Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-02-20
LEGISLATURE CLOSES FRIDAY;
WORK OF THE LAST week
(The State, Monday.)

1HCTS lS every TedSOn 10 De-
lieve that the General Assembly
will adjourn sine die on next
Friday, allowing the members to
celebrate Washington's birthday
at home. With the appropriation
bill, the supply bill and other
omnibus" measures sent to the
Senate, the House will probably
take it's ease this week, spending
the time in debating bills which
even if they are passed, have no
chance of going through the
Senate this late in the session.
The consideration of veto mes
sages will of course occupy part
of the time of the House.
During the last week the House
passed the McCravey compulsory
school attendance bill. the bill es-
tablishing the DR.. John de la
Howe Instrial School and Home
for Destitute Children in Able
vile county. the fire insurance
rating bill and the bill to provide
for the participation of South
South Carolina in the Panama
Pacific exposition in San Fran
cisco.
Two of the big measures af-
fecting life insurance have been
continsed until next session.
They are the State life insurance
fund bill and the compulsory in
vestment bill, both of which will
appear on the calendar next ses-
sion and will probably be either
passed or killed then.
The Senate begins the last
week of the present session of
the General Assembly Monday
night at 8 o'clock. What has
gone before has been in prepara-
ton for this week. The Senate
has been sitting in it's chamber,
Aow hot and now cold, and al
Ways with an atmosphere too
close for comfort, slowly making
way for the several Statewide
measures that must be considered
this week or passed up until
next session.
The Earle bill 20 provide a flat
rate of two cents on the railroads
of South Carolina is a special
reading for Monday night after
third reading bills, and if taken
up it is safe to say that little
else will be done than to con-
slider it, although it is on the
calendar reported unfavorably.
This bill has been on the calen-
dar since the early part of the
session and was held back two
or three weeks by the committee
in order to give the railroads a
hearing.
Other bills on the calendar of
Senate are: The Rittenberg bill
to give Charleston high license,
a special order for Tuesday after
third reading bills, the Denis
bill to tax timber, the Lawson
McCravey compulsory education
bill, the Clifton State highway
bill, the Strait pension bill, the
Nicholson primary law bill, the
Mars bill to abolish the hosiery
mill at the penitentiary, the
Weston bill to establish system
of medical examination of school
children, the Nicholson bill to
create a State board of examiners
of teachers, the Weston bill to
establish the office of railroad
inspector for the railroad COM
mission, the appropriation bill,
and the Laney- Banks-Beamguard
bill to transfer the State Hos
pitai for the Insane to the State
park property and to dispose of
the present plant and lands. Nu-
merous other contested bills are
on the Senate calendar.
There is reason to believe that
the compulsory education bill will
pass because the Senate passed
the Carlisle bill to give Spartan
burg county compulsory attend
ance.
The Weston medical examina-
ton bill may pass with numerous
counties exempted. Senator
Weston has. requested that it be
passed for Richland county if for
no other. The Richland sena-
tors bill to provide a railroad
inspector will probably pass the
upper branch.
The Senate up to this time has
refused to consider the House
resolution fixing Friday, Febru-
ary Il, as the day for adjourning
sine die.