Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-01-31

Fraser, Gary, Kinsle, Lipscomb, Manning.
McCutchen, Myers, Taft, Williams. "
So thss5ill was rejected
P'I to impose an additional tax and
!. -gggosoribc 3 mode for collecting the sams on
all persons licensed to sell wines, ardent
spirits, malt liquors, and mixtures thereof.
within the limits of this state, was then
taken up, and Mr.. Howard moved to strike
out the enacting clause.
On the question of rejection tho bill
Mr.. Livingstone called the yeas and nays,
which resulted as follows:
Yeos-Messrs. Bird, Buck, Butler,
Cannon, Carter, Coker, Duncan, Evans,
Fraser, Gary, Howard, Jcter, Kinslcr,
Lipscomb, Munning, Maxwell, Myers,
Todd, Williams.
Nays-Messrs Bowen, Counts Crttendcp,
Livingstone, Mccall, MoUutchen.
COLUMBIA, January 25, 1878.
The bill to provide for the organization of
the State University being the special order
for 1890 2. M. was taken up and discussed
until adjournment.
Gen. II r. Hemphil opened the discus.
sion with written address, in which he
opposed the bill strenuously, and moved to
strike out the enacting clause. His argu-
ment was that tho State already had more
educational institutions than she could
support; that Newberry College, Erskine
College, Furman University, 30, we're in
slitutions which, if patronized prop6rly.
would afford education to all. The State
was far too poor, he said, to establish
State University to be run on the high
toned principles of before the war. Better
build up the common school system before
the State attempted to establish on aristo..
cratic institution.
hlr. Simonton showed the House that the
oil did not seek an appropriation this year,
but was intended only to complete an
organization by which the State could get
control OF the Clafin University by simply
making it part of the University of South
Carolina. In conclusion Mr.. Siqpnton
submitted an amendment, which deferred
the opening of tho .itution until the
Legislature saw fit to sanction it.
MIR. Werner followed with strong speech
in favor of the bill, taking the ground that
if beginning was never made nothing
could ever be expected to be realized. He
thought that $4,000 would be amply sufIi.
cient to appropriate for the use of the in.
stitution for the first year of its opening, and
that that amount could easily be taken from
the poll tax fund.
MIR. Robert Aldrioh followed in an able
speech in favor Of the bill.
Mr.. Connor, of Abbevile, spoke earn.
e'tly in opposition to tho bill, holding that
there was no immediate need for the estab-
lshment of tho University, and urging the
postponement Of the matter until the State
was better able to stand the expense.
Mr. j. j. Hemphill said that the opening
speech Of MIR. r. r. Hemphell was the
surest evidence to him that higher grade
OF education was necessary in tho State.
He thought an appropriation, small as it
would necessarily be, would be the very best
investment that any father in the State could
nuke vino desired his son to take respecta.
BILE stand among his fellow citizens. Denomi.
national colleges, ,suoh as had been enumerated
by the gentlemen from Abbeville, wore fine
institutions in their way, but they did not
meet the needs of the entire State. They
were institutions mainly for the grinding
out of preachers, and while he had tho
highest respect for the clerical profession,
yet he was confident that men who were
educated in donominational colleges never
could shake off their influence. Ho
denounced the assertion that the college
would oe an aristocratic institution as a
miserable prctcnce, indicative OF weak
and indefensibIc side of the question.
Mr. Simpson, Of Anderson, strongly op.
posed the bill, on the ground that it was
not at present necessary, and that the State
could not afford the expense. He said ho
would be willing to sell the property to any
company that desired to run an institute of
the kind proposed, but was not willing to
uso the State money to support it.
Mr. Haskell favored the bill, and Mr..
Hood, of Abbevillc, had just risen to speak,
whom the House adjourned.