The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-03-05
LAW MAKERS OF
SOUTH CAROLINA
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE ARE
DOING VERY LITTLE BUT
HOLDING ON.
DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA
ooinss and Happenings That Mark
the Progress Of South Carolina Peo.
pie, Gathered Around The State
Capitol.

The house and senate received a
special message from the governor
about the Fortner bill and the TWO
cent passenger rate bill. Something
was also said in the message about
the constitutional provision that an
act shall become law if the governor
does not sign it or return it to the
general assembly without his sigma
ture in three days after he receives 1t.
The message intimated that the legis-
lators would have plenty of time to
pass the Fortner bill and the two cent
rate bill while the governor was con-
sidering the general appropriation
bill, and that unless the two bills
were acted on the governor might call
special session of the general as
sembly next spring.
AS matter of fact, the house has
passed both the Fortner bill and the
two cent passenger rate bill.
Nothing was done in the senate to-
ward redeeming itself. Its>session OF
routine, negation and reaction con-
tinned.
"We are a lawless people" cried
Senator Werner of Oconee county, in
a vigorous speech made against the
.Lawson-Harper-McCraVey compulsory
education bill, which Senator Lawson
had canned up.
Senator Werner said that a compul-
sorry education law could not be en-
forced. He said that the people of
South Carolina had absolute disregard
for law, and told the senators that re-
Gently citizen had said that he could
committe murder in this state with
out fear of punishment. The senator
from Oconee said that compulsory
education would stir Up strife. He
also asked: who in the name of
heaven wants you to elothe his chill
dren?"
The senator said that ne was pre-
pared to talk to the end of the session
against the bill. He yielded to Sena-
tor Carlisle, upon whose motion DE-
bate was adjourned until next day:
House.
In the house occurred something out
of the ordinary, in the refusal of the
house to adopt the free conference
report on the hog cholera serum bill.
The report advised that the house
give up its amendments and accept
the senate bill. Messrs. Belser and
Mi1son argued that it would be better
to stick to the present law and said
that the senate bill was along wrong
lines.
Refusal to adopt the conference re-
port leaves the law as it was, pro-
viding that Clemson college shall fur
nish the serum at cost to persons able
to pay for it and free Of charge to
those not so fortunate. The senate
bill provided that the serum be fur
'nished at cost to all applicants.
The house passed to third reading
the Stuckey bill to empower the in
spectors. of Clemson college to enter
the plant Of any fertilizer manufac-
turer in South Carolina Mr.. Sturkie
Of Calhoun, who championed the bill
in the house, said that the measure
was intended to enable the inspectors
to find out from what source the am
monia in fertilizer was derived.
The Weston bill providing for a
system of medical inspection for
school children of the state was pass
ed to third reading by the house by a
vote Of 50 to 80 after unsuccessful ef-
forts had been made to exempt var
.ious counties from its provisions.
An act to pay state bond held by
a woman in Daytona, Fla, failed OF
passage in the house over the veto OF
the governor, by vote of A to 43.
The act undertook to permit the pay
ment a bond outlawed by an act re-
curing bonds to be presented within
20 years.
The bill by Mr.. McMaster Of Rich.
land relative to excessive stock Is