The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-26
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provide that the election boxes with
their keys. should be deposited after
the election with the clerk Of court,
with their contents, said contents tc
be destroyed at the next election,
which was agreed to.
Mr.. Bacot then offered another
amendment to provide for the greater
security of the boxes, but on Mr..
Townsend's moving to table, the
amendment was killed.
The previous question then being
called, the bill was passed to third
reading by a vote of 50 to 10; the noes
being Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Gre
CORY, Manning, Mellett, Miller, Parler.
Sanders, Weston and Wilson.
The senate bill to declare the law in
reference to commissioners and mana
gers of elections was then taken ur
and passed.
NO CONVICT COMPETITION.
Mr.. Finklea's bill to prevent the
hi,ing of convlcts to private parties
then came up, and Mr.. Fiaklea spoke
in support of it.
After further debate, motion to in
definitely postpone was rejected by 8
vote of ~ to H.
An amendment Of Mr.. Ilderton's tc
provide that convicts should be sup
ported by the penitentiary was reject
ed.
Mr.. Tatum moved to amend to pro.
vide that the conditions of the bill
should not apply to existing contracts
which was killed. The bill was then
passed to third reading and Mr..
Kaufman put the clincher on 1t.
$500 FOR THE FAIR.
The State fair appropriation resolu
ton was then taken up as unfinished
business, and Mr.. Patton moved to re-
consider the vote whereby the house
had refused to order it to third read
ing, and then offered substitute res
olution.
Mr.. Patton said that this resolution
was for the encouragement OF agrlcul
ture and stock raising. 1t provided
that there should be no immoral
shows. l. was simply question Of
whether tax should be raised for the
farmers of the State. The tax would
amount to LES of a mill. and would
bring back s25,000 or $4,000 to the
farmers of the State. There was nc
chance for any job, money making OF
unconstitutionality.
The vote was then reconsidered.
Mr.. Ilderton then moved to table the
substitute, but the house refused to dc
so by vote OF a to 46.
There was much discussion over the
different amendments.
Mr.. Townsend then offered the fol
lowing to be known as section 81,
which was adopted:
Section 81. Each township as now
or hereafter laid out and defined IN the
several counties of this State, and in
those counties where there are no such
townships, the parish as formerly
known and defined, is declared a poll.
ing precinct. In all the cities and
towns containing 5000 inhabitants OF
more, where the same is divided into
wards, each ward shall be a polling
precinct; and in the city of Charles
ton the polling precincts shall be the
same as the voting precincts now es.
tablished in the several wards of said
city by law. The voting places within
these polling precincts shall the same
as now or hereafter established by
law: Provided, when there are more
than one voting place in the polling
precinct the elector for that precinct
can vote at either polling place, to be
designated on his certificate of regis
tration by board of registration or su'
pervisor of registration.
Mr.. Bacot then offered the follswing
amendment which was rejected:
Section 1. Up to and including Jan.
l, 1895, all male persons of voting age
applying for registration who can
read any section of the constitution OF
1895 of this State submitted to them
by the registration officer, or under,
sand and explain it when read to
them by the registration officer, and
not disqualified under the constitution
or otherwise and any person who shall
apply for registration after Jan. 1,
1898, if otherwise qualified, and who
can both read and write any section
of the said constitution submitted tc
him by the registration officer, o. can
show that he owns and has paid al
taxes collectible during the previous
year on property in this State assessed
at three hundred dollars $500 or
more, and not disqualified under the
constitution or otherwise, shall be en-
titled to register and become electors
and shall be separately and severally
registered at the times and places ano
in the manner and form hereinafter
mentioned and provided for. And nc
person shall be entitled or allowed tc
vote at any election hereafter to be
held Except as provided in section l.
of said article IL unless he shall have
been registered as hereinafter provid
ed for and required, and shall produce
and exhibit his registration certificate
to the managers of election of the poll
ing precinct at which he may be enti
tied to vote. and, also, unless he be
possessed Of the qualifications for suf
frsge prescribed IN the aforesaid artl
Gle II.
Amend all other sections by CORES
pondingly changing the respective
numbers thereof.
The bill was then passed to its thire
reading.
COLUMBIA, Feb. 19.-One Of the frs
matters up was the substitute bill (
give 81, 500 to the State fair. This bill
prohibits all immoral shows, and alst
gambling Of any sort, on the grounds
after some debate the bill was killed. 81
there will be no appropriation for thi
years fair.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Mr.. Bacot's bill relative 10 the ap
poin1ment of county and other otlicer
came up next. 1t provides that ap
pointments of this class shall be made
by the governor on the recommends