The New York herald., 1871-11-29
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Adjournment Of the Ku Klux Trials Meeting Of
the Legislature at Columbia-Governor SCOTT
Reviews tho Entire Fields Of Finance
and Politio.-How the State Debts
Can Be Paid and the Morality
of the People Improved.

CHARLESTON. 8. o., Nov. %, 1871.
In the Ku KIux trial at Oolumb bia Tho day was spent
in discussion of the manner OF selecting the jury
the District Attorney moving that panel be sum-
moned from the body Of the district and Reverdy
Johnson contendng tnal, according TO the c0nstitu
tion, jurors must he selected from the judicial dis
trlct in which the alleged offence was committed.
The Court sustained tile District Attorney, Mr..
Johnson reserving an objection.
The Court adjourned until Friday, allowing forty
eight hours for summOning a panel.
The General Assembly met at Columbia to-day,
wnen Governor Scott's Message read. The
Governor states the whole pubic debt TO be
eleven million nine hundred and ninety-four
thousand nine hundred ana eight dollars,
which statement he knows from severe personal
scrutiny to be correct nothing being suppressed.
He argues that the depreciation OF the State credit
is due TO the persistent threats OF repudiaon made
bv Individuals and the bre5S lOI political purposes,
without which the debt would not exceed ten NH
lions. He is conde mt that the state VIII pay all
her obligations To the last cent.
He recommends that the Legislature prohibit the
borrowing OF money or the contracting OF debt to
meet current expenses.
he condemns the extra SESSIONS of the I.egisla-
ture, without winch the attacks OF the opposition
to make the session snort and economical. and
recommends that fixed salry, instead OF o
per diem, be given to members of the Legislature.
and tnat numerous Offices be abolished; that the
salaries OF all officials, except judges, be reduced
One-hird; tnat the tax on real estate be essened;
that a license system be adopted, and that rice,
cotton and railroad tonnage pc taxed; that bonds
OF the State be laken at par In payment Of land
bought tax sales on the title being warranted b.
the Stale; that pubic lands TO the Value OF
$1OOo,o0o be sod ana the Stale bonds taken pay
menI
lie reviews at length the causes which led him 10
ask the suspension OF the habeas corpus, as under
the Ku kux law he claims tnat conclliation proved
useless and the courts would act, and that the
whites mist0Ok magnanlmity ior Weakness.
lie declined TO cal ont the militia lie.
cause II consisted OF negroes, VINO would have
been slaughtered. and people led TO beleve
that the conflict was between negroes and whites,
instead OF between friends OF the government and
its enemics. As latc as last sprmg many pronl-
Dent clizens promised hlm their cooperation Ia
the suppression of ku kiuxism, bur they eIiected
nolling; and civil power being exhaused. tine Gov
ernor applied TO the natonai government TO protect
the state against domestic violence.
He approves OF The principle OF minority repre-
senlatton, ana advises changes in the election law
SO as TO p, event fraud. and urges the Legislature
to avoid all unnecessary appropriations, ana hc-
heves the Legislature wall so act as TO prove that
rcpubliclnlsm and good government In South Caro-
lima are not, as Is alleged Inconsistent with eacn
other. The message was made q SPECIAL order Tor
Monday next
Number OF bills Will he introduced looking 10
retrenchment and reform, but none on the subject
OF repudiatton.