The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-01-20
Settled Resolution to Hold Down FIX
penditures Insofar as Practicable
Has Been Clearly Defined.

week OF the 1910 session. Ou Tie
other hand the senate has been con-
sidering such issues as woman suf-
frage.
The two houses have as yet met on
but two common grounds, one the in
dorsement of the national Democratic
administration and Wilson's renoni-
nation to the presidency, and the
other a pledge to support the efforts
of the governor and the board of re-
gents in building up the State Hos
pital for the Insane. The former
met with some opposition in the up
per house, some senators being un-
ready to indorse preparedness but
the latter resolution was adopted
without a dissenting voice.
Resolved on Economy.
The one substantial and all-pervad-
ing note that has been sounded from
the time the gavel dropped last Tues
day to the adjournment Friday has
been economy. Governor Manning
stressed it in his annual message and
reiterated it in his message on the
asylum for the insane; the ways and
means committee at it's first meeting
adopted resolution to keep the
amount of money to be raised by
State levy within $2,O00,OO0, as a
result of which the appropriation
bill will aggregate about $2,350,000,
since the difference is accounted for
in miscellaneous fees and taxes; bills
providing for an appropriation have
with few exceptions been unfavorably
reported by the ways and means
committee; the senate killed a bill
providing for a circulating library be-
cause it carried an appropriation.
The first act enrolled for ratifica-
tion at the 1916 session was the one
making simple drunkenness on the
public highway misdemeanor in it.
SELF. The legislature still has before
it the determination of it's course in
disposing of the liquor left over in
county dispensaries when prohibition
became effective January 1. Indica-
tions are that the legislature will
likely declare all such liquor contra
band and order it destroyed. Other
bills, covering points recommended
in the governors annual message,
will probably be introduced this week
in time for enactment, should they
pass, before the last few days of the
session.
For Enforcing Prohibition.
The one big exception to the poll
cy of retrenchment has been the in
dorsement by the ways and means
committee of the bill providing for
fund of $4,000 for the enforce
ment of the prohibition and gallon
a-month laws. Withal it is expected
that the State levy will be kept down
to six mills.
A number of bills on taxation
presage the fight that has been free
ly predicted. The latest rumor, how
ever, is that opposition to the South
Carolina tax commission will not
come to head, the fight being con-
fined to the methods to be pursued in
the assessment and equalization OF
property. Various measures ana
Joint resolutions proposing constitu-
tional amendments have been intro
duced, debate on which will hardly
commence until after many of the
contested matters left from the 1915
session have been disposed Of.
The South Carolina cotton ware
housing system will also come in for
discussion, as it is understood that a
bill will be introduced along the lines
suggested in Gov. Manning's annual
message, providing for a board of
three commissioners. A bill intended
to make the States warehouse receipt
a safe collateral for loans has al
ready been introduced and it is prob
able that the matter will be disposed
of during this week.
Bar Admissions.
The upper branch through its ap-
proval of the Wightman bill has gone
on record as favoring an open pas
ture for lawyers. The Saluda sena-
tor by small majority carried his
point abolishing the present require
ment of two years of specified study
before one is eligible for the State
bar examination. The bill will be