The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-02-22
DID NOT PASS,
The House Votes Down Prohibi-
ton and Local Option,
HOW EACH MEMBER VOTED.

The Dispensary Seems 10 Have
a Large Majority Of the
Representatives in its
Favor.
The House Of Representatives de,
voted a good portion of last week to the
consideration Of the whiskey problem.
On Tuesday Mr.. McCullough's prohi
bition bill was taken up Prince then
offered his absolute prohibition bill, as
substitute. Mccullough accepted
the substitute Prince said he wanted
the bill passed. Simkins said that
this was bad time to consider prohibi.
tion bills Sturkie moved to adjourn
the debate on the bill ane print it.
Patton said there was no trouble about
understanding the Prioce bill;. there
may be some trouble about voting.
Stevenson said it was time to stop ad
journing debate OF these bills. De-
Bruhl moved to indefinitely postpone
the Prince substitute. Tn" vo.e result.
ed:
Yeas-Speaker Gary, Bacot, Bailey,
J. B. Black, ". d. Black, BIease.
Blythe, Browning, Caughman, Col
cock, Cosgrove, Dean, DeBruhl,
Bowling, Dukes, Eird Epps, II. H.
Evans, n. G. Evans, Fairey, Floyd,
Can't, Graham, Hill, Hotfmeyer, Hol.
lis, Hydrick, jenkins, H. Z. johnson,
V. J. Johnson, Jones. Lyles, Magill,
Manning, Marion, Laban Mauldin,
William L. Mauldin, McCraw, McDill,
Mellow, McLauchlin, McLaurin,
Mehrtens. Miley, Mobley, Moss, Moses,
Nettles: Patton, Pyatt, +. B. Ragsdale.
j. ". Ragsdale, Richards, George ".
Richardson, Henry B. Richardson, c.
E. Robinson, Rogers, E. L. Sanders,
Sawyer, Simkins. Sinkler, 6. ?. Smith,
Stevenson, Strom, Sturkie, Suber,
Theus, W. II. Thomas. W. J. Thomas,
Threat, Zimmerman, Warn, Verdier,
West, Weston. Wharton, Winkler, H.
H. Woodward, NJ. B. Woodward,
Wyche-S3.
Nays-Ashley, Davis, Henderson,
Jackson, Lockwood, Lotion, Mann,
Mccoy, Mccullough, Prince, George
W. Richardson, R. B. \. Robinson, G..
P. Sanders, Seabrook, jeremiah Smith,
Stackhouse, Whisonant, Williams.
Wimberly, Wingo, Young-20.
The Prince prohibition bill was
showed under Then the dual local
option hill, between dispcnsary and
prohibition, was called up.
Mr.. Robinson said his bill covered
the whole liquor question. He said he
wanted prohibition, and was satisfied
it could be enforced Greenwood
county had no dispensary and did not
have prohibition, yet there seems to be
plenty of liquor there. His bill, he
said submits the entire question to the
people. His bill allowed two options
prohibition and dispensary. His
bill only provided for the option be-
tween dispensary and prohibition. He
had no option as to license He want
ed the people to decide on what they
wanted, and if the bill were not passed
now the time would come when the
people would be heard from. He was
not going to discuss the matter at
length. He came here as a Prohibit
zionist and voted for it in good fait!.
He was opposed to cramming anything
down the throats of the people. He
wanted to know if members were afraid
Of the people. He said he did not OBJ
ject to license option. He vas not u
high license man himself
After this statement b. Robinson.
who introduced long, rambling dis.
cussion took place, participated in by a
great many members. Finally De-
Bruhl moved to Indefinitely postpone
the Robinson bill-option between dis
pensary and prohibition and county
control. On this the yea and nay vote
resulted:
Yeas-Speaker Gary, Bailey, Bell, }
B Black, " D Black, B!case. Blythe,
Browning, Caughman, Cross, Crum,
DeBruhl, Dowling, Dukes, Eird, Epps
H H Evans, n G Evans, Fairey, Gam
Die, CAN'T, Graham, HUI, Hofmeyer,
Hollis, H E johnson, W j Johnsrn,
Jones, Lyles, Magill, Manning, Marion
Laban, Mauldin, Mccoy, McCraw. Nc
Dill, Mellow, MCLAUGHLIN, McLaurin,
Means, Miley, Mobley, Ne,tIes, Pat
tersor, E B Ragsdale. J W Ragsdale,
Ricka:ls, Henry 3 Richardson, G Z
Robinson, Rogers. L l. Sanders, Saw
yer, Sharpe. G P Smith. Z D Smith.
Stackhouse, Strom, Sturkie. Theus, W
j Thomas, Threats, Zimmerman, Warn.
Verdier, West. Weston, Whisopant,
Williams, Wilson, Wiukler, NJ B Wood
ward, Wyche, Youug-1l.
Nays-Ashley, Bacot, Bolts, Col
co;k, Cosgrove, Dargan, Davis, Dean:
Dcndy, Estridge, Floyd, Henderson.
Hydrick, Jackson, jenkins, Leverett,
Lockwood. Lotion, Mann, william L..
Mauldin, Mehrtens, Moses, Patton:
Prince, Pyatt, George ". Richardson,
RBA Robinson, c P Sanders: Sea
brook, Sinkler; Jeremiah Smith, ) l.
Smith Stevenson, Suber. " H Thorn
as, Wimberly, Wingo: II H Woodward
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Pairs: Mccullough and Moss: Whar-
ton and Montgomery.
So the bill was killed.
Mauldin then called for his local op-
tion bill, which provides for a vote by
counties on dispensary, prohibition and
license and does away with State dis
pensary. The motion to indefinitely
postpone was carried by 50 to 81, as