The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-25
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BEGINS THIRD WEEK
PROHIBITION DISCUSSION MAY
BE THIS WEEK.
Number of Important Measures Be
fore Legislature.-Poliacal Cos
sip at the Capital.
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r Columbia, Jan. 24.-The general
assembly was not in session today,
both houses having adjourned on Sat-
urday until tonight at 8 O'Clock.
There will b. several interruptions to
the regular work Of the session this
week, and it is probable that both
houses will try to get ina good deal
Of work tonight.
The elections will be held tomor-
row at noon. On Wednesday the
general assembly will 60 to Charles
ton, in response to the invitation to
visit the Citadel, and on Friday the
Clemson trip Will be taken. Win
throp was visited on Wednesday OF
last week, so that when the leglsla-
ture goes to Clemson on Friday the
members will have visited three of
the States higher institutions Of
learning this session.
The disposition Of the senate seems
to be to take up the prohibition bill
and dispose Of: it as early as posi-
BILE. and the advocates Of the meas
ure hope to have it taken up on
Thursday. The senate committee has
already submitted a favorable ma
;iority and an unfavorable minority
report on the bill, and the senate has
agreed to give it the place on the cal
eudar held by the Otis prohibition
measure of last year, and it appears
as, a bill on which debate was ad-
5joarned, thus enabling it to hold It's
place under the new senate rule
which requires all second reading
bills on which action is not taken to
be dropped to the foot Of the calen-
dar.
The house dispensary committee,
10 whom the house prohibition bril-
was referred, has not yet taken ac-
ton, but it is probable that this COM
mttee will meet today or tomorrow
and agree upon its report. The real
6ght win be in the senate, it being
conceded that Statewide measure
viii 60 through the house without
any serious trouble, Even now, after
t;xo weeks OF the session, it would be
nara to forecast with any degree OF
accuracy, what the senate Will do
@.fhe senator's have had several live
" debates on, the whiskey question,
The discussion being provoked by the
Gcaydon injunction bill and the OTIS
measure to declare the unlawful sale,
barter, storing, and keeping in pos
sess;o,, Of aleQh9tie liquors a COM
1n.on nuisance. Tie iH5dnetiot bill Of
Senator Graydon has passed the sen
ate and been sent 10 the house. As
.eysgspally drawn the bill prov1dea
for the granting of inSunet1ons 1or
the ahatement Of nuisanees created
by violation Of the liquor laws, the
lniunctions to be granted by any Jus
t;ce of the supreme court or by any
esreuit judge whether or not the
sudge should be in the circuit where
Liza nuisance Was alleged to exist.
The bill as passed, however, earr1es
Senator CGfton's amendment which
provides that the anjunctions shall
only be granted as other lnJunctlons
by the resident circuit Judge or the
.iadge presiding in a circuit, or II
neither should be in the circuit then
:bg the Judge in the a1jeaaing circuit.
The Graydon bill. and the Otis bill
provoked discussions on the whole
liquor situation, and there was a
somewhat unusual alignment on the
Two bills. Senator Carlisle, who is
leading the prohibition forces IN
the senate, and~who is the author OF
the Statewide bill, led the fight for
the Otis measure. In this fight he
was vigorously opposed b Senator
Graydon, who said the bill was dras-
tic, and who during the course OF the