Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28
The GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Summary of More Important Events In the
House and Senate.

Il
Summary Of More Important Events In th'
| House and Senate.
The principal developments of inter
est in the legislative proceedings O
Tuesday was the elections. The result
of the election for superintendent o.
the penitentiary has already been pub
lished but some of the details viii
prove more or less interesting. II
seems that up to the hour of voting
the final result was still matter o1
uncertainty. On the first ballot Sena
tor Love and Representative Epp:
voted for Neal. Representatives Nc
Dill and Mellow voted for Griffith
Representative Epps changed his vote
from Neal TO Griffith. Representative
Johnson was absent and did not.vote
The candidates for full term mem
Der of the state board of control, were
J. B. Douthit, the present incumbent
and T. CHS. Robinson, of Pickens
county. All the York delegation ex.
cept Mr.. Johnson, voted for Douthlt
Robinson was elected, 7S to 76.
The candidates for state librarian
were Miss Mamie Montgomery and
Mrs. LeConte. The result was 96 tc
5S in favor of Miss Montgomery. All
the members of-the York delegation,
except Mr.. Johnson, voted for Miss
Montgomery.
The candidates for secretary of the
state board of control to fill out the
unexpired term of M. r Cooper, elect
ed secretary of state, were j. o. A.
Moore, of Darlington M. w. Sim
mons, of Colleton; B. B. H. Boykin,
of Camden. Boykin received 81 votes,
Simmons 60, and Moore 5. Boykin
belongs to that class formerly designa'
ted as Conservatives.
Representative McDill introduced
in the house, and Senator Love intro
duced in the senate, concurrent reso'
luton to permit the introduction Of a
bill to amend the charter of the Farm
ers' Mutual Insurance company oil
York county.
A protracted discussion of the lien
law was commenced on last Monday
and resumed on Wednesday. At first
there was a make-believe as if the
law was to be repealed; but when the
final vote came, the enacting clause OF
the bill was struck out. Messrs. Mar
ion and Means, of Chester, both spoke
for repeal, and voted that way.
Messrs. McDow, McDill and Epps
voted with the majority. The argu'
ments were about the same as hereto
fore used. The advocates of the law
claimed that it was the only source OF
credit to the poor man, etc., and the
opponents held that its repeal would
be of especial benefit to the poor
whites and blacks alike.
The Lee county representatives were
unseated for the reason that it was
found that the county had not been
regularly constituted. By resolution
it was agreed, however, that these
representatives should have pay for
the time they had served.
There was an unfavorable report on
Mr.. Blease's resolution to submit to
the people the question of amending
the constitution so as to provide for
biennial sessions of the general assem-
bly,, instead of annual sessions as
now.
The most important debate of Wed
nesday was on Mr.. Pattou's bill to
redistrict the state as to congressional
representation. The idea of the bill is
to avoid the dividing of counties and
to secure, as far as possible, compact
districts. Under the proposed new
arrangement, four congressman now
serving will be thrown in two districts.
There will be Finley and Stanyarne
Wilson in the Catawba district, Stokes
and Elliott in the Edisto district.
Some of the advocates of the bill
charged that its opponents came prin'
cipally from representatives living in
the four districts thus affected. The
News and Courier says: "Mr. Mellow,
of York, in behalf Of York county,
opposed the bill. His people did not
want the proposed changes. Ifa man
is not known in his district it is his
fault. York does not want any chang
es. No good could come of the bill
except 10 give some one chance to
get in who is now out of congress" "
On the question of striking out the
enacting clause of the bill, the house
voted, yes, "A; nays, 55. Under the
bill York is in what is to be known as
the "Catawba" district, composed OF
the counties of York, Cherokee, Spar
tanburg, Chester, Union, Lancaster.
The bill is not yet law, and there is
still strong probability that it will
not be.
Among the new bills of local inter,
est introduced in the senate, was one
by Senator Love to authorize, ratlfy
and confirm the right and power oI
the Catawba Power company, when or
ganized, to construct dam across the
Catawba river at or near India Hook
shoals, in York county. The India
Hook shoals referred to are at the
place known as Neely's ferry.
Representative McDill introduced
on Thursday, a bill to incorporate the
Associate Reformed Orphanage at
Hickory Grove. Representative Nc
Dow introduced a bill to reduce the
rate of interest that can be legally
charged to 7 per cent.
The senate debated Mr.. Gruber's
bill for the establishment of county
courts for about two hours on Thurs