The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1913-02-20
LAWMAKERS Of
SOUTH CAROLINA
PART OF MESSAGE is STRICKEN
OUT COMMITTEE REPORTS
TO SENATE.
MANY BILLS INTRODUCED
The Judiciary Committee Considers
Only Legislative Matters in Con.
troversy Between Senator Tilman
and Governor BIease.
MANY BILLS INTRODUCED
Senate-Monday.

and Governor BleaSe.
Senate-Monday.
An executive session Of Is minutes
on Spartanburg appointments opened
the senate's session Monday night The
calendar was cleared of uncontested
matter. Among the new bills intro
duced was one by Senator Laney, Sen
ator Banks and Senator Beamguard:
the senate committee appointed to in.
yestigate the needs of the State Hos
pital for the insane, providing for the
sale Of the present hospital and its
removal to the State Park.
Another brief debate took place
when the McLaurin per cent III.
terest bill was called from the calen.
Oar and was adjourned until fut
ure date. Several senators discuss
ed the measure. Stress was laid on
the fact that the interest law in South
Carolina is not observed, and Senator
Werner thought there should be some
means Of compelling compliance with
the present law.
House-Monday.
A substitute bill for the several
measures providing for changing the
primary law was reported in the
house Monday. The substitute meas
ure will have the centre of the stage
when the house takes up the matte.
Of changing the primary law.
The bill to establish fund from
which the state could grant life in.
surance and annuities to its citizens
is dead foe this session of the gen
eral assembly.
The house killed the bill to increase
the salaries Of state officers, justices
Of the supreme court, circuit judges
and member sof the general assembly
By vote Of 81 to 80 the house re
fused to pass the bill providing fol
the registration of vital statistics with
the judges Of probate.
Senate-Tuesday.
The Christensen bill to require the
fling Of reports by teachers, princi
pals and sUpeCintendents Of schools
was passed after being amended ane
after considerable debate. Senator
Appel led a fight against a section
Of the measure requiring private
schools to return reports, which re
suited in compromise.
Senator Epps, Senator Hough and
Senator Crouch were appointed to
represent the senate on the joint com
mittee to investigate the Confederate
infrmary.
The senate for over an hour listen
ed with rapt attention to Senator Nc
Laurin explain the provisions of his
warehouse bill The author Of the
bill does not wish it passed until ii
has been given full consideration, in
as much as he expects it to be SC
sweeping in its effects.
House-Tuesday.
By two votes the house killed the
bill to require editors Of newspapers
and periodicals published in South
Carolina to throw open the columns
of their journals on demand Of any
and every one who considered that
anything appeared therein had reflect.
ed on his character or standing in the
community and providing a penalty OF
a fine and $500 and Imprisonment for
80 days for failure to print free any
communication which did not contain
obscene language from the person
who toek the trouble to write it and
send it to the editor.
The appropriation bill was reported
Ia the house last night. 1t carries
total Of s2,o92,524.01, an excess OF
seS,S46.Gs over the sum appropriated
in 1912, but it is claimed that there
will have to be no increase in the tax
levy this year.
Senate-Wednesday.
By vote Of Is to II, which came
an a test motion, the senate passed
to third reading the Sinkler bill
transferring the property of the Medi.
cal College Of South Carolina to the
state and establishing state nedi-
cal college, following opposition
mainly on the part Of the finance
committee on financial grounds, and
after spirited debate. The bill had
already passed the house.
A number of new bills were intro
duced in the senate.
iouse-Wednesday. =.
Hazing in any college in South Car
olina will become misdemeanor
punishable by fine Of not more than
$50 or Imprisonment for not longer
than 80 days if the senate passes
the bill which the house sent to third
reading after debate.
The house agreed to establish the
John de Ia How Industrial school for
destitute children in Abbeville ceun-
ty, between Abbeville and NcCorm-
Sex, about four miles from the line of
the Charleston & Western Carolina
railroad.
The house refused to take the re-
sponssbiuty Of acting On the cotton