Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-02-21
THURSDAY, February IA


In THE SENATE. the following were re-
ceived from the House, read the first time
and referred Bill to repeal an act providing
for the payment of past due school claims !;
bill to regulate the costs and fees Of plaintiffs.
defendants. witnesses. judges of probate,
clerks, trial justices, &c.
Mr.. Taft introduced resolution that a
special committee of three be appointed to
act with the House committee to confer with
the Acknowledgement upon the floating in
dehtedness of the State. Adopted.
In THE House, a message was read from
Governor Hampton, vetoiug the convict la.
bor act. The following is the message:
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
COLUMBIA, February ii, 1878.
Gentlemen of The Senate and House Of RepreSen-
tdtires: respectfully return to your honorable
body, without my approval, "An act to authorize
the employment of able bodied male prisoners
confined in Jail under sentence to labor upon the
public roads and upon the public streets OF the
towns and cities, and the roads leading thereto OF
this State" In my judgment, by being post
fucto in its provisions, it places dangerous power
in the hands of Trial Justices, and it would, if it
became law, be productive of great wrong and
injury to our people These views are submitted
with great Difference, and only from an impera-
tive sense of duty on my part. c,
The Speaker then put the question, Shall
the bill be passed, the veto Of the Governor
to the contrary Notwithstanding The yeas
and nays were called The following gentle
men voted in the affirmative Messrs. Blake
ney, Brown, John B. Erwin, Gray, Holmes,
Jennings, w. S. Allen, Shaw, Youmans all
the others voting to sustain the veto of Gov
eruor Hampton. Yeas 10; nays lO2.
FRIDAY, February Is.
In THE SENATE, Messrs. Taft and Nc
Cutcheu were appointed upon the joint COM
mittee to confer with the Attorney General in
regard to the floating debt of the State.
Mr.. Walker introduced joint resolution
to authorize the County Commissioners Of
Chester county to levy special tax to pay
the past Indebtedness of said county.
The bill to provide for a spring term of the
Courts of General Sessions and Common
Pleas for the counties of Aiken, Sumter,
Chesterfield, Kershaw, York and Abbeville
in the year 1878, passed third reading.
The favorable report, with amendments, Of
the judiciary committee on the joint resolu-
ton to appoint commission to revise and
codify the statute laws of the State, came up
for a second reading, and was passed and Or
dered to he engrossed.
In THE House, Mr.. Petty, in behalf of the
committee on education. made favorable re-
port on the bill to authorize the establish
ment of graded schools in Incorporated
towns.
The following we're passed and sent to the
Senate: Joint resolution to authorize the
County Treasurers to pay out, on the order of
School Commissioners, any unexpended bal
auces of the school tax in their hands; bill
to amend an act to limit the charge for ad-
vertising certain notices; bill to empower
probate Judges to issue executions bill to
amend an act to authorize County Commits
sioners to submit to the qualified electors of
their several counties proposition to alter