The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-20
What Corbfn Thinks of the Mackeys-
Friends In Council-A Spicy Debate,
&c., Sc. =
TrRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA, January 10.

THE CHARLESTON EXTENSION.
There was nothing Of general interest done
in the House to-day, and the same can be said OF
the Senate until half-past one O'Clock, when Cor
bin moved to take up, out OF its ORDER general
order number twelve-the House bill to alter and
amend the charter and extend the limits OF the
CITY of Charleston, and provide for an election OF
Mayor and Aldermen Of the same. The motion
wastarried.
The members Or the House must have posted
some one in the Senate to notify them when the
bill was called up, for before Corbin's motion was
carried a large number Of them came into the
Senate chamber, most OF them taking seats on
the foorn but number went into the gallery
Among those in the gallery was 10 be seen DR.. A.
G. MacEey, for whose especial benefit it is bellev-
cd the bill was gotten up. He, however, left the
gallery when Corbin alluded, in no complimentary
terms. to the malcontents Of the City Council
meaning T. ]. Mackey and his friends. During
the debate upon the bin there was intense eN-
cltement, and mere feeling was displayed than Ut
any other time this session.
WHAT coRBIN SAID.
AS soon as the motion to take up the Olll " as
carried, Nash moved 70 refer 1t to the Committee
on Incorporations, with instructions to report nj
an early day. To this COrbin objected and said that
there was no reason to refer the bill to the COM
mittee, because 1t would elicit nothing that was
not already known. The bill had two objects:
first the extension Of the limits OF the city; Sec
ond new election for Mayor and Aldermen.
The first was absolute. wrong, and could not be
defended on any grounds. The whole oo]ect OF
municipal government, he said, Is to secure to
the people living under it special privileges, but II
this measure prevailed, the effect would oe 10
DESTROY those privileges and take away
benefits now enjoyed. The object OF eXtendln!
anr place should be to include something OF
value, but in the present instance twas propos
ed to include nothing but forests and helds.
These necessarily would be subject to an addi-
tionel burden OF taxation. AS to the second oo-
iect. few words would show how impracticasle
it was to attempt the removal OF the present
CITY government. The trouble incident to eStao'
fishing the validity Of the last election was fresh
in the minds OF the senators, and yet hut few
months had elapsed and the spectacle was wit
messed of half q dozen discontinued officials at
tempting to break down and destroy that which
they in part had helped to avert.
Wimbush inquired whether, If Mayor clark
had not been promised the customhouse, would
he lave yielded the positiGH at all To this
Corbn replied that he (Clare1 did not even dream
he could get the customhousc until weeks after
retiring from the Mayoralty. The truth was they
had been drawn ont, smoked out, Only yieldlnS
when the law said they must so. The present
board being organized, they attempted t0 carry
on the city government but unfortunately there
were one or two men in that body SO Infamous
y corrupt that but for the good sense Of the re-
mainder the Cily or Charleston ,co,ld haze been
i,,.ety.ierubly ruined. The chief aim of these
malcontents appeared to be the division of the
loayes and fishes, and have seen the time, said
Corbin, when l could sit down and weep
over the results Of my own efforts in
puttinr these men in Office; when~I was
ashamed to go into the streets for fear that nen
would point at the City Council and say: 'Scc
your infamous work" They turned around ana
kicked me harder than they did anybody else. l
was yilliled and traduced by bold, bad man,
from the day he went in until he was driven out.
WIN has not been filled with shame at the spec
;acle ckmen so angry that they have drawn their