Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-01-19
WORK OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
High School Amendment Proposed
senator Earle Introduces Bills.

Columbia, Jan. 13.-The possibil-
ity of a complete blocking of further
whiskey legislation loomed up strong
~ In the Senate when a careful poll
Of the Senate showed at least twenty
OF the members present were either
for local option or wished to stand
by the compromise effected at the
last session of the General Assem-
bly,.
While none Of the members con-
slider the compromise legally bind
ing, it is generally held by them
that the compromise Is Of sufficient
moral force to cause no liquor legis-
lation In the Senate this year. OF
course, there is no telling what NAV
later turn up, but the present status
Is largely in favor Of complete
standstill on the much-legislatcd
topic
High School Amendment Proposed.
Senator Sullivan, Of Anderson, pro-
posed, in a bill introduced yesterday.
some very important amendments to
the high school act Of 1907. Section
Of the act, in part, provides: "The
State Board ofs Education, as now
constituted, shall constitute the State
High School Board, with full author
ity to prescribe such regulations as
may not be inconsistent with this
act this section, In part, being in
lieu of the original first section of
the high school act
1t is also provided that no more
than $500 shall go to one-year high
school: not more than $500 to a
two-year school; not more than 500
to q three-year high school. That an
additional 500 may be given in a
township high school or high
school embracing as many as six COM
mon school districts. The boari, may
give additional aid for industrial and
commercial courses in high schools.
1t may also, If this bill Is passed, give
to any high school levying a special
tax Of not less than one MILL $25 for
! each and every common school dis
trict composing that school unit.
No high school is to receive under
the provisions Of the bill, aid unless
it has at least twent. five students
and two high school teachers. 1t
may give aid to rural school with
but fifteen high school pupils and
one high school teacher, such village
to contain not exceeding 400 inhabi-
tants. No aid shall be given any
high school unless the districts com
I posing the school territory are levy
ing, or shall levy, as much as two
mills special school tax. which may
! be levied either as common school
! or high school tax.
! Widows Pension Bill Passed.
Senator Clifton's bill to allow GER
tain widows, above 55 years Of age,
! to participate in the pension fund,
passed third reading after considera-
! BILE discussion, and was ordered sent
! to the House.
! The object Of the bill is to secure
for widows, aged 80 years and over,
the privilege to come under the pen
sion law, which now makes the age
limit 60 years. The restrictions un-
der the pension law, which are,
briefly, that the widow Of Confede-
rate soldier must be dependent and
! practically in such needy circum-
stances as to demand almost the pen
sion, hold under Senator Clfton's
bill
The only thing accomplished by
the bill Of Senator Clifton is to re-
duce the age limit to 80, and when
Senator Clifton first introduced the
bill it was so years. He stated that
the widows he hoped to benefit by
the bill had aged five years since he
first introduced the measure
Rural Exemption Killed.
Senator Wharton's rural free de-
livery exemption bill was killed. The
bill was Statewide and provided that
rural free delivery mail carriers
should be exempted from road duty,
and the committees report thereon
was unfavorable. The report Of the
committee was adopted after much
discussion.
judiciary Expenses.
a bill that caused over an hours
discussion was that of Senator Cliff
ton. providing that the Circuit
Judges Of the state be allowed $500