The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-10
STATE LEGIsLATURE.
MONDAY, January 10, 1870.

, The following bills were reported as
being engrossed, and were read and
! passed: To incorporate certain Fire En-
gine Companies, Hook and Ladder Com
pany and Hose Company, of Beaufort:
to incorporate the Columbia Oil Com
pany.
The report from the Judiciary Com
mittee, on resolution to inquire into
the conduct of Judge J. M. Rutland,
was laid on the table. The following is
the report: The Committee beg leave to
report. that they have considered the
same, and, for the following reasons, re-
commend that the resolutions be laid on
the table:
| l. Because the resolution is mado TOO
indefinite in its character, proposing, as
1t does. to inquire into the conduct of J.
NJ. Rutland. generally, and not particu-
larly into his official conduct.
z. It proposes that the Committee
should inquire and report to the House,
what charges exist against the said j. M.
Rutland, Judge of the Fourth judicial
Circuit OF this State, when in fact, there
are none, nor cannot be, till preferred
by this House.
3. Because the Committee, not being
empowered to send for persons and pa
pers would, therefore, find themselves
stopped ut o very early stage of their
proceedings, or be compelled to proceed
on mere rumor.
4. Because your Committee are OF the
opinion that to proceed 80 irregularly
against coordinate branch of the Go
vernment. would be exceedingly danger
GUS and calculated to destroy the indie
pendence and efficiency of the same.
Your Committee would further submit,
that II there are any complaints against
Judge Rutland, or other Judges Of this
State. they caa only be Investigated by
this House, under resolution to i'm
peach or remove.
A resolution that the Attorney General
inform the General Assembly whether
the law requiring notice of changing
corporations is required to be published
three months before the session of the
Legislature, passed.
A communication calling attention to
the numerous grog-shops throughout the
State, &c., was received as information.
The Judiciary Committee, to whom
was referred resolution of the House
that the said Committee be instructed to
inquire into and report upon the ques-
ton as to whether there are any statutes
OF the State discriminating against per-
sons on account of color, now in force in
this State, reported that they have had
arrived at the conclusion that there nre
no such statutes in this State. Received
as information. ..
The following bills received second
reading: To license pedlars; to regulate
the appointment of magistrates and to
amend certain Acts concerning the same;
further to amend the law of landlord and
tenant; to punish conspiracies to prose
cute an innocent person, and for other
cases; to secure equal civil rights, and to
provide for the enjoyment of ell rene
| dies in law by all persons, regardless of
, race or color; to abolish imparlances in
all cases brought to recover wages or
! shares of crops; to lease certain land
on Edisto Island, and the erection of q
wharf and other structures thereon.
The accounts of Alexander Bowie,
james A. Porter and J. f. Harrod, were
referred.
Notice was given of bills to abolish the
| Office OF Inspector of Naval Stores in the
city OF Charleston; to incorporate the
, Coopers' Trade Union, of Charleston; !;
! to establish a school for convicts in the
Penitentiary; to incorporate the Metro
. lpolitan Police force, of Charleston; to
ing CoGM1eptaa CoM1ptaaat the Mining and Manufactur-
Mr.. Rivers introdfusaheoC introadfsh Cs50lins: = roll
porate the Society of tho i.. ..o 20 moor.
Daughters of Zion, ;, "a ---e 1te-
, ferred.
. Mr.. Sasportas introduced bill to
, amend an Act entitled "An Act to pro-
vide for the appointment Of q Land Com
; missioner, and to define his duties" Re-
ferred to a special committee of five.
Mr.. Doyle offered the following reso-
luton. which wns referred to a commit
tee Of seven from tho House and three
from the Senate:
Whereas the building of the Blue
Ridge Railroad has been favorite en-
terprise of the people of South Carolina
for twenty years, and the present Gene
raj Assembly has sustained it, with an
approximation to unanimity unsurpassed
in the annals of legislation on q subject
involving such grave considerations; and
whereas the management of the affairs
OF said road have been such as to elicit
much inquiry, and to reflect on both the
Legislature and those who manage the
affairs OF said enterprise; therefore,
be it
Resolved, by the House of Representa-.
tives, the Senate concurring, That q
committee, to consist of three members
of the House, and two of the Senate, be
appointed, with full power to send for
persons and papers, to investigate every
transaction had since the REORGANIZATION
of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company.
with instructions to report the result of
their investigation ut least ten DAYS
before tho adjournment of the present
session.
A petition of certain persons to in
corporate turnpike road through Sas-
safras Gap, was referred.
Petition Of j. w. Garvin to erect
dam at Skull Shoal, in Union County,