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

Association passed its third reading and was
sent to the Senate.
a bill to exempt Georgetown county from
the operation of The Stock law was rejected.
a night session was held for the cUnsidera-
tiOn of the bill to make appropriation for the
ordinary expenses of the State Government.
FRIDAY, December Is.
IN THE SENATE, the House bill abolshng
the immigration bureau was favorably report
ed. No bills were introduced. A few passed
a second reading. Tie Senate attended the
Joint Assembly for the election of directors of
the Penitentary, and the rest of the day was
consumed in the discussion of the bill repeal
ing the Lien law. The arguments of the op-
ponents of the bill may be stated as follows
First. Under the Lien law the landlord who
rents land has preferred and prior lien for his
rent. Was that not just ? This repeating
bill would sweep away that provision.
Second. The labOrer was secured under the
Lien law, having a prior lien for his labor.
spared this provision of the Lien law.
Third. The party who advances the supplies
had his lien. He too was secured. Was not
this equitable He could not see the hard
ship of the law as it stood to-day. There had
been hardships in the law previous to the last
session, but they had then been removed. An
other thing: The owner of the land, if the
law was repealed and lie did not have capital
to make advances, would have to lie idle for
from the landlord alone could the tenant get
supplies. Under the law rs it stood he could
in such case get a tenant for his fields who
could get capital elsewhere. The Senate
should leave the Lien law us it is, protection
to the landlord, to the laborer and to the ad-
vancer.
A vote was then taken on Senator Hender-
sons motion to strike out the enacting clause
of the bill with the following result Yeas !:
Senators Beatty, Brown, Buist, Callison, Co.
ker, Earle, Field, Harlee, Hart, Henderson,
Howell, Mccall, Moore of Hampton, Perry,
Robinson, Shanklin, Simmons, Williams-1S.
Nays : Senators Clybun, Ferguson, Gaillard,
Izlar, Lartigue, Leitner, Moore of Anderson,
Moore of Spartanburg Muller, Munro, Max
well, Patterson, Redfearn, Smythe, Wallace
Is. So the bill WAS lost.
A second bill Of the same purpOrt was then
taken up and killed without division.
a night session of the Senate was held. in
which a number of incorporation Acts passed
their second and third readings.
The following bills were killed: Relating
to barbed wire fences; relating to sales Of
personal property.
The House bill relating to the rate of in
terest came up, and was passed. 1t places
the penalty for loaning at over 10 per cent.
at three times the value of the interest.
Senator Howell's bill exemptng that part
of his county contained in the Seventh Dis
trict from the operations Of the Liquor law
had been reconsidered after rejection, and was
now Oh the Calendar for disposition.
Senator Howell said that he knew that the
disposition of the State for a Prohibition law
was great, but this was peculiar case. 1t
was malarious county Where the people had
% use quinne and whiskey as almost abso-
ute necessities. Besides, the rice planters
say that since the general liquor law passed,
more whisky is sold, more drunkenness exists
han ever before. Formerly it was sold in
small quantities and drank by the negroes in
moderation Now every Saturday demjOhns |
crowded the plantations and there was hard |
Trunk from Friday to Monday. 1t was real
y Il protection to the people to allow the
legitimate sale of liquor ; the county now lost
=, 800 from licenses, which used to be expend-
d exclusively for the poor. Now there are
10 licenses and no poor fund whatever. Not
this appeal the bill was killed by
n overwhelming vote.
In THE HOUSE. the bill to regulate the rail
Dads was taken up for consideration. After
ONE preliminary skirmishing as to how the
abroad committee stood in making its report
D the House, the House bill relating to the
ulject was laid on the table and the second
eading of the bill as it passed the Senate was
egnn. The first and second sections of the
i'll passed without amendment.
When the third section had been read Mr..
Haskell moved to amend by providing that
Othing contained in the bill ''shal prevent
ne grouping of interior towns or villages III
lis State SO as to give them the same rates
pon all freigbts TO or from points without the {
tate, or to prevent the grouping of such |
OWNS and villages so as to give those situated
pom the same railroad or railroad combination
le same rates upon all freightsto or from any
the parts of this State.''
After a long debate the amendment was laid
n the table by vote of - to 81.
While the debate on the Railroad bill was a
progress the Senate appeared in the House, y
nd the discussion was suspended while the
int Assembly went into All election for four
rectOrs of the State Penitentiary .
The following were elected: j. w. William
m, of Darlington, Col. T. w. Woodward, of
airtield, &. A. Shields, of Columbia, and &.
Sawyer, of Aiken.
A number of Uills passed the third reading
a night session was held in which the bill ,
regulate the railroads was further consider