The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-07
The Legislature.

Il
week and the House organized by the cleo
tion of James Simons, OF Charleston, Speak
er; Col. Jno. I. Sloan Clerk; Jn0 ID. Brow
Sergeant at~Arms and r.. NJ, Anderson
Reading Clerk. The Senate was orsanizvd
by the election Of the old cflcers, to wit:
Col Sloho Farrow, Clerk; a. d. Good
wint Reading Clerk and l.. Il. Marshall
Sergeant~at Arms.
Not much business Of Importance ha 8
yet been transacted, In the House, MIR.
.Anse', Of Greenville, has introduced bill
TO provide for the regulation Of railroad
freight and passenger tariffs in this State,
to prevent unjust discrimination and extor.
lion inrihe rates charged for the transpor-
portH,ion in passen gers and freights, and
10 prohibit railroad companies, corporations
and lessees In this State from charging 9th
er than just and reasonable rites and to
punish the same, and TO prescribe mole
OF procedure and rules OF evidence in rela-
ti"n thereto, to appoint commissioners and
to prescribe their powers and duties in re
lation TO the same. This bill provides for
| the mp ointment by the Governor of three
| commissioners at n snlHry Of Two thousand
| dollars per annun each 10 be paid out of
the State Trca sury, the commissioners hol-
ding office for two, four and six years res =
| peclfuly. The Term O! office Of the COM
mis>ioners succeeding those first app ointcd
| to be six years. The comm iss toner's under
the bill will have power to prepare seed.
ule of rates for the government CT railroad
companies in their chnrg&, and authority
TO compel the enforce mrnt Of the some
This bill il framed on the model OF the
Georgia bill, and it is claimed by Mr.. An
81 that whi lc the bill will secure to the
people their rights it vii not operate with
hardship on the corpora iions.
Senator Smy'h has introduced q bill in
the Senate upon the sane subject.
Senator Howell Of Hampton. has intro.
duccd bill 10 exempt from The operations
Of the stock law. the Counties of Hampton,
Beaufort, Bnrnwcn, Co'leton Orangeburg,
Berkeley and Williamsburg, ard 10 separate
them from the rest IF The State by means
Of n fence runnin. f:cm the Snntce ivor to
the Savannah, making the State pay The
expense tf building The fer ce. Ifthc Lrg-
islatu"c should refuse TO require the State
| to build the fence, then the counties ex-
| cmPted to bear the expense. But it is
| evident that The Legislature has wisely
| concluded TO let the stock inv alone, ex.
cep:., perhaps in few minor instances.
! The corr, 81 Oh dent Of the Ne,cs and Courier
interview ell the Senators upon the suhj,ci,
and he says
| Determined TO settle nt once The ouestion
as to whether such n bill could pass thu
| Senate at this time, I TO day interviewed
every Senator who attended the session of
the body. There were thirty TWO of thirty
five Senators in their seats during the day
| Of this number twenty declared themselves
detcrmnedly opposed TO rcopcnng the
| stock law question. and said that they
would vote against the proposed bill; seven
said that they would vote for the bill and
five could not state positively what their
position would be. Senators Wallace Of
Richland. Moore Of Anderson and Williams
Of Georgetown were not seen. The TWO
first named would probably v te with The
twenty against the bill and the last with
the seven for it Granting the advocates
undecided ana those absent, the majority
of those opposed to tampering with the
law would still be decisive.
am at this early period not at liberty
to give the names of those who expressed
their opinions to me. butt can state some
of the opinions without the names. The
| Senators Of two Of the counties 10 be in
cluded by the proposed bill in the exemp q.
| ton from the stock law declared thnt they
would fight such an exemption to the last
The exemption even of townships which >re
solidly against the bill and anxious 10 30. .,;e
| themselves in will be difficult o obtain
In joint Assembly on Saturday last, the
Honorable L. b. Fraser was reelected
Judge Of the Third Circuit without oppos-
ton. T. j. Lipsconb was re- elected Su-
permit tendant OF the Penitentiary without
opposition also. Messr~ SimonIon, Rion,
McMasler, Caldwell, lzlnr, Blanding anI
Boyd were re ell cted Trustees Of the South
Carolina College. The question whether u
member Of the Legislature could lawfully
serve rs D Director Of the Pcntentiary, was
referred to the Judiciary Committee.