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CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE

CAPITAL CORRESPONDENTS
Columbia, S. c., Feb. 2znd, 1918.
When I sent my last letter it
was with the full expectation, if
not the hope, that 1t would be
the final one for the session of
1913, but we cannot tell what a
day will bring forth, and our cal
culations may be for naught; it
was fully expected we would
wind up Friday night and get
home to celebrate Washington's
birthday, in fact. because of not
getting through I had to forego
the pleasure of being a guest at
a banquet in Charleston in honor
of my old college chum, George.
Just why the delay, would be
hard for me to explain, it's first
one cause then another, but in
my opinion, mostly cussedness
on the part of a minority who
are determined to prevent the
enactment of a local compulsory
education law. and these few are
in the midst of q hlabuster which
may last all through the coming
week. The appropriation and
the supply bills are yet to be
acted upon before they can go to
the free conference for the final
touches, and if this flabuster
keeps up I do not know but that
the Governor will yet be called
upon to have an extra session to
provide the necessary money to
run the government.
The forty day limit is out and
passed, and the legislators who
are doing overtime are not get
ting pay, they are working for
nothing and furnishing them
selves which I submit is an ex-
pensive luxury in these piping
times of money depression.
I hardly know just what was
done tais week more than the
ratification of the Acts already
passed. and the relieving Of the
air compressions which have
been burdening the systems of
the several statesmen; even Bob
White looks a little shrivelled
since he made his speech which
was s'Mr. Speaker I move to
table the bill" The bill was to
increase the county board of
commissioners to four members.
it passed the Senate and when it
reached the House Robert did
not look upon it with approving
eyes, so he determined he would
take this measure as provoca-
ton to starsle the House with
his maiden speech; the day and
the hour arrived, the galleries
were filed with the beauty of the
South, the trees without appear
ed to be looking in at the win
dows to nod theic approval. at
last he arose, his rising was a
signal for silence. then Robert
uncorked himself to let fzz his
motion ''to table the bill;;" it was
done so grandly, and so elo
quently as ever Robert Emmett
sent an oratorical bolt into a par
liment. The motion to table pre-
vailed, and the bill to increase
the service for better efficiency
for the county, fattened itself
out upon the table as if it had
been run over by a locomotive,
but the darned thing did not like
to stay on the table, and by some
means it hitched itself on to
another bill and made its escape
from the watchful eyes of Rob
ert, going on it's way to a legal
passage, and it is now safely
lodged among the laws upon the
statute books; the Governor has
appointed for the other two COM
missioners, Mr.. G. J. Haley of
Wilson, and Mr.. Bruce W. De-
Schamps of Pinewood, and when
Robert wakes up he will discov-
er that when the Senator en-
deavors to do a service for the
county it usually has been we'll
considered, and it is done with a
view to the ceunty's good, and
too, it never pays to brag unit!
you are sure the thing you pro-
pose to do has been or will be
done.
The Mitchum bill spoken of
last week got . divided report
from the finance committee, and
Notwithstanding there is great
merit in the proposition: l was
afraid it would not get through
this session because it carries an
appropriation, and this commit
tee is not disposed to give appro-
priations to new institutions at
this time, so I told Mr.. Mitchum
that it would be the part of wis
dom to let the bill rest upon the
calendar for this session and at
the next we can take it up and
make a fight for it; were it not
so late I might undertake hand
ling it now but I explained to
the author if the bill was press
ed now it would oe killed, and he
has agreed to let it go over.
My Magistrates bill is still on
the House calendar and I think
is among the number to get car
ried over to the next session, it
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