Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-21
APPROPRIATIONS DIsAPPRovED.
Governor BIsase Gave House and Sem
ate a Bio Surprise Over Money Bill.


Governor Blease sprung big sur
prise on the members Of the house
and senate last Saturday night by dis
approving items in the appropriation
bill to an aggregate amount Of about
$91 900.
The house had adopted a resolu-
tion to adjourn at noon Saturday, and
although 1t had to turn the clock
back and work long beyond that hour,
many members assuming, as usual,
that the adjournment would take
place according to schedule, had left
for their homes.
Along after dark Saturday night
there came a message from the COVER
nor bringing information OF objection
to numerous items in the appropria-
ton bill summarized In the following:
State Reformatory, heating plant,
ETC.. $4,000: Historical Society index
clerk, $1,000; Live Stock association,
81, 900; State Fair society, $4,000;
Colored Fair, $1,000; Comptroller
Generals investigation fund, $4,000;
actuary, insurance department, $1,000;
clerk in treasurer's office, $500; law
clerk, Attorney General, $3.50; deficit
Audubon society. $1,150: water ac-
count, city Of Columbia, $1,000; In
surance armory, $31.50; maintenance
State House and grounds, $4,000; ar
senal at Beaufort, $400; state geolo-
gist's contingent fund. $1,000; inspec-
tors and clerk commissioner Of agri-
culture, $4,400; Code commissioner,
extra work, $3.50; enforcement pure
food law, $1,000; auditorium UniVer-
sity Of South Carolina, $16,666; heat
ing plant. University Of South Caro-
lima, $4,000; extension inf1rmary Win
n. 0rtt
Winthrop, $3.50; colored college, Or
angeburg, $10,05O; stenographer,
Prof. Tate, $720; Confederate Home,
Charleston, $4,000. Total disapprov-
ed, $91, ,927.50. .,
or the 124 members Of the house all
had gone home except 64, and IN this
dilemma the question Of passing the
various items over the governors veto
was taken up. 1t requires a two
thirds vote to override the governors
veto: but the house was In an ugly
mood and gave that vote repeatedly.
In one instance only five members
sided with the governor and In anoth-
er seven. The closest vote was a tie,
and in no case was there majority
in favor Of sustaining veto. The
action Of the house Is summarized as
follows:
lars comptroller's Investigations; $1,5Oo
insurance actuary, $3.50 law clerk for
attorney general. $1,150 Audubon bal
ance, $1,000 contingent for state geol-
ogist, $4,000 for heating plant at uni
versity, $4,000 for heating plant at
colored college, $1,000 for statistician
of department of agriculture. =,
Veto not sustained: Six hundred
dollars for treasurer's clerk. $7,50O
for water in Columbia, $3.50 for In
surance armory, $400 for arsenal; $3.50
for Code commissioner, $16.666 for
University of South Carolina, $4,000
for infirmary at Winthrop, $3.50 for
critics for Winthrop college, $4,000 for
artesian we'll at Colored college, $1,000
for pure food inspectors, $72O for
Prof. Tate's clerk, $4,000 for state
House grounds, $2,400 for factory in
spector and expenses. $4,000 for Con-
federate Home, $4,000 for Reforma-
tory at Florence, $1,000 for index
clerk of historic commission, $1,000
for Live Stock association, $4,000 for
state Fair society, $1,000 for Colored
Fair. Total, $64,397.5O.
The house concluded its consider
alton of the message at 11.20 o'clock
and passed the matter on to the SEN
ate, which sustained the governor on
all items but three, $3.50 for three
critics for Winthrop. $720 for a stem
ographer for Prof. Tate and $4,000 for
an artesian we'll for the colored COL
lege at Orangeburg.
In all only about $4,000 was finally
appropriated over the governors veto.