Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-12-18
I.egIslatlre Proceedlngs.

lnisSioners ni election, being Section =,
Chapter VIII, Part 1, OF tho General
Statutes.
Mr.. Cain-Bill to make appropriation
to pay the claims held in trust by y.
Woodruff and a. O. Jones.
In the House, Lilly. of Chester intro
sdnced !, bill Ito amend the law i,t.re!alinn
t,the a.!iai,,iSsr Son al ,iarrlsc. estates
The bill proposes 10 do away with the
bond now required to be given by the
clerk OF the court ~ such administrator,
and also that all of Section 8 oi the pres
ent act on the subject be stricken out.
Tic imdonlitablc Tim Hurley gave no
tiee of mosb important bill 10 be intro
duced by him. He says h" is tired of
these pieayunc steals of only hundred
or two thousand dollars, anf.sve nutice
, of a. bill wl.iell will aifori all the boys q
chance. Tho bill is t. provide ior AN APP
propriasio,i oS 81, s. t;:sl 81: -, Ia meet Oil
outstanding f;a:- certificates of session
ls5I-'aa, i.s. :,.:c:.,i> rrnvi...l r; L" :.ry
~alisordcgS npail the Governor consin
gen. ssand; II pas bills psysbio "f Par
ker, Scen,psrnlier,s warra,i.>, Sn,t every
other manner and kia6stf claim what
ever against the State; provided, how
ever, nevertheless, and it is the clear and
explicit understanding of the bill that
nothing therein contained shall be con-
strueii so as to provcns another special
appropriation to redeem the Blno Ridge
scrip The bill is ,nssnt d, = joke, OF
course. -,
On Tuesday, the 9th, in :i.e Senate, an
o.hcr.b bin 70 adjust lhe i';lni'' deh; was
introducedsbs .ieryey. i'i;" rst.'e pf fui'';-
ing are sixN-six and twc-tiifis cents
for the old bonds. and the new bonds,
outside Of hsxfraudulcnt conversion
bonds, are rated at twenty five cents on
tho dollar. Ply certificates, bills paya-
ble, Blue Ridge scrip, &c, are rated at
fifty cents. The toAl makes the pro-
posed funded 6ebsai1ormt to $40, $40.
The amount os tl,Slcvy to pay the inter-
est and provide a sinking fund is left
blank. Otherwise the bill is tho coun-
terpart of those heretofore introduced.
The joint resolution to authorize the
county commissioners of Edgefcld coun-
ty to levy especial tax Of three mills,
was made the special order for Decem-
ber 10th.
In tho House, Mr.. Lowry introduced
the following concurrent. resolution,
which was adopted and ordered to be
sent to the Senate:
ResoIved, That the General Assembly
take recess on Thursday, December lS,
1873, until Tuesday, January l3, 1874, at
p. NJ.
The correspondent OF the Ncws q; Co3-
rier, says conforming this adjournment
resolution:
"It will doubtless be concurred in by
the Senate without any material amend-
ment. It means, of course, that tile tax
bill and the mode of adjustment of the
public debt shall have been fixed upon
before the time mentioned, and as they
act upon those two measures must the
General Assembly be adjudged as wise
and economical, OF a failure. Tho latter
will doubtless be the verdict of every
Intelligent observer, for as time rolls on
the disposition 10 pile on the taxes, and
to complicate the matter of settling the
debt still further by the introduction of
all sorts of questionable and illegal claims,
appears to increase. At first, sixteen
mills, which:is the rate Of levy as fixed
by the House in the bill to raise supplies,
was regarded as enormous and as bear
ing dangerously hard upon. the people,
as it unquestipnably does, for it is two
mills more than was ever levied even
during the reign of the unlamented pre-
decessor Of his EXcellency who now is.
Nov the talk IS that even sixteen mills
willuot satisfy the Ayaricious Cravings
of our delectable rulers, and that they
must have mill or two more: II they
continue to respond to the frequent and
loud calls Of the Credit Mobilier Printing
Company, that msatiate monster which
devoured far more of the taxes
last year than did the public schools, and
$3.50 ,lappIopr rrat.ons for tne peii-
eft of other favored claimants, sixteen
mills may probably not be enough 10
meet all expenses, and in the same way
thirty mills or any other given rate nlght
also fail to realize q sufficiency OF the
needful. But two wrongs will never
make right, and this reform adminis-
tration of the Radical party will never
be able to justify their unconsclonaDlee
burden upon thepeople, upon the ground
that it is necessary i'll order to meet their
Attorney-General S. w. Melton, who
had, by resolution, been requested to
Inform the General Assembly why he
has not prosecuted the County Treasur-
ers who are found to be debtors to the
State, and whose cases have been placed
in his hands by tho State Treasurer re-
ported as follows:
In obedience to this resolution, have
to say that the State Treasurer and the
mptroller-General have placed in my
hands only. two cases Of the character re-
ferred to. The first was against James
M. Allen, as Treasurer OF Greenvillc
County, in which an indictment was pre-
ferred in accordance with Section 36,
Chapter XVII of the General Statutes,
End the defendant was, in June last, at
Greenville, convicted and sentenced.
Suits have been commenced against the
personally, and against the
sureties OH his official bond, which are
yet pending, and cannot be heard until
the ensuing term Of the Court.
The second case was against Phillip a.
Eichelberger, as Treasurer Of Edgefeld
County. proceedings in which, under the
section above referred to, were com
mcnced during my absence, on official
business, i'll Charleston, and We're sub
seauently abated by the death OF the de-
fendant. Suit will be commenced against
the legal representatives Of the defen
dant. so soon as the time prescribed by
Jaw shal! have elapsed.
On "Wednesday, tho 10th, in the Sen
ate. the bills to allow Nelson Joyner to
redeem forfeited lands; to pay and can
eel pay certificates held by Felix Car
6erelle, of Columbia; to fix the time of
holding Circuit Courts in Lancaster, and
To provide for the removal Of tenants
holding over, passed their third reading.
The resolution requesting the senators
and representatives in Congress to use
their influence to have navy yard es-
tablished at Port Royal was adopted by
both Houses.
There was strong debate in the House
over the question of paying the eighty
extra attaches, which was finally deter
mined in the affirmative by vote Of
forty.fiye to thirty-eight. The bills to
..~aorota tl,e planters Republican So