The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-21

MIR. Wilson Of Sumter said 10 want
ed to SEQ the bill pass witt t. de-
bate. The questions simply were ::
Should tho State be redistricted and
how. The people in his section
wanted the State redistricted just as
soon as thore was no danger to their
political status. Tho present ar
ranSement Was al iuconvenient and
unnatural division. There was no
need for his people to longer bear
the present burden. That tho pres
ont arrangement was unnatural, WAS
shown by simple glance at the
map. His people were patriotic,
but saw no possible reason to con-
tinue tho present unjust state of af.
fairs.
MIR. Werner had not heard one sim
gle good reason last year or this year
why this bill should not pass. He
had heard many why it should pass.
Mr.. Henderson had not seen Quo
reason why the bill should pass. He
wanted to tell how it would affect
Berkeley county. "Itthis bill passes,
Berhciey," iie said, "will never have
representative in congress" Tho
country will not have one. He did
not believe that the time had como
for making the change of tho dis
tricts. He raised his protest against
tho bill in behalf of Berkley county,
Mr.. Etird realized tho Importance
Of this measure, but he believed that
they should go very slow. They had
elections ahead of them; pleasure
trip etc. He moved to recommit
the bill in order to give the members
more timo.
Mr.. Patton said that if they had
not had time to understand tho bill
II whole year they never would.
He moved to table the motion, this
was done by vote of 40 to AZ.
Mr. Garris said the objections urged
against this bill were not we'll found
cd the objection that it had not been
w,ll considered was not we'll founded.
They had been told last year that
they were jeopardizing ono of the
congressional positions by acting at
that time. That danger had passed.
He thought that the bill ought to
pass. There was no necessity for
maintaining the shoe string districts.
Mr.. Lennon said the negro was
making rapid strides in education
and they might as we'll recognize
that fact.
Mr.. Simkins wanted to say that
he was not so we'll informed as to
the effect of tho bill on localities.
He thought that the present system
was good enodgh. He felt that they
should 60 slow i'll adopting this mea-
sure. There was no Immediate me-
cessity for it 80 far as he knew.
Mr.. McCullough-How long has
your county had tho congressman
from your district.
Mr.. Simkins-About % years, 1
think, and we will continue to have
him so long as the people of the dis
trict want an Edgefield man. Naugh-
ter)
Mr.. o. p. Goodwin said that his
county protested against being made
the pan handle of new shoestrinp
district.
Mr.. Patton showed on the map
that this was square district. He
held that there was absolutely moth
ing in single objection raised
The House then agreed to order
the previous question on tho bill by
vote of So to Al.
This being done, Mr.. Rainsford
moved to indefinitely postpone the
bill and on this motion DIR.
Sturkio demanded the roll call.
Before the vote was announced
Mr.. Winkler wanted to know il
amendments would be in order in
case the motion WAS lost. He was
told that they would nof. BY a vote
OF 60 to 81 the house indefinitely
postponed the bill, Mr., Pollock put
the clincher on and that ended it.
Mr.. Rogers offered concurrent
resolution to fix the time for the
election Of Comptroller General a.
Tuesday next. This was agreed to