The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-01-22
THE FREE PASS BILL
Vetoed by the Governor andth House
Sustains Him.
HOW EACH MEMBER VOTED ON IT.
The Governor Fully Sets Forth His
Reasons for the Rejection
OF the Act BY Els
Veto.

OF the Act BY E;s
Veto.
As soon as the House of Representa-
tives got ready for business on Tues
day week Governor McSweeney sent in
a message vetoing the act repeating
the antifree pass act passed at the last
session. The message reads as fol-
lows:
To the Speaker and Members of tie
House of Representatives:
| beg to return to you without NY
approval act.No. 129 to Repeal an act
entitled an act TO prevent the use Of
a free pass, express or telegraph frank
on any railroad by any United States OF
member Of congress from this State, or
by any member of tile general assembly
of this State, or by any State or county
official. or by any Judge of court Of
record in this State Approved De-
cember %, A. D. 1891" This act was
!: passed at your last session, but was not
ratified and turned over to rs until the
last day of the session and, therefore.
| could receive no consideration until af-
!! ter your adjournment. The act which
/; the one under consideration purportS
/ to repeal was passed in response to a
popular demand to remove the legisla-.
| tor and the official, as far as possible,
: from corporate power and influence. II
was not entirely a factional measure,
; though enacted during the time when
factional feeling ran high. 1t had the
support Of members Of all factions at
that time and was enacted for the pub
. lie veal. I do not know of any demand
orany good reason why it should be re-
pealed, and have therefore withheld
my approval from the act repeating it.
The system Of distributing free passes
by railroads among the members Of the
legislature and other officials before
this act, was passed prohibiting it was
pernicioug. and while I would not fora
moment be understood as saying OF In
timating that any legislator or other
official, State or county, could be un-
duly influenced By receiving free
pass, yet it should be remembered that
we are all human and must feel kindly
to that man or corprat tion, the recipient
of whose fayors we are. These corpora
tions are already very powerful and
: WELD great influence on legislation.
; Why should a frank or a free pass be
given to man as State official orleg-
p. islator when it would not be thought
of so long as he remained private citi-E
zen. legislation is frequently had af-
fecting these corporations and laws al
ready made affecting them have to be
executed 1t is best for the public
service that the official and the legiSla-
tor be entirely free to act with entire
impartiality in making and executing
the laws. He should be able at all
times to hold the scales Of justice with
an even hand, remembering always the
rights of the corporations as well as the:
: RIGHTS of the people. Believing this
can be better done by not accepting
fayors from the corporations, and there
fore not being under obligations to.
them. however small the obligation, /.
beg to return to you the repeating act
/! without my approval and signature.
Respectfully,
| N. B. McSweeney,
Governor.
; The motion Of Mr.. Spears Of Darl-
ington to pass the act over the veto
! was voted upon by the house at once.
! It 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 follows:
! Ayes-Ashley, Bivens, Blease, Car
! ter. Cooper, Crum, Dantzler, Dennis,
/ Dodd. Doninick, Durant, Ehrd, Es-
| fridge. Freeman, Gourdin, Hough,
| Humphrey, James, Jarnegan, W. j..
Johnson, Kinsley, Little, Lockwood,
.Lyles, Mauldin, Mccall, MCGOWAN,
!Jno. McNIaster, Mofett, ". L. Parker,
Patterson, r. B. a. Robinson, Sea-
F; brook, Spears, Wells, Weston, Whaley,
Williams.-3S
Nays-Stevenson, All, Bacot,
Banks, Beamguard. Brooks, Brown,
; Bryan, Campbell, Coggeshall, Croft,
! Dean. DeBruhl, Dorroh, Dunbar, Eli
: der. Fox, Fraser, Galluchat, Gunter,
; Halle, Hardin Hill, Hollis, Izlar, O..
IL. Johnson Kibler, Kinard. Llde,
Lomax, Mayson, Mclaughlin, Mcleod,
If. 81. McMaster, Morgan, Morrison,
! Moses, Moss, Nesbit, Nichols. Prince,
! Pyatt, Rainesford, Rankin, Richard
:son, -Rucker, Stackhoqses Sanders,
;Seigler, J. B. Smith, NJ. L. Smith,
! Strom, Stroman, Tatum, Thompson,
.Towill, Vincent, yelling, Webb, West,
! Wilson, Wingo, Woods, Woodward
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! 1t will be seen that the Governors
veto was sustained by handsome
| majority, which will likely dispose OF
the bill for good.