The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-03-05
CAPITAL NEWS AND GOSSIP
(By John 4. AuIl.)

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: Columbia, March AT IL O'Clock
today the free conference committee
has the appropriation bill and is max
ing an effort to get the two houses to
agree on a report.
It is r1mored that certain men,
bers, majority it is said, have or
ganized in the house to make fight
on the free conference report and
to reject it unless the appropriations
are cut very materially from where
the senate put them. It is also re-
ported that. Speaker Cothran an
nounced from the speakers desk that
he would refuse to sign the bill car
rying the appropriations put in by
the senate.
The senate and house committees
may agree and they may not, and if
they do not then the bill fails and the
legislature will not adjourn this week,
and then if the house should reject
the report that kills the bill, and a
new one will have to be passed, or an
extra session called by the governor.
Columbia, March 3.-At this writ
ing it seems that the general assem-
bly, may finish it's business at almost
any hour, or it may go to the end OF
the week. It will be characterized by
the biggest appropriation bill in the
history Of the Democratic administra-
tions Of this State. even comparative.
ly speaking and taking in the growth
of the state. The house sent to the
senate bill which totals $685. ,26l,
carrying levy of twelve mills. The
senate with practically no debate has
passed the measure az it came from
its finance committeewith an increase
of slightly~4sser -seee, $50, with a
levy 0f fourteen mills. AS the bill
passed the senate this afternoon it
carries something over e,70o, 900.
The total last year seas fifty over
s4,00o,000, with levy of nine and
one-half mills, later reduced by the
comptroller general to nine mills.
The bill viii go to free conference
om,nittee, which will settle the differ
ences between the house and senate.
The house bill win have to be IN
creased, however, because to it must
be added such extraordinary appro-
priations as the 100000 for the
larger Citadel this year, and other
items of appropriation approved by
the house after the bill left it. AS
agreed upon by the conferees, the
bill will carry somewhere between six,
and seven million; dollarsrprobahy
more than six and,a half million. The
budget submitted by Governor Cooper
at the opening Of the session recon-
mended practically five and one-half
million dollars, and it is being predict
ed that he may possibly exercise the
veto power in some particulars.
New Liquor Law Fails.
The house last night killed the pro-
posed liquor law to make the State
law conform to the federal law. The
State law used to allow the importa-
ton Of quart month for medicinal
purposes. How anybody can get that
quart month now, however, under
the federal law, nobody knows. The
Federal law would allow pint every
ten days, under rigid restrictions. The
house seemed to think that by max
ing the state law conform to the fed
eral law that possibly a fellow could
get quart and half a month in
stead of a quart. The federal law,
however, is so strict that perhaps
very few will attempt to get any
liquor under it other than in the man.
ner prescribed, which holds the ply
sicians, the patient and the pharma-
cist who sells it down to the most
drastic regulations that it must be
only for medicinal purposes. Mr..
Evans, of Newberry, made strong
speech in the house urging that the
federal law be conformed to. Such
a measure was recommended by7Dis-
trict Attorney Weston. But: the, pro-
hibitionists seemed to be afraid of
the bugaboo- Of three pints instead of
a quart. The house refused to strike
out the enacting words of the bill at
first, but when a roll call was had on
the passage of the measure it was de-
feated.
The Good Roads Bill.
The good roads bill will be agreed
upon practically as it passed the
house, and the provisions of which,
carry;np a two-mill property tax and