The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-01-04
TO DECIDE WHISkEY PROBLEM.
Quart a Month Bill May BE Proposed.
Convene Next Week.

There will be nothing spectacular
about the 1917 session Of the gen.
eral assembly. convening January 9.
4 constructive programme Of legisla-
ton will be introduced, in addition
to the several hundred local bills,
sure to be proposed The session
will be we'll ordered and business
like. No great issues are to be de-
cided. This will be a new legislature.
the members having been elected for
two years at the las. election.
Richard |. Manning will be inaug-
urated for the second time as COVER
nor of South Carolina. He has al
ready begun work on his annual mes
sage, which will review the condi-
ton of the State government during
the last year.
There is every indication that the
prohibition leaders will attempt to.
pass a measure reducing the amount
of whiskey which may be imported
from one gallon to one quart a month.
Such a measure has already been
editorially proposed by J. K. Breedin,
superintendent of the South Carolina
Anti-Saloon league. The liquor ques-
ton will cause considerable debate.
The Laney-Odom insurance act was
passed by the last legislature. This
act caused majority of the fire in
surance companies to withdraw from
the State. Gov. Manning in his mes
sage will propose several fire insur-
ance measures, intended to relieve
the present situation.
1t is practically certain that James
A. Hoyt will be reelected speaker of
the house. Andrew j. Bethea, lieu
tenant governor, will preside in the
senate. No opposition has develop
ed to Marvin NJ. Mann, of St. Mat
thews, as clerk of the senate. There
is a spirited contest on between j.
Wilson Gibbes, incumbent, and H. c.
Booker, editor of the Spartanburg
Journal, for clerk of the house. The
general assembly will elect super
intendent tc succeed Capt. Z. J. CIT
fifth at the State penitentiary.
J. T. Lilies, of Orangeburg, will, in
all probability, be reappointed as
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee of the house.
A programme for social legislation,
including home for the custodial
care of the feel BILE minded, will be
proposed by Gov. Manning. Ample
appropriation for the support of the
State tuberculosis hospital at State
Park will also be asked by the State
board Of health.
Gov. Manning, it is expected, will
discuss the question of rural credits
and urge that some kind of law be
enacted. The last legislature passed
resolution providing for commits
sion to study the rural credits mat
ter and make report at the forthcom-
ing session.
The pruning knife will be used by
the ways and means committee in an
effort to keep down the State tax
levy. The demands on the State gov
ernment have been increasing from
year to year.
Gov. Manning will insist upon a
continuance of the improvement work
at the State Hospital for the Insane.
The legislature has for two years Civ
en- $150,O00 for this important work
and like amount will be required
next year. Under the improved con-
ditions at the asylum the death rate
has been cut about 40 per cent. The
amount for the maintenance of the
institution will have to be increased
because of the high cost of living and
the increase in the number of pa
tients.
The State officials are working on
their annual reports and many recon-
mendations will be made. w. w.
Moore, adjutant general, will ask that
liberal appropriation be made for