Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-06-01
The Morkrille Gnquirer,
YORKVILLE, S. c.:
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE l, 1876.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 23rd, resolution was
adopted directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to furnish detailed estimate of the
amount required to execute the House bill
amendatory of the law pensioning soldiers
and sailors of the war of 1872 Mr.. Robert
son, of South Carolina, presented the resolu-
tions of the Charleston Chamber Of Com
merce, demonstrating against the admission OF
rice free of duty as proposed by the Hawaiian
treaty. The House went Immediately into
committee of the whole on the naval affairs
bill. Some five amendments were pending
regarding navy yards over which there are
local struggles. Mr.. Randall spoke in favor
of his amendment looking to establishing
naval stations at Tybee island or Cockspur
island. The amendment was agreed. to by a
vote of 81 to "a. The committee rose and
the bill passed. The remainder Of the session
was devoted to the Indian appropriation bill.
In the Senate on the 24th a bill establish
ing the rank of paymaster-general as briga-
dier-general, passed. The naval committee
reported adversely on the petition of Capt. A.
Roe, of the United States Navy, for reim-
bursement of property in Virginia, lost or
destroyed during the war. The House joint
resolution was passed requesting the President
to take such steps as he may deem proper to Sc
cure the pardon or release Of Edward 0. Nc
Condor, now confined in an English prison.
After executive session, and with no result in
the impeachment of Belknap, the Senate adj
journed. In the House, the Southern land
bill went over without action. Harris, Of the
committee on elections, reported James H.
Rainey, the sitting member from South Car
olina, duly elected Other contested cases
were considered, after which Wilson, OF
Iowa, Offered resolution directing the COM
mittee on commerce to enquire into an al
legged combination of leading railroads for
the purpose of controlling traffic. The reso-
luton was adopted and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 25th, number OF
private bills were reported favorably, and a
bill was introduced removing the political
disabilities of DR.. Thomas H. Williams, of
Maryland After executive session the Sen
ate adjourned. The House refused to concur
in the Senate amendments to the bill appoint
ing receivers for National banks, and asks a
committee of conference. The election COM
mittee on the contested case of Buttz VS..
Mackey, from South Carolina, report in favor
of referring the case back to the people.
In the Senate on the 26th, the committee
on appropriations reported the legislative ap-
preparation bill, with nearly all the new fea'
lures put in by the House stricken out The
House resolution calling on the Secretary Of
War for the number Of troops stationed in
the Southern States, at what points and for
what purposes, met with objection from the
Republican side, and could not be entertain
ed. After executive session, and one Of the
impeachment court, without result, the Sen
ate adjourned. In the House, Luttrell intro
duced resolution reciting newspaper article
stating that 100000 had been expended by
the Pacific coast to procure the passage Of
the Hawaiian treaty, and directing the COM
mittee on ways and means to investigate it.
Adopted. A number of private bills passed
and the House adjourned.
The proceedings of either House on the
9th, were devoid of interest.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
judge Mackey delivered an address be-
fore the Lancaster Sons of Temperance on
the 26th ultimo
One hundred and thirty-eight cases Of
msndamus regarding taxes, were brought be-
fore Judge Shaw at Sumter.
Great preparations are making at Charles
ton for the proper celebration of the Fort
Moultrie Centennial, on the 2Sth of June.
Governor Chamberlain has issued an ad.
dress to the people Of the State, inviting them
to consider the 2Sth of June, the one hun.
dredth anniversary of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, as a public holiday.
The name of Larkin Holloway, one OF
the negroes who was lynched at Abbeville,
last week, for the murder of Mr.. and Mrs
Harmon, is among the recently drawn petit
jurors to serve at the term of the U. S. Cir
cult Court to be held in Columbia next No.
vember.
There are four hundred convicts ia the
State penitentiary. At meeting of the
board of directors of the institution, held in
Columbia last week, it was determined to hire
about two hundred of the convicts to work
on the railroad between Columbia and Alston
John A. Bangle, who resided in Newber-
ry, and has for number Of years been exc.
ing out miserable existence, receiving medi,
cal attention and food from the charitably in.
clined, died in that town last week. Since
his death, it has been ascertained that he had
in bank and in secret places of deposit, thir'
ty-fve hundred dollars in money.
1t is now said that Niles G. Parker, after
being released by Judge Mackey, made his
escape by the assistance of Joe Crews, who
first carried him on hand car to his (Crews')
place on the Greenville and Columbia Rail.
road, and from thence by train to Martin s
depot, and by buggy to Laurens Courthouse.
From Laurens he went by private conveyance
to Morganton, n c., then to Morristown,
Tenn, on to Nashville, St. Louis, &c.
"A letter dated Walterboro, May 81, to
the Charleston News and Courier, represents
great Nestitution and distress in Colleton
county. Three townships have reported one
hundred Ad twenty-five families, averaging
six in family, all without bread. The mer-