The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-03-12
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HAS ADJOURNED
Columbia.
Committees Named.

Committees Named.
Lieut.. Gov. Smith, president of the
senate, announced the following re-
cess appointments:
! Committee to examine the accounts
of penal and charitable institutions
Senator Sharpe.
! Committee to examine the books Oh
certain state officers, Senator Ketchln
: Committee to investigate the prog
ress of the code commissioner, Sena'
! tor Williams.
!: Under the Moore resolution to in
yestigate the De La Howe property
in Abbeville county, with a vieT tc
making it an institution for destitute
children, Senators Mullins and John,
stone.
] House.
! Summary Of the action in the house
on the governors vetoes In the gen
ieral appropriation bill:
!; Provision requiring state librarian
to turn over money; Sustained
Item $4,000 purchasing meters anc
general repairing: Sustained.
Item $1,000 repairing heating plant:
Overridden
Item s2,500 preparing and printing
state handbook: Sustained.
Item $4,000 salaries and expenses
state board of medical examiners:
Overridden.
Item $4,000 tax department e1
penses necessary to install uniform
bookkeeping system in counties: sus
tanned.
Provision allowing university trus.
tees to permit erection of public Ii,
brary on grounds Of university: Over
ridden.
Item $4,000 hospital at State Col.
ored college: Sustained.
Item $500 for farms at State
Park: Sustained.
Provisions for paying salaries al
Confederate infrmary: Sustained.
Section for historical commission
total of s5,270: Overridden.
Item s1,80o for salary Of secretary
of historical commission: Overrid.
den.
Item $3.50 for contingent fund for
historical commission: Overridden.
Item $1,000 for printing for histor'
ical commission: Oyerridden.
Provision requiring secretary OF
historical commission to turn over
funds received by him to state treas,
urer: Overridden.
Item $500 work on Confederate
records by historical comm!ssion:t
Overridden.
Item $4,000 interest likely to &C
crue on public debt: Sustained.
Item s25,O00 sinking fund for bond
ed debt under act of 1912: Sustained
Item $500 phosphate commission:
Sustained.
Item $3.50 state law examiners:
Overridden.
Item $1,000 State Plant Breeders
association: Sustained.
Item $1,000 State Live Stock asso-
citation: Sustained.
Item $4,000 rent for Offices for
state officials: Overridden.
Item $4,000 South Carolina AgH-
cultural society: Sustained.
Item $1,000 for state negro fair:
Sustained.
Item $1,000 South Carolina Poul-
try association: Sustained.
Item 1922 expenses special commit
tee to investigate State Hospital for
Insane: Overridden.
Item s400 to erect monument over
grave of McKie Merriwether Of Edge:
field, killed in Hamburg riot, serving
unde Gen. Butler: Overridden,
Section A. That, in anticipation
of the taxes hereinbefore levied, the
governor and the state treasurer and
the comptroller general be, and they
are hereby, empowered to borrow on
credit of the state 80 much money
from time to time as may be needed
to meet promptly, at maturity, the
interest which will mature on the
first day Of July and on the first day
of January of each year, on the valid
debt of the state and to pay the cur
rent expenses of the state govern
ment for the present fiscal year and
for pensions: Provided the sun So