The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-01-22

The large oil portrait of the late
Gen. John b. Gordon which hangs on
the nortf. wall of the senate was
drappedilnscrepe in honor to the dlstin.
guished dead. }sa
After the reading of the governors
special message on the death of Gen.
Gordon, Senator Aldrich introduced a
concurrent resolution as follows:
Whereas it has pleased the AL
mighty to end the brilliant earthly
career Of that brilliant soldier and
statesman, Gen. John b. Gordon of
Georgia, and
Whereas at a trying and critical
period Of this State he came to our
aid and rendered voluntary services of
such value and devotion as entities
him forever to be known as a friend
OF the people of South Carolina; now,
therefore be it
Resolved by the senate and house
of representatives of South Carolina
that a committee be raised to attend
the funeral Of Gen. Gordon and to pay
the States tribute of respect to his
memory,
Said committee to be composed of
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 theneces
sary steps to carry these resolutions
into effect.''
SentatiyeS and tine 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 u, the
sergeant at arms swung the mall of
State into place, Col. Tom G. 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 a 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 he 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
thankfulncss that there is but one.
At the conclusion of his address Mr..
w. T. Aycock of Columbia was es-
corted to the bar of the house by Hon.
Messrs. Jno. p. Thomas; Jr., and
Lewis w. Haskell and upon his Gre
dentials being shown he was sworn in
to succeed the late Hon. John NcMas-
ter of Richland.
Mr.. Moses moved that a 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. Hemphll clerk of
the senate, appeared with a similar
announcement from the upper
house"
Organization having been perfected,
the first thing in the way of new bust
ness was the presentation by Mr.. Aull
of Il 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 chairman of the board
and two directors Of the State dispen-
sary and for liquor commissioner.
Mr.. 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 lier, t'2afcof the words
| 'dispcpsary commissioners. 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 Mcssrs. 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 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 it's recommendations were