The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-12-19

n /
the new county and made long
speech in its behalf. He spoke of her
pluck and enterprise In building rail
roads, etc, and she should be rewarded.
During bis speech Representative
Ashley asked:
Don't you own a farm near Green
wood 2"
:" Yes, sir, 400 acres, six miles from
1 the town" ~.
| Well, l don't blame you," was the
reply.
ers'near everyycourt house swould be in
favor of keeping it there and he was
not different from other people, and he
didn't see where the sting in the ques-
tion lay.
| Mr.. Watson, OF Anderson, spoke in
favor of the bill. He had no interest
in 1t, but he thought that all such
movements should be encouraged as
| they always induced certain amount
OF capital to invest in the county seats
| and the State wanted to encourage
this. In large counties, too. the dis
tance from the court house often pre-
vented certain people from getting JUS
tice owing to the expense, etc.
Mr.. Magill in speaking against the
bill said that he did not impugn the
motives of any man from another coun-
ty in taking so mnch interest in mat
ter that did not concern him. The
why and wherefore he would not go in
to, but he certainly would consider
himself very officious should he inter-
fere in matter pertaining to another
county in which he had absolutely no
interest. He contended that the true
sentiment of the people of the proposed
| county was not before the House in
these petitions. The matter had not
been agitated and their calm, deliber-
ate judgment had not been obtained.
He spoke Of the great and well known
ease with which petitions can be got
ten up, and mentioned several Incl
dents in his own knowledge going to
show that these petitions had been
signed by people without knowing
confident that on the stump in that Sec
tion, with Mr.. Yeldell on the other
side, he could show up the scheme so
that these very people would repudiate
1T. It'was q death and life struggle
with some of its advocates, because
they know that they will be politically
dead unless they can get the new
county He went on to consider the
expense of changing the records,
which would amount to $4,000, and
the'expense Of building poor house,
when the debate was adjouri. cd until
7.30 p. m, Mr.. Magill still having the
floor.
At the night session Mr.. Magill re-
sumed his arguments against the new
county of Greenwood. The case was
analogous to. the division of, States as
provided for in the Constitution. The
people of.Abbeville and Edgefield had
not had an opportunity of expressing
themselves on whether their territory
oh oil I,I, nt,f i,,ff> 20 h. lol~1
the county no provision is made for
her share and Abbeville would have to
bear the burden. With her past in
debtedness and forty bridges, is it fair
sand just? He claimed that there was
mot a constitutional number of square
fmiles left in Abbeyille. The line cuts
aathrough townships aud school districts
Sastwell as farms, and will compel some
snnen to go to two court houses to pay
taSes.
sssArs .Ashlsy theaght{t an Injustice to
shape, Let them wait until the consti-
ltutional convention when we can get
counties in proper Eshape. Mr.. Ashley
made strong speech against the bill,
his points being most attentively listen
ed to by all of the members as we'll as
the large audience present. Mr.. Ash
ley made neatturn on Representative
Duncan, whom he said had changed
very much lately. Only last summer.
he thought. Greenwood the rankest
anti-Tilip ap town in the State outside
of Charleston. ~
Tho ayes and noes being called on
the motion to. strike outtthe enacting
words, the House refused to do SO
by vote of.sa4-to 65. Following is the
vote: s, S-zs4
Yeas-Anderson Ashley, Bpeazeale,
Brice, Bruce, Carroll, Cooper, Crum,
Edwards, Ellis, Farley, Gary, Gunter,
Harper, Hill, Hughes, HydrielS, kirk
lond, Lennon, Magill, Manning, Mitch
ell, Rast, Sturkie, Suddath, Tatum,
Thomas, Tupper, Whitman, wv. c.
Wolfe, j. S. Wolfe, Woodward-31
p,oasS d NaysnJ97nes' Rsn7 aa Barry, 81 BLACKWELL,
ter, Chandler, Cox, Covington, Dendy,
Denniss DuBose, ]. T.s.Duncan, r. G.
Duncan, Edwards, Eagan, Elder, Es-
fridge, Fielder, Folk, Foster, Graham,
Hammet, Hardee, Hardin, Hardy,
Harvey, Henderson, Jetferies, Jordan,
johnson, Knotts. j. d. Kinard, III. j.
Kinard, Lancaster, Lesesne, Lotion,
Love, Lowrance, Leban, Mauldin. Nc
White, Mitchell, Parks, Patton, Phil
| lips, Rivers, Roper, Rowland, Rogers,
Russell, Shuman, Singletary, Skinner,
49, iS' N'ihlpii.' toOuChllOuSc, oulllNdu
Vaug han, SVon Kolhitz, Waters, Will
| born, YeldellZ65.
Mr.. Garris moved to amend by chang
ing name to Mart Gary. MrLowrance
moved to lay on table, which was done
by aybig vote. j.
T. Mr.. Magill moved to amend by chang
ing name Ito Tillman, but this was
voted down by a largo viva voce vote.
On Mr.. Magill's motion his own name
was stricken from the bill as one of the,
commissioners.
A commission will be appointed by
the Governor in accordance with an
amendment to adjust the proportion of
the past Indebtedness to be paid by
each county. The bill was then or
dered to its third reading and Mr.. Yell
dell put tho parliamentary clincher on
The Right Rev. r. b. Lyman,
| Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina,
Edied at his home in Raleigh on, the
18th inst. of heart failure. He has
been, ,ailing for several days. The
twentieth anniversary OF his consecra-
tion was celebrated on Sunday, and
Af H.. -