The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-17


ther through such pretence, the same shall
be deemed guilty of murder, and on convic-
tion thereof, receive such punishment as is
now inflicted upon persons found gllty
OF such crimes by the laws now existing"
This curious document was sent to the judici-
ary committee to be thrashed out into intelli-
gible English.
Wallace introduced a bill "to regulate scales,
weights and measures In all cities, towns, and
village; which provides for one commissioner
of scales, weights and measures In every city,
town and village In the State, who shall see
that such scales, &C., are conformable to the
standard laid down for the regulation OF the
same, the fees of such commissioners to be
fixed by the council of each city. town or vii
lage respectively, and forbids the use of any
scales, &C., that have not been 30 examined
and approved.
In the Senate, this morning, Mr.. Cardozo in
troduced his bill, previously noticed, to require
the county commissioners to remove imbeciles
from the Lunatic Asylum to their respective
county poorhouses. The preamble recites that
experience has established the fact that imbe-
Giles should not be confined In the same build
ing with the Insane, and that the insane, who
require special treatment, have frequently to be
refused admission into the Asylum for want Of
room, and the bill. therefore, requires the vari.
GUS county commissioners to Immediately re-
move their imbeciles from the State Lunatic
Asylum and take care of them In their re-
spective poorhousea.
Mr.. Whittemore introduced a bill providing
''lhat the State treasurer be aud he is hereby
directed to Issue no more bonds or slocks OF
the State Of South Carolina, authorized BY any
act passed since September L, 1868, of any
class, for any purpose, to any person Whatso-
evern
Mi. Cardozo introduced concurrent reso-.
luton reciling that ''it Is evident that further
legislation is necessary to more efecsualy
suppress the humiliating distinctions on ac-
count of color which are kept up In places of
public entertainment, and on public convey
ances, and that the supplemental civil rights
bill by Hon. Charles Sumner, now pending In
Congress, looks to this desirable end;" and
requesting, therefore, that The senators and
ssgive their full and undivided support to the.
passage of that bill, as measure of Justice as
well as of propriety."
On the consideration Of the bill 10 abolish
the office of land commissioner, there was
quite an extended and lively debate between
Messrs Smalls, Nash, Hayne, (the present
Hayne had no particular objections to being
abolished, and protested that he had made no
money out Of the Office, as his predecessors.
Messrs. Leslie and DeLarge, had left nothing
for him to steal, but he wanted more time
than was allowed In the bill to complete his
books and records, 80 as TO turn them over to
the secretary Of State. Mr.. Nash made snort
and sensible speech In favor of abolishing the
office. He sald he had voted for the esta6-
lishment of the Office because he believed 1t
would be means of furnishing the poor peo-
pie of his race with homes and the means Of
making an honest living, but In this, as 10
many other thtnga, the rascals and adventu-
rers, who had come down here In the wake Of
the army, had got possession, had plunged
their hands up to the very arm pits In the
public purse, and had perverted what was
meant as public benefit into an instru-
ment of private plunder. In the years
Immediately following the war 1t had
only been necessary to say to the poor
ignorant colored men Of the South, that man
him, aud these scoundrels had. by working
upon the credulity Of the colored people,
climbed into high places, and bad then be-
trayed the colored men and plundered and
insulted the people until 1t was seen that
these white Republicans could steal as fast as
anybody else. 1t was said that negro govern
ments were failure; that the whole system
of reconstruction was failure, and that the
negro had shown himself unworthy OF the
boon of freedom and political equality that
had been conferred upon hlm, but he declared
that the negroes had been betrayed, had been
outraged and sold out by the white scoun-
drels who had aocked to the South, bent only
upon their own personal gain and enrichment.
The bill was finally advanced to third read
ing, with an amendment proposed by Mr.
Whittemore, to the effect "that all books and
papers pertaining to the Office Of the land
commission be turned over to the secretary of
State, on and after the passage OF this act, and
the secretary of State shall execute the duties
heretofore devolVing upon the land commits
sloner." PICKET.