The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-09-17

lerbe, 1 III McCalla, r r Hemphill, l
COwper Patton. w Gooding.
Rules-J. G. Evans, ex officio; ira
Jones, j G Sheppard, @ w Garris, j
BrsaZeale.
] Printing-R r Hemphill, chairmar
ID III Behre, w T. Clayton, B Dent,
w Hamel.
Contingent Accounts and Expenses
w Il Field, chairman, A III White, "
A Nicholson, j N Nathans, r l. Gun
ter, II @ McMakin, III b Buist, E /
Taylor, j l. Keitt, w M Fitch, Nc
Mahan.
Miscellaneous Matters-J L Sloan
yer, j CAlexander, Il w Brice, A I'll De
Hay, w StJ Jervey, A H White, James
Wigg, II E Smith, Il b Berry.
County Government-J II Austin
chairman, Geo d Tillman, Frank E
Gary, Il N Redfearn, A X Smoak, II L
Johnson, w Kennedy, o A Moore
! j G Otis, A j Harrison, II II Stack
house.
President Evans also announced the
following appointments
Assistant Clerk, p. l.. Melton; Jour.
nal Clerk, j. Il. Gantt Doorkeeper,
II. M. Jolly ; Assistant Doorkeeper,
JOSEPH Witherspoon Gallery Door.
keeper, w. j. Shelton; Postal Clerk
E. p. jenkins; Pages-Glenn Smith
| Joseph Robinson, j. B. Hughes, Drafts
Caughman, J.. w. McCalla, U. r.
Brooks, Jr.
Mr.. Henderson introduced resolu-
| tion which was adopted requiring the
committee on printing to report what
would be the cost of having the oro-
ceedings stenographically reported and
printed.
Gen. Grey offered q resolution which
was adopted instructing the clerk to
furnish stationary to members, the
sum to be spent not to exceed 800.
On his motion, also, the State Printer
was requested to print the proceed
ings of the convention at the rates pre-
scribed by the statute of 1893 until a
permanent award Of the contract be
made.
A number of ordinances were intro
duced which were referred to the
proper committees.
The question as to whether the mem-
bers should not take the constitutional
oath was brought up by Mr.. Ragsdale,
OF Fairfield, who was of the opinion
that it was necessary in order to make
the action of the convention legal and
binding.
Mr.. Ira b. Jones moved that the
matter be referred to special COM
mittee to- decide whether the taking of
an OATH was necessary.
This matter caused a long debate,
and the roll call was begun, but the
oath was administered to very few
until Senator Tillman moved to sus-
pend the further administration of the
oath, which the chairman ruled out of
order.
Mr.. Klugh, of Abbeyille, said that
Senator Tillman had hit the nail Oh
the head. He had taken the oath
under protest and he moved that any
man having scruples about taking the
oath be excused. Before this motion
was put, however, Gov. Sheppard spoke
of the convention were not officers of
the State and it could not be shown
that they were by any legal authority,
aud it was therefore entirely unneces-
sary that they should take an oath.
Ii the chairman should take the oath,
as an officer, then by that act he would
vacate the Office he had heretofore
filed. He thought the whole action
OF the convention in the matter should
be rosinded from beginning to end.
The committee under Mr.. Jones'
resolution took the matter into con-
sideration, and reported the following
resolution, which settled the ques-
tion:
Resolved, That it is not necessary
for any oath TO be administered to
members OF this convention, and that
the action of the convention heretofore
had, whereby an oath was directed to
be administered and all proceedings
hereunder, be, and the same are here
by, resclnded and annulled.
The following resolution was offered
by Governor Sheppard:
That the members of the conven-
tion shall receive as compensation So q
day during the sessions of the conven-
tion, and 5 cents per mile for each
mile travelled coming to and return
ing from the conventions"
Governor Sheppard said there was
some doubt as to what the convention
would do about the per diem. The
Legislature had fixed the amount, and
they owed it to themselves to accept
that figure. His resolution was in the
words Of the act calling the conven-
tion.
Mr.. T. I. Rogers moved to amend by
making it 81 a day. Mr.. w. r. Clayton
moved to lay the amendment on the
table.
A lively debate took place over the
pr diem, and it was insisted that the
delegates were worth more than So 8
day, but there was an implied contract
to serve for that amount, and large
majority stood by the act of the Leg.
islature.
The roll call was demanded on the
vote to lay the amendment on the table
and the amendment was overwhelm
ingly defeated by the following vote:
Yeas-Gov. John Gary Evans, Ashe
Aldrich, Alexander, Atkinson, Bates
Behre, Berry, Bowman, Bradham
Breazeale, Brice ~. 81, Brice (T. W.. J
Bryan, Buist, Burn, Byrd, Cantey
Clayton, Cooper, Dennis, Dent, Der.
ham, Doyle, Efrd, Ellerbe, Estridge
Evans wv. D.l Field, Floyd, Fraser
Gamble, Garris, Gary, Gilland, Glenn
| ~. P.l Gooding, Graham, Gray, Gun
ter, Harnel, Harris, Harrison, Hay
Haynsworth, Henderson ID. ST., Hen
derson (Wm.), Henry, HERS, Hodges
Hutson, Irby, Johnstone (George) JOne
I IL. By, Jones (Wilie) Keitt, Kenned,
(J. W. Lee, Lowman, McCown, Nc
Dermott, McKagen, McMahan, Nc
White, Matthews, Meares, Mitchell
Moore, Morrison, Mower, Nash, Ma
thans, Nicholson, Oliver, OTIS, Parler
Patterson, Patton, Peake, Prince
Ragsdale, RosbUrough, Rowland, Rus
sell, Sheppard,' Shuler, Singletary
Sloan, Smith "a. J.), Smith Jeremiah,
Smith Or. F.) Smith wv. G.), Smoak
StackhOuse, Stokes, Stribling. Sui
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