Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-02-26
HOUSE NO REooNyENE To-N1GHr
Two-DoIlaf Road Tax for Oconee.
Now Office Created.

present session of the General AS
sembly has expired, but we have been
unable to adjourn sine die. The req
son that we are not adjourning at
the expiration of the forty days is
that the Senate Is behind the House
In the work. The House has com
pleted all work on the calendar to
be done at this session and it wait
ing on the Senate to pass the appro-
priation bill and the county supply
Dill and return them to the House
TO act on he Senate's amendments.
Inc senate ina been taking up most
OF It's time considering bills that the
house has already passed and sent
10 the upper branch for action. Had
the state appropriation and county
supply bills passed both branches we
could have adjourned for the session, !,
but on account of the Senate's delay
we Will have to come back next week.
me House adjourned Friday night
untll wednesday night, February 26.
we are merely waiting on the SEN
ate TO CIV us the remaining neces-
sary work to be done.
Most OF the important bills OF
statewide interest have been con-
tlnued until next session and will be
acted on then. The bills Of State
wide importance that have passed
TINS session are: The "Bill to remove
the State Hospital for the Insane to
the State Park" which is about five
miles from Columbia; the "Bill max
ing Charleston Medical College a
State institution" and some other
bills may yet become law of State
vide interest that are now pending
in the Senate.
We have moIn, tbo eoII~ -
visions for Oconee county during the
present session of the LEGISLATURE. TO
wit: A two-dollar communication road
tax Ito take effect October Is, 1879
have about settled on the a%ppropria-
ton for road purposes, and have
passed a law creating the Office of
supervisor of Schools" or, as it is
sometimes called, Assistant Superin-
tendent of Education, who must be
a competent m Her term OF
office will begin July first and con-
tinue until her successor Is %appoint-
ed, and her duties will be to visit the
schools, assist the teachers in organ
izing their classes, ETC., call on nar-
ents who have children not attend
Ing school and persuade them to
send their children to school. In
other words, she will be a mission
airy among u country schools. We
think that this supervisor Of schools
can n will do much good towards
getting more pupils into school. l.
think 1T will take the place Of COM
pulsory education. Instead Of fore
ing the children into school she
will love them into school, Christ
taught us to love people into doing
things instead of forcing them to do
them. And that is the example we
are en~deavoring to persue. This new
ONCE has been created and tried in
apout ten counties OF the State, and
Mr. Swearingen, the State Superin-
tendent OF Education, tells me it is
a magnificent success.
nave provided for three weeks
or Count IN March Tor Ocouee lone
week o y criminal business and two
weeks tOr the CoOrt OF Common
EieaS' rms viii help to relieve. the
dockeI.
We have made u final attempt
10 e three men for rural policemen
Ior oconee county as follows: For
westminster, j. II. Mason; Walhalla,
y. I. walker seneca, H; ID. Grant
l Understand tn Governor has
PROMISED 10 commission these gentle
ineh, put IL ne refuses to commission
lneil theTe VIII PROBABLY be no rural
pollcemen Tor 'conee for the ensuing
year. we made a new and final rec
or these gentlemen,
ana Snerlh DAVIS signed the recon-
with us, and according to
Jaw, the governor shall commission
tnem' u II ne does not, 1T will be
MS lault ana not ours, and, there
.ore, ne Will De the ons responsible
iOr M ri raj nGIIpn"nn onI nof.,x1
But the Governor has been acting
very c~OurteOuSly towards the mem