S. 70.-Mr. Crouch: A Bill to authorize the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to lend funds to Saluda county.

S. 96. Mr. Stuckey: A Bill to amend Section 2196, Volume I, Code of Laws, 1912, by making same apply to Lee county.

S. 99. Mr. Ketchin (for Fairfield Delegation): A Bill to provide for the government of Fairfield county.

S. 101. Mr. Crouch: A Bill to authorize the county of Saluda to borrow money to pay past indebtedness of said county and to create a sinking fund for payment of same.

S. 105.-Mr. Crouch: A Bill to provide for rural policemen for Saluda county.

S. 125.-Mr. Sullivan: A Bill to amend an Act to establish the Anderson school district, to authorize the establishment of free graded schools therein, and to provide the means for the equipment and efficient management of the same, approved January 5, A. D. 1895, so as to enlarge the said district, and authorize the trustees to issue bonds and to provide the means for the equipment and the efficient management of the new district as amended.

S. 134. Mr. Patterson: A Bill to amend Section 1001, Volume I, Civil Code of 1912, relative to the borrowing of money by Barnwell county.

S. 72. Mr. Crouch: A Bill to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to require the County Supervisors of Newberry and Saluda counties to establish and maintain a free ferry across Saluda River at Holly's Ferry," approved the 16th day of February, A. D. 1911.

S. 124. Mr. Johnson: A Bill to make all rural mail routes in Greenwood county public highways.

S. 128. Mr. Beamguard: A Bill to amend Section 394, Volume II, Criminal Code, 1912, relating to disorderly conduct, obscene or profane language in public.

AMENDED.

S. 97. Mr. Stuckey: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for weighing of cotton seed," known as No. 401, of Acts. of 1912, by making same apply to Lee county.

The Bill was read the third time.

Mr. LIDE proposed the following amendments, which were adopted:

Amend by adding at the end of the title “and by including Orangeburg county in the proviso thereof."

Section 1, line 3, after "Section 5" and before the words "so that" add "and by including Orangeburg county in the proviso thereof." Line 11, after the word "Oconee" insert "Orangeburg."

There being no further amendments, the Bill was passed and ordered sent to the House of Representatives.

S. 104. Mr. Crouch: A Bill to provide for working the roads in Saluda county.

The Bill was read the third time.

Mr. CROUCH proposed the following amendments, which were adopted:

Amend by striking out the word "21," on line 1 of Section 1, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "18."

Amend, further, Section 3, by inserting the words "or caused to be warned out" between the words "warn out" and "the persons," on line 2.

There being no further amendments, the Bill was passed and ordered sent to the House of Representatives.

ORDERED FOR RATIFICATION.

The following Bills, having received three readings in both houses, it was ordered that the titles thereof be changed to that of Acts and the same enrolled for ratification:

S. 92 (H. 17.-Mr. Vander Horst): To amend the charter of Charleston Consolidated Railway, Gas and Electric Company, so as to authorize said Charleston Consolidated Railway, Gas and Electric Company to sell, assign, transfer and convey all or any portion of its property not known as the Seashore Division of said company and formerly constituting the Charleston and Seashort Railroad, etc.

S. 131 (H. 89.-Greenwood Delegation): A Bill to repeal Sections 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258, 1259, Volume I, Code of Laws, 1912, providing for the appointment of rural policemen for the county of Greenwood.

LAID UPON THE TABLE.

On motion of Mr. WESTON, the following Bill was laid upon the table:

S. 63. Mr. Weston: A Bill to establish an additional township in Richland county.

SECOND READING BILLS.

The following Bills and Joint Resolutions were severally read the second time, passed and ordered placed upon the Calendar for a third reading:

S. 56.—Mr. Lide: A Bill to create a Board of Claims and to prescribe the manner of payment of claims against the State.

S. 141. Mr. Stuckey: A Bill to create the office of Master for Lee county.

S. 142. Mr. Crouch: A Bill to authorize the Town Council of the town of Saluda, Saluda county, to issue bonds for the purpose of redeeming and retiring ten thousand ($10,000) dollars in bonds, heretofore issued under an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the town of Saluda, in Saluda county, upon the petition of a majority of its," etc.

S. 158 (H. 105.-Ways and Means Committee): A Bill to amend Section 137 of Volume I of Code of Laws of 1912 by striking out the words "Section 135" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Section 136" wherever the same occurs in said section.

S. 163 (H. 129.-Richland Delegation): A Bill to establish an additional township in Richland county.

AMENDED.

