The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-03-06
TWO HOUSES RECEDED
Until TODAY
TO PROTECT BILLS UNSIGNED BY
THE GOVERNOR--MANY We
TOES OVERRULED.

OF forensic hreWOrkS, concealed DUR
ing the earlier session under the
mass of good humor and apparent
Cancellation that marked the opening
days, the South Carolina General As
sembly last night growled, showed
its teeth and then calmly waded
through score of vetoes that the
Governor had affixed to the annual
appropriation bill. The Governor
vetoed two sections and twenty-eight
separate items of the bill. Of these,
all but eight items were passed over
the veto, the House sustaining four
vetoes and the Senate upholding n
equal number. All the main appro-
priations went through usually by
large margins above the required
two-thirds. The two Houses COM
pleted work on the appropriation
bill about 4 o'clock Sunday morning
and then agreed to recede from
business until z o'clock Thursday.
The reason for the return is that
the Governor has sent back to the
Legislature without his signature
some thirty acts. If the Legislature
had adjourned Sunday morning, as
was expected, tine thirty would have
died an unnatural death, smothered
under the pocket Veto. By reced-
ing instead of adjourning, the Legis-
lature allows the required three days
to elapse, and thus the bills, though
unsigned by the Governor, become
law.
The week started with the appro-
priation bill the main business, the
one mill school tax and the compul-
sorry education measures being rath-
er in the nature of side lines.
The Senate had the appropriation
bill for it's first business and it came
up Wednesday night. The bill, with
a few amendments, was passed and
then sent to free conference, that
the differences between House and
Senate might be settled without
aly further trouble.
After ratification of the appropri-
alton bill as agreed on in free con-
ference the two Houses had nothing
to do but wait for the Governors
action. This came Saturday in the
form of a message vetoing two Sec
tions and twenty-eight separate items
of the appropriation bill.
Notable among the vetoed items
were five of the nine items providing
for the support and extension of the
State University. One of these was
$4,000 for general expenses, one
was SIT, 900 for heating plant, one
was SIS, 900 for a new dining room
and one was $4,000 for new dor
mitory. All these items were passed
over the Governors veto by large
majorities. Equally interesting was
the overruling of the veto OF the en-
tire section providing for the State
historical commission. On this Sec
ton, too, the Governors veto was
overruled.
But four of the vetoes, most OF
them of rather minor importance,
were upheld by the House, and the
Senate repeated the Houses tactics,
dropping out four unimportant
items carrying about $4,000 alto
gether.
Thus, when Sunday morning
dawned, the Legislature had come
through with a rush and had m'yde
up for previous delay by a rushing
passage of the appropriation bill in
spite of the Governors vetoes.
Friday the House sustained the
veto of the bill prov:uing for the
transfer of the State Hospital for
the Insane to State Park and giving
the sinking fund commission the
right to sell for not less than ST.
the property at present oc-
cupied by the asylum. The Senate
o,,;o,,el,, nossed the bill over