The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-03-04
HOUSE STANDS FAST.
REFUSES TO SUBMIT TO SEN ATE,
IN APPROPRIATIONS.
Allow Former Items to Stand with
Takes up Items i'm Bill Seriatim for
Some Time. Then Adopts Rcmaind-
er.

Columbia, Feb. 27.-When the gem
eral appropriation bill was returned
to the house yesterday morning with
amendments by the senate, the house
after some debate decided not to
adopt the usual proceeding Of refus-
ing to concur in the amendments as a
the committee on free conference, on
account of the fact that the senate
had slashed it to the tune OF some
100000. The point was made that
by considering the senate amend
ments one by one, the house by reg
istering its agreement or disagree
ment with them would save the COM
mittee on free conference endless
labor. However, when section 27 had
been reached the house, on motion of
Mr.. Nicholson, registered non-concur-
renee in all the rest of the senate
amendments.
At the morning session Of the house
the senate amendments to the first 20
sections of the general appropriation
bill were considered.
The following is the result of the
mornings work:
House refused to concur in senate
amendment striking out proviso in
regard to checking governors ex-
penditure OF special fund for en-
fOrcement Of law.
House refused to concur in senate
amendment raising salary Of clerk IN
secretary of state's's Office from ST.
500 to $1,000.
| House refused to concur in senate
amendment raising salary Of chief
clerk in State treasurer's office from
SI.700 to s1,800.
House refused to concur in senate
amd dment striking out $4,000 item
for steel filing case in State treas
urer's Office
House refused to concur in senate
amendment cutting item of $4,000
for maintenance of militia to $751;
coo.
House refused to concur in senate
amendment striking out item of S10,-
600 for National Guard encampment
in South Carolina.
House concurred in senate amend
ment cutting appropriation of $4,000
for tribal support Of Catawba In
dams to $3.50.
House concurred in senate amend
ments to items for salaries of judges,
solicitors and court stenographers on
account OF the addition of the Thir-
teenth circuit.
House refused to concur in senate
amendment reducing the salary of the
supreme court librarian from $1,000
to $1,000.
The house non-concurred to senate
amendment providing for $1,000 for
travelling expenses of circuit judges
The house non-concurred in all the
senate amendments to the section VI
the health department, including tie
elimination Of the item of $4,000
fer tuberculosis hospital.
The house non-concurred in the
senate amendment cutting the item
of $4,7O4 for unusual repairs at the
University of South Carolina to So
7O4.
BY a vote of 5S to 81 the house
refused to concur in the senate
amendment striking out the item OF
$4,000 for law building at the
University of South Carolina.
AT LAO o'clock the house took q
recess until p. m.
At the afternoon session the house
concurred in the following senate
amendments: Reducing the salary of
oculist at State Hospital for the In
snne from $500 to $3.50; allowing
$4,000 to cover State Park claims; re.
ducing to $500 the item of $4,000.
Concurrence was refused in respect
of the follwing senate amendments:
Striking out the $4,000 allowed
winthrop college for gymnasium,
and the $4,000 allowed the same
college for additional dOrmitory and
accommodations striking out the
$4,000 for primary department
building and the $1,000 for a super
intendent's residence, in the section
relating to the Institution for the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind; reducing to
S255,000 the item of $29O.0O0 for
maintenance Of the state Hospital for
the Insane; reducing to 200 the
| item of $500 for regents of the
hospital; striking out the item of $685.
900 for building and equipment for
the South Carolina Industrial school.
When action had been taken upon
this last item, the house adopted the