The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-02-13
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1879.
QENATE


MONDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1879.
SENATE.
/ The Senate met at IL M, President
Ransier, in the Chair.
Mr. Beokman introduced bill to in.
corporate the Charleston Joint Stock
Company, for the benefit Of the Slate
Orphan Asylum.
Mr.. Corbin-To inooEposate. ithe .Peo.
pies Savings Institution OF Charleston.
The following bills were pessed: 70
incorporate the town of LewisvilIe; to
amend the charter pf the town OF Beau
to incorporate the town Of Cokesbury.
A preamble and resolutions from the
House, relative to Senators Robertson
special order for O'Clock P. NJ,
Wednesday next.
;oa.,ha At half past O'Clock tho Senate ad-
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met ut II NJ, Speaker
Moses in tho Chair.
The following bills were passed: To
establish public road in BArnwell and
Cfangeburg Counties; to change the
name of William N. Martin, and make
him one of the legal heirs of his father;
to authorize and require tho County
Commissioners of York to change the
location of the Armstrong Ford Road,
IN said County; to repeal All Ac. enti-
tied can ACT to provide for the appoint
ment of o Land Commissioners, and to
define his powers and dnties;" to incor-
porate the Brotherly Association of
Charleston; to incorporate the Cheraw
Fire Engine Company ns Il part of the
fire department of the town of Cheraw;
to grant, renew aud amend the charter
of the village Of Rock Hill. York Couu-
ty; To provide for the payment of GER
tain costs uccrulng on lands sold by
County Treasurers at delinquent tax
sales and purchased by tho State; joint
resolution authorizing the State Tre,l-
surer to reissne stock of the State of
South Carolina; to compensate John L.
Green, Judge OF the Third Circuit, for
extra services.
A bill to authorize the Mayor and AL
dermen o. the city of Columbia to issue
bonds, and negotiate and sell the same,
WAS made the special order for Tue ,dav.
ut l O'clock P. NJ
Mr.. Bowley offered the following:
Whereas we, the Representatives Of
tn people Of South Carolina, in the in
terests of liberty and equality, recently
passed a concurrent resolution instruct
ing our Senators and requesting our
Representatives in Congress to vote for
the pasange of the supplementary civil
rights bill then pending in the United
Stntes Congress; and whereas it appears
that Hon. +. A. Sawyer and Hon. r. j.
Robertson did, notwithstanding such in
structions. vote against said bill, thereby
proving reoreant to the trust imposed in
them by the Republican majority in this
Stnte, and showing that they are opposed
to the principles Of liberty aud the
equality OF all men; therefore, bo it
Res0lued, That the said F. A. Sawyer
and L. j. Robertson be requested to re
sign their seats in the United States
Congress forthwith.
ResoIDed, That the Clerk Of the House
be instructed to forward certified copies
of these resolutions to said Senators and
our Representatives in Congress, and to
the President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House Of Representatives of the
United States Congress.
Considerable discussion ensued, but
it was finally adopted by vote of 76
yeas and 8 nays, aud ordered to the Se-
nate.
Mr.. Gather introduced bill to re-
quire the Land Commissioned to issue
titles to actual settlers in Kershaw Coun-
ty.
Mr.. Crittenden-To incorporate th,.
Reedy River Baptist Church in Green
vile County.
Mr.. Goodson-To reopen a public
highway in Richland County.
Annmber Of bills were read the &C.
oond time and ordered to be ongrossed.
At 4.45 the House adjourned until to-
morrow, Mt IL NJ.
PoLITIcAL TROUBLE BREWING Tho
Springfield (AIass.) Republican gives IL
political statement which is construed as
portcnding trouble. It says:
"Senator Wilson has gone back to
Washington, nfter two or three days in
New England and New York, in very
alarming state Of mind as to General
Grants prospects of reelection. They
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