The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-03-13
Negro Rule In South Carolina.

Negro Rule In South Carolina.
The following i from the Charleston
Nelcs Of a recent date:
That the people of the country may see
for themselves what kind of men conduct
the fortunes Of South Carolina at this
time. We make some extracts from the
debate on the Salary appropriation bill on
Wednesday last, a repOrtedin our Column
bia correspondence. The speakers we're
the leading members of the House of Rep
resentatives. and the question was whether
the House appropriation bill or the Senate
bill should be passed.
BOwley 1.-THE cOlored Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means): Every
year the Senate has managed to get the
House under their control. by holding the
Salary appropriation bill in their hands.
As matters stand. the House rather has
the Senate al a disadvantage, and | pro-
pose to keep them 50.
Green (colored): The members Of the
House are needy and can't 90 into a fight
with the Senate. which is composed of
men Of means. and who could afford Z
fight II out on this line if IL took all sum
mer.
Humbert (colored): / despise such a
wishy-washy way of doing things.
Sulltl ktDipftul It0uftt NV MONEY, anu
am ready To compromise with the senate
in order to get il at once.
Mackey What l. the cause of the Won
derful change In the opinion OF certain
members. IL can be- readily understood.
when il j. remembered that the Senate
bill provides for nearly $4,000 for INCL
dental expenses. The bill is nothing more
than a grand larceny scheme.
Afser some further debate the House
took up the appropriation for the peni-
Tertiary. which Mackey moved 10 reduce
from $4,000 to $1,000. This led 10 "A
general indulgence in billingsgate:
Minort (coloredl: The proposedappro-
priation j. not a whit too large.
Humbert (colored): The institution
ought to be self-sustaining. The member
only rants a grab at the money.
Hurley coming TO Minort's relief: Mr..
Speaker. | rise
Humbert Ito Hurley Tou shst your
moHf. san. fRoars of laughter
Greene (cOloredl: That thief from Oar
lington. "a delicate allusion TO Hum
BERT
Humbert: If / have robbed anything
| expect 10 be ku-kluxed by just such
highi0ay robbers "a the member tGreene)
from Beaufort. III | get in the peniten-
tiary | won't ask for $4,000 TO support
me.
Greene Ito Hurley: You know as much
about il n you do the Governors contin-
gent fund.
Hurley: At least no one has been able
or ever attempted 20 rcfute my charges
against the Governor. and his excellency
will not dare deny them.
Greene (colored) Mo- But II the Cor
eT71or tcere not such a eotcard he tc0uld hare
Concluded you before this, OF got somebody
else to do il.
Hurley Ii the gentleman from Beaufort
(Creene) would aiioir the reapon named
10 be sitced from his c~uticis, | might sub
init to the castigation.
On Thursday. Greene. who had prob
ably seen his excellency in the inter
val, proceeded 10 explain hat he did
not mean to say that Moses was "A coward.
thus:
Greene (rising to a question of privi-
lege): Ii was not the Governor 10 whom
i referred. but his aids. What I said was.
that IL the Governors aids were not
towards they would have cowhided Hur-
ley. n IL | Were a member Of the
Governors staff | weuld have done il be
fore this.
Hurley (rising to a counter question of
privileged: Nobody on the Governors
staff. nobody he could put on there, not
the doughty gentleman from Beaufort,
nor the valiant Governor himself. dare un-
dertakc TO cowhide me.
This Is the usual style i'm which the bus
mess of law-making and money-gnbbing
j. conducted In the South Carolina Legis-
lature. The Radical members call each
other thieves, liars and rascals without
any ~provocation. and do not seem 10 have
any ilpa that they arp ip4ulfiuO IA
or that they are not telling the gospel
truth. Roars OF laughter on the part Of
the House and an increased consumption
OF peanuts follow these outpourings of
iish-fag rhetoric but for the honest citi-
zens Of the state the farce threatens TO
have a serious ending.