The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-23
4 ROW IN THE HOUSE.
AN ANGRY DISCUSSION BETWEEN
HASKELL, EVANS AND OTHERS.

AN ANGRY DISCUSSION o. WEN
HASKELL, EVANS AND OTHERS.
The Eow CouEJY Bill the Causs q tie
gow-What Was Said .nG Hsw tho
menbors yoted-rhe BiU KILLED and
Then Eecors:Gered.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Dec. 1.-THE bill lto
provide a new system OF county gov
e-nmeats, the full text Of which you
published few weeks ago, coIae Up ia
the House Tuesday as a special order;
After four CT five sections OF the Bill
had been read Mr.. Haskell moved 10
strike out the enacting clause.
Senator Beasley, Of the conference
committee, thought it would be better
TO wait to hear what the conference
committee had done.
The President doubted II any acton
aoulQ be taken on a bill not oA the
Presidents desk,
Senator Wilson referred to Joint
Rule /, and argued that under It TIE
amendments from the House. constltu-
ting the message Of the House to the
Senate, could be considered.
Senator Smythe proposed &c remove
all doubts with a motion that the ''si-
ate require the conference To TsoIt;n 10
the Senate the bin and al aIGeHGnent
Senator Evans suggested that Tic
cOlfecees be alioTeG to report III cue
form.
Ths President replied orieaI TO Sen.
aUor Wilson, explaining MS ruling ana
its propriety, and then proceeCed 20
put Senator Smythe's motion.
Senator Evans moved to adjourn ana
uuon the President declaring the ms
tion lost demanded a d!v'sioa. me
Senate Dy vote of IS 20 : refused 70
adjourn.
Senator Evans then moved as d sno
stitute for Senator Smythes motion
that the Senate confeTees be repaired
to report the results Of the conference.
He again demanded division and was
again defeated. 49,.
Senator Smythe's melton Was tAel
adopted and Senator Beasiey haccsS
uo the bill and amendments. Hhlch
were read by the clerk.
Senator Evans moved to contlnEe thh
debate until tomorrow. Lost-lo 10 H.
Justhere Senator Bigham arose. Two
or three hours before, while Senator
Bigham was innocently perambulatine
the lobby with an enrolled bii! N MS
arms. the famous fish patcol-amend-
ment had come up in the monotonous
course Of business and been TuIh!esstY
assassioated under the very ears OF us
parer.. Senator DoZier having o1ieieo
a motion for non-concurreDce, Whlcn
went through by default. Being II.
formed of this, Senator Bigham had
been on pins, and in ths midst q Ins
tilibustering on this free pass ol!i arose
with the untimely suggestion tnaE the
vote of non-concurrsnce ID the nsn
patrol bill be reconsidered. \ roar OF
laughter greeted this unexpected ID,
terpolation of eXtrareouS, aEclent ana
tish-like matter. Senator blgnan was
informed of the fact and sat down.
Senator Woodward then spose on the
free pass bill. He said Senator VINO
had voted for the bill had told him he
would support it no further. as it was
a clap in the face Of the AdmlnlStIa- "a
ton. Nobody had the right to say tAe
bill was a slap in anybody,o tace; ouC
he wanted to know il the time mad
come when Senators Of South Carolina
were to be controlled in their action on
the floor by the fear of slapplag some
bodv's face; when anybody was to be
treated as a Czar and have his feelings
and wishes deferred to by the represen..
tatiyes Of the people in the conduct OF
nuhlic business and the execution or
their sworn duty.
Senator Strait, member OF the con-
ference committee, maGe a peppery
speech in reply. He said he stood on
record as against free passes. ne nao
ALWAYS refused them. Bat he believed
the matter should be left to the people.
It was for them, not for the Senate, 10
saw who should or should not receive
free masses. That was matter Iof
every man to decide for himself. On!y
a few wears ago, as the Senator from
Fairfield had said, an acti-free pass Dill
had been passed through lhe 9@enste senate
and pigeon holed IL some OF the mouse
committees, he supposed by some OF the
men who ISSUED free passes from the
Speakers desk and wanted 10 conunte
doing SO. There were men, ne sal9'
WHO gave out tree passes Win lhelr
own hands. lie wanted to see them
eyposed. Some of the very men VINO
we're now urging and iilioustering ald
irving to get this oil through mad
voted against it when Is H;.S UP N past
Years, another element was IN power
now: that explained their chahse OF
thought. "a
lie thought himself that tee HvV-
e1nor had been uEwise III accepting IAe
passes, but the GoTerlo. was ready 10
so before tne people anu a2s'eG. iAe
believed and the poopis beiieVeA that
men in the Legislature had bee- pam
boozIed and debauched by such means:
"The Movement" had pnrged HosJ u
these ont and would purge yet iIrsher::
One or two places fcr bam9oczilhs 2ld
iebauching remained u this ci1y Men
were carried 20 :he vine c!uDS AID
other places, and when they !ad Dsen
drenched they We1e n condi.ioh CO
promise anything, and alter tH@y ie'
covered they found themselves oon1H.
Senator Smythe SAID be did nQt know !,
who the Senator alluded to. &c arc
his colleague, tvo OF the Senator's WHO
we're IN the Senate when the OIL a!iuaea
10 was offered before. had toted for 1t.
Senator Buist said ne had been coEl-
inc to Columbia from Charleston
twelve years and had 1cver accepted. or
given tree pass, and had voted tor
Senator Woodwards bii! when 1t was
offered before. =,
Senator Dezier, as one OF the o!1
Senators, declared that ne had never yer
accepted or used a trse pass ard Aau
voted for Senator NcoGwarc's bill 4e'
fore. He procee-iea with some reinafAS ;
which seemed ve:v meek, but carried
the Reform element against the dan
serous custom Of free passes, OF GOV
ernor TiIman'S dnnunclation. OF II, anu
of the hue and cry raised when lhe
newspapers anncancsd that lhe 10y 10y
ernor himself used the passes lie
tho;,oht the sentiment OF tie people Oh