S. 114. Mr. Appelt: A Bill to amend Section 938, Volume I, Civil Code of 1912, by increasing number of Commissioners for Clarendon county.

Mr. CROUCH proposed the following amendment, which was adopted:

Add after the word "law," line 47, the following: "Provided, Nothing in this Act shall be construed to conflict with or in anywise shall conflict with the terms of Act No. 368 of 1912, entitled 'An Act relating to county government of Saluda county.""

S. 132 (H. 80.-Mr. Hutson): A Bill to repeal so much of the Acts of 1912 creating Jasper county as provided for certain County Commissioners as named in said Act.

Mr. JOHNSTONE proposed the following amendment, proposed by the committee, which was adopted:

Strike out the title and insert in lieu thereof the following: "To declare vacant the offices of the Commissioners in Section 2 of the Act creating Jasper county, approved January 30, 1912, and substituting in their places the Supervisor and County Commissioners

elected at the last general election for Jasper county and making it a misdemeanor for the failure to turn over all papers, records, etc."

Strike out all after the enacting words and insert in lieu thereof the following:

"Section 1. That the offices of the Commissioners created under Section 2 of the Act creating Jasper county, approved January 30, 1912, are hereby abolished and declared vacant, and the Supervisor and the County Commissioners elected at the last general election for Jasper county are hereby clothed with all the authority and power formerly vested in said Commissioners under the Act creating Jasper county, except that the Supervisor and County Commissioners shall not have the authority and power to fill any vacancy in said Board of County Commissioners.

"Sec. 2. After the passage of this Act if said Commission or any member thereof shall fail, after ten days, to turn over to the Supervisor and County Commissioners, elected at the last general election for Jasper county, all books, bonds, moneys, records, papers and property of every description shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty. days.

"Sec. 3. This Act shall go into effect immediately upon its approval by the Governor."

There being no further amendments, the Bill was passed and ordered placed upon the Calendar for a third reading, with notice. of general amendments.

SPECIAL ORDERS CONSIDERED.

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of special order:

S. 67. Mr. Clifton: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for an election on the sale of alcoholic liquors and beverages in certain counties petitioning therefor," by changing the time and requirements for holding said elections.

The Bill was read the second time.

Mr. NICHOLSON moved to strike out the enacting words of the Bill.

After debate by Messrs. CLIFTON, SHARPE, DENNIS, MARS, APPELT, PATTERSON and MAULDIN in favor of, and Messrs. NICHOLSON, YOUNG and CARLISLE against the Bill, on motion of Mr. LANEY, further consideration was postponed until this evening at 8 o'clock.

MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.

Mr. Blackburn, Assistant Secretary to his Excellency, the Governor, appeared upon the floor of the Senate and presented the following message:

MESSAGE No. 13.

State of South Carolina, Executive Department. To the Honorable, the Members of the State Senate of South Carolina:

Gentlemen: Twelve months ago, when I stated in my message to you, conveying the list of pardons, paroles and commutations, which I had granted, "I take please in accepting the construction of the Constitution, which is, that I should make such report ***," some people criticised me by saying that I had to make such report to the General Assembly, and that that language in my message was useless.

I beg leave to call your attention, however, to Section 11, Article IV, of the Constitution, which reads: "It shall be his duty to report to the General Assembly, at the next regular session thereafter, all pardons granted by him;" and, does not require of me to present any reasons for the paroling, reprieving or commuting any prisoner by me, but I set forth then, as I am doing now, my reasons, not only of the pardons, as required by the Constitution, but of the paroles, commutations and reprieves, because I want all of my acts as Governor of South Carolina to be known to the public; and, as I said then, I repeat now, I am not afraid of them; for the endorsement which I received from seventy-two thousand two hundred and forty-three of my white fellow citizens is pretty strong proof of the fact that my administration was endorsed, and if the machine had given me all the votes that were cast for me and my opponents had not used money, whiskey and intimidation, instead of being seventy-two thousand two hundred and forty-three, it would have been at least ninety thousand, as I predicted at the beginning of the campaign, and as a very large number of my fellow citizens now believe, fully feeling that I was not given all the votes which were cast for me, besides the ones which were taken from me for the reasons just above mentioned.

I furthermore said in my last letter of transmittal: "I fear no harm from the fact that I have shown mercy to my fellow men, but I do expect a reward, not only here, but hereafter, because I believe that there is a God; I believe that He is my God; I believe that but