The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-25

| LAW ~ IhSO PtteS uc COulu uOG Oc aOOV0
suspicion, no matter how good a man
ho was. He should bo free not only
from conscious, but an unconscious
bias. free pass was given as u favor
and tho members of the Gcnoral AS
somoly had no right to accept favors
| from anybody. "If you do not think, :"
| he said, that this pass is givon TO you
| Tor some other purpose than that YOU
arc good fellow, SEQ how far you can
rido when your torn of Office is over,
and yet you arc just as good fellow"
Mr.. scarborough thought that to be
! consistent MIR. ISagsdalu should huvo
urged this same argument against &C.
cepting the free transportation to
Charleston, which was a favor given
by tho railroads. He took the act rs
people OF the State when the Legisla-
lure found 1T necessary, for tho pur-
lose or preventing contamination, to
pass this law. 1t was o bad law and
should be wiped off OF the statute books
ior Its 1mputation on the character Of
every State officer. He also opposed it
because of tho subterfuges resorted to
in getting around the law. If u FREQ
pass disqualified man from holding
public Office by the effect it would havo
In subverting his judgment, we should
go stop further and declare that no
">an who is under any obligation as an
attorney or stakeholder of u corpora
tion should be entitled to his seat hero.
Mr.. Mayfeld thought it better that
Il man should take u free pass than
resort to such tricks as had been
charged, that some paid 10 cents for a
$25 ticket. He did not like the spirit
that had enacted tho law.
Mr.. Hay contonded that passes wero
certainly meant to influence legislative
Shnnl1 hn
therefore he thought it good public
policy to declare against them. Ho
dld not consider the acceptance of tho
trips to Winthrop and to Charleston
against the spirit OF the law. 1t was
not the railroads that invited tho
Senate to Charleston, but tho city coun-
Gil.
MIR. Buist made ringing speech
against the repeal bill. Lead us not
into temptation was his toxt. He
said: 1.-The position which South Caro-
Lima has occupied during tho last six
years is being gradually adopted as
q necessity by nearly every State in the
Union, and II it was true that a iudgc
M tho bench paid 10 cents for q mile
age book, every member of tho General
Assembly should spend the whole re-
coss in seeking the truth and bringing
that individual before this body with
tho open charges against him."
Mr.. Archer said that no christian
man could accept free pass without
undertaking tho obligation of a chris.
tian to return the favor.
Mr.. Scarborough denied MIR. Buist's
| righ to compare South Carolina morals
with New York morals. If tho Legis-
| ltturo was not to have free passes, then
hodge us in on all sides and deliver us
also from tho contamination of lob
byists.
Mr.. Henderson said tho object of the
| Dill was not to make the railroads
give or tho officers of the State
accept passes, but to give man
the inborn right, the divine right OF
exercising his own free will. The peo-
| pie would not judge man by whether
| he took FREQ pass or not, but by the
way he acted. The repeal of this law
would be the removal Of a stigma. The
act was passed as taunt in the midst
| OF turmoil and excitement, and now
the Senate in its dignity and quiet
should repeal it.
Mr.. Maylicld thought the act on the
statute books was a wholesome one.
true, 1T was presented as n taunt, but
| let us turn the taunt against the hand
tnat dlrected 1T and show that we arc
wiling to keep our skirts clear.
| AhN cS y ohd nay Ntlc WAS Calleu OC
Mr.. Moses motion to indefinitely uost
ponc the unfavorable report of the com
mittec and the following was the vote
1eas-Messrs. Conuor, Depnis. Du
Bose, Gaines, Griffith, Henderson
Maul ldin, Moses, O'Dell, Pettigrew
Ragin, Scarborough, Sloan, Suddath
Walker and Williams-l6.
Nays-Messrs. Alexander. Archer
Brown, Buist, Dean, Douglass, Hay,
Love, Mayheld, Mcdaniel, Miller.
Mower, Norris, Ragsdale. Stack house.
Talbird and Wallace-l7.
| The vote was then taken on :hc d.
rect question without change
| KILLED THE TAX ON CIGARETTES.
The cigarette bill was taken up as a
| special order.
MIR. Moses moved to indcGtely post
pOne the whole bin, and said on the
part Of the committee it was thought
the law would be dead lett r.
Mr.. Conn0r moved to lay the motion
on the table. This was lost.
MIR. Moses then moved to table the
bill, but Withdrew it for Mr.. Archer
to say few days in. favor of the bill.
Mr.. Moses opposed tho bill because
it would be Intellectual, and would pile
up dcnd acts on the statute books. If
1t would accomplish any good he
would vote in favor Of it. There Is no
machinery to enforce it rs the N0uor
law is enforced
MIR. Connor said that there was -
great demand for tho Law trnm -, yra"i Is
Of the country. and Il tre Yvx'*<,"; ,An
was doing NO kotNi. -; a* :"A<v 80:
| regulations more $.v.vSuui.
| Mr.. Mower $cui = tE,i".nQ y ,:tt5lVn
from Jasper Il, Montgomery, greejdpn6
OF tho society Ipr sna suppression oi
tho uso ot tpn.itrp among thr yuuUn y,
tho UuIte'N Sj&I&S, ~ show that Tho
prohtbtslrn ard hish iiucnso nad Deon
| inonectual In every Caso, ana urged
tho euiorcemen1 vi bao lww against the
sale to mtpors 80 bho best stop toward
correcting the OWLS.
Mr.. febtigrow, OF Florence, said that
his conscience mad roproachcd him for
the part ho took IN killing this bill
last yoar. 10 made " long and earnest
appeal for the passage OF tho law. lie
contended that II would not hurt The
tobacco industry.
Mr.. Maydeid read The existing Law
against selling CipArottes fo mi nDra