The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-02-02
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
CoLuMBIA. Jan. 81, 1892.

busiest l have yet seen in legislation.
The Election laws have been passed sub
stantially as reported by the Commis-
sion, and the Railroad bill has also been
completed, after very great amount OF
time consumed in its consideration. II
does not very materially differ from the
Law already or the statute books, and |!
has been very greatly modified from the
shape in which Il originally came from |
the Commission. II provides for one
Commissioner, to be elected by the Leg
islature, instead of three rs reported By
the Commission, and allows railroads to
consolidate or guarantee the bonds OF
other roads upon such terms rs the
stockholders may agree. 1t provides for
two rooms for the accommodation Of
passengers at each ticket station, and
requires all roads to keep the variation
from schedule Of its passenger trains
posted at all telegraph stations when
they are more than half hour behind
time, and allows the Directors to be Sc
lected from any quarter the owners may
desire, and II Furnishes reckless handling
Of baggage. These are some Of the
leading amendments adopted in the
House, and 10 our ind they greatly
improve the bill.
Since my last letter to the ISTELLI-
GEScEE the fight over the fish ways in
.he Augusta canal dam in Savannah
river, brought up by Mr.. Murray's bill
10 require their construction, has been
settled by the city OF Augusta paying to
Col. Butler, our efficient Commissioner
of Agriculture, fifteen hundred dollars
with which to construct the fish ways
The work cannot now be done until the
Summer season sets in, ny the river is
too high to admit Of any work during
the Winter and Spring months. This
will deprive US Of the supply Of shad
for one year longer, but after that we
hope that the people living along the
Savannah, Seneca and Tugalo rivers will
be able to catch as many or more than
they did before the dam WAS constructed.
In order 10 render the putting in Of fish
ways more efficient, Mr.. Murray has
secured the passage of bill through the
House prohibiting the fishing with nets,
seines, &C., within certain distances Of
this dam. AS it is now the fish are
stopped By the dam, and parties seine
them out by the aashcl full This bill
will doubtless pass the Senate, and if
the Ssh question is not settled by it, no
far as Savannah River is concerned,
there WI. Mt least be long step taken
towards its solution.
The address of DR.. Curry before tho
Legislature on last Friday night on the
subject of education was mastery effort,
combining in on unusual degree perspic-
uous thought, elegant diction and elo-
quent delivery. DR.. Curry was logical,
and forced conviction upon those who
heard him that State cannot afford to
neglect the education Of her citizens
without losing, even in monetary view
OF the question. regret that ain hn-
able to give an extended account Of tho
speech, rs it would we'll repay the time
spent in its perusal. The Legislature has
ordered one thousand copies printed for
distribution by the members, and in this
way il will, to limited extent, be scat
tered oyer the State.
The House of Representatives have,
by decided majority, defeated the prop
osition for tho call Of d Constitutional
Convention. l have not the vote now
before me, but think ihe whole of the
Anderson delegation voted in favor of
Convention. The House by an almost
unanimous vote adopted the joint resolu-
tion to amend lie Constitution SO as to
deprive men convicted of infamous Of.
fences Of the right to vote. 1t also
adopted the resolut;1n proposing to
amend by making the term of all State
and county officers four years instead of
two. Messrs. Murray and Simpson voted
for and AIessrs. Rucker and Prince
against the resolution. The resolution
proposing 20 reduce tho area necessary
for. the establishment Of new counties
was defeated, Messrs. Murray and Rucker
voting against, and Mcssrs. Simpson and
Prince for the resolution.
The Prohibition and anti. prohibition
petitions from The town of anderson
were referred TO tho Anderson delegation,
aud an examination of them showed that
there were ia white men ior and ITO
against the passage Of the law. There
were also % colored men for and 1a6
against the passage of the law. The
views of each member were asked for in
dividually in the delegation meeting, and
they we're unanimously opposed to the
passage Of the law under existing cir
cumstances.
The bill to reduce the number OF Trial
Justices for Anderson county TO nine has
passed the House, and viii doubtless be-
come law. 1t provides for q salary of
fifty dollars each in the county and one
hundred dollars year in the town of
Anderson.
There are yet ahead of us quito
number of important measures that will
consume large portlcn of the time of
tho Legislature The bill to repeal the
Usury Law will be hotly contested, and it
nov looks rs if the vote upon it will be
very close. It is understood that the
Anderson delegation will be solid in its