The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-02-13

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ject to humiliation by compelling them
!: to ride in the same car.
: MIR. Otts said the bill had been dis
} cusssd and passed by this House on
} moro than one occasion and it Ia un-
, necessary to 60 over the argument
again. He called for the ayes and
, noes on ordering the bill to its third
reading. The result was, ayes So; nays
SUNDAY FREIGnT TRAINS.
Mr.. Johnson's bill to prohibit the
running OF freight trains between IL
Saturday nighS and IL o'clock Sunday
night, came up, and Mr.. Manning
moved to strike out the onactinR
words.
Mr.. Johnson said that tho law as It
now stands is a dead letter and he
wanted to amend it 80 as not to allow
any freight train to run on Sunday
whether there is perishable fruit to
law just and right one In the inter-
est OF the railroad wOrkmen. MIR.
johnson made o worry earnest speech In
favor Of the proper observance OF the
Sabbath.
Judge Townsend said tho committee
took the view that there was already
sufficient laws on this subject and read
the present law.
Mr.. Bacot held that If it was wrong
to run trains OF any kind on Sunday it
was wrong to run them for any cause.
Mr.. T. 8. Williams spoke against tho
bill. 1t was work of necessity that
1T would cause q great loss to fruit
growers
The ayes and noes were demanded
on the motion to indefinitely postpone
the bill, resulting in the refusal to
postpone by vote Of 33 to SO, rs fol-
lows:
Yeas-Adams, Anderson, Ashley,
Breazeale, J. B. Connor, Cooper,
Crum, @. M. Davis, w. G. Davis,
Eadens, Gadsden, CASTOR, Gregory,
Haselden, Hiott, Holloway, Kennedy,
Kirk, Lotion, Magill, Mehrtens, Mel
lett, Phillips, Pyatt, Rast, A. K. San
T. S. Williams, John G. Williams,
Wilson, Wolff, Wyche-33.
| Nays-Blackwell, Bowman, Bran
lett, Bunch, Burns, Carroll Caugh-
man, Edwards, Floyd, Fowler, Garris,
Goodwin, Hammett, Harper, Harvey,
Hollis, Hough, Humphrey, Ilderton,
johnson, Kinard, Lancaster, Lennon,
Mellard, Miles, Il. +. Mitchell, j. w.
Mitchell, Moore, Murray, Mcintosh,
McKeown, d. w. McLaurin, McSween-
ey,, Nunnery,. Otts, Pickens, Price,
Sturkie, Tatum, Thompson, Todd,
War;, Watson, Welch, Whitmire
L. j. Williams, Fred Williams, Wy
man-53.
Mr.. Gadsden spoke of the hardship
the law would inflict on truck growers
Mr.. Watson didn't see why fruit ant
truck could not stay on the vine OF
tree one day and stand over until Mon
day.
Judge Townsend said as far as IL.
ter-State commerce is concerned. the
law will be unconstitutional, and that
1t would discriminate against our ow n
citizens.
Mr.. Townsend at the night session
reiterated the opinion that the law
would be unconstitutional, but as far
as he could see there was Just as much
harm In running passenger trains on
Sunday, yet no effort is made to stop
them.
Mr.. Ilderton said the question was
simply between q man and lis God,
and whether the General Assembly
would countenance sin. 1t Is our duty
70 put our foot on every evil whether
the Supreme Court says it Is unconsti.
tiOnal or not.
| Mr.. Skinner referred to the fact that
a number OF people had entered busi-
ness as truck growers with the under
standing that they could ship their
products any day or any time and 1t
would bo bad faith to shut them Off.
Mr.. Price thought 1t good bill be-
cause 1t is In the interest Of humanity
and will work no hardship on the peo-
pie. He asserted as fruit grower
that fruit could be pulled day in ad.
vance OF or day after Sunday without
injury.
Mr.. Wyche said he had heard so
many sermons on this subject that he
began to doubt whether he could drive
u horse on Sunday. ls it right to run
mail trains on Sunday? Why not
raise that question 1t seems that
members want to go buck to tho old
Blue laws. II will ruin truck growers.
II you are going to legislate morality
why not pass the "cussing bill" He
would vote against it In the interest OF
truck growers-men who make their
living out the SOIL
Mr.. War; held that tho man who
would load train on Saturday night
was responsible for the violation of the
Sabbath.
Mr.. Fred Williams said he had lived
In Texas whore neither passenger or
freight trains wore allowed to run and
he heard nothing about the law con-
tllcting with Interstate commerce. II
you pass this law the great jehovah
Will make arrangements that the fruit
shall be protected until it can be
pulled.
Mr.. Josh Ashley held that it was just
as much harm to drive horse fifteen
or twenty miles az it was to run a
freight train. The whole thing is bosh.
Let us clean up around our own homes
before we 60 and try to clean other
peoples places.
Mr.. II. S. Williams spoke OF what
fruit would be injured and showed how
the fruit growers would bo injured.
The ayes and nOos were demanded on
the motion to strike out the enactng
words resulting in the rejection Of the
bill by vote OF 40 to al.
! PENSIONS FOR CONTEMPORARIES.
The Senate had under consideration
, the bill to amend the law in relation
to pensioning soldiers OF the Confeder-
ate States.
Mr.. Mayfield offered an amendment