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rnor's recommendation in this re-
ReOrganizing Asylum.

ernor's recommendation in this re-
gard.
Reorganizing Asylum.
Aside from the matters recon-
mended specifically in the inaugural
address, Gov. Manning laid most
stress during the session upon re-
modelling the State Hospital for the
Insane and making changes in the
method of its management. The
governor had an examination of the
State hispital made by Arthur P.
Herring, NJ. D., an expert on the or
ganization and management Of hos
pitals for the insane.
The report of Dr. Herring, trans
mitted to the general assembly, was
made the basis for action in regard
to the asylum. A special levy of one
half mill was placed in the general
appropriation bill to raise revenue
for carrying out the recommended
remodelihg of the plant Of the hos
pital. The house committee on State
Hospital for the insane fathered the
measures intended to improve the
method of management of the hos
pital.
Apart from the measures advocat-
ed by the administration, the two
bills passed by the general assembly
which will have the most far-reach-
ing effect are those providing Tor a
referendum on September IA, 1918,
on prohibition and regulating the
shipment of liquor into dry counties
in the State The two prohibition
measures went through both the
house and senate by large majorities.
Assembly Adjourns.
Columbia, Feb. 21.-Adjourning
at $3.50 this morning the South Car
olina general assembly completed a
forty-day session marked by the SEN
sational episode of the State having
three governors within one week,
and by the adoption of prohibition
referendum by which the people OF
the State are to vote on Statewide
prohibition law September IA next,
The appropriation and supply bills,
the last of the sessions work, after
a night spent in free conference and
clerical work, were ratified early this
morning and the general assembly
then adjourned. Though it was near
" 6 o'clock the clocks in the two
houses were turned back, so that Of
ficially adjournment was recorded as
before midnight.
Besides the prohibition referen-
dunn other acts of note were meas
ure to reform the tax system of the
State, one to limit the importation
into dry counties of liquor even for
private use to maximum OF one
gallon a month for any individual,
q local option compulsory school at
tendance law, law reorganizlng the
State Hospital for the Insane and the
authorization of county bonds issued
for good roads purposes carrying
s5,OOO,OOO; the creation of state
charities board and the establishment
of a commission to study workmen $
compensation and the enactment in
to law of the primary rules OF the
Democratic party in South Carolina.
A law prohibiting tipping also was
passed.
The session as a whole has been
marked by few serious fights. There
was considerable opposition to the
prohibition referendum, largely tax
ing the form of futile effort to add
high license as third option instead
of limiting the choice to county olS-
pensaries or Statewide prohibition.
The three governors within hVe
davs we're Cole Blease. who, without
warning, resigned on January -
G. 4. Smith, who as lieutenant gov
ernor succeeded to the once ana
eorvad until the term expired jan
nary 10. and Richard l. Naming
On that day inaugurated for the 1ull
+wo-vear term to which he was elect
cd in November.