The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-02-28

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the appropriation Act is not the
proper place to provide To-, the
pavalcnt OF money out Of the
treasury unless there has first
been an Act or d Joint Resolu-
tion providing for such payment.
The major portion Of his many
vetoeS is the result Of the laxity
in providing for the various
amounts. There was an item pro
viGiug 81 500 as salary for L rail.
road Inspector, this was put into
the appropriation bill, the COVER
nor in scrptinizlng the bill discov-
cred that there was no such Office
as railroad inspector and that it
was attempted to create this Of
tee through the appropriation
bill. He vetoed it Of course, and
to my utter amazement the House
sustained him. Mr.. Stevenson
must have been out. and there
was no one to give the cue. \
reading Of the bill followed
by d reading OF the vetoes will
show that the governor has not
gone over this important matter
indiHerently. but that he has
given it Very careful copsidera-
ton, going into It's minutest de-
tail. as per example there was an
item for the Janitor S12O, and
another item reading the same
way, the governor vetoed one OF
them: out said if the Legislature
intended the item for the jani-
tress he did not veto it. An ex-
animation showed the bill pro
vided for the jauitor twice, but
one of the items was intended to
be for the janitreSS, it was a cier-
zeal error in transcribing, how
ever if not corrected it meant
two salaries for one person. This
is mentioned to show the care he
has taken in the examination Of
this important matter. Ordlnar-
ilv where d legislature refuses to
agree with the chief executive, it
lessons the influence Of that OFF,
Ger with the masses, but IN this
case If is known that the general
assembly has been antagonistic
to the governor from the start,
and whatever action it takes to-.
wards him is looked upon as a
Iatter Of course. The masses
realize. and have for a long time
that with this legislature, it mat
terS not what reformation the
governor would undertake he
would be blocked by those who
are seeking his political destruc-
ton. there is a dog in the manger
spirit in that body. and until the
voters have had an opportunity
to express themselves at the prl-
mary this summer, this measly
spirit will continue
The daily newspapers do not
give enough information as to
what takes place in the leglsla'
ture for their readers to get an
intelligent idea Of the matters
they are interested in. the &C
counts are not only brief, but
they are discriminatingly partial;
# a man makes a speech in favor
of a matter agreeable to them,
they give a good synopsis OF
what he said. on the other hand,
they merely mention the opposl.
ton as having "ta!hed at length
or Mr.. So and So ''inveighed
against it" thus depriving the
readers of what they should
know. The bill which seeks to
do by law what a political party
can do for its regulation, only es-
capped by one senator who was IN
favor OF sustaining the COVER
nor's veto being out Of the cham
Der at the time Of the vote, and
did not return until the veto was
announced. just too late to have
his vote recorded; had he been
present this Act would not be a
law. opposed this measure and
made a speech against it, the au-
thor Of the bill told me my speech
was mot only logical but that it
had good argument, and yet the
newspapers barely mentioned my
opposition, whereas they devot.
ed considerable space to the
speeches Of the advocates Of it,
and too, most Of these speeches
were inflated with bot air. The
House delegation supported the
dill: it pro:ides that only citizens
should vote in the primary. but I
opposed it on the ground that
do not think the legislature has
any more right to prescribe rules
for q political party than it has
to prescribe rules for the Farm,
ers Union: the regulations Of a
party are for the party itself, and
if the Democratic convention
should adopt a rule that is in con-
tlict with a statute Of this char
acter. the courts would kill the
statute: shouId the convention
insist upon allowing its constltu-
ton to remain as it is now writ
ten. the new law enacted at this
session would be worthless and
a nullity. | think some Of those
who voted to pass this Act over
the veto did so under a misurder-
standing, | was talking to MIR.
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