The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-25
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adjourn Saturday night. The
reason was that the CALENDARS
could not be cleared, and the
most important general meas
ures are yet to be acted upon,
it is therefore necessary to run
into the coming week, but with
hard work it is possible to reach
an adjournment by Friday night.
The senate adjourned Friday
night to reconvene Monday
night, but to facilitate the work
for next week the Finance Com
mittee of which I am member,
remained over Saturday and
worked all day on the appropri-
alton bill, giving hearings to
these interested, especially to
the heads eff the several of the
departments, and of the educa-
tional institutions, which are
very important in order for the
committee to act intelligently on
the many items in that lmpor-
tant measure; as I have already
said, we worked all day Satur-
day and will continue through
Monday in the hope Of being
able to report at Mondays ses-
sion; should We get the bill in
shape by Monday evening, the
senate will at once take it up
for consideration, and each
item will be discussed on it's
merits. The budget is the
heaviest the State has had IN
years, carrying an appropriation
of about two and a quarter mil
lion dollars. The Finance Com
mittee realizing the necessity OF
holding down the tax levy has
endsavored to cut wherever pos
sible, and on Saturday up TO the
time I had to leave to catch my
train for home we had succeed
ed in cutting out about $4,000,
but whether our recommends
tions will stand I am unable to
say, because, even if the senate
sustains the committee the house
may refuse to concur, and it will
have to go to conference; when
a bill of this Importance gets
into conference there is no tell.
ing the result.
The levy called for by the bill
an sent to US from the house
uears@,t. as levy that will be
oyHr -,.ye: mills, but if the
ssaa:, su@2aads in it's reductions
sae.c w;:tve no increase in the
taxation for the year 1914. Those
who do not follow up legislation
do not realize the difficulty in
the way of preventing a raise in
the levy; the several educational
institutions of higher learning
are growing larger every year,
more buildings are necessary,
then too, the demands for the
free schools are getting heavier,
necessitating greater outlay OF
money, besides this, there is the
health department of the State
requiring more money for the
protection of the health of the
people. This department has,
and, it is doing a great work in
this State it has made localities,
where it was almost impossible
to live in the past, healthy and
inviting for development; all of
US realize the State cannot af-
ford to take a backward step in
this matter for the sake of saw
ing a few dollars, as the health
of this people is more important
than money.
This session has been sur
prisingly free from partizan
chickering's up to the present,
and I hope that when the work
shall have been ended it can be
truthfully said it was the most
businesslike session in a decade.
Owing to the volume of matter
introduced it will be impossible
to give consideration to all of
the measures, it would take a
session of SIX months to do it,
unless the members went at it
in a haphasard way, and if
they did, instead of doing good
to the State they would d > harm,
in the end it would fall heavily
upon the taxpayers. Therefore,
it is absolutely necessary to dis
appoint many of the members
who have pet measures, by Sc
lecting what is deemed most i'm