Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1877-05-31

which speech we will lay before our
readers next week.
The probabilities at present, however,
are that the bill will ultimately pass.
General Legislative Proceedings.
In other articles we have treated of the
the puDiIcIebt,, and OF the
pay of our Legislators. We will now
give Il summary of other Legislative
proceedings.
The Lien Law has been repealed-to
take effect in January next at the
regular session, however, in December,
a comfortable substitute for this law will
in all probability be enacted. If not,
then the repeal is not wise-and many
people will suffer terribly-both want
and humiliation.
And henceforth we are to have rotation
of the Circuit Judges. A bill has just
passed the Legislature which prescribes
that the eight Judges shall succeed each
other in regular order in the different
circuits of the State. This was the law
under the old system in Carolina. The
Judges presided in turn in the various
circuits, and in this way the law was ad
ministered equally and alike in all por-'
tons of the State The effect of preju-
dices and partiallties, of weakness and
found even among men on
the bench, was thus greatly neutralized,
and the bad results eliminated as mucl,
as practicable.
This action of the Legislature will
itself as decided improve
ment in the administration of justice.
The salaries of County Treasurers and
Auditors have been so tremendously cut
down as to effect saving to the State Of
500 ille 600 per annnm: For instance, the
$500 a ysar-and no more on any plea or
account. And the Auditor is to gel 500
a year-and not cent more.
The following gentlemen have been
elected Trustees of the South Carolina
University: Rev. E. J. Meynardie and
Col. F.W. McMaster, of Columbia; Hon.
B. +. Perry, of Greenville; R. w. Boyd,
Esq, of Darlington Col. J. D. Banding,
of Sumter; Hon. G. H. Simonton, of
Charleston; and Col: J. H. Rion, of Fair
field. The institution will probably be
closed for six months or year, and then
re-opened upon a new and improved
scale--and exclusively for whitestudents
1t was the first care of our fathers after
the revolution Of 1775 to establish this
College. Let it be our first duty, since
our hands are unshackeled, to restore it.
a separate University for the negroes
will be established.
Mr.. John c. Sheppard. Chairman of
the Committee of Ways and Means re-
ported unfavorably on the recommends
ton of Gov. Hampton for the payment
of the professors of the university. Tho
are fourteen months in arrears.
The thing Las beer decided; and these
dirty and infamous wretches-so. called
get not another e 1t
from South Carolina. They llc'- the
dust and begged like ,at got no
pity. And this was right. Pity for them
and particularly money-would have
been almost al insult to our whole peo-
pie. In Gods name have they not
stolen enough in the past? Already, we
believe, they have scattered to the four
quarters of the globe; while the misera-
BILE negro boys, Oho ,oere paid 500 q
month to attend the institution, have en-
ioyed the pleasure of footing it to their
homes. And our beloved and honored
University is freed forever from the
Radical and the negro!
Mr.. Hood, representative in the Legis-
Iature from Abbeville county, who is a
highly intelligent gentleman, in discuss
ing the clause of the Appropriation Bill
for the payment of theinterest
On the public debt, stated that Z" the debt
IS consolidated now is 81, 500, ,290; when
it will be So, 1884, ,759." We
publish his statement because we think
hat very few people in the State have
more than vague ideas Of what the State
is.
The consideration Of the Constitutional
Amendment calling for u tax OF 2 mills
'or free schools, has been postponed un
Ill next session. 1t will be remembered
hat Edgefeld voted against this Amend
nent last fall. Every other County in
;he State voted for it.. Indeed the vote
was $4,000 for it, to 5000 against. Rep
Sheppard, of Edgefield, made
! long and very able speech against the
of this Amendment; but new
srtheless, upon searching into the mat
,er, we see no just grounds on which it
AN be rejected. Tho Democratic party
S pledged to the education of the people;
,nd the degree of enlightenment of any
people is measured by the liberality of
;he support it gives to educa Jon. Not
that Edgefield voted against
his measpre--without knowing or car
ng what 1t incentive hope the Legis-
ature next winter will evince wisdom
md give the people the Amendmentfhey
,oted for.
AS we announced last week, the meas
Ire looking to the unseating of the eight
circuit Judges, will probably be STAYED
If until the next session.
The resolution which has passed the
House to false Commission to investi-
,ate the public debt, provides that the
aid Commits ion shall consist Of two
members of the House, one member of