The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-06-19

not an issue and everybody knows
where he stands; Col. Talbert declared
himself in favor of the law and said
his time for speaking had been limited
and Mr.. Hayward stated that he had
always favored the law. Col. Ansel
stated that he is in fator Of the law
| properly enforced.
Mr.. Tillman then took another tack
and said that Talbert is asking for
Office on the ground that he has been
in Office for 90 years; DR.. Zimmerman
has had one for u years, MIR. Ansel
| for 10 or - years, and Capt. Hey
ward had never had one. but wants
this one mighty bad. He discussed
the antiquity Of some Of Col. Tal0ert's
| jokes.
The rest Of his time was devoted to
the charges made against him by the
editor Of The State, who, he said: was
so biased that be attacked the whole
Methodist conference and stigmatized
the Rev. E. o. Watson with having
told a falsehood becauce there had
been some talk of moving a college
from Columbia. 1t could then be un-
derstood how the editor OF The State
could attack him (Tillman) in an ar
ticle Of three and one-half columns,
supplemented by an editorial, merely
because his name is Tillman.
He charged the editor of The State
with having deliberately suppressed a
part Of the senate journal in publish
ing the exposure. That part Of the
senate journal to which he referred
was a question of personal privilege
on Feb. IA, after the question had been
passed upon by the committee on
rules. The following is what Col.
Tillman spread on the journal on Feb.
18th:
"The chair respectfully cites the
committee to Jefferson's Manual and
heartily commends it to the commit
tee ON rules for diligent study. Since
making the ruling the chair has taken
occasion to inquire of the two highest
parliamentarians of this country as to
the correctness of the same and is
much sratitied to learn that 1t Is sus-
tanned by them. OF course the inter.
Dretation placed on the rule by the
committee on rules will be henceforth
observed, however much at variance 1t
may be with. parliamentary law"
And the matter which he said the
editor Of The State withheld reads as
follows:
"A QUESTION OF PERSONAL
PRIVILEGE"
"The chair addresses itself to the
senate upon a question of personal
privilege. There appears in the Jour
nal of today signed report from
the committee on rules giving It's rea.
sons for constituting as it has Rule
XIV of the senate. The chair de-
plores that it for a time is at vari-
ance with the committee on rules.
committee composed Of the most dis
tinguished members Of this body. The
report as It appears in the Journal
does a manifest injustice to the Chair.
Their eport Is clothed in splendid par
liamentary language. which Is most
surprising to the chair. The chairman
of the committee has cited, but not
quoted. Jeffersons Manual OF Parlia-
mentary Law to sustain his position.
The assertion is also made in the re-
port that subsequent to the adoption
of the amendment at the last session,
the present presiding officer OF the
senate ruled the motion in question TO
be debatable. (See Senate journal
1901, pages 1S9 and 3S5.)'
This is a statement not borne out
by the record, and the chair denies the
same without fear Of contradiction and
appeals tc the record to be judged. 1t
often INDUCES the senate by unani-
nous consent, but it never suspected
that such proceedings would be cited
as precedent.
THAT there Is considerable doubt
about the matter is manifest, as the
chair, being in doubt, has telegraphed
some of the most eminent parliamen-
tarians in this country and finds
wide difference among them.'
He did not make any denial of the
charge that he had led people to be-
lieve that he had made reference to
Senator Frye and Speaker Henderson,
nor did he give the names of the TWO
eminent parliamentarians who sus'
tanned him as he alleged in his state
ment in the senate journal. Not
knowing the charges against him,
some of the people here migh have
been persuaded that Tillman had OIL
fered a good and sufficient excuse, but
the thinking people were OF satisfled
and many of them said so after the
meeting.
The only reply he advanced was that
the editor of The State had delloer-
atelyf allied to publish the record as
found in the senate journal OF the l4tn
two days after he had made the
.'break." He dismissed this matter by
saying of the editor OF The state:
''His venal personalities l will not de-
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