Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-18

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Mr. Bryan's anti Convention idea and the Slave
trade matter and certain extreme resolutions have
all gone 'oyer the left" After all, our politicians
who have in federal matters taken conservative
position, find themselves in the ascendency. The
cooperation idea-which some folks could not mt
the right time distinguish from myth, has come
to be n reality-a living, sensitive, absolute ana
concrete fact. 1t will yet, take my word for 1t
and wait patiently, be developed, more than
mere fact-the necleuS around which will chrys-
taize and constellate the great elements of glo-
rious Southern Confedcracy.
| Some of your readers may not know how Legis-
laton is effected The member desiring to intro
duce bill must give notice to the House OH the day
previosu When the bill; is introduced, it is read the
first time and rcf.rredto the appropriate Commit
tee, who, upon dcbcration, report upon itfavora-
bly, or unfavorably. 1t is then placed upon the
Calendar" and for second reading must await
its turn in the reguarord of business As the ses-
sion is too short for the transaction of all the hu-
siness presented, many Of these bills are never
heard of after they have reached the Calendar
Whenever bill happens to he REACHED" howev-
err it is read a second time, and vote IS taken
whether it shall be "sent to the Senate" If yea,
it is subjected to two readings in the Senate and,
if agreed to- is returned to the House for the third
reading; whereupon, it is "put upon its final pas
sage" and after third reading, also, in the Sem
ate, becomes "An Act" When q measure is first
! introduced into the Senate, the reverse proceed
ure takes place. After the third reading, each
has the right to rejecta bill upon the fnal vote'
but the vote on the second reading is, with very
few exceptions, regarded as final, for the reason,
simply, that body would stultify itself by send
ing to coordinate body a bill which did not
! first meet with its own approval. In everyday
talk, when bill has received two readings in each
house, you may count it "good egg"
In the House, to-day, the "colored seamen's"
, bill, of which wrote you last week, was again
taken up, and made the matter of a most elaborate
and spirited dcbate-one side strenuously arguing
that the very existence of the institution of slavery
depended upon the arrest and close Imprisonment
as the law now requires, of every colored seamen
who might be driven into port and the other,
that to require such seamen to keep, on board his
vessel while it remained in port, was equally eff
fective of the end, and more conformable to hu-
mauity and good conscience The bill (embody-
ing the latter view passed the second reading
and was sent to the Senate, by vote Of Gl to 40
ALL of your delegation voting with the majority.
The message from the Senate, proposing to ad-
jouru on the 18th inst, was laid the table
Thus far the House has scarcely made any i'm
preston at all upon the "Calendar," which has
upon it at least double the usual number Of bills,
and they rightly refuse to agree upon q day of
adjournment, until they can "see daylight" Very
many of these matters are of private and local
and comparatively unimportant nature, but they
nevertheless require deberation.
Mr.. Boylston offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, for the ap2oin' ment of Committee to
inquire into the propriety of selling Rocky Mount
Canal and report to the Legislature at the next
session. Mr.. Green reported bill to prevent the
sale of intoxicating drinks by tincrant traders.
The Committee of Ways and Means reported IA
voraby upon the petition of the Historical Society
of South Carolina, praying aid in the publication
of original papers connected with the early history
! of the State The petition asks for $500 annual
ly, which certainly ought to be granted.
After this day, the House will begin the night
sessions, and 60 earnestly to work.
Yours, MELTON.
THURSDAY Evening, Dec. IL.
The Inauguration of the Governor, to-day, was
Gallery Of the House was in bloom, like beauti
ful garden in the Spring, time. You know that a
lovely woman is the lOveliest object in all creatOn
anl have often told You that onr South Carroll
ma women-cspecially those who have been flirting
around the capital this winter-are peerless in
the realm of beauty. To one seated in the hall,
whence distance lent enchantment, the view was
surprisingly fne-now taking in but one feature,
and then presenting an entire picture blushing
with the glow of associated splendor, like a very
galaxy of twinkling, sparkling, shining constella-
tons. Do you catch the idea? You may have
notion of the natural portion of it, but you can
not, without seeing grasp full realization of the
effect of the artificial half. Oh! how gorgeously,
how stupendousy magnfcently the women, now-a-
days, do put their clothes on. 1t is the perfection
of art-exceeeds everything recorded in the his
tory Of fashion
was in such 4 train of thought, looking up
into the Gallery, when the Appeal Court Judges
were announced, and in their own diguifed man.
ner made their way up the Hall. A fne-looking,
noble class Of men they are; but havn't time
for the sketch. At one o'clock, the Senate was
announced, and the members thereof ranged them
selves along the aisle; when the Governor elect
accompanied by Governor Adams and the Com
mittee of Arrangements entered the Hall and ad-
yanced to the Speakers desk. After the ceremony
of reception, the Governor delivered his inaugural,
and the oath of his Office was administered to him
by Mr.. Speaker Smons, in that peculiarly impress
sve and imposing manner which characerizcs all
that Col. Simons does in the Chair. The Assem-
bly, then adjourned to the Senate Chamber, when
the President delivered the commission; after
which his Excellency was escorted to the eastern
portco of the Capitol, and the Sheriff of Richland
| proclaimed him, "Govcrnor and Cornander-in-
Chief in and over the State Of South Carolina for
TWO years and until another election by the Gener-
al Assembly and may God save the Common
wealth" All this ceremony was done royalty, and