Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-12-15

Correspondence Of tie Charleston Courier.
COLUMBIA, S. C., December 2.

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i. COLUMBIA, S. c., December 2.
I ln the way of elections, the event of the
present session will be the election for Judges
not the Eight Circuits in the State which is 20
~ made by the present Legislature. AL.
.siough the Assembly has hardly yet organ
t|zed, the candidates for the Office have begun
to hock to the scene and very lively and OK.
citing contest is expected. Of course, it is
dlhcu!t to say who will be the successful can
d,dates, and although the lobbying has begun
already, the conjectures are rather Wild. Tho
only change that | have heard as likely to
take place is in Judge Rutlands Circuit.
The present incumbent, am told, will decline
renonination, and the most prominent can.
didate that have heard of as his successor
Is Col q. W. Dudley, of Marlboro.
ln the Barnwell Circuit the race will be
very close between Judge Farmer, who occu-
pies the bench temporarily, and John j. Ma
her, Esq, leading Conservative lawyer, of
Darnwel, who is spoken of quite freely in
connection with the place. Judges Orr and
Graham will certainly be reelected Judge
Thomas will as certainly be defeated. Judge
montgomery Moses will be reelected. In
Meltons Circuit the result of the election
Will depend pretty much upon his own choice.
| There are very many aspirants for the judi.
olal ermlne, besides those | have named, and
they may be seen daily hob nobbing with the
honorable members on the floor of the House.
DO not think, however, that the General
Assembly is inclined to make any changes,
except In the instance have named. nor do |
think it probable that the election will be
held until after the Christmas holidays.
EcoNoMY-vENTILATlN THE GOVERNOR.
In the House this morning Mr. Wilkes in
troduccd Concurrent Resolution providing
for the appointment of Joint Committee
from the llousc and Senate to enquire into
and report
Frst-What Offices, State and County, can
be abolished without injury to the State
Second-What offices can be consolidated.
Third-What Offices can be reduced as to
Eheir salaries, aud to fix the rates.
q This, of course, provoked a debate In
wfb tassyySsr tassyySsr sgys gs SO @ssme members of the House
trcir feet and talk about-any or moth
ing. The honorable members pitched into
each other, and ended By uniting in gene.
raj pitch iuto the Governor. Jameson, a
representative from Oranycburg, made one Of
his characteristic speeches. lie said he OBJ
jcctcd to the resolution because it sounded too
much like Robert *. Scott, who was always
offering advice to reduce somebody else's sal
ary, or abolish somebody clse's office, but nev.
er said anything about his own. 1t was too
late now to talk of rctrenchmcnt, when all
the money in the State was stolen. Governor
Scott had taken care that there was
NO MONEY LEFT.
The Treasury, he said, had been robbed of
millions, and it would be better for the Lcgs-
ature to go to work first and STIR up the ras.
calls who had been plundering the State, and
then it would be time enough to talk about
rctrenchmcut. Messrs. Mobley, Singleton,
Bowen and others arose successfully to cx-
plain, and, after a due expenditure of clio.
quence all around, the resolution was adopted.
THE STERLING FUND.
There is every reason to believe that the
Sterling Fund Bill will be repealed during
the session, and as preliminary to this
step, I suppose, a Joint Resolution was intro
duccd today by Mr.. Smart, authorizing the
State Treasurer to withdraw the Sterling
Fund Bonds from the American Bank Note
Company, and keep them subject to the ac-
ton of the Legislature.
THE SUB. OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE.
On tho very first day of its scssion the
House resolved to cut down the number of
its attaches and subordinate officers, and to
effect this committee of thirty one Como
from each county, was appointed to take
charge of the appointments. This is admit
ted on all sides to be very commendable STEP
But mark the result This morning reso
luton was introduced directing the commit
tee to apporton the subordinate officers and
clerks among the several counties of the
State in proportion to their representatives
This resolution, as most other resolutions do,
evoked long and rambling discussion, in
which all tho small takers of the House ven.
tilated their opinions at libitun,.
Finally, DR.. Doyle, Reform member of
the House, and one Of the members of tho
Committee, stated that tho number of clerks
to be appointed would probably be something
less than thirty.one, and this being the case
it would be somewhat difficult to apportion
them among the several counties, unless
plan could be devised to split up one man in
to several parts. This very reasonable view
of the matter, however, did not seem to I'm.
press itself upon the members, and they
adopted the resolution, tho effect of which
will be to defeat the very object for which
the Committee was appointed, by reduction
of tho legislative expenses; in other words,
in order to comply with this resolution tho
Committee be compelled to appoint more than
thirtyon clerks.
COLUMBIA, s. O., Decomber 4, 1871.
Both branches Of the General Assembly
were at work to day, and tho much talk of war
apainst the State House Ring was begun in