The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-19
sTATELEaIsLArUnE.
TUESDAY. February 18, 1873.
SENATE


Mr.. Swails presented the report of the
Committee on Railroads on tho Norfolk
aud Charleston Railroad, and recon-
mended it do pass. with amendments.
mir. Whittemore, from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported favorably to au-
thorize and require the County Commits.
sioners OF Orangeburg to build a poor
house; also. joint resolution OF hi. Hem
mingway, OF York, to redeem certain
forfeited lands.
Mr. Ovens, from Committee on FL
nance, reported on special joint COM
mlttee appointed to examine the books
aud vouchers of the Treasurer and
Comptroller. General for the fiscal year
ending October 81. 1872; also, reported
on the appropriation bill for the fiscal
year commencing November, 1879.
Mr.. Whittemore introduced bill to
amend Chapter 42. Section 32, of Gone.
ral Statutes.
Mr. Ovens introduced bill to incor.
porate the Columbia Banking Company.
hlr. Swalls introduced bill to charter
tue Charleston Memorial! Freedom Pub
l'shing Company.
bill to fix tho tine Of holding tho
Circuit Courts in York County wns read
third time and passed
bill legalizing the assessment and
collection OF certain taxes in the County
vi Beaufort, and for other purposes,
with substitute, was read q second time.
The report of the Committee ON II.
nance on joint resolution to pay Louis
). Barbot nnd Fred. j. Smith S455. SO
Tor services, was referred to the Sinking
Fund Commission.
The favorable report of the Com mittes
Ftnanpa IN ,,,I
make appropriations to pay claims aris.
ing under the proclamation of the Go
vernon OF this State, dated July %, 1871,
with substitute.
The two branches Of the General AS
hembly convened at 1 P. NJ, to elect
Trustees for the University of South
Carolina. Lieutenant-Governo Gleaves
called the assembly to order, stated the
OBJECT OF the same. and that; as the as.
semoly y had previously been dissolved,
he ruled new nominations to be in order.
There being but three Trustees to elect to
make, with tho four elected last week.
tue board complete, the following we're
the successful candidates: Mcssrs. J. X.
Jlllson, y. Fl. Chamberlain, l.. G.
Northrop.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met ut IL a. NJ, Speaker
LIE in the Chair. Prayer by Chaplain
Adams.
message was received frem Gov.
Moses. vetoing the Act to repeal the Act
authorizing stenographers for the FIRST
and Fifth Circuits. The Governor gives
tho following reasons for his action: The
oIice in question has been long estab-
iished IN many Of the Northern and
western States Of tho Union, and has
been found by experience to be u power
fnl MD III the administration OF iustioe.
Tho bench, bar and people OF those
States arc greatly avcrso to its abolition
or disuse, and the same appreciation OF
Its value obtains to very large extentin
the two circuits of this State in which
the system has been tried. It is fitting
accompaniment to tho useful judicial
system which now prevails in our State.
and ~ part and parcel of the new aud
reconstructed South Carolina, as opposed
to the slow and tedious practice in use
III our courts In tho days before the war
LII the First and Fifth Circuits especially,
Questions of grave Importance ure con
stantly arising. which have nu Immediate
ana momentous bearing upon the inte-
rests of the people Of the whole State,
and the lnbor of tho Judges in these
circuits is generally more nrduous thuu
are those of the other Judges. rendering
the nid of the s'enoSrMpher indls pensa-
bic to the efficient discharge Of their i'm.
portaut duties. Suitors IN the coults
save Iii time ana expense more than dou-
bio the amount Of tho stual fec that las
to bo paid by the party "cass" III the
SUIT, and IN tho payment oi Jurors a,.l
witnesses in tho Courts Of Common
Pleas and General Sessions, the Counties
in these circuits save great deal more
than tho balances they arc usually re-
CURED to mako up. After n thorough
examination OF the premises, it is my
deliberate Judgment TINT tho truo ccouc-
my which We have promised to the pee
pie will be best subservcd by the law MS
1T now stands.
On call of :ho yeas aud nays, tho
veto ~as sustained by Il vote of twenty
seven to fifty, ON the question: "Shall
the bill become law, the objections of
the Governor Notwithstanding
Tho Senate bill to revise and amend
the act relating to the homestead was
read third time, passed and ordered to
be enrolled for ratification.
Iho concurrent resolution from the
Sennte Tor tho appointment OF a cou-
mittee to Investigate the disbursement of