Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-27
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, Janusry Is.

Both Houses assembled promptly at the
| appointed hour. The Senate transacted no
business of any general interest during its sit
ting.
In THE HOUSE, eighty members answered
to their names upon the calling of the roll,
among the number twenty.nine Conservatives.
On the eve of the recess, Governor Chamber
lain vetoed the bill to locate the county.seat
of Barnwell county, which bill was oneofthe
pet measures of the notorious G. P. Leslie, of
land commission fame, aud at present one Of
the members of the House from Barnwell
county. It was also claimed that Leslie,
upon the re.assembling Of the Legislature,
would make great efforts t. have the bill pass.
ed over the Governors veto. The success Of
Leslie, it was also understood, would BE- re-
garded as triumph of the opponents Of Gov.
Chamberlain. So soon Us the work of the
morning hour was ended, the speaker an
nounced that the bill to locate the county seat
of Barnwel ut Blackville had been returned
by the Governor without his approval, accom-
panied by statement of the reasons for the
veto. The message was then read. The Co
lumbia correspondence of the Charleston Nescs
and Courier says: sg
"Brayton moved to make the consideration Of
| the veto the special order for Friday next; which
was lost by vote of 81 nays to 81 yeas. Several
like motions of postponement were made, bat
were lost by large majority. Leslie then rose TO
make speech; but before he got started, Whip
per claimed the floor upona privileged question,
press of the country. His harangue occupied
fully an hour and half in the delivery, and, asa
WHOLE is far too indecent for publication 1t con-
sisted Of bitter denunciation Of The Netna and
eral denial Of all the charges made against him.
A few extracts will show the general tenor Of the
speech. In drawing comparison morally be-
tween Moses and Chamberlain, he said: When
Moses is a saint in Heaven, Chamberlain win be
bowling in hell. D. H. Chamberlain is unfit for
earth; to Heaven he could not ascend; and in
hell itself the devil would spurn him out Cham
berlain Is black hearted traitor and he has gone
80 far that he must take the consequences. he
has resisted the will of the people, aud the same
spirit which rose 10 the time of Charles the First
will rise now and behead him. The Constitution
commands the Governor to issue commissions TO
all State officers elected and, in refusing 90 to do
Chamberlain proves himself q perjured wretch.
The Ne,0s and Coswer sanctum smells Of hell i
feel it my duty to myself, to my supporters, and
ards, and will either be denied that position by
law or be relieved by death. I will die before I
will resign" In reviewing the charges made
against him, Whipper offered no evidence to dis
prove them, but simply denied them, one after
another, with the exception of the charge Of gau-
bling, which he confessed was true, but said that.
he had sworn of now, The entire speech was
characteristic of the man, and has had the happy
effect of illustrating the charges made against
| him. ,...-.....- p 40, - ne
"At the close Of whipper's harangue, Leslie
got the floor, and seeing that the only chance TO
get the matter Of the veto postponed was to keep
talking till the hour of adjournment, kept up his
sickening twaddle until his time-one hour-had
expired. Crittenden then called the previous
question, upon which Elliott ruled that Leslie
vantage of until the hour Of adjournment, when
he still had forty minutes left for tomorrow. II
vote could have been reached to-day, the Cover
nor would have been sustained by q majority
vote and it is still confidently believed that
harangues. - 'i''