The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-14

verses the order of requirements, in
that it requires the anti-prohibitionists
to come with petitions for an election
ordering the granting of license signed
by 40 per cent. of the freeholders. The
result of the election would determine
the granting or prohibition of licenses.
He claimed that the State was for pro-
hibition and, therefore, claimed this
right to make it incumbent upon the
whiskey sellers to obtain first the 40
per cent. of freeholders, afterWard the
consent o. the majority of the people Of
their county in order to sell whiskey.
He opposed the Nettles bill because of
it's length, and the fear that it would
call forth a fight upon The part Of the
whiskey men two years hence, in
which the negro would be called into
play, and disrupt the reform move
ment. Under the provisions Of this bill
he felt that all that has been gained for
prohibition for twenty years past would
be lost. That if the Nettles bill is
passed two years hence the State would
have the: dirtiest fight anown in her
history forced upon her by the whiskey
men, whereas a careful step forward
now would only give them the con-
tinued fight of the prohibitionists to a
growth of the prehibitionist move
ment.
Mr.. Youmans, of Hampton, made a
very strong five minutes talk on the
injustice and unconstitutionality of
the measure. He made an able and
direct talk, but the majority of the
members were not disposed to hear
argument.
Mr.. Buist, of Greenville, thought
that the Legislature could do nothing
else but pass stringent prohibition
bill. He pointed to the Kelley Insti-
tute here, the Penitentiary and the
Asylum all as striking evidences of the
evils ofliquor.
Messrs. Roper and Nettles, the dual
authors of the prohibition bill, closed
the argument on the question, and
both made appeals to the members to
support the bill. Mr.. Nettles had the
distinction of receiving applause from
the galleries during his speech. The
i-Prohibitionists decided to pursue
no further dilatory tactics, and a vote
was taken on the direct question,
whether the bill should be ordered to
it's third reading. 1t resulted as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Blackwell, Blease, Breazeale,
Breeland, Bruce, Buist, Byrd, Carpen-
ter, Carroll, Chandler, Cox, Covington,
Crum, Davis, Dendy, Du Bose, Estridge,
Fielder, Folk, Foster, Graham, Ham
NETT, Hardin, Hardy, Henderson, Hill,
Hydrick, Jeferies, Jones, Jordan, John
son, Kennedy, Knots, J. D. Kinard,
II. j. Kinard, Leman, Love, MagiII,
Laban, MauldiD, McLaurin, McWhite,
Mishoe, Mitchell, Nettles, Oliver,
Parks, Patton, Pearman, Phillips, Rast,
Roper, Rogers, Russell, Skinner, j. L.
Smith, Stackhouse, Stalvey, Stokes,
Stuckie, Suddath, Tatum, Tindal,
Vaughan, Whitmire, Wilborn, w. c..
Wolfe, Woodward, Wylie, Yeldell-69.
Nays-Anderson, Ashley, Avinger,
Barry, Bacot, Cooper, Dennis, J. T..
Duncan, T. G. Duncan, Edwards, Ea-
gan, Ellis, Farley, Garris, Hamilton,
Hardee, Harry, Haskell, Harper, Har--
ris, Ho ugh, Kelly, Kirkland, Ian
caster, Lesesne, Lotion, Lowrance,
MauuiuS, WI. Mauluiu, MosS, eIlyt
Rhodes, Rivers, Rowland, Shuman,
Singletary, A. J: Smith, Sullivan, Tay-
lor, Thomas, Von Kolnitz, Waters,
Watts, Weston, Williamson, ). S.
Wolf-47. -.
Motions to adjourn were put and lost.
Mr.. Hughes arose'to point of order,
in which he held that the proceedings
were irregular. Speaker Jones ruled
that according to universal practice
the order had been perfectly regular.
Mr.. Nettles finally succeeded in putting
the legislative clincher on his bill. Mr..
Bacot, of Charleston, and Hardee, of
Beaufort, gave notice of amendments
on third reading Of the bill. The Anti
Prohibitionists, who are mostly Con-
servatives, decided it would be best to
put the entire responsibility where it
rests.
PROHIBITION PASSES THE HOUSE.
Especial to Herald and Hews.
COLUMBIA, December 13-3.40 P. M.
The Roper prohibition bill passed its
third reading in the House to-day and
was sent to the Senate.