The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-02-25
NOTES ON THE LEGISLATURE.

completed everything that will be
done this session, to meet again on
March the Bird, the only purpose Of
this meeting being TO elect II United
States senator for the uneNpired term
made vacant by the death Of Senator
Iatimcr. and to elect an insurance
commissioner for position created by
the legislature. But for the fact that
the law says the legislature shall elect
senator for Il vacancy which occurs
while il is in session aal the further
provision for such election shall not
be held until the second Tuesday af-
ter official notice Of the vacancy, it
would not have been necessary to
take this recess. There will be moth
iny brrnrr tl,r legislature when il
c"nNcn,> ON March 5rd. except these
two rlrrli";l>. as nlI blk, ON the cal
Vndar> "t both houses wrr, continue
ed.
Il may take several days I" elect
Il senator il all Of the candidates who
are mentioned i'm thiS connection re-
main in the race and have any sup
port. II certainly will take two days.
because under the law, The ballot has
to be taken III each house separately
ON one day and on the next day the
two houses meet in joint session to
poll that ballot.
The death Of Senator f.atimcr has
IN Il
t. his successor for the long term ami
already several new candidates have
entered For tie roSitinn We ayraa
with Senator Tilman that the lrwiS-
laturr should select man for This
position regardless of whether he is Il
candidate for the long term or not
and one. who. in thcir judgment. is
Fitted I" fill the position. If The lr"
iSlaturc selects with an understand
in~ that the man elected would not
be 4 candidate for the full term it
would be simply Givin" someone
little honor and Il good salary.
Of course il is impoSsibl, to even
suggest or guess who will be the sue
ccsStul candidate before the General |
Assembly.
The appropriation bill for this year
is Il most liberal one, in fact the most
liberal that has been made in IL mum
Der Of years. There were few who
protested against such large appro-
priatons but they were in such a
hopeless minority that their protest
amounted to very little. The men,
hrrS became economical at the wrong
place according our view. An ri1'ur, |
WAS made to cut down the levy from
five and one half 10 five mills which |
would leave Il deficiency in rcvenu~
Of something like $20O.000. As it is |
five and onc-haM mills will not bring
IN sufficient revenue to meet the ap- |
preparations made by this session.
the time to cconomiZc. however. is |
when we are making appropriations
and not when we are raising the re-
venue to provide for the money al
acaly appropriated.
In regard to the supply bill for
Nrwbrrry county. the provisions of
which appeared in the Observers Co
lumbia correspondence. it should be
stated ihat the same syndicate was |
iurAiShn" the news for both papers
and IN" editor Of The Herald and |
News supposed that if local matter
regarding Nrwhrrry WAS sent one pa |
per it would also be sent the other.
Thr correspondent explained to rs
when We asked him about it, that he
had only one copy and he supposed
that the editor of The Herald and
News would send local matters to
The Herald and News. The last week
OF the session was one that kept us
exceedingly busy with Legislative mat
tcrS and wr did not have time to
write even a line for the paper
That provision. however, was
stricken ont by the senate and the
provision rs TO Ncwhcrry comfy was
put in on free conference committee.
rs We understand il. however. with
the approval of the entire delegation.
Thr purpose of the road working part
Of the provision is to see if some
thing definite cannot be accomplished
with the chain gang anl to put the
chaln gang on permanent work and
specified roads so that what they do
may not be spread so thin as to be
worth nothin" to any section Of the
county. OF course if this accom-