The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-20

statesman, Gen. John 3. Gordon O
Georgia, and
Whereas at a trying and critica
period of this State he came to ou;
aid and rendered voluntary services O.
such value and devotion as entitle:
him forever to be known as a frienC
OF the people Of South Carolina; now
therefore be it
Resolved by the senate and house
Of representatives of South Carolina
that committee be raised to attenc
the funeral of Gen. Gordon and to pay
the States tribute Of respect to hi:
memory.
said committee to be composed o!
his exceellency the governor or such
member Of the executive department
as he may designate, the chief justice
of the supreme court or such member
of the judicial department as he may
designate, three senators to be ap
pointed by the president of the senate
and five members of the house Of rep.
resentatives to be appointed by the
speaker Of the house.
Resolved that the sergeants at
arms of the two houses take the neces
sary steps to carry these resolutions
into effect. -
This was sent to the house of repre-.
SentatiyeS and the senate adjourned
at l.30 p. m. to meet again Wednes-
day at noon.
IN THE HOUSE.
AS the hands of the clock on the
gallery pointed the hour of II, the
at arms swung the mall OF
State into place, Col. Tom C. Hamer,
the clerk of the house, raised the
speakers gavel and raped the noisy
members into silence. Pursuant to
the provisions of the constitution the
house will now come to order,' he de-
clared and thereupon began the call OF
the roll by counties. When it was as
certained officially that quorum OF
the house were present, Speaker Smith
ascended the dais on which is the
speakers chair and annouced: The
deliberations Of the day will be opened
with prayer by the chaplain" The
prayer was given close attention by
the members, for the last years ses-
sion taught them that in his morning
invocation the Rev. r. n. Pratt seeks
to throw into the deliberation of the
day some uplifting thought.
Speaker Smiths remarks upon open
ing the session to business were well
put and the tenor of the whole was
work" He referred with feeling to
the fact that there is one vacant chair
that of the brilliant John McMaster
and declared that it is matter Of
thankfulness that there is but one.
At the conclusion of his address Mr..
". T. Aycock Of Columbia was es-
corted to the bar of the house by Hon.
Messrs. Jno. P. Thomas; Jr., and
Lewis ". Haskell and upon his Gre
dentials being shown he was sworn in
to succeed the late Hon. John McMas-
ter Of Richland.
Mr.. Moses moved that committee
Of three be appointed to wait upon the
governor and inform him that the
house was ready for business. This
was done accordingly. On Mr.. Tatum's
motion the clerk of the house was sent
to the senate to inform that body that
the house had organized and was ready
for business. at almost the same mo
ment Gen. r. R. Hemphill, clerk of
the senate, appeared with a similar
announcement from the upper
house"
Organization having been perfected,
the irst thing in the way Of new bust
ness was the presentation by Mr.. Aull
of resolution fixing Friday as the
time for the holding of the election Of
an associate justice to succeed Mr..
Justice Woods; for State librarian,
for two directors Of the State peniten-
tiary, to succeed Messrs. Love and
Mann; for a chairman of the board
and two directors of the State dispen-
sary and for a liquor commissioner.
Nix. Magill moved to refer this to
the committee on privileges and cleo
tions. This was voted down by those
who wanted the elections held speedi-
ly and the resolution was adopted.
Subsequently Mr.. Beamguard moved
to strike out the words liquor COM
missioner" wherever they occurred
and insert in lieu thereof the words
'dispensary commissioner The vote
by which the resolution had been
adopted was reconsidered in order to
admit of this correction, and when
the resolution again came before the
house MeSsrs. Williams, Rainsford
and Magill succeeded in getting the
house to reconsider the vote by which
it had declined to commit the resolu-
tion, and by a considerable majority
it was decided to send the resolution
to the committee on privileges and
elections in order that the matter
might be whipped into proper shape.
The senate concurrent resolution
along the same line came over and was
referred to the same committee.
The governors message was re-
ceived and read. AS it is quite a
lengthy document the members had
hardly had time in which to read it
carefully Wednesday and no express
sion as to its recommendations were
gathered. The several parts of the
message were referred to the proper
committees.
The senate resolutions in regard K
Gen. J. B. Gordon were adopted unani
mously and the speaker appointed a:
members Of the delegation five gal
liant eX-Confederates who are member:
of the house, Hon. Messrs. NJ. P
Tribble Of Anderson, W. 2. James O.
Darlington, J. II. Brooks OF Green
wood, jeremiah Smith of Horny, ant
T w King of Florence.