Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-19

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credit, and ali who went would get free trans
portation from Atlanta and would be taken
care of after reaching their destination. This
emissary, named Hammond, imposed upon
these deluded colored people and collected
from them between S. 200 and Sc 900, and
where is he now Echo answers, where? The
colored people, finding they had been duped,
many of them returned to Edgefield and 9TH
ers went to Beaufort. Now who is to blame
for this exodus These people who have suf-
fered themselves to be duped. But if they
have brighter prospects elsewhere, in Gods
name let them 60. They have the same right
to 60 as their white neighbors have. Mr.. Cal
lson asserted that the negroes in Edgefeld
county are better off to-day than ever before.
He was prepared to prove that there are more
cratic ticket than who vote the Republican
ticket. He thought those emigrants had
made serious mistake, and said that after
having been all over the county and made dill
gent inquiries concerning this movement, he
was convinced, from what he had seen and
heard, that not more than from 1900 to 1900
negroes-Old, young, male and female-had
left the county. He closed by asking his friend
from Beaufort to remember that the white
people are not to blame for this exodus, but
that there is Judas in the colored camp.
Miller replied that it was not his intention,
to bring politics in the matter, and he stated
that he ascribed all the trouble to the odious
contract law. .
MIR. Gaillard objected to the appointment of
the proposed committee, because he did not
think the Legislature should interfere with
every matter of this kind brought to its atten-
| tiOn, and he therefore moved that the resOlu-
tion be indefinitely postponed On demand OF
the yeas and nays, the resolution was post
pOned.
The Senate then took recess until 7.3O P. NJ.
The evening session was devoted to the read
ing of the bill for revising the Code.
In THE HOUSE, a message was received
from the Governor approving all the Acts
which were ratified previous to the holiday
adjournment.
Mr.. Simonton introduced a bill to establish
a new judicial and election county from the
county of Charleston, to be known as Berkely
county. ..rs-t ... ...
The judiciary committee reported unfavor-
ably on the following bills: To require de-
posit of $40, 900 by insurance companies doing
business in this State. To pay county expen-
ses out of the State treasury. The reports
were adopted and the bills killed.
The election law was then taken up on
question to amend section 2S so as to require
the ballot to be wholly written or ,rholly print
ed. Some debate arose, giving rise from the
Republican side Of the House to the charge
on the part of the Democratic majority to re-
strict the rights of Republican voters.
Mr. Haskell, after administering reDuke
to the spirit which was always projecting
itself into the discussion of measures of this
character by the colored members of the
House, which spirit, he said, is reflection on
the intelligence of their race as it is dis
courtesy and injustice to large majority OF
this body, moved that the further considera-
tion of the bill be postponed until after de-
cision of the question of calling convention.
The motion to postpone was lost.
Mr.. Haskell then proposed to amend sec
20 by reducing the eight boxes provided by
the section to two-one for State and county,
and one for Federal officers. Mr.. McCrady
of the bill to be the feature, which of all the
provisions of the bill, would effect most in
securing the advantages of an intelligent ex-
ercise of the right to vote.
After discussion, in which several members
participated, Mr.. Haskell's amendment was
laid on the table. ... ......,
Mr.. Gray then proposed an amendment
making four boxes-frst, Governor and State
officers second, county officials and solicitors:
third, members Of the Legislature and fourth,
members of Congress and Presidential elec'
tors. :.s ........ -. ............ .....
Mr.. Murray proposed to substitute six boxes,
as follows: First, for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor second, other State officers third,
Senators and Representatives fourth, county
officers and circuit solicitors; fifth, members
of Congress sixth, Presidential electors
Mr.. Murray's Proposition was adopted.
To section 80, which provides the arrange
ment of polling places, Drifae, colored, Offered
an amendment prohibiting the managers
by word or sign, from indicating how the
voters should vote ; and Rue, colored, proposed
that the boxes should be numbered from right
to left and that the position of the boxes should
not be changed during the voting, both Of
which amendments were lost.
Pending discussion of an amendment to sec.
tion 49,, offered by Mr. Hemphill, providing
that the managers shall seal up the ballot
boxes Immediately at the close of the polling,
votes, the House, at 2.30 P. M, adjourned.
:-. FRIDAY, January 13.
In TIE SENATE, Mr.. T. j. Moore submitted
petition from ladies Of Gaffney City relative
to the sale of spirituous liquors. ....-
The following new bills were introduced
BY Mr.. Smythe, to establish a new judicial
and election county from portions of Colleton
and Charleston counties, to be called Berkely
county. BY Mr.. Kinsler, bill to incorporate
the South Carolina Midland Railroad Compa-
ny. By Mr.. Ferguson, bill to regulate and de-
termine the right of dover.
The calendar was then taken up, and a num-
ber of bills passed their third reading and
were ordered to be enrolled for ratification,
among them the following !: Bill to amend sec
tion 4 of the Act entitled can Act to further
regulate the sale of Intoxicating liquors in this
State" approved December "a, 1880, so as to
provide for the further enforcement of said
Act Bill to incorporate the Blackstock and
Rocky Mount Narrow Gauge Railroad Compa-
ny. Bill to require all persons who now are or
may hereafter be engaged in the traffic in seed
cotton and unpacked lint cotton to keep a
record of the name and place of residence OF
the party from whom they purchase, with the
amounts and dates of purchase.
The following bill to provide for the better
enforcement of the poll tax was passed to a
third reading
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted, &c. That there
shall be annually assessed upon all taxable
polls in this State tax of one dollar on each
poll, the proceeds of which tax shall be applied
solely to educational purposes. Every male
citizen between the ages of twenty-one anu
sixty years, except those incapable of earning
support from being manned, or from any
other physical disability, shall be deemed taxa
BILE polls, and no party claiming exemption
shall be excused except upon the sworn certlil,
cate of respectable physician that the SAID
party is incapable of earning living because
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