The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-18

suited, and men whipped; and the
present municipal and County Off
cials, not only did nothing to dis
countenance these proceedings, but
in some cases actually sanctioned
them. In order to remedy this con-
dition of things, as far as practicable,
he moved that in compliance with
the first section of article four of the
Constitution, the General Assembly
appoint other officers in these locali-
ties, or authorize the Governor to do
so.
The Chair ruled that the Legisla-
ture had not this power, when on
motion of Smalls, the motion of Kuh
was referred, in the shape of resolu-
tion, to the Judiciary Committee.
The Special Committee appointed
to draft rules for the House, made a
report, recommending that the House
meet daily at IL NJ, and adjourn at
8 P. NJ; and that it be governed by
the rules of the old House of Repre-
sentatives of this State, as far as
practicable. and in cases not thereby
contemplated. by rarliam Oh tary
usages. This was made q Special
Order for Tuesday.
Ransier called up the Special Or
der, which was the report of the
committee to whom had been referred
the protest filed against the delega-
tion from Anderson taking their
seats. The committee recommend
that the matter be tried directly by
the House; and that the committee
l,n -
and papers.
An animated discussion ensued.
j. B. Moore representing the delega-
tion, as one of its members, made an
elaborate and able argument, review
ing the ground on which the delega-
tion had appeared, and presented the
same creditials as the other members
in the House-that is the certificates
of General Canby-that they were
duly elected. He said that protest
had before this been filed with Gen.
Candy, and for more than two
months he had refused to issue their
certificates. In the meanwhile he
appointed Special Commission to
investigate the matter, which COM
mission had gone to Anderson, ex-
amined persons, returned with
favorable report to General Candy;
and upon the strength of this, the
General had issued their certificates.
That many of the persons who were
parties to this new protest, were
obscure, ignorant persons, who did
not know what an affidavit was; and
one of them, who swore that there
was fraud Mt Greenwood Poll, was
register at Calhoun's, twenty-five
miles distant, the same day; and,
could, therefore, have gained his in
formation only by hearsay. which was
no evidence. All that he and his
colleagues asked, was justice-they
neither begged nor would accept any
favor. They wanted the persons, not
the affidavits, before the House, as
one could be cross-examined, and the
other could not.
Whipper, DeLarge, Crews and
others, opposed the report, on the
ground that it wonld entail an enor-
nous expense to the State; when, Oh
motion of Ransier, amended by
Whipper, the House adopted an or
der for the committee to proceed at
onco with the trial, and decide for
themselves all question: that might
be raised in the progress of the trial
by either party, subject to the ulti-
mate decision of the House, when
the final report is made, and that all
af1idavits be admissible rs evidence.
The concurrent resolution of the
Senate, appointing J. w. Denny, of
Charleston, State Printer, was taken
up.
The question was asked whether
any lower bid had been submitted,
and the response was made that one
had, but that the discrepancy amount
ed to only few cents per page, and
the committee who first had the sub
ject matter in charge, took into con-
sideration the fact that Mr. Denny
had done the work of the Convention
to the great satisfaction of those who
had employed him for that purpose;
and that they were also satisfied that
he was in possession of material, &C.,
to proceed directly with this work
so they did not think the discrepancy
in the charges was sufficient to war
rant dcpriving him of the State print
ing now.
No mention whatever was made of
bid which had been submitted, and
ranked fuly one dollar a page less than
the lowest of the other estimates. 1t
is supposed that this is to be account