Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06

and ask for power to borrow the neces-
sary money. Then the board could go
ahead and locate the bridge wherever it
might think would be the most desirable.
Commissioner Brice, however, did not
see fit to put his suggestion in the form Of
a motion. He took occasion to say also
that he still believed that the board could
60 ahead and build the bridge if it want
ed to.
body raised the point of no motion pend
ing. 1t was agreed, however, that Com
missioner Wilkerson might go on with
his remarks. He said that he still stood
where he has been all the while. He
was willing to help the people of Fort
Mill if they would first show a disposi-
ton to help themselves. But he would
waive this point for the present. The
bridge that was being asked for would
cost not less than $1,000. A first-class
ferry could be put in for $500, and if the
people of Fort Mill township were will
ling, he would give them that and make
it free. He put the suggestion in the
form Of motion, which was seconded by
Commissioner Miller.
Mr.. w. H. Windle undertook to make
a remark. Commissioner Miller sugges-
ted that he was out of order. Mr.. Windle
asked for permission to speak. Supervi-
sor Culp asked tor the pleasure OF the
board. Commissioner Wilkerson said he
had no objection, and Commissioner Ashe
remarked that he wanted all the light he
could get. There was no further olJec-
ton, and Mr.. Windle went on to say that
the people of Fort Mill were asking for a
bridge, not for ferry, and if the board
did not give them what they asked for,
then it should give them nothing if they
could not get sugar teat, they did not
want teat stuffed with corn meal. Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Windle turned to Commits
sioner Wilkerson and said
"Now, if the people of Upper Fort
Mill had not kicked, would there not now
be bridge at Harris's ferry?"
Eyes, I believe there would" replied
Commissioner Wilkerson.
"Then," returned Mr.. Windle, ut is a
strange thing to me that If the board has
a right to build a bridge at Harris's ferry,
it has no right to build one at Neely's
ferry"
Mr.. C. T. Crook asked for permission
to make a statement and challenged the
assertion of Mr.. Minis that the petition
under consideration was anything like
snap judgment. The petition, he said,
had been drawn up on September Is, and
had either been circulating freely, or was
in public place-Gritfin's store-ever
since.
Mr. Minis said that he had not heard OF
the petition until a very short time before,
and it had not been given as much pub
licity as was justified by its Importance.
Referring again 10 Commissioner Wilk-
erson's motion, Commissioner Miller said
that he would like to add that the ques-
ton of location be left to the registered
voters of Fort Mill township. Mr.. Minis
said this would be agreeable to the voters
of Fort Mill.
There followed here variety Of ex-
pressions from various members. Some
of these expressions were relevant, and
others were not. To give al idea of them
all is impracticable. Mr.. Crook asked
for the floor in order to'nlake statement.
There was objection at first {; but the idea
of free speech prevailed, and Mr.. Crook
took the floor. He was very sorry that
all this trouble had occurred, and he was
sorry also, that it should be necessary for
him to say anything more. He went on,
however, to review the whole bridge
question. First, he said there was the
petition asking for the location OF the
bridge at Harris's ferry. Upon thisthe
board had acted favorably. Then there
was the counter petition asking for the
change of location to Neely's ferry. AS
the result of this petition, the board had
agreed to reconsider all of its action ex-
cept that whereby it had appropriated the
sum of $1,000, and upon this the original
petition became back number. Now
then, our people asked you to come over
and examine the situation. told you
then we were willing to leave the ques-
ton entirely with you. If you said Har-
ris's ferry, we would say all right; and il
you said Neely's ferry, we would say all
right. You had another meeting and de-
cided to leave the matter to the voters OF
York county at the time of the senatorial
primary. We said we would agree to
this, for we had confidence in the people
of York county, and believed they would
do what was right. But why did you not
hold that election? Did you give us no.
tice of it? Did you make arrangements
for it? The people were ready to vote,
and you would not give them a chance.
Commissioner Wilkerson here explained
that the withdrawal of the petition oper-
ated to call off the election. In reply,
Mr.. Crook said that the counter petit
ton" had never been withdrawn, and
also suggested that since the action OF the
board allowing the withdrawal of the
other petition was not done in open meet
ing, it probably had no force anyway.
However, the election was not held; 1t
looked like the whole matter was going
to be allowed to fall through, and that
was the reason Of the new petition then
under consideration of the board.
Continuing, Mr.. Crook said he did not
mean to he offensive-he did not mean to
be personal; but when he reviewed the
history of the whole question, he saw
several things he could not understand.
1t was a strange thing to him how some
of the members could vote for the appro-
priation of $1,000 and the location of the
bridge at Harris's ferry, and then. upon
reconsideration, when it began to appear
that the Neely's ferry location was going
to be adopted, these members should
take the position that they were unwilling
to expend such large amount OF money
except upon vote of the people. Not
op1y yr.s this strange: but it was also