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

Oh AoDevllle.D He said that he acted
! as his conscience dictated and was al
ways ready to meet an enemy face to
face.
Mr.. Hill disclaimed any intention OF
being personal in his remarks, mean.
Ing their application to be general.
| lie was sick and tired of hearing such
talk.
Mr.. Won Kolnitz's motion to adjourn
the debate was carried by vote of 81
to 25.
COLUMBIA, Dec. 14.--The House by
vote of "a to ~ agreed to strike out
/ the enacting words Of the bill. A pro-
tracted debate took place during the
day, in which there were lively tilts
between various members, and several
Reformers took an active part against
the bill. The following is the vote on
the motion to strike out the enacting
words:
4eas-Jones, Anderson, Ashley, Ba-
cot, Blease, Bruce, Brice, Buist, Car
roll, Chandler, Covington, Davis, Du-
Bose, Egan, Estridge, Folk, Glover,
Graham, Gunter, Hamilton. Hammett,
Hardee, Hartin, Harper, Hill, Hough.
Hughes, Kelly, Knots, Kirkland, Lof-
ton, Love, Lowrance, Manning, w. H.
Mauldin, McWhite, Mitchell, Moses,
Rhodes, Rivers, Shuman, Stalvey,
Stokes, Suddath, Sullivan, Taylor,
Thomas, Tindal, Tupper, Vaughan,
man-54
Nays-Blackwell, Byrd, Carpenter
Cox, Cooper, Conner, Dendy, Dennis,
j. L. Duncan, Edwards. Elder, Fielder
Foster, Garris, Gary, Hardy, Hender-
son, Hydrick, Jetfrics, Kennedy, Fl. j.
kinard, Lesesne, Magill, Laban Maui
din, McLaurin, Mishoe, Parks, Pear
man, Phillips, Rast, Russell, Single
tary, }. l.. Smith, Sturkee, Tatum,
Watson, Watts, Whitmire, w. G.
Wolf, j. S. Woln, Woodward, Yeldell
-42.
COLUMBIA, Dec. 15.-Tonight the
Senate adjourned early and u number
of Senators came over to the House
and scattered themselves among the
seats Many unsuspccting members,
who voted against the redistricting
Dill were absent, but the friends of
the bill were present in full force.
BreaZcale, of Anderson, suddenly
rose and sprung motion to take from
the table the motion to reconsider the
rcdistricting bill. This was under a
former ruling OF Speaker Jones, that
sllch motion was in order. The OPP
ponents of the bill made an earnest
light, but soon saw they were trapped.
ing ana there was an hour of earnest
talking.
During this debate an exciting cpl
sode occurred. Ashley, of Anderson,
positively contradicted the statement
oil Watts, of Laurens, that the Speaker
had ruled that the motion to reconsider
could be taken from the table. Watts
said he was not in the habit of having
his statements contradicted, and de-
nounced as cowardly slander the
charge that he had misrepresented the
facts. Ashley responded with some
words, in which cowardly whelp"
and started towards Watts. The men
wore on the same side OF the house and
the same row of seats, and appearances
indicated trouble. Ashley started
toward Watts, but his coat tails were
firmly clung to by members sitting
next to him and tho trouble blew over.
Ashley subsequently apologized to the
House for his unparliamentary langu-
age, and said that if the journal of the
last House showed him to be wrong he
would frankly acknowledge it. He
was congratulated by the Speaker on
his frank and manly statement.
After the debate the decision of the
Speaker was sustained, 62 to 81. The
motion to adjourn debate was defeated
by % to 35. The motion to take the
motion to reconsider from the table
prevailed by 55 to 81.
A number Of members who had vot-
cd against the bill reversing their
positions, including Mr.. Hammett of
Greenville.
The point of order made by Haskell
that as tho bill was Senate bill and
the Senate had been notified that its
enacting words had been stricken out
1T could not come before the House.
The Speaker overrulcd this. There
seems to rally of the administration
forces and determination to force the
redistricting bill upon the House des-
pitc its former defeat. At this hour,
II p. m, the fight is still on, with in
dications that the bill be carried over
until tomorrow