The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-29

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election for Iptendant and wardeas OF the Town Of
Iimmonsvile bo and the same is hereby declared as
been held at the time and under the provisions OF
existing laws; and all acts done by the said Inten-
aant and Wardens unaer the charter of the said
In tho Senate House the fourteenth day Of Decem-
ber in the year Of our Lord, 1866.
President Of the Senate
CHARLES II. SIMONTON,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
Approved December 10Th. 1865.
JAMES L. ORR Governor.
That wise Legislature preceded the new days
in which we live. They did the thing they
deemed most proper under the circumstances.
where there were such glaring irregularities.
All we ask is simply this: Accord ding to o law
passed at the last session Of the General AS
tion on the 10th of November. That election
was protested: The Acting Board Of Alder
men, under the provisions Of the act, have
been compelled to certify, to the Supreme
'their decision. shall be binding upon all
parties" We have wrung from them q
declaration of this election, and they still re-
fuse to get out OF the way Of the parties duly
elected. They say, we can keep you out for a
year at least; and the courts are so situated
and organized that we cannot remove them.
Hence it is this bill has been introduced. We
that although all the technical provisions OF
the act were not observed, Mr.. Pllsbury and
his Aldermen are duly entitled to their Offices.
1t is but simple justice that is asked of the
senate to declare valid this election. We want
to deprive the Acting Board of Aldermen Of
their lll-gotten neutrality-suspicious. to which
they are not entitled by law, and to which they
know full we'll they are not entitled by law.
tions, page 465; report of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, on the protest of s. s.
Iomklns against the admission of John @. Al
LEI len to seat in the House Of Representatives..
n hot r..
case of McMullen sc That the end Of popular
elections is to discover which of the candidates
has the greatest number of votes from
an among otl1?. the qualified voters polls are
at different places. and such elections are
OF course, subject to irregularities. Where,
then, after legal notice to the voters
managers at the places and for the time lie.
signated, and one Of the candidates has re-
ceived the greater number of votes, the end
OF the election is answered. It follows ire
sistiby that we are to construe the rules for
the regulation of popular elections with con-
slant direction to that end, and not to be de-
tered by minute objections and irregularities
OF manner and fOrm."
:, This is not, said the senator, a glaring casa
like that one; the Irregularities complained OF
are matters of form and not Of substance. 1t
ls not contended that any Of the parties voted
for are disqualified, and hence not entitled to
their seats. They SIMPLY hold out because ali
the technicaGties of the law were not observed
by the managers.
We ask the Senate to waive technicalities.
and to say to these gentlemen, now holding
over. we, the State, waive technicalities in the
law and will not require compliance with them
or allow you or anybody else to hold seats to
which you al 9 not entitled.
This is the object and end Of the bill:
The motion to refer TO the Committee on
Elections, with instructions TO report to-mor-
row, was agreed to.
bill to regulate and provide for the pay of
Commissioners and Managers Of Elections
passed, the title was changed to that Of on act.
and ordered to be returned to the House OF
Representatives. .y,.
Ajoint resolution authorizing the Governor
to employ an armed force for the preservation
of the peace, received its third reading, passed,
and was ordered to be returned TO the House
Of Representatives..
bin to aid the construction Of the Port
hsoyal haliroad was made the spesial order for
In THE HOUSE this morning. the following
from the Senate were read first time and re-
ferred:
bill to renew the charter Of the ferry
across tho Great Peedee River, known as Old
Ports Ferry. @
A bill to enable the Savannah and Charles
ton Railroad Company to complete their road.
:, Report tfayorable) Of Senate Committee on
Removal Of Political Disabilities on the petit
ton Of John T. McAlhany, Of CoIeton County,
for the removal OF his political disabilities,
accompanied by concurrent resolution to
The following concurrent resolution was,
on motion Of MIR. Turner, referred to the Com
mittee on Claims
Resovsd. by the Senate, the House OF Rep
resentatiyes concurring, That blAls or claims
against the State having it's o4igfn under the
Provisional Government be, and the same are
hereby, deferred for further consideration
until the next regular session of the General
Assembly. ~
The Speaker laid before the House commu-
nication from the Secretary Of State, stating
that they were twenty-three county Offices
vacant on account Of death, resignation and
failure to qualify,
Elliott introd1ceda a joint resolution to autho-
rize the Governor Of the State to fill the vacan-
cles now existing In the State Board OF Equali-
zation. Read the first time and referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.
On motion of DeLarge, q bill to establish the
Mount Pleasant and Sullivans Island Ferry
Company, and to extend the aid Of the State
to the same, was taken up.
The bill was put upon it's second reading.
DelAarge, by leave, introduced substit tute
entitled o bill to establish a company undcrtbe
name ofthe Mount Pleasant and SuIlivan's Is
iand Ferry Company, and to extend the aid Of
and referred to the Committee on Incorpora-
tions. ~
The original bill was then recommitted to
the Committee on interpretations.
bill to incorporate the Vaucuse Manufac-
turing Company in the State ofSouth Carolina
was taken up and passed.
A bill to amend an act entitled ssAn act to
lease the State Road running from the County
OF Greenvllle, in this State, across the Saluda
Mountain. to the County of Henderson in
North Carolina" was taken up and passed.
A bill to enforce the provisions Of the Civil
Rights bill Of the United States Congress was
put upon its second reading.
The bill was read o second time and ordered
to be engrossed for q third reading.
Senate bill, tol alter and amend the criminal
law was put upoH it's second reading.
J. After repeated calls Of the yeas and NAYS on
the motion TO recomnnit this bill, the House,
without any final result, adjourned,
The application Of the South Carolina Rail-
road Company, to the Supreme Court, for
prohibition against the Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company, will be brought up tomor-
row (Thnrsday> before full bench. The pro-
hibition asked for is to be directed :o, the
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, to
Judge Platt and to Andrew Ramsay, clerk Of
the Circuit Court for EdgefeId County, to re-
strain them from any further proceedings to
condemn and appropriate the lands or right Of
way of the South Carolina Railroad Company.
until judicial decision shall be obtained as to
the legal right OF gurI, rs,,,d o,, HI ptso