The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
SENATE.
CoLtMA1A, Dec, 10th 1885.

of business to-day, passing forty bills,
chiefly charters and private measures.
The stenographerS' bill Cor the 9Th and
9th circuits was defeated and then reviv-
cd, and will come up asain tomorrow.
The House elnigrant agent license bill
was defeated with several minor House
bills. After much debate the bill to re-
strict special Legislation passed greatly
amended. Tho Columbia Canal appro.
priation Of $4,000 was favorably re-
ported. The State University tuition
hill and tho bill a5oliShirg the railroad
commission were made special orders
for Monday.
The prohibitionists threaten to renew
the fight tomorrow on a motion to re-
consider the bill.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec, II, 1895.
The Senate made decisive progress
to-day After n big fight Senator
Buists's terrapin bill pissed as amend
ed. The Judiciary committee reported
favorably the House bill to repeal the
lien law and it is expected that the Sen
ate will pass it. There will be n hard
fight on the census hill. The Jail and
municipal convict bill passed as amend
ed. The proposition to change the ConSti-
tuition so as to elect the superintendent
Of education quadrennially by the Leg
i~slaturc failed. Tie stcnog,pher's bill
for the fifth and sixth Cir cults was de-
feated and the bill to repeal the Oconee
County p~ruhibitory law passed without
opposition. The Calendar was substan-
TALLY cleared.
In the House the bill to amend the
law in relation to commissioners and
managers Of election was passed, with
the feature making it Il "miSdemcanor for
a manager to refuse to serve stricken
out. The constitutional amendment al
lowing the Legislature to adopt the
United States census as n basis of emu
meration after 1891, passed a second
reading. The bill to abolish the office
Of supervisor Of registration WAS defeat
ed, and the bill to repeal the Act giving
"a per capita to ne support of the mi
litia was also defeated by the handsome
vote Of 80 to q.
COLUMBIA, December 10th 1885.
The annour cement in the NeWS and
Corrier that the prohibition question
would come up in the House to-day at
tracted u large crowd Of spectators.
Among the audience were delegations
FROM Anderson, Barnwcll, Chester,
Sumter, Oeonee, Charleston and other
counties. The bill to provide for all
election in the county Of Anderson on
the subject Of license or no license was
first among the special orders Of the
day and Doth sides were armed with pc
titions and arguments and were eager
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est and so eager was the discussion out
side the bar that the Speaker was com
PEELED to call upon "visitors beyond the
finished the usual morning formula
was called up.
Mr. Scudday, the apostle Of the Pro-
hibition movement in the up-country,
obtained the floor and spoke FOR about
thrce-quartcrs Of an hour in favor of the
bill. He was followed by Mr.. F.. NJ.
Rucker, the sole member Of the Ander-
son delegation in the House who opposed
the measure, who was in urn followed
by Mr.. Watson.
Mr.. Watson said that two-thirds of
the signers Of the prohibition petition
were intelligent property-holders Of AM
derson, while the names Of many Of the
signcrs Of the naturalization were
evidently IN the same handwriting. He
said that there were good names on the
Anti Prohibition petition, but it's COM
pleNion was unqucstionably black.
+ At the close or Mr.. Wutson's remarks
Mr.. Douglass, Of Fairfield, moved to
table the motion made by Mr.. J.. An
crum Simons to strike out the cnacting
words OF the bill. The yeas and nays
were demanded npon this and resulted
yeas SIS. nays 55-a majority Of one
for the Prohibitionists.
Mr.. Stanyarne Wilson, of Spartan
burg, then moved to reconimit, and
spoke at length in opposition to Prohi-
bition legislation, a legislation which, he
said, would inevitably lead to indepen-
dentism in politics and jeopardizp tho
cause OF good government.
Mr.. Boggs. Of Pickens, followed in
support OF the bill. and Mr.. Aldrich,
of Aiken, against it. Mr.. Wilson then
withdr : his motion to recommit and
moved to indefinitely postpone the bill.
The yeas and nays were demanded and
the bill was indefinitely postponed
yeas Sc. nays Sd, The following was
the vote
Yeas-Spcaker Sinons, and Mcssrs.
Aldrich, Ancrum, Baker, Baxter, Beck
ham, Bellinecr. Blackwell. Brawley. G.
w. Brown, Burke. w. N. Clyburn, l..
L. Clyburn, Cooper, Dennis, Farrow,
Ficken, Gonzalez, Graydon. Haskell,
Hemphiil, Hutson, Kennedy, Lay, Lyles,
Macusker, Mnher, Mason, B. H. Messy,
Means, Mitchell. McCrady, McHugh,
McKeMn. Nelson. Pnne. Ray. Rarser