The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-20

! meaning and intent Of the law aud the power
and an. duties of the Board Of Aldermen. The
| Of Aldermen, saying that certain irregularities
had occurred in the election. was decided by
the. Supreme Court as an insufficient return,
| and thus was decided this question as submit
ted bv the Council.
DeLarge. Will the gentleman yield for
question? p?
Ransier. No, sir. After the court settled
that question they issued o peremptory writ,
| to which the Board responded, declaring 9
| who received the highest number os votos and
the names Of the persons receiving them. He
contended that the decision of the court, by
the facts submitted by counsel, proves that
| the irregu iarites themselves wero not sulfi-
cient to invalidate the election. The return to
the peremptory writ proves that matter. Upon
| that both parties ceased further efforts in the
case before the court.
| Now whether under those circumstances the
| Legislature had right to interfere, had given
hlm considerable concern and thought. Hs
| had looked at it from Republican standpoint,
vet he was not FOR urging or even aiding this
| General Assembly to pass unconstitutional
measures which they had no right to pass.
The press OF Charleston has labored to con-
vince the Genolal Assembly that it had no
! right to interfere in this matter. They have
reminded the Legislature that 1T would be
against the constitution to pass this bill. They
| have warned the General Assembly Of the
danger Of one branch OF the State Government
| encrOachlng on the other.
There is, he said, no case before the courts.
| The inquiry then 49, can the General Assembly
pass O. bill that will accomplish the purpose
| sought for to seat the officers elected He
was fully satisfied that the bill before them was
fully sufficient for that purpose. He was here
to support the measure and to advocate it's
passage by the House. 1t was proposed to
| charge fifty dollars q day for every day that
| theparties now IN possession hold over The
| parties will then be liable for violation Of
law, and will have to paw fine, and it can be
recovered in an action for debt.
He regretted the matter had gone so far;
knew the feeling of the people and the press
| on this subject, and could hope that the Re
publican party had made such selection as to
satisfy all parties concerned, SO that crimina-
ton and recriminatlon could have been stop
ped.
The Republican party is not responsible for
this state Of things IN Charleston. Let it fall
on those who are resi- Onsible. It is known that
almost every Office sought to be filed by Re-
publicans, in or out of Charleston, elective
under the Reconstruction acts has been made
| a matter of litigation. The gentleman at his
right (W.J McKlnlay) has been elected by the
General Assembly to the Office OF register of
mesne conveyance, and is kept out of it forty
days by one Of tie opposite party. He hoped
the bill would pass without the opposition of
| single member Of the House. He appealed to
their good sense and to principle aud he voted
for 1T on the score Of principle and justice
Nash, Of Kershaw, followed in a brief but
forcible speech, saying that he had given the
bill his most anxious consideration, and was
fully satisfied of It's Justice.
against the passage OF such q bill. He regard
| ed 1t as unconstitutional aud inconsistent
with the act passed by the General Assembly,
under which the election Was held. He also
warned members against establishing prece-
| dent which Ill the future might react with ter
| rible force upon themselves.
DeLarge followed in an earnest and impas-
stoned speech. He regretted the introduction
sired to be recorded as raising his voice
| against it. 1t was both an unwise and danger
Gus precedent, and would bring no good to the
and snare a H. housht there Woad eeas no
more chance Of Pillsbury aud bis Aldermen 10
be seated under this bill than for man to be
strnck by LIGHTNING, under a scInudless Shy aud
a sunshlny day. Ii the bill would do what it's
friends say, he might vote for it. He knew HIS
constituents desired the passage OF this bill,
but it was no good. They were only mleled.
He spoke OF threats and intimidation having
been used towards him, but de6ed any party to
cause him to swerve from the line of duty,
even under the lash OF the party whip.
Bosemon, of Charleston. followed, warmly
advocating the passage Of the bill.
at the conclusion of Bosemon's speech, Bro
| die obtained the floor, advocated the passage
of the bill, and called the previous question.
The Call was sustained. and, after some re-
marks bv Whipper and Tomlnson in support
OF the Tomllnsons aging that Mayor Clark
had always been COpperhead-Elliott was al
loved to explain his vote and stated that he
had been couscienhously opposed to the bill
On the passage Of section to a third read
ing the yeas and nays were called, and are as
follows:
Yeas e5, nays H. absent or not voting Al.
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Hon. F. j. Moses, Jr, Speaker, Bosemon,
| Brodle Brown, Burton. John Boston. Boswell,
L. Cain. Cooke, Chestnut. Crews, Dennis,
Drifde, DeMars, Farr, Gardner, Goodson @.
D. Hayne. Humphries, Hutson, Henderson,
jerks, d. J. j johnson, Johnston, S. Johnson,
g. Johnson; Jackson, Jacobs, B. james; q.
rison, W. J. McKnlay, Mickey, Mcfntsre,
McDaniels Mobley, Mea l, Nilsson, Nash, Nea-
gle, Perrin, Prendegrass, Pettenglll, Ransier,
Root, Rush; Rivers. stolbrand, A., Smith, /,
Thompson, s. B. Thompson, Tominson.
Thomas, Whipper, White, Wright, Webb and
Wells-65.
Those who voted in ttho the negative are :;
BRYANT. DeLarge, Dbyle, Elliott, Feriter,
Hyde. Keith, Lewle, Moore, Stewart. Stoeber,
Turner and Wilson IA.
Those absent or not voting aIe
~ Berry, Joseph Boston, Bishop. =; J; Cain,
| Gray, Grant. Hayes, J. N. Hayne, Aolllmln,
! Harris, H. Johnson, Jervey, J. FL. Jones, Lo-
max, s. ). Leo, Littlejohn, Mayer, Wiillum
McKinlay, Milford, Mays. Miller Nelson,
| Smals, r. AZ. Smith, Smythe, Sasportls, SIM
| ons, Tnsiey, Wider, Waller and Wooiey-41.
| The House returned to the Senate an act to
ro-enact certain aCCS l6uQlng Cno name and
credit ofthe State to the Greenville and Coluul-
bla r ilroad Company, and to validate the ac-
tion Of said company theleunder.
The President announced blIat said act hav-
ing passed both HousessOf the General Assem-
bly, in accordance with the constitutional pro-
visions, was law of the State.
! MIR. Jlllson. from the Committee on Educa-g
| ton, to whom was referred bill further to
| South Carolina, reported back the same, with
| O recommendation that the bill DO pass, f1 17s
Mr.. Corbin. from the Committee on the Ju-
dietary, to whom was referred q bin to alter
and ameud an act entitled IAN act to close the
operations Of the Bank of the State Of South
Carolina" submitted separate report as
chairman of that committee, with recommen-
datlon that the bill do not pass.
Mr.. Donaldson. from the Committee on FL
nance. to whom was referred tn, petit ion OF A.
Won Dollen, OF Charleston, s. O., praying o.,
remission Of taxes overpaid in the year 1866,
reported back the same, with o recOmm anda-
l kik>xa klAf 40 Al As....