The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-01-26
CAPITOL CORRESPONDENCE.

CAPITOL CORRESPONDENCE.
Columbia, S. c.. January 2lst,
1910.
Since the last issue Of The
TINES we have had another week
of Lesislatins. and while there
has been a great deal done can
not say that it was so awfully i'm
portant, that is to say, the State
would have survived had not
these things been done.
The Clarendon delegation IS
marking time this session, mainly
because there is no demand for
much local Legislation at this
session. all of the members are
watching the bills as they are put
into the Legislative hopper, and
when there is measure that
they disapprove OF, they do not
hesitate TO go on record against
it. Hon. John E. Dins!e did not
attend any of the sessions this
week because Of the Illness and
death cf his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Richardson, but Messrs- Scar
borough snd Green were on hand
70 look after Clarendon's inter
ests in the House.
The general assembly accepted
an invitation to go to Winthrop
last Wednesday in honor OF Gen
eral Lees birthday. I first
thought I would take advantage
Of the vacation to run home. but
I am now very glad that I went
to Rock Hill, so that ! truthfu!ly
Sav 70 ~ constituents. it is the
greatest >ccooi u St,2Eh G.iao-
fina, barring uoae = dcin- :
na6h work. aud waeE. oi.e goes
there fse a.vSt oe Impressed - e
looks into the iaces vi saeSe -
bust, strong, healthy girls, what
il means for the future develop
ment OF this grand old State.
Were we invited there to appro-
pirate more money: Yes I thint
so, but that college with its pres
ent head cannot ask too much OF
the State. and Ian free to say that
I will always vote for appropria-
tions for the improvement Of
Winthrop, even if it must curtai!
the money Of the other institu-
Sions. This Institution in the next
ten years will have no superior
in America, and every man and
woman should feel proud Of It.
and, that it is governed by one OF
the nobless. il not the no5lest
man In the State.
Next Wednesday we go to Char
lesion at the invitation OF the city
authorities to inspect the Citadel,
and 70 be entertained, as none but
Chariestonians know how to do.
This is not at the expense of the
State as some imagine, but at the
expense of Charleston. On Fri
day we go to Clemson on another
junketing trip, therefore the Leg
islature loses two working days,
and if it could find some way to
loose more the State would loose
nothing By it: the fact of the mat
ter is. ia my opinion, the State
would come out winner if the
members of the Legislature would
conclude that Legislation at this
time can be very well dispensed
with after the supply and appro-
priation bills have been acted Gp
on. There is no demand for Leg
islation now, and the little per
diem IS no lnducemeut to stay in
Columbia, that is if the members
have employment ct home.
The readers Of The TINES Will
recall; how this newspaper con-
tended that the agitation Of the
lien Law was nothing out political
clap-trap, stepped with hypocrisy
that its great agitators were sim
ply appealing to the prejudices
of the unthinking and that they
did not want to repeal the lien
law. Well our position and con-
tention mas been verified and con-
frmed by the action of the House
on the Hydrick Bill which pro-
posed to repeal the mortgage
clause, so that a mortgage could
not be given On crop until the
same was in existence. Last year
these advocates were strong
enough to get the Legislature to
repeal an obsolete statute that
they knew was non effective, be-
cause none took these hens as Sc
curities. and had not for mary
years, but to give some Rubes
who could holler at the political
meetings something TO hoiier Tor,
they made a great bluff at states
manship as friends Of the dear
people" by wipeing from the stat
ute books this already dead law,
and then they went home to let
the "dear people" know to begin
to get happy, as they the Solons,
repealed the Infamous lien law.
But when the people began to
look INTO this pretended repeal
they realized that they were bun.
coed, and the lien law was not
repealed, and that the law as re
CARDS the mortgaging Of crops
both before and after they are