The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-01-15
Opening DAY FOR STATE
SENATE A BUSY )NE:
Three Bills introduced in Upper Bod,
Yesterday
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE
fOf the FoEty-fve Senator's Thirty
nine Have Had Previous
Experience.

nine Have Had Previous
Experience.
Columbia, Jan. 14.-The Senate of
South Carolina today had the unusual
experience 3of having it's presiding
officer robeH both in the Khaki of a
retired soldier and in the royal purple
robe of state. During the morning
Lieutenant Governor Bethea was vot-
cd the robe as token of esteem and
to show how worthily he was worn
the ipprple. In ten days Lieutenant
GoveTftor- elect will don his new
regalia.s
The Senate lost no time in getting
its work started. Three bills have
already been introduced One pro-
Vides for new schedule of salaries
for State officers; the other under
takes to provide for the equalization
of tax by the township boards, and
the third contemplates the holding of
constitutional convention. All these
bills were introduced by Senator
Christensen and the latter with SEN
ator McGhee. Before the session clos
, ed Senator Christensen called meet
ing Of the finance committee and Sen
ator Laney, of the judiciary commit
tee, indicating that the committees
would get to work at once.
bclOTe JolHI CeSSlUh.
The committee that waited ,on Gov
ernor Manning through Senator Laney
made a report which indicated that
Governor Manning wishes to person
ally present his farewell message to
the General Assembly, and ii is prob
able that this message will he read
in joint session tomorrow at about
noon.
1t will be interesting and worth
. while to keep this list Of the members
ny the present session of the Senate
1HSp Of the General Assembly:
I3Andrew j. Bethea, lieutenant Gov
e1t2r until January 21; Junius T..
LINN, lieutenant Govcrno elect; Le-
ssh hde G. Walker, President pro TEN
FBf he Senate, and the following is
The personnel of the body proper
Members of Senate.
Abbeville, j. Howard Moore .
Aiken. John r.. Williams.
Anderson, r.. Frank Watkins.
'''"-B Bamberg, James B. Black.
Barnwell, j. Henry Johnson.
Beaufort, .Niels christensen.
Berkeley, Ed. j. Dennis.
Calhoun, j. Arthur Banks.
Charleston, Arthur r. Young.
Cherokee, II. Boutwell, Butler.
Chester, j. Hardin Marion.
Chesterfield, George X. Lapey.
Clarendon, J. w. Wideman.
.Colleton, j. G. .Padgett.
Darlington, F.. A. Miller.
Dillon, Preston l.. Bethea.
Dorchester, Herbert H. Gross.
Edgefield, Benjamin E. Nicholson.
Fairfield, Thomas II. Ketchin.
Florence, D. Gordon Baker.
Georgetown, LeGrand G. Walker.
,Grecnville, Proctor A. Bonham.
Greenwood, Samuel h. McGhee.
Hampton, w. +. Lightsey
Horny, Henry l.. Buck.
Jasper, II. Klugh Purdy.
Kershaw, J. Copeland Massey.
Lancaster, w. C. Hough.
I.aurens, John II. Wharton.
Lee, w. P. Baskin.
Lexington, Edgar C. RidgeH.
Mccormick, Frank G. Robinson.
Marion, Maxcy c.. Harrelson.
Marlboro, D. d. McCpll.
Newberry, Alan Johnstone.
Qconee, j. w. She,or.
Orangcburg, Edward 3. Friday.
Pickens, Frank Alexander
Richland, Thomas 3. Pearce.
Saluda, Jeff d. Griffith.
Spartanburg, w. $. Rogers, Jr.
Sumter, John Fl. Clifton.
I. Union, Thomas G.. Duncan.
} williamsburg, Hugh McCutcheon.
York, James f. Beamguard.
1t is a very interesting fact that
out of the forty-fivc Senators thirty
nine of them have had previous leg
islative experience, either in the Sen
ate or in tie House OF Representa-
tives. CHANGING over the list of Sen
ators in the present body, the entire
personnel have been lawmakers, with
the exception Of Senators Alexander,
Lightsey, McCutcheon, Miller, Pearcc,
Watkins and Wideman, but many Of
these have been watching legislation
for years and know what they are
doing.
Favor the League of Nations.
The first resolution by the General
Assembly in the Senate was an en-
Iorscment Of the proposed Peace
fHaeuc of Nations. Senator Banks,
on Calhoun, asked that the South
, 0erolina General Assembly endorse
tRS~proposed league as a safeguard
an ,st future war, now that Amer
ESy1a IS participated in such glorious
FSE3Vy. The resolution itself calls
1iSjbK the South Carolina delegation
to- favor in so far as it can this
policy.
There will be good roads measures
real ones. The Lawmakers are
droDlv in earnest in their desire to
give the people improved roads, be-
cnnse they realize that this is the