Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-10-18
the people who were summoned out
by the alarm failed to get the scene of
the threatened danger.
AT 1T AGAIN.
The Convention Delegates Resume WORK
on the Constitution.

The Convention Delegates Resume Work
on the Constitution.
The constitutional convention re-
sumed work in Columbia last Tuesday
pursuant to the recent adjournment.
After the routine preliminaries were
concluded, the attention of the conven-
ton was called to the fact that since
the beginning of the recess, DR.. j. o.
Byrd, of the Florence delegation had
died. The convention adopted appro.
pirate resolutions to his memory and
adjourned until 10 o'clock Wednesday.
WEDNEsDAY-TWENTYSEvENTH DAY.
The first matter taken up was the
provision of the legislative article which
seeks to do away with special legisla-
ton by means of general laws. The
section was adopted with an amend
ment that allows the legislature to
resort to special legislation in cases
where it may seem to be absolutely
necessary.
The following section was stricken
out after long argument:
No member of the general assembly
of this State, shall during the term Of
Office for which he is elected, be elligi-
BILE to election to any Office to be filled
by the general assembly, and no judge
shall, during his term of office, be elli-
gible to any other than ajudicial office.
Senator Tillman wanted to make it
obligatory on the legislature to, every
20 years, submit to the people the
question of calling a constitutional
convention. The proposition was voted
down.
The miscegnation question was
brought up again by the following in
troduced by Mr.. w. D. Evans:
Z That section "a shall not be so con-
strued as to disqualify for marriage
with white persons any person, or his
or her issue, who shall have had, at
or before the adoption of this constitu.
ton, the status of white persons. ,
George D. Tillman made strong
speech in favor of fixing the limit at
one-eighth Negro blood. He said that
there were hundreds of families in
Aiken, Colleton and Barnwell counties
who had Negro blood in their veins,
and who were among the best people
in the State. He could prove as a
scientific fact that there was not a
single full blooded white person in the
convention. In the course of time
they had been crossed with Mongolian,
Indian, Arab and other races, until
now a pure blooded white man was
almost out of the question. If the
provision should pass as it reads, it
would bring about dreadful state OF
affairs, and in the efforts of unscrupu-
lons people to steal property of rela-
tives who would be thus placed under
the ban of the law, we would have no
end of filth, feuds and murders. The
matter was finally re-committed on
motion of Bob Smalls, who said that
he hoped the committee would not
report it back again.
The proposition to pay all the Of
fcers salaries instead of fees, and let
all fees go to the State and county
treasures was killed.
There was long discussion over a
proposition to provide that all elections
shall be Stree and open" Senator
Tillman wanted the provision stricken
out on the ground that it was contain
ed in the suffrage article. The con-
veption was polled three times be-
fore it was decided exactly how the
members stood. The proposition was
allowed to remain by vote of SO to
so. A. H. White and Brice voted for
open elections. The other members of
the York delegation voted to strike
out the provision.
On motion of Senator Tillman, the
article on suffrage was made the spec
ial order for next Tuesday at 12 o'clock,