The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-01-25
ASSEMBLY MAKING PROGRESS.
In Session Ten Days; More Than
Usual Accomplished.

assembly has been in session for ten
days. More than the usual amount
of work credited to this span of time
has been accomplished. The house
has accumulated 155 distinct propo-
sitions and the senate is not far be-
hind with a record of ia bills on it's
Journal. Many, in fact, most of
these are local measures, necessary
under the laws of the State. Many
county matters now need the impress
of the great seal of the State and to
be given the dignity of an act-for
instance, the right to buy or sell a
poor house farm or to build poor
house, or to open a road. If ever the
proposed constitutional convention
be held it ought to provide for the
handling of such matters, under re-
strictions, by the county delegations,
ON the advise of the circuit judges or
some other workable plan.
Nothing Decidedly New.
Thus far no decidedly new project
has been suggested. The suggestion
of an institution for the feeble-mind-
ed is new, but has been discussed. A
measure of wide scope is the Toole
suggestion of taxing soft drinks-a
quarter or an eighth of cent per
glass or bottle. The author thinks
this will raise 100000 per annum.
Another proposition along this line is
to require license tax of so cents
on each shipment of liquor before it's
delivery. Other schemes for increas-
ing the States revenues have not yet
developed. The tax on automobiles
is intended for road development.
The inheritance tax suggestion has
not developed. 1t has been present
ed year after year, but has always
been defeated.
The silent plodders are having
daily exhibitions of the fact that the
legislator who most frequently &C
complishes things is not he who has
most to say-tries to say something
on every motion, but the results go
to the plodders and workers. Some
measures seem fated and members
suggest that they are being talked to
deats.
Women on the Job.
The two most active and energetic
floor efforts, so to speak, have been
by good women who are interested in
woman suffrage and Statewide pro-
hibition. The suffragists have gath
cred a group of charming women
who have been persistent in their
work.
The suffragists have had the saga
city of asking for referendum first
and then after they get the vote OF
the people to ask for the constitu-
tional amendment. They are taking
two bites; first a vote to get an ex-
preston and then the authorization.
This makes the process slower, but,
the women think, surer.
There is the suffrage proposal of
Senator Sherard and Mr.. Horton:
Section 1. That the following
amendment to section 3, article IL,
of the constitution be agreed to. In
sert the words cor female after the
word male" on line one of said sec
ton and add the following proviso
at the end of said sectic.:: Provided,
That the qualifications of article II
of this constitution with reference to
the right of suffrage shall hereafter
apply equally to all female citizens
Of the State. So that said section
when amended shall read as follows:
"Section 8. Every male or female
citizen of this State and of the Unit
ed States, twenty-one years of age and
upwards, not laboring under the dis
abilities named in this constitution
and possessing the qualifications re-
quired by it shall be an elector: Pro-
vided, that the qualifications of ar
ticle II of this constitution with ref
erence to the right Of suffrage shall
hereafter apply equally to all female
citizens of the State.''
Section 2. The question of adopt
ing this amendment shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors at the
next general election as follows:
Those voting in favor of said amend
ment shall deposit ballot with the
following words plainly printed or
written thereon: Unconstitutional
amendment to section 3, article IL,
providing fer equal suffrage for
women-Yes." Those opposed to
onl,,o,t ebo1 1onocit q ha l1Ot