The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-04
VOLUME IX.---NUMBER l9l
THE RING VICTORIOUS.
TBH RLUE RIDGE YETO--HOH THE
1EG1sL1TuRE TREATED III.
rhs publte Debt Constitutional Amend
ment-The Tax Bill--Action OF the
House.-rhe Charleston Water Conn
pany.

ant-The Tax BIll-.Action OF the
House..rhe Charleston Water Com
pany.
IPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA, S. c., March l.
After two days' debate the House managed
this morning to dispose, for the time, OF tne
general appropriation question by passing Inc
original appropriation bill, as 1t Is called, te
its third reading. This action, In legislative
usage, is generally equivalent to the final pas
sage of the bill upon which 1t is taken, but In
this case It is not so certain that the f1nal &C
ton will be favorable. This bill makes nc
provision for paying the interest on Inc puolle
debt, and for this and other reasons lt mas III
strong opponents. The substitute which nas
been proposed does provide for the payment
of interest, and also for the lery OF flteeI
malls tax, both of which schemes are dear &c
the hearts of certain combination here who
claim to have some power In the Assembly
and for all these reasons 1t would not be sur
prisIng If at any moment the present action OF
the House should be reconsidered and the
other appropriation bill brought IN and hurried
through trlumphantly.
The Judiciary committee reported faVoraoly
this morning upon the resolution proposing
constitutional amendment to prohibit any
further issue of State securities without
popular vote, and recommended the addition
thereto OF the following resolution:
Resolved, That the question OF adopting this
amendment shall be submitted to the electors,
as follows: Those In fsTOr of the amendment
shall deposit ballot wiGh the following words
written or printed thereon: "Constitutlonal
Observation-Disclosures XVI-Yes." Those op-
posed to the amendment shall cast ballot
with the following words written or printed
thereon: Constitutional Observation-Disclosures
XYI-Ns."
At its session this evening the House passed
a number of bills OF some Importance, and
then INDUCED in debate which lasted uatil
midnight, upon the resolution to levy q Stale
tax OF eight mills and county tax OF three
mills on the dollar. A determined effort was
made to get the rate of Slate tax Increased to
nine or ten mills on the dollar, but the effort
failed. and the resolution was finally passed TO
its third reading. The measure was no sooner
called up than Jamlson moved to amend oy
inserting ten mills instead of eight. Hurley
moved to indefinitely postpone the amend
ment, and on this Jamison called fcc the yeas
and naye, which resulted In favor Of Hurley's
motion by fity.one to twenty.eight. Next G.
D. Hayne moved to amend by inserting nine
mills Instead of eight, but this was lost after q
long aud noisy debate, and the resolution ss
originally introduced was passed. The reso-
luton Is as follows:
ResolueG, &C. That the State auditor be and
he Is hereby authorized and directed to levy
and cause TO be collected tax Of eight (6)
mills on q dollar of all taxable property IN tue
State, to meet appropriations f0r the tsGal
wear commencing November 1st, 1871; and the
County commissioners of each OF the counties
are hereby authorized to levy and cause to be
collected tax not exceeding three mills on
dollar of all taxable properly 10 their respec-
tive counties for the fiscal year commencing
November 1st, 1871.
This action of the house would seem to To-
dictate the probability OF the rate Of taxation
heing 6xed at some amount within reason.
and the defeat of the ff1een mills scheme; but
It may not be we'll to be too sanguine about
this prospect. Exactly the same consdera-
tions are working against this measure as
are mentioned above in connection with tae
general appropriation bill, and It ls extremely
probable that they may, alter all, prevail: i,
Manufacturing Company was killed BY the
striking out of it's enacting clause, on the mo-
tion Of Mr.. Hurley, which was clear case OF
infanticide inasmuch as Hurley was the pro-
genitor of the bill.
The bill to compel representatives to reside
In the counties from which they are elected
was taken up, and provoked spirited dsoate
expected. June Mobley appeared to be
especially violent in his opposition to the bill,
and 1t was no sooner taken up than ne moved
to Indefinitely postpone the whole mater.
This was lost by vote of ten to sixty ty-seVen. On
the question of passing the bill to q thlrd read
ing Mobley called for the yeas and nay, and tne
bill was passed by sixty-two to si1. Then
Eobley moved to reconsider the vote Just
taken, which was agreed to, and then the olll
was laid upon the table, which, at this late DAY
In the session, is equivalent to It's fna! defeat.
A long debate was had upon the bill to In
corporate the Charleston Water Company, the
fnal consideration OF the measure being nnally
postponed till Monday next The bill to ineor-
porate the Edisto, Cav Cav, and Waitlnes
Greek Canal Company was passed to hs third
reading. PICKET.
The Congaree Dam Question-A Tart
Debate-The Blue Ridge Veto, In Full
Its Fate.
IPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
COLUMBIA, 8. c., March 2.
The Senate has been wasting two days, anu
threatens to waste day or two more, over
the question of allowing the Columbia Water
Power Company to construct dam across the
Congaree River to some point in Lexington
: County, in fulflment Of their contract to dou-
bic the capacity Of a certain old canal which
had long since ceased to be an object either
of beauty or utility, and which had from dis
use and decay, decreased to the proportions
OF ditch, and almost of gutter. This played
out affair was sold two years ago to North
ern company, composed principally OF the
Spragues, of Rhode Island, and has since that
time been 30 improved that 1t begins to dawn
upon even the clouded intellect of the senator
and representatives from Rlchland County
that it will be of immense value one of these
days. These Richland representatives pro-
pose, therefore, to discount the advantages of
the water power, and are making overtures
to a certain agent ofthe spragues to the effect
that five thousand dollars down will secure
their support of the proposal to construct tne
dam now spoken of, or of any other dam pro-
posal that Colonel Pearce may see ft to make.
Colonel Pearce, however, having no disposi-
tion to pay i've thousand dollars for the pr1Vt-
lege OF beneftlDg the City of Columbia, or
the State of South Carolina, persistentiy re-
fuses to spend any money to secure the pas
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