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GEAL ASSI PEACEFUL 4 State Tax Levy is Reduced from Seven to Six and One-Half Mills GOVERNOR MANNING SIGNS FINAL 'ITMS Appropriation Bill Approved Without! One Veto.-Liquor Laws Enacted. Few important Fights During See-, - sion Which Ende'd Sunday Morning . at 5:35. Without vetoing a single item, Gov. Manning at 6:33 o'clock Sunday morning sent his message of approval of the appropriation bill and the omni bus county supply bill to the general assembly. Two minutes later the 191; legislature became history, from its convening at noon January 11 to its adjournment. The governor's farewell message was: "Permit me to thank your honorable body for the courtesy and considera tion extended to the executive depart ment, and to me personally during your session. The friendships brought about through personal association in a patriotic servicW to our honored state, will -linger with me long after you have adjourned and returned to your homes and loved ones. "I respectfully inform your honor able body that I hirve signed the ap propriation bill and the school and county supply bill and have no further communication or message: "May God's richest blessings rest you and yours always, is my earnest prayer," Following the reading of the mes sage and the adjournment immediatb. ly thereafter, members of the house and senate extended hearty hand shakes to their dej'arting co-worker Iit Qe legislative halls; it was in pfe(Jgo of the many words of farewell and gopd Wit1,ns that had been spoken at odd ntervals durling the nine and one-half hour msiilon of Saturday .night. ' .oncluding session of tho 1916 legislat're was enjoyable to the mei bore and the itinerant visitors bd cause of its irregularities, its songs and music and its mock sessions of parliamentary procedure. In various WAys the legislators passed away the time between the adoltion of free con ference reports and the ratifleation of bills. All attaches of the legislative de partment received thanks for the ser vices rendlered. Loving cups wvere present to Speaker Iloyt., wvho was hIghly 'omplimented in short speeches by more than 20 members, and to Junius T. Liles, chairman of the ways and means committee. Speeches of pre'sentation andl acceptance of theI(se "slight tokens of high esteem" weres madle with a slincer-ity that was not forced. The engrossing department, which had c omleted all bills turned over to it by 5 o'clock in' the morning after a continuouts sessionl of many hours, was commendedI in the following roeo luon ,intr'oducedO in the house by Mr. Massey and in the senate by Senator Laney: "Be It resolvedl by the house of rep resentatives (and the senate) that the engrossing department is commended for their zeal an~d manner in which they have attended the multitudinous duties which have been theirs, and we esp)ecially desire to (ongratulate the closing night of the 1914 session.'" The portraits of Gen. Robert 10. ILeo and Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson were hung in the hall of the house while the proceedings of 'Saturday night were under way. The portraits had been purchased from Poindexter Page Carter, artist, for $200'-as the result of a resolution introduced by Mr. Sen seney of Charlegton. Among the senate bills killed in the house by the adjournment Saturday wasa that by Senator Sherard provid nug for a referendum election on thi Questli of issuing $10,000,000 h~ bods for rural credits. The advis ofI~y~ enacting a rural credits lav -.~hsbeen placed in 'the hands of %oht legislAtive commission, consistin, ~' 7hstone and Sherard and Meseri i~"~t,4 M. logers and Hluffman. ~ ' t. a4 not until the morning set ~ i~ton iday that it becaine know: , ner~ by the "grapevine route / '~'~ 'i~%would be effected o1 4 e. iv aa. The resolution t 6 u~~t UO ~ clock' was not ir ,~~we'eruntil about ua~i~ ~ening, accordin 'ike all, matter .'MBLY. ENDS' frAYTSESSION c GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENACTS e SOME PROGRESSIVE LAWS. fl The following categories of legisla- e tion fared well if the 1916 session: a Recommendations of Gov. Manning; b National Guard of South Carolina; a public schools; laborers in cotton c mills; anti-liquor sentiment; agricul tural interests in relation to schools 0 especially, and.local measures. s Of administration measures the fol- g lowing were enacted or amended in Itl conformity with the governor's mes- 5 sage. The McCullough child labor n bill; the Toole .and LaGrone bill to 1 teach agriculture j common schools; a the Torrens system of land registra- 0 tion as introduced by Messrs. Carey, ri 11. 