The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-12-19
THE JIM CROW CAR.
THE HOUSE PASSES ABlLL FOR SEP
ARATE COACHES ON RAILROADS.
Its Consideration Provoked Long and
Hot Fight, but it Finally Passes by
Safe Majority and Goes to the Senate

It's Consideration Provoked Long snt
Hot Fight, but it Finally Passes by :
Safe Majority and Goes to the Senate.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 12.-In til.
House today the first legislative work
was the consideration of Mr.. Otis spe
cial order bill to require railroads If
this State to provide separate frs
class coaches for the accommodation
of white and colored passengers. Anc
the longest and spiciest debate Of the
session ensued contrary to all e1pecta
tons. Mr.. OTIS defended his bill
which had already been unfavorably
reported. He argued that most of the
other Southern States had such law
1t was bill the people demanded. Tt
vote against it was to vote for social
equality. The railroads were common
carriers and should give the best pos
sible accommodations.
Miller, the colored e1-Congressman,
said that there was an unfavorable re-
port which ought to be adopted The
provisions for first and second class
coaches in this State had settled forev-
er the vcNed question ofsocial equality
on railroad trains. No one had ever
heard Of negroes who rode in first class
coaches here doing anything to offend
ladies or anv one else. The colored
man had been brought into this State
and he had done much to bring the
State up to its present state OF civillza-
ton. 1t was not we'll to make any
row division OF the white and colcred
people. Honors were now easy as TO
The negro vote. He was glad to say
that ii Beaufort the negroes had vot-
Cd 70: John Gary Evans. Ee was
here as Republican and q Reformer.
He stood with the Reform element OF
the white people and wanted real re-
form. This police regulation against
the colored race was not 4 reform
which was demanded. Laws should
be founded on necessity not on sentl-
ment-a sentiment responsive to cam
paign voting. The bill did not apply
10 parlor and sleeping cars.
Mr. Watson replied He said he IA
vored such bills as this. not from po-
lit;cal motives. but because he had
never get admitted the negro as his
equal. Leading negro Republicans
had al1sed him to support this bill and
settle this question for all time. In
deed it was necessary to have some
protection for the olfactory organs.
Such amalgamators of the races as
Miller were going around trying to
keep up this race feeling to get Offices
for themselves.
Judge Townsend. aschairman of the
committee on railroads, said the
speakers had appealed to prejudice
simply. The measure would entail
great expense on the roads and do nc
proportionate good to any one. The
present system had shown no bad eff
fects. There was really no disorder
on the part of colored first class pas.
scngers. He supposed Mr.. Watson
olfactorv nerves never were very much
affected when his cook or nurse OF
t!ri,;-er was around. The next Consti
tuition would do away with the decla
ration in the fundamental law recog-
nizing social rights in schools.
Mr.. Sturkie had something to say
in favor of the bill.
Mr.. Magill moved to indefinitely
postpone the bill, but upon his motion
there was a tie, as follows:
Aves-Adams, Anderson, Bacot,
Barkley. Barry, Blackwell, Breeland,
Bramlett, Bunch, Burns, Caouthers,
Connor, G. N. and W. G. Davis, Dew
ereaux. Dothage, Duncan, Earle,
Franklin. Fowler, Gadsden. Goodwin,
Gregory, Harper, Hiott, Hollis, Hough,
Kennedy, Lesesne, Lotion, Maglll,
Manning, Mehrtens, 1dellard, Miller,
Mishoe, McKeovn. J. F. McLaurin,
McSweeney, Nunuery, Pollock. Prince,
Pyatt, Robertson, Rowland Sanders,
Saunders, Skinner, Thomas, Todd,
Townsend, War;, Weston, Whitmire,
Wyche, Wyman-56.
Nays-Ashely, Bowman, Brown,
Carroll, Caughman, Connor. Crum,
Edwards, Elder, Ellerbe, Estridge,
Floyd, Castor, Hammett, Hardy,
Harvey. Haselden, Holloway, Hunter,
Humphrey. Ilderton, Johnston, Kin
ard, Kirk, Lancaster, Lennon, Leve-
ett, Love, Mellett, Miles, Mitchell,
Moore, Murray, Mcintosh, OTIS, Patt-
on, Phillips, Pickens, Price, Rainsford,
Rast, Singletary, Sturkie, Tatum,
Thompson, Thurmond, Tyler, Wallace,
Watson. Welch, T. S. Williams, John
G.. Williams, L. ]. Williams, Fred
Williams, Wilson, Winkler, Wolf-56.
4 motion was then made to strike
out the enacting words. This was lost
By vote Of As to 81.
The appointed hour having arrived
the senate came in and without much
ado B. r. Tillman was declared elect
ed L. S. Senator to succeed Gen. But
ler, for the next six yeaas, commenc-
ing March 1. next.
The discussion OF the Jim crow
car bill was resumed. Canary" Miller
took the floor and he made red hot
speech on the race question. he said
When he first spoke on the subject ne
did not care to have much to say. lie
was sorry to see the gentleman frcra
Anderson refer to the mixture CT his
blood: te was no more responsible
for'tGat mixture than the first child
born on this earth. Could lie have
had choice lie would have elected to
have been corn black man or white
man. The fact that his blood was
mixed had cost hi::, more in sitting
bis ambitions than any one could
know. lie could say however, that
l.c had never allowed the advantage
it gave him, with lis metal qualitica-
tons: to injure either the white or the
black race. Negroes had appealed 70
him, when he had itin his power, to
WORK hardship Oh White men but he
had not done it. He had voted for
appropriations to help educate white
Youths when he was told he vas ed
ucaling soldiers at the Citadel to shoot
negroes down. Butmajorities changed
in the course of time. Parties
in power one day might not
be in power the next His
public record was clean. Whenever
i,e had been called 11nOn TO vote he