The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-12-16
The GENERAL
WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHAT
THEY ARE o. DOING.

The third week of tho present scs-
sion OF the Legislature opened on the
7th inst. The Senate was not in scs-
Sion, having taken holiday for that
day, but got well to work on the morn.
ing following. We give below Il
synopsis of the weeks work, so far as
it is Of general interest:
Among the measures passed BY the
Senate is the joint resolution providing
for II constitutional amendment en-
abling the Legislature to adopt the
Federal census tur The appurtionmcnt
OF representation. The yu,c was
yeas %, NAYS 3. The bill to incurpo-
rate tho town OF Cuinhoy, in Berkeley,
was the only II defeated on athird
reading. Senators BuiSt and Smvthc
united in saying that they found that
the bill would give the control of the
town 10 the negroes and leave the
liquor question in their hands.
The following were defeated CT UNI
favorable reports: Bills in regard to
pcremptory challenges: to Prohibit the
standing aside OF jurors; to abolish
the agricultural department. AS 70
the latter Senator Moody, its author,
moved the adoption of the unfavorablc
report. He said that The House bill!
to regulate the disbursement OF funds
by the department answered his pur-
pose.
There waS opposition 10 the bill to
refund to Daniel Hayward, surety for
w. +. ColcOck, antc-bCilum collector
OF the port of Charleston, the amount
of customs collections paid by him to
the State after its secession in 1860,
and after the var recovered from him
10y the United States Government.
Senator LCitncr attacked it on the
ground mainly that all of us had zone
into the war and lost, and that an cX-
ccptiou should not be made. Senators
Smythe, Earle, Ioumaus and Moore,
Of Hampton, made strong speeches IN
favor of passing the bill, as the cir
cumsianccs were peculiar. aud as the
action of MIR. Colcock had been per-
formed in obedience to the bchcSt of
the State through its Secession Con.
vention. 1t passed by a vote Of Is
to II. Tho bill has since passed its
third reading.
Among the new measures introduced
in the Senate the following deserve
attention:
BY Senator Moore, OF Anderson
bill TO amend the Act "for the more
speedy development of The Columbia
Canal" (This is intended to carry
out the views of the economic caucus.
1t devolvcs the management of he
work on the canal upon the supcrin-
tcndcnt of the pcnitcmiitry, instructs
him to connect the old canal with the
new near Cemetery iliil and appro-
pirates $4,000 for that purpose. The
effect of the measure would be to
nhn .,,lNn oil tJo ,,,N,I- - ,,l l.. ! 49, 800
pay $4,000 TO furnish TO the pcnitcn-
tiary only that small mount OF water
power which that institution had with
out cost from the old canal before the
new one was bcgun.)
BY Senator Pattcrson, concurrent
resolution that the Senators and Rep.
resentativcs of the State be requested
to use their best efforts to secure the
repeal of the Act of Congress l~rvSing
a tax of 10 per cent. on the circulation
ofStatc banks, because the Act opcr-
ates i%niuriouslv to the financial interests
of the people of the State.
BY Senator BUST, bill to exempt
certain portions Of Berkeley and
Charleston counties from the opera
tons Of the stock law. (This was in
troduced at the request of citizens of
Berkeley. who have assured The Scna-
Tor tnat the planting territory hitherto
opposed to the change is not included
in the proposed exemption, and that
the bill is in the nature Of Il compro-
mise.)
The following bills were reported by
different committees without recon-.
mendation: Bill to compel the charge
ola minimum tuition tee Of $40 an.
nnally by the trustees of the State
University; bill to repeal The Oconcc
county Prohibitory Act; bill to aboliel
the railroad commission.
The joint resolution proposing al
amendment to the Constitution giving
each county II representative only il
the Senate provoked Il long debate.
The pending question was Senator
Manldid's motion to reconsider TIC
action of the senate whereby the I'm.
favorable report of the committee was
adopted, rejecting the ncasusc. Fir.