The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-16
MANNING, S. c., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1914
CALLS Legislature
GOVERNOR ISSUES rRQCLAMA-
ton FOR EXTRA SESSION

HUN FUN EAADh 0EG0lUN
'|10 MEET OCTOBER SLXTE
Preamble Recites Plight of Farmer
/ Does Mt Restrict Relief Measure
! to be Taken by Lawmakers ''iI
Their Good Judgment''-To Con
slider CottI4 Situation.
l Governor Blease Thursday nigh
issued an official proclamation call
ing an extraordinary session Of the
legislature to meet in Columbia or
the 9Th day of October. The specia
session has been particularly called
to consider the present and future
condition of the State as result of the
prostration of the cotton movemen,
following the European war. The
formal proclamation reads as fol.
lows:
State of South Carolina,
| Executive Chamber.
PROCLAMATION.
| Whereas, it has been made to ap.
pear to me by representations OF
many citizens of the State and by
resolutions of organized bodies, rep
resenting the cotton growers Of this
State, that a condition has arisen
within the last few weeks whereby
the price of cotton has declined to
such an extent that it is impossible
for this staple product of our State
to be sold except at ruinous loss,
and that there is no way whereby
any arrangements or combinations
| can be made to save the cotton
growers from being absolutely sacri-
feed. and many of our citizens of this
class will become penniless and with
out further means for the payment
of their debts, planting of their
| crops and the support of their fam
lilies; and, further, that the financial
condition Of the country has become
such that at present, and in all prob
ability will continue to be such for
some time, that it is impossible to
obtain credit on the security of their
cotton, except at a ruinous and pro-
fhibitive rate. if at all; that this con-
dition is widespread and throughout
the entire cotton growing sections of
the State; and it being made further
to appear that it is impossible for
| these working classes of our citizens
| To obtain adequate means for the
support Of their families dependent
upon their labor, and that they are
| unable to borrow money on account
of insufficient collateral or security
| unless it be at a ruinous rate; that
such condition of credit as exists and
lack of confidence that there will be
any improvement of affairs in the
near future which is creating dispair
among them; and it further appears
that all classes of our citizens are
affected by this condition, which pre-
walls in the State, and possibly it ap-
pears throughout the whole country,
many of the members of both branch
es of the general assembly. and rep
| resentatives of all classes of our citi-
zens, have urged upon me that the
state of affairs so existing is an en-
traordinary occasion, demanding
such State governmental relief as can
be given by the general assembly
within the Constitution, and that the
exercise of every legislative function
should be brought into action to af-
fford a remedy for their distress and
to relieve our people, and especially
should the State exercise its power
Of borrowing money to run the gov
eminent. without demanding and eX-
acting from the people taxes that
have been levied for the present year
or for the next succeeding year
whereby all Of our citizens, and es-
pecially our farmers and working
men. should be afforded some relief
| In view of these representations
and of my own investigation into the
condition of affairs, I now declare
that such an extraordinary occasion
exists in the State as requires and
warrants the exercise Of the consti'
tutional powers vested in me. in con
vening the general assembly in extra
session to consider the present con-
dition, and state of our common
wealth, and to pass such laws as II
may, within the exercise of its legls
jlative power, as will afford remed!
and relief to all citizens from the
present situation, and which vii
probably continue for some time.
| Now, therefore, I, Coleman Living
lston B1ease, Governor Of the State o
ESouth Caarolina, in pursuance of thu
power conferred upon me by the Con
stitution of the State Of South Caro-
lima, and on account of the extraordi
lnary occasion which has occurred
; and which is contemplated by th'
Constitution of this State (Article "
Section 16). do hereby convene tn
general assembly of the State o
> South Carolina in extra session, a
!; twelve o'clock M, on the sixth day o
October, in the year of our Lord on
thousand nine hundred and fourteen
, a tthe Capitol, in the city OF Colum
bia, for the consideration of matter
hereinabove stated, and to pass sucl
: laws as in their good judgment ma,
be necessary and proper for the re
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