Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-01-28
SHORTER HOURS FOR WOMEN.
House PASSES Bill for 81 Hours Per
Week-Other Legislation.

| Columbia, Jan. 22.-The General
Assembly to-day concluded all of the
| elections that were scheduled for the
present session. A. II. Hawkins, of
Newberry, was elected a member of
| the board of directors Of the peni-
| tentiary, and DR.. w. G.. Houseal was
| reelected member Of the board Of
visitors of the Medical College at
| Charleston.
w. ii. Glenn, Of Anderson, was
elected the other director of the pen
itentiary yesterday.
The House buckled down to real
hard work and disposed Of a great
mass Of legislation, the more i'm
pOrtant measures considered being
Mr.. McQueen's bill to reduce the
legal rate of interest to per cent,
which measure, after full discus
sion, was defeated, largely on the
ground that interest was cOmmod-
ity that fluctuates to some extent by
the demand.
After considerable discussion the
House passed Mr.. Wyche's bill,
which provides that industrial and
manufacturing corporations cannot in
the future avail themselves of what
is known as the fellow servant" law.
In other words, if the Senate an
railroads is intended to extend to
industrial and manufacturing corpo-
ratlons with reference to personal in
juries. This question Of the applica-
ton Of the "fellow servant" law i'm
the matter Of accidents has long been
mootcd one and the House to-day
gave its approval to embrace all
classes OF enterprises, together with
the railroads in the matter of Habil-
ity.
For I've Working Women.
Another important measure that
WAS passed to-day to its third read
ing was 0he proposed and pressed by
tiihrrd- Thompson, 0r Charleston.
AS the law nov stands it is unla wful
for women to be employed in mer-
captile establishments for longer
than sixty hours per week. Under
the terms Of the bill that passed the
House to-day Chc number Of hours is
lowered to nity-four per week and in
this shape the bill was passed by the
House. The rovisiOns Of the bill
arc as follow:
'Section 1870. The hours of labor
Tor women in mercantile establish
ments in this State shall be limited
to fitty-fOur hours per week, not to
exceed ten hours in any one day. and
such females shall not be allowed to
work later than the hour of 10
o clock y. IN. The enforcement of this
law is placed in the hands of the
commissioner or inspectors or duly
authorized agents OF the commits
Sion"r Any employee or employees
OF female labor in mercantile cstab-
lishments who shall violate the pro-
visions OF this act shall be deemed
guilty of a miSdcmeanor, and shall
be punished by a fine not less than
$40 nor more than $40. or imprisOn-
ment OF not less than ten days nor en-
cceding thirty days"
Checks WITHOUT Money.
Another bill that is to be credited
to Charleston member is that by
Mr.. Barnwel. The present law
against issuing checks without hav-
ing the money in the bank to meet
the check has been found to work
so we'll, except that it does not go
far enough that Mr.. Barnwell has
undertaken to extend its ScoDe SO as
to include the issuance of checks bv
corporations and to hold the officer
or the corporation issuing the check
without money in bank liable for the
violation Of the law. The text of the
Dill as passed by the House is as fol-
lows:
Section 20S. Any person who
shall hereafter draw and utter anv
check, draft or order upon a bank,
banking house, person. firm or cor
poratiOn with which. or whom he or
the person or persons, or any corpo-
ratloa, association, society or COM
pa",, Tor wnu.H he is then acting.
nave not at the Time sufficient funds
10 meet the same, and shall thereby
OBTAIN from anOthe!, money or other
thing Of value or in luce such person
10 surrender or post )Onc any remedy
ne may have against such drawer. or
the persons or cor IOrations repre-
sentcd by him. shal. be guilty Of a
! mlSdcmeanOr, and, upon conviction.
san be punished by fine or mprs-
ohh'eht in the discretion of the
cou' t. The offcnse to be within the
~. .lSdiction OF the Magistrates
Court if the value of the property
| obtained be less than $40, and be
punished by fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or Imprisonment not
| exceeding thirty days: Provided,
| Ihat II such person shall deposit with
the drawer Of such paper within 30
| Gays after presentation for payment
| or said check by person drawing the
same, funds sufficient to meet the
same. with all costs and interest
which may have accrued, the prose-
cution under this act shall be dis
| continued"
| by Mr.. Mcdonald.
Mr. Mcdonald, OF Oconee, has pro-
| posed the following: To give the
| Jury the right to consider abusive
language as sufficient to bring on a
| dlillculty in case of simple assault
| Or simplc assault and batterY