The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-11-16
SENATE.

Senator Moses offered the following res
olution and asked It's immediate consider
alton:
Resolued, That the Committee on Fed
eral Relations be instructed to introduce,
at the earliest moment, a bill to call Con-
vention of the people Of this State.
Senator Rhett offered, by way of sub
stitute, q series of resolutions providing
for the call of a Convention. These hay
ING excited some discussion he Withdrew
them temporarily.
The resolutions of Senator Moses We're
then adopted
Mr.. Hope offered the following:
.ResoZred, That the presiding officers OF
the two Houses be requested to inform
the Governor of the names of the persons
returned as Electors for President ana
Vice-President of the United States.
The resolution was carried.
Mr.. Lesesne offered series of resolu-
tions: the first declaring that the success
of the hostile sectional party is sufficient
cause for the dissolution Of the Union, and
the formation of Southern Confederacy I;
the second declaring a Convention of the
people at this time inexpedient, unless for
the purposes of secession. and the forming
of a Southern Confederacy; the third EN-
powering the Governor, if Lincoln was
elected, to call Convention so soon as
any one other Southern State give assur-
ance or evidence of its attention to secede.
Mr.. Wilson moved to postpone the res
olutions, and make them the special order
for tomorrow ef- eef-one o'clock. which
carried.
Mr.. Harrison offered resolutions similar
to those offered by Mr.. Trenholm in the
House of Representatives, and were made
the special order for one o'clock to-mor
row.
The following resolution was received
from the House of Representative and re-
fe1rad to the Military Committee:
Whereas, The General Assembly Of
South Carolina, by the seventh clause of
the Appropriation Act Of 1859, provided
ssfor the Military Contingencies one hun
dred thousand dollars, to be drawn and
accounted for as directed by the Legisfa-
ture."
And phcreas, The fourth resolution Of
aseries of resolutions on Federal affairs,
adopted on the 10th of December, 1859,
declared Sthat the State of South Carolina
owes it to hero citizens to protect them
and their property from every enemy, and
that for the purpose of military prepara-
tions for any emergency, the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars be appropriated
for military contingencies"
And aohereas, This appropriation has
been neither drawn nor used for the pur-
pose indicated, and it is proper that South
Corolina should, in any event and under
condition of affairs, external Or domestic
to her, have better and larger supply of
arms:
ReSolrea, therefore, Thatthe Governor of
the State be authorized and directed to
draw forthwith the said appropriateds sum,
and use it in manner his discretion deem
for the public service, in obtaining improv-
ed small arms, in altering and improving
those on hand, in procuring field battery
of rifed cannon, in providing proper ac-
countrements to accompany these differ
,ent arms, in furnishing an additional sup
ply. tents.
On motion of Mr.. Mazyck, the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at II clock, and was
opened with prayer Rev. R. W. Barn
we'll.
Mr.. BUST, Of Charleston, gave notice
that he would introduce bill tomorrow
morning for the calling of a Convention
by the people Of this State.
Mr.. Trenholm. Of Charleston, offered
resolutions, that it is the sense of this Gen
eral Assembly that the election of Lincoln
is incompatible with the safety of the
Southern States and that Commissioner
be elected by joint ballot, whose duty it
shall be, in the event of Lincolns election,
to>aalD1ounce to Che. Legislature of Georgia,
now in session, that South Carolina had
put herself in state Of military defence,
and would cooperate with Georgia in
measures for the protection of the South
ern States, and in the event Of Lincoln's
election, of withdrawing at once from this
Confederacy and the calling of q Convcn-
ton simultaneously in both States to take
the proper steps to form Southern Con-
federacy, so that the Military Committee
of the Senate and House Of Representa-
tives, during the recess, might prepare
plan for arning the State and organizing
q permanent Military Bureau; that the
Committee of Ways and Means sit during
the recess and prepare a bill for raising
the supplies necessary to carry into effect
the plans recommended by the Military
Committee; that the Governor immediate
ly apply the one hundred thousand dollars
appropriated by the last Assembly to the
purchase of arms, and that Immediately
after the election of the Commissioner, the
General Assembly shall take a recess until
the 10th of November.
Mr.. Trenholm's resolution was made
the special order for tomorrow, at one
o'clock