The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-03-05
THE Legislature
Will Meet Thursday to Wind
Up Affairs.
S0L0hS TAKE 4 RECESS.

South Carolina Legislature Has Prac'
ticaIY Adjourned, Recess Being
Taken Merely to Allow Acts Sent
by Governor TO Secretary OF Sta:e
to Become Law.
News and Courier.
As indicated the General Assem-
bly,, to all intents and purposes, ad-
jourred Saturday at 4.30 O'Clock. AS
a usual thing when the Appropriation
Act is finally adopted and all Acts
have been duly ratified and turned
over to the Governor that is tanta-:
mount to adjournment, and such is
the present Legislative situation.
It was reported that twenty.odd
Acts had been turned over to the
Secretary of State without signature.
The lawmakers were anxious that
these Acts should become law. The
Cove ,or had not vetoed any one of
the twenty.odd Acts that he sent to
the Secretary of State; he simply had
not signed them, and it was either
one of two things-to con tinue the
legislative session for lapse of three
DAYS after they were handed the
Governor by virtue of which they BE-
came law, if not vetoed; or the Acts
would slumber in the Office of the
Secretary of State for year without
the force and effect of law. and next
session could be vetoed in the first
days of the session.
Some members were interested in
this and others in another of the
group of Acts filed with the Secretary
of State and these influences combined
and brought about tho plan of taking
recess until Thursday, March 6, at 2
O'Clock.
MANY MAY NOT RETURN.
There will be a slim attendance at
that time, as the sole purpose of the
recess until Thursday is to accomplish
the span of three legislative days. the
time in which the Acts become auto
masica!ly effective. This will also ap-
ply to the three Acts that were
ratified after O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. unless they should be vetoed.
This would not apply to the Acts that
have been turned over to the Secre-
tary Of State, without signature o,
veto, as they are now out of the hands
of the Governor.
The three last Acts ratified were
to allow Sumter, Darlington, Beltor
| and Walhalla to assess abutting pro-
| pertysfor Improvements; the genera
magistrates and the general county
officers Acts. There was no particu
lar reason why these Acts should
have been delayed in the ratification
except that something was to have
| been left to the last.
When the General Assembly meets
| Thursday it will be simply to pas:
resolutions Of thanks and congratula
tions, exchange courtesies and advise
the Governor that the General Assem-.
| bly, is ready to adjoun and inquire il
he has any further communication.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN.
The vote on the veto messages in.
dicate quite clearly that there are
about ten members Of the House and
three or four in the Senate who will
vote with the Governor on any propo-
sition he wants, just so long as be says
it is all right. There are four or five
members of the House who are hero
worshippers OF the Governor and
would accept his view on any and
everything, but the vote indicate this.
This does not mean that his political
following is not much larger on q
political issue but has reference 10
what might be termed a personal
worship.
UNIVERSITY VETOES.
The most important veto was On
the several items connected with the
University Of South Carolina, under
this head the Governor vetoed items
aggregating 1000 for the University,
but both the House aud Senate over.
whelmingly overrode the vetoes. All
the other items were compar atively
small. the largest in impc rtance being
the effort to defeat the historical COM
mission by depriving it of its main
tenance and this was perhaps the
record vote against the sustaining OF