The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-16
TO Eight THE ELECTION.
The Fence Men Oppose the Court Of
Ordinary's Ruling.

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Ordinary's Ruling.
Those who oppose fencing cattle in appear
to be afraid to trust the issue 10 the people,
and they are exhausting every technical
point 20 prevent the defeat that awaits
them from the voters of the county.
A bill of exceptions was filed in the court
| of ordinary Friday by @. H. Miller, Esq.
attorney for d. G. Newton and Others, who
are opposing the ''no fence" party. The
document excerpts to the ruling of the court
| Of ordinary for overriding the caveat and
also to the order appointing July 3 for the
time Of the election without assigning any
| polling places or stations at which to hold
the election. The exceptions taken are in
| brief as follows:
1. The court erred in claiming Jurisdiction, as.
under the act Of 1873, it is claimed the county
commissioners only had jurisdiction to order
| an election.
9 The court erred in deciding that the
statutes had been complied with by twenty
| days notice in the MORNING NEWS. one posted
| at the court house and at two other places In
| the city.
8. The Sd Of July does not complete the thirty
| days required for the advertisement OF notice
Of election, as it is claimed that the thirty days
do not expire until the afternoon Of July B.
a. The notice of election does not specify, as
it is claimed it should, that the election will
take place in the various militia districts, but
at the court house only.
A gentleman said yesterday that the last
election on the fence question was on July
3, 1876 the vote standing 1878 for fence
and l56 for ''no fence" The gentleman
who was on the fence side then Is on the
same side now.
1t is claimed by the no fence people that
the conditions existing in 1876 do not now
exist Hundreds Of acres have been re-
claimed and vegetable agriculture is now
SO largely engaged in as to require change
in the fence law, and the system of drain
age so vigorously aud successfully prose
cuted for the past four years imperatively,
demand that cattle should not roam at
large as constant menace to crops and to
the bitches.
The fact is cited that grand juries, at
every sitting of the superior court, have
called attention to bitches out of repair, and
the reports Of the county engineer show
that this condition of affairs is due to the
damage done the bitches by cattle running
at large.
The question seems to be whether a few
scrub cattle are to be permitted to continue
the work of destruction &c bitches dug at
great expense to the county, and whether
truck gardeners and farmers are to be COM
PEELED to fence their crop acreage with mill
| lumber, a most expensive fence system, or
| whether the owners of cattle shall fence in
their STOCK.
1t is claimed that the agricultural in
| terests of the county demand that agricul-
| ture be relieved Of as many burdens as
possible, and the greatest is the fence, which
| must, under the present law, enclose the
crop. The people, by reason Of the added
expense from fencing, are compelled to pay
more for produce, which adds largely to
| the expense of living, and as expensive
| fencing tends to curtail crops, the supply
of produce is necessarily limited and the
| price OF vegetables is beyond the means of
| a large class of citizens, and the truck gar
deners are no better off.
| The exceptions filed against the decision
| Of the court of ordinary, it is claimed, will
not affect the result, as the same objections
| were raised in Richmond county, and the
| higher court sustained the decision of the
court of ordinary in ordering the election
as being the only court of jurisdictions
| power to order an election on the fence
| question. The fence advocates, however
seeing the drift of public sentiment, pro-
pose to take advantage of every technical
| point to stave or defeat