1-1. Harris and L. M. Rogers; the ti board of conciliation as provided in! P the bill by J. W. Boyd; the bill by p Messrs. Nunn, W. S. Rogers, Jr., H1-1. H. Harris and Brigham relating to hours is of labor; the amending of the militia fil laws; the continuation of the state Ut board of charities and corrections and N the South Carolina tax commission; et additional aid to the state reformatory n at Florence. Gov. Manning advocated c the enactment of a rural credits law, er but. this was put in the hands of a sI legislative commission to report at m the next session; Gov. Manning also advocated the workingmen's compen- h sation law, which stuck on second at reading in the house. ai, Through a coalition, in which mili- 0 tia supporters and prohibitionists be came bed-fellows, the National Guard P was given an emergency fund of $25, 000 for the payment of shortage in ce equipment. A bill by Mr. Beckett P provides for the inducement of at tendance upon drills. A bill by Messrs. th lilammond and Mills provides for the readjustment of milita laws so as to In conform with requirements of the wiVr el department. . Under the appropriation bill con- an solidated and graded schools were a given $120,000. The appropriation of s $3,000 for high schools was also put on a solid basis through the ef(rts of at Mr. Mills and iQuator Nickles, in h Wvhose bill the state board of educa- t tion is aitt-lxlwed to establish noth more thau Pyg teacher- training courses Practically n6 oppooftion qeveloped in either house agath the imli6ve nts iII the school laws; in fact, it was dif- le ficult to restrai fhe legislators from being lavish in their appropriations, although the note of economy had 01 been sounded. PI Messrs. Brigham. if. It. Harris, W. e S. Rogers, Jr., and Nunn are respon- by sible for the passage of a bill, which d was said to conform with the wishes th of both employers and employes, re garding the hours of work in cotton tic mills and prescribing the method of r iocking, I Prohibition legislation center-ed prin ci pally aroundl two bills--the Liles s chiainganig mecasure, already signed m by the governor, and the tw~o-quarts. ty a-mlont h measure by Senator- Carlisle. sa The other- important bill1 on this forn at of legislation wias ai measure validat lng the prohibition referendum 1 ele 'Ic- re I ion, wher-eby it is dlCelaredl illegal to gi Imanufacturn- or sell atloolic bever- to ages .with an exempltion of home- thi ade gr-ape and berry wines. I a-i- in dental to the incoming of prohibition, it was necessary to provideC ways and th means for the windling up the county in dispensaraies; this wvas handled by the a sc e-era delegations indi vidually. What is considIered one of the fore: most st eps ini making South Car molina am an agrienitural state wvas the enact - atI meat of the 1)111 by Mesnsrs. Toole and aj L~aGr-one to Provide for the teaching e of agr-icultutre in the public schools. de TIhe authors of the 1)111 started modeost- Ic ly withI an appropiation of $5,000. It P1 was urged that the inculcation of agri culit-al knowledlge at an early ago ft wiouldl prove a great impetus for gen- Ie er-al rural dIevelopments. a George S. Mower, speaker pro temn- ci pore, andl Messrs. J. L.. Walker and T Williams were aPpointed b~y Speaker y Hoyt after the -atiflcation of the ap- Va propriation and county bill to wait Vi upon Gov. Manning for his final mes- a sage of the 1916 session. By resolution the house at the sea. S sion Saturday night made a present s Ito Speaker Hoyt and to Speaker Pro o Temporo Mower . of the gowns they 0 have worn during the past two see. i1 5ions when presiding over the lowel branch. . A resolution that would undobtedly a have passed if presented earlier in the t Ressioni failed of final consideration in i i the house just previous to adjourn ment sine die, Time governor's final I message interrup~ted debate on the matter.4 One of the bills ratified Saturday night providleA that the supreme court hereafter shall hold its sessions on the ,I i second Tuesday in April ,and October" a Sinstead of ini May and Nevember as heretofore,. The National Gyard of. Uoat~ 0' Sollina taged well sin the 39 aso *The rn h( 3awa of t~ Sbeen~ W vn intA a wol 3 /MAADOF 1REVIEW OVER STATE TAX COMM16SIO14t Th'o establishment of a board t r Plew over the state tax commission is irovided for in the