The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-10-28
HClAUR|N WAREHOUSE BILL.
HOUSE REFUSES TO PASS IT But
ALSO DECLINES TO KILL IT.
Some Members Who Voted Against
Warehouse Measure Rcfraincd La.
ter from Voting to Apply Actual
Coup dc Grace. Amendments Re-
jcctcd.

Columbia Oct 24.--By vote Of ,
to Al tn" house yesterday morning
after a long debate refused to pass
the McLaurin State cotton warehouse
bill to third reading. However, the
friends Of the bill rushed to it's res
cue after the measure had been lost
by this narrow margin and revivilied
it to the extent of refusing, by a
vote Of AZ to 81, to put on the parlia-
mentary "clincher." In consequence,
although the .McLaurin warehouse
bill was asphyXiated by the house
at it's session yesterday morning, there
is a chance that it can be brought to
life again by heroic treatment.
The house accorded the McLaurin
State warehouse bill what may be
termed disintegrated consideration
yesterday morning. This measure,
which the senate has passed, provides
for the election of a State warehouse
commissioner at $4,000 a year and the
appropriation of $15O,OOO with which
to buy, build or lease State cotton
warehouses. The whole idea behind
the bill is that receipts for cotton
stored in State warehouses will be
more readily negotiable in the money
markets than receipts for cotton
stored in private warehouses.
To afford the same security on cot :
ton storage receipts, Mr.. Haynsworth
proposed as a substitute for the Nc
Laurin bill a measure authorizing the
commissioner Of agriculture, COM
merce and Industries to appoint q
State inspector Of cotton warehouses,
whose duties would be to ascertain
whether managers of private ware
houses were bonded in accordance
with the law and to issue uniform re-
ceipts for cotton stored in approved Il
warehouses. The duties Of the State
inspector Of cotton warehouses under
the HaynswOrth proposal would have
tbeen analogous to those of the State
fbnnlx -eeassnineesCrstase4S State insurance
commissioner. He would have re.
ceived a salary Of $4,000 d year. Mr
HaynswOrth modified his proposal tC
the extent Of permitting counties to
erect cotton warehouses by direct ap-
preparation. The house killed the
Laurin bill by vote Of 81 to 34.
The next amendment of importance
to the McLaurin bill was that offered
by Messrs. Miley, Belscr and Nichol-
son, which would have provided for
county, instead Of State, ownership
and control Of cotton warehouses, un-
der the supervision Of a State cotton
warehouse commissioner appointed
by the commissioner of agriculture
with the county boards of commits
sions as county cotton warehouse
commissions. The house killed this
amendment by vote of GA to u.
Finally, on the direct question of
the passage Of the McLaurn state
cotton warehouse bill to third reading,
the ,iouse refused to do so, bs vote
of - to II.
Then. on the motion to reconsider
and lay on the table the motion to
pass the bill to third reading, the par
liamcntary "clincher" which would
have disposed of the bill for the ses-
sion, the house decided by vote of
Al to 81 not to put the measure in
the mOrgue. This was one Of the in
eNplicablc reVerSals of form which
make procedure in the house inter-
csting and mystifying.