The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-30
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
A SPICY DEBATE BETWEEN MSSSRS
HASKELL PATTERSON.

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HASKELL AND ATfERSON
Down Proposition 20 Reduce thei,
Sslariss-The Session D Drawing to q Close
Tho Work OF the Past Week.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec 22.-In the
House on Tuesday, after the tilt be,
tween Messrs. Haskell and Evans
which is published in another column
resolutions were presented and passed
in memory of Representative Leap
heart, Of Lexington, who had recently
died.
The commltte on penitentitary sub.
mitted the following report: "We
have investigated the penitentiary and
| find it Self-sustainlnS, and that 1t has
been we'll and economically managed
during the year. They carefully exam
ined all of the departments and were
pleased to note the improvements and
efficiency Of their management. The
hospital is an excellent building and
provides comfortable quarters for the
sick. The health of the inmates l. un'
usually good, only few Of them being
now sick, and none seriously. The
death rate has been less than that OF
last year. The books of the Institution
have been carefully examined by q sub.
committee and found to be neatly an6
carefully kept. They commend the
present superintendent and officers foI
their efficient and careful management
A number of new bills were intro
duced, but they were mostly OF local
nature.
In the Senate on Tuesday Senator
Sloan, on behalf of the judiciary COM
mittee, made an unfaVorable report on
the Child's prohibition bill.
Senator Stokes cotton weighers' bill
was called up on second reading and a
motion to indefinitely postpone it pre-
vailed by big majority.
On the heels of adjournment for the
day, a very pretty fight came up on the
free pass" bill. Its author, Senator
Woodward, moved concurrence IN the
House amendments, and for few mo.
ments a sort of parliamentary tangle
followed, the chair holding that the mo-
ton could not be considered unless the
bill was before him, and a discussion as
to the proper construction OF the rules
followed. The question was discussed
pro and con by several Senators after
which Senator WoodWard's motion to
concur went through by vote of % to
l8. Those who voted aye were: Sena-
tors Abbott, Bell, Bigham, Buist, De.
Schamp, DoZier, enkins, keitt, McDan-
iel, Mason, Moody, Peake, Sanders,
Sloan, R. NJ. Smith, jeremiah Smith,
Smythe, Stokes, Verdler, Williams,
Wilson and Woodward.
Those who voted no were Messrs.
Bamberg, Beasley, Evans, Ferguson,
Glenn, Hemphill, Strait and Thinner
man.
The bill to protect and encourage the
planting and cultivation Of she'll hsh
within the public waters of this State;
for the appointment of fish commits
stoner; to authorize the granting OF
franchises for the use of certain lands
under water belonging to this State,
and to make appropriations therefor,
received its third reading.
The joint committee appointed to IN
vestigate certain charges OF fraud
brought against the clerks of the TWO
houses of the General Assembly in con-
nection with the award Of certain
contract for advertising to the Colum-
bia Register submitted an elaborate re-
port. The committee, after giving the
circulation of the two newspapers, con-
demn the action of W. NJ. Rodgers IN
practicing fraud and deception on the
clerks of the House and Senate.
The report of the committee was re-
cei7ed as information and ordered to
be spread upon the journals, and the
committee was discharged. Before the
reading of the report the resignation of
Mr.. Rodgers as assistant clerk of the
House was read and accepted, and later
in the day Mr. Samuel w. Vance was
appointed by the Speaker to fill the va
cancy.
The bill introduced in the House to
change the time Of the meeting of the
Legislature from November 70 January
was showed under on Thursday.
The Senate sent message to the
House stating that that body had re-
ceded from its position with reference
to the anti-free pass bill and had con-
Cured in the House amendments
thereto.
MIR. Patterson did not wish the re-
port received until the report OF the
Joint committee of conference had been
made. He wished to know why Mr.
Haskell, the chairman of the House
section of the committee, had not made
a report.
MIR. Haskell Said that contrary to all
precedent two members of the Senate
Committee had been appointed from
the minory OF that body, the majority
having expressed in favor of the bill.
Mr.. Patterson had said he was in favor
of killing the bill and he was In the
committee for that purpose. Two
members of the Senate section OF the
committee had expressed similar lnten.
tions. He had asked Mr.. Patterson If
he was not in the committee to support
the will of the House as expressed by a
vote of IS to II.
Mr.. Patterson interrupted Mr.. Has
kell several times until Mr.. Haskell
asked him to sit down until he was
through. He could not get a report be-
cause it was necessary for the report to
be sigued by majority OF both sections
Of the committee, and majority OF
the Senate section would not sign It.
He asked II he had not deserved the
thanks of the H ouse for his action in
the matter.
Speaker Jones: You are entitled to
a free pass.
Mr.. Haskell said be had never taken
a free pass in his life. save once, when
as attorney for the South Carolina
Railway he was compelled to 60 to
Charleston and the company sent him
pass, he used, and If i: had rot been
sent he would have charged his fare in
his bill. Outsids of this he had never
used pass save as railroad official.
Several queries were here made as to
whether he was at present a railroad
official.
He replied that he was the president
OF a road in virginia and that as such