The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-02-17
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
WILL ADJOURN FRIDAY NEXT.
A WBIRLWIND FINISH - The ASYLUM
SENSArION-MARRIAGE LICENSE
BILL PASSED-LOCAL MATTERS.

The Capitol, Columbia, February
14:-Both houses of the General
Assembly last week adopted the
joint resolution to adjourn on Fri
day, the 18th instant, at II o'clock
noon. In all probability the hand
of the official clock will be push
ed back again and again, and ad-
journment will in reality be reach
ed sometime during Saturday. By
legal fiction u legislative day may
extend over any number of physical
days Only year or two ago the
journals declared that adjourn
ment was had at 11:55 Saturday
night, Notwithstanding the Assembly
was actually in session until 10
O'Clock Sunday morning. All this
may be puzzling to AN outsider, but
it is only one of the peculiar things
in which our law abounds.
After idling four weeks this
spasm to get through and 60 home
suddenly seized the Solons in the
early part of the fifth week, and
now the work is being rushed with
almost feverish haste. With a
calendar of forty-three pages in the
House and thirty-two in the Senate,
a vast majority of the bills will die
where they are. So far as the bad
bills are concerned this is we'll
enough, but this manner of getting
through kills the good bills along
with the bad.
Saturday last the judiciary COM
mittee of the Senate presented
resolution calling upon DIR Bad
cock, superintendent of the asylum,
and the Board of Regents of that iu-
institution to send in their resig-
nation. This resolution was sign
ed by eight members of the COM
nittee, while vigorous protest was
handed in by three members, pro-
testing that the action of the COM
m,ttee was hasty, ill-considered, and
without giving a hearing to the
officers referred to, and taken at a
midnight session called without
notice.
The resolution is the sensation of
this session, and its discussion is
likely to be warm and may be-
come even hysterical. for it is in
tlmated that behind the action of
the committee is some queer po-
litical juggling.
The proposition to submit to the
voters the matter of issuing bonds
to the amount OF million dollars
with which to build a new hospital
for the insane, was voted down in
the House overwhelmingly. Then
the House passsd the bill authoriz-
ing the Board of Regents to pur-
chase tract of not more than
twelve hundred acres near Co.
lumbia for the use of the asylum,
and to pay not more than $25, 600.
for it. On this tract is to be built
quarters for the negroes and also
houses Cor tubercular patients, the
two settlements to be entirely
separate, however.
The meeting of the judiciary COM
mjttee Immediately followed this
action of the House, at which
meeting the resolution asking for
the designations above mentioned
was adopted. Some seem to see
connection between the two moves.
Events will probably disclose it, if
such be the case.
The Senate, by a big majority,
passed the bill requiring marriage
license must be obtained from the
clerk of court and the fee to be
paid is $l.OO.
The new high school measure
passed the Senate Friday. Should
the House concur in the action OF
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