The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-02-25

house took up out Of its order, the
Welch-B e-Barnwell bill relating to
negotiable instruments and passed It
to third reading.
The Earle bill providing for creating
a thirteenth judicial circuit by irving
the Tenth judicial circuit was taken
up by the house and passed to thirc
reading. The bill proposed that An
derson and Oconee should be allowed
to remain in the Tenth circuit and
Greenville and Pickens to be place IL
a new circuit to be known as the
Thirteenth circuit.
The Mixsol bill changing the inner
itance law when a husband dies intes-
tate, so as to give the widow one-half
instead of one-third Of his property,
was killed by the house.
The county supply bill, one OF the
omnibus measures Of the ways and
means committee, vas passed to third
reading by the house.
The house, at the request Cof Mr..
Pyatt, Of Georgetown, passed to thiro
reading the bill by the committee on
fish, game and forestry charging a II.
cense to non-residents who fish for
shad or sturgeon in the waters Of
South Carolina. The licenses are to
be granted by the board Of fisheries
through the county treasurer, and
they are not transferable. County
~treasurers are to be furnished with
license blanks and tags by the board.
On motion Of Mr.. Welch, the bill
by Mr.. Muller requiring railroad COM
panies to provide shelter at their
shops for employees repairing cars,
was passed to third reading with the
proviso that 1t should not apply to rail-
roads less than 20 miles in length.
Mr.. Miller introduced the bill at the
instance of men in the Southern shops
in Columbia.
Senate.
The senate passed a bill authorizing
the establishment Of the pellagra hos.
pital and commission, carrying an ap-
preparation of $4,000, of which $4,000
is to build the hospital which would be
the first in the country.
The senate refused to change the
change the pension laws of this state,
and killed the bill providing an addi-
tional stenographer fer the seventh
circuit which Is composed of Spartan
burg, Cherokee and Union. Hhe house
passed the pension reform bill.
The house took up the Rittenberg
bill to refrom the primary system In
Charleston county and killed it by q
vote Of 81 to A. Five Of the eight
members Of the Charleston delegation
voted against it.
Mr.. Thompson Of Charleston said
that he was not opposed to the bill
but reserved the right to amend 1t on
third reading. He said that he wanied
the Australian ballot system adopted
in Charleston.
On motion Of Mr.. Stevenson, the
house took up out Of its order the
senate bill providing that banks or
ganized under the laws of the state
could enter the federal reserve sys.
tenn and passed it to third readiug. AS
the law stands at present only ma
tional banks car enter reserve system.
To adjourn or not to adjourn on
time will be the question which will
p rplex the general assembly. The
appropriation bill has been reported
to the house by the ways and mea
committee and was taken up for con-
sideration in the house. It will prob
ably be passed to third reading, sent
to the senate the next day, given its
first reading there and referred to the
finance committee of the senate. By
working expeditiously it Is possible
that the finance committee of the SEN
ate NAV be able to report the bill
back soon If the appropriation bill
goes through on the above schedule,
which, by the way, does not allow
any time to repair broken brake
beams, cool hot boxes or stop at flag
stations, 1t can be enrolled as an act
and sent to the governor. Should the
chief executive veto any of it's Sec
tons, it is quite probable that they
can be acted on by the house and by
the senate. allowing the general as
sembly to adjourn sine die after q
whirlwind finish.
The legislators will not draw any
pay after the 21st OF February, as the
40 days Of the regular session will
expire then. For the last two years,
though, the general assembly has
found it necessary to prolong the ses-
sion into March. 1t is possible that
this may be done this year.
Should the general assembly ad-
journ on time, much progressive leg
islation will be left undone. 1t will
require a tremendous effort to get
any second reading bill on the caien-
dar Of either house, unless it Is a 10
cal measure, passed now.