The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-01-22
PASSES STILL PRoHIBIrRD
rhe Governor Vetoes Act to Re-
peal and House Sustains Bin

Governor Nc Sweeney vetoed I'll
act TO repeal the law against oilicia
accepting free passes from raj
roads, ard the House sustained hi
veto by Ga to 3S, showing that m,
jority did not favor The repeal, a
though the bill passed the House at il
last session. The message of tn
Governor is as follows:
To the Speaker and Members Of tn
House of Representatives:
beg to return to you without M
approval act No. 100 TO "Rtpeal an ac
enutlcd IAN act TO prevent The use %
u free pass, express or telegraph fran
on amy railroad by any United State
Senator " member OF Congress iron
ihls State. or by any member of In
General Assembly of this State, or b.
any State or county official, or by an,
Judge. of II court of record, in thi
Stat , Approved December %, A
ID. 1891"
Thi' act was passed at your last ses
sion, but was not ratified and turned
over to me until the last dav of the ses
sion and, therefore, could receive nt
consideration until after your adj
journment.
The act which the one under consid,
Grafton purports to repeal was passed
in response To Il popular demand to
remove the legislator and the official,
as far as possible, from corporate
power and influence. 1t was not en-
tirely a factional measure, though en-
acted during the time when facliCnal
fet ling ran high. III had the support
of members of all factions at that
time and was enacted for the public
veal L do not know of any demand
or any good reason why il shonld he
repealed, and have therefore withheld
my approval from the act repeating
il.
The system of distributing free
passes by railroads among the mem.
bers OF the Legislature and other uil
Gals before this act was passed pro-
hibitlng it was pernicious, and while
L would not for a moment be under.
stood as saying or intinating that any
legislator or other official, State or
county, could be unduly influenced by
receiving free pass, yet it should be
remembered that we are all human
and must feel kindly to that man
or corporation, the recipient of whose
favOrs we ale. These corporations
are already very powerful and WELD
great influence on legislation. Why
should frank or free pass be given
to q man as State official or legislator
when it would not be thought OF Sc
long as he +, NAMED private citizen.
Legislation is frequently had affect
ing these corporations and laws al
ready made affecting them have to be
Tt is best for the public
service that the official and the lcgisla-
tor be entirely free to act with entire
impartlaliiy in making and executing
lhe laws. He should be able AT ali
times to hold the scales Of justice with
an even hand, remembering always the
rights of the corporations as wei as
The rights Of the people. Believing
this can be better done by not
favors from the corpora.
tions, and therefore moi being under
obligations to them. however small the
1 beg to return TO you the
repeating act without my approval and
signature. Respectfully,
M. b.. MCSwEENEY,
Governor.
The motion of Mr.. Spears, of Dar-
lington, to pass the act over the veto
was voted upon by the House at once.
1T required SO votes to do this. When
the vote was counted it was found
that the friends of the measure had
lost, getting the required figures, but
not in The proper order-3S. The vote
on the motion was as follows:
Ayes-Ashley, Bivens, Blease, Car
ter, Cooper, Crum, DantZler, Dennis.
Dodd, Domlnlck, Durant, Elird, Es-
fridge, Freeman, Gourdin, Hough,
Humphrey, James, Jarnegan, w. j.
johnson, Kinsley, Little Lockwood,
Lyles, Maaldin, Mccall, McGowan,
Jno. McMaster, Moffett, w. l.. Parker,
Patterson, II. b. A. Robinson, Sea-
brook, Spears, Wells, Weston, Whaley,
Williams-3S.
Nays-Stevenson, All, Bacot, Ban'is,
Beamguard, Brooks, Brown, Bryan,
Campbell, Coggeshall, Croft, Dean,
DeBrubl, Dorreh, Dunbar, Elder, Fox,
Fraser, Galluchat, Gunter, Halle,
Hardin, Hill, Hollis, Izlar, o. l. John
son, Kibler, Kinard, Lide, Lomax,
Mayson, Mclaughlin, Mcleod, f. II.
McMaster, Morgan, Morrison, Moses,
Moss, Nesbit, Nichols, Prince, Pyatt,
Rainesford, Rankin, Richardson,
Rucker, S'ackhouse, Sanders, Seigler,
j. b. Smith, NJ. H. Smith, Strom,
Stroman, TatuT, Thompson, Towill,
Vlncria, Wol!lng, Webb, West, Will
son, Wingo, Woods, Woodward
Sheriff James G.. Harvey, OF Luzerne
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