The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-16
THD STATE LEassLArURn.
! !. ERslaAx,, .JAHUAaySAl5, 1875. =.
I'1Tg RENAIE

4 NAts GVhetNoun pteu0useO PotAbtop u
L. - Jennings. oi GFeenville. prayins
reduction Of asssasment % property
| Mr.. Ovens presented report oil
County Treasurer OF Lsurens, relative
TO money paid out to widows and or
phaus of persons killed because oi
their political opinions. which was or.
dered to be entered in the journal.
Mr.. Jefvay presented annual report
of o.. W. Butte. Esq Solicitor Flrs,
Circuit.
I Mr.. Whittemore-BilIs regulating
manner of paymont of claims against
the several Counties; providing for a
geological survey Of the State, aud for
other purposes connected therewith;
to regulate compensation of members
of the General Assembly, and to fix
} the mileage OF same; to amend an ACT
entitled IAN Act to provide for re-.
u demptIon OF forfeited lands upon GER
kthin conditions therein mentioned"
Mr. @. Smith-Bille to amend Sec
ton Is Of Chapter XIX Of Gsneral
Statutes, relating to County Commits.
1sioners. their powers and duties; to au
1tiorze County Commissioners OF
'{Marion to levy special tax, and for
fother purposes.
Ill Mr.. Donaldson-Joint resolution to
relieve l.. J. jennings, of Greenville,
of and from the payment of certain
taxes.
Mr.. Jervay-Bill to amend an Act
entitled "An Act to incorporate the
Carolina Savings Bank, of Chnrlea-
tton."
Mr.. Nash-Biil to amend Chapter
LXXX[V, of Title l, of Part II, of
the General Statutes Of the Stute of
South Carolina, relating to estates for
lif". for years aud at will, aud general
provisions concerning real estate.
Mr.. Johnston-Blli to regulate the
appointment and salary. CT Trial Jus
tices. in and for the County of Sumter
Mr. Hope-Bill to ameud Sections
So and So, of Chapter XX-. Of the Gs.
neral Statutes of South Caroliua.
An Act to regulate salo of intoxicat-
ing liquors, aud to alter and amend
lag il relation thereto, Was ordered tn
lie on table.
In the House. there was no business
OF any consequence.
On the bill relative to the Hamburg
and Augusta Bridge. Mr.. Braytou,
Of Aiken, made strong aud effeotiv ve
Ispeech in opposition to its passage.
He said that while his name appeared
lnmong the iucorporators of the ACT
passed two years ago, which this bill
sought 10 amend. he desired in this
public manner to disolaim any respon-
sibility for it's passage. He was neither
instra amental in effscting the passage
OF the Act, nor had be ever attempted
to exercise or claimed to possess any
rights or interests under it. He now,
as always before, disavowed all pur.
pose to participate in franchise which
he not ouly looked upon as being i'm
properly granted, but as an attempt to
have this State confer a charter to o
right that did not exist. It was not for
him to say whether the original Act
was conceived in iniquity, az suggested
by his colleague; but he would say that
the Influences which lny ut the root OF
this present bill wore, in his opinion,
born OF improper motives und fraudu.
lent designs. He would pct. however,
coneume timey by dlscussing the ques.
ton. whether the Legislature conld de.
prive one set Of corporators Of thei,
rights. aud confer the same upon the
town Of Hamburg, without any better
reason being gigen than the!
assigned. HE objections to this
5;na ~sl. farther sla deeper. Hs
wasi not ooly in favor OF defeating
thiasbill, but also OF the report of the
original ACT; He thought that this
Estate could not grant to any one the
power, to erect toll'g4te upon this
side,of the Savannah River ut Haun
burg, without acting in bad faith to 9
neighboring State and defrauding thu
city sDf Augusta Of interaste and rights
which it had obtuiueds at great expense
and after protracted litigation. HI
gave substantially the following his
tory: of the Augusta Bridge at Ham.
burg:
i WaIter Leigh and Edward Powell
obtained the original Terry right acros.
the Savannah River at Hamburg, ir
1908, paying yearly rent OF 81, 500 to
the Richmond County Academy
Leigh and Powell sold their ferry
rights !" Lewis Cooper end Henr,
Shultz for So, 500, in 1918. Cooper and
Shnltz bnilt the bridge in 1914, and
sold'it to John and Barney Mckinney
The ,McK,uneyH mortgaged the bridge
TO the Bank Of the State of Georgia
in 1919, and by virtue of various lega
proceedings. the bridge became vested