The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-03
KILL ACREAGE LAW
SENATE PASSES House REPEAL
OF COTTON REDUCTION
PROHIBITION TAKEN Up

House Votes to Refer Prohibition
Referendum to the Voters in an
Election to be Held on Tuesday,
September 14-Majority Vote Will
I Carry Election.
The House bill to repeal the cotton
reduction law of the extra session
passed second reading in the Senate
Thursday by a vote Of 25 to IA.
Those voting for the repeating bill
were: Banks, Beamguard, Beattie,
Black, Brice, Carlisle, Earle, CHM,
Goodwin, Gross, Ketchin, Lide, Mich
olson, Nikels, 0 Dell, Padgett, Pat
terson, Sherard, Sinkler, Spigner,
Stuckey, Werner, Walker, Wightman,
J. F. Williams.
Those voting against the repeating
bill were: Appelt, Buck, E. c. Epps,
r. D. Epps, Evans, Harvey, D. B.
Johnson, Alan Johnstone, Laney,
Manning, McCown, Mullins, Richard
son, Sharpe.
Senator Hughes, voting aye, was
paired with Senator Lee, voting nay.
The House by an overwhelming
vote of 80 to II passed to third read
ing the Statewide prohibition refer
endum proposition. The opponents
to the measure ranged around thirty
votes, at high water mark, but on the
final passage of the bill showed a
smaller vote.
On suggestions that the. time for
the election be deferred and on rec
ognizing county expressions there
were twenty-nine teS cast, but at all
! times there was not shadow Of
doubt as to what the House would do
with the Statewide bill.
If there as to be an effective fight
| it was at all along appreciated that 1t
would be on the Senate side, where
the county entity counts for more
than on the House side and the one
senator from a county has an equiva-
lent vote to that of county with half
doden members in the House.
Those who opposed the referen-
dunn, however, made g good, clean
| fight, no flibuster, but just plain ar
gument that was without avail. The
fight for the referendum bill started
at about 1890 o'clock and by dinner
time the measure had been ordered
| to its third reading, with four roll
calls intervening.
This is the first time in a genera
ton that any such important liquor
legislation has been passed without
some sort of legislative delay or more
or less acrimonious fight. There were
quite number of really fine speeches
made pro and con on the bill. Mr..
| McMahan of Columbi Mr.. Searson
of Barnwell. Mr.. Noise Of Sumter, Mr.
Fromberg of Charleston, Mr.. Null
drow of Florence, Mr.. Momeier OF
Charleston, Mr.. King Of Georgetown,
Mr.. Harris of Greenville, Mr.. Beckett
of Beaufort, ell joined in fighting the
bill either in phases or as whole,
but were helpless as we'll as hopeless
in this particular fight, so strong was
the current in favor of the passage OF
the referendum idea.
Arguing in favor Of the election
and for Statewide prohibition were
such forces as Mr.. Lilies and Mr. Fri
day of Orangeburg, Mr. = Warren OF
Hampton, Mr.. Smith Of Colleton, and
Mr.. Mccullough of Greenville, who
speaks seldom, but forcefully.
Some of those who opposed the
| bill did so on certain features. Mr..
| Harris wanted coca-cola treated cs
liquor.
Mr.. Beckett and Mr.. Noise made
their chief fight along the line Of
county individually and home rule for
the several counties and to have the
county vote effective as against the
Statewide sweep.
This was about the only important
matter acted upon Thursday. The
administration" tax commission
measure wc.s presented during the
morning.
The final question was whether the
bill should be ordered to its third
reading and the Statewide prohibi-
ton referendum was given its second
reading by the overwhelming vote Of
80 to II, the recoI d being as follows:
Yeas -Messrs. Arnold, Atkinson,
Austin, Bales, Baker, Beckett, Berry,
Blue, Bolt, Bowles J. W. Boyd, R. D.
Boyd, Bradford, Brown, Burns,
Carey, Carter, Chapman, Charles,
Cherry, Crum, Dantzler, Dennis, Dew,
Dick, burst, Ethe-edge, FAINT, Flick
ling, Folk, Friday, Fripp, .Goggains,
J. J. NJ. Graham, S. A. Graham, Gray
don, Hammond, Harper, w. W. Har-
ris, Hawkins, Hubbard, Hutchinson,
Hutto, Jackson, Johnstone, LaGrone,
Lane, Lee, LeGrand, Leslie, J. T.
Lilies, Lotion, Lynch. Mccullough,
McInnis, McKeown, McLaurin, NAL
pass, A. NJ. Martin, ]. NJ. Martin,
Means, Mills, Noise, Mower, Mum,
Odom, OXner, Pegues, Query, Ram
seur, Reid, Rivers, Robinson, L. NJ.
Rogers, ". S. Rogers Jr., Rush. Rus
sell, Sanders, Sellers, Shirley, Shuler,
Smith, Strom, Sturkie, Sumner,
Tolle, Traylor, Warn, Wagnon, Wal
lace, Warren, West. White, Williams,
Wingard, Wolfe, Workman, Wright,
Zimmerman. Total, SO.
Nays-Speaker Hoyt, Barr. Brigh-
ham, Cothran, Fromberg, H. H. Har-
ris, Huffman, King, Leland, McMa-
han. Melf, Moneier, Morrison, Null
drow, Senseney, Walker. Total, II.
Text of Bill.
Here is the full text Of che prohibi-
ton referendum bill, as passed by the
House:
Be it enacted by the general as
sembly of the State of South Caro-
lima:
Section l. That on Tuesday, the
14th day of September, 1915. an elec-
ton shall be held, pursuant to law,
submitting to the qualified electors OF
the State of South Carolina the ques-
tion as to whether the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic liquors and bev-
erages shall be prohibited or con-
tinued in this State, as now provided
by law. And such election shall be
held and conducted under the laws
and in the manner now prescribed for
regular elections.
Sec. 2. Each person favoring the
manufacture ana sale Of alcoholic
liquors and beverages in South Caro-
shall cast his ballot: For the manu-
factlIrc and sale Of alcoholic LIQUORS