The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-10-15
Legislature Met In
Extra Session Tues.

Columbia, Oct. 6.-The extra
session of the general assembly
which was convened here today
at noon brought a horde of poll
ticians to Columbia. T h er e
were many conferences during
the night and this morning and
all kinds of stories about legls-
lation were fitting about.
A Joint resolution provides a
referendum of floating million
and a half dollars loan to liQul-
date Indebtedness.
Other proposed legislation pro-
vides for the establishment OF a
state system of cotton ware
houses. the extension of the
payment of taxes, and the or
ganization of an emergency
banking system.
The greater part of today's
session was consumed in read
ing parts of Governor Blease's
5000 word message.
Columbia, Oct. 6-Bitter at
tacks on men, measures and
newspapers which featured
Governor Cole L. Blease's un-
successful campaign last sum-
mer for Ellison D. Smiths seat
in the United STATES senate are
made part of the permanent
annals of the state by the gov
ernor's action in incorporating
them in a remarkable message
which he delivered today to the
legislature, which convened at
noon in extraordinary session in
an effort to relieve the financial
depression caused by the Euro
pean war and the low price Of
cotton. RIease's cam p a e n
speeches and interviews, re-
printed in full, form the greater
part of the message, a book OF
104 pages.
The governors recommends
tions for legislation occupy only
one page and are as follows:
l. That the legislature ap-
point a committee to confer with
similar committees from the
legislatures of other cotton grow
ing states for the purpose of
passing such laws as will relieve
the present situation and pre-
vent a recurrence Of conditions
as they are today
2. That the legislature pass
a law prohibiting the sale of any
property, real or personal, under
any lien or mortgage prior tc
the first day of October, 1915,
with a proviso in the bill that if
any debtor shall attempt tc
make way with his property, OF
to do it serious damage in order
to decrease its value the provis.
ions Of this bill shall not apply
to him.. y
3. That the legislature pass
an act extending the time fo1
the payment of all taxes, city,
county and state, for such period
as in YOUR judgment will be OF
most beneficial to taxpayers of
your state, so that if a poor man
who honestly and conscientious
ly does his best, but cannot pay
his taxes, fails to do so, his little
personal property or even his
little home, may not be forced
upon the block and sold and he
and his wife and little children
turned out into the street. -
4. That the legislature pass
an act reducing the legal rate of
interest in this state to six per
cent.
5. That the legislature give
your most careful and serious
consideration to the passage of
a law for a reduction of the
acreage in the planting OF
cotton.
6. That the legislature give
your most careful and serious
consideration to the passage of
some warehouse system act.
Z. That the legislature pass
an act exempting from taxation
for the year 1914 those of our
fellow citizens in the counties of
York and Laurens who suffered
so much injury from the hail.
storm during the past summer.
Governor Blease devotes part of
his message to an analysis OF
the recent election in Maine and
draws the conclusion that the
Democratic party is in grave
danger of defeat at the polls in
November.
Governor Blease sneers at the
incoming state administration
which will take officei in January.
THE incoming administra-
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