The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-02-17
PICKENS @. H., S. c.:
Thursday. Feb. IS, 1876.
Editorial Correspondence.


Dear Sentinel: The House adjourned
over on Friday, to Tuesday, 7 p. M;
but no quorum being present at that
hour, there was no meeting of the
House until Wednesday, at II q. m.
The day was consumed in debate on
tho bill to redeem the biI1s of the
Bank of tho State, which was finally
laid upon the table by vory decided
vote, which l consider equivalent to
striking out the enacting clause. This
bill, as l said in my last communica.
tien, was evidently job, and the
State is doubtless saved many thous-
and dollars by its defeat. Some pro-
visions will certainly have to be mado
for these bills; but, unless q just and
equitable ono is brought forward, in
whose provisions there arc such res
strictions that there can be no pos
sible chance of dcfrauding the State,
it can not receive the support or sane
tion of those who caro- for the interest
OF the State. 1t would be the. best
plan to have q commission appointed
to audit the bills and cancel Or destroy
them whom SO audited. Tho commits
sion, il possible, should bn composed
of mon who could distinguish tho bona
tide bills from, those that mag haze been
struck on the plates since the Bank ceased
to eriSt. This is point that should
be we'll guarded; for l am informed
that the plates arc still in existence
and possibly in operation. If this be
truo, the State might never get
through rodcoming them; for tho com.
mission appointed, few years ago, OF
which tho late Joe Crows was chair
man, for the purpose Of funding these
bills, it is said, actually funded more
than was in existence, and ncvor touch
cd genuine bill. SO this question
is likely to give the State deal ol
trouble as well as much oxronso.
The two Houses met in joint AS
sembly on yesterday, (Thursday,) for
the purpose of olocting three, Regents
of the Lunatic ASYLUM, in place of
those whose terms had expired. The
election resulted in the choice of w.
B. Nash, (colorcd,) IL. A. Moctze,
(Dcmocrat,) and l.. Cain, colored
10 day was taken up in the discus
sion of tho Usury question, but the
House adjourned without reaching a
vote.
In tho Senate tho bill TO reduce sal,
aries has received third reading, and
has been amended and made so dis
proportionato, that it is hardly worth
anything-onIy saving between fifty
and sixty thousand dollars, when it
should not have como under q saving
of ono hundred thousand dollars. Re-
form in this Legislature is only
shadow-it has no real substance.
Tho constitutional amendments
suggested by Mr. Cochran, just before
the meeting of the General Assembly,
have received third reading in the
Senate, but [ have not yet seen them,
and am unable to lay them before
your readers. | presume they will
DO published in a fow days whom |
will forward you copy.
Tho tax bill for the next fiscal wear
has net yet been acted upon, but has
bccn reported from the Committee Of
Ways and Means, and in its present
form proposes to levy an aggregate
tax of 81 mills for State purposes
This includes tho lcvio5 undor the two
bonanza bills.
The House TO day passed concur
rent resolution, unanimously, to od.
journ sine die, on the 23d instant
Whether tho Senate will concur or
not, | am not able to say. b.