The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
NEW CIRCUIT BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Amendment to Strike Out the
Enacting Words Rejected
by Vote 10 to 81
ASKS ABOUT INSURANCE
Senator Williams Wants Nc
Laurin to Give Names of
Companies.


Columbia, Feb. 11.-Special:
To The News and Courier.
The Senate tonight passed the
House bill creating a new Judi
cial circuit cut of Hampton, Col
Teton, Beaufort and Jasper coun-
les. An amendment to strike
out the enacting words of the
bill was rejected by a vote of 10
to 21.
Senator d. Reece Williams
caused a furry in the Senate to-
night by introducing resolu-
t1on to require John L. Nc
Laurin, State warehouse COM
missioner, to divulge the names
of the fire insurance companies
in which cotton stored in the
State warehouses is injured.
The resolution follows:
"Be it resolved by the Sem
ate That the State warehouse
commissioner, John L. McLau-
rim, is hereby requested and re-
quired to forthwith transmit to
this body the following informa-
ton:
First. What companies are
insurers under the warehouse
system in this State.
Second. Are these companies
licensed under the laws of this
State, and have they subjected
themselves there by making the
depository required by law?
Third. Is the insurance issu-
ed in the name of the warehouse
commissioner or the individuals
who store the cotton ?"
Senator Williams explained
that his resolution was simply to
find out if the companies carry
ing this insurance are solvent.
He also said that the warehouse
commissioners is an agent of the
State and that the citizens are
entitled to cor1plete and full in
formation about the matters
connected with his department.
The Senate, on motion of Sen
ator Laney, tabled the resolution
by vote Of % to 6, only Sen
ators Black, Carlisle. Hughes.
Ketchin, Nickles and d. Reece
Williams voting for it.
The bill creating the 18th
judicial circuit out of the coun-
ties of Hampton, Beaufort, JAS
per and Colleton, and leaving
Charleston county alone in the
9th circuit, was called up by
Senator Padgett. Sen
ator Wightman moved to stake
out the enacting words of the
bill.
In his argument for the bill
Senator Padgett made much of
alleged congestion in the coun-
ties affected by the bill and said
the new circuit was needed not
withstanding the editorial state
ments of the News and Courier.
which, he said, 81 put in the
same category with barnyard
chickens"
In a statement favoring the
bill Senator Sinkler said that it
would be selfishness on the part
of Charleston to object when
the other three counties now in
the 9th circuit were asking for
the change. He contended that
politics should have nothing to
do with the matter and said that
the number of Courts are in
creasing because the State is
growing larger and litigation is
on the increase,
Referring to the opposition of
The News and Courer to the
creation of this circuit. the
Charleston Senator said that he
believed the opposition was bas-
ed on conscientious motives, but
that the editor had been miss
led. and Senator Sinkler did not
think that the editor was i'm pos
session of the facts from all
sides. He paid a tribute to the
editor of the News and Courier
and said that he felt that the
editors actions had been dictat-
ed by the highest motives for
what he considered the good of
the people. Senator Sinkler re-
ferred to the congestion in the
counties affected and said ha