The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-25
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as on the floor. 80

| .Tti1-t.ts SOLUMbLa, Ao'
at the assembling Of the House this morn.
ing the Hoor was accorded to Byas, who enter,
tained the audience for two hours with his
peculiar oratory. Several attempts were made
| to dam the expected stream OF eloquence, Du'
without success. Hurley moved to suspend the
unfinished business (the consideration OF the
GoYernor's case, on which Byas had the hoor)
until after the call Of counties. Lee moved to
Law this motion on che table. Hunter moved
| to Law the whole matter on the table, and va
| riety of other motions were made, but all to no
effect, and at 1915 the little man from Orange
burg started OFF He began by promising to
utterly demolish and annihilate Bowen, whose
statements of yesterday he declared were infa-
nous, abominable, and, as he put it, "tGlsus IN
unus, .talsus n, totus," and proceeded with
loose, disconnected TRADE against nearly every
body he could think of except the Governor.
he lashed himself up to pitch Of rage that
was terrible to see, and he alternately danced
and shouted, sxpostuiated, entreated, defied
and denounced till he was almost white. The
scene in the House during the delivery OF this
remarkable speech was one of the most char
acteristic of the session. The floor and gale
ries of, the gorgeously-appointed chamber were
crowded with a heterogeneous mass OF human
ity. whereof the whites were yawning, listless,
impatient and bored, and the colored people,
male and female, were swayed and fascinated
by that curious fervor peculiar to their race,
which is only seen to perfection in their camp
meetings and religious observances. Hardly a
pretence of order was maintained by the lndul-
gent Speaker, and the floor was covered with
the lobbyists, spectators and the "slimy min
ions" of the Governor, as Whipper delights to
call them, while the members were gathered in
groups, discussing "goobers" and gossip, or
founeing back in their arm-chairs with their
ponderous cowhides resting on their hundred
dollar desks, and staring the sleepier spiders in
the lofty ceiling out Of countenance. The at.
mosphere was hot and sitting with the heat OF
the four great stoves mingling with the exhala-
tions of the crowded audience, the fumes OF
their last nights pleasure, and the weight OF
invective and vituperation that Loaded the ar,
while the pure sun light struggled in pencils
redeem the picture, but only rendered visible
strata of dancing dust and curling clouds OF
incense from the surreptitious smokers AS to
the speech itself no one appeared to take much
notice ofit-the. reporters least fall 1t was
rehash of the arguments in the various mes
sages of the Governor, diluted and distorted, to
be sure, but making up for that in length and
yehemence. The member made some points,
however, which must have been original, and
of these the following may be taken as an av-
erage sample: He said that the committee
claimed the debt to be S22,54O,OOO, but that
they meant it amounted to that sum IN paper
money and not in gold. If they reduced that
sum in paper to its value in. gold it would be
found to be much less That was the way the
debt ought to be stated, and then it wouldn't
sound so big and frightep people lttook some
fifteen minutes, and much unnecessary abuse
of the English language and the opposition
members, to elucidate this point, and this was
the way that the two dreary hours were be-
guiled The thing had an end at last, howev-
er, and Byas gave way to Hurley, who rose TO
remark, and his language was plain" that the
Ofangeman didn't quite know what he was
talking about. He said he would make allow
ances, however, for the members excited condl-
ton and for the decoction in the nearly empty
tumbler before him. He (Hurley) was strictly
temperate in his habits and didn't get excited
in that way, and, therefore, he wouldn't press
the point This brought Byas up again and led
to running fire of mutual abuse, until 1t was
stopped by Whipper, who took the floor for a
formal reply to the little man from Orange
burg.
General Whipper made an extended speech,
with some strong points, against the Governor
and his henchmen. He said they had attempt
ed to. shield themselves by impeachihg the
character of their accusers. AS far, however,
IS he was concerned, if he had swindled the
treasury, it could only have been by col!usion
with the Governor and Treasurer, and 1T Ill be-
came them, therefore, to attempt to accuse him.
He was still in favor of the impeachment OF
the Governor, and he said that some members
seemed to think it was necessary to 60 al!
through the evidence and prove him guilty of
the crimes alleged before they could impeach
him, but he reminded them that they were not
petit jury-they were not the judges in the
case-they were, rather, like grand jury, ana
if they were shown that there was probable
cause for believing the Governor guilty OF high
crimes and misdemeanors, they should impeach
him. He then proceeded with some exposures
of the efforts of the Governor to avert his i'm
pending troubles. He openly charged hlm
with bribing members of the House to secure
their votes against impeachment, and charged
that Congressman R. B. Elliott had been hired
| to come here and lobby to the same end, and
had been paid $1,000 for his services. He men
toned also T. j. Mackey as an industrious
worker for the Governor. He didn't know Just
how much he had been paid, but Mackey
wasn't man to work for nothing, and ne,
doubtless, had received handsome sum-
Pending the further remarks of the member
| from Beaufort the House, at five O'Clock, ad-
iourned till noon tomorrow, when Whipper
will resume the floor and continue his argu-
ment.
From the Columbia Phenir, Jan. 49,
The debate upon the report of the Joint
Special Financial Investigating Committee and
the special message of the Governor in relation
thereto. was continued in the House yesterday,
| from o'clock to p. m. Whipper, who was
in the midst of his speech when the motion to
adjourn was passed Tuesday, resumed his re-
marks. He said that the message of the, Gov
ernor admitted the over-issue of bonds, as
charged, but attempted to excuse himself un-
der the miserable subterfuge that the laws au,
the extravagant appropriations Of the Lsgsla-
ture rendered the exercise of such authority
necessary. The figures, however, did not ac-
cord with the Governors assertions, for the