The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-03
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COLUMBIA, September 1.-The first event in
the House to-day was heavy speech from
Whipper, negro, in favor of the bill to close the
operations of the Bank of the State. Herepled
specially to Jackson, the little person who
spoke yesterday, and said that it i'll became
one of his profession to criticise 30 generally o
legal opinion, about which he might well be
presumed to know nothing, as in fact his
spesch fully showed. As for the cry about the
Confederate debt it was all raised for effect,
and for his part he was not afraid to go before
his constituents, who, he thought, had conf
mon sense enough to understand the question,
all of them not being ministers.
This speech seemed to fr1gnten OFF any more
debate, and Notwithstanding desultory fill
clustering operation, the bill finally passed to
third reading, test vote taken showing
ffty-six in favor Of the bill, to thirty-ive
against it. "l'
The next event was the debate on the Gov.
ernor's veto Of the bill altering and amend ing
the charter Of the City OF Charleston and pre-
viding for municipal election. AS indicated
in my telegram, the veto had caused consider
able feeling, the movers Of the bill being very
much disappointed and chagrined, and the op-
ponents Of the bill strengthened by large
number of those who had voted for the bill be-
fore, but who had caught at the idea express
ed in the Governors veto that the bill favored
Charleston more than the rest Of the State, and
their local prejudices being aroused, were now
determined not to grant Charleston any extra
favors, and therefore not to vote for the bill.
The ball was opened by a speech from De-
Large, colored member from Charleston, who
: said that although he was fully aware that the
vote he was about to cast would bs at the ex-
pense of his popularity at home, yet he was
forced by his honest convictions toyote agal nst
the bill, and to sustain the veto for the reasons
stated therein. He explained, at some length,
the reasons which led him to believe that the
bill was not only unnecessary, but impolitic,
and submitted his argument in writing to be
spread upon the journal.
Ransier, colored member from Charleston,
replied in speech, chiefly remarkable for the
extraordinary ground which he took, that as
the constitution provided that an elector who
had resided in county sixty days could vote
at any election in that county, tn eretore all
electors residing the required sixty days in
any part of the County Of Charles ton had q
constitutional right to vote in the City Of
Charleston.
Bosemal, colored member from Charleston,
followed on the same side, and took the
ground that the bill wes q measure dema nded
by party necessity. The large Republican ma
jority of Charleston, he said, were under the
control of a minority; a minority that did not
hesitate to use any measures, however low or
mean, to prevent the Republicans having that
share in the city government and it's benefits
to which they we're Justly entitled. he COM
planned that they we're not employed or the
public works, and we're prevented from using
their just political rights. His speech was
bitter, but free from the coarse vituperation
that usually characterzes the harangues of
the labid Radicals, black and white.
Jenks (white), the papa of the bill, follow
ed on the same side of course, and made
speech as heavy as himself and as uninte1est-
ing.
Purvis, colored member from Lexington, re-
piled to jerks, saying that although he knew
how dangerous it was to tread upon such
ground. yet he Was not afraid to declare that
there were a few sound men left yet who did
not believe in legislating altogether for the
sake of party. He then called attention to the
words of the veto where it alludes to special
legislation, and by dwelling on the fact that this
bill was giving an election to Charleston when
thew did not need an election there any more
than in Columbia, or any other town or county
in the State, succeeded in arousing the feeling
OF jealousy which prevails among the up-coun-
try members against Charleston, and thus Sc
cured the defeat Of the bill.
Burren James, uneducated colored member
from Sumter, next spoke in opposition to the
bill and in support Of the veto. His style Is
dron, his language ridiculous, and his entire
urconsciousness of his own deficiencies re-