mis-
take the men. Impeachment proceed.
ing would play into the hands OF
the defenders of the graft
machine; it would stop the legislation
and CONVERT the general assembly into
a court where there is no telling how
long it would have to sit, long enough
for the West to be secured to get, up
witnesses for the defence, and while
this delay was going on the constltu-
tional limit for the assembly to sit with
pay is approaching and in the mean
time the work of tearing down the
State dispensary would be arrested. l
believe the recommendation will be
faithfully carried out: but should the
Governor find he is without power.
means will be found to arrest and pros
ecute the men charged with big steal
ing.
The demand for appropriations seems
to be increasing: unless the lawmakers
refuse to accede to the supplicatlons