Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-01-24
LEo1sLAr1vE NOTES.

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, far there have been a number Of
socalled revenue measures passed
by the house and sent to the SEN
ate, but the greater part of the
time of the house has been devot-
ed to bills affecting the govern
ment of number of counties.
What the fate ,of the revenue
measures will be in the senate re-
mains to be seen, but one is on
safe ground in guessing that they
will not be "railroaded through
that body with the celebrity that
marked their passage through the
house. Take the socalled income
tax bill as illustrative of the easy
sailing all the bills labeled new
source of revenue" had in the
house. The bill, covering nearly
so pages of typewriter matter,
was presented to the, ways and
means committee, after it had
been prepared by the experts
from the North employed by the
efficiency and economy commit
tee" to tell the Legislature how
to run the business of the people
of South Carolina-incidcntally,
at cost of some $4,000. After
the bill had been discussed in the
committee for few minutes and
it's unsuspected virtues pointed
out by the experts, a incmber
of the committee moved that it
be printed for the information of
the committee, explaining that
the cost of the printing would
pc no more than the actual COS.
OF the presswork and paper, as
the type would be held for the
copies Of the bill to be printed
later for the house. In behalf of
the motion to print the bill it was
stated that no member OF the
committee could absorb its many
provisions by simply listening to
the clerk read it and thst the
only way the members could get
an intelligent conception OF its
contents was to have it put to
press for the benefit of the COM
inittee. The chairman of the COM
mittee said he saw no reason for
having the bill printed, that it
followed closely the provisions of
the federal income tax law, with
which everyone was more or less
familiar, he felt sure. The motion
tc have the bill printed prevailed,
but a day or two later it was re-
ported favorably and then rushed
through the house faster than the
Century Limited" travels be-
tween New York and Chicago.
Physically, Representative Sam
Sherard OF Greenwood county is
: the smallest member of the Legis-
lature: he weighs less than 80
pounds and is little short of
1--we feet in height. But Sherard s
boyish physique ends where his
head. begins and there is more
, activity above his ears than there
is above. the ears Of the average
member. When things do not go
TO suit Sherard, and that hap
pens frequently, he is not BASH
Iul about Saying SO. For several
years he was in the government
service in the Philippines and
while he was living in the Far
East he spent some time in Japan.
OF whose people he has poor
opinion. Asked few days ago
what he thought of the Japanese,
Sherard rephed that they were
smart and shrewd, but the most
vicious,. deprayed, threacherous
people on the face of the globe.
Any form of morality, he said,
rs foreign to that country. IF a
Japanese gets behind in the pay
mcnt OF his taxes and he has any
daughters, the law of the country
provides that he deliver his
daughters to the government for
whatever purpose the government
sees fit 10 use them. When they
have made enough money to pay
their fathers taxes, they are re-
turned to him. One thing is GER
tam TO my mind, if the Caucasian
race is civilized, the Japanese are
nor, aad if the Japanese are
oNiiiScdswe are not.
In recent years the York mem
bers- in the, house have intro
duced few bills,, their view evil
IDENTIFY being that the State al
ready has about all the law it
needs. An exception to the rule
was noted last week, however, in
2 joint resolution introduced by
Mr.. Bradford proposing to amend
the section of the constitution
whick says that the public print.
ing must be done con contract
Tho ronnyutsnv, ho. hao,, fo,,e.ll