UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (S< 



701 



regulating the issue of preferred stock, providing 

 for the election of trustees or directors of corpora- 

 tions by cumulative voting, providing tor the ex- 

 tension and renewal of charters of corporations 

 chartered by special act before the charters have 

 expired, and the act allowing compensatory dam- 

 ages against telegraph companies for mental an- 

 guish caused by negligence in transmitting mes- 

 sages. 



It was made illegal to pay wages in orders, 

 checks, or tokens payable otherwise than in law- 

 ful money, unless negotiable and redeemable at 

 their face value. Bills were introduced to abolish 

 or regulate child labor, but they were not passed. 

 There is as yet no compulsory-education law. 



The two constitutional amendments voted upon 

 in 1900 were ratified. One empowers the Legis- 

 lature to provide for the condemnation of lands 

 for drainage, and the assessment of lands drained. 

 The other removes the limitation of bonded in- 

 debtedness from certain counties as regards bonds 

 for water-supply and sewerage. 



The office of State geologist was created. A 

 board of entomology was established in order 

 to provide for the inspection of fruit-trees, vine- 

 yards, and vegetable farms. 



An act was passed introducing the system of 

 struck juries in the trial of civil cases. Under this 

 system a list of 24 jurors is presented to the 

 attorneys on each side, who alternately strike off 

 6 until a jury of 12 remains. 



Appropriations for new buildings were made 

 to the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, 

 to Winthrop College, and to South Carolina Col- 

 lege. 



It was made unlawful to sell, transport for sale 

 or carry, whether concealed or not, a pistol less 

 than 20 inches long and 3 pounds in weight. 



The appropriations amounted to $1,130,534. 

 The State levy was left at 5 mills. 



The anti-free-pass law was repealed by an act 

 which the Governor .vetoed. 



Other measures adopted were: 



Granting certain lands in Charleston County 

 for a naval station to the city council of Charles- 

 ton. 



Ceding to the United States certain lands in 

 Moultrieville, Sullivan's island. 



Consenting to the acquisition by the United 

 States of such lands in the State as may be needed 

 for the establishment of a national forest reserve. 



Permitting the owner or mortgagee of lands 

 sold for taxes to redeem them within six months 

 by paying taxes, penalties, and costs, and 8 per 

 cent, interest. 



Making it a misdemeanor to sell stock affected 

 with contagious diseases. 



To provide for the establishment of chain-gangs 

 in incorporated cities, towns, and villages in 

 counties that have no county chain-gangs. 



To set apart for Confederate souvenirs and 

 relics a room on the third floor in the State Capi- 

 tol, and to give the Daughters of the Confederacy 

 control of it. 



To ^ncrease the pension fund to $150,000. 



A joint resolution to provide for the keeping 

 and preservation of the flag and records of the 

 Palmetto Regiment, and also of the Jackson vase. 



To validate and confirm the original bonds and 

 all renewals thereof, known as railroad bonds, 

 amounting to $75,000, issued by Laurens County, 

 pursuant to an election held in that county on 

 June 7, 1881. 



To require the superintendent of the State Peni- 

 tentiary to hire convicts to the counties to work 

 on the public highways, and not to hire them out 

 for fanning. 





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The Quarrel' of the 

 political event of the \ , ., < 

 joint resignation by the l.\ 

 ator.s. Senator Tillman u.i 

 primaries in l!)0() to sueeee.l 

 accordingly reelccted by the Le^i-i.n ,., 

 Senator McLaurin, whose; term will expire i,, 

 had drawn upon himself the condemnation 

 large section of his party in the State by -,, 

 ing and voting in the Senate in favor of lli-puh- 

 hcan administration measures. In the Ix-gi^la- 

 ture resolutions of censure upon his course were 

 offered, but they were not passed. By a vote of 

 58 to 44 the House tabled a resolution of con- 

 demnation, the preamble of which set forth that 

 the Senator had " manifested opinions at vari- 

 ance with those of the Democratic party of South 

 Carolina through his vote favoring the ratifica- 

 tion of the treaty of Paris, whereby the Repub- 

 lican administration at Washington was enabled 

 to pursue an infamous war at a first cost of $20,- 

 000,000, to which many hundreds of millions of 

 dollars have been added, together with the loss 

 of thousands of precious American lives, all with 

 lamentable failure, the war in the Philippines 

 being no nearer a conclusion to-day than when 

 the first shot was fired; through his vote favor- 

 ing an increase of the standing army to 100.000 

 men in a republic whose strength in the past and 

 whose hope in the future, in times of trouble, have 

 lain in her free-born citizens, loving their homes 

 and firesides, who have never failed to defend the 

 same, if need, with their blood and their lives; 

 and through his speech in advocacy of the ship- 

 subsidy bill, a most gigantic and monstrous plan 

 to permit the huge shipping interests of the 

 United States to plunder the public treasury, 

 under the guise of legal authority a bill intro- 

 duced and managed on the floor of the United 

 States Senate by that great friend of monopoly 

 and the trusts, Mark Hanna, the embodiment of 

 plutocracy, which to-day controls and shapes the 

 policy of the Republican party, and conceived out 

 of a desire to repay to those interests from the 

 people's treasury the money contributed by them 

 to the Republican campaign fund." 



Some members who voted to table the resolu- 

 tion explained that they did so because they 

 thought such a resolution should have no place in 

 the Legislative proceedings, and their votes were 

 not intended as an expression of their opinion on 

 the merits of the case. 



On May 25 the two Senators met in joint de- 

 bate at Gaffney. Senator McLaurin advocating 

 his theory of commercial democracy and Sen- 

 ator Tillman attacking it. He said that if Mc- 

 Laurin were not a Republican he ought to be, 

 since he had supported and advocated Republican 

 measures, and that the only proper thing for him 

 to do was to resign and go before the people for 

 their verdict on his course. McLaurin challenged 

 Tillman to resign with him. This was agreed 

 and the joint resignation was sent to the Gov- 

 ernor, naming Sept. 15 as the time for the resi; 

 nations to take effect. The understanding 

 that the Senators would speak through the S 

 in October and November, and that a prim 

 would then be held: that if McLaurin were s 

 cessful he should fill out Tillman'a term 

 1907) and if Tillman, he should be reele< 

 But the Governor refused to accept the resij 

 tions. He said, in part: "It was only last year 



