The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-21
FIRST WEEK OF The
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BOTH HOUSES RECESSED FRIDAY
UNTIL THIS WEEh.
4 Review of the Work OF the Past
Week-Inauguration is to Take
Place on Tuesday.

Colnmbia. Jan. 20.-Twelve O'CLOCK
tomorrow will mark one week since
the general assembly of 1913 conFen-
,ad On Friday the house adjourned un-
II, II o'clock tomorrow, and the senate
a1ntil s o'clock tonight, so that at the
end of the first actual week the SEN
ate will have held five sessions anu
the house four. 1t takes Few Gays
for a new legislature to get It's pear
inss and to get down to steady WORK
During the past week, however inc
-various committees have been getting
organized a large number OF DlilS
have heen introduced, and the prona-
bility seems to be that there Will De d
good deal of real hard work this week
Governors Message.
~seven messages have been sent III
from Governor Blease. Unless some
thing calling for special messages de-
yelops, it is probable that the COVER
NOS, has already sent in about all the
communications he will have for the
nresent session, except, of course MS
reasons for pardons, paroles and COM
mutations, and his appointments ootn
of which go to the senate.
Message No. i was the annual mes
sage; Message No. 2 transmitted the
governors Chester speech in reply 70
the Augusta session of the dispensary
winding-up committee; Message No. 3
transmitted the; governors address
before the Conference of Governors n
Richmond;S Message No. 4 was the
message on newspapers, Senator Til
man and w. E. Gonzales, and urging
restrictions upon newspapers; No. .
transmitted the report of the 1911
winding-up commission; No. 6 trans
nitted the resignation Of Mr.. julius n.
Walker as a member of the board OF
trustees of the South Carolina univer-
sity, and No. I called attention to
mistakes in the Acts of 1912.
The 'Tillman-Gonzales" Message.
The Tillman-GonzaIes message, as
it has come to be called, created con-
siderable sensation during its reading
in the two houses and since. In the
senate it was ordered printed in the
journal, with leave to Senator II imam
to have his reply, if he desired to re-
ply, incorporated in the journal. In
the house, somewhat by agreement be-
tween Mr.. Rembert and Mr.. Stevenson,
it was referred to the judiciary COM
mittee along with Mr.. Rembert's bill
regulating the publication of certain
articles in newspapers, the matter OF
printing it in the journal to be acted
upon by the house later when the
committee reports. Washington dis
patches say that Senator Tillman has
prepared a reply to be submitted to
the general assembly.
Bill on Newspapers.
Mr.. Rembert's bill on newspapers
requires a newspaper or other perlodl-
cal publishing attacks on person to
publish the reply or explanation
without charge and to give the reply
the same prominence as the original
article and provides for a fine OF not
less than $500 and Imprisonment for
not less than thirty days for violation
of its provisions.
1t is not impossible that one OF the
fights of the session may be preclp1-
tated by this bill, which Mr.. Renbert
has introduced in the house.
The 'Primary Bill"
A bill in regard to the primary law
has been introduced in both branches
in the senate by Mr.. B. E. Nichol-
son, of Edgefeld, and in the house by
Mr. w. H. Nicholson, of Greenwood
The bill would require that a new en-
rolment be provided for by the clubs
six months before any primary. In
order to enrol one must take an oath
that he has been a resident Of the State
two years, Of the county one year, and
that he has not enrolled in any other
club. Club rolls must be certified to
and filed with the clerk OF court thirty
days before the first primary.
\ To Abolish Hosiery Mill.
Mr.. C. c. Wyche, of Spartanburg, has
introduced in the house a bill to abol-
iSh the hosiery mill. and bill to
similar effect has been introduced IN