The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-02-09

HAPPENINGS IN BOTH HOUSES
OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY DUR
ING PAST WEEK.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL
eelna Debated In Seetions.-Seholar
ehiS Bill Is Killed in Senate
Many Bills Passed.
Cnlunhia
Ry Toe Sparks.

Columbia.
BY Joe Sparks.
The appropriation bill for 1916, IN
tyo6uced in the house, carries a levy
OF six and one-half mills and an ag-
gregates in appropriations Of $685.
ess.02, which is decrease from last
years bin Of SIS, ,2So.so. The levy is
also reduced one-haf mill from last
year.
From sources other than the State
levy. shere is a revenue Of approx
mateIy $365.0o0 which deducted from
the aggregate appropriation bring the
amount to be raised by state levy to
about S2,eoe,0os, which was the goal
set by the ways and means commit
tee in resolution adopted on the
arst day Of the 1916 session 1t is the
opinion Of the committee that the
actual needs Of every department and
every institution have been met and
that its appropriations are in accord
ance with the condition Of the States
finances.
The following recapitulation Of to-
tails for the various departments and
institutions shows the amount Of ap-
preparation and a comparison with
the appropriation for 1915:
Governors office, s1S,S3O. or de-
crease OF $1,000; secretary Of states
Office, $500. or a decrease OF sl00;
comptroller generals office, $500, or
decrease Of sS45; insurance commits
sioner, S10,595, or a decrease Of $500;
state treasurer's office, $500, or a
decrease Of s5.05o; department Of edu-
cation. s15,s40, or an increase OF Sso;
adjutant generals office, S2S, ,S31.56, or
q decrease OF $500; attorney generals
Office, sS,o45, or decrease Of $500;
railroad commission, s15,So0, or an
Increase Of s1,711; public schools.
S2SS 500, or an increase Of about S12.-
oeo; state librarian, S2.55s.oS, or an
increase OF ss3.o3; public buildings,
s., ,47o, or a decrease Of $1,000; state
electrician and engineer, s23,0o5; Ca
tawba Indians, $500. the same; agri-
cultural department. $4,000, OF an ap-
parent decrease Of SS,120; judician
department, sl0S,S70, or decrease Of
$500; health department, S4S,S16.25, or
q decrease of $3.50; state board Of
medical examiners, $4,000, the same;
tax department, Ss4,S7s.s6, or an in
crease Of s125: University Of South
Carolina, Ss7,064.o4, or a decrease Of
S7,0S7.40; Winthrop College, S147,-
so5.7S, or a decrease Of SS,643.54; The
Citadel. s40,500, or an increase Of ST.
600: school for the deaf and blind,
s5e,S93.3S. or a decrease Of Se,206.67;
State college for negroes, $4,000, the
same; State Hospital for the Insane,
$417, 200, or a decrease OF $4,000;
South Carolina industrial school at
Florence, $4,000, or an increase OF
$4,000; state penitenttary. $3.50, or
an increase Of S18o; other charitable
and penal institutions, $500, or a
decrease Of s1.2o5; chief game ward
ems Office, S4,332, or a decrease of
s1os; historical commission, s4,550,
the same; interest on bonded debt,
s2s0.o4S.92 or a decrease Of S9S9.46;
elections, s4S,2s5, or an increase OF
s13,435; expenses common to both
houses, s4s9.7S, or decrease Of $3.50;
the senate. s1s,765, the same; the
house Of representatives, s35,o52.20,
or decrease of Sl,250; engrossing de-
partment, s6,644, the same; Medical
College OF South Carolina, S31,S00, or
q decrease Of s1,515; state warehouse
commission, $4,000. or decrease Of
$4,000; state board Of charities and
corrections, SS,445; miscellaneous,
s1ss,307.s7. or decrease Of about
$4,000; pensions. 100000, the same.
In the appropriation bill Of 1915
there was a provision for a one-half
mill levy for pensions and for one
mill levy for the maintenance and
improvement Of the State Hospital for
the Insane. In the 1915 appropriation
bill these two items are included in
the grand aggregate Of S2,SS4,499.02.
The large decrease in the office Of
the state treasurer results from no
appropriation for improvements in the
Office where an extensive rearrange-
ment was made last year for a spe-
cial appropriation. The increase Of
500 for the state penitentiary is for
3 deficit in expenses for electrucution.
The appropriation for the state
board Of health gives $4,000 for the
maintenance Of the bureau of vital
statistics, but cuts down on the main
tenance fund for the state tuberculosis
hospital at State Park.
Senator Buck Of Horny has intro
duced a bill to provide for an en-
ployers' liability law. The bill is
largely q duplication Of the measure
now in force in the states Of Alabama
and Louisiana.
Sentiment for the Epps bill. which
provides FOR an appropriation Of
$50 900 as a special law enforcement
frod, to be expended by the governor,
has become so strong that the passage
OF the bill is likely prohibition lead
ers assert. Prohibitionists think the
bill should be passed so that prohibi-
ton NAV have a trial under favorable
conditions.