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A Hitch In the Progress ss OF the Bill to
Encourage Manufacturing Enter
prises--An Omnibus Incorporation

Hitch In the Progress OF the Bill 10
Encourage Manufacturing Enter
prises--An Omnibus Incorporation
Bill.
[FRoN OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA, s. c., February 4.
The proceedings of the General Assembly
to.day have not been of any great importance
or any particular interest, the House having
amused itself during most of the session Win
a series of squabbles over some inanitessimal
claims of constables. school teachers, &c., and
the business OF the Senate having been con-
fined principally to the advancement oy one
stage OF number of bills of no especial I'M
nortance. There was one debate, however,
In the Senate, during which an altogether ur!-
expected amount of opposition was mani
tested to one measure which 1t he's
been expected on all hands was to be al
lowed to pass without the slightest objection
from INV source. This was the bill to aid and
encourage manufactures and Internal I'm
provements, the features OF which nave 80
favorably commended themselves 10 all
Glasses of the members of the Legislature,
that its passage up to Its present stage oil ad-
voncemeuC has been almost matter OF course.
II hae aow been finally passed by The House,
received in the Senate, reported faVoraoly oy
the Senate committees on commerce and man.
ufactures, and 1t came up today for l!s second
reading, whent was made tas suolect Oh
vieorous attack by small minority ot tne SEN
ators. led by Senator Whittemcre. The oppo.
si;ion of this unliring orator rom Darlington
did not appear 10 have any tangible OASIS, anu
would rather appear to nave osen
caused by some pique or dlssaiislaclon,
perhaps, because he had not oeen tne
father of the bill, for he advanced no
real argument against It's provisions
but made Instead speech OF glittering gene
rallties, which would have answered admlra-
bly for q Fourth of July oration and which was
not inaptly described by Senator Dunn, OF
Horny, who constituted himself the champion
OF the bill, as o "volume OF sound ana Jury,
sIenifying nothing" The Darlington orator
fret moved 10 strike out the enacting clause
OF the bill, but finding no second tor this mo.
tiCo. he proceeded 10 attack that clause OF
the bill which proposes to extend lis oene-
fits to railroad enterprises. Senator Dunn re-
piled to this that If capital were to be Induced
10 come to this State and develop its natural
resources 1t could only be in connection with
lines of railroads competent to bring the
raw material to the proposed factories and
TO carry to market their manufactured pro-
ducts, and that If there were any enterprises
that promised to eventually repay The State
for the limited exemption from laXallon pro-
posed In this bill, they were emphatically the
railroad enterprises, which, while asking for
ten years exemption upon strip OF land
one hundred feet wide, would enhance the
taxable value OF all the surrounding lands TO
an extent that would far more than make up
for the loss. Senator Whittemore pointed 10
the exemption granted to the South Carolina
Railroad, and drew fancy picture Of The i'm
mense wealth of that corporation, which, he
eurmised, would soon own the whole Slate
and employ the Capitol building as its Colum.
bIa depot, Senator Dunn explained. however,
that the exemption granted 10 that road was
not for ten years, as Is now proposed but In per-
petuity, and that whatever might be said Of the
policy which gave TO the South Carolina
Railroad its perpetual exemption it could not
be auy argument against Inviting capital for
simIlar and much needed enterprises now by
eYemntipg them for few years at time,
when the recent financial failures OF the State
Government led foreign capital to fear that an
era of heavy taxation must soon begin. Sen
stor Maxwell, the colored member from MARI.
boroi. was afraid that the bill contained "a
deen laid scheme" to Introduce an army OF
people from other States TO suDVerC the ne
nnblican government of South Carolina; ana
Senator Dunn, who Is himself Republican,
met this argument with the statement OF iact
that ali of the States 10 the Union which are
eminent for their manufacturing interests
were States which were overwhelmiDgly Ne
publican, and he thought, therefore, that immi-