The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-02-27

because I think that the salary and
travelling expenses allowed to this
official is sufficient without this extra
expense upon the people. {This is $72C
for stenographer.)
Dispensary Litigation.
disapprove Of that part of Section
which provides "the attorney gener-
al is authorized to use any unexpend-
ed balances of appropriation for his
Office for the year 1911 to defray the
expense of defending a suit in the
United States court by the Carolina
Glass company VS.. W. J. Murray, and
i'others. You have already passed an
act allowing s1,50O for trial of this
case and for $4,000, if it should be ap-
pealed, and in my opinion to add this
section makes a waste and a useless
expenditure of the peoples money.
disapprove of Item 6, Section 10, to
provide for the payment of an inspec-
tor, becuase while I approve of the
railroad commission having an inspec-
tor, do not believe that it is right or
constitutional to create an Office in
the appropriation bill. If a separate
bill for this purpose had been passed
I would have had no objection to this
item.
Game Warden Hit Hard.
I disapprove Of Section II in it's en-
tirety, because it is a useless Office and
actually a nuisance in interfering with
what I consider the rights and priv
ileges of the people of the State, and
if it has ever accomplished good for
the people nobody has ever seen or
heard Of it. (This is for the game war
den, $1,000 in alp.
I disapprove Of Item 4, Section 13,
because Item 3, of the same section,
provides a salary of $3.50 for the same
position, and I see no necessity for
this additional salary being paid to
this man, however, if it is q mistake
and the original bill shows that it is
intended for a janitress instead of a
janitor, I do not disapprove it.
I disapprove of Item u, Section 13,
because it is the height of folly to
tax the taxpayers of the State to pay
interest On a debt which is owing to
themselves. The money in the sinking
fund belongs to the taxpayers and
when that money is loaned to the tax
payers it is not right to tax the people
$1,8O0 to pay themselves. Qnterest
item is S1,800).
I disapprove of Item II, Section 13,
because I do not believe it is right for
the taxpayers of South Carolina to be
taxed to pay for the improvements up
on the streets of Columbia, and as the
legislature has not by any act author
lied the improvements, consider this
appropriation unconstitutional, in
that it is paying a debt which was not
contracted for by authority of law.
(Amount s1,917.25).
Special Judge.
I disapproye of 1te' 4, Section 16,
because I have not authorized the ap-
pointment Of any special Judge, and if
such special judge was appointed it
was while there was a disengaged
regular circuit judge, and was, there
fore, unconstitutional.( Amount $685.
I disapprove Of Item 4, Section II,
because I think the expenses Of the
State board of health should be paid
from the contingent fund provided for
in Item of the same section Amount
$4,000.
I disapprove Of Item s, Section II,
because the act specifically provides
that this money shall be expended un-
der the direction of the governor, and
II authorized no such expenditure OF
money and have not been consulted in
regard thereto, and further, the same
is both in violation Of the constitution
and the statutes. (This item is s3,-
289.20 for de6ct for 1917
I disapprove Item 2, Section 20, be-
cause thin that the $4,000 therein
provided for should be paid out of the
appropriation made in Item l, same
section n-scholarships at University of
South Carolina:
I disapprove of item 2, Section "a,
because I see absolutely no use, sense
or reason in taxing the white people