Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-09-28
TlLLMAN FOR SAMBO.
LtYdisst Session Of the South Carolina
Contention Yet Reid.
oFrrcE-HoLprsc M NEGROES.
A Propositions to Make Such Thing
Impossible Combated by the Pal
metto senator, who Carries- His
Point-Corporations.

COLUMBIA, s. c., September Gin
the constitutional convention the Com
mittee on Corporations reported an arti-
Gle covering that subject in nineteen sec
tons, most OF which are wholly novel
in the organic law OF this State, the old
Constitution having touched very lightly
upon the regulation Of corporations.
The first section defines corp 'ations
to be all associations and joint-stock
companies having powers and provisions
possessed by individuals or partnerships,
and excludes municipal corporations.
Successive sections show the following
provisions Of general interest:
No railroad. express. telegraph, or tele-
phone company is allowed to make con-
liability.
No charter shall be granted BY social
law. except to institutions undtr the
control Of the State. but the Leg ..ture
Is required to provide for their organiza-
ton under general laws, and all charters
are to be subject to repeal.
Every corporation doing business in the
State shall maintain at least one public
office in IL for the transaction Of bust
ness, an exhibit Of the holdings Of stock,
etc.
All determinations In charges or facili-
ties for transportation, and all charges
Of higher rates for shorter than longer
distances are prohibited.
RAILROADS.
Any railroad may connect with, cross.
or interseSt any other railroad. No rail-
road or transportation company shall
control or consolidate with parallel or
competing lines, and juries are to decide
whether lines are parallel or competing.
The LEGISLATURE is forbidden to grant
any foreign association or corporation a
license to build, operate. or lease railroad
lines in South Carolina. But In case OF
interstate lines, the owners must be In
corporated under the State laws. No
general or special law shall be passed
for the benefit Of any foreign corporation
operating a railroad in the State.
The Legislature is forbidden to grant
any charter for banking purposes. but
corporations or associations for such pur-
poses may be formed under general laws.
Stock"watering Il expressly prohibited.
The Legislature is required TO provide
for the election of officers Of corporation
by the cumulative plan.
ness. except that specifically authorized
by their charters. The Legislature Is
required to pass laws against all trusts,
combinations, contracts, and agreements
nlmical TO the public welfare. and to
prevent abuses, unjust determinations,
and extortions, and shall provide for the
supervision and regulation OF such COM
psnies by commissions or otherwise.
railroad commission Is established it's
duties to be regulated by law, the exist
ing commission to continue In possession
Of all present powers until otherwise pro-
vIded by legislation.
Every employee OLA corporation doing
business In the State shall have the
same rights and remedies for any injury
| suffered by him from the act or omission
of such corporation or it's employees rs
are allowed to other persons not en-
p,oyees. All waivers of this section shall
be null and void
All charters under which rganizatIon
Ia good faith shall not lake place and
business be commenced within year
from the adoption of the Constitution
shall be thereafter void
Stringent provisions are made against
any legislative modification Of these pro-
visions.
LIQUOR-SELLING.
The report of the Committee on Munich
palities left 1t optional with the Legisla-
ture TO license liquor-sellng. prohibit II,
or continue the dispensary system.
A motion WIS made to amend by pro-
hibting the granting of licenses for the
sale Of liquor. There was a long debate
upon this, the Conservative members and
some Reformers declaring that there was
a general understanding in the campaign
tina. this question should be left open.
At last. Tillman said that he had
pledged himself to leave 1t open, ana
while he did not want to ever see si-
loon In South Carolina again, the dys-
pensary might have to be abandoned Tor
the Gutenberg system, as II would De
unwise TO prohibit all licensing. On his
motion. the debate was adjourned until
to-morrow To enable himself and others
10 prepare an amendment which wouiu
meet the difficulty.
After other work of no general interest,
a recess was taken until evening.
TILLMAN FOR sAMBO.
The night session was the stormiest one
vet held. Colonel Robert Aldrich offered
an amendment which denied to the negro
the light to hold any Office In the State,
and for an hour and a. half argued from
decisions of the Supreme Court and from
the Congressional Records containing the
story of the passage Of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments. that the right
had never been given the negro to hold
office by the United States Constitution
or amendments.
He seemed to impress many delegates
to such an extent that Senator Tillman
| tuned on him with both feet, and
| stormy hour or more followed. Tillman
was never more vehement In all his life.
He told them that II they did not Kill
| the matter then and there they would
make the greatest mistake or their
lives; they would be ruined.
TIllman's influence controlled the stu
alton. and despite persistent efforts to
adjourn the convention laid Colonel
Aldrichs scheme on the table by vote