The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-25
HOUSE PASSES BILL
THEY MAKE PRACTICALLY NO
CHANGE IN BILL REPORTED.
TRIBUTE TO Committee

House Grants Ways and Means Com.
mittee's Appropriation Bill With
Almost No Change-Would Grant
Every Estimate Included Except
Pay for State House Plans.
Beginning at its afternoon session
Monday, when twenty separate Sec
tions Of the appropriation bill were
taken up and passed, the House con-
tinued it's session until well after
eleven o'clock, allowing short re-
cess before eight o'clock. The conf
dence which the members Elaced in
the ability Of the ways and means
committee Is attested by the fact.
Only one item was rejected and only
one other modified. The bill to allow
Messrs. Todd and Benson $4,000 for
their plans for State house improve
ments was killed. The other change
was an increase of $50 for a hard
worked Journal clerk.
Cattle tick eradication got its $780,
900 without even a division vote, 80
did the Industrial Home at Florence
get its new building, and there was
not suggested attack on an item in
the medical college appropriation.
The House, at the instance Of Mr..
James, voted $4,000 as a supplement
tary contingent fund for support Of
the rural schools Of the State. The
fund is to be expended under direc-
ton of the State board Of health.
The first fight came on the allowance
OF $4,000 for the establishment OF
a tuberculosis hospital. The hos
pital won without roll call.
The House also allowed a $4,000
encampment fund for its militia, the
University, Winthrop, the Citadel,
the colored college and all got exact
" what the ways and means commit
tee recommended.
There was not flutter on the
items for interest on public debt, cleo
tions, legislative expenses or engross-
ing department. There was not even
a suggestion Of amen ding or trim
ming the item for the medical college
Of South Carolina. The allowance
was s34,so0.
The items hummed along until the
appropriation Of 100000 for the
eradication of the cattle tick was
reached. A sharp fight developed on
this item. some mem bers contending
that the farmers could remedy the
! situation themselves. The item was
retained without a division vote.
One thousand dollars was voted to
the colored State fair. The appro-
priation of s1s.830 for the governors
office passed without suggestion OF
change. The amount Of $3.50 for
the secretary of States Office passed.
though an attempt was made to
amend the section by increasing the
salary Of chief clerk from $500 to
i s1,75o, and that Of assistant clerk
from $500 to s1.65o.
The comptroller generals and In
surance commissioners Office receiv-
ed, respectively, $4,000 and s10.-
255, and there was no effort to
change either of these amounts.
! The amount Of s10,550 for the
State treasurer's Office was the recon-
mendation of the committee, and
that amount the House agreed to pro-
vide although an amendment was in
troduced reducing the salary Of chief
clerk from s1,7Oo to $1,000. The
amendment was killed. No kick was
made on the appropriation OF s1o,-
$40 for the State superintendent OF
educaton's Office.
| When the appropriation Of the ad-
jutant generals Office was reached It
was moved to strike out the item OF
$4,000 "for purpose Of national
encampment if the county in which
lsame takes place raises like amount,
j provided so much be necessary" The
motion was lost and the item remain
ed in the bill. An amendment was
also introduced to reduce from $780,
600 to $4,000 the item for maintain
ing the militia and this amendment
was laid on the table.
When the section for the depart
ment Of agriculture, commerce and
industry was reached it was moved to
strike out the item of $4,000 for the
preparation and printing OF the State
handbook, but the motion was lost.
It was also moved to reduce from
$4,000 to $1,000 the item for main
tenance, and it, too, was lost. There
were no further attempted changes.
Appropriation Of ss,095 for the at
torney generals Office was passed
without objection. The railroad COM
missioner's Office, s14,125.7S: State
Hospital commission, sS.6S9.24;
State librarians Office, s2,026; public
buildings, s32,540.SS; Catawba In
dians, $3.50: all Of these amounts
were passed without question BY the
House.
Several members wanted the ex-
traordinary repair account for the
Citadel reduced to $1,000. This was
lost and the House voted s37.6o0
for the Citadel. No effort was made
70 reduce the appropriation OF $780,
n46.aS for the Deaf. Dumb and Blind
college. The colored college at Or
angeburg gets $4,000 for building
hospital. Various efforts were made
10 reduce the allowance for the State
colored college. but it kept the $780,
400 recommended.
An unsuccessful effort was made to
rut of the $4,000 provided for the
| co,fedor,to E0na collage at Charles