Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-03
The s.. G. Convention.

Columbia, S. c., Sept. 81
In the constitutional convention
to-day the first final action or
any one article of the new Consti
tuition was taken. The article or
the Executive Department., after
having gone all through the
tearing proc SIS Of three readings
was adopted and was sent tc
the committee on style aud re-
vision, becoming thereby a part
of the new document. It has
taken the convention exactly
seventeen days 10 reach this
stage of its work, but the mem.
bers hope to push matters along
now and complete everything
within the next three weeks.
Another important feature OF
to-day's work was the adoption
Of an amendment with the par
liamentary clincher attached,
changing the time of holding the
sessions of the Legislature from
November to January, and, after
the first four sessions has e been
held, limiting the duration OF
the pay of the members to forty
days. This is a very radical
change in the organic law of the
State, but judging from the ex-
pressions made by many mem
Oers on the floor, it will meet
with much favor among the peo-
pie.
An effort was made by Mr..
Patton to pass a resolution sym
pathizing with the Cuban pa,
triots in their efforts for indie
pendence but it failed to get
through and has been laid over
for consideration On Monday.
The resolution reads thus:
Resolved, That we, the dele
gates of the people of South
Carolina assembled in conven-
ton for the purpose of form
ing a Constitution for a free
and independent people, extend
our hearty sympathy to the
Cuban patriots now contending
for the same precious right.
Mr.. W. D. Evans could see nc
reason why this convention
should attempt spread itself over
land and sea. He thought that
the Cuban question was some
thing with which they had moth.
ing whatever to do. He asked
the convention to decline to con-
slider the resolution. Ten mem
bers, thereupon, objected to the
Immediate consideration of the
resolution and it went to the com
mittee on miscellaneous matters,
despite Mr.. Patton's earnest re-
monstranceS.
The matter of putting the dis
pensary into the Constitution
was called up and Senator Till
man was about to present the
following agreement provision,
when the matter went over, ow
ing to the absence of the father
of the scheme to put the system
in pure and simple:.
THE General Assembly shall
never, however, license any per
son or corporation to sell intox
icating liquors or beverages by
the drink, or except in unhroken
packages of less than a pint,
which shall not be opened or
drunk on the premises where
sold, and not to be sold between
the hours of z o'clock in the
Ievening aud 5 o'clock in the
morning. and not in a house that
has no door, or method of com
municating with any other house
and in which no other mercan-
disc is kept for sale"
Il was decided that the Legis.
latuie meet on the second Tues
day in January instead of the
fourth Tuesday in November.
The following also passed:
Members of the General As
sembly shall not receive any
compensation for more than forty
days of any session; provided
that this limitation shall not at
feet the first four sessions of the
General Assembly under this
constitution"
Pending The settlement of the
question as tc whether the per
diem of Legislators should be
So CT 81, the convention ads
journed until Monday.