Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-01-26
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Third Readlng BiI,s HIr. BaooYs FIag
Al s.yesebie tsomnli ESQ Reports.
CoIUMBIA, January 20. i. sI3asot,s q
bill, TO chan ge the color Of the State flag
TO purple, was killed to- day by q decided
vote. Z \ Il & n .S8 VA
Mr.. McCraw's bill to&rsquire bicycle
| riders to get permission from parties
driving ooassioned much nerriment be-
fnra it wee :...sa !, polite II oi
killing the measure. " N S%} Is
85s a roll call was taken on MIR. M Mont on-
ery's resolution to permit the introduc-
tion of a bill to charter the Carolina
Northern Railway. Mr.. Montgomery
states that the proposed road is to run
from about Lpmberton, N. c., to Marion,
in this State. t5Sl iz,5 5,&
| Tho third reading bills were first
taken up, were passed without objection
and sent to the Senate. The bills were
Mr.. Blease: To amend the county gov
ernment law 80 far as it. relates to the
working ard maintaining tho roads and
highway8.
Mr.. Jenkins: To limit tho lien of the
State for uncolleoted taxes. x ,*. .....
Mr.. Wharton: To require cotton buy
ers to accept bales of cotton weighing
not leas then three hundred pounds.
| Mr.. Stevenson: TO make it a misde-
meanor to swear falsely or commit
fraud in any way in the management OF
conduct Of q primary election, or in vot-
ing iu the same, and Ax tho punishment
of tho Same. .... .
Mr.. Bleaso's bill against intimidation
of laborers was ordered TO o thiro read.
ing after considerable discussion. II
provides: s....
! Section I. That That 7'iiJ poI50.i of porsunu
who shall employ or have control either
as superintendent, manager, overseer OF
otherwise, of any person or persons In
this State, and shall by any threat to
dismiss them from employment attempt
to mako them vote ut any primary elec-
ton against their own will, shall, upon
conviction, be fined sum of not more
than ono hundred dollars or loss than
twenty-five dollars, or DO confined on
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less than fifteen days.
| MIR. BACoT's FLAG BILL.
| Tho fight of the day and the most elo-
quent speeches of tho day were brought
out by tho bill OF Mr.. Bacot to change
the color of the State flag to purple.
Mr. j. Harvey Wilson started tho fight
on tho bill in tender and eloquent
speech, which mado decided effect, and
this was followed up 80 that whom Mr..
Baoot spoke he lound considerable sonti,
mont against his bill.
Mr.. Cosgroye moved at first to strike
out tho enaoting words of tho bill.
Mr.. j. Harvey Wilson, of Sumter,
opposed Mr.. Bacot's flag bill. He said
from tho inmost depths of his heart he
hoped tho bill would not pass. Ho would
not attempt to montion tho memories
that clustor around tho bonnie blue flag
that was tho emblem of South Carolina
when sho was sacrificing hor sons one by
ono to cause she thought was right.
Her sons sleep, many of them, in
unmarked graves, and in tho name of the
private soldier who followed that blue
flag he asked that no change be made.
For tho brave officers and privatos alike
he asked that no change DO mado. In
the name of every Confederate soldier,
alivo or dead, he asked that no change be
mado in the color of tho flag. In the
namo of the Daughters of the Confede.
raoy of South Carolina he asked that no
change be made. In the ,name of the
noble women of tho Confederacy he
asked that tho bill do not pass. There
were too many tender memories around
tho bluo flag. Whom South Carolina SOW
ored her connection with the United
States she erected tho bonnie blue flag
as her standard. One by one her sister
States rallied AROUND that flag and that
star. Forbid it for tho martyred dead
forbid it for tho living; forbid it Godl
Mr. j. w. Means, of Chester, said: This
bill presents pretty, very pretty sonti-
mont, but, gentlemen of South Carolina,
wo must 60 beyond sentiment. We must
still honor those brave heroes who fell in
the Lost Cause. The wording of this
bill is beautiful. To change the bonnie
blue fiagP Never! No; those dead heroes
who followed that flag shall not at this
day bo dishonored by such change. They
felt the blue flag good On ough to follow
and dio by, and in memory of tho brave
boys lot tho color romain. There is q
very pretty little poem from which !
shall quote in words as follows:
Freedom had gathered thirteen stars,
From out tho sky tho blue was rent,
And from the rainbow's lovely bars,
That with the stars and blue were blont.
ION Appomattox fatal plain,
~, from out tho flag were torn tho stars,
The blue orept back to Heaven again,
The rainbow claimed nor blood stained
bars.'
No, gentlemen of South Carolina, let
the color remain.
'When first our Southern flag arose upon
tho heaving sea,
1t bore upon its silson folds the groom
Palmetto treo.'
Lot us crush this bill in it's infancy,
and L sincerely hopo, gontlcmen, that
without dissenting voice tho onacting
words shall DO stricken out.
Mr.. Dendy, of Oconce, said his obicc
tion to tho change was that purple was
tho color of royalty, and ho for ono was
opposed to any spirit Of imperialism or
expansion.
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