The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-22

The consideration of this measure was hard
" began when it was interrupted by the special
order for D. M, which was theSenate concur
rent resolution that the General Assembly adj
iourn sine die on the 18th instant. This started
q universal howl of dissent lin view of the fact
explained above that the members have not
vet been fpaid) and number Of substitutes
were offered. Il Finally, the following substitute,
offered by Mr. 'Mobley, was passed and sent to
! t.'Resolvsa by the House of Representatives,
the Senate concuTing, That this General AS
sembly do adjourn the 26th day of February,
members Of both honses, who shall signify their
assent in writing to the clerks of their respect
i've houses; Provided, that no pay be allowed
during said adjournment. -.
i Things then proceeded smoothly for while,
until the Blue Ridge bill was received back
from. the committee on engrossed bills, and put
upon its final passage On this the yeas and
nays were ordered, and resulted in the passage
of the bill of abominations, by vote Of eigh-
tyrseven'to nineteen. s''i e
The House then proceeded to consider Mr..
Yocum's gerryniandering scheme 10 divide the
State into fye Congressional Districts, and Mr.;
Cain offered a substitute making the following
division First Congressional District George
town, Williamsburg Horny, Ma1ion, Marlboro,
Chesterfield, Darlington and Clarendon coun-
ties; second, Charleston, Colleton and Beau
fort third, Barnwell, Orangeburg, Aiken,
Edgefeld, Lexington and Richland; fourth,
Fairfield, Newberry, Laurens, Anderson, Pick
ems, Oconee and AbbevilIe; fifth, Sumter, Ker-
shaw, Lancaster, Chester, York, Union, Spar
tanburg and Greenville.
This provoked heated debate, which was
only terminated by the adjournment of the
House. - -
COLUMBIA, s. c., February Is.
The proceedings to-day in both Houses of the
General Assembly have been accompanied with
more than the usual amount of oratory, and,
as consequence, the amount of business trans
acted has been exceedingly small. The lower
house amused itself during the whole of its long
and tedious session with two characteristic de-
bates, which were as useless as they were pro-
longed, inasmuch as it was evident from the
votes that every member had fully made up
his mind upon both the subjects in debate be-
fore the farce began. The first dispute was up
on the gerrymandering bill introduced by Yo-
com, and known as a "bill to divide the State
into five Congressional districts" with the sub
stitute offered therefor by L. Cain. This sub
stitute was this morning withdrawn, and
another offered by the same member, which
makes the fifth Congressional gerrymandering
scheme proposed this session. The object Of
this party of great moral ideas in each of these
schemes is, of course, to spread out the colored
majority of votes in the twenty-five counties
possessing such majorities, so as to nullify the
white majority of votes in the other ten coun-
ties and the white majority of intelligence and
property all over the State, and there is but
little choice of evils between the lot. A sensi-
BILE proposition was made, or attempted to be
made, this morning by R. NJ. Smith, the men,
Der from Spartanburg, which was to the effect
that the districts should be left as they are now,
and the additional representative allowed by
the new Congressional apportionment be elec-