The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-29


appropriation bill now before the
house for consideration when it re-
convenes tomorrow night, there seems
| to be no reason why the legislature
should not conclude its business and
! reach final adjournment within the
next two weeks. Finances and the state
council of defense measure are the
| principal matters to which the mem
bers are now giving their attention,
and both can be disposed of by FeS
ruary 8, at the outside, if the legisla-
ture is so disposed.
The bill carrying out Governor Man
ning's recommendation to submit To
the people the question of s4000.000
bond issue, introduced by sub-com-
mittee of the waps and means COM
mittee of the ways and means COM
along with the appropriation bill, as
the amount which that bill will carry
will doubtless be dependent in some
degree, at least, upon such action as
may be taken upon the governors
proposal.
A Big Bill.
The appropriation bill as submitted
by the ways and means committee is
the largest in the history of any demo-
cratic administration in this tSate,
and it's total will have to be further
increased if items carried by meas
| ures have passed and are in process of
passage should beincluded. Such items
are the appropriation of 100000 car
ried in the bill, which has passed, Gre
ating a training school for the feeble
minded; $4,000 requested by the state
council of defense; and $4,000 wanted
for school for wayward girls, a
! measure creating which has already
passed second reading in the house
The majority report Of the ways and
means committee of the house recon-
mends that theappropriaticn for the
state council of defense be held down
| to $4,000, and that the members Oe
appointed by the governor, upon the
recommendation of the legislative del
egation from the respective counties,
instead of the present council, as al
ready appointed by the governor, be-
ing legislated into Office.
Figuring upon the appropriation
bill as it comes from the committee
as basis. and adding to its total the
| various amounts which it now seems
probable the legislature expects to
appropriate for various purposes, the
bill when it is finally totalled will
probably reach s3,5OO,G00. There will
/ be an earnest endeavor on the part
of friends of the Manning administra-
ton to reinsert last years item OF
| $4,000 for law enforcement. The
committee left this item out OF the
bill, by tie vote. =
The Proposed Bond Issue.
The bill to submit to the people the
question of issuing bonds to the
amount of 100000 would dispose of
the money thus raised as follows:
One million, five hundred thousand
dollars to be appropriated among the
educational, charitable and penal in
stitutions of the State, including
s135,000 for a girls infrmary; $780,
900 for home for the feeble minded;
s320,000 for a permanent home for
State officials no wcrowded out of the
state house: $4,000 for the State uni
versitv; s17O.GnO for Winthrop; s30.-
900 for the State negro college: $780,
600 eor the negro raformatory; $4,000
for the Stat; Medical college; $4,000
for the Cedar Springs institute for the
deaf. dumb and blind: $125,GOO for the
! Industrial school at Florence; 100000
| for the tuberculosis hospital; $4,000
, for the State hosital for the insane;
$4,000 for the penitentiary.
One million, five hundred dollars to
lie expended in the erection of perma
nert bridges, as follows: At Pinck-
neys landing over the Santee; at Ian
neau's ferry, over the Santee; at Gal
liyans ferry, through swamp between
Horny and Marion counties; at Lock
hart Mills. over Bread river; through
swamp over Savannah river in Beau
fort to Tasrer countp; over Pee Dee
river. between Dillon and Florence;
through swamp over Catawba, between
Lan~o-tto~ AID chester; over Savan-
nah rive II A5beyille county: over
LyH h's rj~e" between Lancaster and
! Cite ca'l ta"ou i SWAMP oTer Ed
istc s~t-~oca Colletoc and Charleston;
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