The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-12
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

COLUMBIA, b. ", January lV.
To-day's proceedings in the Assembly have
been OF no general Importance and Of no
special interest, except In such amusement as
the incidental and inevitable gauche7ies of the
E low comedy members may have afforded to
the casual and unaccustomed spectator. In
the House turbld stream Of eloquence, which
had been damned by yesterdays adjourn
ment, IF not by general consent,) broke loose
again on the assembling of the House this
morning, aud for an hour or two the audience
was RECALLED with an dismal debate upon
the proposition to expel Captain ]. Banks
Lyle, upon suspicion Of being grand mogul,
or something else, Of Ku-klux Kian In
spartanbprg. Ifthere is any one thing more
than another that your average colored legls.
lators absolutely revels in 1t IS a debate on the
subject of the Ku-Xux. Accordingly, Mobley,
Byas, Jamison, Hunter, Cain, and the
rest, went at 1t and showed to their
own complete satisfaction what terrible TEL
lows these Ku-KluI were and how gentle
and docile their victims had been, besides
proving incontestably tnat every white man
.fnfhe South, except the Radicals, and especl..
ally every newspaper man, was ku-klux OF
the deepest dye. The only member who spoke
directly 10 the question was Mr. Smith, OF
Spartsnburg. who objected to this very sum.
mary eIpc:sion of hia colleague. He insisted
that there was no proof mat ne was Ku-
Klux, and even # there were, there was no 40
offence. In reply to the question why ne had
run away, Mr.. Smith declared that In view Of
the recent dragoonlng Of Spartanburg County,
It was no wonder that he had fed: but 1t was
: 8 sad rejection that gentleman Of bis ability,
integrity and character was forced to leave the
kx,k khn Nrynro ocu1n nc nf O
government goaded on by q parcel Of Infamous
scoundrels. The tide was too strong, however,
for anything that Mr.. Smith could do to check
1t, and the resolution Of expulsion was finally
carried by vote of eighty to twelve.
The House next amused Itself with little
tilt at the land commission, provoked by re-
quest from Lee to- be excused from further
ter to Investigate It's affairs. he said ne did
not wantto state bis reasons, which meant, OF
course, that he wanted toSpe compelled to
state them, and he was 80 compelled. He
then said that great deal had been expected
of that committee; everybody knew that
there had been no end to the frauds and
rascalities OF the commission, and they ex-
pected that committee to unearth them, but
ne had found that the. committee Intended to
do nothing of the kind. The committee had
made q great show, and had called up hlty or
sixty Witnesses. but the investigation had
been made all on one side, and all they were
trying to do was to show that, whoever else
was ali farce and whttewashing arrange
ment, and he wanted to get out OF 1t. There
was plenty of rascalty In the commission, but
he had not been able, with all the machinery
of the committee, to prove 1t. hurley 40,
yfsed him to wait till next Monday, I'LL
AsFagin'sn message came up In the House,
and he would get facts enough. June
0afc hnInO
had been anxious enough to get on the COM
mittee, and he ought to stay there: There
were plenty of members who couldn't get on
any committees. This brought Lee to his feet
again, and he denied the allegation with the
usual show of ferocty. At that junclure the
speaker, having occasion to leave the room
for moment, called Byas to the chair. and,
.cidedly personal tone, that unhappy amateur
soon found himself involved In a perfectly
hopeless taDgle. First Hurley rose to ques-
ton of privilege, then Dennis desired to
make personal explanation; Singleton asked
for Information, and dozen members started
an assortment OF points OF order. Poor Byas
vas at his wits end, (no great distance, but
he had seen the speaker on such occasions
hammer with his gavel, and accordingly ne
hammered with desperate energy, ana per
sistence worthy OF better cause, until, VIII
The return of the speaker, order was restored,
dnd Byas came down from tne pinory. Ten. ent
eral Whipper then hoped that Lee Would not 9t
be excused. Governor Mackey had said ID
6s last message ,ana that lna5sa he sRa Hurley were
Bowley. Governor Scott-not Governor
NAfey. ,so,
Whipper. Oh, well, beg Aaekeys pardon; psISG19:
Thought the man that wrote the Governors
message was the Governor. BE ought to be:
This debate lasted for some time longer an and
resulted at last in Lees request being reiuseo'
Tese little diversions ended, the House oe,
.ga1Ithe morning business, which proceeded
With only the usual number OF interruptions
and the following results:
The bill to incorporate the Charleston Loan
Association was passed to a third reading.
Bills were introduced by Wilkes for the pro
lection, preservation and propagation OF game
By Levy, toincorporate the Peoples Saving;
Institution of Charleston, with Messrs. Alvs
Gage, Reuben Tomlinson, g. l. Gunningham
G. III. west, r. S. Bruins, s. 8. Howell, B. 9
Pressley, j. d. Wilson, ". Uferhardt, J. B
Belts. 6. L. Burckmyer, John Hancke, JohI
q. Devereux, w. McBurney, W. 7. Leitch, 4