The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-21

Education $25OO per annum, and cost Of trans
portation when travelling; directs theSchool
Commissioners Of each county to make an
enumeration Of all the children in the State,
between five and eighteen years Of age; and
requires report Of the number of schools Of
every class, public andprivate. and all informa'
tion connected Herewith. These thirty-one
School Commissioners are toreceive s4per day,
with the privilege Of employing one or more
assistants with an extra outlay Of 81 so per
day. No limit is fixed to their labor. Whether
man works week or month, or neither,
his own certificate to the fact unlocks the
treasury, to whatever amount he may choose
to name.
The debate on this question elected the pc
culiar desire which exists to provide as many
men as practicable with paying berths before
the ides of November. The machinery Of this
department will be admirably adapted TO the
ends in view, especially if the following addi-
tional section, offered as an amendment by
Rev. B. F. Jackson, should be adopted: Gall
institutions Of learning supported wholly or in
part by funds furnished by the State, are here
BY turned over to the supervision of the Super
intendent Of Education; and all the public
schools ia the several counties, supported as
above specified, are hereby placed under the
direct supervision OF the School Commission
ers of the several counties" T.
Whipper said he thought this dangerous
section, and hoped it would be recommitted
with instructions. Even the Radicals we're
doubtful of rushing 30 hastily into e1hemes,
and the bill, with amendment proposed. was
referred 10 the Committee Oh Education.
That very remarkable measure-a bill to
close the operations of the Bank Of the State Of
South Carohna-was now put upon its second
reading, and, in less than ave minutes from
the reading of the title it became, as far as the
House was concerned, law. The way in
which these bills are managed is very curious.
Their first reading is simply by the title. The
manuscript is now furnished to the printer,
that is, provided it has received the approval
OF q committee, and, in due time, the bill is
sent back in print. The sergeant-at-arms
takes charge OF it, and when the bill is called
up for action he distributes the same among
the members. It frequently happens that, be-
fore the bills are thus distributed, one, two or
three se:tions have passed their second read
ing and are beyond the reach Of the House,
without reconsideration. No time is permit
ed for examination into the merits of these
measures, and thus, with indiscreet haste,
grave changes are made in the law Of the
land-the Legislature being made the mere
cats paw of the designing few who remain in
the back ground out ofsight and essay to con-
troll these erratic movements.
The bill to organize Circuit Courts received
it's third reading, and was ordered to be sent
to the Senate.
A bill to redeem the bills receivable was
passed to third reading. The bill is pub
lished in another column.
In the Senate Parson Cain endeavored to se-
cure the passage Of a bill incorporating the
Longsh ,remen's Protective Union. Mr. Cor
bin inquired Of Cain what the object Of the bill
was, but the latter pretended not to be able to
state in detail. When the subsequent discus
sion brought out the fact that these longshore-
men we're the same crowd who had been the
cause Of 80 much trouble, and (as one Of the
senator's said) been put down with General
Csnby's bayonets, Cain confessed that they
had been meeting in his church for six months
or more, and he could vouch for their peaceful
intentions. Gains demagoguism did not serve
his purpose, however, on the present occasion,
and the bill was postponed for ten days.
There is o disposition on the part Of some Of
the members to finish the most important work
to be done and go home within two or three
weeks. This event may be hastened by the in
ability Of members to use their bills receivable
to present advantage. There seems to be a
determination among some of the citizens not
to recognize any money Of the State signed by
the officers Of the present government. Should
this prove true, the brokers will do hand
some business, and the members will find
themselves in an unpleasant financial predica-
ment. PERSONNE.