The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-18
TIE PROCEEDINGS OF TUESDAY,.
The Angry Discussion OF the Governor
Special Message in the House.
IrRoM OUR OWN RRPoRTsR.l

IFRoM OUR OWN REPORTER.
COLUMBIA, s. c., January 16.
At the assembling of the House this morn
ing The floor was accorded to Byas, who enter
tafned the audience for two hours with his
peculiar oratory. Several attempts were made
to dam the expected stream Of eloquence, but
without success. Hurley moved to suspend
the unfinished business (the consideration OF
the Governors case, on which Byas had the
foor) until afier the call of counties. Lee
moved to lay this Esolion on the table. Hunter
moved to lay the whole matter on the table,
and variety of other motions were made,
but all to no effect, and at l2.l6 the little man
from Orangeburg started of. He began by
promislng to utterly demolish aud annihllate
Bowen, whose statements of yesterday he de-
clared were infamous, abomiuable, and, as
he put It, '!als,ts in ,ssus, Jalsus In tots, and
proceeded with loose, disconnected TRADE
AGAINST nearly everybody he could think Of
eScept the Governor. He lashed himself up to
q pitch of rage that &as terrible to see, and
he alternately danced and shouted, expostu-
lated, entreated, def1ed and d-nounced I'LL ne
was almost white. The scene In the House
during the delivery Of this remarkable speech
MAS one OF the most characteristic OF the ses-
sion. The floor aud galleries OF the gorgeous
Iy-appointed chamber were crowded with
Heterogeneous mass of humanity, whereof
the whites were .awnlng, llstless. Impatient
and bored. and the colored people, male ana
female, were swayed and fascinated oy tnat
curious fervor peculiar 10 their race, which Is
only seen TO perfection In their cemp.meet-
ings and religious observancea: Hardly pre-
tence of order was maintained by the induig-
ent speaker, and the floor was covered with
the lobbyists, spectators and the "shmy mln'
ions" OF the Governor, as Whlpper dengnls 70
in qroups, discussing "g0obers" and gossip,
orfounging back in their arm.chairs with their
nonderons coWhides resting on their hundred
dollar DESKS and staring the sleepler spiders 10
the lofty ceiling out Of countenance. me OF.
mo; .,here wasshot and slihing with the neat Oh
the four great stoves mngling With the exha.
lstions OF the crowded audience, the fumes OF
their last nights pleasure. and the WeighC OF
invectiye and vituperation that loaded the air,
while the pure sun light struggled IN penclls
through the damnsk lambrequins and trleo 10
redeem the picture, but only rendered visible
strata Of dancing dust and curling CLOUDS
of incense from the surreptltious smokers.
AS to the speech itself no one appeared to take
much notice Of 1.-THE reporters least OF all.
II was rehash of the arguments In the Varl,
GUS messages Of the Governor, diluted and
distorted, to be sure, but making up LOT tnat
i
some points, however, which must have been
original, and of these the following may be
taken as an average sample: DE salo Ina'
the committee claimed the debt to be $22, 54O,
600, but that they meant 1t amounted 10
that sum In paper money and not IN goio.
value in gold 1t would be- found 70
be much less That was The way the deo,
ought TO be stated, and then it wouldn't sound
so big aud frighten people. 1t took some IF.
teen minutes, and much unnecessary aouse ol
the English language sno the opposition mem
bers, to elucidale this point, and this was tne
way that the two dreary hours were begulled
The thing had an end at last, however, ano
Byas gave way to Hurley, who 'rose TO re-
mark, and his language was plain," that the
Orangeman dldn'L quite know what ne YVES
talking about He said he would make allow
ances, however, for the members excited con
dpion and for the decuction In the near
efnpty tumbler before him. He (Hurley) Wal
strictly temperate in his habits and didn't ge
excited in that way, and, therefore, N
wouldn't press the point. This brought Bya
up again and led 10 running nLe OF mutua
abuse, until 1t was stopped by Wnlpper, 'il Wn
took the floor for formal reply 10 inc illti
man from Orangeburg.
General Whipper made an extended speech
with some strong points, against the GoVerno
and his henchmen. He said they had altemp'
ed to shield themselves by impeaching IN
character OF their accusers. As far, nSweve, th
as he was concerned, If he had sWndleo tn
treasury. 1t could only have been by eoli9sio
with the Governor and treasurer, and IL III oe
came them, therefore, to attempt 10 accus
him. BE was still In favor of The impeac[
ment of the Governor, and he said lhat som
members seemed to think 1t was necessary
90 all through the evidence and prove mn
guilty of the crimes alleged before lhey coul
impeach him, but ne reminded them tnat 'ts ~
were not q petit jury-they were not H. sn
Judges in the case-they were, ratner, nke
grand jury and if they were shown ,nae coVe 5Ge.
hor guilty of high crimes and mlsq,
tmeanora, they should impeasn panaa,laa anc If y
efforts of the Governor to avert ms lmpen,
ing troubles. He openly charged MIN WI
bribing members oi the House to secure the
votes against Impeachment. and charged Ihs
Congressman R. r. Elliott had been hired
come here and lobby to the same END, al
had been paid $4,000 for his services He me
toned also T. J. Mackey as an industrlo
worker for the Governor. He didn,nt kno
lust how much he had been paid, but MACK
wasn't a man to work for nothings ana
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