The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-06-21

term.
Mr.. Brooker renewed his charge Of
neglect and careleSsness in the comp
troller's office.
Brooker said that Charleston had. he.
ccne the bigges. city in The south
lately because it had. swallowed Ben
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stNoice-.:He'sia bjgamaH." .Cheers)
! Esiss& $abtrAJ&t Candidate for SUI
'perintAfteGt -st, e&d AtonS. had once
ess4g.d Gssa vscMihaa slii With :trssng 70 take
the election of county supAiintendents
cut es the b}qas 2f;she psople and j.
dragging tte *%hQleee, educational sys>
tenn i.NoetfIe State 'house. He. was.
we'll receiyed.t'" ..":
McMahan said. .;sAat.Ke wanted the,
office two years ago in order that he
might 1pIfft the common schools: His
speech was .frequehtys apnauded. He.
hss-rhs pursued a. hilk, apd, ,wa:er pol!
ieSaGfraying gfo- PLEASE everybody.
The candidates for Solicitor ihdslgee
Misunderstanding. B..H Matthews Of
charleston seemed to haye the CROWD
with him: :.fs,Sx-
Mr'W, H. Thomas. made a ringing;
speech and Hildebrand made a good
thppored speech: ,-.:-..
- The candidates for governor were al
lowed 80 minutes. each. Patterson
!sSg~fe first. at the Bat. He had some
'HIends in: the audience. "':;
-.He made the statement that thnre
were 354 blind tigers and only four
censtables in Charleston.
<fhe crowd listened to him patiently
until he repeated the charge OF the
'Oconee News. When McSweeney ad-
vanced to the front of the stage ana
shook his finger in Patterson.s face,
rhe crowd went wild and yelled itself
hoarse. McSweeney said that he had
twice before pronounced the state
meit'absolutely false.
=. Whcn.he made his charge against
NcSwseney for paying for newspapers
out Of his contingent fund. he was
greeted On several sides with You
would have done it too."
He was applauded.
. Mr.. Gary was frequently applaud
ed :, especially when he declared thai he
would not indulge il mud singing.
He stated that one of the Charles
ton papers had put hip.ip the attitude
. of unfriendliness to Charleston. He
told where, as Speaker, he had been
Charleston friend. (.
He saw no reason why the dispen>
sary should be forced down unwilling
throats although he thought the law
greeted with applause Of the heartiest
kind..''.'
Atnoon Mr.-Winston called the pfc
vious question on the bill and Mr..
Giles amendments The amendments
were lost. The bill passed third read
ing. Only two'votes We're cast against
it.
At 1915 the House took a recess un-
VI AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met again at 4:S0 o'clock.
Mr.. Giles. introduced a bill to regulate
labor:Mr. Winston. a resolution ap-
pointing committee to obtain infor-
siaabh from the State Treasurer as to
whether hHfhas paid 'Theophilus White
his claim for salary,.,
Mr.. Moore, of Jackson, for the COM
mittee on the constitutional amend
ment, introduced bill to. amend the
amendment. 1t was introduced as
new bill. Under suspension OF the
rules it was, upon Mr. Moore's motion,
put upoR its SECOND reading. He SAID
il had. been carefully scrutinized by
the conmitteeaanTsD sDemodratic caucus.
He called the previous question on the
passage of the: bill. The. latter was
then read in full. The roll was called.
Mr.. McNeill, of Brunswick, asked leave
to expainlMs vote;' saying that during
the last campaign he had 'sald he
would not vote for any measure impos-,
ing an educational or property quail
fication, and hence he could not vote
for it, nor could he be expected to do
so: that he was opposed to negro DOM
nation He said he had said II any
measure of the kind came up he would
vote. against it. He said his position
was embarrassing. He voted no. The
bill passed-yeas 8S, nays 9.
Mr.. Joh2son said he wanted 70 be
excused from voting, as he had a SUBJ
stitute to offer. He was excused. The
Speaker announced that the bill had
received more than the necessary
three-fifths vote Mr.. .Moore at once;
called previous question. It. was or
de-ed. MIR. Johnson did not get in his
amendment. The roll was again called.
with the same result as before. The
bill was then sent to the Senate. Those
voting nay. were Burrow, Ellen, Giles,
McNeill, Reinhardt, Smith. Wrenn,
Wright and Marlborough. :.