The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-02-04

| by the Charleston delegation. The
measure was amended, without a dis
senting vote, to make the same pen
atty applicable to "the intimacy Of the
races in houses of i'll repute." Another
amendment was passed prohibiting
white nurses from working in negro
hospitals. A third amendment made
the bill inapplicable to the teaching OF
the Bible to negroes by white people,
By a vote Of So to SO, the house re
fused to strike out the %enacting words
of the Fortner bill. It is doubtful
whether there was any such over
whelming sentiment in favor Of the
passage of the bill in the house as this
vote would indicate. The measure had
been recommended by the governor
in his message, but beyond question
more than 80 members Of the house
did not believe the measure %expedient
or necessary, and voted for it because
they feared the accusation in the flu
ture that they were "nigger lovers"
The administration and anti-adminis'
tration lines were not drawn in the
vote to strike out the enacting words
The fight over the bill lasted for over
two hours.
The judiciary committee of the
house submitted a majority unfavor
able and a minority favorable report
on the WEIGH bill allowing the Column
bia Railway, Gas and Electric Com
pany, which owns the Columbia canal,
to build a railroad, terminals and
wharfage and maintain a steamboat
line to tidewater, in lieu Of carrying
out its contract to complete the canal
from the foot of Gervais street to the
mouth of Rocky branch.
The report of the committee came
after a public hearing on the bill
when, for parties unknown, H. K.
Osborne, an attorney Of Spartanburg,
submitted to the general assembly.
through the judiciary committee, a
proposition to complete the canal
within Is months, pay the state $780,
900 in cash for it and pay nine-thirti'
eths Of the bonds outstanding on the
canal. -.
The house took up a a special or
der the Zeigler bill providing for rails.
ing venue to protect birds, game and
fish, by issuing licenses to those who
l,.-& rrtll 1oron urifh q O11n onH II
passed 1t to third reading. The II.
cense for residents under the bill will
be $1.10 annually and for non.resi'
dents s5.25 annually. The issuing of
the licenses and the disbursing of the
funds are placed in the hands Of the
chief game warden. The bill was pass.
ed to third reading.
After another fruitless attempt on
the Npart of the Charleston delegation
to have their county exempt from
the terms of the Fortner bill, the meas.
ure passed third reading in the house
and was sent to the senate, by a vote
Of 81 to 40. The bill was passed to
third reading by a vote of So to 38,
after the warmest fight of the present
session in the house.
After a brief debate the house kill
ed the resolution introduced by Mr..
Hardin Of Cherokee requiring the at
torney general to institute suit to de-
termine whether the merger Of cotton
mills and other corporations were not
in violation of the federal and state
law. Mr.. Hardin spoke in favor Of the
resolution and Mr.. Mcmillan Of Ma
rion against it.
The House passed finally the
Haynsworth bill providing for indus.
trial schools. This places the bill on
the Senate side. The measure pro-
vides for the establishment Of indus
trial schools in any county where
there are more than 500 persons en-
ployed in cotton mills or factories.
The schools are for textile instruc-
ton. The county in which any such
school is to be established must pay
over $4,000 to be used in the erection
of suitable buildings and for the
equipment Of the school.
Each school under the bill would be
operated under the direction of a
board of trustees of eight members.
The trustees are to be selected from
among the persons employed as SUI
p~erintendents of cotton mills; from
among those employed, and from
those regularly engaged in school
work in the respective counties. The
board of trustees would employ teach
ers as in other schools.
For each school so established,
where textile industry will be taught,
the General Assembly would provide,
as outlined in the bill, $4,000 Of state
funds for the maintenance of the
state funds for the maintenance Of
the school annually.
Unsung and to all appearances. IN
mourned, the woman's suffrage bill
died in the house. Not a single effort
al made to save it's life, and dead,
no eulogy was said over 1t.
House to Visit Charleston.
For nearly half an hour hefora n