The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-02-07
COULD QUIT SATURDAY
NOT LIKELY LAWMAKERS WILL
STOP THEN, THOUGH.
Seems Almost Certain Legislature is
to Remain in Session to
Constitutional Limit.

Columbia, Feb. 3-There is some
prospect of an adjournment sine die
of the legislature next Saturday.
However, if the members desire this
legislature not to go down IN the
history of the State as lawmaking
body with practically nothing but
the appropriation measure and a
mass of local bills to its credit, it
Is probable that there will be two
more weeks of the legislative mill.
Although the house has given the
appropriation measure its final read
ing, a large number of important
measures clutter up the calendars OF
both bodies, some of them bills for
war legislation, and it is not like
" that there will be ap adjourn
ment without the passage of the
more important of them.
House Bills Remaining.
On the house side the more I'M
portant of these measures on second
reading are those providing for the
creation of a State council of de-
tense. putting an increase to the
bonded Indebtedness of the State in
a referendum, providing for con-
stitutfonal convention, stabilizing OF
street car fares between training
camps and adjacent cities, survey of
property of the State for assessment
purposes, repeating the State income
tax law, regulating the pension laws
of the State. the county supply bill,
licensing of fire insurance agents,
several measures relating to free
scholarships and free tuition in the
State institutions of higher learning,
several measures amending the bank
ing laws of the State, increasing the
salaries of State officers, abolishing
the State board of charities and cor
rections, making days on which pri-
mary elections are held legal holi-
days, providing for a State correc-
tional administration, exemption OF
ali South Carolina electors in the
military and naval service from pay
ing poll taxes, reconstructing the
State department of agriculture,
commerce and industries, regulating
the sale of paregoric and certain pat
ent medicines, allowing women to
practice law in South Carolina, en-
joining and abating houses used for
immoral purposes, and providing for
minimum wage for women and
girls working in commercial estab-
Ishments. ..
Some Senate Measures.
Among the important bills on the
senate side are: Providing for the
investigation of management, dispo-
sition and control of the Columbia
canal, several measures relating to
the assessment and levying OF taxes,
empowering women to hold offices,
providing for biennial sessions of
the general assembly, to erect a stat
ne of John C. Calhoun at the State
house grounds in Columbia, regu-
lating the expenditures for campaign
purposes of any candidate for State
Office, standardizing of text books
for the public schools, increasing the
salaries of State Offices, increasing
the age of consent from fourteen to
sixteen years, providing for the elec-
tion of State game warden, abolish
ing the Office of insurance commits
sioner and devolving his duties on
the State bank examiner, requiring
railroads to pay their transportation
employees semi-monthly, several
measures dealing with the vice sit
uation, regulating the department of
agriculture, commerce and indus
tries, creating a State council of de-
fense, and providing for the physical
and dental examination of children
attending the public schools.
When the house adjourned Friday
afternoon to reconvene Tuesday af-
ternoon at o'clock, there were 200
second reading bills on its calendar
to be disposed of, many of them OF
controversial character. The senate
adjourned Thursday afternoon to
meet again Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock with 1877 second reading bills
yK to be passed upon.
3 Defense Council Bill First.
q When the house convenes Tuesday
the bill creating the State council of
defense will have the right of way,
as it was under debate when that
body adjourned Friday. There is