The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-06


days. to prepare full exhibit of all stocks,
bonds and securities Of the State OF South
Carolina, issued during his administration,
and present the same to the Assembly, under
penalty of his removal from office, unless sufh-
cient cause for his default be shown before
the Assembly. Also, a joint resolution requir-
ing the bonds and stock stated by the Gov
errors message to be now In the State treas
ury, not aigned or Issued, to be placed in the
hands of the secretary OF State, and requiring
the secretary Of STATE to cancel the same IN
the presence of a joint committee OF the AS
| sembly.
MT. Swailb introduced bill to repeal the
act passed at the special session of the Leg!s-
lature authorizing the Governor to leave the
State under certain circumstances, which may
be taken as an intimation that the report of
the joint special investigating gs COMMITTEES, Sa e.
| derbolt as to cause Governor Scott to long for
the retirement of his modest Ohio home.
Mr.. Owens introduced joint resolution re-
| ouirlpg the finance committee OF the Senate
| aud the ways and means committee OF the
| House to wait upon the treasurer and ascer-
tain what moneys are now IN ane od1hsr sreasasy a
| 1871, and report Immediately. This was at
| once adopted, under q suspension Of the rules,
and sent 10 the House for concurrence. Dur
| In the House, 1t was killed by the adoption OF
the following substitute offered by hr. Bowen:
/ HRSTGuS, IL lS CuIIcuGiy lCPoitSo
| taxes which are now being collected ana palo
into the State treasury are being paid out oy
the treasurer without authority OF law:
| Resolued by the House Of Represent at1Ves,
The Senate concurring, That committee OF
three on the part OF the House, and --0 0n
the part of the Senate, be lmmeoistey ap,
pointed to ascertain the amount or money
paid out by the State treasurer since the 2Otn
day of November last, and on. what account
said moneys have been paid, and that sald
| committee report by Thursday next, at T: NJ.
| Mr.. Wbittemore Introduced q resolution,
which was also carr ed immediately under
SUSPENSION of the rules, providing that no
person holding any State or county Office,
elective or sppointive, shall be clerk or sub
ordinate .altache Of the Senate, and that no
clerk or other subordinate Of the S-nate, or
Idts committees, shall receive pay for more
| than the time actually served.
This completed the Introduction OF bille, &C.,
| and. the hour Of one having arrived, the an
| nuai message, which bad been made the spe-
clal order for that hour, was taken up: 1t was
summarily disposed of, however, by the sdop-
| tion of 8 resolution, introduced BY White
more, to refer its various subjects to approprl-
ate, committees, but In the House 1t Will
| probably receive more extensive consldefa-
ton, as 1t Is there proposed to go into commit
| tee of the whole at one O'Clock tomorrow for
| It's discussion.
The rest OF the time of Inc Senate was occu-
pied with the consideration Of few OF the less
| important general orders on the calendar, re-
| sulting In their reference to various commit
| tees, and provoking nothing more interesting
| than an angry alteration between Messrs.
Leslie. Rose, Hayne, Nash, Swails and MO
Intyre.
In the House Of Represent atlves, one of the
| first things done was to direct, BY resolution,
| the removal of the magnificent central chan.
deiier provided by Bpholsterer Dennis, and
threatens ultimately to come down with
crash and annihilate few dozens OF the
| sapient legislators whose seats are IN thai
| locality. very large number Of bills were
then introduced, OF which those which are OF
| the most importance, or which relate especial.
| " to Charleston County, are named below:
| Mr.. Bowen gave notice Of intention toin-
| troduce q bill teiucrease and define the juris-
/ dIction of the City Court OF Charleston.
| have been informed that this bill provides for
! the establishment OF two separate courts for
the trial OF civil and criminal cases respective.
ly, and for the election Of one additional
Judge.
| Nj. Hedges introduced q bill to authorize
Messrs- ", c. Clarity, +. ". Towlos- and D. H.
| Towles to establish and build wharf at Mar.
tins Point, Wadmalaw Island, which was read
the e at time aud referred to the committee
| on commerce.
Mr. Elliott introduced bill to incorporate
| tolncorporate certain close monopoly, to be
| known as the Pawnbrokers' Company, which
were referred respectively to the committee
on military affairs and the committee on lncor-
pOratiOus. ..-..--..
MT. Yocum introduced bill relating to the
safe keeping OF public moneys; bill to In
| pose certain duties upon the o mptroller gen.
| eral and State treasurer, and bill concerning
| State and county treasurers; all of which have
been previously described In this correspon-
| dence, and ali Of which were referred to the
ways and means committle.
Nr. Lee Introduced the following concur
rent resolution, which was laid over under
| the rules until tomorrow:
Il tRn6reos. Tne comptrolier-general has OFF,
claly Informed this House that the treasurer
! of the State has neglected to make his month
tly report for the month Of October, 1871 as
| required by law; therefore, be 1t
| Res,lued by the House OF Representatives,
the SenafeN -oncurring, That the treasurer OF
the State be- and he Is hereby, requested to
| inform the General Assembly, on or before
the stn dsyof January, 1872, the reason why
ishe has not made his report to the office OF the
comptr ,ller-general as required by law.
Mr.. Adamson gave notice Of bill "to pre-
vent public oflcers from dlscounting or form
| Ing q eoHusIen with others In shaving pay GER
/ tihoateS, county orders or any claims what
eyer on the State or county treasurers; and Mr.
White informed the House In the usual for
mu1a that he had In process OF gestanon OIL
~f0r the relief Of widows and orphans OF such
persons as have been killed by the ruthless
hands Of an organization known as the Ku-
Kux."
| There was besides the above host of other
| bills and resolutions, but they were either oil
purely local interest or so crude and income
rent in their provisions as to stand no chance
| of passage even in such House OF Represen-
| tattyes, and In either case do not demand es-
\ pecial notice at this time.
! Outside Of the Legislature the principal
points of interest to the tapeurs Of the capitol
/ appear to be the exertions Of the hundred
| and more hungry looking fellows who have
swarme6 to Columbia to get into clerkships
| and the exertions Of the members of Bowley's
pap committee to keep them out thereof, the
| log rolling and plpe-lsying preparatory to the
election Of circuit judges and associate justice
of the Supreme Court, which, BY the way, Is
certain to be postponed from the 18th instant,
and probably until after New Year, and the
| Forthcoming report of the joint special inves.
tigating committee. Of this report great
things are predicted. 1t has been com.
pleted, contains four hundred pages, and
Is now, believe, In the hands OF the
printers. The members of the COM
mittee, Messrs. Dennis, Whittsmore, Hur-
| lev and Gardner are oil here, and are hard
| at Iwork every night at Whittemore's resi-
| dence, and Bowen Isl frequent guest among