The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-12-04
LEGISLATIVE DOTS.

LEGISLATIVE DOTS.
Senator. Smythe introduced in the
Senate on Wednesday last week bill to
charter the Midland Railroad Company.
The proposed incorporators are j. Adger
Smythe, VIM. Borneman, Frank E. Tay-
lor, F. w. WAGNER, S. A. Durham, F.
J. Pelzer, Geo. w. Williams, jr., VIM. A.
Courtenay, F. S. Rodgers, O. Il Weiters,
G. P. Poppenheim and others-a list of
strong names, that gives the scheme q
very decided business look. The COM
pany is authorized to build road from
Greenville to Charleston, through Lau-
rens, etc. the capital stock being $780,
600, with the privilege of increasing it to
$4,0O0,0O0. The road must be completed
by 1889, or the charter will be void.
Gen. McCrady has introduced a bill
intended to prevent frauds at primary
elections, and is similar in its terms to the
law which prevails in New York State.
The object of the bill is to give to the
managers of political parties the right to
have their managers of election sworn,
and penalty is attached to the certifica-
ton of fraudulent returns, &c. This is
a good measure and will doubtless be.
come law.
Three different bills have been intro
duced in the House to repeal the Lien
Law, and it is highly probable that one
or the other of them will be adopted:
A resolution offered by Mr.. G. J. Hut.
son vas adopted prohibiting the intro
duction of bills and joint resolutions
after the Is inst. in the House, except by
some committee appointed by the House.
This is a good mode of limiting the
session of the Legislature to the consid'
GRAFTON of measures of the greatest i'm.
portance in as short time as possible.
Gen. McCrady, of Charleston, has in.
troduced bill in the House to amend
the Registration and Election Law, the
leading features of which are as follows:
aWhen the books of registration are
again opened the supervisor of regstra-
| tion is authorized and directed to issue
certificates of registration to such per.
SONS who have not yet registered, but
who were nevertheless voters, entitled to
register, but failed to dose in 1882. The
applicant is required to make oath of
the facts in regard to himself and to
satisfy the supervisor of registration that
he was entitled to register in 1882. The
bill also seeks to render the service of
the commissioners and managers of
election compulsory. 1t provides for
the appointment of the commissioners of
election sixty days (instead of thirty
days. before the election. Upon being
appointed the commissioners shall signify
to the Governor, in writing, either their
acceptance of the appointment or their
reasons for refusal to serve. The mana
gers of election are to be appointed by
the commissioners at least thirty days
before the election, and they must also
signify in writing their acceptance, or
the reasons for their refusal to serve.
In both instances penalty is provided
for their failure to serve. The bill was
referred to the judiciary committee In
our opinion, the safer and better plan is
to have a new registration entirely
during the month of February next, at
the several Court Houses in the State.
By this means we could easily register in
the time specified, and have new list
in which only those who feel an interest
in the politics of the State would be
registered. The result would be that
every Democrat would be registered,
while we would gain heavily on the
disgusted and discomftted Republicans,
who would not take the trouble to come
to town to register. Under the plan
proposed we would keep large regis
tered majority against US, for their names
are already on the books, and would of
course stay there, while under our plan
we would end thousands of them left off
| in the State, and at the conclusion we
would have large registered Democratic
majority. We think new registration
would be great deal better than sup
elemental registration.
The House of Representatives on
Friday passed resolution to elect a
Judge of the 5th Circuit, Superinten-
dent and four Directors of the Peniten-
tiary and Trustee of the University on
Saturday, the 26th ult, aud SEMI the
same to the Senate for concurrence. On
Saturday morning, Mr.. Raysor moved
to reconsider the resolution for the rea-
son, he said, that good many members
were not prepared to vote intelligently
upon the officers to be elected, referring
especially to the officers of the Peniten'
tiary. A running discussion ensued in
which several of the old members took
part, urging that the House should go
into the election before it found itself
with an abundance of business on its
hands.
On the other hand it was urged by
some of the new members that the
report of the Penitentiary had not yet
come in, and that they could not vote
intelligently until that report waa IN
Mr.. Donaldson, of Greenville, said that
| the members did not feel called upon to
pass upon the characters of any OF the
officers to- be elected. They wanted
simply TO see what kind of work was
being done, and whether it suited the
Legislature.
Mr.. Summers said that he had no fault
TO find with any one, but it was the facl
that some of the members were moi
satisfied with the work on the canal
which it was said was done by the
authorities of the Penitentiary, and they
would, therefore, prefer to see the
report on that work before being called
upon to vote for the officers of the instl'
tuition.
In the mean time it was ascertainec
that the resolution appointing the houl
| for the election had gone into the Senate
and that it was, therefore, out OF tne
power of the House to reconsider it