The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12
Negro Rule i'm South Carolina.

ne IOllONlI0 Is TOD1 Illc NHdIleSiOl
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, as reported in our Column
bia correspondence. The speakers were
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 at a disadvantage, and | pro-
pose to keep them so.
Green (colored): The members of the
House are needy and can't go into a fight
with the Senate, which is composed of
men of means, and who could afford TO
fight 1t out Oh this line if it took all sum-
mer.
Humhert (colored): [ Gespise such a
wishy-washy way of doing things.
Smith (coiored): I,0ant my money, and
am ready TO compromise with the Senate
in order TO get il at once.
Mackey What is the cause of the Won
derful change in the opinion of certain
members? 1t can be readily understood,
when it is remembered that the Senate
bill provides for nearly $4,000 for INCL
dental expenses. The bill is nothing more
than grand larceny scheme.
After some further debate the House
took up the appropriation for the peni-
Tertiary, which Mackey moved to reduce
from SCI. 900 to $4,000. This led to a
general indulgence in billingsgate:
MinOrt (colOred): The proposed apprO-
priatiOn is not a whit too large.
Humbert (cOlored): The institution
ought to be self-sustaining. The member
only acantS grab at the money.
Hurley Coming to MinOrt's relief: Mr..
Speaker, rise
Humbert Ito Hurley): You Shet youT
naolf, sab. Roars of laughter.
Greene (cOlOred): That thief from OAR
lington. "a delicate allusiOn to Hum
bert.)
Humbert: If | have robbed anything
| expect to be Ku-kluxed by just such
highway robbers as the member (Greene)
from Beaufort. If get in the peniten-
tiary l won't ask for $4,000 to support
me.
Greene Ito Hurley: You know as much
about it as you do the Governors cOntin-
gent fund.
Hurley: At least no one has been able
or ever attempted to rcfute my charges
against the Governor, and his eXcellency
will not dare deny them.
Greene (soloredD: No! But if the Cor
e,ao1 iDere not such cOaodrd he mould hare
corohided you before this, or got somebody
else TO do it.
Hurley: If the gentleman from Beaufort
(Greene) would atlol0 the 1oeGpon named
to be sliced from his caticIe, might sub
nit TO the castigatiOn.
On Thursday, Greene, who had prob
ably seen his eXcellency in the inter
val, proceeded to explain that he did
not mean to say that Moses was coward,
thus:
Greene (rising to a question of priv
lege): 1t was not the Governor to whom
| referred, but his aids. What | said was,
that if the Governors aids were not
towards they would have cOwhided Hur-
ley, and if | were a member of the
Governors staff | would have done it be-
fore this.
Hurley (rising toa counter question of
privileged: Nobody on the Governor
stdli, llopouy he Couiu p"e VII 'lISi' NJ
the doughty gentleman from Beaufort,
nor the valiant Governor himself, dare UNI
dertake to cowhide me.
This is the usual style in which the bus
mess of law-making and mOney-grabbing
is conducted in the South Carolina Legis-
lature The Radical members call each
other thieves, liars and rascals without
any prOvOcation, and do not seem to have
any idea that they are insulting anybody,
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
fish-fag rhetoric; but for the honest citi-
Zens of the State the farce threatens to
have a serious ending.