bill enacted by the0 egislature. The bill would, it was aid, cure several defects in the' 1901 tatute and would place the powers nd duties of the commission in more efinite terms. The bill alone provides that the ammissioni "shall have power to qualize the assessment of all prop rty in this state between persons, rms or corporations of the same ass 1sment district, between cities, towns nd townships of the same county, and etween different counties of the state, nd the property assessed by said 3mmission in the first instance." The board of review of the actiont r the tax commission will consist of ven members, one from each con ressional district, to be appointed by to governor with the consent of the mate. The chairman of this board ay be called upon by the commis on to advise with them concerning iy matter before them; a reversal the decision of the tax commission ,quires the votes of four members of Le board. Members of the board are it upon a per diem of $5 and ex 3nsea. An important change in the new law providing that county boards shall -st assess the property, submitting eir report to the tax commission, hich shall then have the power of iualization. Formerly the entire atter was done from the office of the immission. if' any assessment is in eased by the commission a notice all be mailed; the aggrieved person ny appeal to the board of review. This bill created discussion in the use principally, however, over a sub tute bill to repeal the tax commis ) act. The repealing bill was erwhelmingly rejected. The registration of land titles, as ovided in the bill by Messrs. Carey, H-. Harris and L. M. Rogers, re ntly enacted, is voluntarily on the rt of the petitioner. Once secured, wever, the title bearing the seal of e state can not be questioned; or if estioned, no additional expense is nurred by the holder who is protect under an assurance fund. Prohibition measures have met with position, but have gone through tended. At first the legislature owed a tendency to place nothing t anti-liquor bills on the calendar, ,t at the end of the session by sending the act validating the pro bition referenddm election it was ought that the wishet of the people Lve been carried out. Total Appropriations. 'I'h9 aggregate appropriations are ,477,631.20, necessitating a state vy of 6 1-2 mills. The principal difference as passed the house and senate when on sec id reading in each house is an ap opriation of $25,000 to defray the penses of the $4,800,000 bond issue the sinking fund commission in or r to retire previous bond issues by 3 state. The report also made an appropria n of $120,000 for consolidated and ited schools, a compromise between s hmousec andi senate, L~or the State Hospital for the In nio an appropriationi of $100,000 is Ide for imp~rovemnents with nutiaori to borrow $50,000 ini adiition. Th'le lary of the superintendent is laied $6,000. For the mnainitenance of the sta to formamory at lIorence $35,000 is veni, the0 icrease being la rgeiy due the fact that it was found to be e duty of tihe state to nmintaini the ThIie repioJ l. rovides for $5.fl000 for 0 tubherculoxis caimp, ea vinmg the ap Copriation for the bur-eau of vi' at mutst ics at $4,000. L~iquor Legislation. With the exception of hiea ted re armks inl connection wi th variouis it i-iliquor- bills mand the 111libusmte'r ;aist the anti-complact 1)111 the ses an has been~ one carlriedl on with teorm. The session han seen much cat legislation enaced, a-i well as 'actically all measures. Ily theo adoption of the freo con rence recommendation the state vy was liaced at 6 1-2 mills for 19161 Scomiparedl with 7 mills for 1916 as )mparedi with~ 7 mills last year, his was tihe first time in about 12 3ars that the levy has been reduced em the preceding year. TPhe dlif rences between the two houses were miicably adjusted, the plrinc'ipal inter it centering in the section for the tate Hospital for the Insane. The pecial levy of one-half mill was cut at and an emergency fund of $60, 10 created, The salary of th~e super ltendlent was placed at $8,000. The need of having the poryraits in die hall of the house better labelel nid explained was shown in a rosolu Ion by Mr. Beockett requesting the ecretary of the 'historical commis ion to issue a pamphlet giving the lie of each~ person and having thies ccount suitably attached to the sev 'ipaintings. The, resolution provided that the ~lerk of the house act as a. bumreau Of egislative sinformation between asell ions so that muembors of the' house mnd Stat9 ofitCcis .may have op3or. uiItytit btain -ittormnon jf buSS less PFece4Itn$ n/M~s' Af RUSSIAN PESS PURSUIT OFTURKS CAPTURE REMAINDER OF DIVIS ION AND LARGE QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES. LITTLE FIeHTING IN WEST Some important Troop Movement. Austrians Bring Down One'Italian Machine During Air Raid. London.