The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-21
the nine members of the committee

The first Senatorial debate on the
subject occurred Friday on reso!u-
ton introduced by Senator Fuller, of
| Laurens, to require the judiciary
| committee to report the bill that day.
The John Gary: Evans bill. providing
for State and county dispensarles from
which the stuff could be bought in
quantities from half pint to five gal
Ions, had been favorably reported, and
friends of the Roper bill seemed to be
dissatisfied on account of it not having
been hustled through and given an
even start.
/ Senators Wilson, and Evans, mem
bers Of the committee, and several
others, took the ground that the reso-
luton was an imputation that the
committee was endeavoring to smother
the bill by unduly delaying it, and
they vigorously resented it. Senator
:: Finley made the fight for the resolu-
ton, denying that it reflected
upon the good faith of the COM
uittee, and arguing that since the
! committee had already reported favo-
rably upon the Evans bill, it must, to
be consistent, report the Roper meas
.ure unfavorably any way, therefore.
why keep it back?
The membere Of the committee re-
piled to this by declaring that they
felt bound to respect the request OF
both sides to be allowed hearing.
The resolution was defeated by vote
of Is to 10. Inasmuch as the question
of rejecting upon the committee was
involved in the vote it was not fair
test of the prohibition strength.
PROHIBITION BILLS WITHOUT NUMBER.
| Senator Browns bill, the same as the
Zimmerman License bill of last year,
came up Saturday. Senator Thinner
I man stated that he had conscientiously
advocated such measure last year and
that he still favored it. He moved to
| continue the debate until to-day, and
the motion prevailed. This, with the
| Evans bill and the Roper bill, will
come up in the Senate to-day and the
fighting will be furious. There will be
a Stubborn minority who will insist on
the iron-bound Roper measure.
THE GOVERNOR APPROVES THIS.
The Evans bill is said to be stamped
with the seal of the Governors ap-
| proval, and will enter the contest with
that advantage, but the Roperites will
fight it vigorously because they do not
| believe that it is prohibitory measure
| at all.
| The BreWn-Timmerman bill is mere
by-play, and will only serve to give
those two gentlemen, and possibly one
| or two others, an opportunity to vote
against the Roper bill. Ten or twelve
I Senators will array themselves square
ly against any form of whiskey liegis-
lation, and they will have abundant
power to embarrass the divided oppo-
| sition.
| NePRoHIBITIoN THIS SESSION.
The situation is about this: None OF
| the proposed bills can possibly reach a
third reading before Tuesday, and
there are thousand chances against
any of them reaching it before Wed
nesday or Thursday. It is out OF the
question for the Roper bill to pass the
Senate. No other bill will have time,
if passed iu the Senate, to get through
the House. Then the supply bill will
be under consideration in the Senate
throughout the week, together with
| the work of winding up pending mat
ters that cannot be passed over. There
are scores of local and private measures
on the calendar and their projectors are
more desirous of fulfilling the wishes
of their constituency in regard to these
than they are to fool with prohibition.
When, in addition to this, it is con-
sidered that the Senate has taken the
whole prohibition question in an easy,
don't care way, and has shown no dis
position for spasmodic exertions, the
conclusion is inevitable that prohibi-
ton is stone dead so far as this session
| is concerned-a fact which is now gene
rally conceded. Even Generalisslmo
Nettles writes, to his paper that the
Roper bill cannot pass.
AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
I Senator Hemphiil, of Abbeville, de-
llivered a capital speech on his pro-
/ posed constitutional amendment grant
ling women the right to vote and hold
/ Office. The Senator had evidently
given the subject careful study and he
was listened to by the whole Senate,
as well as by female college or two in
| the galleries, with the utmost atten-
/ tion.
Fourteen Senators from both fac
1 tons calamity voted against the un-
/ favorable report, which report pre-
vailed, going to show that the propo-
sition was at least received seriously.
Some of the Senators who voted
against it admit that the idea is gain
ing ground, and say that the race
problem is the great obstacle in the
way of ;t in the South. Colored wo-
men would have no hesitation in going
to the polls, but it would be long
| time before a. majority of the white
E.women would consent to dabble in
Ipolitics
/ lNSrabae dictu, none of the Senators
made the point that the surrender OF
political supremacy to the women
would emaucipate the men in domestic
Iafairs and bestow upon them, in an
| ideal form, that local self-govern-
ment,7'' which is the underlying theme
of the ofice-seeker.
Senator Sligf,,e: of Newberry, voted
against the bill.
THE ADMINISTRATOR REFUNDMENT
SCHEME GOES THROUGH.
The lefundment scheme of the Ad-
ministration has passed the House,
and only awaits it's third reading in
the SeDa,e. Senator Smythe intro
duced some amendments, approved by
the Governor, caicuI:let' to strengthen
the bonds, which nav" been ipcorpo-
rated in tb. dill. They make the
bonds and st,rEs interchangeable,
make The principal Of the bonds as well
as the interest receivable for taxes, and
permit executors, guardians and other
fduciaries holding the OLD six per cent.
bonds, to exchange them for the new
four and one-half bonds.
THE '.RAILRoAD COERCION BILL"
The Wilson railroad bill, known as
the railroad coercion bill," has passed
both houses, aud as soon as it is en-
rolled and ratified it will receive the
Governors signature, unless his Ex-
cellency reads the signs Of the time.
differently. The vote in the House
was 66 to 81. The radical provisions
of the measure were--too strong for
some Of the reformers and they refused
| to vote for it. Mr.. Blease, of Newber-