Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-01-26
WANNAMAKER'S
WEEKLY LETTER
Saturday, Jan. i, 1922.
Editor Cheraw Chronicle,

Cheraw, S. c.
Dear Sir:
Permit me, please, to give express
sion to some of MY observations made
during the past two weeks in the
Legislature.
The General Assembly Is busy.
Many of the committees are meeting
morning and afternoon. Immediately
after breakfast It Is committee meet
ing lasting until II A NJ, then the
house convenes and works until b.
tween two or three o'clock, then din
ner and back to a committee meeting
at four p. M. which sometimes lasts
until we'll after dark, then a rush for
supper and back to the House for the
night session which in some instances
lasts until after midnight. Yesterday
when we adjourned for the week /
think every member of the House was
tired. very tired.
If one wants to feel the pulse OF the
people of South Carolina. 1t can be
done by mingling with the members
of the General Assembly, and inde
the pulse is beating fast. We are
radical III admit, but reform some
times requires violent changes made
quickly.
The House has already passed and
sent to the Senate the inheritance
tax bill, the income tax bill, the gaso-
line tax bill, and tax on moving
picture films; and the House will pass
within the next few days increased
taxes on domestic and foreign corpor-
ations, luxury taxes, and tax on pro-
ducers of hydro-eleetric power.
I have it from the wings of very
responsible rumor that our Ways and
Means Committee is about a cut an
expenditure OF one million dollars In
the appropriation bill which they are
preparing. The members Of the House
wish to apply the principle Of rigid
economy.
All kinds of measures have been
introduced as usual in the House.
same ranging from one TO allow q
steeple-iack to climb the State House
to very serious measures concerning
the distribution Of property anon
heirs when people die intestate. And
former members of the General Assem-
bly, from this County know that every
thing has to be watched for something
will get through affecting our inter-
ests adversely, even II it Is change
in the shad law keeping the shad from
coming up the river or something
more serious to the whole County.
1t may be Of interest to people OF
our County that State Senator George
Laney is being talked Of very much
in the lower House as we'll as in the
Senate as a very powerful candidate
for Governor. Member after member
of the lower House have been to the
writer and stated that they wanted
Senator Laney for our next Governor.
From conversations with members
from counties whose dependence Is
almost solely on agriculture, I have
gathered that other counties In the
State are in far worse condition than
is our County. Many counties are OF
in production Of cotton three or four
times what our county is, and undoubt-
edly conditions are distressing. Ches-
terfield's hope is surely in the number
OF small home owning farmers.
Killing bills seems to be, a pleasant
pastime for the majority Of the House,
and do not anticipate much important
legislation except that affecting the
change in the sources of revenue and
rigid economy in appropriating mon
ey. This necessarily implies reor-
ginazation OF some Of the States meth
DDS of conducting her more than half
a hundred duties.
Yours truly.
L. c. WANNAMAKER.