Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-30
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
COLUMBIA, Tuesday, Oct. 81.

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Both houses of the Legislature assembled
to-day at IL, NJ, pursuant to the proclama-
ton Of Governor Moses, and proceeded inn
mediately to business
In THE SENATE at the hour of assembling,
twenty Senators we're present. Lieutenant
Governor Gleaves, the President, addressed
the body. Shortly afterward the Governors
Message was read, and two thousand copies
ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Whittemore gave notice of the intro.
duction of bill to amend the act regulating
the pay of members and also bill providing
for the removal Of the deaf and dumb Asylum
from Cedar Springs to Columbia. The bill
to regulate the pay of members, provides
compensation for the extra session at the rate
Of six hundred dollars and mileage for each
member.
The Speaker of the House attended and the
President brought to the notice of the Sena-
tors q certified copy of the act which was rat
flied, but lost on its way the Governor, at the
close of last session. The title of the act is,
"An act to repeal section of an act, entitled
an act to relieve the State of South Car
oina ofall liability for its guaranty Of the
bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company,
by providing for the securing and obstruction
of the same" approved March 2, 1872, and to
repeal SO much of section 72, chapter II, title
3 of the general statutes, as authorizes the
the State auditor to give notice annually to
each county auditor of the rates per centum
to be levied for various State purposes" AS
soon as the president Of the Senate announced
that the Speaker of the House was on hand
to ratify the "lost bill, Jones, of Georgetown,
rose promptly to his feet and proposed that
the matter be postponed until Friday, that
they might have time to look into things a
little and know what they we're about. There
had been too much of that sort of thing done
before, he said, and bills smuggled through and
ratified which never had passed the General
Assembly.
Swails, Smalls, Nash, johnson, Whittemore,
Jones and Mcintyre spoke on the resolu
tion-the four first opposing the postpone.
ment, and the three last in favor. But all of
them expressed the most hearty sympathy
with the ratification of the bill, but the three
mentioned objected to its being done in the
form presented, for various reasons One
great reason was that as it stood, the bill pal.
pably related to two distinct subjects, as shown
by its title, and was therefore, unconstitution-
al, and would be nugatory. Another objec-
ton, urged by Mr.. Whittemore, was that, un-
der the constitution, the proper course to pur-
sue would be to certify to a copy, not ratify
it, making it thus new act, of different date
from the lost original, &c. Nash was the
father of the original bill, and is deeply inter
ested in the struggle of this sort of grandson
for existence. Indeed, when it came to u vote,
it was plainly indicated that almost the entire
feeling of the Senate was in favor immediate
ratification. The vote Stood ayes 49,. noes 2.
The Conservatives, Of whom only two or three
we're present, all voted for immediate ratif-
cation, or against Jones's resolution, which
was the same thing. The bill was ratified and
the Senate adjourned.
In THE HOUSE, seventy-two members were
present at the hour of assembling. The body
was called to order by speaker Lee, who de-
livered an address to the members which
"elicited surprised encomiums from all who
heard it,"
The Governors message was read and re-
ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means,
after which the House adjourned.