The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-01-12
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
CONVENED TUESDAY
The Laurens Delegates I'm
Attendance.
WHAT WILL THEY DO?
Some Matters OF Statewide Importance
In Which LaurrnS Delegation
Must Have A Part.

The Laurens delegation to the gen
eral assembly of South Carolina left
Monday afternoon for Columbia to
be present at the opening of the ses-
sion on Tuesday at noon. The mem
bers of the delegation are: Hon Jno.
III. Wharton of Waterloo senator:
Hons. r. ID. Boyd, w. c. Irby Jr., and
Jared ID. Sullivan OF Laurens, repre-
sentatives.
Whether or not any of the members
Will have new bills to introduce at
the present session is not known, ex-
cept that by Senator Wharton to
lengthen the term OF county superin-
tendent Of education. Senator Whar-
ton favorS such measure which has
been the subject of some talk for sew
eral months. All the representatives
were invited for an expression Of opin-
ion some time ago by The Advertiser;
none responded. Possibly they had
fun anu sufficient reason for avoiding
public expression. In half the
counties of the state the term of of
flee for the superintendent OF educa-
ton is four years. 1t is the hope of
many in Laurens that the term will
be made that in this county.
On the present calendar of both the
senate and the house, there appear no
bills introduced by members of the
Laurens delegation and favorably re-
ported last session, carried over to this
session
How the Laurens delegation viii
stand on Governor Ansel's recommen-
dation relative to another whiskey e.
lection in the five wet counties is not
known. Senator Wharton and Repre-
sentative Sullivan are straight-out
prohibitionists, but this stand does
not indicate which of the several
courses open to the prohibitionists,
Will be taken 1t is thought by some
that statewide prohibition bill will
PASS; others think that the law will
stand as it is, and still others favor
another election on the question.
AS usual, the tax question will be
the Jonah" for the Legislature. Whoth-
er or not it Will pass measures to put
the state on cash basis, as recon-
mended by the governor, is not known.
The tax question is usually given
Seant attention. How the Laurens
members stand is also question.
One Of the most important matters
to come before the body Of law max
ers is the hospital for the insane.
When the reDOrt of the investigating
committee is read, there will doubt
less be considerable surprise and. ac-
cording to the public mind, should be
some effective legislation What the
Laurens delegation will do remains
to be seen
Other matters of Importance will
be the disposition OF the $275 900 de-
rived from the dspensary funds, the
increase Of the Garris fund, compul-
sorry education, the soldiers home.
income tax, the increase of salaries for
state officers, and the cause of educa-
tion in general. OF course. there will
be the usual fight for lower passenger
and freight rates. The attitude of the
Laurens delegation on all these mat
ters Will be watched in this county
with much interest
Among the elections that are to be
held, will be that of judge for the
eighth judicial district Judge Klugh
of Abbeville appears at present to
have no opposition.