Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-26

to the pay of Circuit Judges while sitting on
the Supreme bench, as bill had been intro
duced on the subject. Also unfavorable on
bill to relieve litigants ; bill to protect credit
ors bill to amend the charter of the town Of
Union and bill to repeal an Act to provide
for the investment and use of the Agricultural
College fund. These several reports were
adopted. The committee on privileges and
elections reported favorably on bill to divide
the State into five Congressional districts.
Mr.. Murray, of Anderson, gave notice of a
bill to provide local option law. He stated,
for the information Of the House, that the OBJ
ject was to separate the question of the sale Of
liquor in incorporated places from the NUM-
cipal elections, and thus enable the question
it's merits alone, uninfuenced by other local
issues.
The bill for reopening the South Carolina
Military Academy was read the third time
and sent to the Senate.
The special order, being the election law,
was then taken up After being amended IN
several particulars, none of the amendments,
however, affecting the main features of the
bill, towards O'Clock the house began to
grow restless, the members evincing de-
sire to adjourn. But as the reading of the
bill was nearly completed, the friends of the
measure, anxious to avoid another postpone
ment, secured the operation Of the previous
question and read the remainder of the bill
through in few minutes, further amendment
being out of order. When the vote was taken
on the question to order the bill to a third
reading, to the surprise of every one, it re-
suited In the rejection of the bill by vote of
SIS to SO. Upon the announcement of the
vote great excitement prevailed, and amid the
confusion the House adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January Is.
IN THE SENATE, Mr.. Harllee presented a
petition of sundry citizens of Marion county,
asking for All extension of the time when the
general stock law shall 60 into effect. The
same Senator also introduced bill to incor
porate the South Carolina Railway and Man
ufacturing Company
The following bills were read the third time
passed, and ordered to be enrolled for ratifica
tion Bill to provide for the government
discipline and organization of the militia OF
this State, and to reduce all Acts in regard tc
the same into one Act. Bill to charter the
Spartanburg, Anderson and Atlanta Railroad
Company. Bill to provide for the restriction
of the ages of pupils attending the public
schools. Bill to establish the county of Berke
The bill to provide for the better enforce
ment of the poll tax came up on it's thirc
reading and was productive of an animated
debate, in which Messrs. Callison, Gaillard
Wylie, Henderson, Smythe, Perry and Izlal
engaged. The motion to strike out the enact
ing clause WAS voted down by a large majority
The bill, so amendend, that the imprisoment
clause reads "five days instead of "thirty
days" was finally passed, by a vote of l8 to u
Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs
Beatty, Bradley, Brown, Byrd, Coker, Cray
ton, Ferguson, Harllee, Henderson, Izlar
Lartigue, Mcqueen, Moore, Muller, Patter
son, Perry, Shanklin and Wylie. Those wht
voted in the negative are Messrs. Benbow
Bossard, Callison, Fishburne, Gaillard, Kins
ler, Mccall, Siegling, Smyth, Williams ant
Witherspoon.
The committee on agriculture, to whom wa
referred Mr.. Muller's bill for the repeal of th'
Stock law made an unfavorable report on th'
same, and the consideration of the report wa
deferred.
In the night session Mr.. Muller presented
the petition of over seven hundred citizens O.
Lexington county, asking for the repeal of TIN
State Stock law. The reading of the Cod
was then taken up and considered until ad
journment.
In THE HOUSE, the following bills were in
troduced Bill to authorize the Land Com
mission to transfer and deliver to the Board
the South Carolina Penitentiary the propert.
known as the Columbia Canal. Bill to re-sur
vey and remark portion of the boundar.
line between this State and North Carolina
Bill to incorporate the Belmont Cotton Man
ufacturing Company. Bill to empower TIN
Fayetteville and Florence Railroad to run ;
4, 1;,,o n int their
North Carolina line to Bennettsville. Bill t.
allow tenants renting or leasing land to sell
remove at the expiration of lease all manur
raised by them. Bill prescribing the form o
book in which the county commissioners shal
keep the record OF claims against the county
Bill to amend the Act to regulate the sale O
Intoxicating liquors. This latter bill was in
troduced by Mr.. Marshall, of Richland, ant
provides for the striking from section OF tn
Act the amount of 500 now required to b.
paid to the State for license to sell liquors. L
| is the most direct assault which has been made
on the liquor law at the present session, as i
seeks to strike out one of the distinctive fea
lures of the law. 1t is made in the interest o.
the poor whisky seller, who cannot afford tt
pay the license and will, therefore, have to give
up the business, or carry it on clandestlnely.
Reports of committees were submitted a:
follows FaVOraDly OIL Dul w CudlIei Gh'
Townville Branch Railroad; favOrably on
bill to exempt from the operations of the
stock law so much of Lexington county as
lies between Broad and Saluda Rivers; un
favorably on bill in relation to crops; un
favorably on bill to exempt Beaufort county
from the operations of the Stock law. The
latter report was adopted.
The railroad bill was then taken up, the
question being on the amendment of Mr.
Johnson as substitute for section l5 OF the
printed bill. The amendment is as follows
That nothing in this Act contained shall in
anywise affect the provisions of Chapter LAV
of the General Statutes authorizing and regu
lating the consolidation, purchase and lease
of railroads, and it shall and may be lawful tol
any railroad corporation now organized OF
which may hereafter be organized under the
laws of this State to guarantee the bonds, Of
stock. or dividend of any other railroad cor
poration whenever the roads of such corpora
tion shall connect with each other, or shal
form a continuous line of railroad, directly OF
by any connection, such guarantee to be upon
such terms and conditions as may be agreed
upon by the corporation making the same
The amendment was discussed by Messrs