The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-02

| submitting lcICef lfolu .uuu w the1O
effect and also endorsing the incum-
bent. L. D. Jennings, nominated to be
Trial Justice of Providence and Raft
ing Creek Township, and turned down
because he lives at the extreme end Of
his district, some thirty miles from the
other end.
Daniel Keels, appointed to be Trial
| Justice ofShiloh and Mayesville Town
ships; turned down because he lives
thirteen miles from Mayesville. There
| is a Dispensary in Mayesville and MIR.
Moses urged that for the enforcement
of the Dispensary law the Trial Justice
| for that district ought to live nearer to
. Mayesville.
B. P. Kelly, nominated to be Trial
Justice for Wedgefeld Township; re-
iected because Of submission to the
Senate of a paper of some sort assert
ing that every white man in that town
ship except Mr.. Kelly and one other
wanted the incumbent, J. M. Moseley,
| reappointed. .,
And Senator Verdier was also in it,
but to less extent. He secured the
defeat of the confirmation of @. E.
Foy, appointed to be Trial Justice at
Grahamville. because of some charge
or other that he. changed his residence
! more or less promiscuouly in order to
get the aforesaid appointment. Some
objection was made to the appointment
| of Fl. @. Pollitzer as Auditor, but he
got there with both feet.
Senator Mower was also modest. He
secured the defeat of j. II. Williams,
appointed to be Trial Justice of No. 6
Township s..
After a little recess for the purpose
| of seeing how breakfast tasted after
four hours work before sun-up. the
Senate gotdown to business and stirred
| up a breeze over the Dipensary Act.
When the bill came over from the
House the Senate Judiciary Committee
proposed certain amendments to it,
which were adopted. While there
was no denial of the fact that those
amendments were adopted, unfortu-
| nately by some accident they were not
incorporated in the bill, nor was there
any record of them in the journal of
the Senate. The House objected to
some of the Senate amendments which
were incorporated in the bill and a
committee of free conference was fin
ally needed to settle these differences
This committee discovered that the
Senate Judiciary Committee amend
ments were not incorporated in the
bill, but the House members of the
| conference committee refused to con-
slider the amendments that had been
omitted, saying that they had no autho-
rity to do so as their body had not
acted upon them.
Senator Barnwen held that because
of the fact that the Senate amendments
had not been incorporated in the bill,
the report ought to be rejected, which
would have the effect of killing the
bill. He made long argument in
favor of this course, holding that the
omitted amendments were of sufficient
Importance to justify it. One of these
amendments killed the section allow
ing the Solicitors and Judges to secure
| and grant change of venue before a
grand jury reported true bill ina
case of alleged violation of the Dis
pensary law. The loss of record of
| that amendment left that section iv-
ing. The other amendment was of
minor importance. Mr.. Barnwell held
that retention in the bill of the above
section, which the Senate had stricken
out on all unanimous report Of it's
Judiciary Committee, was wrong, and
that the section itself was in violation
of the Constitution, for that lnstru-
| ment requires the submission of afti-
davits to secure a change of venue,
while the section. allowed Solicitors to
| ask for changes of venue at their own
discretion, and the Judges the same
freedom as to granting it. He further
held that changes of venue could only
be granted by Circuit courts, in casesof
| which they had original jurisdiction
| and that court had no jurisdiction
| of case until the prisoner was at the
bar and he was not there until a grand
Jury had reported a true bill.
Messrs. Wilson and Mayfield stated
that the time was too short to allow
them to make speeches; they simply
| warned the Senate that if the report
| was not adopted the bill would be
killed. .. a
Mr. Kirkland said he thought the
| bill ought to be killed for it was wrong
to enact into law anything that the
Senate had by its vote condemned.
| The report was adopted by vote of
13 to Z, as follows:
Yeas-Barton, Brice, Douglass, Du-
Bose, Efrd, Fuller, Harrison, Jordan,
Mayfeld, Mcdaniel, Ragin, Williams
and Wilson.
Nays-Barnwell, Buist, Kirkland,
Miller, Moses, Mower and Verdier.
So the Dispensary bill stands and
will become law as soon as it receives
the Governors signature.
The bill reducing the Sheriff's fees
in certain counties for dieting prison
ers from 80 cents per diem to % cents
was put in the cold, cold soup. Some
differences between two houses as to
that bill were submitted to a committee
of free conference, which reported that
certain other counties be included.
Representative of those counties, par
ticularly Charleston, kicked vigorous
ly, and the friends of the bill said they
did not care to include under its opera
tons counties which did not want it.
The report of the committee upon the
bill was almost unanimously rejected,
which kills the bill.
Much of the time of the Senate was
spent in ratification of Acts.
Senators Mayfeld, Sloan and Buist
were appointed a committee to wait
upon the Governor and inform him
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