The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-14

tlnS "OTuS OF the Dill was voted down ,and
the bill was orerded to be engrossed.
THE MEDICAL COCKTAIL.
The next bill! reached was that to
which reference has been made to re-
gulate the sale Of the "spiritus .frWmentp
prescriptions in towns and villages
where the local option law exists. The
provisions Of the bill have been pub
lished already. 1t would hardly be sup
posed that a politico-prohibition debate
could be concocted out of this, but it re-
quires very slight straw to get up
discussion in the present House. Mr..
Haskell moved to strike out the enacting
clause Of the bill, which brought DR..
Pope to his feet with the statement that
in many Of the dry towns the druggists
had printed prescriptions, signed, he was
sorry to say, by members Of his profess
ion, and that many of the drug stores in
those towus had been converted into
rum mills.
Mr.. Miller, Of Beaufort, was Mortified
at the idea Of licensing the sale Of liquor
in dry towns by drug stores.
Mr.. Archer, Of Spartanburg delivered
u remarkably strong and eloquent temp
erance oration, not bearing very heavily
on the bill under discussion, but very
elloqent and impressive, Illustrate du
with many figures and statistics show
ing the evil effects and bad wark Of king
alcohol. The speech had evidently been
carefully prepared and was forcibly de-
livered, but was, unfortunately delivered
at the wrong time and upou the wrong
bill. For instance, when the mem Der
told the House that $0OO,OOO,OOO was
spent annually in this country for.whis-
key, and that if this amount was spread
out in line in silver dollars it would
reach around the globe, and that the
people of this country only paid $4,000
600 to the churches the member failed
to connect these statements with the
medical cocktail bills, and their atten-
IVA ooo' "ohNeiSN' Attte SOiuS Oh
for some time Mr.. Archer found some
difficulty III hearing his own voice above
the polite Parliamentary buzz which
prevailed. He therefore, abandoned the
statistios and talked about the bill
under discussion.
Mr.. Aldrich, in behalf Of the iud-
iciary committee. explained the very
obvious reasons which induced the COM
mittee to report the bill unfavorably,
and the equally obvious reasons why
the General Assembly would be COM
PEELED to rejectit
Mr.. Ansel, of Greenville, moved to
indefinitely postpone the whole: matter,
which motion was carried barely half
dozen negative votes being given.
the LIEN LBw.
The bill to repeal the lien law was next
reached (the committee having reported
it unfavorably) 1t was stated by one of
the friends Of the bill that, in the event
of the pending motion to strike out the
enacting words being lost, they intended
to amend it so as to provide that it
should not go irto effect until October,
1887
The previous question was called and
the bill was killed by vote Of S5 to 27:
The rest Of the session was devoted
to the reading OF IN omnibus incorpora-
tion bill.
The judicial tenure of office constitu-
tional amendment has been continued
until the next session.
SENATE
After long and luxur,ous recess.
lasting since Friday, the Senate met at
O'Clock this evening, and went to work
to clear the Calendar. A majority Of the
large number Of bills which received
their second reading on Friday were
passed and sent to the House, while
some which required amendment were
postponed until tomorrow. This work
took about forty-five minutes. Manr
bills from the House received their first
reading. A few committee report were
made, none Of them being important.
On motion Of Senator Murray a con-
current resolution was adopted and sent
to the House fixing the time for electing
. Judge to the Third circuit at l O'Clock
tomorrow. Senator Murray stated that
Judge Fraser's term could expire the day
after tomorrow.
When the House bill came I'M anthn..