The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-23
CAN'T AGREE
The House Wants to AdjourR
and the Sanate DON'T
and There YOU ARE!

AByU ! GB6RG gUU HR6s
Supply and Appropriation Bills Have
Not Been Considered and Senator
Otis Demands Consideration OF
the Prohibition Bills-House Re-
fuses to Take Recess.
Columbia, S. c., February 19.-
There is remarkable situation
In the Legislatures The members OF
the House are longing to go home.
They have worked hard and faith
fully, and did everything possible
so that they might adjourn tomor-
row. If the Assembly does not ad-
journ tomorrow the fault Is not ON
the House side.
The appropriation bill wasA over
on the Senate side in ample time.
The supply bill could have gotten
through the Senate except for OBJ
lection MAIDS there. From 1886 to-,
1895 the sessions were for 80 days
with the exception of one year. For
four years after 1895 the sessions
were prolonged on account of the
new Constitution.
From 1893 until this year the reg-
ular sessions have never been ex-
tended beyond forty days, and now
the Senate insists upon an extra
ordinary session. Members are put
out that the Senate did not today
consider the supply, nor appropria-
ton bill.
| Members of the House insisted
that it was buncombe, pure bun
combe to talk about coming back
next session, and the House hur-
rahed that it had practically finish
ed it's work, and had fully cleared
its decks to go home Tomorrow
night.
The suggestion has been made
that the Senate is blufflng, and ex-
poets to adjourn by Sunday morn
ing, but when the news came over
that the Senate had agreed to adj
journ tomorrow noon until Tuesday
night, the House did not know how
to get the Senate to do anything
except wait for the Senate, as the
House cannot adjourn without tho
Senate. There were various and
sundry efforts made to send the SEN
ate officials notice that the House
was ready to adjourn tomorrow.
A new motion to adjourn tomor-
row was tried, but could not be con-
sidered, ten members objecting.
Then Mr.. Rucker tried to get
through a motion that the clerk be,
instructed to convery verbal mes
sage to the Senate that the House
was ready to adjourn. But this was
ruled to be out Of order.
The House could not get its Of
fetal announcement to the Sanate
that it was longing to adjourn, but
it refused on yea and nay vote to
agree on Mr.. Fraser's motion that
the House, when it adjourns tomor-
5 row, meet again Wednesday. He
did this, he arguad, simply because
he could not help himself, on account
Of the situation in the Senate.
The House wants to adjourn to-
morrow, and does so very badly. It
refused to agree to recess resolu-
ton. 1t could not tahe up the reso-
luton to adjourn tomorrow because
; of it's rules, and there you are. The
House was straining for some joy
ful adjournment news from the SEN
ate, but it came not.
In the Senate.
The Sanate declined tonight to
,, take a recess until Tuesday evening
at o'clock, when it recedes from
; business tomorrow at 1890 o'clock.
This means that the time-honored
custom of forty days and forty
nights session has been broken.
The Senate will meet tomorrow for
a brief session and will return next
week for business, with no definite
adjournment sine die now in sight.
Probably the Senate will not contin-
ue in session longer than Saturday,
February 81.
The situation is about as follows:
The supply and appropriation bills
have not been yet considered in the
Senate. An adjournment tomorrow
| would have been necessarily impos-
sible, as in order for this to have
been within the range of possibility,
the supply bills would have to have
been considered today. This was not
: done.
Members having important bills
wished to get them up, and the re-
suit was that the appropriation and
: supply bills were not taken up out
OF their regular order for second
reading. They had not been on the
desk the necessary twenty-four
hours, and under the rules, this
point was raised. The railroad rate
Dill had been made a special order