The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-29
BILL FOR INCREASE
OF SALARIES KILLED.
NO TEST VOTE YET ON PR0HI-
BITION.
Lien Law and Fertilizer Tax Discuss
ed-The Work Of the General
Assembly in Detail.

islature on yesterday began the bal
loting for an associate justice Of the
supreme court to succeed the Hon. Ira
B. Jones, who was elected chief JUS
tice.
AS stated in the last issue Of The
Herald and News five candidates
were placed in nomination. It is not
probable that the deadlock will be
broken this week. Four Of the can
didates - Representative Cotbran,
Ex-Gov. Sheppard, Judge Hydrick,
and Judge Watson the first BAL
lot had very nearly the same vote,
while Judge Gage, the other canei-
date, had only % votes. Several BAL
lots were taken with no material
change except that Judge Watts lost
about four votes and Judge Gage four
giving to Sheppard, Cothran. and lly-
drick a sufficient number to make
their votes within one Of each other,
but with less than one-half eno"gh
votes to elect. With these car3idares
running so close together it is pro-
bable that several ballots will be TAX
en- before the result is rsdcbe''', al2
it is the opinion of the members that
the deadlock will not be broken until
next week sometime.
It is expected that both houses Will
!; take a recess on Friday afternoon un-
til Tuesday in order that the members
NAV be home for the February sales
day.
No time has yet been appointed for
the election Of members to the board
Of directors Of the penitentiary and
trustees Of the various colleges where
there are vacancies. It is probable
that the time for these elections VIII
not be fixed until after the election
of an associate justice.
In the event Of one Of the circuit
Judges being elected associate JUS
tice another election will be neces
sary to fill that vacancy. Not much
can be done until these elections are
over with.
The two houses voted in separate
session on Tuesday for United States
senator and in joint ballot on We'd
nesday elected Mr.. E. D. Smith, who
was the nominee in the democratic
primary last summer.
The lien law was up for discussion
on Wednesday in the house, and after
those who desire to get rid Of their
oratory on the subject, are heard, it
is probable that the bill repeating the
law will be passed by the house. The
house at the last session passed a
bill repeating the lien law but it fall
ed Of passage by the senate: 1t is
thought that the vote in the senate
this year will be close on this subject
again. and it is not certain whether
or not the bill will be passed.
In the senate there was some dis
cussion on Senator Croft's bill to in
crease the number of associate JUS
tees of the supreme court to four but
on Tuesday it failed to pass the sem
ate by the necessary two-thlrds vote.
The vote on the motion to pass the
resolution in the senate was as fol-
lows:
Ayes-Bass. Carlisle, Clifton, Croft,
Crosson, Graydon. Hardin. Hough.
Johnstone, Kelley. Lide, McKeithan,
Montgomery. Muckenfuss, Otis,
| Sinkler. Spivey. Sullivan. Townsend.
| Walker, Weston. Williams-Total p.
> Nays-Black, Carpenter. Earle,
Forrest. Griffin, Harvey. Johnson,
Laney, Mauldin. Rainsford, Rogers,
Stewart. Summers. Waller, Whar-
ton-Total Is.
The senate again on Wednesday
! adopted a resolution to reconsider
! the vote whereby the bill was voted
down and after some debate the mat
| ter was carried over.
The prohibition question has not
vet come up for debate though the
bills providing for State wide prohi-
bition have been introduced and are
or the calendars.
; Senator Lide. Of Orangeburg, has
introduced a bill providing for a gen
eral election throughout the State to
be taken on the question as to wheth-
er the State shall 60 prohibition or
not It provides that the election
shall be held to determine the States