Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-21
WEDNESDAY, December 13.

W EDN ESDA1, beCelllUel lO,
In THE ENATE, Senator Smythe presented
the petiticof d. r. Corbin and VIM. Stone,
praying Fl relief of judgment rendered
against tim, and the payment of loan from
the State.
When tt bill providing the mode in which
INDECENT tients shall he admitted into the
State LuDc Asylum and supported therein
came up, nator Hart spoke at length in its
favor. Fl found from the last Message
of the GernOr that the expenses of this
insttutio amounted to one-third of the Or
dinary eenses of the State government
1t was asarful statement. OF the $50 in
mates ofhe Asylum, all but twenty-five
were suprted at the sole expense of the
State Wh this bald fact before them peo-
pie outsidOf the State would be justified in
thinking at South Carolina was a State of
paupers. lie found also that the regents of
the instition asked for the expenses of the
coming yc Sll4, 900, an amount which would
absorb tfproceeds Of tax of of mill on
all taxablproperty within the State; and in
the appreciation bill before the House $780,
900 was dOted to the maintenance of the
Asylum. The burden which this institution
imposed BON the State was frightful. 1t
was the dy one which had not been lifted
since 1S7-it was beyond this an increasing
burden. urely the beneticiarieS of the ASy-
lum wereot all paupers 1t was, on the con-
trary, a tt thai many of the patients snug
gled into had families able to pay their eX-
penses, part of them. If Governor IIa-
goods stement was taken, it appeared that
there We two thousand five hundred people
in the Ste liable at some time to become in
mates ofle Asylum, and their maintenance
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bill bcfothe Senate did not seek to cripple
sum sho1 be paid by the Stat for the Asy-
chargea, to the counties in the ratio to
which ty furnish beneficiary patients. The
result Wild be that many of those who were
sent to le Asylum at a cost of S2l2 year
would tsupported in the county poorhOuSes
where ey properly belonged at one-fourth
of the ,pense and those who were really
insane Duld be supported chiefly by their
own cdmunities. He estimated the saving
diture.
Senat Henderson spoke in opposition to
the billSenator Smythe spoke in favor of it.,
and aftfurther discussion by Senators How
ell and art, the motion to kill the bill pre-
vailed Ia vote of 10 to Il.
The port of the judiciary committee to
the effe that a member of the General AS :
sembly ould not be elected a director of the
was adopted by vote of Is to &.
The II to pay commissioners, managers
and cles of election at the last election and
all genal elections hereafter came up for a
seconeading. After general discussion of
the mts of the bill it was continued as a
speciarder. 1!
A rnber of bills passed their second read
ings d a number also passed their third
leaditnone of them of general interest.
In IL HOUSE, a number of bills received
theirha reading and were sent to the Sen
ate hong others being bill to amend the
UsuIfiw.
Tlbill to abolish the Office of superintend-
ent Immigration passed third reading.
4 hmber of bills were rejected, among
;henhe bill to repeal certain sections of the
7end Stock law, 80 far as they affect the
,our is of Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston,
Colla, Georgetown and Williamsburg. Also
,ilso exempt Clarendon and Lexington