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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (SOUTH CAROLINA.) 



Among the acts affecting corporations were: 

 An antitrust bill prohibiting the formation of 

 pools, trusts, combinations, confederations, etc., 

 to regulate prices, and declaring those entering 

 such combinations to be guilty of conspiracy to 

 defraud; providing for an unlimited number of 

 directors for banking and trust corporations and 

 to enable such corporations to divide the same 

 into two classes active and advisory and pre- 

 scribe distinct duties for each class; and empow- 

 ering cities and towns to give exclusive fran- 

 chises to persons or corporations furnishing 

 water or light thereto, respectively, under certain 

 conditions. 



The House passed a resolution calling for a 

 commission to examine into the advisability of 

 establishing a State fertilizer plant to be oper- 

 ated by convicts. The object, or one object, was 

 to establish competition against the Virginia- 

 ' Carolina Chemical Company, now controlling 

 most of the fertilizer factories and regulating the 

 prices. 



The amount for Confederate pensions was 

 raised to $200,000. Bills were passed to regulate 

 county aid to ex-Confederate soldiers, and to 

 prevent their disf ranchisemeht ; the office of 

 county pension commissioner was created, and the 

 duties of county pension boards defined and regu- 

 lated. The act exempting ex-Confederate soldiers 

 and sailors from taking out licenses as hawkers or 

 pedlers was amended by making it apply to 

 towns and cities. Certain broken granite col- 

 umns lying on the State-House grounds were 

 given to women's organizations to be used for 

 Confederate memorial purposes. The wearing of 

 the Southern Cross by others than those entitled 

 to wear it was prohibited. The purchase of 300 

 volumes of The Confederate Woman's Book, to 

 be placed in the libraries of the public institu- 

 tions and colleges of the State, was ordered. 



A concurrent resolution declaring " that the 

 thanks of every true American citizen is due to 

 that great naval chieftain Winfield S. Schley, 

 his officers and men, for their gallant conduct in 

 the harbor of Santiago, on July 3, 1898," was 

 passed. 



Other enactments were: 



Declaring the code as submitted by the Code 

 Commissioner the only general statutory law of 

 the State. 



To define train-robbing and fix the punishment 

 therefor. 



To establish Lee County. 



To amend an act to regulate the carrying, 

 manufacture, and sale of pistols, and to make a 

 violation of the same a misdemeanor. 



To regulate the qualifications of non-resident 

 executors. 



To require certain agricultural investigation 

 and experimentation in the coast region by Clem- 

 son College. 



To provide for the running of public schools on 

 a cash basis. 



To amend the act to regulate the rate of in- 

 terest upon contracts arising in this State for 

 the hiring, lending, or use of money or other com- 

 modity. 



To require municipalities to provide drains for 

 surface water. 



To provide for the preservation of valuable 

 documents and papers of the State. 



To regulate the catching and sale of oysters, 

 clams, and terrapins, and to provide a county 

 inspector. 



To amend the statute prohibiting sale and 

 shipping of partridges for five years, so as to 

 include deer and wild turkeys in its provisions. 



Fixing the State tax levy at 5 mills. 



Extending the provisions of the statute on kid- 

 naping so as to make it applicable to any case 

 of taking away a minor without the consent of 

 the parent or guardian. 



Appropriating $2,000 for artificial limbs for 

 veterans. 



The Governor recommended the enactment of 

 a compulsory education law. 



A bill to that effect was introduced in the Sen- 

 ate, but failed by 2 votes. 



A bill to abolish child labor was defeated in 

 the House by the same majority 2 votes. Most 

 of the votes in favor came from outside the mill 

 counties. A ten-hour labor law was defeated 

 also. 



A resolution for a constitutional amendment 

 making the legislative sessions biennial was lost. 



The Quarrel of the Senators. The incident 

 related on page 761 of the Annual Cyclopaedia 

 for 1901 had as a sequel the fight between the two 

 Senators from this State on the floor of the Sen- 

 ate, Feb. 22, which is given in the article Con- 

 gress in this volume. 



The Lieutenant-Governor. This official has 

 come prominently before the public in two in- 

 stances in which his official responsibility was 

 not concerned, but which have had greater noto- 

 riety from the fact of his holding a State office. 

 Early in the year he had raised money to pre- 

 sent a sword to Major Micah Jenkins, a soldier 

 who served with distinguished gallantry with the 

 Rough Riders and was highly praised by the 

 President in his written history and in a letter 

 to Lieut.-Gov. James H. Tillman, who had a 

 sentence or two from the letter engraved upon 

 the scabbard of the sword. It was arranged 

 that the President should present the sword during 

 his intended visit to the exposition at Charleston. 

 When the invitation to the dinner for Prince 

 Henry was recalled from Senator Tillman, his 

 nephew, the Lieutenant-Governor, telegraphed to 

 the President that the invitation to him to pre- 

 sent the sword was withdraAvn. As far as is 

 known, the other contributors were not consult- 

 ed. Tillman was a candidate for the office of 

 Governor in the State campaign and was strong- 

 ly opposed by the editor of a Columbia news- 

 paper, The State, N. G. Gonzales, who was .fatally 

 shot by Tillman in the street when walking home, 

 unarmed, from his office, Jan. 1, 1903. One of 

 the incidents of the quarrel between the men un- 

 in relation to a ruling made by the Lieutenant - 

 Governor while presiding in the Senate. He ruled 

 that a motion to postpone indefinitely was not 

 debatable. When the decision was questioned 

 he telegraphed to Senator Frye and Speaker 

 Henderson and declared that * both had pro- 

 nounced his ruling right. This was taken up l>y 

 the editor of The State, who upon inquiry re- 

 ceived a denial from each of those presiding ofli- 

 cers, both of whom said they had answered that 

 the motion was debatable. He published the 

 correspondence. 



Political. As there is practically no oppn-q- 

 tion to the Democratic ticket at the State elec- 

 tion, the interest centers in the primaries. Tin -e 

 were held Aug. 26 to nominate a successor to 

 Senator McLatirin. and candidates for State offi- 

 ces. The candidates for the office of United 

 States Senator were A. C. Latimer, D. S. Hender- 

 son, George Johnstone, William Elliott, J. J. 

 Hemphill, J. G. Evans. For the State officers the 

 following were in the field: For Governor, W. H. 

 Timmerman, M. F. Ansel, D. C. Heyward, W. -I. 

 Talbert, J. H. Tillman; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 C. L. Blease, J. T. Sloan, F. B. Gary; Attorney- 



