The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-04
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Preparatory to adjournment sine
| die, the house killed all Che second
reading house bills on its calendar.
This is usually an indication that the
session of the general assembly is
near its close.
The house passed the concurrent
resolution from the senate urging the
South Carolina delegation in congress
to use It's efforts to have government
standards specified in contracts for fu-
ture delivery Of cotton.
The Stuckey-Lawson concurrent
resolution providing fo ran investiga-
ton of the prices of fertilizers by the
! attorney general passed the house.
The house killed the senate concur
rent resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of a committee to investi-
gate the advisability of the purchase
by the state Of lime deposits On the
Santee river, near Pinckney's land
ing.
The senate concurrent resolution,
providing for the compilation by the
var GUS county boards of pensions OF
a list of soldiers and widows Of SOL
diers receiving pensions, was passed
by the house. The lists are to be sent
to the attorney general.
The Belzer bill providing for the
assessment and equalization Of pro-
perty for taxation was killed by the
house.
The senate bill allowing sheriffs to
accept passes on railroads was killed
on third reading by the house after
a lively fight into which the question
of corporation influence on sherifs
and members of the house was in
jected. The sheriff's pass bill was
killed by a vote of As to "a.
The house killed the Carlisle bill
! repeating the state income tax law.
The passage Of the Carlisle bill was
urged on the grounds that the state
tax on incomes was inequitable and
farcically enforced and that the pas
sage of the federal income tax law SUBJ
jected income taxpayers to a double
burden. The bill was killed by a vote
of 81 to "a.
The house killed the Crouch bill re-
curing architects employed by the
state to give bond for one-fourth the
cost of buildings they designed.
The Stevenson bin, correcting an
error in the act creating the Thir-
teenth judicial circuir, was passed to
third reading by unanimous consent
in the house. '.
Senate.
Debate on the Earle-Stanley-Mixon-
begun In the senate, continued
throughout the night session and will
be taken UP again Immediately after
the morning hour, when the indica-
tons are that it will be killed, or the
committee amendments adopted. -
The opponents Of the two-cent rate
contend that it is unfair to give the
man of means the advantage Of a two
cent rate in purchasing a mileage
book and to require the man who can
not afford to invest at once In trans
portation for from 500 to 1000 miles
to pay two and a half and three cents
q mile. The opponets answer this by
saying that it is the same discrimina-
ton that is made in favor of q large
Shipper as against a small shipper;
that the man paying the railroad $40
in a lump sun makes that much
money available for the use Of the
railroad in it's business.
Senator Young said that the pro-
ponents of the two-cent rate bill ad-
mitted that it would prove confsca-
tory in the case of short lines, yet, he
said, they would have a trunk line
haul passengers for 100 miles more or
less within the state Yor two cents.
The logic Of this view Of the matter
Senator Young said that he could not
see.