The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-29
THE LEGISLATURE 1T WORK.
Important Measures Mooted In the Sem
ate-The Army OF Slnecurists Dis
banded-A Discussion upon tho State
OF the state.

lEHO2 DUB OWN COhh6ofOrOhNA'l
COLUMBIA, November q.
TIL Senate at it's session this morning pro-
ceeded steadily and sensibly with the business
of the day, and the proceedings were unen-
llvened by any OF the displays OF turgid IRA
tory that are 30 frequent and 30 disgusting at
the other end of the capitol. The committee
on finance reported promptly on the resolution
referred to t yesterday, requesting a report
as to the number of attaches required by the
Senate during the session. The committee re-
ported, as has already been stated by tele-
graph, In favor of the employment of four
committee clerks at five dollars a day each;
two messengers at two dollars four pages at
one dollar and fifty cents, and five laborers at
three dollars, making a total force OF fifteen
employees at 8 daily expense of forty-1Ve dol
lars. This must be admitted to he a vast I'm
provement tn view of the fact that at the very
least the employees of the last Senate were
about fifty In number, and cost the State GER
tainly not less than two hundred dollars per
dsy. and this recommendation of the commit
tee was upon the motion of Jamison, the new
colored senator from Orangeburg, unanimous
ly adopted.
Senator Dunn, Of Horny, gave notice OF the
Introduction of a bill to abolish the offices OF
county auditors, and to make the duties OF
those positions devolve upon the sherids OF
the respective counties, and of a bill to amend
the charter of the Charleston, Georgetown
and O%onwayboro' Railroad Company. The
proposal of the first of these measures by a
Republican senator would seem to Indicate a
desire on the part of the Republicans to re-
form the present complicated and expensive
system of county government, and to reduce
It to something like the simplicity and homes
ty of ante-bellum times; but on the other
hand 1t mAy be said that the proposed measure
would result In the concentration of greater
financial responsibility upon the county
sherlfs, who may not In all cases be exactly
the men to trust with the auditing OF the
county receipts and expenditures.
Senator Whlttemore gave notice of his In
tention to introduce joint resolutions to de-
clare and ratify, by the popular vote at the re-
cent State election, the adoption of the two
constitutional amendments then submitted to
the people, one of which, it will be remem-
bered, was to change the time of the State
election 30 as to make 1t ooincldent with the
election for Federal officials, and the other to
prohibit any increase of the bonded debt of
the State, without q popular vote at q general
election In favor of such Increase. This 10
simply a formality which is necessary to carry
these amendments into effect; but 1t Is, new
ertheless, a very important formally, mas
much as without such final and ~confrmatory
action by the Legislature the amendments
might at any moment ba violated by that
body, and thu the will of the people, as
unanimously expressed at the polls In Octo-
Der, be rendered migratory.
Senator G. D. Hayne, the new colored men,
Der from the new County OF Aiken, introduced
his bills, previously noticed. to amend sundry
sections of the Code of Procedure, and to
amend the act establishing the County of
Aiken. These are purely of local interest,
and are4ntended to extend the time for the
commissioners of the Counties of EdgeHeld,
Lexington, Orangeburg and Barnwell to turn
over certain records to the commissioners of
the new County of Aiken, which has been
carved out Of those counties. Senator Hayne
also presented 8 protest on behalf of Mr..
Henry Johnson against the seating of Senator
Sandy Ford, colored, from Fairfield County,
which was referred to the committee on privi-
leges and elections.
Senator Whittemore gave notice Of the In
PRODUCTION OF an important bill, entitled a bill
to require county commissioners to furnish
an official bond, and also of a bill to amend
i. the act to provide for a system of free COM
mon schools. The senator also took occasion
to point out the disgraceful fact that whiskey
was being openly sold in the Hobbies of the
Capitol building, and he introduced a concur
rent resolution to prohibit the practice, which
was promptly adopted by the Senate and af:
terward concurred in by the lower house.
Senator G. W. Duvall, OF Chesterfield, gave
notice of a bill to incorporate the Pesdee Agri'
cultural and Mechanical Association-the
society under whose auspices the recent sue,
cessful fair of the valley of the Great Peedee
was held.
Senator Whittemore offered a resolution to
the effect that no person holding any State OF
county office, for which compensation is given,
shall be eligible to any subordinate appoint