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fund. The levy for county purposes was reduced 

 to 13 mill. 



Other measures passed were as follow: 



Providing that a mortgagee may pay a delin- 

 quent tax on all the property of the mortgagor, 

 arid add the amount to the mortgage debt. 



Making partners liable for their own acts only 

 after notice of dissolution has been given. 



Providing for quarterly examinations by joint 

 committees of the Legislature of the accounts of 

 State financial officers. 



Providing that fertilizers may be analyzed free 

 of charge at Clemson College. 



Authorizing Clemson College to build a railroad 

 to connect the college with stations on other lines. 



Giving the board of the South Carolina Military 

 Academy power to confer the title of bachelor of 

 sciences. 



Requiring barbed-wire fences within 50 feet of 

 a public highway to have planks along the top. 



Providing for the completion of Winthrop Col- 

 lege. 



Making it a misdemeanor to sell or ship par- 

 tridge or quail out of the State for five years. 



Fixing the weight of a bushel of .bolted corn- 

 meal at 46 pounds; of unbolted at 48. 



Requiring records and reports of criminal sta- 

 tistics. 



Providing for the assessment of railroad prop- 

 erty that has been escaping taxation, and for the 

 collection of the taxes past due. 



Granting to the United States title to and juris- 

 diction over certain lands on Sullivan's island. 



A proposition to appropriate $100,000 to the 

 support of public schools came near passing, but 

 was finally rejected by a vote in the -Senate of 

 18 to 17. The institutions for higher education 

 received appropriations: South Carolina College, 

 $27,000 ; Winthrop College, $33,000, and $5,450 for 

 free scholarships; the State colored college, $8,000; 

 the Military Academy, $20,000, and $0,250 for de- 

 ficiency and $1,500 for a library; the Deaf, Dumb, 

 and Blind Asylum, $30,000. 



The total of appropriations, not including the 

 $175,000 for completing the Statehouse (which 

 amount is to be borrowed from the sinking fund), 

 was $954,571.76. It includes the appropriations 

 for the interest on the State debt, the $100,000 

 for Confederate pensions, the expenses for elec- 

 tions, the pay for the State officers, the support 

 and special appropriations for the State colleges, 

 the pay for the judiciary, the pay for the health 

 departments of the State, and the monument at 

 Chickamauga. The aggregate in 1899 was $842,- 

 151.82. 



Political. State officers were elected in No- 

 vember. The Democratic ticket was the only one 

 in the field. There was the visual speech-making 

 campaign, beginning in June, the candidates for 

 the office of United States Senator and for the 

 nominations for State offices holding joint debates 

 the various counties before the primary elec- 

 tions, which took place Aug. 28 and Sept. 11. 

 The chief issue was the State dispensary law; 

 lames A. Hoyt was the candidate for Governor 

 :>f those favoring prohibition instead of the dis- 

 oensary; Gov. McSweeney, F. B. Gary, A. H. Pat- 

 erson, and the Rev. G. Walter Whitman were the 

 Dther candidates. 



The Republicans held a convention at Columbia, 



larch 20, when four delegates to the national con- 

 vention were chosen and instructed to vote for the 

 i -('nomination of President McKinley. The reso- 

 lutions approved his administration, favored Amer- 

 ican shipping for our commerce, condemned lynch- 

 ing, and said : " We still protest against the sup- 

 pression of the ballot of the citizens of South 



Carolina by the criminal nullification of the Con- 

 stitution and laws of the United States, enacted 

 under the color of law by the so-called Constitu- 

 tional Convention of 1895. And we contend that 

 the unjust deprivation of 100,000 citizens of the 

 State of their right of suffrage is a crime against 

 the Government, which we call upon Congress to 

 place the seal of condemnation upon, by enacting 

 such laws as will protect the citizens of the United 

 States in the highest right of citizenship a voice 

 in the selection of their public officers and thus 

 preserve in its purity the American doctrine that 

 all governments derive their just powers from the 

 consent of the governed." 



A second Republican convention was held Oct. 

 3, but no State nominations were made. 



The Prohibitionists held a conference Jan. 12, 

 and issued an address to the people, in which was 

 said : " Those who manage it say the dispensary 

 paid last year $130,000 to the education of the 

 children of the State, but they did not tell the 

 startling fact that the dispensary had drawn from 

 the people of the State at least twenty times as 

 much and spent it in fat salaries and other ex- 

 penses, purchases, etc., of the liquor system. It 

 may be said that in addition to the $130,000, the 

 counties and towns received a small sum each, and 

 to this we reply: The expenses incurred by the 

 counties and towns in the trial, punishment, and 

 support of criminals, who have been made such by 

 the liquor sold them by the State, will far more 

 than balance the money received from the dis- 

 pensary. We state it moderately when we say 

 the present system of liquor selling is robbing the 

 people of the State of $20 for every dollar paid 

 to the State Treasurer for educational purposes. 

 The State Board of Control is sending out of our 

 State each year at least $1,000,000, and in ex- 

 change for it bringing into the State and distrib- 

 uting to our people five times the amount in pov- 

 erty, wretchedness, disease, and death." 



A convention was held May 23, at Columbia, 

 and James A. Hoyt and James L. Tribble were 

 nominated for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, 

 to stand for nomination at the Democratic pri- 

 maries, as there is a large body of Prohibition 

 Democrats opposed to the dispensary. 



The Democratic convention for electing dele- 

 gates to the national convention met at Columbia, 

 May 16. The resolutions favored the candidacy of 

 Mr. Bryan and approved of Senator Tillman's 

 course in the Senate. They also expressed sympa- 

 thy with the Boers, and condemned the adminis- 

 tration for " not extending an offer of its good 

 offices to terminate the unholy war of subjuga- 

 tion." They denounced the imperialistic policy 

 of the President and the financial policy of Con- 

 gress, and the " hypocritical attitude of the Re- 

 publican leaders, who abuse trusts and combines 

 while they use the money obtained from them and 

 stolen from the people to debauch the ignorant 

 voters of the country." 



At the first primary, Aug. 28, Gov. McSweeney 

 received 39.097 votes' and Mr. Hoyt 33,833. As 

 these were the highest two, their names were voted 

 upon at the second primary, Sept. 11, and the 

 result stood: MeSweeney, 51,363; Hoyt, 37.411. 

 The ticket, as settled by the primaries, was: For 

 Governor, M. B. McSweeney; Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, James H. Tillman; Attorney-General. G. 

 Duncan Bellinger; Secretary of State, Marion R. 

 Cooper; Superintendent of Education, John J. 

 McMahan; Adjutant General, J. W. Floyd; State 

 Treasurer, R. H. Jennings; Comptroller General, 

 J. P. Derham; Railroad Commissioner, J. H. 

 Wharton. 



There was no opposition to the candidacy of 