-The latest official state ment by the Russian War Office re ports the capture of the towns of Mush, in Asiatic Turkey, lying 83 miles southeast of Erzerum, and Ahlat. The pursuit of the Turkish forces who retreated from Erzerum is being con tinued and the Russians have taken prisoner what remained of the thirty fourth Turkish division, with a large quantity of war supplies. An air raid by a squadron of Ital lian machines against Laibach, Capi tal of Carniola, Austria-Hungary, is officially reported from Rome. Bombs were dropped on the town, and they are thought to have done consider able damage. Austrian aeroplanes ascended for the purpose of driving off the raiders, and six of them stir rounded one of the Italians and brought him to earth. Asia and Africa .figure more prom inently than Europe in the ctirrent war news. The Russians are follow. 1ng up with vigor their recent suc cess in Turkish Armenia; Constanti nople reports a reverse for the Brit ish in Mesopotamia, while London announces the completion of the conl ques of the Kamerun, the important German colony in western equatorial Africa. The immense forces massed in the European war areas are just now comparatively inactive. The Russians meanwhile are active along the Black Sea coast and have recently reported a landing on the Armenian littoral, 15 miles east of Trebizond, which city is considered one of the next objectives of Rusian land forces by a march of about one hPUdred miles northwest from Er zeruinT - Along the Black Sea coast, Rus sian warships are pounding at the Aurkish batteries aia Iiiarissing the retreatiln troops. The northern wing of the Russian army has captured the town of Widje and is driving the Turks back in the direction of Gumish Khaneh, which is on the road to Treb. izond, while large Russian forces are moving westward from Erzerum with the object of cutting off these Turkish troops before the ycan reach a new line of defense. DANIELS ASKS FOR MONEY. Emergency Appropriation of $2,757,000 For Needed Repairs. Washingtonr,-A$2,757,000 emergen. cy appropraiation for reipair-s of machin ery in battleships, torpedo(1 defstroyers and snbmar-inles, to incr-leaise the sup ply of mines andl, for the first time, to e~iuii) battleships with aniti-aicaft guns was aisked~ of Congr-ess by Secre tary Danuiels. "Many of our desItr-oyers have reachedl an ago where renewals of ox tenstivo portions of their nmachiner-y equatuiment is neccessar-y," Secretar-y Danuiels said. "TIhe same is true oft suabmarines, bo0th classes of vessels makinag a big drain on this year's tap The b)oilers of the battleships Geor gia and Virginia, both of wvhic-h have beenI in ailmest constant service for ten years, have shown euch weakness, Mr-. Daniels saidi, as to. require that these vessels lbe withdrawn from ac tive service to have their boilers re placedl. In addition, the Virginia has recently broken an important part of her machinery, wvhich must , he re newedl, andl the long stay of tile fleet in Mexican waters last year also caus edl an unusualy repair bill. Capt. William Lauder Dead. Norfolk, Va-Capt. William Lauder, .mo of the best known marine men along the Atlantic Coast, died at his home here. He was the marine under writers agent here. Belgian Relief Plan Pails, London-The plan of aiding B~e! glum to feed herself by rehabilitating the industries of the country under control of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium has failed, ac cording to a letter written by Sir Ed ward Grey, the British foreign secre tary to M. Hlymans, the Belgium min ister here, because the CGermans thus far have failed to reply to'the r'equet for guarantees that raw materials and manufactured goods will not be sei 'ed by the occupying armies, * Lieut. Berg Not Hospitable. Newport News, VaN.-Two deputy United itates marAhals' were in dis tress aboard the prize ship Manm iqa g V' How to Feel Wel During Middle Life Told by Three Women Who Learned from Experience. . The Change of Life is a most critical riod of a wvomans sexistence, and iglect of health at this time invites disease and pain. 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